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AnalogMagik Tutorial No. 8: How to set Vertical Tracking Force (VTF)
Vertical Tracking Force
Most cartridge manufacturer will specify a number which the Tracking Force should be set at. More often than not, this number is a range instead of a fixed number (eg. 1.8g to 2.2g on most cartridges). One must never adjust VTF outside of the range provided by the manufacturer, otherwise, damage may result. DO NOT ever deviate from this range. It is NOT endorsed nor recommended by AnalogMagik to go outside of manufacturer's specification.
We have spoken with a number of cartridge manufacturers, and not a single manufacturer or individual was able to provide us with a definite and consistent answer on how to how to determine an exact number except to "go by ear".
As far as we know, AnalogMagik is the first to attempt to propose a methodology on calibrating tracking force scientifically.
We have discovered that changing the VTF will affect the Total Harmonic Distortion differently at different frequencies. For example, if you increase the VTF, the THD% on high frequencies will go up while the THD% on low frequencies will go down. But after a certain level, both sets of numbers will go up again. We have discovered that VTF can be optimized by finding a setting which yields the lowest possible Total Harmonic Distortion across both high frequencies and low frequencies.
The Analog Magik test LP contains two test tracks for VTF calibration, one with a high-frequency test signal, and one with a low frequency. Repeat the measurement by using different tracking force levels. You may discover that different VTF settings will cause the THD% to go up or down between the two frequencies. The optimal VTF is one which yields the lowest set of THD% numbers in both high and low frequency test tones.
We have received enough feedback from users that the optimal VTF can be found using this method in approx. 70-75% of all cases. There are myriads of interference which may interfere with this test method, such as cartridge quality, stylus shape, tonearm bearing chatter, resonance, and other uncontrollable factors. In cases where a correlation cannot be found, more rigorous test methods such as sine wave observation, or using other test tones may be needed. Depending on market demand and returns, we may introduce these in-depth tool in future releases.
Within our labs, we have experimented with a countless number of different distortion tests on different VTF, and we can certainly produce an entire LP with 10 different test signals and perform 10 different sets of test on VTF alone. But if it is too complicated, no one will understand it and very few will spend money on the product. At the end, we have decided to include one test which is easy to use and understand and will likely yield meaningful results.
Lastly, we do not want to discredit anyone who decides to choose a setting most suited for their ears too. We do that too, but that is not a scientifically repeatable method.
We welcome emails on constructive and friendly exchanges of ideas, user feedback or questions.
Field Test Results
Bing R. Tsai, Analog Reviewer of Audio Art Magazine, and the Audio Analytics and Measurement Group, has performed extensive testing on AnalogMagik. One of this reports can be found HERE:
After finished writing the Part-1 of AnalogMagik review (Audio Art Magazine,
July 2018), I started to test the remaining features I haven't spent much time
on. The Tracking Force function are verified on two cartridges here, Lyra
Kleos (recommended VTF=1.73 according to the user manual) and DS Audio
DS 002 (recommended VTF=1.7). Figure 1 is the final VTF for the Kleos after
optimizing for the lowest THD using AnalogMagik. Figure 2 is for the DS
002. For the Kleos which is my main reference cartridge for the past 2+
years, even though the change is only -0.04g from the original setting, the
sound has become much more refined with high-frequency extension
unheard before. Similar improvements are also heard on the DS 002, but
somewhat less drastic even though the change in VTF is much greater.
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BC Summer Games ProMotion Plus Award nominations open
For individuals, organizations or groups who have challenged the traditional limits for women and girls in physical activity and sport
Jun. 8, 2016 1:00 p.m.
If you know an individual or an organization who takes issue with traditional notions about girls and women in sports and physical activity, the BC Summer Games ProMotion Plus leadership awards would like to know their name.
Nominations are now open to individuals, organizations or groups in the province of British Columbia that have challenged the traditional limits for women and girls in physical activity and sport in the past two years.
The award is a partnership between the BC Games Society and ProMotion Plus to identify, recognize and celebrate those who have supported girls and/or women to participate more fully in physical activity or sport.
“Abbotsford is a diverse sporting community and we welcome the opportunity to partner with ProMotion Plus and the BC Games Society to recognize the women and girls who are Rising Above and Reaching Beyond,” said Steve Carlton, president of the Abbotsford 2016 BC Summer Games Society.
“We would like to encourage our community to nominate our champions of enhancing sport and physical activity for women and girls for this Provincial award.”
Nominations may include but are not limited to the achievements of athletes, teams, coaches, officials, administrators, or volunteers and programs or special events, which increased or enhanced opportunities for girls and women.
Nominators are asked to focus on the candidate’s achievements over 2014-2016.
The nomination form can be found here.
Nominations will be accepted until June 30. The award will be presented July 22.
ProMotion Plus is the British Columbia organization for girls and women in physical activity and sport. It was established as a non-profit society in 1990 and was unique in Canada at the time. ProMotion Plus is still only one of three provincial organizations in Canada dedicated to increasing opportunities for girls and women in the sport and recreation delivery system.
The Abbotsford 2016 BC Summer Games will take place from July 21-24, featuring 18 sports will at a total of 24 venues in Abbotsford and the surrounding area.
Visit https://www.bcgames.org/ for a complete list of sports and competition venues.
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ASDL@GTL Success!
GTL’s aerospace research lab, ASDL@GTL, successfully completed their final review with the EU Commission’s Clean Sky 2 Program on September 22, 2020 for their collaboration on the OASyS (Overall Air Transport System Vehicle Scenarios) project. The one-year project focused on forecasting future scenarios to inform Clean Sky’s Technology Evaluator- thus enhancing its modelling capability to estimate the impacts of potential scenarios that include advanced configurations like urban air mobility vehicles and supersonic transport aircraft within the global fleet. See the full story here.
David Anvid Joins ASDL
David Anvid has joined the ASDL research faculty. David is an industry expert with 32+ yrs of experience in the areas of aircraft certification, regulatory policy development (e.g. ETOPS ARAC, TALPA ARC, CAEP/9-10 CO2 Certification Metric, ICAO EFB SARPS ), and airline operational support. David recently retired from Delta Air Lines where he was a performance engineering SME since 2009. Prior to his work at Delta Air Lines, he was the manager of Performance Engineering at Northwest Airlines and ABX Air Inc., respectively, in addition to 5 years of OEM certification experience working for DAC in Long Beach, CA. His industry work has included participation in numerous industry working groups such as the IATA SCAP Task Force, IATA APTF (former Vice Chairman and Chairman), and a founding member of SAPOE (Society of Aircraft Performance and Operations Engineers). In addition, he is an FAA licensed Dispatcher, private pilot and former Flight Analyst DER (Douglas Aircraft Company). He received a BSME from California State University, Long Beach.
ASDL Graduate Received the AIAA Abe Z. Zarem Award
Recent ASDL graduate Nathan Crane has been named one of two recipients of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ Abe Z. Zarem Award. Crane, who graduated in 2020 with his M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, won the Zarem aeronautics award for “Preliminary Active Subspace Investigation of a Commercial Supersonic Design Space.”
“We at ASDL are all proud of Nathan for his work,” said ASDL director Prof. Dimitri Mavris. “The Zarem award is recognition of his excellence and contributions, and it is well deserved.” The Zarem Graduate Awards for Distinguished Achievement to annually recognize graduate students in aeronautics and astronautics who have demonstrated outstanding scholarship in their field. See the full AIAA announcement here.
ASDL Welcomes Research Engineer Joshua Brooks
Mr. Joshua Brooks has recently joined ASDL Research Engineer II. Joshua received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University and an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech. After getting his Master’s degree, he worked for a variety of organizations including GE Oil & Gas as a Technology Development Lead and Pressure Service Business Manager, and the Scientific Technology & Language Institute as a Community Development Engineer. Since 2018, Joshua has been back at ASDL working on his Ph.D. In this time, Joshua has primarily worked on the Smart Campus and Kendeda Building projects while also serving as instructor of record for undergraduate thermodynamics in the School of Mechanical Engineering. Joshua will support the Digital Engineering, Propulsion & Energy, and Advanced Configurations Divisions.
ASDL Director Recognized by AIAA for Service
ASDL Director Dr. Dimitri Mavris has won the 2021 Sustained Service Award bestowed by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). This award recognizes significant, long-term service and contributions to AIAA. Dr. Mavris has been an AIAA member for 40 years and has served on a number of technical, management, and strategic committees. He currently serves as the faculty advisor for the AIAA student branch at Georgia Tech. Click here to read more.
ASDL Teams Win Prestigious Design Competitions
A team of ASDL first year graduate students and undergraduate students has placed 1st in AIAA’s 2020 Graduate Team Missile Systems Design Competition for their report titled “Design of Supersonic Aerial Target.” Team members include Sarak Malak, Nathan Simon, Scott Nealon, Rosa Bonilla, Andrej Sulek, Jessica Grimment, Zachary Parham, and Nokilay Tranakiev. The team was advised by Dr. Mavris; Dr. Brad Robertson served as the technical mentor. Along with the recognition, the team will receive a $500 prize and its report will be published on the AIAA website. This competition is organized by the AIAA Missile Systems Technical Committee. ASDL has participated in this competition since 1998.
An ASDL team also placed 2nd for Technical Design Report in the 2020 RoboBoat Competition. The competition organizers noted the team’s efforts and persistence in pushing through the challenges they faced in light of the pandemic. The team members include Rahul Rameshbabu and Anthony Velte. The team was advised by Dr. Mavris; Dr. Michael Steffens served as the technical mentor. This competition is sponsored by RoboNation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide a pathway of hands-on educational experiences that empower students to find innovative solutions to global challenges. ASDL has participated in this competition the last few years.
ASDL congratulates both teams and all the students involved for their excellent work!
ASDL Welcomes New Graduate Students
ASDL welcomes the incoming class of graduate students to the lab! We are excited to get to know the new cohort and help them develop skills in the areas of systems engineering and architecting. The class is composed of 30 Master’s students and 16 Ph.D. students. Seven members of the class graduated from Georgia Tech and 14 are coming to us from outside of the United States.
ASDL Makes its Mark on AIAA Events
Once again, ASDL will have a strong presence in the AIAA Propulsion and Energy (P&E) Forum and the AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (EATS) this year. Both events will be held virtually during the week of 24 August 2020 due to the pandemic but that is not keeping ASDLers from sharing the lab’s expertise in the area of propulsion systems and technologies!
Technical papers being presented during P&E include:
• A Scalable Intra-Network Building Heat Exchange Model for District Cooling Systems (Sehwan Oh, Jung-Ho Lewe, Efe Yamac Yarbasi, Joshua Brooks, Scott Duncan, Dimitri Mavris)
• A Coupled Approach to the Design Space Exploration of Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Systems (Victor Petitgenet, Christopher Roper, Matthew Krecicki, Andrew Yatsko, Dan Kotlyar, Dimitri Mavris, David Shalat)
• Verification and Measurement of Thrust Vectoring Using Thermal Mapping Techniques (Karl Roush, Mark Shapochka, Andrew Yatsko, Dimitri Mavris)
• Design and Analysis of the Thermal Management System of a Hybrid Turboelectric Regional Jet for the NASA ULI Program (Mingxuan Shi, Mitchell Sanders, Alan Alahmad, Christopher Perullo, Gokcin Cinar, Dimitri Mavris)
• Feasibility Assessments of a Hybrid Turboelectric Medium Altitude Long Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Gokcin Cinar, Alexander Markov, Jonathan Gladin, Elena Garcia, Dimitri Mavris, Soumya Patnaik)
• An Update on Sizing and Performance Analysis of a Hybrid Turboelectric Regional Jet for the NASA ULI Program (Christopher Perullo, Mingxuan Shi, Gokcin Cinar, Alan Alahmad, Mitchell Sanders, Dimitri Mavris, Meyer Benzakein)
In addition, Jimmy Tai will chair the P&E session GTE-02: Cycle Performance and MDAO.
For EATS, members of ASDL’s Propulsion and Energy Division will participate as a chair or panelist for a number of sessions.
• Electrified Flight Development Programs (Moderator: Gokcin Cinar)
• ULI Panel (Panelist: Gokcin Cinar)
• Aircraft Thermal Management Systems (Panelist: Jonathan Gladin)
• Aircraft Concept System Studies and Distributed Propulsion Systems (Co-chair: Gokcin Cinar)
• Aircraft Operations Analysis (Chair: Gokcin Cinar)
For more information about these events, visit the P&E Website and the EATS Website.
ASDL Welcomes Back Research Engineer Greg Busch
We would like to welcome back Mr. Greg Busch back to the ASDL research family. Greg is coming back to us as an RE II focused on aeroacoustics and vehicle design. He will be part of the Advanced Configurations Division but contributing to projects across our divisions. Currently, he is supporting five FAA ASCENT projects all with aeroacoustics elements ranging from supersonics to boundary layer ingestion.
ASDL Student Wins the William T. Piper, Sr. General Aviation Systems Graduate Award
Through its annual graduate scholarship program, the AIAA Foundation presents awards to graduate students doing excellent research in the air and space sciences. This scholarship was sponsored by the AIAA General Aviation Systems Technical Committee in honor of William T. Piper Sr (1881-1970), who founded Piper Aircraft Corporation. This year, ASDL PhD Student and Senior Graduate Researcher Mayank Bendarkar received this prestigious award. Mayank's research focuses on incorporating certification, safety, and reliability considerations for novel aircraft concepts in conceptual and preliminary design. We congratulate our student in his great achievement!
Georgia Tech Team Places Second in AIAA Design/Build/Fly
The Georgia Tech team has placed second in the 24th annual AIAA/Textron Aviation/Raytheon Missile Systems Design/Build/Fly (DBF) competition. Originally scheduled to host a live fly-off 16–19 April in Wichita, Kansas, the full DBF competition was canceled to safeguard against the spread of COVID-19. While the fly-off portion of the competition was canceled, the formal report portion did continue. DBF received 143 proposals and selected 113 to compete. Of the 113 teams selected, 101 submitted a formal report. The formal reports are scored for design as well as manufacturing and testing plans. The 2019–2020 winners are:
· First Place: University of Southern California
· Second Place: Georgia Institute of Technology
· Third Place: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Given these results, the Georgia Tech team would have been placed well to compete for first if there had been an actual fly-off. Click here to read the full story.
ASDL External Advisory Board Meeting Goes Virtual
ASDL successfully conducted its 28th External Advisory Board (EAB) meeting virtually from 21 to 23 April. Despite having to cancel the face-to-face meeting, ASDL decided to open up the review of the Grand Challenge projects via WebEx to an external audience to allow student teams the opportunity to present their work to sponsors and other interested stakeholders. The virtual EAB meeting featured 27 Grand Challenge projects, 14 focused on a system of systems topic and 13 on a vehicle topic. There was strong participation from sponsors, who had the chance to provide feedback and ask questions for the student teams after they presented their work. Click here for more information.
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Ashland School District No. 5, Jackson County, Oregon – The Board of Directors met in regular session on Monday, October 11, 2010, beginning at 7:00 PM in the Ashland Council Chambers, 1175 East Main Street, Ashland OR 97520. Present were:
Carol Davis ) Chair
Keith Massie )
Heidi Parker ) Board Members
Toni Knox, Certified Representative
Yeruti Estigarribia, Student Representative
Hannah Ewing, Student Representative
Jeanne Peterson, Administrative Assistant
The meeting was called to order at 7:04 p.m. by Chair Davis.
Roll call was taken and all board members were present.
Welcome Visitors and Acknowledgments
Kristi Healy, Ashland Middle School Science Teacher, reported on a successful grant called Moving Science Education Forward that will implement the new science standards.
Director Skuratowicz read the vision and mission statements.
It was recommended that the Board approve the consent agenda as presented.
Approve minutes of work and regular sessions of August 9, work session of August 18, regular session of September 13, and executive and work sessions of September 27, 2010.
Employment Recommendations
Ryan Jackson was recommended as a temporary First Grade Teacher at Walker Elementary replacing Elisa Tacconi who was reassigned.
Last month Nancy Daniels submitted a letter of retirement effective October 31, 2010. She asked that she be allowed to complete the school year on a half-time 1039 contract beginning November 1, 2010. It was recommended that her request be approved.
Retirement Requests
Linda Barnett, Special Education Teacher at Ashland High School submitted a letter of intent to retire at the end of the current school year. It was recommended that her request be granted as presented.
John Skinner submitted a letter of intent to retire October 31, 2010. He further requested that he be allowed to complete the current school year on a 1039 contract beginning November 1, 2010. It was recommended that his request be granted as presented.
The minutes of August 18 were corrected to reflect the accurate date of the meeting.
Director Massie moved that the consent agenda be approved as amended. Director Alexander seconded and the motion passed unanimously.
Hear Public Requests not a part of the agenda
There were no public requests.
Student and Staff Representative Reports
Hannah Ewing and Yeruti Estigarribia reported on the welcoming of the new high school principal and the homecoming activities.
YAAL Campaign Committee
Maylee Oddo, Chair of the YAAL Campaign Committee, presented an update on the committee's activities. Anyone interested in helping with the campaign may contact Maylee Oddo at mayleeo@ashlandhome.net . More information is available on the website: www.ashlandyaal.org.
AHS Redesign Update
Michelle Zundel provided an update on the AHS Redesign project.
Class Size and Enrollment Report and Information About Entering and Exiting Students Throughout the District
Juli Di Chiro reported on each school's progress toward achieving class size and student daily contact goals. She also reviewed students entering and exiting throughout the district schools as well as interdistrict transfers.
Leeanne Wallace spoke representing the Ashland Education Association and urged the District to always consider class size and its impact on student learning.
Terry Karlin spoke about class size information at Ashland Middle School.
Statewide OAKS Assessment Results
Juli Di Chiro presented an overview of the OAKS assessments that were administered in the spring.
Superintendents Report
Juli Di Chiro reported on the District Report Card for 2009-10 and planning of the zero based budgeting meetings. She reported on the certified alternative compensation committee and the superintendents’ round table.
Chair Davis explained that appointment of budget committee members will occur at the November regular meeting. Applications will be received through November 1, 2010.
Annual Review of District Alternative Programs
Debbie Pew reviewed the Willow Wind program for the 2009-10 school year. Michelle Zundel reviewed the alternative programs at the high school for the 2009-10 school year which included Catalyst, Continuation Center, Depot, SAEJ, Wilderness Charter School.
Director Parker moved that the Board approve the alternative programs as presented. Director Massie seconded and the motion passed unanimously.
Board Report
Board members reported on the Siskiyou Challenge, athletic events, the problem of community members not cleaning up after their dogs on school property, the technology demonstration put on by Dana Rensi, the high school parent forum, the Ashland Schools Foundation events, and the Ashland High School Arts Advocates.
Announcements and Appointments
The Board will hold a work session on Monday, October 25, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. at Walker Elementary School to review Walker School's goals and programs.
The OSBA Fall Regional Meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 27, 2010.
The next regular session will be held on Monday, November 8, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. at the Ashland Council Chambers.
The Oregon School Boards Association Annual Convention will be held in Portland November 11 - 14, 2010.
There being no further business, the meeting ended at 9:21 p.m.
10-11-10 Regular Board Minutes.pdf
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Bold, disruptive, experimental - the pioneers of what's possible. Changing how we think to create a better tomorrow. We are Arcadis Gen. Find out more.
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Painful Past
By ZACH ZORICH
People of non-African heritage living today share up to 2 percent of their DNA with Neanderthals, but scientists are still laboring to understand what those shared genes actually do. According to new research, one Neanderthal gene variant appears to make people who have inherited it more susceptible to pain. The variant in question affects the functioning of nerve fibers, which are responsible for sending signals to the brain that are perceived as pain. Hugo Zeberg of the Karolinska Institute cautions that the team’s finding does not necessarily mean that Neanderthals were more sensitive to pain than modern people. He says they were probably “more sensitive to stimuli,” but the sensation of pain is a product of how the brain interprets signals from nerves throughout a person’s body. How that worked in Neanderthal brains is an open question. Zeberg and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology are now studying other Neanderthal gene variants, including one linked to healthier pregnancies and another that makes people more susceptible to contracting the novel coronavirus. “People are interested in the meaning of their heritage,” says Zeberg. “This is, in a way, an archaeological excavation of our genome.”
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Poison projectiles, Cortés’ Mexico City abode, Peruvian pelican fertilizer, and solving a Crusader mystery
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From Amelia:
At last, a new single! "One More Kiss" is the first single from my upcoming album, title TBA. The single is available on all of your favorite music platforms! The official video for "One More Kiss" is available on my Amelia Blake Youtube channel! I am still working on the upcoming album, which should be released by Spring 2021.
During the downtime of the pandemic, you may have caught me doing a few facebook live shows. I have yet to find a better platform to replace the defunct Concert Window site. My weekly gig Saturday evenings in Jefferson, Texas continues, at least into 2021, and for that, I am grateful. I am hoping to start doing youtube live shows, though the video quality will not likely be as good as it was on fb live.
Dan and I attended the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in January 2020, and we performed at the Indie Collaboratie Show at the El Portal Theatre while we were out there.
We did a lot of traveling over the last two years, including flying to the UK twice. The first trip included Liverpool to tour both Paul McCartney's and John Lennon's childhood homes. The second trip included a three hour tour of Abbey Road Studios in London. To say it would be a dream come true to record there is an understatement!
After we left there, we walked by Paul McCartney's London home (which he's owned since the year I was born). You can see the photo of me by his front gate to your right.
In other news, I have begun work on a movie project that will keep me in the south for the next few years. I am hoping to find a larger home in East Texas soon to accommodate all of our instruments, equipment and pets.
at the Grammy awards in my Cinderella gown
Backstage at the El Portal Theatre 2020 Indie Collaborative show
Paul McCartney's London home
Front page with husband Dan Garner as the Flying Teacups in south Texas, June 2018 benefit concert.
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Build Your Own AR from Scratch
by Brian Sheetz - Monday, October 14, 2013
Adaptability-it is likely the foremost reason the AR has become America’s universal modern rifle platform and is unquestionably a serendipitous byproduct of the gun’s modular design and space-age construction. It also meshes perfectly with American shooters’ penchant to own something a little different. When it comes to building an AR from the ground up, modularity means it can be easily tailored from the start, or modified after the fact, to suit the specific, often evolving, requirements and tastes of all manner of users.
In fact, a do-it-yourself build is perhaps the only way to end up with exactly the AR you want. At least that was the conclusion I came to and the reason for this project. My aim here is not to retrace every aspect of the AR-building process in step-by-step fashion-that has already been covered elsewhere-rather it is to suggest how to approach the process and to convey a few of the tips I learned along the way that might make it less stressful the first time around.
I admit that the AR rifle platform had never been my favorite, but even as a lifelong fan of the Garand-based gas guns, particularly the M1A, I could no longer resist the accuracy, parts availability and adaptability inherent in the AR’s modular design, or its long military pedigree. So, I decided that, starting with an ordinary AR flattop upper and standard lower receiver, I would build an all-around rifle suitable for target work, hunting and self-defense-within the limits of the .223 Rem. cartridge. A carbine might have been the more popular choice, but therein lies the beauty of such a project-you build the gun that suits your needs and preferences despite what the masses are doing. Regardless of your reasons for going the built-it-yourself route, however, the first step should be to decide what role or roles you intend the finished rifle to perform. For example, a dedicated close-quarters self-defense carbine will call for an entirely different set of components and design parameters than a long-range varminter. Either choice is entirely valid and easily achievable, though, given the myriad choices in available components.
One company has simplified the process of building your own AR like no other by stocking what is likely the largest selection of AR components-1,500 individual parts from 175 vendors at last count-ever warehoused under one roof. That company, Brownell’s of Montezuma, Iowa, has a nearly 75-year track record of supplying the gunsmithing trade and consumers with the best available firearm components, tools and advice. And, despite its enviable reputation for old-fashioned customer service, it is not in the habit of getting behind the times. So a few years ago it constructed a dedicated website, ar15builder.com, for the express purpose of allowing its customers to virtually configure their own ARs using its vast inventory of receivers, barrels, stocks, fore-ends and other components. I tried it and found it enjoyable and helpful for learning about the various components, their compatibility and their prices. I also viewed the company’s DVD, “How To Build an AR-15” and read the book The AR-15 Complete Assembly Guide by Walt Kuleck with Clint McKee from Scott Duff Publications. All of that pre-build activity better prepared me to discuss the build with suppliers and to perform the final assembly.
After forming a few gut feelings about the direction I wanted to go with the rifle and jotting a short list of questions, I picked up the phone and called Brownells, asking to speak with one of its more than 14 staff gunsmiths-all of whom, by the way, have built at least one AR. When Mike, a self-described “M1911 man” who had nevertheless built somewhere between six and 10 ARs, came on the line, I proceeded to pepper him with my thoughts, concerns and questions, and he was able to walk me through them in short order.
In completing the build illustrated here, my first, I found one of the most challenging aspects of the process was thinking far enough ahead when selecting specific components so that subsequent choices would be compatible and complementary. Each choice brought with it the somewhat agonizing opportunity to stick with the plan or to deviate for some reason that I may not have considered earlier. As a result, I ordered the parts in three or four separate shipments over a period of several weeks and simply set them all aside in a box to begin assembly at a later date. What you’ll find on p. 72 are descriptive vignettes of each of the resulting subassemblies and/or specific components that I believe lent the rifle its unique identity.
When the time came to assemble the rifle, I found that it went together quite easily because of the familiarity I had gained with its operation and construction by watching the video and reading the book. In addition, all of the parts were delivered as-advertised-properly packaged and complete. I simply took my time and worked only as far as the parts, tools, time and my patience allowed. But when the time finally came to assemble the completed upper and lower assemblies, I realized that any certainty about whether it would hit the mark I had established in my mind would come only after I fired the first shots.
After checking headspace with “go” and “no-go” gauges, I gathered some ammunition and took it to the range where I cautiously fired the first round. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the gun cycled and chambered the second as it should. After shooting a third time I went downrange and was pleased to find a cluster of holes in the target about the size of a dime. There were a couple of failures to fully chamber during the break-in process that followed, but the gun has since run without a hitch and continues to turn in excellent accuracy, particularly with the heavier bullets for which the barrel was designed.
If asked to describe the AR that resulted from this project, I would characterize it as a “special purpose rifle”-compact and quick-handling enough for short-range self-defense use yet endowed with enough true rifle characteristics for moderately long-range shooting. One unanticipated result, an all-up weight of 12 pounds, 12 ounces, is about the only disappointing aspect of the build. But after the shock of the scale’s revelation wore off, I decided that for a rifle with such a stout barrel profile, quick-release optics, metal back-up sights, a metal fore-end and a bipod the weight was justified-of course that won’t stop me from attempting to prune it a bit by looking into upgrades such as a lightweight integrated optic mount.
In the end, the gun’s overall configuration, features and capabilities are exactly what I sought at the outset months earlier. Although the total build cost-including the scope, rings and bases-was in excess of $3,000, it is in line with fully-equipped top-of-the-line rifles. Plus, the gun shoots well and provides the feel and performance I always wanted from an AR but couldn’t seem to buy outright. Also, the experience of building it from scratch gave me a much greater understanding of the AR’s design and construction and far greater respect for America’s most popular rifle.
LRB Arms Receivers
If there’s one set of components that will have a cascading effect on an AR build, for better or for worse, it’s the upper and lower receivers. Buying from a reputable parts vendor such as Brownells all but ensures that both will be made from properly hardened aluminum alloys by the correct processes and machined to exacting dimensions in key areas. In addition, holes will be free of burrs and finishes will be even and closely matching. Consider that a flat-top upper will allow for greater versatility of the finished product with regard to optics mounting. I had coincidentally ordered receivers directly from the manufacturer, LRB Arms, before the run on AR rifles and parts began. I chose LRB partly because of my high regard for the company’s signature product-hammer-forged semi-automatic M14-type receivers-and partly because I knew that its vendor, JV Precision Machine Co., produces the company’s AR receivers from 7075-T6 aluminum forgings to close tolerances and high standards of quality. Both upper ($110) and lower ($110) receivers exhibited fine fit and consistent finish and showed no evidence of burrs or other manufacturing glitches.
Daniel Defense Barrel & Rail
Not only is the barrel the heart of a gun’s accuracy, its length and weight can heavily influence the entire build. With that in mind, it was the first component I selected from Brownells after buying the receivers. I decided early on to go for a barrel capable of handling heavier bullets, those in the 75- to 77-grain range, having a true 5.56x45 mm NATO chamber accompanied by a 1:7-inch twist rate. One of my Brownells advisors highly recommend Daniel Defense, so I chose the company’s 18" Strength 2 Weight (S2W) model ($279), which I believed would provide a good balance between optimized velocities and reasonable handling and portability. The choice also dictated another fundamental design consideration in building an AR: The barrel’s gas port location and 0.750-inch measurement at the boss for the gas block required the use of a mid-length, rather than carbine- or rifle-length gas system and thus simplified other decisions when it came time to select the fore-end, gas block/front sight assembly and gas tube. The barrel’s stout profile, hammer-forged chromemoly-vanadium steel construction and salt bath nitride treatment inside and out were further assurances that it would likely deliver good accuracy and be durable over the long haul. Its M4-style feed ramps mated perfectly with corresponding cuts in the LRB upper. Because I knew I wanted to mount certain accessories on the fore-end, but was not a fan of the round, extended models now in vogue, I chose Daniel Defense’s Lite Rail 9.0 ($365). It is machined and welded as one piece and free-floats the barrel by attaching to the upper receiver with a special barrel nut, an included spanner and a collar that secures the rear of the unit to a matching flange with six Allen-head machine screws. Its upper rail surface mated nearly seamlessly with the upper receiver’s rail, and it stopped just short of the gas block.
DPMS Internals
Both upper and lower receivers, if ordered as stripped components, require the addition of numerous small parts, including tiny roll pins, detents and springs, usually sold as “parts kits” or “completion kits.” These were and continue to be some of items hardest-hit by the insatiable nationwide demand for AR rifles, parts and accessories. Once Brownells informed me by e-mail that they were once again available, I chose to keep things simple and ordered their polybagged kits as supplied to them by DPMS, which has a long history of providing mil-spec AR components to the firearm industry. My thinking was that securing things in that manner would help move the project along, allowing for selective upgrading, such as with an adjustable trigger, when my needs and additional funds became available. For the Upper Receiver Parts Kit, Mid-Length ($59) that included the ejection port cover and forward assist assemblies, the gas tube and other small parts. For the Lower Parts Kit ($60) it included the trigger and safety selector components. Other required assortments include the Buttstock Mounting Kit ($52) with buffer tube and buffer components. I also ordered a DPMS Bolt Carrier ($58) and Bolt ($45) because I knew they would be military-grade and because they were among the few available.
Magpul Furniture
Having begun as a manufacturer of flexible polymer magazine pulls designed to allow more rapid and sure magazine changes in combat, Magpul Industries has evolved into one of the largest producers of polymer AR magazines, stocks, fore-ends, sights, slings and more. Its Magpul Original Equipment, or MOE, components, as their name implies, are supplied on a host of factory rifles and have come to all but dominate the aftermarket for individuals seeking to build their own ARs. For this project, I chose the fixed MOE Rifle Stock ($70), which has smooth contours that afford a comfortable cheekweld along with multiple attachment points for push-button sling swivel cups and a ribbed rubber buttpad that hinges to allow storage of a cleaning rod and other supplies. I also chose the MOE + Grip ($24), with rubber overmolding, and the company’s signature AFG2 Angled Fore-Grip ($35), which, mounted fully to the rear of the fore-end’s lower Picatinny rail, presents a comfortable purchase point for the support hand for efficient use of the gun in close-range, dynamic scenarios yet still allows mounting of the bipod ahead of it. The choice of such components is important because of how they allow it to interface with the shooter. Magpul seems to have dialed-in ergonomic design, which means the shooter can remain comfortable and relaxed during extended or stressful sessions, resulting in more hits on the targets.
Sights, Optics & Mounts
I wanted a quality set of iron sights and decided to go with a barrel-mounted front unit for a little more sight radius and because it left the upper Picatinny rail clear for possible use with a scout-mounted scope. As with a rack-grade military AR, the base of the No. 41-BL Silhouette Folding Front Sight ($160) from A.R.M.S. I chose has that familiar triangular shape when raised and serves as the gas block and sling mounting point although I chose to address the latter by mounting a push-button-style sling point on the left Picatinny rail so as to prevent influencing the barrel through sling tension. I mounted an ARMS No. 40L-SP ($120) at the rear, and was pleased to see that its base contour neatly matched that of the upper receiver. Both units are made of steel and fold quickly, allowing an unobstructed view through the riflescope or other optics.
As to optics, there are myriad choices available for ARs, from small, non-magnifying reflex sights to large, high-magnification scopes, and a host of mounts and rings as well. Regardless of which type of optic is chosen, reasonable quality can mean that it and its attendant mounts and accessories might exceed the cost of the rifle itself. So before making a decision, consider such basics as: suitability to the type of shooting anticipated; compatibility with iron sights-e. g. the ability to ”co-witness”-rail mounting area requirements; and, of course, optical quality and price. I chose the VX-R Patrol 1.5-4 X 20 mm scope with FireDot Special Purpose Reticle ($580) from Leupold set in the company’s Mark 4 Tactical steel rings ($164) and mounted atop an Accucam Quick Detach Scout Length Mounting Base ($159) from GG&G mostly because I had them on hand. Given the capabilities of the rifle, greater magnification would certainly be in order. But the combination has proven to allow for quick yet precise aiming at close targets and yet turns in respectably small groups on paper at moderate distances as shown in the accompanying table.
Sometimes the details on a project can make all the difference, and a handful of small components helped make this particular AR more suited to my personal preferences. One was the Ambidextrous Safety Selector ($60) from Battle Arms Development. Ordered as a kit with a variety of lever styles, it allows the user to select a favorite length and thickness to install on each side of the gun. Another drop-in worth its weight in gold is the Ambi-Catch ($90) by Norgon, LLC, which allows the magazine to be released by pressing in on the left side as well as preserving the primary release on the right.
Two other items that made a big difference in handling and configurability, respectively, are the Badger Ordnance (badgerordnance.com) Tactical Charging Handle ($100) and the company’s TRAMP bipod mount ($60). The former makes grasping and retracting the charging handle faster and less demanding of fine motor skills and the latter allows a QD-stud-mounted bipod, such as the ubiquitous and durable SL ($133) from Harris shown here, easy to lock onto and remove from the lower Picatinny rail with one hand-the key to both being skeletonized grasping “ears.” Finally, the CA556AR203 ($130) combination flash suppressor/sound suppressor interface from SureFire has a reasonably traditional appearance at the end but includes a long “skirt” that allows for easy fitting of a long bayonet or sound suppressor.
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by Natalie Maneval
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Psychedelics are shedding their bad reputation with wellness seekers. No longer are hallucinogens like mescaline (found in peyote); psilocybin (found in mushrooms); and ayahuasca being associated with out-of-control music festivals, fringe societies, and addiction. Instead, they are becoming more widely accepted, as people are using them in safe environments as a way to get in touch with their inner emotions and discover a deeper sense of self. Psychedelics alter the brain’s serotonin receptors, which are connected to feelings and vision. The brain is less restrained when exposed to these psychedelics, which makes it possible to access deep emotions. As a result, retreats around the world are incorporating drugs that expand consciousness to help clients reach a greater state of wellbeing.
MycoMeditations (Treasure Beach), for example, offers a seven-night all-inclusive retreat in Jamaica. Involving no more than 15 guests, the retreat provides participants with meals, accommodations, massages, and ingestible mushrooms, which contain psilocybin. “About 90 percent of the guests on our retreats are dealing with some form of depression or anxiety, sometimes alcohol addiction to varying levels,” says Justin Townsend, CEO of MycoMeditations. “These are people who have spent years trying the conventional mental health options such as talk therapy and/or medication.”
According to a study published in the U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, there were about 32 million lifetime users of psychedelics in the U.S. in 2010. Despite that figure, many Americans remain wary of such drugs. “Being skeptical is healthy,” says Myles Katz, director of business development at Synthesis Retreat (Amsterdam). “We are also skeptical, which is why we take so much time, care, and consideration into the medical screening and safety process to ensure the experiences can be had safely and without adverse effects.”
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Synthesis Retreat operates in the Netherlands, where psilocybin can be accessed legally. According to Katz, it has helped more than 400 individuals experience the psychedelic. Katz recognizes the expansion of these psychedelic retreats as part of a greater health movement. “Transformative wellness falls amid the axis of three converging trends in today’s evolving society: a growing demand for taking control of one’s own health decisions, including medical tourism; the psychedelic renaissance; and a shift in people seeking out meaningful experiences rather than material possessions,” says Katz. “It’s a new realm of holistic healing.”
At the Imiloa Institute (Dominical, Costa Rica), participants benefit from transformational workshops and retreats with masters from around the world, including experienced ayahuasceros. “People are earnestly searching for answers and ways they can wake up,” says cofounder and president Jake Sasseville. “From our perspective, plant medicine does not contain all of the answers. It is a tool, a bridge, an activation point. Plant medicine clears the way, so we see the answers within.”
Others see the acceptance of these retreats as a societal shift. “I believe that people are turning toward these retreats and these plant medicines because they are faced with the experience that our society does not have answers to the questions we now need to be asking,” says Lodé Lhamo, codirector and lead facilitator of Experience Retreats, which operates out of the Netherlands. “Our society is operating within a kind of paradigm and a framework that actually is at the cause of the current crisis, and therefore, it cannot give solutions or answers.” As the wellness industry expands into new realms, the tolerance for substances has increased. Now, the stigma associated with cannabis is declining, as it is legalized across much of the country.
While the acceptance of such psychoactive drugs continues to grow, it is only natural that more wellness-seekers will embrace their mind-altering and mood-enhancing benefits.
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It's almost impossible to not notice the massive changes in the global automotive market in the last decade.
The industry is moving towards an electric future, cars are coming with features that make it easier to stay connected, there are safety features that allow a car to brake on its own, and even technology that can virtually let a vehicle drive itself.
But one of the more fundamental changes in the industry is the huge shift towards from passenger cars to crossovers. These vehicles come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, and from all major automotive brands. Well, except Ferrari... for now.
When it comes to crossovers in the premium category, BMW is really one of the pioneers when they debuted the X5 in 1999. The term crossover hadn't even been coined yet to denote a sport utility vehicle (SUV) with a car-like unibody platform, but BMW did have the option to use the acronym 'SUV' but didn't. History notes that they made their own acronym instead: SAV, or Sport Activity Vehicle. We know these to be the X models.
Today, BMW's line up is peppered with all kinds of X vehicles: the original, the X5, is still going strong. They just launched the larger and more luxurious X7. They also have the X3 which is selling nicely, as well as the smaller and more liberally-styled X2 which, surprisingly, isn't as prolific as the rest. There are also niche versions of their X line which would be the “coupe” type models such as the X4 and X6.
And that brings us to the X1, a small 5-seater, 5-door crossover that measures about 4.4 meters long and about 1.8 meters wide.
As a nameplate, it isn't new; this has been around since 2009, originally envisioned as the smallest of the X models. Naturally we'd think that the X1 would be the X counterpart to the 1 Series, but it isn't; the X1 actually had more in common with the 3 Series, platform and all.
The X1 we're driving is already the second generation model that was launched in 2015. This is the updated one, and BMW has made a few design adjustments all around the vehicle.
In all honesty, it's not as easy to distinguish BMW facelifts (they don't change much) but they adjust the kidney grilles, changed the detail on the headlamps (particularly the signature DRLs), changed the bumper to something a bit sportier, removed the round front foglamps that have been an X1 staple since 2009, and a few more bits and pieces here and there. Really, the design changes aren't major, but if you look closer, you'll notice that the kidney grilles are connected. I'm not a fan of this direction for the BMW kidney grille though.
Inside, the updates are likewise subtle, which is frankly a bit of a let down. I would have wanted BMW to do more with the cabin of the X1 especially after seeing the interior of the new X2. The materials used, while undoubtedly of good quality, doesn't evoke the premium feel that the badge on the hood should command.
I'm also not a fan of the steering wheel on this one, and the rather conventional gear selector shifter doesn't have the feel of the one they used for other models; the one that feels more like a joystick. The X1 will seem a bit more dated compared to competitor models in the premium segment.
Of course it's not all downhill. I actually like the driver's seat, the updated iDrive infotainment unit, the audio quality, the boot space, as well as the rear seats. That last bit is where it got a little interesting, because the last time I drove the X1 was in 2013, and that was still the previous generation model.
I remember it being very much like a flat bench; uncomfortable for passengers especially when you're cornering. This one is much better with extra space for your knees; and the reason for that, I suspect, is what's under the hood, or at least how it's mounted.
The previous generation X1 had the engine was mounted longitudinally with the cylinders aligned front to back along the vehicle's length; in classic BMW terms, it was a rear-wheel drive vehicle. The gearbox would be mounted that way too, eating up space in the forward cabin, along with a drive shaft that needed a huge channel beneath the center console and the floor under the middle seat.
Since 2015, the X1 has become primarily a front-wheel drive model (all-wheel drive optional as xDrive) with the engine mounted transversely, or with the cylinders mounted laterally along the width of the vehicle. That layout generally means more room because the powertrain doesn't eat as much cabin space, giving engineers more room to allocate for legroom and kneeroom.
Powering this X1 is a 2.0-liter turbodiesel that makes 150 PS and 350 Nm of torque. BMW calls it “twin power”, but it's not to be confused with twin turbo. There's only one turbine hooked up to the engine, but it has two distinct inlets and scrolls (tubes, really); one set allows the turbo to produce boost at low RPMs and the other at higher RPMs. In other words, there's less turbo lag meaning a more enjoyable drive, especially with the 8-speed automatic.
When doing a daily drive around town, this BMW is really a nice drive. The ride is slightly on the firm side but not overly so. I actually expected it to be firmer since this one has runflat tires, but all things considered, the X1 rides over the bumps and ruts very smoothly. The steering is light, precise, and intuitive. The rear view camera makes it easy to maneuver into a parking slot, rear first. Visibility is good despite my desire to set the seat height to the lowest setting; that's just my personal preference.
The only real issue is the lurching in heavy traffic; the kind where your average speeds are about 10 kilometers per hour. The X1 doesn't seem to like that, almost mimicking the feel of a dual clutch in traffic. I have a feeling it's because of the good torque at low RPMs wanting to accelerate the vehicle as eagerly as possible. Mind you, that's with the normal drive mode engaged.
Those misgivings were quickly erased though when I started checking the fuel economy numbers. After a fill up, I realized the X1 was doing 11.0 kilometers per liter in the city (average speed: 19 km/h). I thought it was a bit high so I retested and filled up again, and I ended up with 10.9 km/l (average speed: 20 km/h, but with two passengers). On a highway drive and with a full cabin, the X1 was doing 15.5 km/l (70 km/h average, 5 persons, plus bags). Mind you, those numbers are with normal mode (not Eco Pro) and with the auto start/stop (aka: idling stop) feature deactivated; personally I prefer not to use it. Either way, the X1 delivers on the promise of fuel economy.
At a faster pace is when I really realized how different the new X1 is from the last one I was behind the wheel of. This one may use the same platform as a front-wheel drive Mini and not a rear-drive BMW, but the handling is still nicely dialed in. At speed on the highway the X1 is very planted and confident. Turn in isn't crisp, but the manners are really enjoyable for this front-drive (sDrive) model. The only real difference is that you'll get torque steer rather than a powerslide if your right foot gets a bit too eager with the turbodiesel coming out of a corner. Don't worry though, you've got stability control, traction control, and a lot of features to save the day.
So far, the X1 has proved to be a fairly mixed bag. The drive is there, the fuel economy is great, there are definite improvements all around, and the exterior looks better than before. Honestly, they should have elevated the interior design especially since in traffic that's what the customer will be looking at. And considering that the X1 has to compete against newer models such as the Audi Q3, the BMW X1, the Mercedes GLA Class and Jaguar E-Pace, it might be a challenge. This isn't the spring chicken of the premium compact crossover lot.
But all isn't lost. The X1 does have a clear edge in one aspect: price. BMW is launching this German-made X1 sDrive 18d X-Line tonight, and it will retail for PhP 3,090,000. As far as we know, that's much less than many of its competitor models.
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Flight MH17 massacre: interceptions would confirm a Russian involvement
New evidence for the 2020 process
According to new wiretaps, the hypothetical relationship between the Kremlin and the separatists of the conflict in eastern Ukraine (known as the "Donbass war") regarding the Malaysian MH-17 flight incident in Ukraine in July 2014 was confirmed which killed 298 people while traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur (see AVIONEWS).
Attempts to recover the bodies were difficult due to the continuous clashes between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatist rebels. The latter are the main suspects of the massacre: according to the Dutch international investigation team "Jit" (Joint Investigation Team) to blow up the Malaysia Airlines B-777 aircraft, it was a Russian-made Buk missile. This June, investigators have accused three Russians and one Ukrainian of being involved in the killing and the trial will begin at Schiphol in 2020 (see AVIONEWS).
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Incontrovertible according the JIT it was a Buk missile launched by a stationing arrived by the Russian territory in Ukraine and returned in Russia after the fact
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Press releases, statements and news for members
Significant press releases and statements pre 2017
Relate and BACP pledge to improve industry standards and access to counselling and therapy
Leading relationships charity Relate and BACP announce a new strategic partnership.
BACP comment on the Referendum on the UK’s Membership of the European Union
BACP has not taken a position on the EU Referendum. As a professional body with over 40,000 members with diverse views and opinions it would be impossible and inappropriate for BACP to put forward a representative view on this complicated subject which is outside of our core business and charitable objectives.
Revised statement on students working with children and young people
BACP apologises for the confusion caused by previous CYP statements and for the unintended consequences this has caused for service providers, training organisations and students.
Play Therapy and BACP Registers
BACP recognises play therapy as an important therapeutic tool in helping children in distress and play therapists can be admitted to membership and registration by BACP if their play therapy training meets the requirements for membership/registration with BACP.
Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion 'Reparative' Therapy
There has been a lot of presumptive conjecture, precipitate actions and misrepresentation of BACP’s position on the proposal to extend the joint MoU on conversion (reparative) therapy to include gender identity.
Professional bodies scrutinise Government ‘therapists in jobcentres’ plans
In recent months, the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, British Psychoanalytic Council, British Psychological Society and UK Council for Psychotherapy have met with officials from the Government's new Joint Health and Work Unit to scrutinise Government plans to help jobcentre clients who experience mental ill health.
New era of collaborative working with BPC and UKCP
We're delighted to announce a new era of working together more collaboratively with the British Psychoanalytic Council and the UK Council for Psychotherapy.
Counselling and the refugee crisis
The harrowing news reports about the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing civil war in Syria have resonated with many of us within BACP. In recent years there has been increased recognition of the potential impact of displacement on mental health. The distressing stories and images of the last few weeks have led many of us to reflect on how we can use our unique skills to help those affected by this crisis.
Men and counselling: the changing relationship between men in the UK and therapy
A survey undertaken in February 2014 shows that more men are seeking counselling than ever before.
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APC Mouse Anti-Human CD117
Clone YB5.B8 (RUO)
Brand BD Pharmingen™
Alternative Name KIT; c-Kit; SCFR; PBT; Mast/stem cell growth factor receptor
Isotype Mouse IgG1, κ
Reactivity Human (QC Testing)
Application Flow cytometry (Routinely Tested)
Immunogen Acute myelocytic leukemia blasts
Workshop No. V C009
Entrez Gene ID 3815
Sizes 0.1 mg 25 µg
The YB5.B8 monoclonal antibody specifically binds to CD117, which is also known as c-Kit, or Stem cell factor Receptor (SCFR). CD117 is a ~145 kDa type I transmembrane glycoprotein with tyrosine kinase activity. CD117 is present on hematopoietic progenitor cell subsets, thymocytes, mast cells, hepatocytes and histiocytes. CD117 serves as a cytokine receptor for steel factor (SLF), also known as stem cell factor (SCF), or mast cell growth factor (MGF). The interaction of CD117 and SLF is crucial to hematopoiesis, mast cell differentiation, melanogenesis, and germ cell development. The ability of the YB5.B8 antibody to block the binding of c-Kit ligand is still controversial.
Format APC
Excitation Source Red 633 nm
Allophycocyanin (APC), is an accessory photosynthetic pigment found in blue-green algae. Its molecular weight is approximately 105 kDa. APC has six phycocyanobilin chromophores per molecule, which makes it a very bright fluorochrome that is highly suitable for flow cytometry applications. Due to nearly identical excitation and emission properties but different spillover characteristics, APC and Alexa Fluor® 647 cannot be used simultaneously
APC Mouse IgG1, κ Isotype Control RUO
Spectrum Viewer Panel Designer Spectrum Viewer Download TDS Regulatory Document Website
The monoclonal antibody was purified from tissue culture supernatant or ascites by affinity chromatography. The antibody was conjugated to APC under optimum conditions, and unconjugated antibody and free APC were removed. Store undiluted at 4°C and protected from prolonged exposure to light. Do not freeze.
Ashman LK, Buhring HJ, Aylett GW, Broudy VC, Muller C. Epitope mapping and functional studies with three monoclonal antibodies to the c-kit receptor tyrosine kinase, YB5.B8, 17F11, and SR-1. J Cell Physiol. 1994; 158(3):545-554. View reference
Lerner NB, Nocka KH, Cole SR, et al. Monoclonal antibody YB5.B8 identifies the human c-kit protein product. Blood. 1991; 77(9):1876-1883. View reference
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Wypych J, Bennett LG, Schwartz MG, et al. Soluble kit receptor in human serum. Blood. 1995; 85(1):66-73. View reference
Yarden Y, Kuang WJ, Yang-Feng T, et al. Human proto-oncogene c-kit: a new cell surface receptor tyrosine kinase for an unidentified ligand. EMBO J. 1987; 6(11):3341-3351. View reference
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Home | Benefits | Health/wellness
My Take: Help employees embrace pedal power
Sara Tatelman | May 30, 2016
I’m a newbie bike commuter, and a big chicken: in Toronto, I’ll only cycle on dedicated bicycle lanes. Luckily, if I tack on an extra eight kilometres to my commute, I can ride to Benefits Canada HQ almost entirely on bike paths. So two or three days a week, I’ll lug my rust-speckled clunker off the porch and get my heart rate up before I’ve checked my email. And that, science says, is good for both my cardiovascular health and my employer’s bottom line.
Read: 5 ways to encourage healthy choices
A 2010 study looking at 1,236 Dutch employees found that those who cycle to work take one fewer sick day each year than their peers, and those whose bike commutes are longer than five kilometres take even less time off. Plus, biking to work saves employees time (no more rushing to the gym after an hour of sitting in traffic) and money (pedal power is cheaper than both bus fare and gas), and a 2013 systematic review found outdoor exercise boosts your mood.
So how can employers encourage staff members to clip on their helmets and pedal to work?
“What we have mostly focused on is getting good infrastructure within UHN so people can actually bike to work,” says Lisa Vanlint, energy steward at the University Health Network in Toronto. “It doesn’t sound very exciting but this is what really facilitates [bike commuting.]” So the UHN, which has 700 employees in its Bicycle User Group, installed secure bike racks at many of its hospitals and research centres, as well as three air pumps for filling up unexpected flats.
“The other thing too is there’s showers and lockers right next door [to one bike parking lot] so that allows your colleagues to like your bike ride as much as you do,” Vanlint says.
Read: Transat strives for sustainable commuting
Don’t forget that all-important bike route, especially for cyclists who aren’t quite spandex warriors, and share maps of nearby bike lanes. Vanlint recommends the Ride the City app, which is available for six Canadian cities and lets users toggle between safest, safe and direct paths when planning their commutes.
“A big part of it is also education and encouragement,” says Megan Fitzgerald, a transportation planner at the City of Surrey in British Columbia. “There’s this idea, often, of if you build it, they’ll come, right? But what we found is by offering cycling education workshops to our employees, bike maintenance workshops, free of charge to our employees, and organizing events like Bike to Work Week commuter stations, it helps create a little bit of excitement for our employees.”
UHN also offers bike education, both in-class seminars for safety tips and popular hands-on lessons “where you learn how to actually diagnose your own bike, how to make sure your wheel is on straight, how to grease/degrease your chain, sometimes how to tighten your chain, how to check your brakes, things like that,” Vanlint says.
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Surrey tries to encourage employees to try biking to work, even if it’s not their regular commuting style. “So it’s about helping employees realize, hey, you could maybe bike one day,” Fitzgerald says. “Or you could bike one day, one way, and put your bike on the bus, and then four days a week, drive to work. It’s not an all or nothing. It’s finding a combination of commuting options that work for you.”
UHN is considering subsidizing employees’ memberships to a bike-sharing program as part of the overall compensation package. A recent poll suggested staff would be very interested if the price could be brought down to $50 a year, though “not many wanted to pay the full amount.”
The network is also part of Smart Commute, a program in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area that encourages sustainable methods of getting to work. One of the program’s initiatives is its Emergency Ride Home program, which covers cab rides home if an emergency arises for an employee who cycled — or ran or carpooled — to work in the morning.
Cycling can also encourage workplace friendships, even across business hierarchies, says Fitzgerald. “One of the really cool things about commuting culture here at city hall is that it’s not just your average employee — it’s also senior management who is cycling as well,” she says, pointing to Surrey’s general manager of planning, head of transportation engineering and a human resources executive who all bike commute on a regular basis. “So there are all these different role models whom people can look up to and get advice.”
May 30 is Bike Day in Canada.
Read: UHN nurtures healthy healthcare provides
Sara Tatelman is an associate editor at Benefits Canada.
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12 Technology Stocks Moving In Thursday's After-Market Session
Inseego (NASDAQ:INSG) shares increased by 12.76% to $10.6 during Thursday's after-market session. Inseego's trading volume hit 150.0K shares by close, accounting for 6.1% of its average volume over the last 100 days. The market value of their outstanding shares is at $1.0 billion. The company's, Q3 earnings came out today.
Aviat Networks (NASDAQ:AVNW) shares moved upwards by 12.63% to $23.0. Trading volume for this security closed at 111, accounting for 0.36% of its average full-day volume over the last 100 days. The company's market cap stands at $124.0 million. As per the news, the Q1 earnings report came out today.
Immersion (NASDAQ:IMMR) stock moved upwards by 11.87% to $8.48. This security traded at a volume of 8.4K shares come close, making up 1.98% of its average volume over the last 100 days. The market value of their outstanding shares is at $231.5 million. As per the press release, Q3 earnings came out today.
GoPro (NASDAQ:GPRO) stock rose 11.78% to $7.4. This security traded at a volume of 712.6K shares come close, making up 21.33% of its average volume over the last 100 days. The company's market cap stands at $1.1 billion. The company's, Q3 earnings came out today.
Trade Desk (NASDAQ:TTD) shares rose 11.61% to $722.5. Trading volume for this security closed at 145.0K, accounting for 14.03% of its average full-day volume over the last 100 days. The market value of their outstanding shares is at $33.2 billion. The company's, Q3 earnings came out today.
Square (NYSE:SQ) shares rose 8.93% to $191.3. This security traded at a volume of 1.1 million shares come close, making up 11.87% of its average volume over the last 100 days. The market value of their outstanding shares is at $84.0 billion. As per the news, the Q3 earnings report came out today.
Applied Optoelectronics (NASDAQ:AAOI) stock fell 18.67% to $8.15 during Thursday's after-market session. Trading volume for this security closed at 71.2K, accounting for 9.86% of its average full-day volume over the last 100 days. The market value of their outstanding shares is at $165.7 million. As per the press release, Q3 earnings came out today.
Alteryx (NYSE:AYX) stock declined by 11.8% to $127.76. This security traded at a volume of 138.7K shares come close, making up 5.89% of its average volume over the last 100 days. The company's market cap stands at $8.4 billion. The company's, Q3 earnings came out today.
Pluralsight (NASDAQ:PS) shares fell 9.22% to $17.25. At the close, Pluralsight's trading volume reached 35.3K shares. This is 3.1% of its average volume over the last 100 days. The market value of their outstanding shares is at $2.4 billion. The company's, Q3 earnings came out today.
Array Technologies (NASDAQ:ARRY) shares fell 8.5% to $36.0. Trading volume for this security closed at 6.0K, accounting for 0.18% of its average full-day volume over the last 100 days. The market value of their outstanding shares is at $8.0 billion.
New Relic (NYSE:NEWR) shares fell 7.88% to $60.0. Trading volume for this security closed at 225.8K, accounting for 24.49% of its average full-day volume over the last 100 days. The company's market cap stands at $3.5 billion. As per the news, the Q2 earnings report came out today.
Marin Software (NASDAQ:MRIN) stock fell 7.34% to $2.4. Today's trading volume for this security ended up closing at 84.7K shares, which is 1.75 percent of its average volume over the last 100 days. The market value of their outstanding shares is at $16.4 million. As per the news, the Q3 earnings report came out today.
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US Senate votes to extend TRIA until 2021
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The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA), the federal terrorism risk insurance programme, has been re-authorised by the US Senate in a momentous move that insurers have welcomed.
A 93-4 vote saw the Senate pass the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorisation Act of 2014, which will extend the programme for a maximum of seven years.
The US House of Representatives are now expected to vote on the legislation
The act proposes changes to the current programme by incrementally raising the coinsurance contribution of insurers from the current 15 percent of loss, to 20 percent by 2019, once certified terrorism losses have surpassed the program “trigger” of $100 million.
The Senate has also announced a proposal to increase post-event recoupment from policyholders from the current $27.5 billion to $37.5 billion by 2019.
New York Democrat and one of the bill’s sponsors, Chuck Schumer, says: “In today’s world, Terrorism Risk Insurance has become an important pillar of our economy, and it must be extended. In a post-9-11 New York, terrorism risk insurance has proven to be an absolutely essential partnership between the government and the private sector that has turned rebuilding downtown Manhattan from a question to a certainty, and it is important that this insurance be available if anything were to happen elsewhere in the state.”
Schumer continues, “Economic development, construction, and hundreds of thousands of jobs depend on this program, and preserving it for the future is essential to our economic growth. The House should quickly abandon its approach to drastically change the program and eliminate much of the certainty that TRIA is meant to provide, and pass our bill.”
Willis senior vice president and terrorism insurance practice group leader, Wendy Peters, says: “While the action today signals a significant step forward, the House of Representatives will still need to vote on its own version of the bill which will then have to be reconciled with the Senate bill before it can be sent to the president for his signature.
She adds, “With eight days left in session before summer recess for Congress, it is likely that final congressional action will not take place until after Congress returns after labor day. If action is not completed then, the legislation will have to wait for the expected lame duck session after the fall elections.”
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Cerebral Sinovenous Thrombosis in Children: Review and Case Report
/ For Physicians & Researchers / Education / Grand Rounds, Publications, & Media / Barrow Quarterly / Volume 21, No. 4, 2005 / Cerebral Sinovenous Thrombosis in Children: Review and Case Report
Mohammad Khan, BS*
Shahram Partovi, MD
C. Roger Bird, MD
Division of Neuroradiology, Barrow Neurological Institute, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona *Medical Student, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
As increasingly sophisticated neuroimaging technology becomes available, the frequency with which cerebral sinovenous thrombosis is detected in children is likewise increasing. However, the subtle and variable clinical presentations associated with the condition make its diagnosis difficult. We present a 7-week-old girl with seizures who underwent MR imaging, which showed thrombosis of the straight sinus and internal cerebral veins. She was treated with antiepileptic and anticoagulant therapy and recovered uneventfully within 2 weeks. Follow-up MR venography showed recanalization of the vessels, and the patient was discharged home. The key to treating this potentially devastating disease is a solid understanding of the variable presentations of cerebral sinovenous thrombosis in children and of the differences in imaging findings between neonates and adults. When combined with a multidisciplinary approach involving the referring physician and neuroradiologist, this knowledge will help to avoid the neurological complications associated with delayed diagnosis and treatment.
Key Words: sinovenous thrombosis, children, seizures, prothrombotic states
Abbreviations used: CT, computed tomography; CSVT, cerebral sinovenous thrombosis; MR, magnetic resonance; PICU, pediatric intensive care unit
Cerebral sinovenous thrombosis is a rare but potentially serious disorder in children. It is now increasingly diagnosed because clinical awareness of the entity and neuroimaging techniques have improved.[8] Furthermore, the survival rate of children with previously lethal diseases conferring a predisposition to sinovenous thrombosis has increased.[8] It is estimated that the annual incidence of CSVT is 0.29 cases per 100,000 children per year. Neonates are the most commonly affected age group.[4] CSVT is now considered more common than previously believed, and with subtle and variable clinical presentations, it still remains a diagnostic challenge.
A 7-week-old girl was born prematurely after the amniotic fluid ruptured at 36 weeks of gestation. She had a 2- to 3-day history of respiratory distress. She was placed on a ventilator for respiratory support, admitted to the PICU, and treated with antibiotics and intravenous fluids. She recovered in a few days and was transferred to the pediatrics ward. Ten days after admission, she was noted to have rhythmical jerking of the upper extremities that lasted about 1 minute. She had more episodes and was returned to the PICU where she had another tonic-clonic seizure. She was loaded with the antiepileptic drug, fosphenytoin, which helped eliminate the seizures.
On readmission to the PICU, the patient was slightly febrile (100.1º F) and had normal tone and reflexes with strong pulses and perfusion of her extremities. Her extraocular movements were intact, and her pupils were equal, round, and reactive to light and accommodation. The rest of her physical examination was normal.
Figure 1. CT scans without contrast show the increased density of the (A) straight sinus and (B) internal cerebral veins, suggestive of an increased hematocrit. Thrombosis could not be excluded.
On Day 10 her metabolic profile was as follows: sodium, 138 mEq/L; potassium, 3.8 mEq/L; chloride, 105 mEq/L; bicarbonate, 20 mEq/L; blood-urea-nitrogen level, 5 mg/dL; creatinine, 0.2 mg/dL; and glucose, 80 mg/dL. Her white blood cell count was 4.13 x 103/mL, hemoglobin was 13.3 gm/dL, and hematocrit was 38.6%. Her international normalized ratio was 1.0, prothrombin time was 10.6 sec, and partial thromboplastin time was elevated to 37 sec. Further coagulation studies revealed decreased levels of protein S (52 mg/L), protein C (30 mg/L), and antithrombin III (43 mg/dL). Blood-gas analysis was normal.
Electroencephalography revealed abnormal, poorly organized activity with some sharp transients over the temporal lobe regions, but there was no evidence for ongoing seizure activity. Head CT with contrast revealed increased density of the straight sinus and internal cerebral veins (Fig. 1). On MR imaging and MR venography, there was no flow within the straight sinus and internal cerebral veins, consistent with thrombosis (Fig. 2).
The patient was monitored in the PICU for several days and returned to the pediatrics ward. She was treated with lovenox and dilantin for seizure activity and CSVT. MR imaging repeated 1 week later showed blood flow through the straight sinus and internal cerebral veins (Fig. 3). During this time, the girl’s condition had improved, and she was neurologically intact upon examination. She suffered no complications and was discharged home on lovenox and phenobarbital with instructions to follow-up with her primary-care physician.
Clinically, CSVT manifests differently in neonates and older children, suggesting that the presenting features can be described as age-dependent. Seizures, fever, lethargy, or irritability and respiratory distress are common signs in neonates.[4] In contrast, older children often become symptomatic with the classic signs of intracranial hemorrhage, such as vomiting, headache, papilledema, and abducens nerve palsy.[4,8] Other presentations can vary from minimal and nonspecific symptoms such as decreased oral intake and irritability to more ominous signs such as coma and hemiplegia.[13]
Figure 2. Preoperative MR angiogram shows the lack of slow-related enhancement within the straight sinus (not visible), consistent with thrombosis. Slow flow is also identified within the deep venous system.
Figure 3. Postoperative MR angiogram obtained 10 days after the pa- tient’s presentation with seizures show imporved blood flow through the staight sinus (arrows) and internal cerebral veins (arrowheads).
The diagnosis of CSVT is confirmed by various neuroimaging studies. The widespread availability of CT, MR imaging, and MR venography has allowed earlier and more efficient diagnosis. In previous studies, CT scans were obtained in 96% of children, but the diagnosis was missed in 10 to 20% and the extent of thrombosis was underestimated in a few cases.[4,8] Especially in neonates, CT scans have been associated with false-positive results because of increased hematocrit, decreased density of unmyelinated white matter, and slower venous flow.[8] These findings can mimic the dense triangle sign on CT, which represents opacification of the torcula by freshly thrombosed blood.[4] Other signs on CT include he cord sign, which is a linear area of increased density related to thrombus in veins and sinuses, and the empty delta sign, which is an area of hypodensity in the torcula correlated with thrombus in the sinus surrounded by contrast. The latter is the most common sign, present in 30% of cases.[16] Other findings include dural and tentorial enhancement and dilatation of transcerebral intermedullary veins. Brain involvement may show hemorrhagic infarcts, edema, compression, or enlargement of ventricles.
The optimal technique for establishing the diagnosis is MR imaging with MR venography.[8] These modalities show details of the infarct and visualize the absence of flow and presence of thrombus.[8] Acute thrombosis is isointense on T1-weighted and markedly hypointense on T2-weighted MR images, while both studies show increased intensity in the intermediate stage.[13] MR angiography has been used in doubtful or difficult cases. It provides more detail on the partial or complete lack of filling of vessels, the size of enlarged collateral veins, a decrease in venous emptying, and the reversal of normal venous flow.[4]
Thrombosis of the sinovenous system usually is caused by vessel stasis, prothrombotic states, and damage to the vessel wall (Virchow’s triad). Slower blood flow leads to propagation of thrombosis while mural damage helps to perpetuate clot formation by serving as a nidus. Ischemia results when impaired venous drainage causes congestion and swelling of underlying white matter.[4] There is also a lack of thrombomodulin, which normally provides an antithrombotic effect.[11] It is believed that neonates may be at a higher risk for CSVT because of mechanical disruption. Because sinuses are located along suture lines, calvarial molding during birth can predispose infants to the development of thrombus.[14]
The superior sagittal and transverse sinuses are the most common sites involved.[4] In a study of 197 children, 86% had thrombus in the superficial sinuses, while 38% had thrombus in the deep sinuses.[8] Multiples sites were involved in 49% of the children. The transverse sinus was more likely to be involved in non-neonates (60%) than in neonates (39%), but there were no significant differences between deep and superficial involvement.[8]
CSVT is associated with a variety of local or systemic conditions (or both) that can be age-dependent. In one study, perinatal complications, such as hypoxic encephalopathy, predominated in neonates.[8] Altered cerebral hemodynamics such as shock and dehydration have also occurred in this age group.[3,15] Head and neck infections that led to septic thrombosis, such as otitis media, mastoiditis, and sinusitis, predominated in preschool children. Chronic conditions, such as connective tissue disorders (e.g., systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, and nephritic syndrome), were more frequent in older children.[5] Certain drugs, including oral contraceptives, which are increasingly used by adolescent girls, also predispose to CSVT.[2] Risk factors in adults such as pregnancy and cancer were nonapplicable or rare in this study.
The most common prothrombotic state in neonates and children is the presence of factor V Leiden.[12,17] Other common genetic abnormalities include protein C, protein S, and antithrombin III factor deficiencies. In children with CSVT, the frequency of prothrombotic disorders is 12 to 50%,[1,9] which is higher than the frequency in adults (i.e., 15 to 21%).[7] The most common acquired disorder is the presence of anticardiolipin antibody.[8] In about 3% of children, a cause for CSVT cannot be found despite extensive search, as compared to 25% in adults.[10] Caution must be exercised when diagnosing idiopathic CSVT because continued surveillance may uncover causes that can be treated.
The mainstay of treatment for CSVT is conservative medical and neurological supportive care, including hospitalization with adequate hydration and close monitoring. Aggressive antibiotic therapy and antiepileptics should be used when appropriate. Whether systemic fibrinolysis and anticoagulation therapy should be administered to pediatric patients is still controversial[4] because data regarding its safety and efficacy in this population are limited.
Some authors have treated patients with heparin and urokinase with good results;[6] others have recommended that anticoagulation not be used. Isolated reports have shown improvement in patients with extensive thrombosis and a low incidence of complications. Nevertheless, in the newborn period, CSVT is frequently a self-limited disease requiring no treatment. In children who are symptomatic, treatment should be based on clinical judgment because a real consensus about the best treatment for severe cases is lacking.
The long-term neurological outcome in children largely remains unclear.[10] In one estimate 77% of neonates and 52% of nonneonates were completely normal after a mean of 2.1 years.[13] According to a recent study,[6] children who survive CSVT have a fair prognosis. In this study, of the 12 children younger than 16 years old who survived CSVT, only 1 had mild neurological deficits at a mean follow-up of 2.8 years. Cognitive functioning was normal in all children except two, who had mild cognitive problems. In terms of quality of life, three children suffered from negative well being (i.e., feelings of decreased self-esteem, depression, and anxiety). The findings from this study also suggest that neonates have a worse prognosis compared to their older counterparts. Long-term follow-up is vital because the onset of neurological injury is delayed in children, especially in neonates.
The variable clinical presentation of CSVT in children and its unique radiological findings in neonates and older children must be understood to ensure prompt diagnosis of patients afflicted with this disease and to avoid the neurological complications associated with its delayed diagnosis and treatment.
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Big Brother 19 — HoH, Nominations, and Veto Results
So, because the feeds were down for so long, it’s still not totally clear how all this happened but here’s where the house stands now:
Cody has reentered the house.
Jessica won HoH. Apparently, Christmas came close to beating her.
Kevin has taken over Dom’s talk show, which is apparently now a “Friendship Show.”
Jessica — with, I imagine, a lot of input from Cody, nominated Ramses and Josh for eviction.
She does not appear to be trying to backdoor Paul, which is what a lot of people assumed she was trying to do. Instead, Josh does seem to be her target. Cody seems to understand that they don’t have the votes to get rid of Paul so instead, they need to start picking off Paul’s alliance.
Josh, of course, is the obvious target because he’s repeatedly attacked almost everyone in the house and it really doesn’t seem like any of the HGs would miss him if he was voted out.
But why nominate Ramses, even if he is a pawn? Why not nominate someone like Mark or Matt to make sure that, no matter what, a Paul ally would be on the block?
Ramses was kind of freaking out about this, though Jessica kept telling him that he was just a pawn. Again, she didn’t seem to realize that Paul not only had the numbers to keep Josh but that he also wants to keep Josh around to do his dirty work for him.
Tonight, they played for the veto. Apparently, it was Josh, Ramses, Cody, Jessica, Christmas, and Alex competing. And…
JESSICA WON THE VETO!
So, if Jessica’s smart, she will take Ramses off the block and she’ll replace him with someone close to Paul.
Finally, for those keeping track:
Christmas still has her ring and can take the place of someone in a veto comp
Jessica still has the halting hex, which means that she can stop any of the next three evictions.
Hopefully, Sunday’s show will fill in some blanks as to what happened during the HoH comp (it sounds like Jessica tried to make a deal with Christmas and she rejected it) and the logic behind the nominations.
Jeanne Keshishian July 22, 2017 at 8:00 pm
Why oh why doesn’t this group have the smarts to put Paul up. It’s so frustrating.
BuyukHoroz July 22, 2017 at 9:06 pm
Listen to Paul’s fellow Armenian. She knows. Paul’s got to go. 🙂
barb July 22, 2017 at 11:03 pm
because paul rocks
Junksies July 22, 2017 at 8:01 pm
Thank you Lisa. 👍
Mayela Lopez July 22, 2017 at 8:13 pm
I knew Cody was conning back!!! Looks like the house is going to turn upside down again!!! Cody and Jessica need to get out!!!! Bit I have to be honest…this season is better !!!
Bob July 22, 2017 at 8:22 pm
Better than watching toast burn? This is the worst season since the Riley bimbo won.
Joan July 22, 2017 at 9:01 pm
I’m with you Bob. This season is pretty pathetic and boring.
Not much strategy going on.
Janna July 22, 2017 at 8:36 pm
@Mayela,
I hate Cody😈 and Jessica😈 and I agree with your comments. Ty
✌✌✌ Peace Out ✌✌✌
Bruce July 22, 2017 at 11:21 pm
Better than what?? The biggest problem this season is that BB is throwing so many curve balls into the game, the contestants can’t PLAY the game like it was first designed. Every time you turn around, BB has some new twist and I don’t mind a couple throughout the season but this is now almost on a daily basis. It no longer matters who is the best or worst player, it only matters if they have won a prize to further the game for themselves.
It all adds up to a really boring season because whomever wins may very well be the worst player only because of the overwhelming amount of “twists” that he or she happened to win.
The house is going against Jess and Cody they are voting to evict Ramses instead of Josh this is the stupidest group ever!!! Paul has these fools thinking it’s best to keep josh I have seen water with more intelligence than these fools Jess doesn’t want to make waves what a waste I don’t think I will watch anymore we all know the winner is paul so cut him the check and call it a season all of these people are stupid and deserve to lose I’m so disappointed would like to know what drugs they feed the hgs
There is no cure for stupidity! There’s not one of those
Airheads can see the how Paul is manipulating them. That’s
Why he was so adamant about getting rid of Dom.
She was the only one who saw thru Paul. I think I will give it up
Too Bob
I had hope when Cody came back since Dom let him know what was going on but it seems he is letting little Cody control him now thought he was better than that but I was wrong now I’m wishing Dom had come back instead so disappointed
They drink the COOL AID 👣
Janice Davidow July 22, 2017 at 8:49 pm
If I was in the house and had to choose between aligning with Cody/Jessica or Paul, I would choose Paul in a heartbeat. I think they need to get rid of Cody long before they get rid of Paul. It might be hard to do with Jessica having the halting hex too.
Janna July 23, 2017 at 9:41 am
@ Janice
Yes !¡! I agree 👣
Wow you two must be on the same drugs the hgs are on to want to align with paul over Cody. paul had his shot last year and blew it if anyone should have come back it should have been Victor not this asswipe Its as I have said for a few years they put one person with an iq of 65-70 the rest have iqs of 25-30 to keep a low life like paul is just sooo dumb and to let him control you is even worse. For them to listen and vote Ramses out instead of mama’s boy josh show very low intelligence in the house.
Elizabeth July 23, 2017 at 7:46 am
Totally Agree Pro.has set it up from the beginning Paul Show how laim 😀😳😡😠💋
Oh I don’t want to see Ramsey’s go home. I was so excited to read that Josh was put up I was so hoping he was going to go home. I think the season has just gotten really exciting now. Now hopefully Paul will be going home soon. I want to see to it that that 3 weeks of immunity did him no good. I have to confess I do get tickled when Jessica tells Josh to go change his diaper. LOL
You guys keep going on and on how Paul shouldn’t be here this season; that he had his chance last season. He is here. You would rather have Victor instead of Paul or no vets at all is dreaming. It is what it is. And yes, I would align with Paul and NOT with Cody. Cody is cold and stoic. How could anyone align with a person where it is so hard to get past, “hello”? He even said how he had a hard time talking to Julie. As much as most of you seem to dislike or hate Paul, he has game and knows how to socialize and win the others over; something Cody lacks big time.
Margie July 22, 2017 at 9:50 pm
Janice … AMEN. Tell it girl!
bobovnvet July 23, 2017 at 12:03 am
I feel the same as you Janice!……
Marcella July 23, 2017 at 9:01 am
What a lot of people fail to realize is that Cody is from Texas. So am I. I know lots of Texas boys who are men of few words. They come across somewhat rude to people, I understand. Imagine for a moment a person that doesn’t say anything because they simply have nothing to say. It’s not why we talkative types are accustomed to. I know this to be true, because I’m married to one of those types, and he comes across a lot like Cody. We have 3 teen boys, and when Daddy does say something, they listen.
Maybe this familiarity of character is why I like Cody. I think he’s a lot kinder and more compassionate than he comes across.
JuJu July 23, 2017 at 9:06 am
Paul is dominating in the game because he is PLAYING the GAME! He is doing what should be done – creating doubt, winning comps, etc! I vehemently agree that veterans shouldn’t be asked back unless it is an all Vet game – BUT he at least plays the game! Cody thinks he is playing the game but he doesn’t have the social advantage that Paul has so people aren’t going to gravitate to him for advice – because he doesn’t have good advice!
The only comp paul won was the hoh he was handed he has not won any comp Cody has beaten him in all comps
Marcella July 23, 2017 at 1:49 pm
I don’t think Cody was even much of a BB fan prior to entering the house… a distinct disadvantage. Unfortunately, Paul seems to be the only one with any idea how to play, which is not his fault.id have to fault BB Casting for this bunch of novices. Didn’t Ramses and Alex both say they were “Super Fans”? Not by any super fan measurement of my recollection! They’re both just as awestruck by Paul as the rest of the lug nuts!
If Paul weren’t a part of this season, it would have been more enjoyable. When was the last time we had so many inept characters to watch. In the past, sooner or later a player would figure it out, along with a couple of others in their “alliance” and emerge either a winner or a bitter jury member. Those were the good old days.
@ Janice,
Your right I agree with you. It is what it is, deal with it.
What’s great on our BLOG is we share our opinions, and don’t
judge.
I hated Cody from day one. Paul is Playing the game, at least he knows how to. Josh needs to go home, he’s a crybaby and a bully. They might as well get rid of the minions, it’s a good move.👣
Janna July 23, 2017 at 11:46 am
Janice, I agree 👣
Here we go again! Cody and Jessica in charge! They don’t know the meaning of strategy! I think they are more interested in each other than the game! Km glad Cody won the comp to return to the house, because I thought he would play a smarter game! I see Cody going out the front door as soon as Jessica has plkayed her hex! That’s my view!
😊 The. 🔚
I like Cody am an ex marine so I know where he is coming from paul doesn’t have game these fools think he is a celebrity bc he played before they are star struck. At least Cody isn’t fake like paul
Bob, I was married to a proud Marine, so I started out pro Cory! His actions in the house made change my mind! Even though my husband was a proud man, he was kind and gentle with people! No excuse for rudeness! I think you would have liked my husband! 😊
Bob July 22, 2017 at 10:04 pm
I probably would have liked him since we would have the Corp in common that is the reason I will stick with Cody I think he has not been out of the Corp that long it takes awhile to adjust to life on the outside it took me a long time to adjust to civilian life it’s a big change from what you become accustomed to in the Marines
Same for me Bob….Army……
Like I said on an older post Cody may have some PTSD….
No Bob…because Cody is just damn weird and uncompromising! Him and his ‘Babe’ think they are the bee’s knees and can’t lose. They are just plain sickening. I can’t stand his attitude toward women…as he says unless they are drop dead gorgeous he has no use for them. Some of us don’t really like Paul but prefer him over Cody because of the reasons I mentioned. I’m not a Paul fan, in fact, last year I couldn’t stand him so that should tell you how much I don’t like Cody!
If you remember last year I was one of the few paul fan’s on this site but if you remember he feels the same way towards women.This year he thinks he is king of the roost so in that aspect they are the same but at least Cody is not lying to everyone in the house like paul bc of pauls lies josh will be staying in the house this week and Ramseys will go home
Please excuse the errors! Auto check strikes again! 😕
Your ex has very good taste in women you seem very nice Jolee
junksies July 22, 2017 at 11:08 pm
I’m gonna put my ear muffs on and watch BBAD… It’s 9:08 BBT.
Be back later…
Haha! I record it nightly and fast forward through most of it the next morning. These HG’s are a bunch of lambs laying with a lion. Sooner or later, their innocent little lives will end and they’ll sit in the jury house wondering what the hell happened. Sheeeze!
Fillani July 22, 2017 at 11:34 pm
If the nominations stay the same ramses will be voted out did he try to talk to Jessica to see if he has the votes to stay in the house people need to make an effort people are just hoping on hope that never works
The house had agreed to vote out josh but paul is scared of Ramsey so he must go. Jess and Cody believe Ramsey is safe no integrity in the house douchebag paul says jump they say yes sir they are letting paul lead them like brainless cattle to slaughter
Enough about the vinegarette. These girls are just jealous of Jessica. Jealous jealous jealous!!!
Thanks for the new page Lisa & a very good review💕Good comments everyone Thanks…………
I think you are right about Cody suffering from ptsd
Thanks Bob…I see it because I have been dealing with it for years…..
So much better now that I am going to be 70! LOL
Jolee July 23, 2017 at 1:16 am
Goodnight everyone. Watched about ten minutes of BBAD, then off to bed! 😇
Tendr July 23, 2017 at 1:20 am
You know if Jessica had put up Paul that he has too many who still think he’s their best friend. I wish when Dom was standing up there giving a speech and talking above everyone’s heads, she should have said Paul is running this whole show. All of you are giving him the money by doing what he says. None of you are really playing the game. You need to be thinking about how to win, how to get him out. This is a lot of money and you all act like you’re just here on some vacation. Too many of you are here to just make it to Jury. So, though Cody has an anti social personality, I’m willing to look past his stupid remarks as stupidity…I hope his beautiful daughters hair turns bright red since he make a remark negative about a red head…..won’t go into detail. He doesn’t act mature. He’s crazy about Jess but what if she gains ten, twenty pounds? Oh well….for now I want Josh to go and I still feel sorry for him. He is a child. I feel this game should have just been Cody and Paul in a cage fight……I’d watch that and I’m against those things but that’s how boring these ppl are.
Well said that’s what I thought she was going to do maybe production talked her out of it
What did he say about redheads? They are my weakness I can’t say anything but good about gingers
Mayela Lopez July 23, 2017 at 3:04 am
@ Janice…I totally am with you 100 percent
Doris July 23, 2017 at 8:09 am
This season is SO frustrating! Because of my work schedule, this year I had to subscribe to All Access. Of all crappy times to do so! If my 17 year old daughter didn’t still watch it, I would cancel and save my money. The debate as to whether we would be on Team Cody or team Paul is what is wrong with this season!! Remember the years when there were so many alliances it was hard to keep up? There were silly names for the alliances, which helped me at least remember who was in what alliance. This year it is just Paul and his minions. I am not a fan of Cody. But honestly, thank goodness SOMEONE was willing to go against him. I was apprehensive with Cody coming back because he did mention that he might align with Paul! UGH! Such a disappointment!
I remain completely perplexed as to why these numbskulls follow Paul like the Pied Piper. Did they watch BB18. He’s playing the same game, can they not see that. I’ve decided that BB Production purposefully selected numbskulls so Paul would be able to casually walk to the end.
As many have already said here, why didn’t Jessica nominate 2 of Paul’s minions and at least rid the house of one of them! Hopefully she’ll get wind of Paul’s plan to keep annoying Josh, and use the POV to put up a minion in place of poor naive Ramses. Geezzzz!
Good thing Jessica still has her special power. She may need it next week!
Jessica is better as an HOH than Cody – but not by much! As many have pointed out.. why not put up 2 of the people not on your side – as insurance that at least one will go home? I am a Paul fan only because he knows how to play… The others either avoid becoming HOH or brag how strong they will be and then don’t want to risk making the other side mad! They fight hard to become HOH and then wimp out! The criticism that Paul lies… I don’t understand! Look back at the winners… you have to lie or deceive to advance. The trick is talking yourself back into good graces if you get caught.
Ian and E.D. both won without lying E.D. told people what he was going to do
Hahaha… and poured a glass of ice tea on Jen’s head… and they still kept him around. As brash as ED was, he was fun to watch.
These numskulls who claim to have watched Season “This” or Season “That” probably ONLY watched the televised versions! We all know that if that is all they have seen – then they have no idea how to play the game and are just following like sheep.
I would have to agree Juju. I’ve seen every BB episode since season one, when Eddie won. I haven’t watched the feed for the past few seasons… I just don’t have the personal time. But, I read several Blogs every season, (this one new to me this season. Thanks for letting me join in the fun!). I read jokers almost religiously and watch BBAD. If you just tune in to CBS 3x’s a week, you’re getting the “Laverne & Shirley” version.
JuJu July 23, 2017 at 3:48 pm
I agree Marcella. I have watched since Season 1, too and I have never signed up for live feeds – BUT there is information out there with all the BB Spoiler sites to get more info! With those and BBAD, you can get a pretty good idea of what is going on! The profanity and sex talk is getting to be too much for me so I rarely last through BBAD.
I did take the feeds in earlier years when I was in college and had weird hours, so I could watch a lot. Now married, mom of teen boys & teaching, I just don’t get to watch…and sure don’t want my boys sneaking a peek! 😳
Profanity… you should have seen the feeds during season 9 (I think) when Nasty Natalie liked doing her nightly bathroom striptease for her bubble bath… or the sexual antics of April & Ollie in season 10. I think my last year for the feeds was season 14. I do miss getting to watch some of the HOH comp endings, but that’s about it. Thank goodness lots of folks still get the feeds & like to post updates!
Jeanne Keshishian July 23, 2017 at 10:21 am
Don’t hold back JuJu, tell us how you really feel. 💖 lol
I hate Cody from day 1 : he has a problem, Marine or not. I dated a Marine he never acted like that. He has no social skills and he is just plain mean.
Paul is playing BB, Elena wants TV time hoping to get noticed. Mark is either soft hearted or been in the BB house to long, I don’t know which. I like Matt, so far. I like Raven, so far. Jason, I don’t think he knows the BB game. Alex, I had hope for her, but she is not playing her game, she’s not a leader, she’ a minion. Christmas, I don’t know why they are keeping her, I thought the RING was the reason but she, not playing it as of yet, it’s not fair they should cancel the RING HEX and move on. Kevin is starting to creep me out, I had hope for him to, but he’s letting girls hang around him and he’s kissing them goodnight, he is a married man. I don’t like that, he needs to be called home by his WIFE. Ramses, I like him, he no trouble, he a poor little guy, no game play, I don’t see him making any moves, he is a vote other than that nahhhh. Jessica is Cody’s ho, she play’s better when Cody was gone. Jessica reminds me of Rachel Riley, without Brendon.
That’s my 2 cent’s on the rest.
millie July 23, 2017 at 11:02 am
i hate cody also he was the reason Dominique was evicted he is not a nice guy he is mean spirited and jessica she got all the power but she acts like she doesnt know what to do it . what was best for her is that cody not return to the game but it was rigged for cody to return to the game anyway. why is christmas still there she need to be sent home so that her foot can heel properly she is a fitness trainer she need to go home and return next summer .
@ Millie,
Yep, Jessica plays a better game without Cody.
😰😰
Susan Graham July 23, 2017 at 1:10 pm
I don’t like Cody either, from the moment he got his alliance together and said “and now for the babes” and named the girls in his alliance, not a fan of men referring to women as “babes, broads, kittens, hos, etc.”. Ba-bye.
Changing my avatar! This is my mom and me taken a few years before she went to Heaven! 😇
That’s sweet – thanks for sharing!
How wonderful Jolee,
I really miss my mom !!!😥😧
I am sure you and sissy has beautiful memoirs close to y’all, I know, I have them as well.
Mom’s are a Wonderful Blessing 😇😇😇😇😇
Well, they just had the Have Nots meeting and they are the first three to get off the HOH comp. These are Kevin, Mark and Paul. Josh is still a have not. Wonder why they don’t give them an extra food like they have in previous years?
Margie……why is Josh STILL on slop??? I must have missed something. Which wouldn’t surprise me. I am really not following as religiously as usual this season.
Mark?? Pouting??? NOOOOoooo!!! *eyeroll*
It seems like since they have put all these twists in to vote on they think its too much to have us vote on the extra food for the HNS too!! Or maybe they jut don’t want the additional work! it does seem unfair. Those big guys just about starve on slop and protein drinks! You do need something to chew on occsionally. Other than your words!!lol
Star … the reason Josh is still a HN is he opened the box on the wall in the HN room that only one person can open. He picked the wrong box and got an extra week of slop.
The very same thing just happened to Mark a little while ago!!! LOL. He didn’t tell anyone he was opening the box except Elena and everyone was pissed. He picked the wrong box so now he has two weeks of slop! He walked out of the room with his bottom lip dragging the ground! LOL
Mark is big time pouting because he is a HN!
tendr July 23, 2017 at 3:28 pm
Mark needs to shut up and just go work out. He’s such a child.
Yes he is!! I had high hopes for him at first but that’s all gone now!
@ tendr,
I think Mark has issues 👎
Are we to believe that Mark didn’t know about HAVE NOTS before signing on to the show? Or did he think he was so great he would never be one? What a baby!
Dorothy Johnson July 23, 2017 at 2:44 pm
WOW so many things to ponder I do think funny how Jessica is holding all the cards we’ll see how dice roll on that one figure she’ll hang on to it till Cody gets put on block she is much better than Cody was. I do wish they would do more comps for HG to win different privileges and special things I remember when they used to be inventive about entertaining them self’s hell find things like straws and make pick up sticks lol but yes they listen to Paul good or not think of the show without him this season BORING come to mind at least Kevin is both funny and entertaing and has come up with things to involve the whole house if they choose to join in can’t stand Josh but he will be funny as now according to him all his other actions were just to through everone off his brain cells are dead and the possibility of his becoming HOH is to funny and think what a week that would be ROFLMAO just thinking about it Raven ask mommie for long pants for Christmas Elena a nenpho the rest along for the ride so we’ll see how the week unfolds
BOB…i can’t quote exactly what Cody said about redheads but Jess, Kevin and Cody were talking about music and making fun of some song and I think it was Kevin who was trying to think of who sang it and Kiev said ‘I think it’s a red headed guy… can’t think of his name’…CODY smirked and said YEAH, Sounds like some redhead would sing it..(he didn’t like the song) Now some ppl would say that’s not a put down but he was talking about how he didn’t like it and smirking. My beautiful daughter has red hair and would blow Jess away. I wanted to be a ‘mom’ and smack Cody on top of the head. He needs to talk less….. so hopefully his daughter will grow bright beautiful red hair, curly and a few freckles.
And no matter what Megan did, a man should be respectful even if he didn’t like her… what he said when he put her up was nothing but mean. If my husband acted like Cody to other women i’d be his worse nightmare. So Cody doesn’t get a pass because he served our country. He has no class and though he said Paul has short man syndrome or little man syndrome… Cody’s not a tall man himself. When he grows up and looses his looks he’ll regret how superficial he is. But I still want Paul out and I’d rather Jessica get him out but I know doing it right now is too early. I think if Christmas hadn’t broken her foot she and Paul would eventually gone head to head since he’s already said negative things behind her back. Paul says he’s a straight shooter…..???? Straight, behind your back… you’re still getting shot. But he’s not… he’s lying to everyone. I know that’s part of the game and I’d do it too.
Raven needs to make buddies with Jessica and not show her feelings on her face. Its like poker… you have to bluff everyone if you want to seem a non threat. I’m wishing Kevin would tell the kids that these kids winning competitions are the ones that need to go home because one of them will win the money.
Lisa Marie Bowman July 23, 2017 at 4:49 pm
If Cody doesn’t like redheads, he’s a fool. We’re the best! 🙂
Well he apparently thinks they’re not as cool as he. But that would be a compliment. He’s ignorant.
My mother was a little ginger…
@ Lisa Marie
Yes, we are👣
TEndr … that’s pretty much exactly what Cody said about redheads. It wasn’t so much what he said as his sneer and eye roll! Maybe he doesn’t think they are ‘Babes’.
Putting my mark before taking a nap. Be back soon. 💞💖💞💖
Me too! 🔙 🔜
KarllaW July 23, 2017 at 4:41 pm
Hmmm…tried to a comment now but it is not posting? Never had trouble before.
Might end up with 2 5:40pm posts…and this one. 😉
Hi, Karla — I got your comments out of moderation and it’s now posted below. I believe it was the use of the term “Ho” that got your comment held up. Lol.
LOL After the things I just said “to Facebook” whomever that is…..I picture a fat guy with a book for a head….I may end up booted out. They made me add an ‘e’ to Tendr so now in FBI it’s tender OR send a photo and age off a legal I.D. Of my real name. I was wondering um, maiden, first marriage, second marriage…? Even asked for a copy of name on my SS CARD which would be my name at age fifteen.
If they come after me again I will fight them. Dang I’m angry.
FBI .? Tho that was my auto correct or ‘word changer’ as I call it… Facebook pretty much thinks they are the FBI.
Raven is very childish in her behavior! Matt is robbing the cradle being a 32 year old interested in a juvenile-minded 23 year old.
Josh is long past going home and now Paul wants to jock him over Ramses who tries way too hard to fit in…reminding one of a 12 year old girl.
Elena is just a Ho and doesn’t mind the entire audience knowing! She is just plain nasty in mind and body image…why in God’s name did she think showing her fat ass on tv was cool?!? AND what’s up with her jumping from rubbing up against Mark (poor dumb Mark) to
rubbing all over Paul…she even came close to sticking her hands down Paul’s pants while Mark (poor dumb Mark) was sitting across from her. THEN while coaxing Mark (poor dumb Mark) to drop his towel Elena says Yes she has seen Mark’s penis. Mark (poor dumb Mark) is nowhere near a “Captain Save A Ho” and is just too damn dumb to see how she is playing him.
Christmas is on pain pills…ok but she was like this before the pills.
Kevin just told Raven if I was only younger…WTF Dude! Then Raven wiggled her ass off to find Matt.
Alex and liquor…enough said.
What is wrong with this picture?!?
Booze. I still like Kevin…..I feel he’s kissing up and wouldn’t really do anything. And btw……I am 14 years older than my present husband, married 18 yrs. Monday. Poor dumb Mark.
Karlla …. not only is Raven childish she is just plain silly! It’s pretty embarrassing how she and Matt act. They are both silly.
To me its harmless. Funny how we complain about everyone no matter how little they do or don’t do. The place would be better with Paul gone.
It would be so awesome if the consequence of the latest temptation would be to jerk them out of the BB house and set them smack dab into the Survivor game! Then see how well they would all do on rice, no cushy bathrooms, hurricanes and poisonous creatures! LOL
Yes it would! Hello Jeff Probst!
macy July 23, 2017 at 6:02 pm
back from vaca – trying to get caught up on all aspects of bb!
Hi Macy!! Welcome back. Hope you had a good vac.
Didn’t bb used to give peanut butter sandwiches as have nots.? I know some ppl have allergies but I’d be happy with almond or cashew butter sandwiches but then I’d want all organic. Oh Oh Cody was making fun of ppl who go gluten and soy free,,THE JERK. I can’t have a butt load of foods or I get real sick. Someday I hope he eats his words.
Yes! I’d forgotten about that!
Welcome back macy. We missed you. Just thought you didn’t have anything to say about this mess of a BB. Hope tonight’s show brings someone to the forefront. It would be nice to have someone to rout for.
It was diabetes that put the kibosh to peanut butter and jelly sandwiches,
Facebook is the FBI precisely why I don’t Facebook.
@ Junksies,
I’m not stupid, or nothing like that but, what is a kibosh ?
I looked it up and to put a stop or end to. Do you mean that diabetic put a stop to the peanut & jelly sandwiches ?
Raven and her mother are both members of MENSA.
Raven and MENSA??
Junksies …. that does boggle the mind! LOL
Hi y’all! 😉
Waiting to watch BB. We DVR it so we can skip commercials and boring parts!
Be back later!
Cody and Jess are in the hammock complimenting each other so much it’s sickening. Jess was telling a story about a job with lawyers that she worked. After three of the lawyers saw her wearing a bikini on the beach with her mother they asked her to leave her job because she was too much of a distraction. Her beauty and desirability must be such a cross to bear! 🖤
MARG so true
anyone besides me thinks that Matts mustache HAS to be soggy – hes always licking it – ewe
Macy… Yes!!
Jessica and Cody are talking about taking Ramses off the block and putting up Alex!
I gotta question up there for you about kibosh and peanut butter and jelly. ¿¿¿¿¿¿
@ Margie,
They want to back door Alex ??
No Janna …. just put her on the block next to Josh to make sure he goes home. Jess wants to but Cody doesn’t.
@ Jolee,
i made a comment ^ up there for ya.
you & your sissy are very sweet 🙂
Janna, thank you! That was very sweet. I always enjoy your comments. 😉
Did anyone else notice how unfair the HOH comp was? Cody got most of the punishments as each HG was eliminated! When Cody was eliminated, it would have made sense for him to have Christmas get the punishment, right? Well, I think he showed he was a gentleman when he chose Ramses. BUT, did you notice the punishment they gave Ramses? Two LITTLE squirts of something! How unfair was that after they bombarded Cody with trash, garbage, catsup mustard, etc., and Jessica got black goop that looked like tar! I never thought I would be rooting for Jessica or Cody, but they deserved to win! I hope they win every comp from now on! I have never been so frustrated with BB. After tonight’s show, I feel like I want Cody or Jessica to win the whole thing. I am so sick of seeing Elena rubbing all over Paul! This season is crazy!!
Well, that’s my view!
I look forward to your comments! I’m going to take a chill pill and paint!! 😇
I noticed, though I think Production was doing punishments in a particular order. I think it was time for the spray painter when Ramses got his.
I was amazed at how Cody stood there and just took the abuse from his fellow HGs. He didn’t flinch until started attacking Jessica. But Jessica… that girl is one tough cookie!
I’ve liked Cody from the start, but it doesn’t seem too many here feel the same. Thanks for coming over to the dark side Jolee!
You are welcome Marcella! We watched a little of last night’s BBAD. I am so over these people! A bunch of boring perverts. Elena is the worst. If I was her parents, I would change my phone number, e-mail and my zip code!! 😕
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Have any of you seen the article out on social media about Raven’s mother going after BB fans who don’t like Raven. A lot of people on social media believe that Raven is exaggerating her illness and have been very vocal. Her mother is asking FB friends to ruin Raven Haters’ lives by reporting them to Child Protection, etc,
They have published info about the ‘haters’ telling where they work, live and showing pictures of their families.
Psycho much huh? I ran across it earlier today under the hashtag RavenExposedParty. (Being careful. Don’t need her stalking here!) yikes!!! But lots to read on Twitter if anyone wants to check it out. I’d refrain from commenting on any of the twitter posts. Pretty crazy over there!
Cody says he F’ing hates Amy Shumer because she is a F’ing fat pig! Way to go Cody! Show us how you feel about women who have a little extra poundage. I think she looks pretty darn good1
Lots of conservatives (which Cody appears to be one) “hate” Amy Schumer. I don’t think it’s because she’s a woman, it’s because of things she’s said publically about conservatives. Yes, I know he talked about her physical appearance. It’s really her big mouth he doesn’t like. No, I’m not related to Cody. 🇺🇸
http://www.big-brother-blog.com/big-brother-19/big-brother-19-so-thats-how-it-happened/
Just want to say how much I enjoy your posts, and you’re very diverse fan base! Glad I found your blog!
That’s your. Not you’re. 😉
grannyo August 1, 2017 at 2:28 pm
Interesting that Jess and Cody are acting offended at behavior directed at them now from the other houseguests which reflects the way Cody and Jessica treated the under dogs of the first weeks. Was a sign of power and good play when they were on top but hurts a lot more when its directed at you and you are now the under dog. This show has been on long enough everyone should remember you don’t get to stay on top for the whole game.
Paul has now encited many of the others to act like fools and be mean back. Just about everything he accuses he is also doing. Did your mother not teach you ‘two wrongs don’t make a right’?
It is hard to watch. Even for some of the others who don’t want to behave this way but don’t have the strength to stand up against it because it may hurt their own games going forward. Just sad.
Jack August 2, 2017 at 4:11 am
I bеt hes PERFECT at it!? Laughed Larry.
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Eleanor Stride awarded OBE in New Years Honours List
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Born to Engineer star Professor Eleanor Stride joined 250 others, from across the UK, to be awarded a prestigious OBE (Order of the British Empire) in this year’s New Years Honours list.
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Paris St-Germain: Mauricio Pochettino main contender to replace Thomas Tuchel
Former Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino is the main contender to take over at Paris St-Germain after Thomas Tuchel was sacked.
On Tuesday, PSG announced Tuchel’s contract had been “terminated” and it is understood the club’s players are aware Pochettino will replace him.
PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaïfi thanked Tuchel and said the club “will remember the good times we shared”.
Talks between PSG and Pochettino started at least two weeks ago.
Tuchel, 47, became the Ligue 1 side’s boss in June 2018, winning two league titles, the French Cup and French League Cup.
They also reached the Champions League final for the first time last season, losing 1-0 to Bayern Munich.
Former Borussia Dortmund coach Tuchel’s contract was set to expire at the end of this season.
PSG are currently third in Ligue 1, a point behind leaders Lyon, while they are also through to the last 16 of the Champions League, where they will face Barcelona.
Pochettino, 48, led Spurs to the Champions League final in 2019 where they lost to Liverpool and he has been linked regularly with the PSG job in recent months.
He played for PSG between 2001 and 2003, and has been without a job since leaving Spurs in November 2019.
The former Southampton boss joined Spurs in 2014 and guided them to the League Cup final in his first full season while two third-placed finishes sandwiched a runners-up spot in the Premier League in 2017.
PSG have been linked with a January loan move for Tottenham’s Dele Alli, who made his Premier League debut under Pochettino.
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Since PSG lost the Champions League final 1-0 to Bayern Munich in August, it’s been a difficult time for Tuchel on and off the pitch.
Towards the end of the summer transfer window, he had a public falling out with the club’s sporting director Leonardo over recruitment.
And earlier this week, he gave an interview with a German TV station saying he felt more like “a sports politician or sports minister than a coach” during his first season at the club.
Tuchel claimed that the quotes had been taken out of context and said “it’s possible they translated incorrectly” but again it hinted at problems behind the scenes.
The players seemed to respond well to him but, to the outside world, other relationships at the club didn’t seem so comfortable.
It reminded me of comments once made by Borussia Dortmund chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke about Tuchel: “Thomas is a difficult person, but a fantastic trainer.”
Meanwhile on the pitch, the team haven’t dominated the French league as they usually do, losing four games to find themselves in third place at Christmas behind Lille and Lyon.
And although they ended up winning their Champions League group, disappointing defeats by Manchester United and RB Leipzig increased the pressure.
His time at PSG may be over but Tuchel’s reputation as a coach means he will be in demand over the next few weeks and months. There’s no doubt that one day he will manage in the Premier League.
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Arsenal Plotting An Exchange Deal For Chelsea’s Nemanja Matic
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Arsenal are plotting a shock exchange deal involving Chelsea’s Nemanja Matic, reports Sky Italy (via Kaveh Solhekol).
The Gunners are reportedly willing to offer Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in exchange of the Chelsea midfielder’s services. Though the Serbian has been linked with a move to Manchester United, Arsenal’s latest offer might just peak Antonio Conte’s interest.
Both players impressed last season, and are currently quite in demand in the transfer market. Popular reports though, claim Matic could be headed to Old Trafford, and Ox could be Liverpool-bound.
However, as the English winger seems to be refusing to extend his stay, Arsene Wenger might be contemplating cashing in on the player rather than letting his contract run down.
Meanwhile, Matic’s future has been up in the air recently, especially with Tiemoue Bakayoko’s arrival looking imminent. Under such circumstances, Arsenal’s consideration of an exchange certainly makes sense.
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The mercurial English winger produced 6 goals and 8 assists across all competitions despite starting just 27 times. Moreover, the versatility of Oxlade-Chamberlain is something Conte would like at Stamford Bridge; playing as an attacking midfielder, a right winger, left winger, and even right-wingback for the Gunners last season.
On the other hand, Matic, alongside N’Golo Kante, dominated the midfield area for the Blues last season. The defensive midfielder managed to lay a whopping 7 assists in the league as well.
Though further information has not been reported yet, an exchange between the two English giants would seem logical. Talks are expected to be held soon, and news will follow accordingly.
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If ever there was a road in Blayney that has been begging for repair it's Carcoar Street. The crackled, tortoiseshell like surface, particularly around King George Oval, has been an embarrassment for years. Soon though the boneshaking surface will be dug up, disposed of and the road will be completely rebuilt thanks to the state and federal governments going 50/50 in the $1,864,435 to fund the project. READ ALSO: Private swimming coaches locked out of Blayney pool Blayney Shire Council have allocated $1.1 million to the project from the 2020/21 Operational Plan taking the total cost of the task to $2.9 million. Blayney mayor Scott Ferguson said that the project will go well beyond a simple road reconstruction. "This project will enhance parking around King George Oval and we'll be reconstructing the footpaths to really improve that section of road," he said. The rubberised patchwork that exists now has only ever been a temporary fix councillor Ferguson said. READ ALSO: Road toll: Western NSW rate drops for first six months of 2020 "Moisture gets trapped between the road base and the bitumen which causes the problem," he said. "The rubberised repair has certainly fixed it, but once that begins to fail the surface will just sheet off." Blayney council have allocated $1.1 million to the project from the 2020/21 Operational Plan taking the total cost of the task to $2.9 million. Cr Ferguson said to ensure that moisture doesn't return, the project would see large-scale stormwater drainage work undertaken. "This is why it's so expensive," he said. "We're going to undertake the reconfiguration of footpaths, services and improve parking, and thanks to this support we can do it all in one hit." Federal Member for Calare and Minister for Decentralisation and Regional Education, Andrew Gee said that projects such as Carcoar Street will support employment in regional areas. READ ALSO: Blayney netball club to receive new Laykold surfaces "This funding will ensure that essential, shovel-ready projects can get moving as soon as possible, while increasing job opportunities for local tradies," Mr Gee said. "Country roads are often riddled with potholes and require ongoing maintenance. This funding will not only improve road safety for locals, but also for those travelling to and from the area." Member for Bathurst Paul Toole said that Carcoar Street was about delivering small projects that can make a big difference for local communities. "This is about delivering smoother, safer trips along the roads our community use every day and projects that will drive valuable jobs in our region over the next 12 months as councils get cracking on delivery."
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Carcoar Street to be totally rebuilt from the ground up
Mark Logan
ROUGH LOOK: Blayney Shire Council staff Charlie Harris, Col Hewitt and Ben Prestwidge examining the surface of Carcoar Street.
If ever there was a road in Blayney that has been begging for repair it's Carcoar Street.
The crackled, tortoiseshell like surface, particularly around King George Oval, has been an embarrassment for years.
Soon though the boneshaking surface will be dug up, disposed of and the road will be completely rebuilt thanks to the state and federal governments going 50/50 in the $1,864,435 to fund the project.
READ ALSO: Private swimming coaches locked out of Blayney pool
Blayney Shire Council have allocated $1.1 million to the project from the 2020/21 Operational Plan taking the total cost of the task to $2.9 million.
Blayney mayor Scott Ferguson said that the project will go well beyond a simple road reconstruction.
"This project will enhance parking around King George Oval and we'll be reconstructing the footpaths to really improve that section of road," he said.
Sticking to it: Scott Ferguson, David Somervaille, Bruce Reynolds and Rebecca Ryan in front of King George Oval that will also have state and federal government money spent on its upgrade. Photo: Mark Logan.
The rubberised patchwork that exists now has only ever been a temporary fix councillor Ferguson said.
READ ALSO:Road toll: Western NSW rate drops for first six months of 2020
"Moisture gets trapped between the road base and the bitumen which causes the problem," he said.
"The rubberised repair has certainly fixed it, but once that begins to fail the surface will just sheet off."
Blayney council have allocated $1.1 million to the project from the 2020/21 Operational Plan taking the total cost of the task to $2.9 million.
Cr Ferguson said to ensure that moisture doesn't return, the project would see large-scale stormwater drainage work undertaken.
"This is why it's so expensive," he said. "We're going to undertake the reconfiguration of footpaths, services and improve parking, and thanks to this support we can do it all in one hit."
Federal Member for Calare and Minister for Decentralisation and Regional Education, Andrew Gee said that projects such as Carcoar Street will support employment in regional areas.
READ ALSO: Blayney netball club to receive new Laykold surfaces
"This funding will ensure that essential, shovel-ready projects can get moving as soon as possible, while increasing job opportunities for local tradies," Mr Gee said.
"Country roads are often riddled with potholes and require ongoing maintenance. This funding will not only improve road safety for locals, but also for those travelling to and from the area."
Member for Bathurst Paul Toole said that Carcoar Street was about delivering small projects that can make a big difference for local communities.
"This is about delivering smoother, safer trips along the roads our community use every day and projects that will drive valuable jobs in our region over the next 12 months as councils get cracking on delivery."
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Working for a 5-star luxury property is a common dream for many hospitality students. Few consider something a little more wholesome, such as working with a charity or non-for profit. There is however one BMIHMS graduate who has done both. He has worked in the nation’s capital with a premium brand, and now works with disadvantaged communities in western NSW.
I had the pleasure of meeting alumnus, Max Rabbett, at the 2016 BMIHMS at Torrens University Alumni Awards. Max was the recipient of the Social Responsibility Award for his work with the Murdi Paaki Regional Enterprise Corporation. Below is some insight into his career so far.
Could you outline your career to date since graduating from BMIHMS?
On graduation, I started work at the Hyatt Hotel Canberra, as a Food and Beverage Team Leader. In conjunction with the Restaurant Manager we progressively restructured and raised the standard of the food and beverage outlets in the hotel. I was able to implement a lot of ideas which built up the presence of each outlet.
More recently, an opportunity arose in Dubbo which gave me the chance to move closer to my family. Whilst a world away from the luxury accommodation industry, I have experience, and am passionate about working with charities.
With both personal and professional interests invested I began an appointment with Murdi Paaki Regional Enterprise Corporation, a non-for profit organisation, who offer training and assistance to long-term unemployed and disadvantaged people in communities throughout western NSW.
What specifically does your role with Murdi Paaki Regional Enterprise Corporation involve?
As the Food and Beverage Manager, I have opened and now manage a café. I am responsible for training and developing the trainee staff whose groups start every 6 months. As they learn the tricks of the trade and their confidence grows we assist them to find permanent jobs. All profits made by the café are put back into funding projects which directly aid members of the community.
Explain the type of training provided to staff working in the cafe?
There are two areas staff members will be trained in – hospitality operations and career skills. Hospitality operations covers barista skills, food safety and preparation, and customer service. Career skills training consists of resume writing, interview techniques, grooming and professionalism (all things I learnt at BMIHMS!).
You initially began your career with a luxury brand, do you see yourself remaining with a non-for profit, or returning to hotels?
I never imagined my career would take me back to where it all began – Dubbo. I am very grateful to be able to work with such a diverse group of people at Murdi Paaki. For my career now the rewards of watching the staff grow professionally and personally is fantastic. I always tell myself with passion comes great success, and for me this is where my passion is right now!
Eventually I will move back into hotels, most likely working within a luxury 5-star property. The experience I am gaining now will work in my favour. I am gaining a great deal of management experience and I love equipping people to succeed.
Max certainly has a CV differnt to most graduates. I look forward to seeing if he pursues his passion for luxury accommodation, or if helping those in need becomes his true calling.
Congratulations Max on winning the 2016 BMIHMS Alumni Corporate Social Responsibility Award.
Until next time… Joshua
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Gansevoort Dominican Republic - Playa Imbert
Calle Bruno Philp; No 5 El Batey, Sosúa, Dominican Republic
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Location This hotel is located in Cabarete. The nearest airport is Puerto Plata (POP). Facilities 48 non-smoking rooms are available to guests at this hotel, which includes a lift and a 24-hour reception desk. Valuables can be securely locked in the safe. Wireless internet access allows guests to stay connected while on holiday. A garden provides extra space for rest and relaxation in the open air. Guests arriving by car can park their vehicles in the car park. Further services include a 24-hour security service, a babysitting service, a childcare service, a car hire service, a transfer service, room service, a laundry service and a page service. A bicycle hire service provides all the necessary equipment for exploring the surrounding area. Rooms Rooms feature a living area, a kitchen and a bathroom, and air conditioning ensures just the right temperature. Guests have a sea view from the balcony or terrace, which are standard amenities of some rooms. Separate bedrooms are available. Children's beds and extra beds can be requested for younger guests. A minibar and a desk are also available. For self-catering guests, there is a well-equipped kitchenette with a refrigerator, mini fridge, stovetop, microwave, tea/coffee station and dishwasher. Further amenities include a washing machine and an ironing set. A direct dial telephone, a television with satellite and cable channels, a radio, a DVD player, an alarm clock and WiFi provide all the essentials for a comfortable holiday. A turndown service provides guests with additional comfort in the evening hours. Slippers are included. Bathrooms are equipped with a shower. A hairdryer, a vanity mirror and bathrobes are available for daily use. Cosmetic products ensure additional comfort. Family rooms are available for parents with children. Sports/Entertainment The outdoor pool complex provides invigorating refreshment. Comfortable sun loungers are available on the terrace. The wide range of activities offered at the hotel ensures that there is something new to do every day, including cycling/mountain biking, tennis, beach volleyball, golf and horse riding. With water skiing, windsurfing, jet skiing, paddle boating, banana boat rides, canoeing, sailing, catamaraning and diving available, fans of water sports will have plenty to choose from. Sport and leisure facilities at the hotel include a gym and billiards. Various wellness options are available at the hotel, including a spa, a sauna, massage treatments and hydrotherapy treatments. Meals Dining facilities include a restaurant, a dining room and a bar. Catering options include half board and full board. A hot breakfast buffet guarantees a great start to the day. For lunch and dinner, guests can order à la carte. Staff are also happy to provide gluten-free meals. The show cooking is a particularly special attraction.
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Where is Gansevoort Dominican Republic - Playa Imbert located?
Gansevoort Dominican Republic - Playa Imbert is located at Calle Bruno Philp; No 5 El Batey, 1.9 km from the centre of Sosúa. Sosua Bay Grand Casino is the closest landmark to Gansevoort Dominican Republic - Playa Imbert.
When is check-in time and check-out time at Gansevoort Dominican Republic - Playa Imbert?
Check-in time is 4:00 PM and check-out time is 11:00 AM at Gansevoort Dominican Republic - Playa Imbert.
Does Gansevoort Dominican Republic - Playa Imbert offer free Wi-Fi?
No, Gansevoort Dominican Republic - Playa Imbert does not offer free Wi-Fi.
Does Gansevoort Dominican Republic - Playa Imbert offer free parking?
No, Gansevoort Dominican Republic - Playa Imbert does not offer free parking.
Does Gansevoort Dominican Republic - Playa Imbert offer free airport shuttle service?
No, Gansevoort Dominican Republic - Playa Imbert does not offer free airport shuttle service.
How far is Gansevoort Dominican Republic - Playa Imbert from the airport?
Gansevoort Dominican Republic - Playa Imbert is 5.2 km from Puerto Plata La Union. Gansevoort Dominican Republic - Playa Imbert is 41.4 km from Santiago de los Caballeros.
Does Gansevoort Dominican Republic - Playa Imbert have a pool?
No, Gansevoort Dominican Republic - Playa Imbert does not have a pool on-site.
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The city of Newport Beach is building a bridge to help pedestrians and bicyclists cross Superior Avenue at West Coast Highway.
It’s a popular coastal area for walkers and cyclists, and officials say the bridge will be safe option and improve access to 14-acre Sunset Ridge Park, which was developed a few years ago with a baseball field, soccer fields and a playground.
The new park has been underutilized and the city believes expanding parking and building the bridge will improve usage.
The parking lot also will be increased to double the number of spots.
Newport Beach Parks, beaches & Recreation Commission chose a concrete design over a steel truss concept for the 260-ft. long and 14-ft. wide bridge and secured a $2.3 million federal grant, by way of the Orange County Transportation Authority, to go toward the bridge’s estimated $3.7 million construction cost.
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Boxing News at Five: Charlo twins face penalties for missed drug tests, Saunders bets it all on Fury
Elliot Worsell
Jermell and Jermall Charlo are in a spot of bother with the WBC and VADA and Billy Joe Saunders is putting his money where his mouth is this weekend
FEARED fighting twins Jermell and Jermall Charlo normally stand for double trouble but today they simply find themselves in trouble after missing a WBC anti-doping test conducted by VADA (Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency).
Neither has tested positive for a prohibited substance, nor will they be stripped of their respective titles, but the WBC have said, in a statement, there will be inevitable penalties handed to the Charlo boys for their failure to adhere to the rules.
Jermell, the WBC super-welterweight champion, is set to defend his title against Tony Harrison on December, while Jermall, the WBC interim middleweight champion, defends his belt against Willie Monroe on the same night. Both fights will still go ahead.
“Every single fighter who is enrolled in the WBC Clean Boxing Program is responsible for his acts,” the statement read. “Trainers, managers and promoters must be aware of, and participate directly in the CBP compliance in support of the fighters they represent.
“I have seen with deep concern the many criticisms against WBC champion Jermell Charlo and interim champion Jermall Charlo regarding their missed tests.
“It is important for the WBC to clarify that both Charlos have been tested in the past and that the infraction they are facing is a missed test, which has been acknowledged and they will be responsible to pay the corresponding fine. It is important, however, to clarify that they have not tested positive for any substance whatsoever.
“This is why it is extremely urgent for all boxers to enroll in the CBP and to update at all times their residence and training location to VADA, which is the agency administrating the CBP for the WBC.
“It is very simple: if you are chosen for testing and are not available for the collector to test you, you will be incurring a missed test penalty.”
With a whopping 58 pro wins between them, many have been wondering when the Charlo twins would finally start showing some imperfections. This news, it would seem, represents the first blemish.
Middleweight Billy Joe Saunders is doing his best Floyd Mayweather impression in the days leading up to the WBC heavyweight title fight between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury by backing his mate, ‘The Gypsy King’, to the tune of a staggering £70,000 bet.
That’s the amount Saunders has placed on Fury to dethrone his American opponent in Los Angeles on Saturday (December 1) and there doesn’t seem to be a shred of doubt in the Englishman’s mind.
Like Mayweather, Saunders, to prove it, even posted a video of himself registering two bets, one of £20,000 and one of £50,000 at odds of 11/8. Because of the size of the bets, they had to be phoned in, and Saunders, while doing this, said: “Got to wire a bet through. Tyson Fury, ready to rock and roll. If we win we’re going to give this guy a drink.”
Should Fury win, Saunders stands to pocket a cool £166,250, a pick-me-up no doubt appreciated given the former WBO world middleweight champion saw a reported £2 million pay-day for an aborted defence against Demetrius Andrade fall by the wayside in October. Call it a blow-softener, shall we?
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A fiction and poetry anthology in support of the Bare Lit Festival, showcasing award-winning British authors of color.
In 2016, a group of UK authors of color founded the Bare Lit Festival: the first ever literary and author festival featuring only UK writers of color. Bare Lit collects short stories and poetry by literary luminaries whose work represents the values and mission of the festival. Edited by Kavita Bhanot, editor of Too Asian, Not Asian Enough, Courttia Newland, author of The Gospel According to Cane, and Bare Lit Festival cofounder Mend Mariwany, all proceeds of this anthology go toward direct support of the Bare Lit Festival for authors of color.
Kavita Bhanot is a writer, editor, teacher, activist based between India and England. Her fiction, nonfiction, and reviews have been published widely in anthologies, magazines, journals, newspapers, and online forums, including Media Diversified, Round Table India, and The Independent. Her short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She is editor of the anthology Too Asian, Not Asian Enough (Tindal Street Press 2011) and the forthcoming Book of Birmingham (Comma Press, 2017). She has a PhD from Manchester University in Creative Writing and Literature, has taught at Manchester University and Fordham University, and is a reader and mentor with The Literary Consultancy.
Courttia Newland is the author of seven works of fiction including his debut, The Scholar. His latest novel, The Gospel According to Cane, was published in 2013 and has been optioned by Cowboy Films. He was nominated for the Impac Dublin Literary Award and the Frank O’Connor Award, the CWA Dagger in the Library Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Theatre 503 Award for playwriting, as well as numerous others. His short stories have appeared in many anthologies and been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In 2016, he was awarded the Taner Baybars Award for science fiction writing and the Roland Rees Bursary for playwriting. He is associate lecturer in creative writing at the University of Westminster and is completing a PhD in creative writing.
Mend Mariwany is a writer, editor, and cultural curator with an MA in Postcolonial Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London. He was born in Iraq and was raised in Germany before moving to the UK, where he cofounded Bare Lit Festival in 2016. Mend has organised arts events and storytelling performances and worked with a range of magazines, including Muftah, Media Diversified, and Skin Deep. He is currently based in London where he is working on his debut collection of poetry and prose.
Foreword by Mend Mariwany
Introduction by Kavita Bhanot and Courttia Newland
Postscript from the Black Atlantic by Koye Oyedeji
(poem) by Selina Nwulu
Till All That’s Left Is White Space by Selina Nwulu
Blue Cornflowers by Salena Godden
Kali by Kajal Odedra
Shitluck by Martin De Mello
Two Days and Two Nights in Kisumu by Raymond Antrobus
A Year From Home by Hibaq Osman
Trading Air by Hibaq Osman
Banjo on the Motorway by Tendai Huchu
Gannet by Vera Chok
The Nod by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Trash by Selma Dabbagh
Aya by Sharmila Chauhan
College Degree in Tourism and Service by Tiphanie Yanique
Possession by Stephanie Victoire
Mother by Yomi Sode
Night Terrors by Yomi Sode
Wọ́n Ti Dé by Yomi Sode
Roots by Divya Ghelani
Samo as Everybody Else by Irfan Master
AN EXCERPT from Bare Lit: by Kavita Bhanot
© The Bare Lit Festival, 2017; “Postscript from the Black Atlantic” © Koye Oyedeji, 2017.
by Mend Mariwany, cofounder of the Bare Lit Festival
Literature by writers of colour published in the UK remains overburdened by a bulk of constraints. Often it fixes complicated narratives to personal struggles, consigning them to domains of the confessionnal, inner moral clashes, and the impossibly tragic.
The inauguration of the Bare Lit Festival in February 2016 marked a significant turning point. Rather than centring writers’ work around prescriptive themes, the festival looked to open possibilities beyond them. Through readings, conversations, panels, and performances, we were adamant to overcome the anachronism that exists between the vast spectrum of work produced by writers of colour and the kind of exposure they receive. With the generous help of our audiences and supporters, Bare Lit was able to honour their work both artistically and financially.
The accompanying anthology builds upon this achievement. Calling on participants and writers of colour UK-wide, we asked contributors to submit their writing in line with the aims and ethos of Bare Lit. The response was overwhelming—thank you to everyone who contributed.
We received over a hundred submissions of prose and poetry covering an impressive range. Writers took us on flights of fancy, pandering to multiple worlds while engaging us in their literary imaginations. Every submission was carefully discussed and considered on the premise of originality, relevance, and often a certain kind of gut feeling.
The selection presented here brings together original, previously unpublished works of contemporary prose and poetry by established as well as lesser known writers, giving both the opportunity to work with this volume’s brilliant editors, Kavita Bhanot and Courttia Newland, who have honed each piece to its utmost and without whom the anthology would not have been possible. The final pieces cover an unimaginably vast scope, reflecting the wide, and at times irreconcilable and contradictory, range of themes and the political élan present in the work of writers of colour in this particular period. In this sense, they are not canonical but anticanonical, and vested in the many global and diasporic vernaculars.
The Bare Lit 2016 anthology has captured the animate spirit of our festival, which for so many of our writers and readers has signalled a growing and unwavering confidence amongst writers of colour in the British literary landscape. It builds upon a long-lasting and important tradition of defiant literary collectives and volumes by British Caribbean, African, and Asian diaspora writers who have worked so diligently to carve out spaces for conversations.
Putting together this volume, however, was a question of balancing texts, choosing between those evoking a political consciousness and those driven by a desire to explore themes and styles in their own, perhaps more unassuming, way. Making selections for an anthology is never easy, and no collection is ever exhaustive or complete. As editors and publishers we understand how politicised the role of selection, of representing the right kinds of texts, is. Through commitment and continual discussions we agreed to include a wide-as-possible spectrum in equal measures and offer a nuanced view of what is present and what needs to be more present.
Whether intentional or accidental, the stories and poetry are unsettling to the white literary establishment—not because they dismantle but because their sheer scope undermines the monolithic imagery surrounding writers of colour. Their variety reminds us of the possible and potential variables that exist in our prismatic lives. It’s for that reason that our choices do not reflect only the quality of works submitted to us, but also our own political intentions and ambitions as editors. By choosing some work over others we wanted to avoid oversaturating the literary landscape with texts of a certain kind.
And so the selection presented compiles a handful of texts by participating writers from our festival in 2016 and complements them with texts from writers who weren’t present but responded to our call for submissions. We have featured some of the most promising texts. They pander to the historical over the allegorical, to more personal meditations, and span a plethora of literary styles and genres. While some explore the intersections of identity, race, gender, and class, others are textured by introspective voyages. Some are unprecedented in the themes they address; others offer sharp takes on more familiar ones. In fact, the narratives escape our impulse to assume any real categorization.
The pieces we’ve put together take us from the Caribbean over India and London to fictitious, perhaps visionary, places, but most importantly they remind us that writers of colour are not tied to the inscriptions of the publishing industry. In spite of the challenges faced, they can free themselves of the constraints placed upon them if they have the space to do so. With this anthology we hope to offer our own contribution and pay homage to such efforts.
We are extremely proud to present this exciting collection. And while this is the first Bare Lit anthology, we look forward to contributing to and collaborating with existing and emerging platforms in the future.
Mend Mariwany
Co-Founder of Bare Lit
by Kavita Bhanot and Courttia Newland
We have seen, post Brexit and Donald Trump’s election, a fresh turn towards literature—as if, in these ‘barbaric’ times, the ‘civilised’ sphere of literature offers some sanity, that it might save us. But is it true that literature, in itself, offers an alternative to the racism and white supremacy that manifests so clearly today? Does literature, in its essence, challenge the idea of the ‘other’? Or has literature always played a part in the ‘othering’ that is at the heart of such racism and supremacy—perhaps all the more dangerous as it is not seen or recognized, partly due to the pervasive belief that reading and writing literature makes us better people?
From the work of Edward Said to Toni Morrison to Ngugi Wa thiong’o, from Chinua Achebe’s critique of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to Hamid Debashi’s Brown Skin White Masks, it has been made clear that literature perpetuates and normalizes racist stereotypes, prejudice. So why does this mythologizing of literature persist? Why are we so reluctant to take ‘literature’ off its pedestal, to face up to the fact that literature can be and has been a site for normalized oppressions and supremacies, including whiteness? That literature is political. It does not—as Lionel Shriver seemed to assume in her recent speech at Brisbane Writers Festival critiquing ‘political correctness’ and calling for the writer’s right to freedom of expression—occupy a sacred sphere, separate from the world. And we don’t, writing into this abstract space, write simply for ourselves or for no-one in particular, as so many writers continue to insist. Rather, much of the English language literature that we read and write tends, consciously or unconsciously, to be directed towards white readers as the invisible, dominant, normative perspective.
The shared understanding that literature is entangled in the world, not separate and superior from it—that literature always faces in a specific direction—has been our starting point in putting together this collection, the first of an annual series published by Media Diversified, the Bare Lit Festival, and Brain Mill Press. It has been an honour for us to have been invited to edit this anthology. It has been a relief, in the process of putting it together, not to have to hide or suppress our understanding of literature as political. It has felt like the lifting of a common yet unspoken censorship, to have conversations around what we would like to include in the anthology that are not simply based on ‘merit’—on some narrowly defined but apparently universal ideas of craft, of ‘good’ literature—but to consider also the ways in which a piece represents, who it is directed towards, the risks it takes, the emotion and honesty behind it (recognizing the politics of both).
We have been surprised and delighted by so many of our submissions, and are proud of what this anthology brings together. At the heart of this project has been an effort to address directly the suppression of the voice of the writer of colour in mainstream literature—a silencing that is rarely addressed via essays, articles, or novels and stories, even today. Few writers of colour have dared to tackle the very real ways in which literature can become something of a performance, where the frameworks of how we should write are often fixed, defined outside of ourselves, with very little room for maneuver. Hardly any emphasis is placed on the monocultural nature of published literature, save the odd periodic report such as Writing the Future; thus, we are offered few creative examples of how to extend ourselves beyond the parameters of what we already see. Instead, the blame is laid at the feet of the writers; we’re routinely told that we don’t make enough money, or we’re not writing well enough. This is not the case. Working with writers as we do, in universities, via literary consultancies, as editors and award judges, we’re privy to a great deal of writing that often doesn’t make it to the shelves. Our literature is as rich, broadly defined, and imaginative as any other. It’s the assumptions of an industry that deems the marketplace less sophisticated than it actually is that holds writers back.
As we see in this collection, writers are doing the necessary work. Away from the demands of marketing departments, they sit at their desks experimenting with language and form. They engage with the politics of the moment and the spirit of their emotions, in an attempt to gain a greater understanding of who we are. They wrestle with their chosen art, be it fiction, or poetry or theatre, or film, and they make the work they wish to see. It’s an enormously brave and often unrewarding act.
As editors, we wanted to make a space that allowed the existence of such work, and by doing so, allowed the existence of us. In our call out, we encouraged writers of colour to send in work that challenged the inherited frameworks into which we are supposed to fit ourselves and our writing, work that dared to venture into the unsaid and unexplored, work that they thought they would have difficulty getting published elsewhere. In some way, all the pieces in this anthology—poems, short stories, and the pieces that fit neither category—transcend these boundaries of what we are supposed to write, of what is acceptable, palatable, marketable.
At the same time, we don’t make any claims for this anthology as groundbreaking—it is an important step in the direction that we need to go, part of a necessary process in which we create safe, nurturing, mutually supportive spaces for our art, for seeing and exploring realities, experiences, imaginative journeys that the structures around us actively prevent us from seeing and exploring. We hope that Bare Lit Festival, along with this first Bare Lit anthology, represent the beginning of this process.
Postscript from the Black Atlantic
by Koye Oyedeji
IT DIDN’T SEEM TO MATTER THAT THE FIRST GIRL WENT MISSING WHILE HE WAS STILL AT SEA.
It was going to take two weeks for the ocean liner to reach the United Kingdom, but Lawal hoped that the journey—the time between worlds—would help bridge the divide between homeland and sanctuary, shame and prosperity. He was young, but there was already much to put behind him and so, by day, as the ship sailed aside the coast of west Africa, he let his optimism ride along, surfing the slate-grey waves his ancestors once worshipped. But even the ancestors can grow impatient, and, once the liner crossed into European waters, the waves began to blacken at night and throw their strength at the ship’s hull. When this did no good (or bad), the ancestors grew enraged, and they began to tell of the way in which this young man and his family name had insulted the rivers and forgotten that it was the mother of the ocean who had given them their blessings. They sent the waves a little something to help them along, unwrapping a curse as thick as the fog that would descend on the maritime mornings. Lawal was none the wiser though, wrapped up in things unseen—his travels and his ambition, a sense of spirit that stirred within and flooded his arteries with the promise of something; a tingle that felt like fortune, an air that trapped his lungs with the swallow of success.
But he spent a lot of time on the deck; perhaps too long, because it was as if the wind began to carry his confidence away. He had enough time alone now, alone with his thoughts for the first time in weeks. He recalled the ways in which he tried to conceal the house girl’s stomach and, when he knew he no longer could, the way his father had looked at him when he told him the news. His father had beat him, but then immediately called for the house girl and beat her even harder. He recalled how she remained silent through it all, and how her silence just angered his father even more. And he believed that it was the silence that was beginning to haunt him now. After a week of rough weather, storms, and fierce winds, he stopped going onto the deck altogether, returning only when the isles came into view, when the rush and adrenaline of the other passengers swept him up top. Seeing the smog of Liverpool on the horizon, he fancied himself as some sort of cosmic revisionist, using the present moment—and all the sense of accomplishment it brought—to disabuse himself of any past wrongs. He had sacrificed the comfort of home. But he could be a part of this alien community; fresh produce in the Mother country—a land both strange and familiar. He’d made it to England in one piece despite it feeling for a time as though God had personally sent them the worst of his weather. And now that he had arrived, Lawal believed he would move past the detritus that his lust and longing had left in their wake. He was going to make his father proud; he was going to seal the fissures he had created and discard the past as though it were merely old clothes.
But the ancestors were talking. And he was talking over them with all of these thoughts—thought after thought after thought. If he had stopped for silence, he might’ve heard something rippling, his evil catching up with him, slow crawling across the ocean beneath him.
HE THOUGHT THAT THEY WOULD COME TO LOVE HIM IN TIME…
…But Liverpool was no good to him. He was never allowed to settle. Never allowed to feel as if he might belong. He spent a year there before he left for London, where he was able to find a decaying slice of low-rent council housing—a flat on a block that was barely holding court on a crumbling estate. London was no better for him, but he thought the city might give him what Liverpool could not, that opportunity loomed in the shadows of its tall buildings, beneath the bellows of the market traders and in the churning inflections of the lecturers at the Polytechnic he attended. Two years of nothing passed, and until success came out from behind its rock, he had to content himself with thoughts of home and the thought of what had become home. Piss stains crawled down the stairwells in his building and the walls were spray painted with British National Party slogans, calling cards that demanded, “WOGS GO HOME.”
Still, despite all the fetor, there was a different stink in the air. Lucy Smalls, a quiet nine-year-old brunette, had not been seen in over a month. She was the youngest of three girls, raised by the single mother who lived on the east side of Lawal’s building, in flat 38. Natasha Ifill, who had lived with her family just a few doors away from him, had been close to Lucy’s age when, two years ago, she had also disappeared. And just as in the case of Natasha, the pieces of sticky tape that held the missing posters to the buildings’ walls would come away in time, and the posters would begin to tell a different story, to peel, tear, and flap with the wind. No one in the community made it their task to repair or replace Natasha’s posters; they waited instead and, flush with the guilt of still being able to hug their own children, they relied on the elements to discard their fears.
This piece of south London, with all the police presence, the unease and the anxiety, was Lawal’s home and would remain so until, in some fashion, he was able to make a distant father proud. The months tumbled one after another in a place like that; long-term plans easily unraveled.
Snap your fingers. He was now a grown man. His twenties behind him, but still no better for wear. Still living between strangers. Still the city continued to greet him with forced smiles and spurious expressions of welcome. London was impatient with his English and his pronunciations, unsympathetic when it came to late rent. Each day he rediscovered the shade of his skin. He grew accustomed to the words that were frequently spun in his direction. A familiar crop of slurs—Nigger. Golliwog. Sambo. He would ignore the insults until he got home, where, once sat at the kitchen table, his head in his hands, he would peel the words apart and try to reassemble them with his own understanding. The cold UK air was potent, and the winters were unforgiving. Who could have told him that the frequent rain would be able to wash the colour from his ambition, or that January’s snow could cause his confidence to ebb away?
So it was quite causal, then, that during one of those brutal winters, he found God waiting for him, in the form of a south London Pentecostal church that was giving away free food with season’s greetings.
GOD MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE BEEN BY HIS SIDE.
He was rummaging in his pocket for his keys when the four men encountered him. They were like clones, impulsive and united by their fear of invasion. Their heads were shaved and they dressed alike in bomber jackets, their fatigue trousers tucked into the top of their Doc Marten boots. Their danger was in their number. Because if they were not four, then they might not have taken him by each appendage, and the violence—the idea of picking him up and tossing him over the balcony—might not have come so easy to them.
Lawal fell three floors from the block of flats just as something unseen quickened itself and chased his descent. He hit the pathway outside the garages and lay on the spalled concrete until he was able to comprehend his consciousness. He still lived. He barely caught his breath before he realized his fortune. There wasn’t even any blood to speak of. A miracle? he thought, before he climbed to his feet and winced at the pain in his back and the sudden headache that rang between his ears, the early murmurs of a dull throb that would never subside, welcoming in a pain he was going to spend the rest of his long life trying to shake loose. He shuffled back towards the building then, unsteadied, still trying to gather the world beneath his feet. But later, when his shock set him free, and the fear set in that with so many different Gods in the world he might snub whatever higher being had come to his aid, he heard the first two of what would be many voices. Two voices in his head. Two girls that screamed and pleaded with him to stop.
IT WAS GOING TO BE A BURDEN TOO MUCH TO BEAR.
And then those two young girls disappeared. He’d read it in the paper as Jide, one of his few friends from the Pentecostal church, fussed over him, bent on reminding him that their God was a jealous God and that he needed to stop all this recent talk of embracing all faiths, of Ifa and Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. At church, Lawal had a growing reputation as he began to insist that they evenly spread their praise amongst the gods, to not forget the names of Allah and Brahman and Oludumare in their whispers. Members of the congregation had begun to share their concerns with Jide. They found Lawal’s words inappropriate, and it was distasteful of him to attend each service in the same pair of dirty jeans. Talk amongst the church members grew. Brother Lawal was practicing juju, he was bringing evil spirits into their house of God. The pastor spoke to Lawal a handful of times, but when it grew clear that his message had fallen on deaf ears Lawal was asked not to return. He quit his graduate studies soon after this and lost the job he held as a night watchman at a paper factory. The voices he heard made it difficult for him to work or study and, fearing another attack, he rarely ever went outside, leaving the flat only to visit the post office to cash his unemployment benefit or to the market to buy gari and yams. The rent arrears piled up. Jide stopped visiting. Lawal would talk, instead, to strangers because he found that when he talked the voices dimmed a little. But it didn’t take much of this before people started to cross the street whenever they encountered him. That’s how he began to talk to the kids. Because the kids were yet to form judgments and prejudices—the only people innocent enough to give him their time.
THEY WERE VOICES CLOTHED IN GLOOM.
Snap your fingers again and, just like that, two, six, eight voices were now in their hundreds. Conversation was his only palliative; he was only able to speak over the voices when he had someone to speak to. It was as though he’d taken up the task of carrying the souls of the locals, and it was better for him to talk than to cave beneath the weight of their thoughts.
And so he talked.
His willingness to talk to anyone, to strangers and to the children, meant he earned some local names. Nothing very clever. The Nigerian. The Voodoo Man. The Nigerian Voodoo Man. The Witchdoctor. He ignored the jeers and once managed to just avoid the brick a teenager hurled at him. But when the skinheads chased him a second time he decided that being social was not for him. He shut the world out. More importantly, perhaps, he shut his landlord out. He scrawled stuff about his home, transcriptions of the quickened voices that whispered beneath his every act. It helped, not as much as talking did, but it numbed him somewhat. On his refrigerator, in black permanent marker, he put down everything he heard, like the thoughts of the A-Level student who was sure she knew better than her teacher, and the skinhead boy who didn’t share the same views his friends had on Jews and blacks but envied how having a collective voice came so easy to them. He heard the agony of the longtime married woman, a long time untouched. He heard the anxious father infuriated by his son’s shrug.
Soon, everywhere he looked in his home, he saw sentence after sentence, written wherever there was a clean surface to be found—on plug sockets, on tables, on the skirting, all over the bath. From his perch on the windowsill, he looked out amongst the flats, he saw us—you, me—for what we really were, lead actors in our stories, marked by our inability to shed our sense of significance. But it was those close to him, his neighbours—his community—whose thoughts seeped in with the most intensity. He heard the bigotry, the addiction to alcohol, the protectiveness, the settling for second best, the lust, the trepidation to look at your own body in the mirror and, within it all, he heard the thoughts of that man—the driven, impulsive man who lingered with the young girls—as well as the torment of those who had lost a daughter, granddaughter, and sister to this man. Lawal thought the voices were all so violent; it seemed as if violence was everywhere, and the more he heard it, the more it sickened him, suffocating the optimism he’d stockpiled during his earlier years in the country.
He had been prepared. He knew that like any good religion his faith would waver, that it would dull and that he would be desensitized to its effects, just like the lingering pain in his head. And he realized there was no chasing the past, and the future was unattainable. The ambition he had in the seventies had given way to the resignation the eighties brought, and there was only the now, and the time to make peace with something—some being that had chased him across the waters. For the first time in a long time, he thought of the bastard child, born out of wedlock, who his father had hurried him away from. The child would be a teenager now, away from the big city of Lagos, living in whatever village her mother’s family was from. And for the first time ever, he thought of the child’s mother, the untrained and unkempt fourteen-year-old house girl they had taken on. And he confessed aloud, for the first time, that she was not for him to use as his own. She was not another item of furniture in their large home. He confessed aloud, for the first time, that she was no seductress; that he had dragged her to the Boys’ Quarters where he raped her, and that he had done so several times.
And an affirmation came with the confession—that the past’s denials and the haunting thoughts of the present had something in common: they were voices clothed in gloom.
WHEN THEY FOUND HIM, THEY FOUND THEIR ASSURANCE…
…But not before the eight-year-old Pakistani girl, Fatima Bachani, went missing. Her parents didn’t understand English. But no vernacular would help them understand what had happened. They were inconsolable. Lost to the world as much as their child was. Lawal could’ve been right there with Fatima when she was lifted off the monkey bars in the play area. He’d felt her uncertainty, her confusion, and later her fear. His faith completely withered after that, the voices grew in volume, and he grew as accustomed to living with them as he did with the headache. He would hear voices over and over wherever he went. There were so many voices now that they talked over one another, and he could no longer make out what was being said. The din became just another soundtrack to his life, just a portion of the gloom he felt. There was nothing to do then but to consider the voices as both a warning for others and punishment to him. He force-fed himself some faith and decided that fasting might help—a marathon fast of Jesus-like proportions. He would fast for forty days for the lives of others and for his own salvation—or he would die trying. And so he stopped eating, stopped collecting his unemployment benefit, and would never have left his home again under his own volition.
Being a tenant in an illegally sublet home bought him time; not even his landlord was able to act without alerting the council. But his life, as with all lives, was a blur that brushes the blur of others, and the authorities broke in on the seventh day, after the water he left slowly running in the bathroom sink overflowed to a point where it began to drip into the flat below. In the unkempt and now flooded home, they found him in the barely furnished bedroom. Karma had done a number on him. He was lying on a mattress, naked and emaciated, whispering prayers as he lay in his waste, his urine, and his faeces—selflessly praying for all of us amongst all that mess…
On the wall above him there was a postscript from the Black Atlantic; barely legible and written in excrement stood the words: I raped her.
It was the one sentence he felt he could hold on to through the orchestra of noise, and he muttered this over and over again as one police officer retched and another radioed for an ambulance.
NO ONE CAN EXONERATE THE FORGOTTEN.
He would bounce from one institution to another.
The detective inspector working the investigation closed the book on the case of the missing girls.
And it was never opened again.
Not even when, weeks later, Greta’s daughter disappeared.
Instead, a new chapter was written.
“Bare Lit To Publish Anthology,” by Katherine Cowdrey, The Bookseller, June 7, 2016
Schedule for the 2017 Bare Lit Festival
Asian Culture Vulture reports on the 2017 festival and anthology launch
An excellent piece on the significance of the Bare Lit Festival by Leveller
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An excerpt from The Exene Chronicles
by Camille A. Collins
© Camille A. Collins, 2018
“Let’s go back for a moment to this Neil. You say he lives in Imperial Beach?”
Lia had not imagined that the police made house calls. She’d envisioned a more chilling scene. She imagined being escorted into a sparse chamber with a metal table and chairs to be questioned for hours under a harsh light.
Propped between her parents on the sofa, she felt like a child. The officer’s skin was an odd combination of beige and orange tones from excessive parlor tanning. In his early forties, his flesh was spread generously over his massive frame. All the while, as he sat on the sofa opposite the Payne family, Lia’s eyes kept drifting to his lavishly dense fingers. It seemed to her that they were fingers suffering from misuse. Hands not meant for pulling pistol triggers or handcuffing undocumented workers, but thick, soft tools, better suited to more tactile pursuits, like kneading dough or chiseling the alphabet onto baby’s blocks.
For Lia, nothing the police officer said could redeem the situation from its patent absurdity. A meeting taken at the police station would have made the dilemma seem even more real. As it was, Lia could only fume quietly, furious with Ryan for leaving her holding the bag—for getting her into trouble while she suddenly slipped behind a curtain of mystery. Perhaps it was normal for a girl, not yet fifteen, to approach the situation with a certain, stubborn obtuseness—for in the sage retrospect of a few hours, Lia had come to realize the grim fears she’d felt after initially being told about Ryan were nothing but hyperbole, paranoia.
Hadn’t there been a kidnapping? A small child spirited away just the previous summer from the park just blocks away? No. Lia shook the thought from her head. It was totally different with little kids. Who would try and make off with Ryan? Ryan, who was mistaken in restaurants and shopping malls for a grown woman (department store clerks often asked if she wanted to establish a line of credit).
Lia hadn’t thought either, that police officers, like secretaries, scribbled notes onto little blocks of paper. He looked absurd, perched on the edge of the sofa, his thighs nearly bursting like the Incredible Hulk’s through the close weft of his beige trousers.
“So, this Neil, you ever been over to his place, with Ryan?”
“No.” Lia shook her head resolutely. The penetration of her parent’s eyes, both sets upon her, was both subtle and intense, so that their collective, boring gaze swelled to a thin murmur—their unrelenting stares actually made a sound, like the low, throaty growl of some forest-dwelling rodent.
“You sure now?” The police officer gently nudged her towards a confession. Lacking even the slightest measure of Ryan’s defiance, Lia easily capitulated.
“Well, now that I think of it, I might have been there for a little while, but only one time for sure.”
Lia’s mother gasped and looked sharply at the officer. “You mean this man had these girls over to his house? Good Lord. Officer, how old did you say he was?”
Lia wished she could stuff a wad of paper towels inside her mother’s throat. The officer had already said Neil was nineteen. Yet, turning to face Lia’s father, Greg, Dorothea Payne was still incredulous. “I can’t believe anyone so bold. Someone that age keeping company with girls just out of middle school!”
Lia writhed in her spot, her mother’s words like knives, stabbing her repeatedly. By attacking Neil, her mother indirectly made her feel filthy. They’d only watched Starsky and Hutch and a re-run of Dallas and eaten tacos. That was all. Besides, he was Ryan’s boyfriend, not hers.
“Um,” the police officer paused to mull over this fact.
“Where did you, or Ryan, say you met this fellow, Neil?”
“I didn’t meet him anywhere. Ryan did!” Lia blurted her words at the officer angrily. She could feel the penetration of her mother’s eyes, glaring with the suggestion that Lia change her tone. She couldn’t win. At once her mother suspected the worse and yet she had to speak respectfully as the officer insinuated things with his probing questions.
“Okay Lia, you’re doing great. I’ve just got one more question. This may be a little uncomfortable for you, but it’s important.”
Here, the officer paused to moisten his lips with a rapid flick of his tongue. Lia couldn’t be certain of what the officer would ask next, but she had an idea and thus could feel herself cringing as he began to speak.
“Did Neil ever touch you or speak to you in a sexual way? Did he ever try to coax you into any sort of sexual act, either he or any of his friends?”
This time, it may have been Lia who gasped audibly, or at least she thought she had. Never had she been so humiliated. Her parents at either side staring silently, impatiently awaiting her answer.
“No! Never!” This time, she felt her impertinent tone completely justified, and didn’t care whether her mother liked it or not. Lia refused to lift her gaze to entertain her mother’s possible glare, or worse yet, an irritating look of relief spread across her face.
“You sure now? There’s nothing to be embarrassed about if he tried anything. It wouldn’t be your fault…” With the officer adding to her humiliation with every syllable he uttered, Lia spoke no words, but only responded with a firm look that said she had nothing more to offer on the subject.
“All righty.” The officer stood on his feet in a surprisingly agile motion. “With these types of situations, the first week or so is crucial. I hate to be the one to sound grim, but beyond that, it might be weeks or months before we ever figure out what’s happened. Anyway, here’s my card.” The officer bent to look Lia in the eye and offer her a plastic smile. “Please give me a call if you think of any new information that might help us locate your friend, okay?”
Lia—perched on the sofa, tearing tissue in her hands, still shaken by the officer’s questions and angry that Ryan had abandoned her—felt winded, as though someone had taken a fist to her stomach. She watched though, as her father thanked the officer for his time, and extended his large brown hand for a handshake. It seemed the officer, who had been quite patient and friendly in questioning her, grasped her father’s hand with reluctance.
At the open front door, the officer halted, and as he turned towards Greg Payne. Lia thought for sure that his once open and friendly face had become clouded with an intense look—of fear or malevolence, perhaps. He couldn’t be certain if he was just shielding his eyes from a stream of sunlight angling through the door or what, because for some reason his expression had changed, his eyes narrowed down to thin slots where one might fit a coin.
“So, you folks own or rent?” The officer blocked the doorway, unwilling to move until his question was answered.
“Beg pardon?” Lia could see that her father was surprised by the officer’s question and that his jaw hardened then, taking on the tell-tale clench that suggested his irritation.
“Just curious how long you folks have been here.”
“About two years now.” Lia noted that her father strained to keep his upbeat tone.
“Two years, eh. How long do you plan to stay?”
Lia couldn’t understand what was happening—the faint shifts in the atmosphere in the Payne living room were real, yet surreal at the same time. She was surprised that the same officer now sounded rude, like one of those surfers who came to class stoned without so much as a notebook and were quick to smart off to the teacher.
“Well, I don’t know. I’d say we’re pretty happy, pretty well settled right now.” Lia’s father spoke loudly, in a formal tone. It was the voice he reserved for important telephone calls and tactful quarrels with restaurant managers when there was some discrepancy with the bill.
To Greg Payne’s reply, the officer only snorted with open incredulity, as he carried his hulking frame down the porch steps.
Lia worried about the possibility of further proceedings, if in time she’d be asked to testify under oath, or take a lie detector test. She felt burdened by the woe of unspoken truths, for when asked about Neil’s friends, she’d purposefully neglected to mention the sailor Keith, a man (had he been twenty or twenty-one? She couldn’t remember) whom she’d kissed and wished was available to spirit her away just as Neil had taken off in his Camaro with Ryan on so many balmy summer nights.
It seemed to Lia that if they’d only stop wasting time with questioning and talk, they’d find Ryan: watching television at the condo at the Cays with Neil, their faces fixed in expressions of wry defiance or sprawled out together on those white patio chairs next to the pool, lulled to sleep by the heat of the afternoon sun.
Deborah Kalb Interviews Kem Joy Ukwu
Reprinted with permission from Deborah Kalb Books
Q: Over how long a period did you write the stories in your new collection, and do you see any themes linking them?
A: One of my stories from my collection took hours to write and other stories took years to write and revise. Loneliness, loss and estrangement are themes that connect my stories together to form a collection.
Q: How did you decide on the order in which the stories would appear?
A: “Demetrius” and “Her Mother, Nneka” are connected stories and since “Demetrius” is the first story of the collection, I thought “Her Mother, Nneka” would be a strong end to it – they are like bookends.
I decided that the collection’s title would be split in half inside the collection to represent two categories in my book. I also decided to assemble the stories into the two categories. Some of the stories are in the “Locked Gray” segment and the remainder of the stories are in the “Linked Blue” part.
Q: How was the collection’s title chosen, and what does it signify for you?
A: I ended up choosing “Locked Gray / Linked Blue” because of the interplay between the words and the meanings of the words as they relate to the collection.
“Locked Gray” represents how in relationships (romantic partnerships, family bonds, friendships), people can be locked together. The “lock” – which represents a supposed permanence – can be steeped in uncertainty, which is what the word “Gray” signifies – a kind of ambiguity that the color gray is often used to help describe.
“Linked Blue” represents how people can be connected together through links of family and friendship and how these connections can be surrounded by melancholy, which is what the word “Blue” signifies in the title.
My collection’s stories explore the despondency and doubts of the links and locks of family connections, friendships and romantic attachments. My collection’s title represents that.
Q: The first and last stories feature the same characters, but the story is told from different perspectives. Did you know you’d write another story about these characters when you started the first one?
A: I wrote “Demetrius” first without the idea and the intention to write “Her Mother, Nneka.” “Demetrius” existed for years before I wrote its counterpart.
Both stories are about two sisters who live together and are about to separate when one sister decides to move back to Nigeria where she was born.
“Demetrius” is told from the perspective of the sister who stays in the United States. I was curious about my story after I wrote it – I thought about the sister who leaves, I wondered more and more about her perspective under the surface of her actions and reactions.
I knew her viewpoint but I didn’t know it – I didn’t investigate it until I wrote it in “Her Mother, Nneka.” The story is separate from “Demetrius” yet it is also linked to it, similar to characters in my collection – they are connected to each other yet also disconnected.
I wrote her side of the story and answered my own questions about her perspective, discovering a depth of her complex love for her sister along the way.
A: I am working on screenplay adaptation of one of my short stories (not from the collection). I’m also working on revising a novel manuscript.
A: More of my work can be found at kemjoyukwu.com including information about Locked Gray / Linked Blue and upcoming literary and reading events.
An Excerpt from Locked Gray / Linked Blue
by Kem Joy Ukwu
© Kem Joy Ukwu, 2018. All rights reserved.
You look inside your blue backpack to make sure you have everything. Your report card is neatly wedged between your class picture and the book you’re currently reading. It’s the fourth installment of a series of books about a young detective. The other three books you own from that series are placed in the other zipped compartment of your bag. You dream of becoming a sleuth one day, solving the mysteries of other people.
You look up at your aunt, a young woman named Isabel, whose cocoa-brown eyes complement her long braids. She is wearing a black pea coat and a blue cashmere sweater, with her long black skirt draping over her black leather boots. She is royally confident, effortlessly stunning.
“I’m ready,” you tell her.
Aunty Isabel smiles. “Good. Shall we, Mademoiselle?”
You nod, and the two of you leave her apartment. You smile because you love it when she calls you Mademoiselle. Makes you feel taller.
After you and your aunt leave the building, the two of you walk toward the corner of the street. The frigid air makes you relieved that your aunt made you wear two layers of clothes instead of one. Your black bubble-goose jacket and yellow ski cap make you look like a giant penguin. Your walk is more like a waddle because you find it hard to keep a cool stride as you are wearing jeans, heavy stockings, and chunky boots.
A black car waits at the corner. Her boyfriend, whom you call Uncle Reuben, is waiting in the driver’s seat. He rolls down the front passenger window and waves to you. You wave back as Aunty Isabel opens a backseat door for you to enter his car. She takes the front.
“Make sure you buckle up,” she instructs you. You do as she says, making sure your seat belt is properly latched.
“Buckled!” you alert, as if you are on your way to your favorite toy shop or, better yet, your beloved bookstore.
You all drive off, and the voyage begins. You take off your gloves and clasp your fingers together to keep them from twitching and twirling, knowing that you will soon reach your destination, where your reward awaits.
You arrive at a parking lot filled with other cars and buses and people bustling all over.
You and Aunty Isabel leave Uncle Reuben’s car. You say good-bye to him.
The two of you make your way to the line of mostly women and children waiting to step up on a bus. Your fingers are acting up again because they know that you are getting much closer. It has been too long since you have won last. You have been waiting for a long time.
Five months. Eleven days.
Aunty Isabel gently squeezes your hand. “We’re almost there,” she says.
You two step up onto the bus and choose two seats at the back, with you by the window and your aunt right next to you. You remove your backpack from your back and hold it close to your chest. After a short while, the bus drives off the lot and makes its way onto a bridge that crosses over a huge stream of water. You wonder if it’s the Atlantic Ocean or just some wide river. The sun reveals the crystals sprinkled on the surface. You feel like swimming. You think of the last time you frolicked in a pool. It was June. A few weeks before the—using Aunty Isabel’s special word for it—incident.
The incident that made your gift disappear, with the help of blue uniforms and silver badges.
You want to return to happy thoughts.
You now think about the main character from your favorite book series, picturing you’re a fellow detective. You’re answering everyone’s questions, holding a magnifying glass, smoking a pipe that tastes like bubble gum.
The space reminds you of your cafeteria at school, huge and colorless. There are children spread about, kids older than you, some younger. Dressed in bright orange V-neck shirts and matching pants, women are smiling, talking with their children. A few men in gray uniforms with collared shirts and thick black belts are keeping watch. Your beautiful princess is yelling at one of the uniformed watchmen, pointing her manicured finger at him.
Twenty minutes earlier, you two had arrived at this large room with the other children and supervising adults. Both of you had waited quietly by one of the long tables for one woman in particular to walk up to you with big, open eyes and greet you with a tight hug.
Aunty Isabel’s patience had been drifting away, bit by bit, when she approached one of the watchmen to ask what was going on. Now her patience is disappearing altogether, chunk by chunk.
“What do you mean she’s been moved upstate?”
“She was transferred this morning.”
“Someone should have called me,” your aunt says. “Your office knew we were coming.”
“This happens all the time. Not our call,” the uniformed man counters. “Sorry.”
Your detective skills inform you that he is not sorry. He is bored and bothered.
Aunty Isabel turns her face toward you. You know what she wants to say. And you know she doesn’t need to say it. As you grab your backpack and sling it over your shoulder, you tell yourself what your aunt has told you throughout this past year, many times.
Tears solve nothing.
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While It Snowed by EE Ottoman
by EE Ottoman
The snow started in the evening, big, heavy flakes falling into the dark. Erin took a book and cup of tea to bed and hoped it would stop sometime during the night.
In the morning, though, the world was white, soft and silent, snow still falling from a dark gray sky.
Erin stood at the living room window, coffee in hand, and watched the snow fall. About five inches covered her car, with even more blown into sweeping dunes around it. The driveway snaked from her old farmhouse up to the road, both heavy with untouched snow.
Beyond the small stand of trees that divided their properties, Erin could just make out her neighbors, bundled up and trying to dig out their cars. The schools weren’t closed, then, probably just on delay.
She’d have to dig out, too, eventually. They weren’t close enough to town for the plows to come clear the roads anytime soon. Though Erin had nowhere to be. She could afford to wait, at least until it stopped snowing.
Today would be a jeans, heavy sweater, and wool socks kind of day. Erin changed into one of her oldest sweaters, heather green and going to pieces at the bottom and cuffs; jeans stained with dark patches of book glue; and fuzzy socks. She braided her hair to keep it out of her face.
After pouring her second cup of coffee, she went to look at what projects she had to work on in the office. She’d always had a book to work on in her own time, even back when she was director of the university library’s preservation unit and got to repair books every day. There was a difference between doing something because it was her job and doing something because she loved it. These projects were hers and only hers, not dictated by a library budget or the fact that more-used items needed to be worked on first.
One of the things she’d looked forward to the most after retiring was these little projects.
A stack of about six hardcover books she’d bought at the local used bookstore awaited her attention. Erin put aside her coffee cup and picked up a volume about the birds of New York and how to identify them. The publication date was 1966, the book clothbound in unassuming brown, now faded, with gold lettering. The lettering was what had originally caught Erin’s eye. It was in fairly good shape, although the spine was detached, causing the boards to break away from the text block as well. Some of the other books needed full rebinding, which would take more time, so Erin set them aside to work on later.
She used a utility knife to slice through the binding cloth, fully detaching the spine and boards from the text block. She set the spine and boards aside and put the text block, now bare, spine up, in a wooden clamp.
The sound of wheels crunching through snow made her glance at the window. It sounded too close to be her neighbors or some brave soul on the road. Setting aside her tools, she went to look outside.
A pickup truck with a snowplow attached crawled slowly up the driveway, clearing as it went. Erin pulled open the kitchen door and leaned out into the cold.
The truck had parked at the top of her driveway, and the door swung open. Rye climbed out, big, square body bundled up in work boots, coveralls, farmer’s jacket, and wool cap.
“Hey,” they called, and waved at Erin.
“Hi.” She waved back as Rye waded through the snow and up the steps to the house.
“I thought I’d come plow you out.” Rye kicked the snow off their boots before stepping into the kitchen. “Since I finished clearing off my driveway.”
“Thank you. I don’t want to put you through the extra trouble.” Erin closed the door behind Rye and turned to see them pulling off their wool cap and dusting moisture from their dark hair.
“It’s no trouble.” Rye looked at the floor, cheeks pink. Erin couldn’t tell if it was from the cold or from bashfulness.
“Well, thank you then.”
Rye just nodded. “Let me finish it up.” They put back on their cap and turned toward the door.
“When you’re done, come back in, please. Have some tea, something to eat.” It was the least Erin could do in return for not having to shovel the driveway. Not to mention the thrill that went through her at the idea of sitting down with Rye.
When she’d moved here a few months ago, she’d heard of them as one of the few other trans people in the area. They had friends in common: Emma, who ran the local library, and Peter, who ran the historical society. Peter liked throwing dinner parties, and Emma liked introducing people, so it was inevitable that Erin and Rye would meet and be friendly. They were still hovering in that awkward space between friends and acquaintances, although Erin very much hoped the two of them would come down to settle on the side of friendship.
Rye was quiet, she knew. They owned a small farm and sold at the local farmers market. The two of them had spoken about what was good and what was seasonal, so Erin knew they had eating in common.
Rye wasn’t looking at her. They’d gone all quiet, and she thought they were going to say no until they looked up at her and nodded. “That would be nice.”
“Great.” She beamed.
They just nodded again and pulled open the door, letting in a small burst of snow.
She filled the electric kettle and turned it on, wishing she’d asked Rye if they preferred black tea or herbal. She put both on the counter, just to make sure. There was cake Erin had made yesterday, dark with molasses, flavored with cloves and cardamom. There was also homemade cheese, herb and olive bread from the day before, and goat cheese Erin had bought from a tiny goat farm a forty-minute drive from her house. She put the cake and bread in the oven to warm.
Outside, Rye’s truck moved up and down the driveway until all of the snow had been cleared except for a small patch around Erin’s car. Rye parked and climbed out, taking a shovel from the truck bed.
Erin pulled on her boots and coat, stuffing her hands into mittens as she stepped out into the snow. “Let me help.”
She picked up her own shovel and trekked across the snow to where Rye stood.
“You don’t have to. I told you I don’t mind.”
Rye didn’t stop her, though, from digging into the snow around her car. “With two of us, it will go faster.” That, and Erin felt bad making Rye both plow the driveway and dig her car out, too. She shoveled a space big enough for her to get to the back of the car and popped the trunk. There was an old broom in there she used to sweep the snow off the car itself.
“Fair enough.” Rye bent to shovel again, leaving Erin to sweep.
By the time she’d finished uncovering the car, they’d managed to make enough space for her to easily get it out and down the driveway.
“Now we eat.” Erin stowed the broom back in the trunk while Rye put their shovel away.
They both climbed over the snow back into Erin’s kitchen. Inside, they shed coats, hats, scarves, and mittens, hanging everything on pegs and leaving their boots on the rubber mat beneath.
The food was warmed all the way through, Erin was happy to find, although the water had to be reheated. “Black tea, herbal?” She gestured to the row of tea boxes while she turned the kettle back on.
“Black is fine, or whatever you’re drinking.” Rye shuffled a little, looking ill at ease standing sock clad in Erin’s kitchen.
“There’s cake, bread, and cheese.”
Rye brightened. “I would love some cake.”
Erin cut them a slice, and by the time she’d finished, the water was boiling again. She made them both tea while Rye ate their cake.
“It’s really good.” Rye smiled at her when Erin turned to see he’d eaten almost his entire piece.
“Thanks.” She put more slices of cake on plates, along with bread and cheese, and set them on the kitchen table.
They sat on either side of the table, each with their mug of tea, the food between them.
“So how’s your farm and the animals?” Erin reached for her own slice of dark, moist cake.
“It’s been going all right.” Rye shrugged, hand circled loosely around their mug. “Been busy getting everything ready for winter.”
“Do you put up a lot of food and things?”
Rye smiled. “Yeah, I do put some away for winter—root vegetables, honey, soap, candles, jarred preserves. I’ll sell a lot of it, of course.”
“Of course.” Rye’s farm was their livelihood, after all, and times were tough for farmers. Still, she hoped they were able to keep at least a little of it for themselves.
“What about you?” Rye reached for a slice of bread. “Surviving Upstate New York winter all okay?”
Erin laughed. “I lived here years, and I haven’t been away that long, but yes, it’s been all right. Especially with as mild as the beginning was.”
Rye nodded. “It’s always strange when we don’t have snow in November or December even.”
Silence fell between them.
“If you don’t mind me asking . . .” Rye put their mug aside again. “Why did you come back here? This doesn’t seem like the place most people retire to.”
Erin looked down at the mug of dark tea in her hands. She didn’t say she’d come back here because this was where she’d lived when she’d been married, when she’d had a family, children who still spoke to her—in this beautiful part of the country where for a long time she’d assumed she’d live for the rest of her life. Before she’d come out and transitioned, before everything had been taken away. She lifted the mug and took a sip. “It’s quiet here.”
“It is.” Rye’s voice was gentle and calm. They didn’t ask further, just let what she’d said be. The easy way they held themselves made Erin want to keep talking, want to tell them about it all.
They were both silent for a moment, and then Erin sat forward, elbows on the scarred wood of the table. “Can I ask you a personal question?”
“Depends on what it is.” Rye looked wary.
“Why use the singular ‘they’?”
That shook a startled laugh from Rye. “Why not?” They picked up their mug and leaned back in their chair. “I go by male pronouns, too—tends to make people feel more comfortable—but the older I get, the less gender means, you know?”
In some ways, Erin didn’t know, couldn’t imagine knowing, but in others . . . she thought about before she’d transitioned, what that had been like, what it was now. “I guess.”
Rye tilted their head to the side. “You know, when I was younger, it was all about being a real man.” They smiled like they were making a joke. “But at the end of the day, I’m more me than anything, and I’m all right with that.”
Erin thought about the truth in what they’d said. “I guess to me, my womanness is part of me. There isn’t a way of separating the two.”
She half expected Rye to protest, but instead they nodded. “I understand that.”
They just let that be between them for a beat or so, and then Erin reached for her mug, and Rye shifted where they sat. Too much intimacy too soon. They both looked away.
Erin cleared her throat. “So what do you do when you’re not working?”
Rye hesitated. “I hike, camp, and I like to forage for mushrooms, wild leeks and things that grow naturally here.”
“Sounds interesting.” It sounded dauntingly outdoorsy to Erin, who couldn’t remember the last time she’d gone camping.
“I repair books.” Erin thought about leaving it at that, but then stood. “Let me show you.”
She led the way into the office and undid the clamp holding the book she was working on, handing it to Rye.
“I find books like these at used bookstores and library sales, take them home, and restore them.” She watched Rye turn the half-disassembled book over in their hands.
“You know, when I was working, we mostly just made sure books were functional, that they would last however many more years and be readable, at least. But for my own projects, I want more to make books beautiful, you know? Like, take a book that was mass-produced to be a consumer object and turn it into a piece of art. Or take a book that was originally made to be beautiful but has maybe not aged well and make it beautiful again in a different way.”
“After you’re done making these books beautiful, where do they go?” Rye turned the book over a second time, then opened it carefully to look inside.
“I give them away.”
“That’s a beautiful gift to receive.”
Erin could feel her cheeks heating. “Thank you.” Then an idea occurred. “Do you like birds?”
It seemed like a ridiculous thing to say, but Rye smiled. “I do. I’ve been known to participate in some of Cornell’s bird identification research, actually. Just data collecting, you know.”
Erin stuck her hands in the pockets of her jeans. “If you want, when I’m done, you can have this one.”
Rye went still. When they looked up at her, their eyes were wide with real surprise. “Are you sure?”
Rye held the book almost reverently now, and Erin looked at the floor to keep from staring at their large hands against the binding cloth of the cover. “Yes. I mean, I would be doing the work anyway.”
“Well, thank you.” Rye held out the book to Erin, who took it and put it back on the worktable.
They returned to the kitchen. “I should get going,” Rye said. “Do you need help cleaning up?” They nodded at the table with food, plates, and mugs still on it.
“I’ve got it.” Erin waved them off, although she did let Rye help her carry the dishes to the sink.
“Are you sure I can’t dry at least?”
Erin gave in. “Sure.” She turned on the water and handed Rye a dish towel.
She washed and they dried until the dishes were put away.
Rye hung up the dish towel and wiped their hands dry on their pants. “Thank you so much for the food.”
“Thank you for plowing me out.”
Rye nodded, smiled, and went to pull on their boots.
She watched them dress for the cold. Outside, the wind was still blowing clouds of snow into the air. The sky was the color of pale slate, and the trees looked even darker than that against the sky, heavy with snow.
All bundled up again, Rye nodded one last time and pulled open the kitchen door.
“Be safe,” Erin called after them. Rye turned and raised their hand in a wave.
She watched them make their way to their truck. The truck’s engine rattled and coughed but started up. Rye let it warm for a minute or two.
Erin went back inside. She stood at the window watching until the truck pulled down the drive and into the road beyond.
Then she turned away and went back to her books.
If you enjoyed this story, you may also enjoy EE Ottoman’s novel Documenting Light
If you look for yourself in the past and see nothing, how do you know who you are? How do you know that you are supposed to be here?
When Wyatt brings an unidentified photograph to the local historical society, he hopes staff historian Grayson will tell him more about the people in the picture. The subjects in the mysterious photograph sit side by side, their hands close but not touching. One is dark, the other fair. Both wear men’s suits.
Were they friends? Lovers? Business partners? Curiosity drives Grayson and Wyatt to dig deep for information, and the more they learn, the more they begin to wonder — about the photograph, and about themselves.
Grayson has lost his way. He misses the family and friends who anchored him before his transition and the confidence that drove him as a high-achieving graduate student. Wyatt lives in a similar limbo, caring for an ill mother, worrying about money, unsure how and when he might be able to express his nonbinary gender publicly. The growing attraction between Wyatt and Grayson is terrifying — and incredibly exciting.
As Grayson and Wyatt discover the power of love to provide them with safety and comfort in the present, they find new ways to write the unwritten history of their own lives and the lives of people like them. With sympathy and cutting insight, Ottoman offers a tour de force exploration of contemporary trans identity.
Available late summer 2016 from Brain Mill Press
More information at documentinglight.com
An excerpt from Documenting Light
The first thing Wyatt thought when he saw the apartment was that it was beautiful. The ceilings were high, with some orient patterning across each. The doorways in the living room were tall, sweeping arches, and every room had huge windows. There was a built-in bookcase and a fireplace in the living room, with a fireplace in the bedroom as well. The whole place was fresh-painted white walls and gleaming hardwood floors.
“Forget about Mom.” Jess turned in a slow circle in the living room. “I want to live here.”
“Yeah, if either of us could afford it.” Wyatt stuck his hands into his pockets and looked out the living room window at the tree-lined street.
Their mother was a different story. “It’s not the farm.” She ran her hands over the mantle of the fireplace in the living room, sidestepping the couch the moving men had left jutting into her path. Her big silver hoop bracelets slid and clicked against the wood. “How am I going to walk the dogs without plenty of outside space?”
“You’re not bringing the dogs.” Wyatt took her hands, turning her gently toward him. “Remember? We talked about this. The Baker boys love them, they’ll take good care of them.”
“And the farm?” She looked confused, but then they’d expected this. They’d been told the move would be hard and disorienting for her.
“Yeah, they’re running the farm now, and you’re going to live here, where you can be close to Jess and me.”
Timothy, Jess’s fiancé, staggered past, his small frame laden with boxes for the kitchen.
“And Timothy,” Wyatt added with a pang of guilt. He was glad Timothy was here, even if he would’ve preferred this to be family only. “It’s going to be good.”
She still didn’t look convinced, though.
“Come on.” Wyatt guided her over to one of the built-in bookcases, where boxes of books were already stacked. “Let’s get these books unpacked. You know how you want them organized.”
He opened one, and for a moment she stared into the box like she’d never seen its contents before. Then her face brightened. “Oh, yes. These are my books on herbal remedies”—she pulled out a handful—“and herb gardening. I see some about wild herb identification in here, too. They’ll each need to go together in their own sections.”
“Good.” Wyatt sat back on his heels as she sorted the books, placing each on the shelf. The doctor had told him that breaking the move into pieces that were manageable for her was the key.
“The rest of these books are on gardening?” She tapped the lid of the next unopened box.
“I’m assuming some of them are.” Wyatt ripped the tape off the box and opened it. “But your books on tree husbandry are probably here, too. So each their own section?”
“Oh, I have far too many books on those topics for them to be each their own section. They’ll have to be broken down further.”
“Then you’ll have to do it, and I’ll put books where you tell me to, but I don’t know this stuff well enough to sort them.”
“If you’d paid attention when you were growing up, you would know.” But she was smiling, that little teasing smile that said even though she had her mom voice on, she didn’t mean it.
It made Wyatt smile back, even as his stomach twisted because he hadn’t seen that smile in months and had begun to think he’d never see it again.
It was one of those things you had to let go of. Or at least that’s what he’d been telling himself.
“You two look like you’re doing good in here.”
He turned to see Jess in the doorway looking disheveled in her oldest clothes, curls escaping from the ponytail at the nape of her neck.
“Unpacking?” She smiled encouragingly.
“Yeah.” Wyatt waved his arm, taking in the open boxes and bookcase. “We’re doing good, organizing the books.”
She stuck her hands in her jeans pockets and walked over to look at what they had on the shelf so far. “Well, I think the moving people have gotten everything in.”
“I’ve been organizing by topic. Here, hold this.” He thrust a stack of books at Jess.
“You know what, Wyatt?” Jess obediently took the books. “I’ll help Mom here for a while if you want to move the boxes in the hall up into the attic. The landlord told us we could use the space up there for storage.”
“Sure.” Wyatt dusted off the legs of his jeans as he stood and headed into the hall.
Timothy was in the kitchen unpacking boxes of cookware. “You want to order Chinese sometime soon?” Wyatt leaned into the kitchen, hand braced against the door frame.
“Sure. Chinese sounds good.”
“I have to move some boxes into the attic, but when I get back I’ll order.”
Timothy nodded. “Tell me how much and I’ll pitch in.”
For a moment, Wyatt wanted to say, You don’t have to, she’s not your mother. But that would come out far harsher than he meant it. “Sure. I’ll let you know.” He ducked back into the hall.
His mother’s apartment was on the second floor. It took him a few minutes to find the door that led to the attic. Once he did, it wasn’t as bad as he thought it might be. The stairs and attic space were well-lit at least, not just by the ceiling lights but also from a circular window set into the front of the house that let the last of the day’s sunlight and warmth spill in. It was dusty up there, but not dirty per se, and the floor felt sturdy under him, which made it about a hundred percent safer than the attic of the old farmhouse where he’d grown up.
Wyatt shifted the boxes one at a time up the stairs. It was hard to tell where to put them because everything in the attic seemed to be randomly arranged, without any clear way of identifying what belonged to whom. He opted to push his mother’s boxes back as far as they would go against the wall opposite the stairs—although he ended up having to stack them near the window simply because that was the only space left.
The closer he got to the window, the hotter it got, causing pricking points of sweat to break out along his arms and the back of his neck. His eyes began to water against the light and dust, and when he’d moved the last box up Wyatt sat cross-legged on the floor.
He should go back down and order Chinese or see how book sorting was going. Instead, he tipped his face back and closed his eyes, taking several deep breaths.
They’d been at the old house packing until one or two o’clock in the morning. Then Timothy had arrived with the truck at five. Wyatt’s limbs were heavy, the muscles in his back ached with every move, and they still had the entire apartment to unpack. He rotated his shoulders, trying to get the kinks out.
From the stairs, Jess’s laugh, loud and strong, drifted up, his mother’s laughter, too, thank God.
It was . . . strange, though, hearing them down there with him alone up here.
He stood up, trying to brush dust off his ass as he did, and didn’t realize he’d misjudged until pain exploded bright and hot behind his eyes. Wood, dust, and dirt showered down on top of him. “Shit!” He doubled over, hands going to the back of his head, which he’d rammed straight into a beam. “Fuck!”
The first shock gave way to waves of pain encompassing his entire head, bad enough to make his eyes fill with tears. He went back down onto his knees and for a moment thought maybe he should start screaming for Jess, who was a nurse after all. The pain was already lessening, though, so Wyatt just rocked back and forth while groaning pitifully.
Eventually, it diminished to the point that he could take his hands away, inspect them carefully for blood, and stand back up.
Some of the pink insulation had gotten loose right above where his head hit the beam, but otherwise nothing looked any worse for the wear. You weren’t supposed to touch insulation, if he remembered correctly, but on the other hand he didn’t want to leave pieces hanging out. He pulled the sleeve of his flannel shirt over his hand and tried to stuff the insulation back into the ceiling. Of course it didn’t go back in easily. Wyatt put his full weight behind it and shoved up arm first as hard as he could. The entire thing crunched, and then a large piece fell out, landing at his feet.
“Well, fuck.” Wyatt looked accusingly at the hole he’d made.
There was something behind the insulation. He reached up, fingertips brushing paper. He pushed his hand farther in until he could feel an edge and then pulled. The whole thing came away at once.
It was an envelope, one of the large ones people used to send papers in, brittle and already falling to pieces as he held it. It felt too light to contain papers. Wyatt opened it as carefully as he could.
There didn’t seem to be anything in there when he inched his fingers in, so he turned it upside down to be sure. He squeezed the bottom and shook the envelope several times. Something fell out and fluttered to the floor.
Wyatt bent to pick it up.
It was a photograph. Not a particularly large one, a little bit faded, the corners slightly tattered.
Two men sat, one darker skinned and one fairer, each on opposite sides of a table but facing the camera rather than each other. They wore matching dark suits and posed almost identically, with one hand resting on the tabletop. The light-skinned man’s legs were crossed, his pose more relaxed. His companion stared straight at the camera. He seemed almost nervous in his tense focus, in the way he held himself. Neither of them smiled, but there was something almost candid about the shot, as if the men were waiting for the actual portrait to be taken. As if the moment after this one, the fairer man had uncrossed his legs, sat up straighter, while his companion had loosened his pose, letting some of that energy go, sitting with more confidence. In this moment, though, the two were caught in anticipation.
The back of Wyatt’s neck pricked, and he turned the photograph over, but there was nothing to see there. He picked the envelope up again and inspected it. It was truly empty this time and also completely unmarked.
What kind of photograph got stuck in an envelope and shoved up into the ceiling of someone’s attic?
He looked at it again, the two of them sitting there, caught in that moment, both of them unguarded, their hands slid a little too close together on the table.
Maybe the better question was, What kind of photograph do you hide?
Wyatt stared for another second and then shook his head. It was probably nothing, just an old picture that had been forgotten about.
There was something about the two of them, though. His finger went to trace the shape of the fairer one, the angle of his jaw, the way the light outlined his face—it felt family in a way that resonated deep inside Wyatt’s body.
“Who were you?” He kept his voice low. “Were you hiding?”
There were, of course, the obvious theories, reasons a picture like this might be put away. He could imagine that they had been a couple. This one incriminating piece of evidence tucked away to keep it from being destroyed after the deaths of the people it portrayed.
Wyatt had never hidden being queer, but when it came to everything else, all he did was hide. The weight of passing through the world as something he was not was almost crushing sometimes. For people to look at him and see a man when he so clearly wasn’t felt like the worst kind of lie. It was like having an empty place inside of you, a rough, torn-out spot to be guarded, hidden, lied about. A bruise you could forget even hurt until it was touched.
Had they known?
He tucked the photograph into his breast pocket and descended the stairs to his mother’s new apartment.
EE Ottoman grew up surrounded by the farmlands and forests of Upstate New York. They started writing as soon as they learned how and have yet to stop. Ottoman attended Earlham College and graduated with a degree in history before going on to receive a graduate degree in history as well. These days they divide their time between history, writing, and book preservation.
Ottoman is also a disabled, queer, trans dude whose correct pronouns are: they/them/their or he/him/his. Mostly, though, they are a person who is passionate about history, stories, and the spaces between the two.
The Lover Lies Within - Options
The Lover Lies Within by Karen M. Vaughn
© Karen M. Vaughn, 2016. All rights reserved.
You enter me, and at first I hold back. You admire the flowers in the porcelain vase by the front door. You explore my many windows and rooms, my eaves and attic, even my cellar, with its earthy scent and its piled stone so cool you could rest your cheek against it and never feel feverish again. You declare me beautiful. Still, I am cautious. I am coy. Others have done the same and they have fled soon enough. I am determined to reel you in carefully, so that by the time you understand what is happening you will already be in love with me. Step by step, I will draw you through the labyrinth to my bullish center, to my wild and beating heart. Your voice is music in my hallways. Your hand is a warm thrill upon my doorknobs. I watch you regard yourself in my mirrors, your handsome face turning as if for a photo, and I feel that given time you might be able to see the real me. Still, I am stationary. I do not show you what I can do.
Your friends find me charming. They congratulate you on your lucky find. They help you move in a bedframe and a sofa and a wardrobe and a television, all these physical extensions of you, sent forth like ambassadors of your personality, your designated truth tellers. Each item is a secret crossing over my threshold. And you have so much furniture. Coffee tables. Wingback chairs. One after another they fill me up, until I am fairly shivering with pleasure. I am so euphoric, in fact, that I cannot help but cry out, just for a moment. Everyone stops and listens. Your friends crane their necks and, after catching sight of one another, burst into riotous laughter. They say that it must have been the neighbor’s hot wife going at it with the landscaper. But you are not so sure. You scan the room for several seconds longer, as if waiting for me to reveal myself, to cast up some kind of avatar, and I wonder if you felt my cry threading a silvery path through your bones, if you felt, somehow, that it was for you. Although my timbers quicken at the thought, it will not do. I resolve to be more discreet in the future.
In the mornings I keep myself bright, almost dazzlingly so, so that you will think of me fondly while you are at work. As soon as you step outside, though, I begin to dream. My vast empty rooms fill with images of those who were here before you, their faces decayed or melting like wax, their bodies reorganizing into all manner of grotesquerie. None of them were The One. None of them were like you. When you return in the evening, you prepare dinner, put on a movie or sit on the bench by the bay window, peering out at the darkening world. You bring home friends, girlfriends, coworkers; I sparkle for all of them. You make adjustments to me; I yield to you. New wallpaper in the great room. Modern faucets in the bathrooms and the kitchen. I do not mind. They are tokens of your love for me. One day you drop a bowl of masala dosa in the dining room, and it is such a gloriously domestic occurrence that I nearly allow a contented sigh to escape my vents. I think that I have never been so happy.
But soon I cannot help myself from taking things a bit further. I memorize the cadence of your footsteps, play the sound aloud to myself when I think you are not listening. I make a game of rearranging your belongings. In the night, I funnel heat through my vents to cradle you in your bed, though it leaves icy spots in the hall. I know you do not like your toes to be cold. I fragrance my hallways with the scent of mangoes, your favorite fruit, so that when you awake, there is that first lingering breath of your birth country, a fleeting specter of remembrance to show that I know you. That I cherish you. That I can be all you need. My walls, floors grow thick and luxuriant while you sleep, expanding beyond their prescribed architectural boundaries. I bend low to meet you. I rise up like a tide. I buckle inward, snaring you within my concavity. I envelop you as in an amniotic sac, muffling all the sounds of the peripheral world so that your sleep may remain undisturbed. Once, I even dare to whisper your name.
Arjun.
You wake up, alarmed. It is too much. Sirens blare and the police arrive, do a quick walkthrough then declare me free of burglars. I am properly chastened. I endeavor to show restraint. But of course that is easier said than done. I find myself marveling at your beauty, as once you marveled at mine. In the past my inhabitants were lighter of skin, and my wooden surfaces were always ash or birch. The hardwood floors, the doors, the built-in sideboard, all pale as a winter sun. Now I convert them to a fine mahogany, to match you. I think this will please you, but instead I can see you regarding me with dread. What is happening, you ask with a frown.
I have heard stories of houses, special houses, houses like me, which have managed to hold onto their residents for a lifetime. They do this by changing only a little at a time, in increments too small to notice. A spit coat of varnish here. A repaired newel post there. A bookcase arranged just the way the occupant likes it, though it was last left in disarray. Only much later, when the occupants have become old and eccentric, do the houses venture larger expressions of affection. It is then that a wish for light might translate to a new window; that a pair of bruised and diabetic feet might summon a soft carpet in the hall, a quiet ribboning down the staircase; that a midnight waking might cause the appearance of a bathroom directly across from the master bedroom. These houses are Zen masters of patience. I have never understood how to exercise such self-discipline. I love too soon, too recklessly, too often. There is a savagery in my love. And it has had its effect. Already, I can feel that I am losing you.
I try to make up for my mistakes. You complain of flies in the kitchen; I marshal all the ones I can find into the sewing room upstairs, a room you seldom enter. But I fail to account for the noise. You go to investigate and are instantly besieged by them, a thousand pinpoints of black peppering your face and limbs. And so you bring in the psychic who walks slowly through my rooms and mouths inanities and burns sage. She claims to see the flickering of spirits all around: a child drowned in the claw-foot tub; a man dangling from the balcony above the great room; a woman with wrists carved up like cuneiform. The latter, apparently, still holding the bloodied kitchen knife with which she did the deed. These accusations are patently absurd. There is nobody here but me. Still, I am on my best behavior while she is here, though it gives me pleasure to imagine the dust swirling into bright funnels around her, a sudden nebula of debris filling her lungs until her eyes go wide, her face slack. Of course, I do not do it. I remain as quiet as a mouse.
You are gone for a week, and when you return you station tiny statues in all of my shadowed corners, chanting some mantra about cleansing and rebirth. Is this what we have come to? I groan to let you know that you have wounded me, but you brush this off as well. Muttering to yourself, you blame the plumbing. How dare you. I am only trying to say: I do not like it when you leave me. I do not like it when you enter other houses. And I could keep you from leaving if I wished. You have a right to know this, and so the next time you use the upstairs bathroom I wedge the door shut tight. It is a small demonstration of my power. It is not a threat at all. Next, I cause plumes of water to come jetting up from the sink, to remind you of the kind of whimsy of which I am capable. I create for you a veritable geyser, high and strong and lovely. Your very own Vegas spectacle. The tiles at your feet become saturated, cementing your feet in place. Dark shapes bloom upon the porcelain like bloodstains. Am I not spontaneous? Am I not still charming to you?
You begin rattling the door with great violence. “Help!” you cry, to no one in particular. Wrenching your shoes free, you kick at my hinges until they are hanging limp and useless, until they resemble the mangled legs of an animal caught in a trap. Unimpeded, the door at last swings open. I vibrate with rage, with betrayal. Downstairs the wallpaper you placed begins to boil, bubbles spreading like a pestilence across its damasked surface. The chandelier lurches, responding to a shifting gravity. Something low and rumbling sounds from the cellar. I try to contain it, but it is too late. I am beginning to dream again. Soon there they are, vengeful, monstrous in form, their flesh hideously curdled, still curdling. They grapple for space in the narrow hall, and for the first time, I see your face disfigured with horror. This was not what I intended, I want to scream. I only wanted you to love me.
You make for the stairs and the front door, and I know that if I let you leave this time, you will never come back to me. I prepare one last gambit, an act of desperation. I loosen the portraits from the walls and drop them like grim Valentines all around you.
{crash}
Remember this? Remember when you placed the frame and smoothed your hand over my grain before driving in the nail, hard?
Remember how I shook then, as if convulsing with joy?
You thought you had done something wrong. You thought you had hurt me. You got out the stud finder, just to be safe.
Remember how gently you managed it the next time? You were so careful, so tender. You wanted to do it right.
So many pictures, and each one an intimacy.
Just look at them.
We have all these memories together, you and I. I know you. I love you. Don’t leave me.
You reach the foyer, and the front door flies open, then shuts just as quickly. There is the sense of something rising up. A howling, whistling sound like just before a tornado hits. Know that you, my beloved, might have hidden in my skirts while I stood against the winds, my front lashed and battered, my shingles ripped from their underpinnings. I would have done whatever it took to protect you, even if it meant my own dissolution. The vase by the door moves through air that is suddenly viscous, shatters against something. The glass from the windows explodes into fragments. All my protean pieces laid bare. You never pursued the farthest reaches of me, nor even wanted to. You could not know what it would mean to truly inhabit me. You only loved me in my silence. You only wished to come and go as you pleased. But I am not an address. I am not a thing to be entered and abandoned. I am, and have always been, the destination. And now the winds are settling and I can see that the jeweled shards are radiating outward from a region on the floor, capturing the sun within each knife’s edge, holding it there in a glowing rosette, a splayed mosaic that is the color of flesh and fire and lamentation.
It is over.
It is all over.
Time passes. I collect myself over the course of days, weeks, long idle months. At first the grief sweeps through me like a torrent through my ruined windows, but eventually I find that there is more of it on the outside than the inside. It keeps to the periphery, a starved coyote hanging back from a fire, and I am left with pleasant thoughts and only a few more dreams than usual. Once again, I begin to prepare myself. The rich pigment vanishes from my wooden beams, returning to a neutral maple. Broken things knit together: cornices, mirrors, lamps, the grandfather clock you never noticed had stopped at the stroke of midnight. Scratch marks on the door are drawn out like poison. Mysterious stains recede into the rugs and the grout. A fresh coat of wallpaper corsets my edifices. Finally, an unblemished vase of flowers materializes to grace the accent table in the front hall. I am ready to receive. I am all gloss and polish and shine. I am practically delirious with hope, because the next one is sure to be The One. You have to be. And until you come, I will remain in my perfect state of readiness, the most beautiful house on Earth, and as quiet as a mouse, just the way you want me to be.
Whoever you are, my love is waiting to swallow you.
If you enjoyed this story, you may also enjoy Karen M. Vaughn’s debut story collection, A Kiss for a Dead Film Star
Isaac Rubenstein has no choice but to kill himself.
He’s in love with Rudolf Valentino, and now Valentino is dead. His acolytes are committing suicide all over the city. The window to definitively display his devotion is closing, and for once the New York tenement apartment he shares with his mother, his grandmother, and his siblings is quiet. It has to be now.
Unless he doesn’t, because his grandmother calls out for him right before the blade touches his skin. Unless he does, and the cuts bleed away his heart’s blood.
In Karen M. Vaughn’s romantic and darkly funny melodrama, Isaac Rubinstein does both. Dies, and is united with his beautiful Valentino. Lives, and finds a reason to live.
A Kiss for a Dead Film Star is a astonishing debut collection of stories that inspire weird love and uncover surprising caches of eroticism. Psycho-medical-magical realism intertwine with old and new New York City, epic love stories, and tales best told in the smoky alleys behind bars or beneath the covers. Karen Vaughn’s capacious imagination and remarkable voice glitter—this collection is a comet that comes around rarely.
More information at akissforadeadfilmstar.com
An excerpt from A Kiss for a Dead Film Star
The most beautiful man in the world has died.
Sixteen-year-old Isaac Rubinstein sits on his cast-iron bed, in the tiny room he shares with his brother, and prepares to slit his wrists. Around him there is only melancholy, which has taken the form of various objects. It is masquerading as a sheet that has been fastened to a drawstring in the doorway. It has permeated the ink of a lithograph depicting the Old Opera House in Frankfurt. It has poured its essence into the wick of the oil lamp, into the small pine bureau, into the Bavarian lace curtains, into the plumes and flourishes of the green damask wallpaper. It has settled, also, over the tattered quilt, which has itself been buried beneath a doleful sea of photographs. These images are of particular relevance to Isaac’s present state of despair. The settings and costumes they portray are multifold, but they all feature the same impossibly attractive man, gesticulating, or dancing, or just standing still. In this one, the man has been photographed wearing a sheik’s flowing headdress. In that one, he holds a cigarette and exhales a sinuous column of smoke. In this one, he wears a powdered wig and a silk brocade coat, and in that one, he strums a Spanish guitar. And of course, here is the treasure at the root of Isaac’s collection, a portrait of the man as he is emerging from the water, magnificently shirtless, with a small racing boat hoisted above his head.
The man in the photographs is Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi di Valentina d’Antonguolla. He is Rudolph Valentino. The Great Lover. The most beautiful man in the world.
Isaac’s own features are rather less impressive. He is tall but gangly, with a narrow chest that is little more than a monolithic slab. He has got the standard allotment of muscles, but you’d never know it to look at him. No matter how many games of stickball he plays, they remain just below the skin’s surface, dreaming and undisturbed. (This is in stark contrast to his buddy Asher, who seems to have been born with calves like coconuts and biceps the size of summer peaches.)
Isaac’s face is equally unexceptional. His eyes are set a bit close together, his lips are too thin, and his ears are pointed where they should be curved. These characteristics, combined with his unruly black hair and the overall gauntness of his physique, succeed in giving him the appearance of a half-starved animal. His habit of reading in public only serves to heighten this impression. Sometimes, when he is sitting alone on the tenement stoop, women will rise up from the pavement and bring him sandwiches.
But today there will be no sandwiches, and no stickball. The possibility for those things ended several hours earlier in a crowded hospital across town, when a glorious heart stopped beating, when a pair of lungs fluttered like moth’s wings and then lay still, when a brain emptied out its last unknowable thoughts, when a doctor made a grave pronouncement to the assembled masses and watched the effect of his words slide outward like waves, provoking bouts of fainting and hysteria.
Isaac has been left with a single clear path. He must forge a connection with this man in the only way possible, and he must do so without delay. Already, he knows, the actor’s body is beginning to divest itself of tiny particles of matter, which are lifting like delicate insects into the air around him. Already, the viscera are growing cold.
And so the razor blade makes its approach, sweeping downward onto a strip of blemish-free skin (one of the few qualities of which Isaac is unashamed).
He does it.
He doesn’t do it.
His heart splits in two beneath a blue-enameled sky.
Karen M. Vaughn rattled around eastern Kansas for much of her life before finally settling in Lawrence, where the best weirdos are. For several years she edited for a medical journal (just ask her about the famous Eyeball Issue), and now does academic editing on a freelance basis. She loves reading and writing off-kilter fiction. Her work has appeared in A cappella Zoo, Whiskey Island Magazine, Illya’s Honey, and REAL: Regarding Arts & Letters. Karen enjoys traveling to mountainous places with her husband and daughter, watching supernatural horror films, and teaching herself guitar so that she can fill in for Jack White if he should ever become ill.
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BTF launches Big Colour Challenge to encourage people to get active
11.11.2020 / BREAKINGNEWSONLY / News
When people sign up for the Big Colour Challenge, they will receive a bespoke chart to print at home and a weekly email with new challenges that are tailored to their ability level.
British Triathlon is encouraging people to track their progress in the challenge through the time they’re active. The bespoke chart is broken down into segments, with participants colouring in a segment for each five minutes of activity they complete and creating a wave of colour across the chart.
The Big Colour Challenge will support the 2.6 Challenge, which aims to raise vital funds for British charities that are finding themselves in a funding shortfall due the COVID-19 crisis. Participants can either donate to the overall total or fundraise for a charity of their choice.
The first weeks’ worth of activity in The Big Colour Challenge will be tailored around the 2.6 challenge which will include completing a 26 min turbo time trial, finish 26 shuttle runs in your garden, and complete a homemade obstacle course.
Andy Salmon, British Triathlon Chief Executive, said: “We are very aware that the world has changed for everyone right now, and not having the release valve of organised sport during this difficult time has affected triathletes of all levels.
“We’re launching the Big Colour Challenge to help give structure to regular exercisers, but also small steps to help families and people who are, or want to be, casually active at home and within their once-a-day period of outdoor exercise.
“The Big Colour Challenge is accessible to everyone, and I hope as many people as possible sign up to not only use triathlon to improve their physical and mental wellbeing, but to also raise vital funds for this country’s charities.”
t www.thebigcolourchallenge.co.uk
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Gemma Field on 07587 038061 or gemmafield@britishtriathlon.org
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France: Rapper Arrested for Song Praising Beheading of Teacher Samuel Paty
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Police arrested an 18-year-old rapper in Seine-et-Marne this week for publishing a music video featuring lyrics that allegedly praised the murder of teacher Samuel Paty.
Rapper Maka initially released the song, entitled ‘Samuel Paty’, earlier this month on several social media platforms including YouTube before it was taken down.
The song’s lyrics include the line “We cut like Samuel Paty, without empathy” while a car is on fire in the background of the video, newspaper Le Figaro reports.
Just days after the video had been banned, a 14-year-old boy attending a Savigny-le-Temple school used the lyrics to threaten his teacher during a class on freedom of expression. The teen, who was placed under investigation, was also carrying a taser in his pocket at the time.
Paris Suburbs Teacher: Third of Pupils Think Criticising Islam ‘Not Normal’, Question Value of Free Expression https://t.co/vQ9nwXK0Sa
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) November 20, 2020
Since the murder of Mr Paty, who was killed by a Chechen terrorist for showing Mohammed cartoons published by Charlie Hebdo to his class during a lesson on freedom of expression, there has been a surge of threats to teachers and other public officials, according to a judicial source.
“It’s exploding! There are many threats against public figures, the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister, several ministers, deputies, teachers,” the source said.
In some areas of France, high numbers of pupils question whether criticising Islam should be allowed at all. In the Paris suburbs, one teacher claimed that as many as a third of her pupils questioned France’s values regarding freedom of expression.
“After the attack on Charlie Hebdo in January 2015, there was spontaneously a form of national unity. Of course, we heard phrases like: ‘They asked for it.’ We heard pupils say that, but it was very rare,” she said, but added since the murder of Paty, pupils’ attitudes have shifted.
The arrest of Maka comes just two years after Muslim rapper Médine Zaouiche, who released an album called Jihad calling to “behead secularists”, announced he would play a concert at the Bataclan nightclub in Paris where 90 people were killed in a radical Islamic terrorist attack in 2015.
Anger over Plans for Anti-French ‘Jihad’ Rapper to Perform at Bataclan https://t.co/6o2diKRtZh
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) June 11, 2018
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Momentum: National Concealed Carry Reciprocity Now Has 212 House Co-Sponsors
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Legislation to fix the cumbersome patchwork of concealed carry laws in the U.S. has gained momentum with the addition of a 212th co-sponsor in the House of Representatives.
The legislation–H.R. 38–was put forward by Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC) on January 3, 2017. Breitbart News reported that it will make the concealed carry permit of any one state valid in the other 49–just like a driver’s license–and will also allow residents of permitless carry states to carry in any state, provided they have government documentation proving their residency in a permitless carry state.
On June 21, Breitbart News reported that 199 House members had signed on as co-sponsors of H.R. 38. That number is now 212, with the latest co-sponsor being House Judiciary Chairman Rob Goodlatte (R-VA). In light of Goodlatte’s support, the NRA sees an opportunity to get national reciprocity enacted and is asking Second Amendment supporters to contact their Representatives:
#ICYMI Reciprocity bill nears goal line in the House but needs YOUR support to reach the end zone #2A https://t.co/yu5ok0VkVO
— NRA (@NRA) September 27, 2017
On September 8, Breitbart News reported Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-KY) observation that House Speaker Paul Ryan was preventing Congress from taking up national reciprocity. While a guest on Armed American Radio, Massie was asked about the lack of movement on national reciprocity and he said, “The Speaker told me he didn’t think the timing was right.” Massie then added, “But this is the exact time to bring this bill. So it is frustrating for me.”
The bottom line is that 212 co-sponsors means Second Amendment proponents are approaching critical mass; approaching a point where the establishment will have to act on the reciprocity legislation put forward by Rep. Hudson.
**UPDATE**
After the publication of this article, Congressman Massie’s office contacted Breitbart News to say he was discussing H.R. 2909 not H.R. 38.
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Predation is the consumption of one organism by another. Predation occurs when one organism benefits from killing another. Herbivores, parasites, and parasitoids can also be considered predators.
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One of the standard interspecies interactions within a community is the concept of predation. This is the idea that one organism eats another, now you may think well I know of predators. There's the lions that eat the gazelle, there's the predator that goes after Arnold Schwarzenegger I know what a predator is. But in actuality it becomes a lot more complicated because life doesn't pay attention to our nice definitions, what most people think of when they talk about predation is what would be otherwise known as a true predator. That's where you hunt down some other organism and you kill it and eat it. Okay so lion eats gazelle good, but what about an herbivore? It hunts down and kills its prey but its preys are plants that doesn't sound so predatory but it is considered a form of predation.
Then it gets a little bit goofy because well what if I just take a bite out of it but I don't kill it? So then they start talking about grazing or browsing and that's where an organism eats part of another organism but doesn't kill it. Now you can probably think of some examples of browsers or grazers for example a cow. When it goes out into the field it grazes or browses on the grass. It's not killing grass, it's just nibbling parts of it and you know the grass can grow back. Sometimes though an ecologist might say well a mosquito it lands on you, bites you and eats parts of you but it doesn't kill you. But we don't really don't like to think of mosquitoes as being browsing or being predators of humans. This blends over into something called a parasite, a parasite is an organism that lives most or all of its time on or in another organism usually harming that organism but not technically killing it at least not immediately. So for example a tapeworm that lives inside of you, is getting its food from you.
Now you may not immediately show the effects but what's happening is that, it's taking away some of the food supply that you're using, thus harming you and eventually it may actually cause all sorts of problems as your immune system eventually starts trying to fight it. This also bleeds into something called a parasitoid and that's another of these examples where probably some student raise their in some ecology class and said "hey professor you've told me the definitions of a predator and a parasite what about this?" A parasitoid is probably another definition that somebody had to come up with because life is messy. And this is when one organism lays its eggs or its lava in another and eventually once the eggs hatch they come up out of that other organism and eventually kill it.
For example there's many wasps and they'll do this, they'll land and they'll sting like a caterpillar, or sting a spider wherever their intended target is. And they'll paralyze the caterpillar but not kill it and then they'll lay their eggs inside the caterpillar, and the caterpillar is still alive and the eggs hatch and the larvae arise and eat the caterpillar from the inside out and then it erupts and releases the wasps. It's kind of nasty but that's predation.
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Vitamin C's effectiveness against COVID may hinge on vitamin's natural transporter levels
High doses of vitamin C under study for treating COVID-19 may benefit some populations, but investigators exploring its potential in aging say key factors in effectiveness include levels of the natural transporter needed to get the vitamin inside cells.
Age, race, gender, as well as expression levels and genetic variations of those vitamin C transporters that make them less efficient, all may be factors in the effectiveness of vitamin C therapy against COVID-19 and other maladies, investigators at the Medical College of Georgia Center for Healthy Aging report in a commentary in the journal Aging and Disease.
The investigators recommend that those factors be considered in the design and execution of clinical trials, and when trial results are analyzed, for COVID-19 as well as other conditions, says Dr. Sadanand Fulzele, aging researcher and the article's corresponding author.
The novel nature and lack of immunity against the coronavirus has prompted a worldwide pursuit of effective treatments for COVID-19, they write. That includes repurposing drugs with known safety profiles, including Vitamin C, an established immune system booster and antioxidant, which made it a logical choice to explore in COVID-19. Both strategies are needed in response to infection with the novel coronavirus to ensure a strong immune response to stop the virus from replicating in the body, and to avoid the over-the-top, destructive immune response the virus itself can generate if it does.
There are at least 30 clinical trials underway in which vitamin C, alone or in combination with other treatments, is being evaluated against COVID-19, some with doses up to 10 times the recommended 65 to 90 milligrams daily of vitamin C.
Factors like whether or not vitamin C can get inside the cell, likely are an issue in the effectiveness the therapies ultimately show, says Dr. Carlos M. Isales, co-director of the MCG Center for Healthy Aging and chief of the MCG Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.
In fact, without adequate transporters on a cell's surface to get the water-soluble vitamin past the lipid layer of cell membranes, particularly large doses may enable the vitamin to cluster around the outside of cells where it actually starts producing oxidants, like damaging reactive oxygen species, rather than helping eliminate them, says Isales, a study coauthor.
"We think it's important to look at transporter expression," Fulzele says.
They suspect low transporter expression is a factor in the mixed results from vitamin C's use in a variety of other conditions. Clinical trials in osteoarthritis, for example, an autoimmune disease where a misdirected immune system is attacking the joints, has gotten mixed results, Fulzele says. However its usage in other viral-induced problems, like potentially deadly sepsis, has shown benefit in reducing organ failure and improving lung function in acute respiratory distress syndrome, which is also a major cause of sickness and death with COVID-19.
At the time their Aging and Disease paper was published, there were not yet published studies of the efficacies of high-dose, intravenous vitamin studies underway for COVID-19.
Fulzele, who works on vitamin C in aging, and others have shown that some conditions, like osteoarthritis and even normal aging, are associated with significant downregulation of at least one subtype of vitamin C transporter.
In fact, part of the paradox and concern with COVID-19 is that those most at risk mostly have both lower levels of vitamin C before they get sick and fewer transporters to enable the vitamin to be of benefit if they get more, Fulzele says.
Many of those most at risk from COVID-19, including individuals who are older, Black, male and with chronic medical conditions like osteoarthritis, hypertension and diabetes, tend to have lower levels of vitamin C, another reason vitamin C therapy would be considered a reasonable treatment, Isales says. The investigators also note that patients may develop a vitamin C deficiency over the course of their COVID-19 illness since, during an active infection, vitamin C is consumed at a more rapid rate. Insufficient levels can augment the damage done by an overzealous immune response.
While not routinely done, transporter expression can be measured today using PCR technology, a method also used for novel coronavirus as well as influenza testing. While increasing transporter expression is not yet doable in humans, one of Fulzele's many research goals is to find a drug or other method to directly increase expression, which should improve the health of older individuals as well as those with other medical conditions that compromise those levels.
He notes that reduced transporter levels that occur naturally with age are a factor in the reduced immune function that also typically accompanies aging. That means that even when a 60-year-old and 20-year-old both have a healthy diet in which they consume similar, sufficient amounts of vitamin C, the vitamin is not as effective at boosting the older individual's immune response. Reduced immune function in older individuals is known to put them at increased risk for problems like cancer and COVID-19.
Low vitamin C levels also have been correlated with higher mortality in older individuals from causes like cardiovascular disease. High oxidative stress, a major factor in conditions like cardiovascular disease as well as aging and now COVID-19, also is associated with significantly reduced expression of the vitamin C transporter.
Isales and Fulzele doubt that taking a lot of vitamin C is a good preventive strategy against COVID-19, except in those individuals with a known deficiency.
Vitamin C is an essential vitamin, which means people have to consume it in their food or supplements. Foods naturally high in vitamin C include oranges, potatoes, tomatoes, broccoli and Brussels sprouts. The vitamin's diverse roles in the body also include formation of blood vessels, collagen and cartilage.
Gregory Patterson, a medical student who worked with Fulzele over the summer between his first and second year of medical school as part of MCG's Medical Scholars Program, is first author on the study. The research was supported in part by the National institutes of Health.
Read the full study here.
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Dutch-born, Amsterdam-based typographical artist Job Wouters (b.1980) combines elements of graffiti, illustration, painting and graphic design into his exuberant, psychedelic works. Like Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Andy Warhol and Keith Haring, Wouters works beyond the confines of the conventional art gallery; bringing his unique handwriting to commissions for posters, ,window displays, installations and fashion collections. In 2012 Gestalten published the first monograph of Wouters’ work entitled Letman: The Artwork and Calligraphy of Job Wouters. In 2013 he was commissioned to paint a mural – HOME – for the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and is increasingly moving towards larger scale public artworks often created in front of a live audience as performance pieces.
Wouters’ lifelong obsession with typography and the power of the written word first found its expression in graffiti, before he studied art and design at the Royal Academy of Art, the Hague and Amsterdam’s renowned Rietveld Academy. It was at the former institution that he picked up his virtuosic command of classical typography.
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‘I suppose the thing I like most about handwriting is the universal quality of it. Obviously, everyone writes. So everyone can relate to a well-written piece. When you see some beautiful calligraphy done well – especially if it is done live – you can connect’.
Today, watching him work, he is as precise and fastidious as a Medieval monk illuminating a manuscript. There is something hypnotic about watching the concentration with which he can execute repeat patterns for hours on end; working with an arsenal of materials to produce colour drifts that please the eye and soothe the soul.
‘In calligraphy there is always a tension between expression and control. These are the two forces that look like they’re opposite but in a sense they are not. They join along as partners in a good piece of work’.
Though digital technology has a part to play in Wouters’ work, his intricate lettering is predominantly created by hand. It’s a practice that lends itself to live creation, with often spectacular results, as in his mural at the Walker Art Centre, or the giant chalk drawing he produced in late 2013 for the Design Museum, Helsinki...
‘In the last two or three years my practice has been shifting towards making larger sized murals. That always has a performative element to it because you’re making something live and people react differently to it. If I design a book, it comes out and maybe is mentioned in a publication or wins a prize but you never get that direct feedback. I’ve come to like it very much. It’s a social thing’.
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CANARY HEALTH® LAUNCHES CANARY COACHES
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Los Angeles, CA – March 11, 2020 – Canary Health®, a leading digital health and digital therapeutics company, announced today the launch of its wholly owned, diabetes coaching and diabetes prevention focused business unit. The new business unit will operate under the name Canary Coaches (www.canarycoaches.com).
Canary Coaches will be led by General Manager, Dr. Neal Kaufman MD MPH. Dr. Kaufman is a renowned clinician, healthcare innovator, and decades-long pioneer in both digital health and diabetes care. While assuming the role of General Manager of Canary Coaches, Dr. Kaufman will simultaneously remain the Chief Medical Officer of Canary Health.
“The last years have seen tremendous growth in digital diabetes services and the recognition that digital delivery of prevention, education, and coaching services should be provided and covered like in-person care.” Said Dr. Kaufman. “For that reason, we’re proud to launch Canary Coaches as a new standalone business unit within the larger Canary Health family. For years, we have pioneered diabetes-focused services that engage and delight consumers through a combination of award-winning digital experiences and expert coaching. We are delighted to continue this work with even more energy and focus through Canary Coaches.”
$327 billion was spent on diabetes related care in the US in 2019, with expenses 2.3 times greater for those with diabetes than a similar population without diabetes. More than 30 million people have diabetes in the US and more than 84 million have prediabetes. Canary Coaches will focus on diabetes digital care that will increase outcomes and decrease patient care costs. The industry has rapidly evolved to embrace both prevention and digital services where the company has long been an industry leader.
“With the fast-paced evolution of digital health, we’ve had to evolve not only our services, but our company,” said Adam Kaufman, PhD CEO, Canary Health. “As a leading evolutionary digital health company, we’ve restructured internally to be more flexible as the industry changes. The market for digital coaching and prevention services has matured dramatically in the past years; our creating this focused business unit is our aggressive response to that industry maturation. We will be able to more deeply focus on our existing clients in this segment, their unique needs, and importantly, grow rapidly as the industry expands.”
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£1m hen project launches in Orchard Care homes in Yorkshire
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An inspirational hen project linking older people with hens to combat social isolation is spreading its wings and has now launched in two Orchard Care homes in Yorkshire. The forward thinking care home group embraces the opportunity by teaming up with older people’s charity Equal Arts.
The £1m Lottery funded HenPower uses hen-keeping to tackle social isolation, reduce depression and improve people’s wellbeing. Hen-keeping is used as a catalyst for those living within a care home setting for residents to take part in artist-led creative activities, form relationships with schools and their communities and develop their own hen-keeping community within the home.
Comments Nesfield Lodge home manager, Zoe Laver; ““The hens give a focus to the residents, some of whom have taken their new roles as ‘henshioners’ very seriously. They feed the hens, clean them out and collect the eggs. We get around eight eggs each day! We also bring the hens in to sit on the knees of our residents – they have a wonderful calming effect and we’ve seen such a positive uplift in the home.”
Orchard Care Homes has already been working with Equal Arts, piloting the scheme in the North East at St George’s Hall and Lodge in Darlington. With such positive feedback, the company requested to research the opportunity to implement the project in other homes, with a view to rolling this out further across the group.
Resident Eamon McMahon with care assistant Leah O’Leary.
Phil Whitaker, operations director for Orchard Care Homes, said: “We were overwhelmed by the impact the HenPower project had in our pilot home in Darlington and so were keen to bring this opportunity to more of our homes. It’s such a simple idea which has such a potential for big impact on the homes taking part.”
“We’re delighted to have celebrated the first HenPower in Leeds, with hen parties at our two projects in and around Leeds.”
The Equal Arts project currently supports more than 700 residents in over twenty North East care homes and two homes in London, where it has been backed by London Mayor, Boris Johnson. The arrival of HenPower in Yorkshire is the next step for the charity taking its novel initiative country-wide.
Douglas Hunter, Equal Arts director, said: “To see HenPower establishing in Leeds venues is testament to the difference this simple idea can have on people’s wellbeing, no matter where they are in the country.
“It gives people a role and responsibility and residents can be involved as much as they wish. HenPower moves away from passive care and harnesses people’s imagination and interests to empower themselves.”
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It’s been 3 months since the debut of Tesla Model 3 and no extensive gallery is released yet. Recently the brand has introduced two new images, which is likely to be from the promotional shoot of the car. Tesla Model 3 is the company’s most affordable model. And since its debut has received enormous bookings across the globe, demanding an additional manufacturing unit. The Tesla Model 3 price starts at $35,000 in the US and pre-orders are accepted at $1000. The affordability and explicit features of this electric car has raised its demand in the US as well.
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The deliveries will start from late 2017 in the US, starting from West Coast and then moving to East. The brand has kept the existing customers higher in the priority list for deliveries. Tesla Model 3 is still under development but has already started testing on public roads. The all-new car from Tesla will have a driving range of 346 kilometers once charged fully and will be powered by a 60kW hour lithium-ion battery pack. Sprinting from 0-97 kmph mark will be done under 6 seconds and ‘Ludicrous’ driving mode will further improve the driving dynamics of the car.
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Sunday Night Football odds: Falcons vs. Eagles picks, predictions from dialed-in expert who's 12-3 on Philly, Atlanta games
Josh Nagel has his finger on the pulse of the Eagles and Falcons.
By CBS Sports Staff
Sep 15, 2019 at 5:53 pm ET 2 min read
The Philadelphia Eagles look to pick up where they left off in the second half of their season opener when they take on the host Atlanta Falcons in a key early-season NFC showdown on Sunday Night Football. The Eagles, who placed second in the NFC East at 9-7 in 2018, were 4-4 on the road last season, while the Falcons, who tied for second with the Carolina Panthers at 7-9 in the NFC South in 2018, were 4-4 at home a year ago. Sunday's game is slated to kick off at 8:20 p.m. ET from Atlanta. After trailing 20-7 at halftime last week, Philadelphia outscored Washington 25-7 to secure the victory, while the Falcons dug a 28-0 hole and never could recover in a loss at Minnesota. The Eagles are favored by one-point in the latest Eagles vs. Falcons odds, while the over-under for total points scored is 52.5. You'll want to see what SportsLine senior analyst Josh Nagel has to say before you lock in your Eagles vs. Falcons picks.
A Nevada-based handicapper with more than 20 years of experience in the sports wagering industry, Nagel has hit a whopping 61 percent of his NFL spread picks over the past two seasons. He's had a particularly keen eye for these NFC clubs, with a sterling record of 12-3 on against the spread picks involving the Eagles or Falcons. Anyone who has followed him is way up. Now, he's locked in on Falcons vs. Eagles on Sunday Night Football. You can only see his NFL picks at SportsLine.
Nagel knows the Eagles are taking aim at a third straight winning season under fourth-year coach Doug Pederson, who has compiled a 34-20 record (.630). Philadelphia has had Atlanta's number through the years and leads the series 20-14-1, including a 3-1 record in the postseason. The Eagles won last season's meeting 18-12.
Wide receiver DeSean Jackson has been a thorn in the Falcons' side. In his past four games against Atlanta, Jackson has 18 receptions for 207 yards. Jackson was the Eagles' main target in the comeback win over Washington, catching eight passes for 154 yards and two touchdowns, including a 53-yarder which gave Philadelphia its first lead at 21-20 in the third quarter. In his 12-year career, Jackson has 598 receptions for 10,426 yards and 55 TDs.
But just because Philadelphia has plenty of weapons does not guarantee it will cover the Falcons vs. Eagles spread on Sunday Night Football.
That's because the Falcons are led by veteran quarterback Matt Ryan, who will look to help Atlanta rebound from a tough opener. Even under adversity, Ryan managed to complete 33-of-46 passes for 304 yards and two touchdowns. In eight games against the Eagles, he has thrown for 2,010 yards and 15 touchdowns.
Tight end Austin Hooper was Ryan's top target against the Vikings, with nine receptions for 77 yards. He has five receptions for 35 yards against the Eagles all-time. Six-time Pro Bowl wideout Julio Jones also found the end zone against the Vikings, the 52nd time he's done so in his NFL career.
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Church converted warehouse within industrial area and held services. In 2002, Abundant Life Alliance Church of New York bought a condo warehouse unit located within the College Point II Urban Renewal Area in Queens to operate a church. At the time of purchase Abundant knew there were restrictions on the warehouse’s use: the urban renewal plan did not list churches as a permitted use, the deed contained a restrictive covenant that required Abundant to comply with the industrial development plan, and finally, the condo offering plan restricted use to M1-1 zoning. Nevertheless, Abundant converted the warehouse interior without the required permits and began holding religious services.
In January 2003, the Economic Development Corporation requested that College Point Plaza take action to block Abundant’s unpermitted use. Shortly thereafter, Abundant filed a land use review application with the Planning Department, seeking to amend the urban renewal plan, and a variance from the M1- 1 zoning regulations. Before the Planning Department responded, EDC sued Abundant to stop it from operating the church. Abundant countered that the EDC was violating the church’s constitutional right to free worship and assembly. In the meantime, the Planning Department rejected Abundant’s application, stating that an application to amend the urban renewal plan had to include the EDC as co-applicant.
Justice Peter J. Kelly dismissed EDC’s complaint and ordered the Planning Department to certify and process Abundant’s application in accordance with ULURP, concluding that EDC’s suit was premature. None of the City’s administrative agencies authorized to regulate land use had reviewed Abundant’s non-conforming use and Abundant’s application was still pending at the Planning Department. Justice Kelly ruled that EDC was required to treat Abundant differently from others in the urban renewal area. It should have been more flexible and made every effort to accommodate the religious use, and that a special use permit application with caseby- case review was the proper process to address religious uses. The court noted, however, that special accommodation for religious institutions did not mean that Abundant could undermine the land use review and decision making processes. Finally, the court ruled that EDC need not be a co-applicant on an application to amend the urban renewal plan.
EDC v. Abundant Life Alliance Church of New York, Index # 8151/2003, Dec. 21, 2005 (Queens Cty.Sup.Ct.) (Kelly, J.) (Attorneys: Michael A. Cardozo, Robin Green, for EDC; Patrick W. Jones, Adrian Zuckerman, for Abundant).
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Gorgeous hippy hangout for a lifestyle rethink.
While many of those who flock to Byron Bay are after plain old good times, a large number come seeking solutions to the questions and anxieties of modern life. Reiki masters, astrologists, reflexologists, spiritual healers and witches are a dime a dozen, and downtown is full of juice bars and raw-food outlets. However rich the Bay gets (and this is some of the most expensive real estate in Australia), it's still 'out there'.
Gaia was launched by Olivia Newton-John and her interior-designer buddy Gregg Cave in 2005. The pair came across the down-at-heel Bangalow Palms Health Farm while looking for a farmhouse for Cave to buy, and decided to convert the semi-derelict resort into a temple to wholesome food and holistic therapies. It's hard to describe just how idyllic the spot is, with its emerald-green rolling hills and valleys unfolding in a tableau of Cotwolds-style prettiness, bathed in the warmth of the Australian sun.
The spa ethos leans resolutely towards treatments that tend the spirit as well as the body, hence psychic readings, astrology and counselling join iridology and craniosacral balancing therapies. Daily activities are also thrown in, from sound healing to yoga and t'ai chi. Danielle Davies, a former model with a second string of expertise in Australian native birds and wildlife, leads a yogic team focusing on hatha with elements of Iyengar and ashtanga, with 90 minutes of monitored practice kicking off the day, often preceded by a warm-up of qigong.
The usual massages, facials and beauty and body treats are available, too. Most ludicrously overindulgent is the Gaia Goddess (or Gaia Man) which involves four-and-a-half hours of pampering (body polish, body mask, scalp massage, full body massage, facial, hand and foot treatment) using locally made organic products, and is guaranteed to send you into a blissful trance. The most 'Byron' is the Esoteric Breast Massage, which focuses on restoring 'nurturing honour' to the fairer sex.
The food ethos at Gaia is bringing the produce of the kitchen garden to your plate, topped up with the fruits of the region's orchards, plantations and farms (you can also join a weekly cooking class). It's not at all austerity: there's organic wine, chicken, seafood and desserts, the loveliest being the coconut kaffir-lime rice pudding with mango purée and ginger praline. But there's a lightness of touch from the chef to keep the spring in your step.
Its 22 rooms and suites, all with private decks and some with day beds, are grouped around a Samoan-style longhouse amid the jacaranda trees and native bush. The gardens are dotted with hammocks, meditation benches and Tibetan urns, but if this sounds too sedate, the sights, sounds and surfing of Byron are within easy distance. For those seeking a non-judgmental panacea to the ailments of modern living, Gaia is a safe place to unpick what went wrong and determine how to make it right. If it's good enough for Oprah (or so the rumours go) it's surely good enough for the rest of us.
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Housemarque's latest is full of splodey goodness
Alienation hit the PlayStation 4 last week, and last night Jason and I took some time to check out the game's online co-op mode. The game should feel familiar to those of you who have played Housemarque's other co-op shooter, Dead Nation. But this isn't simply a palette swap of aliens for zombies.
In our stream we looked at two very early levels of the game and what makes Alienation not just a twin stick shooter - but a game that borrows elements from many of today's modern day persistent shooters like Destiny and Borderlands. We can't help but admire a really pretty game in the process.
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Canvass – church choir members
On the morning of Saturday, October 31, Detective Armstrong and Deputy Watson interviewed the members of the choir at Faith and Glory Community Church, where Frederick Miller was the assistant choir director.
The choir members were asked if they had observed anything suspicious on the night of October 29 when they were at the church for choir practice. They were also asked about Mr. Miller's recent behavior and his relationship with choir director, Nathaniel Huggins.
The interviews summarized are some of the most typical or relevant to the investigation and are representative of all interviews conducted.
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Ms. Collins said Mr. Miller was in a bad mood at choir practice, and he yelled at her because she was struggling with one of the songs. She said she believed that no matter how much effort she gave, Mr. Miller was never satisfied. After Mr. Miller reprimanded her in front of everyone, she was very upset, and she left in a hurry once practice was over.
Cynthia Villa
Ms. Villa said Mr. Miller seemed tense and on edge during practice, but she noted that he wasn't usually the most jovial person, so she didn't think much of it.
When practice was over, she walked out with Mr. Huggins, who left with everyone else since Mr. Miller stayed after to lock up. She asked Mr. Huggins whether she could bring her daughter to practice the following week. They talked for less than a minute before parting ways.
Ms. Villa said she saw Mr. Huggins head towards the staff parking lot as she headed towards the main parking lot, but she didn't see him get into his car.
Rachel Walsh
Ms. Walsh said she arrived at choir practice about 30 minutes late on the evening of October 29, and she noticed that the church was busier than usual.
She said Mr. Miller seemed especially distracted that evening. She overheard the choir director giving Mr. Miller a hard time about how often he was checking his phone. Even though Mr. Huggins tried to make light of it, Ms. Walsh said that she could sense that Mr. Huggins was actually quite irritated about it.
Edwin Gill
Mr. Gill said that when he arrived at the church, he noticed some people gathering for the sewing event, but he didn't observe anything suspicious.
Choir practice proceeded normally, and everyone left on time. As usual, Mr. Miller stayed after to put things away and lock up, so Mr. Gill didn't see him leave the building.
Jeffrey Heslin
Mr. Heslin said he noticed Mr. Huggins getting annoyed with Mr. Miller during practice. He noted that Mr. Huggins and Mr. Miller generally didn't seem to get along very well, so he didn't take much notice of what was going on between them.
When practice ended, Mr. Heslin briefly stopped at the restroom and then walked out to the parking lot where his car was parked. He thinks he saw some people around as he left but doesn't recall anyone in particular and didn't see anything suspicious.
James Tabor
Mr. Tabor said he didn't notice anything unusual that evening, nor had he noticed any changes in Mr. Miller's behavior recently.
He said his son had Mr. Miller as a biology teacher last year and had told him that Mr. Miller had a reputation for being strict. Mr. Tabor added that Mr. Miller had a similar reputation within the choir in that he took things very seriously.
Mr. Tabor believes that Mr. Huggins and Mr. Miller work well together despite the fact that they sometimes have minor disagreements.
Elizabeth Verdan
Ms. Verdan said choir practice went as usual, but the church was busy due to the sewing event taking place. She thought that Mr. Miller seemed especially stressed out about something because she noticed him checking his phone a lot during practice, which was unusual.
Ms. Verdan remarked that Mr. Miller could be somewhat rigid and traditional, which has caused minor disagreements between him and Mr. Huggins, the choir director.
Richard Salo
Mr. Salo said Mr. Miller did seem worried about something at choir practice that night. He noticed Mr. Miller frequently looking at his phone but said that he didn't know whether he was texting someone or just checking the time.
Mr. Salo had to leave practice a few minutes early, and he didn't notice anything unusual when he left.
I wonder if Frederick had called someone on his phone and left a message for him/her to call him back. Whoever that was hadn't called and he was getting more and more upset. Just a guess, but I would think if this scenario is true, it would be...
I wonder if Frederick had called someone on his phone and left a message for him/her to call him back. Whoever that was hadn't called and he was getting more and more upset. Just a guess, but I would think if this scenario is true, it would be his wife, Caroline. We need to hear something about his phone and what was on it.
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I'm guessing it could be his wife too. Maybe she is having an affair and Fredrick was suspicious of it? Meanwhile his daughter is secretly seeing Marc. Could this be why their alibi's don't check out? As for them being the killers I don't know,...
I'm guessing it could be his wife too. Maybe she is having an affair and Fredrick was suspicious of it? Meanwhile his daughter is secretly seeing Marc. Could this be why their alibi's don't check out? As for them being the killers I don't know, but they are suspects.
Lizzie and Marc together as murderers, seems unlikely, but can't rule them out.
Caroline and the assistant archery couch, Travis Lancaster, well ??
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( an archery couch??), not very comfortable. sorry I meant coach.
The arrow seems to be on an angle as if the shot was from an elevated position. Some comments have picked this up. Reading the choir statements it all makes sense. I think a lot of people were involved in this murder.
Fredrick knows Lizzie is...
Fredrick knows Lizzie is still seeing Marc. He is also under the impression that his wife Caroline maybe having an affair. Fred arrives at the church angry and frustrated. Choir member James Tabor has his son send Fred text messages from an anonymous phone every fifteen minutes during practice saying, " Your wife is playing up, and, your wife is with another man".
Choir member Darla Collins was signing out of key on purpose to further annoy Fred. She said she left in a hurry, but really she waited for Angie Jennings and Cheryl Harris and got into the car with them. These three ladies parked the car at the south end of the parking lot, just before the tree line, and were facing north.
Choir member Cynthia Villa walked out with Mr. Huggins, talked to him for a while then left. She didn't see Mr Huggins get into his car. My bet is that Mr. Huggins waited for Fred to come out and distracted him by arguing the fact that he was the choir director and not Fred and he should learn his place. Then he left. Fred was so taken by all that had happened he didn't seem to notice the car parked at the tree line. Suddenly Angie Jennings flicks on the car lights, full high beam, and Fredrick is temporarily blinded. Just like a deer.
This is the que for the bow shot taken by Marc. It has to be elevated to clear the car parked in front of him. In the tree line Marc is sitting on Lyle Nelson's shoulders while Caroline, Lizzie and Jeremy Willis brace Lyle to steady him. Marc fires and it's a ten-point strike, as always. Fredrick is down and out and everyone moves into the next phase of the plan.
Dora gets out and leaves in her car, while Angie and Cheryl move the car to a position as if they had just pulled into the parking lot. Jeremy runs back across to the café and the rest disappear into the night, on the way placing the evidence in the dumpster.
There is so much evidence pointing towards Marc they all think the police will assume that Marc must have been set-up by somebody.
lgillette daroo196
Wow! Not sure I'm buying all of this but it's great!
The "elevated" shooter issue is an interesting one. I would like a more complete diagram of where cars were, parked and arriving, the sequence and paths of people leaving the building etc.
lgillette
Why did Richard Salo left early ?
Possible explaination-Huggins must have made deal with Salo to kill Miller
He had some work else where , which isnt mentioned here.
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Fidelity Digital Assets Views Bitcoin As “Aspirational Store Of Value” And An “Insurance Policy”
Fidelity Digital Assets, the subsidiary of multi-trillion dollar investment firm Fidelity Investments, views Bitcoin (BTC) as an “aspirational store of value” and an “insurance policy” against a troubled financial system.
It has been reported that Fidelity holds over $8 trillion in assets and its digital assets arm launched in October 2018.
However, the report “Bitcoin Investment Thesis: An Aspirational Store of Value” notes that Bitcoin meets the basic test for being considered a store of value but hasn’t achieved that status yet.
It stated:
“Many investors consider Bitcoin to be an aspirational store of value in that it has the properties of a store of value but has yet to be widely accepted as such.”
As per the report, the core components which drive its potential as a store of value lie in the “decentralized settlement network and its digitally scarce native asset.” Bitcoin’s volatility, often used in counter-arguments against Bitcoin being a store of value, can be considered beneficial to adoption as it “attracts attention, development, and innovation.”
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Bitcoin is an aspirational store of value and an insurance policy against a troubled financial system, according to Fidelity https://t.co/IZ7eWVsA9T
— Cointelegraph (@Cointelegraph) July 30, 2020
John Pfeffer of Pfeffer Capital LP, said:
“Most people in the world don’t yet see Bitcoin as digital gold. As soon as people see it in a different way, the price will adjust.”
Moreover, the report also makes reference to the concerns around money printing as a result of the COVID-19 financial crisis and suggests that some are losing trust in traditional economies.
“The unknown consequences of record low interest rates, unprecedented levels of global monetary and fiscal stimulus and deglobalization are all adding fuel to the fire of awareness and adoption.”
John Vincent of Wakem Capital Management made reference to money printing in light of the recent Bitcoin block reward halving.
Thus, he said:
“You don’t need to be a PhD to understand that the number of dollars just doubled whereas the BTC supply just halved.”
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Chairman's Comments - Everton
We bring you the latest views of Steve Parish from his column in today's match programme for the game against Everton.
I would like to welcome to the players, staff, chairman and supporters of Everton Football Club to south London this afternoon.
Since I last penned these notes, we have played two games against West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur where we arguably deserved a minimum of four points, rather than the solitary one we picked up.
There has been a marked improvement in performances, but I do not feel we are getting our just rewards, which is often the case when you¹re at the wrong end of the table. We are entering a period of immense importance, with our next eight fixtures all coming against sides that are currently placed eighth or below.
We all know we need to make the big moments in games count in our favour.
Bemoaning our luck doesn¹t achieve anything unless it helps us have a positive view of the future, but even the most one-eyed observer would have to agree we have not had the rub of the green. The ³expected goals² metric suggests that, based on the quantity and quality of chances created, we should be tenth in the league. Considering that with the wider context of the injuries we¹ve sustained, there is plenty to be confident about. Let¹s hope things start to turn for us - starting today.
Christian¹s return to training is certainly a big lift.
It was extremely pleasing to see Ruben make his England debut last week and putting in an excellent performance. I sincerely hope that his time with us gives him the chance to accelerate his progression, whilst helping his adopted club climb up the table.
Should he be included in Gareth Southgate¹s squad for the World Cup, it is likely to result in a record number of Palace players appearing in the tournament, with Christian, Luka and Chungy set to feature, plus Yohan, Mamadou and others targeting selection. It was also great to see our old friend Mile Jedinak fire in a hat-trick, all from dead balls, to send Australia to the tournament.
I hope you will be able to join us at Boxpark Croydon on Tuesday night, as we host our very first 'Palace Boxpark Takeover'. From 5pm, members of the first-team and ladies squads will be there to sign autographs and meet as many fans as possible. I¹m really pleased that despite a packed schedule, we¹re able to put on this event in the heart of Croydon and give something back to our local community and loyal fans.
Away from the pitch for a moment, it is one year since seven people tragically lost their lives while travelling on a Croydon tram. Our thoughts are with their families at this difficult time.
Enjoy the game, and Up the Palace!
Copies can be bought from the sellers around the ground, or if you can't make it to Selhurst Park today then find out how you can still get your copy from the comfort of your own home.
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What to expect in Q4 for freight markets
Dean Croke on October 14, 2020 11:41 am
As retailers get ready for the holiday shopping season, a lot of the required inventory has already been hauled by carriers and positioned in warehouses across the country, following the peak in imports we had back in August. But obviously, retailers are approaching the holiday season differently this year.
Firstly, we’re expecting to see more shopping online this season, and this week includes online sales events by major retailers like Amazon, Walmart and Target. All of that freight is already in warehouses, so we saw spot market demand decline last week. But this shows how retailers are expecting an earlier and more extended holiday shopping season, with more products suitable for shipping or pickup.
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As more of us spend more time at home during the pandemic for studies, work and entertainment, demand for electronic equipment has skyrocketed. Global shipments of televisions hit a historical high in the third quarter of this year. According to Trendforce, global TV shipments were just over 62m in the third quarter, of which 31% (19 million) were shipped to the US. Of those shipped, 63% came from China, and 65% of that volume landed in Los Angeles.
This is just one example of how the pandemic has increased demand for certain commodities and driven important truckload volumes higher in specific markets, and it looks set to continue well into 2021. For truckers, this all will likely mean a continuation of what we've been seeing for the past five months - tight capacity and high demand for fast-moving consumer goods, and sluggish demand in the industrial manufacturing sector.
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This week’s release of the Michigan State University For-Hire Trucking Ton-Mile Index for August 2020 highlights a 0.4% m/m increase, although overall volumes were still down 2.7% year-over-year. Associate Professor Jason Miller at the Eli Broad College of Business noted, “while our index is more bullish than ATA and Cass for the recovery of trucking demand, it reinforces multiple independent data points that indicate overall demand is still down year-over-year.”
From a capacity perspective, the MSU release indicated the Trucking Capacity Tightness Index remained at record high levels in August, but unlike early 2018, capacity tightness in late 2020 is driven by a decline of trucking employment as opposed to strong yearly gains in demand.
In our top 10 freight markets, which account for 23% of total load posts, load post volume was down 14% last week. Noticeable volume decreases were recorded in Memphis (ranked #1 last week), where volume dropped by 2% w/w followed by Atlanta (#2) down 17% w/w. On the West Coast in Los Angeles (#3) and Ontario, CA, (#5) markets, load posts dropped 16% and 20% w/w respectively. Available capacity eased slightly, with outbound rates decreasing by 1% to an average.
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Reefer trends
With just a couple weeks to go until Halloween, there’s peak demand for carved and processed pumpkins. According to the USDA, 62% of pumpkin production comes from just 10 states, Illinois produces twice as many pumpkins as any of the other top States. It’s also the nation’s largest producer of pumpkins for pies and other processed foods. The top five pumpkin-producing states include Illinois, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Texas and California produce around one billion pounds annually or the equivalent of 25,000 truckloads.
Just under 40% of that volume comes from Illinois where they’ll ship approximately 12,500 truckloads between mid-September and the start of November. In the Rock Island IL market, where there's the highest concentration of pumpkin farming in the state, outbound reefer volumes were up 34% m/m with rates up 6 cents on average.
In the top 10 refrigerated markets, which account for 22% of total load posts, load post volumes were down 9% last week. Elizabeth, NJ (ranked #1 last week), home to the largest seaport on the East Coast, recorded a load post volume decrease of 15% w/w and is now down 20% m/m. Further south in Philadelphia (#4), reefer volumes dropped 22%. On the West Coast in Los Angeles (#6) load post volumes decreased by 7% w/w, and in the large agricultural produce market of Fresno (#18) to the north, outbound volumes were down 22% w/w.
Flatbed trends
Outbound load post volume dropped by 16% w/w in the top 10 flatbed markets, which account for 27% of total load posts. Volumes in Memphis dropped 11% w/w. Little Rock, AR, recorded a 23% w/w decrease in volume. Alabama markets, which include Decatur, Birmingham and Montgomery, were down 12% w/w. In the top 20 markets, which account for 44% of load post volume, only one market (Detroit) recorded an increase in volume last week.
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Dean CrokePrincipal Analyst for DAT iQ
Dean Croke is principal analyst for DAT iQ, the freight data and analytics operation at DAT. He brings 35 years of experience in the fields of data science, supply chain management, logistics, risk management and human performance. For the latest market updates, follow @LoadBoards on Twitter.
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September Is Hunger Action Month. Here’s How Connect Roasters Is Helping.
September 22, 2020 • Giveback
One in eight people in Cook County are food insecure, and organizations like the Greater Chicago Food Depository work hard to help feed them. But the COVID-19 pandemic has made the task more difficult that ever.
Food pantries in GCFD's network are serving an average of 120% more people than they were pre-pandemic, Executive Director and CEO Kate Maehr says, and those in predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods on Chicago’s South and West Sides have been hardest hit by the combination of food insecurity and COVID-19.
"I don't even have enough words in my vocabulary to describe what we've seen in the last five months," Maehr told ABC7 last month.
The problem extends beyond Chicago — and it isn't limited to adults. A recent study at Northwestern University showed 1 in 3 U.S. households with children report not having enough food to eat.
So as the effects of COVID-19 in the U.S. extend into a sixth month — September, which happens to be Hunger Action Month — it's a good time to remind ourselves that there are a couple easy ways to help during what is a difficult time for so many of our neighbors:
Volunteer. There are no shortage of organizations that could use your help, and many have implemented new safety measures to keep volunteers safe.
Give. Costs are up for nonprofits that are responding to the effects of COVID-19. Do some research, find a charity that resonates with you and donate to support its efforts.
Purchase from companies that do the same. Many for-profit businesses big and small are finding ways to give back to their local communities during the pandemic. The fashion brand Tieks, for example, sparked a campaign that generated 400,000 face masks for frontline medical workers.
Connect Roasters is proud to be playing a role in the relief efforts. Thanks to the sale of Quarantine Coffee, through the month of August we've provided 8,290 meals to Cook County residents most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This could not be possible without our partners at GCFD and Feeding America.
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APAC students claim top three spots in Tata annual programming comp
06 March 2020 Consultancy.asia
Coders from the Asia Pacific have swept the latest installment of Tata Consultancy Services global programming challenge, beating out 230,000 fellow students worldwide.
The eighth edition of Tata Consultancy Services’ flagship programming challenge, CodeVita – one of the largest such events in the world – have seen competitors from the Asia Pacific emerge atop the podium, with the ultimate prize taken by Sheng Yu Hang of Taiwan’s National Chiao Tung University. Ali Khosravi of RMIT University in Australia, and Tan Jia Qing from Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University were named first and second runner-up.
“Coding is still one of the most sought-after skills in the workplace in 2020,” said TCS Asia Pacific president Girish Ramachandran. “Qualified individuals for roles like front-end engineer, java developer and software engineer are all in high demand. These three students have proven their mettle and emerged as global coding champions. We look forward to the great things they are sure to achieve. Congratulations again to Tan Jia Qing, Ali Khosravi and Sheng Yu Hang,”
More than just verbal accolades, the trio also received prize-money ranging from $3,000 to $10,000, along with being granted the opportunity to intern at TCS’s Research and Innovation unit. Altogether, the latest edition saw a record 230,000 students from 89 countries participate across eight programming languages, with the top 25 qualifiers invited to India for CodeVita’s grueling grand finale in the shape of six-hour live programming hackathon.
“It's exhilarating to see the agility and critical analysis brought to life at TCS CodeVita by this young talent,” said Tata Consultancy’s Chief Technology Officer K. Ananth Krishnan. “In an era where technology has revolutionised our world, innovation and creativity are critical parameters for success. Our platform aims to fuel the passion for programming in these brilliant young minds that goes beyond educational, social, geographical and cultural backgrounds.”
The passion for CodeVita has certainly been fuelled since its more humble origins in 2012. Following its domestic success, the competition went global two years later, and as an example of its continued growth last year drew 210,000 contestants from 68 countries (with Sheng Yu Hang going one better this year following his second placing last time around) – a jump of 20,000 student participants in a single year and a geographic broadening to 20 more countries.
This, the consulting firm partially puts down the competition’s growing esteem among university students, but it has also deliberately set out to promote programming-as-a-sport, based on a philosophy that programming can be both fun and challenging while invoking the passions and camaraderie of a sport; “connecting people from varied backgrounds and ethnicities regardless of physical and cultural boundaries.” Last year’s registrations opened in the second week of March.
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Concerns raised over PayPoint benefits deal
By Aidan Fortune2011-03-18T00:00:00+00:00
Retailers have expressed concern over the government's decision to move the benefits payments contract from the Post Office to PayPoint.
From next year the service will be provided by Citibank through the PayPoint network. The government decided to move the contract, worth more than £20m, because the current system of processing cheque payments was deemed too costly and open to abuse.
Sylvia Winter of Creaton PO and Stores in Northamptonshire said that she felt betrayed by the government. "How can they promise to provide new services through the network while taking them away at the first opportunity? A lot of my customers will be unable to travel to the nearest PayPoint outlet."
Steve Denham of Cherilyn Stores in West Chiltington, West Sussex, was concerned over security. "We've recently lowered the maximum amount that our tills can hold for safety reasons, but this service will negate that," he said.
PayPoint head of corporate affairs Peter Brooker said that retailer communication was a priority for the company and it hoped to allay any security concerns. “It’s very early days yet but we recognise that staff and customer security will be an issue which we will be addressing,” he said. “High on our agenda will be communications with our retailers when we have concrete information to give them.”
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How to make craft work
By Nikki Cutler2018-07-02T10:39:00+01:00
Craft beers and cider may be a fast-changing category, but it’s worth doing the leg work to ensure you cash in on its growing following
The new generation of drinkers are more sophisticated in their beer and cider selections than previous generations, and that’s creating a boom in the craft beer category (+61.4% Nielsen 24 March 2018). Yet only two in three c-store retailers stock craft beer, with most of those who shun the category saying they don’t think their shoppers are interested (HIM 2017). They could well be missing a trick.
Patrick Isard, a brewer for Guinness, explains how shoppers’ interest in high quality drinks has led to the explosion in craft. “Some people just see ‘craft’ as a blanket term for ‘high quality’. For everyone involved in the beer market, craft has been a great thing. Craft drinkers want to try new things and try new flavours. They want something with a bit more character and something a bit more interesting.”
Jerry Tweney, owner of Prestbury Village Stores in Cheltenham, has definitely witnessed this increased preference for premium options.
“Nearly 20% of our business is in BWS now and we are needing to bring in a larger range of premium options and local beers and ciders to keep up with demand. The niche and craft stuff is going really, really well,” he asserts.
Katie Hunter, innovation manager for Guinness, adds that this is all part of a wide evolution in shoppers’ tastes. “Some 10 to 15 years ago the beer market was all about beers as refreshment,” explains Katie. “There were probably five key brands and all were about the 4% abv mark. That was around the same era of the alcopop. It’s interesting how much our tastes have changed.
“It’s the same with coffee; if we think about the way we would drink coffee 15 years ago in comparison with all the different beans and coffee styles you can get these days. People are so much more conscious of what they are putting in their bodies these days and they also want to be seen to be consuming drinks which are high quality and interesting.”
Providing a strong craft ale range should appeal to a younger audience of drinkers – the future generation of shoppers, according to the manufacturers.
“The revival of the craft movement has been enjoyed primarily by millennials,” says David Sheppy, Sheppy’s Master of Cider. “They are demanding ‘proper’ cider, produced by true experts. People care about what goes into their drinks – and how they are made. Some 49% of cider drinkers list ‘made by a skilled brewer’ in their top two factors when choosing a cider – and 44% of cider drinkers are interested in the heritage of their chosen cider brand (Mintel 2017).”
Lucy Cottrell, brand manager at Crabbie’s, agrees that millennials have driven much of the innovation in this sector.
She says: “While the category is still dominated by males aged 18-34 (Nielsen Homescan w/e 24 March 2018) the flavour innovation that has really driven the category’s growth has encouraged a lot of females in, particularly millennials, and they now make up a considerable amount of the market.”
That’s the good news. The bad news is that the huge scale of options in this evolving category does mean that retailers need to learn about a lot of new and niche brands, and keep up with which are trending.
Dave Hiscutt, store manager of Londis Weymouth, Dorset, has become something of a craft connoisseur in order to offer shoppers the most interesting and on-trend drinks in the category, and his efforts have been paying off as people are travelling for miles to get a taste of his range. After introducing his craft beer range, bottled beer sales rose 96% to £28,500 in 2016, followed by 5% in 2017 year on year.
“We’ve been developing it over six years. We were getting the wrong people in, so we delisted super-strength. We asked ourselves what we could do to bring in the right customers,” he explains.
“I follow the UK Craft Beer Forum on Facebook and this is divided into different regions. This allows me to keep up to date on what’s new on the market and what people are getting excited about locally. This allows me to stay ahead of the emerging trends and stock products that can’t be found anywhere else in the area.”
Dave adds that another good thing about the forum is that a lot of potential customers follow them, too, so it’s a great way to engage with and draw in new clientele.
“I will sometimes stick a cheeky post on there saying ‘hey, look what I’ve just got in store’ and people will come to my store especially to get that product. I did it once and a guy messaged me to ask how long I stayed open for and he turned up after having driven for an hour-and-a-half. He and his mate each bought £80- or £90-worth of stock and then headed back home!”
Fresh face for Badger Beers
Hall & Woodhouse’s Badger Beer is unveiling a new brand identity across its range of products, marking one of its biggest branding changes in its 240-year history.
The company is injecting £1.25m into the rebrand, which includes a new brand logo and packaging identity, new integrated marketing communications spanning digital, social and print, on- and off-trade activation and a new website, www.badgerbeers.com.
The changes are designed to better reflect the family-owned company’s Dorset heritage and expertise in crafting beer.
The six-strong range comprises The Legendary Tangle Foot; Fursty Ferret; Golden Champion; Hopping Hare; The Cranborne Poacher; and The Blandford Fly. All the beers are available in 500ml glass bottles. Tangle Foot and Fursty Ferret are also available in 500ml cans.
The revamped packaging features a new Badger logo, and bottles carry an embossed established date of 1777.
Hall & Woodhouse managing director Anthony Woodhouse says: “The marketplace has moved on at pace in the past few years and it was time to update our brand, making it more contemporary and relevant to the evolving beer consumer. Our range of crafted beers appeal to many different tastes, drinking occasions and seasons, and we needed to reflect this in our brand and packaging.”
One of the difficulties with stocking a very wide range of products and trying everything new to the market is sheer lack of space. But Dave manages this issue by using a supplier who allows him to pick and choose his beers without minimum orders.
“I buy from Beer Paradise in Leeds, which lets us order in very small quantities so we can just get five bottles of each variety. This is important with craft ale as these shoppers won’t buy like other beer shoppers. They will buy one of each sku as they want to try as many different flavours as possible.
“So this also makes it a very challenging category as you have to make sure you always have something new on the shelves to keep customers coming back.”
When it comes to deciding which skus to stock, Dave has learnt which brewers are the safe bets and will always try to stock their npd.
“Certain breweries are known for being particularly good. Some popular ones at the moment are Northern Monk, Cloudwater, Wild Beer, Omnipollo and Dark Star.”
Jay Patel, manager of Ancoats General Store (Simply Fresh), in Manchester, says that when it comes to craft, shoppers buy it like pick ‘n’ mix, so it’s always hard to pin down one best seller over a period of time. “Our craft is really popular, but I couldn’t pick out one strongest seller as it’s the kind of range that people buy into like it’s a hobby; they like to buy one of everything, like collectors.”
Dave agrees and says as people are always looking for something totally new, it tends to be the more bizarre flavours that do well.
“Dark Star does a Crème Brûlée beer every Christmas and this always sells really well. Some other popular varieties I remember are the Coconuts Rum stout from our local brewery Cerne Abbas, the Wild Beer Co Millionaire chocolate & salted caramel milk stout, and the Wild Beer Co Wildebeest espresso, chocolate & vanilla stout. There was also a popular Caribbean cocktail beer which was quite fruity. Basically, any that have a unique and interesting flavour will usually be popular.”
Local breweries can be a good place to start when looking to expand your craft range. Sandeep Bains of Simply Fresh, Faversham, in Kent, says he’s expanded his range in the past six months and stocks ales from five local breweries. He says people like that they are local and of higher quality, so it’s like hitting two birds with one stone.
Jerry has found that local is where it’s at in his shoppers’ eyes. “We’ve got beers from five Cheltenham breweries and we’re being told by customers to make sure we keep stocking them as they’re products that can’t be found in Tesco and Sainsbury’s.”
Isard reports that ‘hoppy’ beers are particularly popular at the moment. These can taste fruitier, more citrusy and can be a bit sweeter. He imagines these are more popular simply because they are a little more “sessionable” (easy-drinking) than others.
Make meal deals more appealing with beer and cider pairings
When it comes to beer and cider, 43% of large single bottles are being purchased as an accompaniment to meals and snacks (InSites Consulting/Heineken Category Image Study 2017), thanks to the 18- to 24-year-olds who are increasingly choosing to drink beer and cider with their meals instead of wine.
Heineken advises retailers to take this opportunity further than simply offering beer and pizza. It suggests trying to merchandise more formal options to capture date night opportunities, or merchandise zero-alcohol beer with healthier choices to capture those in the health-conscious market.
Category and shopper marketing director Toby Lancaster says: “Beer can taste better with certain foods than wine does. A stout with cheese tastes better than red wine with cheese.
“We aren’t saying to retailers that they should take wine out of their meal offer, but they can add beer as another option.”
The company suggests these pairings:
Birra Moretti: Pizza
Amstel: Thai red curry or chicken salad
Maltsmiths IPA: Burrito with refried beans and guacamole
Old Mout Summer Berries: Sea bass with beetroot salad, blue cheese
Strongbow: Pork belly with crackling
Strongbow Dark Fruit: Venison casserole, apple & blackberry crumble with custard.
Dave adds that while flavour is very much front of mind for craft enthusiasts, the bottle/can design also has a huge influence.
“A lot of the time people will just choose these beers based on their name and their packaging.
“Sometimes the breweries will collaborate with each other for different brewing projects. They collaborated a while ago and each was assigned a colour of the rainbow and they had to create a beer for that colour. Omnipollo was given the colour yellow and they created a beer called Yellow Belly, and it was packaged to look like a member of the KKK. Their reasoning was that the colour yellow symbolised cowardice and they thought the KKK was the most cowardly group they could think of.
“It was funny because they knew they were almost making themselves look bad by creating a beer that looked like that, but their target audience appreciated that humour and loved the idea.”
Luke Knight, assistant manager of a Beer Guerrilla craft ale shop in Northampton, who also designs illustrations for craft beer brands, says the craft beer revolution has also created a revolution in design. “You can have the best craft beer in the world, but you have to get people’s attention, or nobody’s going to buy it,” says Luke.
“You just need to look at all the label and can designs in the shop to see that artwork and branding is seen by the industry as equally important as the actual product.”
Sheppy points out that cans are an ideal format for convenience stores to stock as they are an on-the-go format as you don’t need a bottle opener and they’re lighter to carry.
Dave says cans have become a more trendy way to buy craft beers of late. “People seem to have become aware that beer can become light damaged and that the can is the most controlled environment for it to be transported in. Cans are also much easier to drink on the go.”
London micro brewery launches eight craft beers
Gorgeous Brewery, a new, independent, family run artisan brewery, based at The Bull pub in Highgate, has launched a new range of eight expertly crafted beers with a unique focus on quality and taste.
Meeting increasing demand for craft beer from small batch breweries , the Gorgeous Brewery range is available for sale to retailers & on-trade buyers.
The new line includes a selection of thirst quenching, light bodied pale ales, a dark and rich vanilla malt stout and seasonal IPAs. Seven of the beers, including Glowfly, Greaseball and Goofyhoof are vegan, unfined and unfiltered.
All of the beers are brewed onsite and bottled and labelled by hand. a minimum order of 24 330ml bottles of the Gunpowder flavour, prices starts from £33.00.
Founder Rob Laub says: “We want to meet the increasing demand for good quality beer from small batch breweries, which are being made available for everyone across the country.
We have designed the beers to ensure that the range encompasses something for every beer drinker and for every occasion, based on what we would enjoy drinking.”
Gorgeous Brewery’s range consists of eight beers: Glowfly, Gunpower, Geekhunter, Greaseball, Gryocropter, Goofhoof, Greedyguts and Gravedigger.
For further stockist and pricing information, visit: www.gorgeousbrewery.com
Gateway beers
While some retailers, like Dave, are benefiting from offering a wide choice thanks to their big following from craft enthusiasts, Guinness points out that one of the main barriers to purchasing craft beer and cider is confusion over the huge range. It argues that some retailers may find a smaller range more appropriate to their demographic.
To help shoppers get into the craft ale market, some big brewers have created ‘gateway beers’. This means drinkers won’t have to choose between the niche brands they’ve never heard of before.
One example is Heineken’s Maltsmiths brand, which recently received a new design in a bid to encourage consumers to trade up.
Penny Adair, PR consultant at Thatchers, says growth in the convenience cider market means now is an ideal time to review your range. “Look carefully at what’s in demand, and what your customers will be asking for this summer,” she says.
She says both Thatchers Vintage and Thatchers Katy are in growth.
Crabbie’s Cottrell says that craft beer drinkers are willing to spend that little bit more for the provenance and authenticity they’re buying in to. She adds: “With craft beer tending to be consumed in moderation, consumers are willing to pay more for quality, so basket deals such as ‘three for £5’ work well in driving weight of purchase in the convenience sector.”
But if your shoppers are yet to consider themselves as ‘craft beer drinkers’ then you may need to provide lower-cost options. Guinness research has shown that purchase barriers include concern about value for money and quality. The brand says one-third of beer drinkers see craft beer as over-priced, a fair concern considering a craft sku costs about 27% more than a standard sku.
Retailers could remove this barrier by sampling the products and allowing shoppers to confirm they are getting good value for money before buying.
Heineken’s Toby Lancaster advises that retailers can encourage shoppers to trade up by giving the impression of added value. He says one simple way to do this is by making sure to chill the products, or by offering free pint glasses with more premium products.
Sandeep keeps his customers happy by ensuring he undercuts his local competition with a multi-buy option. “We offer ‘three for £6’, which is cheaper than other shops in the area.”
So even if your shoppers are unlikely to become craft connoisseurs, it’s worth making space for some of the craft ales and ciders out there, even if it’s just a few gateway brands. If these show potential then get onto social media to keep up with what’s new and you could tap into a whole new audience.
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Ikanos' NodeScale Vectoring Delivers 100 Mbps Boost to DSL
Sunday, October 24, 2010 Silicon
Ikanos Communications introduced its "NodeScale Vectoring" technology for mitigating crosstalk in copper access network and thereby enabling 100 Mbps DSL performance and above on loops within typical distance ranges. Other impediments including AM radio signals, power lines, lightning and other atmospheric elements inject even more noise into the copper network.
Ikanos' NodeScale Vectoring technology employs advanced algorithms and compression in high-performance central office silicon to relieve these sources of noise in the copper binder. Unlike line card vectoring, the Ikanos NodeScale Vectoring technology cancels noise across an entire network node from 192 to 384 ports or more.
The company calculates that its method can double the performance of VDSL at most loop lengths, achieving 150 Mbps rates at 300 meters, and 100 Mbps at 500 meters.
Ikanos' NodeScale Vectoring complies with the International Telecommunication Union standards group (ITU-T) G.vector standard (G.993.5), which provides for dynamic spectrum management level 3 (DSM-3) through the use of advanced crosstalk cancellation techniques.
"Ikanos' NodeScale Vectoring technology will deliver the performance of fiber at one-tenth the cost of fiber-to-the-home," said John Quigley, CEO and president at Ikanos. "With NodeScale Vectoring, we believe that service providers will save billions of dollars on broadband deployments by delivering high-speed, highly reliable Internet access and premium services over their existing copper infrastructure."
The complete Ikanos system includes NodeScale Vectoring compatible line cards, Vector Computation Engines and G.vector-ready customer premises equipment. The system can be deployed flexibly to increase the performance of existing VDSL nodes, as part of ADSL network upgrades and in copper plants that previously served only plain old telephone service (POTS). Since the same Ikanos chipset supports vectored and non-vectored deployments, upgrades can occur on a line-by-line basis for a pay-as-you-go vectored network deployment.
http://www.ikanos.com
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Cook'd and Bomb'd
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Topic: I honestly think that Limp Bizkit are good fun
Author Topic: I honestly think that Limp Bizkit are good fun (Read 5140 times)
Re: I honestly think that Limp Bizkit are good fun
Boiler is brilliant, I'd like to imagine being 76(no younger, no older) and rocking out to it, its a brilliant music video, even without the music.
"Cos right now I'm dangerous, Lion-O"
Noodle Lizard
I got the Chocolate Starfish album (along with Iowa and The Marshall Mathers LP) when I was 9 or 10 and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I didn't realize you could combine swearing and music.
I tried to listen to them again six or seven years later when I got more into "metal" (some folk in the metal scene still sing their praises) and practically cringed myself inside out, although they have the very occasional decent riff.
EDIT: Just listened to the opening track again to see what I think now. Yeah, it's really poor, but this comment made me chuckle:
"Whatever happened to the days when teenagers would listen to bands like Limp Bizkit, Korn, Deftones, Slipknot and all those other bands? Even though I probably was a baby when those bands blew up back in the late 90's and early 2000's but to me that era was one of the best times in music!"
Desolation.
Twed
What, prick? That's my child. My Johnson's child
Oh Jesus Christ, I just remembered that around 2000/2001 I started a nu-metal website called... "nu-m".
madhair60
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Quote from: Twed on April 12, 2019, 05:37:43 AM
drummersaredeaf
Quote from: Bazooka on April 11, 2019, 03:27:08 PM
I saw LB at a festival in 2009 and there was a fantastically bizarre experience with an old man.
We were lurking quite a long way back, being more interested in the bands that played either side of them. There were a pair of young kids stood near us (perhaps 9 and 12) and an old bloke - grey, and covered in leather dripped a bit of cider onto the arm of the young lad. The older lad was quite put out by this, and turned round to remonstrate with the old geezer. The youth repeatedly said "You did this" to him, and he was either too pissed, too deaf, or unaware of what had gone on to effectively participate in the conversation.
Instead, the old guy roared in the kid's face, and proceeded to dance around him in a metal style. I have tried to find gifs to mostly accurately illustrate his movements, and this is honestly about 90% of the way there:
The older kid just stood there repeating "You did this" while he circled him arms aloft roaring and stamping.
I think of this exchange often - What was motivating all parties in this exchange? Kids too young to know that manners tend to get left at the gate at these events; an old boy either trying to intimidate children, trying to force them to enjoy rap metal as he prescribes it, or this being his default response to any sort of human interaction at a rock show; and finally me - stood there bemused with a furrowed brow, utterly fascinated by this exchange, wondering if I should have had a quiet word with any of the parties involved.
Anyway, LB - surprisingly entertaining live, but I feel my life would be no worse off had they never existed. Other than having witnessed the above of course.
Dr Sanchez
I was doing my GCSEs around the time Limp Bizkit were big. Everyone in school was going mental about them and giggling about how their album title contained a euphemism for an arsehole.
Little did they know that I was the true rebel as I had Santana's Supernatural album in my walkman.
Crazy times.
Dr Syntax Head
Empty alcohol
Quote from: drummersaredeaf on April 12, 2019, 02:11:42 PM
A band that if they never existed the music world would be exactly the same as it is now.
the ouch cube
you've got moomins on yr breath
I'd be perfectly willing to excuse Durst as a harmless doofus but Rapestock '99 casts a long shadow.
They are kind of fun I guess, but all that proves is that 'fun' is a vaguely poisoned chalice that you probably oughtn't to be using as a yardstick
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With tremendous protein value
CRAWLIN' IN ME SKINNNNNNNNN
Hey, Punk!
Quote from: madhair60 on April 10, 2019, 08:57:52 PM
Sorry but they are good fun
In the same way that disgusting people can have authentic spiritual experiences in the presence of outstanding works of art, such as Reinhard Heydrich's performances of Beethoven's late string quartets in his home with his friends. Good people can have authentic spiritual experiences in the presence of disgusting art.
Clownbaby
Toe to tip, this is a Bart
They're the entertaining kind of shit
alan nagsworth
aka the mollusk
My housemate/best friend - whose listening habits outside of abstract techno, 140 and trance consists of occasional smatterings of The Smiths, Devin Townsend, Type O Negative and whatever sludge/doom/death metal I'm listening to that'll make him walk into my room and nod approvingly - absolutely loves Limp Bizkit. We went to a nu metal tribute act night and he knew every word and was going fucking buck wild when Stiff Bizkit played. Got selfies with the band and everything. It was one of those experiences where you previously couldn't see the appeal of a thing but someone else's wholesome love of it ends up winning you over.
I have a real soft spot for a handful of nu metal, though. Slipknot's first proper album (the self-titled one, not the absolutely piss-awful Mr. Bungle rip-off one) is almost too good for the subgenre, a total rip roaring fucking banger. (Hed) p.e.'s first album is really good too. And you can say what you like about Jonathan Davis' piddly teen angst, because Korn have some RIFFS mate. Those first four tracks on Follow The Leader. Belters.
Deftones were the only proper decent band in that subgenre
No offence aimed at you, good doctor, but Deftones aren't nu metal and it hacks me off no end every time they get lumped into it. They're a band that undeniably spawned from the same generation and rough template but even on their first album they're clearly more influenced by hardcore punk and synth pop like Depeche Mode, and their sound very quickly evolved into a heavier adaptation of the latter's sound from White Pony onwards.
No offence taken. I agree that it was wrong that they were classed as nu metal they were by far superior in every way.
It's odd but I often have a hard time even accepting them as a metal band. They're far more ethereal and graceful than that, and even though they are undeniably of the metal oeuvre, it feels like a bit of an injustice labelling them as such. If "art-metal" were a thing, that'd be where I'd stick them.
Minerva still gives me the chills every time I hear it.
Deftones were fairly against that label at the time as I recall. I think you'd struggle to call any of their output nu metal apart from bits of the first album, and even then it's a stretch.
Korn were alright for a few albums though, yeah. They were at least doing something original. And while I thought Slipknot were ok at best, it was fun seeing elements of fairly extreme metal infiltrate the mainstream for a time.
With the deftones I think it was more the image (the skater thing) and the downtuned guitars. If you didn't spend time actually listening to those bands and were just into the scene to be cool (I knew a lot of those types when I was in bands back then) you could see why they would be lumped in with nu metal. I think it was when White Pony came out and was too challenging for yer Durst fans that they were no longer seen as nu metal (even if they were never really nu metal).
magval
Magnum Valentino
I could talk for hours about what nu-metal actually means. I hate talking about music genre classification normally, as it's just a clever way for rich dudes to sell something from Band B that sounds like Band A to fans of Band A.
Also, music nerds get really passionate about it. Gloating about the most obscure genre names. Second New Wave Of American British Heavy Black Metalcore. Fuck off. Class music is class music.
Nu-metal is a really interesting one, as it basically covers that point in the 1990s where metal exploded in a load of different directions at once. The most basic definition of nu-metal (to me) is basically a combination of rap, electronics and metal. The broadest definition would also include Roots by Sepultura, Coal Chamber, maybe some Fear Factory. Faith No More. Limp Bizkit and Korn. But none of that sounds anything like any of the rest of it.
What people call thrash metal, death metal, black metal, in their broadest terms they have certain defining sonic characteristics.
But what people call nu-metal, and dismiss nu-metal for being, is nebulous.
There's an element of snobbery to it, and young fans have inherited prejudices about it from the generation beforehand. It's much cooler to love Slayer than it is to love Korn, but fuck it, there's plenty about Korn to love.
Nu-metal just never had the stick-around credibility of the metal classics. There are albums that have come out since that would constitute required listening for new metallers - Leviathan, for example - but I don't think there's anything from that period, from that GENRE, that people would insist is essential in the same way they would say you HAVE to listen to Vol. 4, you HAVE to listen to Master of Puppets. Am I forgetting something? Probably?
But I like an awful lot of it and without any reservation or caveat at all.
Lovely, thanks magval. I have been on all sides of this. I spent most of my time on the snobbery side of things, and I like to think I'm mature enough now to appreciate the genre (defined by its immaturity, hooray!).
Is there any other genre of music that puts its fans into such a definite age bracket? If nu-metal had much of an effect on your life when it was current, you are almost certainly 30-45.
Can we use this thread to post genuine nu-metal bangers?
Fear Factory - Linchpin absolutely holds up. It's industrial distilled. The song is an actual machine. And then that 80s bridge! The best nu-metal songs had 80s bridges.
(actually, maybe that's just the chorus in this song. It keeps coming back)
I think Fear Factory is probably the band who have had the most significant influence on what's popular in metal-for-young-people today, and have had the least amount of recognition for it - the syncopation thing, where the strum of the guitar (the picking) is co-ordinated with the drummer's feet. It's everywhere in a great many of popular metal genres (I think 'metalcore' is what I'm blushingly groping for here) but before Demanufacture, it was arguably nowhere.
You can find it in Linchpin in small doses, most notably underneath the "can't take me apart" before that GREAT chorus. Next thing you knew Killswitch Engage were doing it, Machine Head picked it up after they abandoned nu-metal and returned to credibility (in the hollowest way imaginable), and now you can't move for it.
Here's "Here To Stay" by Korn. Brilliantly heavy riff, fun change of key, ludicrously expensive and lavish production, stompy drum beat, and that fantastic GONNABREAKITDOWNNNGONNABREAKITDOWNN... bit near the end. I hate a lot of things about Korn, and none of them is in this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr3x7tS__dE
I always really liked Justin. It's got a groove to it, and the lyrics come from a good place and are hilariously on the nose ("You're gonna die, wanna meet me why?")
I agree entirely about the wide ranging definition. Certainly Kerrang! was calling all sorts nu metal in the mid 90s when Indie was king and grunge was pretty much done. Fear Factory being something entirely of its own, Machine Head and Sepultura being what you might call groove metal, Korn using guitars to ape hip hop synths...
But I think there is something unique about aspects of nu metal which justifies and invites the term to be used as a pejorative - lots of hard bands turned nu metal in the late 90s and were weaker for it. MH released an ok album full of rap followed by an utter abortion. I personally think Linchpin and Digimortal are pale imitations of what passed before, and are a result of trying to incorporate some of that sound.
There are bands that put worse albums out in that era, there were the one hit wonders that were ripping it off (who made that Halo song? Or Bodies?), there were 'fun' bands, and there were also quite a few that were innovative and interesting, though fairly disparate as has already been highlighted.
I think the overwhelming legacy of this period from a metal perspective is the downtuning of guitars. C# was low at the start of the era. By the end A was pretty normal. And while there isn't really a Vol 4 or MOP, there is songs like Bodies and Halo that still stink up the rock clubs in the same way Cherry Pie does.
I just went to the wiki article to look for a list of bands and spotted something that reinforces one of my points - Slayer released a fairly awful nu metal influenced album in the late 90s that I revisited recently. Some of the tracks sound like they could have been on SOAD's first album.
Also, Linkin Park are fucking awful. Arguably the worst band from that era. Like if Simon Cowell had assembled a nu metal supergroup. At least LB have that aspect of silliness that is enjoyable.
Sebastian Cobb
bad opinion haver
No, Nickelback were the benchmark of terrible manufactured nu-metal. As evidenced by this scientific proof.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHPj5YokEOY
Yeah, I have nothing good to say about Linkin Park. Like a nu-metal boy band, but without a good songwriting team behind them.
Quote from: Sebastian Cobb on April 14, 2019, 10:59:26 PM
I don't think I would ever lump them in with nu-metal. They're just music for people with trucks.
Fucking hell Linkin Park were terrible. I actually liked a Nickelback song when I saw it on TV, it was called leaders of men or something but it was at a time I was still primarily listening to grunge so it fit my taste. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swxw2wuN_2k Yeah on listening now it's pretty bad.
Another terrible band from around this time but I really liked this song cos it sounded a bit like a (bargain basement) tool, undertow era. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMWTuz_PfuY
Linking Park are fucking great. SHUT UP WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU
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Soul of the Burkitshi Framed
Kulzira and a Male Family Member
Kulzira was our cook. She understood our need for a balanced diet that is contrary to the Mongolian belief: “Meat is for men and grass for animals.” Several generations of families customarily live together in a nomadic camp known as Khot Ail (“group of yurts”). The camp, generally consisting of two to seven households, serves as a way of pooling labor for herding and hunting, and has numerous social and ritual functions.
Bolatbek - Eagle Hunter
For centuries Bürkitshi (eagle hunters) have been hunting with their eagles during the frigid winter months for subsistence and fur (foxes, wolves, and hares). Eaglets are captured from their nests high in rocky crevices. Only female birds are selected, as they ultimately grow to be larger than males, giving them an edge as hunters. The bond between hunter and bird is deep; she answers only to the hunter’s voice.
Marriages were traditionally arranged by parents with a bridal dowry (usually consisting of animals) negotiated based upon the social status of the families. In the late 20th century, the norm became for children to choose their own marriage partners with less parental involvement. During our stay, this eagle hunter family celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary, wearing their original wedding clothes.
The Ger (also known as üy in Kazakh) is part of the Mongolian national identity. Even today a large share of Mongolia’s population lives in Gers, including in the capital, Ulaanbaatar. Ger means home. It is the place where people cook, store food, sleep, and share stories with neighbors and visitors. A basic wood stove, fed with cow paddies, keeps the inside warm – barely enough during the cold nights.
The Hunt at Altai Soum
Western Mongolia’s Altai region is one of the most remote spots on the planet. Few roads traverse this massive area, and the high icy peaks of the Altai Range bordering Mongolia, Kazakhstan, China, and Russia form an impenetrable wall that keeps all modern encroachments at bay. Traveling through this region at minus 10F in early November made me wonder how the hunters survive the harsh winter.
Aimoldir - Eagle Huntress - 7 years old
Her charismatic looks and obvious bond with her falcon make her a favorite for photographers. I overnighted at her home and photographed her at 1AM. After we were done, she asked me to show her all the images on my computer. To my surprise, her energy kept her up until 4AM. My question was: “Are you going to be tired at school tomorrow?” Her answer: “We do get an excuse to skip class when we meet foreigners.
Eagle Hunters in Blizzard
During the long winters, eagle hunters leave their homes and head into the mountains on horseback with their eagles. Almost all the hunting takes place in winter. Fox, hare, and wolf tracks can easily be seen in the snow and when the animals are found, they have nowhere to hide in the vast whiteness. Sixteen foxes are needed to make one traditional fur hat. Wolves’ fur is the most valuable fur, but if the hunt is not done properly, wolves could kill the hunter’s eagle.
Siezbek and his Brother - Eagle Hunters
Perched on top of the mountain, the two brothers waited patiently. The only noise came from the wind and the eagles’ wing motion to keep their balance. When the prey was spotted, the hunter removed the eagle’s hood, allowing the eagle to see its prey for the first time. The wait was over. The eagle lifted her wings, and with one flap swooped down like a bullet. The second eagle was launched later as the first eagle missed the prey.
Eagle Release
After 7 to 10 years, the hunter releases his eagle back into the wild. As the eagle was trained to hunt, she will survive in the wild, find a mate, and live out the rest of her days, typically up to a decade. The release is an emotional ceremony and the hunter has to make sure that the eagle doesn’t follow him home.
Khuatkhan - Eagle Hunter
Being stranded for three days in their winter home, I truly witnessed the bond that hunters have with their eagles. Khuatkhan was willing to test if his two eagles could cohabit in the same space. The answer was no, and it showed in his stoic face and the eagles menacing look. This image was taken after the “storm,” where feathers were flying all over the place and when Khuatkhan had to use all his strength to keep the eagles from ripping each other’s throat.
Food is an important element of the Kazakh hospitality tradition. When guests arrive, the household sets out a special bowl containing homemade cheeses, flour pastries (baurzak), sugar cubes, and candy. As a guest, you are obliged to part take in drinking Vodka shots and mare’s milk (kimiz). I learned rapidly that pacing myself was not impolite and would keep me sound longer, as my cup kept being refilled.
Kazakh Family
For many centuries, there has been a customary gender division of labor. Men typically handled external affairs including military, administrative, and trade matters. Men were also primarily responsible for herding animals, hunting, and maintaining animal shelters. Repairing carts, tools, and weapons was also considered men’s work. Women were responsible for housework, milking animals, making dairy products, cooking, washing, sewing, and nurturing children. Roles are morphing, as the work needs to be done to survive.
Khaizim Janerke - Eagle Huntress - 16 years old
Khaizim has a strong work ethic, taking care of her parents and learning the tradition of eagle hunting. Eagle hunting is traditionally passed down among male relatives. Female hunters are rare but there are no religious or cultural prohibitions against a girl who wishes to train and fly eagles. Khaizim started riding horses at age three and got her first eagle at age 10. Her outfit is made of furs of animals she hunted herself.
Aigerim - Eagle Huntress - 11 years old
Aigerim is drawing her inspiration from Aisholpan, the first eagle huntress crowned at the Eagle festival in Ulgii in 2014. While there were many old Kazakh eagle hunters who vehemently rejected the idea of any female taking part in their ancient tradition, Aisholpan’s father, Nurgaiv, believed that a girl can do anything a boy can, if she is determined. Asker, Aigerim’s dad, is a firm believer that his daughter should not only become an eagle huntress, but also get educated.
Asker and Aigerim – Eagle Hunters - 39 and 11 years old
Aigerim and her dad, Asker, captured her eagle as a chick. Training a raptor is a complex undertaking. She has to forge an intimate relationship with her bird, who will only respond to her voice. She began on foot, learning how to balance the eagle on her arm. She then graduated to continuing the training on her horse. But she is not yet fully ready to go hunting with her dad and be one of the fewer than 100 true eagle hunters left in Western Mongolia.
Traveling Home from the Eagle Festival
“A fast horse and a soaring eagle are the wings of a nomad” is a Kazakh proverb. The Eagle Festival takes place every October in Ulgii, where close to 80 hunters gather. After two days of grueling competition where the bonds between the hunters and their eagles are tested, the title of “best eagle hunter of the year” is awarded. More than the competition, the gathering is an opportunity for hunters to share stories and compare notes on their hunting practices.
Khairat - Young Eagle Hunter
Boys used to have a clear path. Their father would train them to become eagle hunters. Nowadays, life is more challenging as the tradition of eagle hunting is disappearing. Many parents send their children to the big cities for schooling and to earn a living. The harsh life of raising cattle, hunting, and taking care of the extended family is often replaced by the loneliness of living in a city.
Eagle Hunter with his Companions
This eagle hunter traveled over 100 miles to attend the Eagle Festival, two long days of lonely travel. His family couldn’t make the journey as they had to repair their winter home. While he is a true Eagle Hunter, for a few days, he was a tourist attraction showing his eagle and being paid by the tourists for a photo or two. Soon, he had to go back home to his traditions, braving the harsh winter months and difficult work.
Historically, inheritance was ultimogeniture where the youngest son would typically inherit the largest share of the parent’s animals, the Ger, and the winter camp. Today, there is a greater variation in inheritance depending on personality considerations and the economic and living circumstances of different family members. This Eagle Hunter has two boys and enjoys spending quality and joyful time with them. But at some point, he will have to make a big decision about who will inherit his animals.
Tolkyn - Eagle Huntress - 9 years old
Tolkyn is a quiet reserved huntress. She tends to disappear in the crowd and loves to spend time with her eagle. Her eagle is the family eagle. Tolkyn is conflicted between studying, which is encouraged by her mom, and learning the art of eagle hunting. Her demeanor may not fit the mold of the grit and skill of the nomadic culture, but her soft spoken words reflect the soul of the Bürkitshi.
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The Fall of Empires
John Sydenham October 16, 2020 Comment Leave a comment 486 Views
Receiving prizes from China's subversive organisations
Empires rise because a group of people becomes more prosperous than their neighbours. This enhanced prosperity is usually the result of the superior management of the economy, society and resources. Relative prosperity gives the group the ability to project power.
As can be seen from the graph below, we are at a turning point in the history of the current empires. The previous change in imperial domination was due to the decline in the wealth of the British Empire after the First World War. Notice that the fall in GDP happened before the British Empire contracted in extent.
Relation of empire to GDP
Empires are inevitable in a world that has a diversity of states. The world is not yet ready for global government and if such a global empire were to be imposed there would either be rebellion within decades or the total stifling of humanity to ensure control. This means that we are destined to see the rise and fall of empires for at least a few centuries to come provided WWIII does not happen.
The economic changes within empires are the real drivers of imperial succession but it is easy to look at the results of these economic changes, such as social unrest, and blame these for imperial decay.
The British Empire provides a good record of the social changes that accompany imperial decay. In the late nineteenth century nothing could threaten the British Empire so the governing class became full of hubris and a huge sense of security. This continued after victory in the First World War when the UK and USA were joint global superpowers. However, decline continued and the British government just assumed that the system that had performed so well in their youth would continue to do so. Obvious threats were disregarded such was the confidence of the Establishment.
After WWI the British Empire was no longer strong enough to disregard threats and its opponents knew this. Foreign powers such as the Soviet Union established subversive groups in universities that were dedicated to the overthrow of democracy and British power and the British Establishment said “boys will be boys” and did nothing. The Axis powers armed themselves to the teeth and the Establishment said “the Navy will stop them”. By 1939 this overconfidence was entirely out of kilter with the relative state of the UK economy.
In the two decades after WWII the British relinquished the Empire. It was not lost, it was given up. The British discovered that this had little effect on their individual prosperity but it greatly affected their power. Most British people did not care because real power had become unnecessary beneath the Allied treaty umbrella.
The hubris of the Establishment continues to this day and means that they apply the same economic model to the contracting phase of empire as they learnt at the peak. They continue to believe that foreign trade is the answer. In “Imperial Think” they do not understand that the correct course of action is to set up defences and restore the central economy, all the time hoping that any rising empire does not attack them before a new, world beating, economy is established that can defend our way of life. International trade is, of course, desirable but of much greater importance is a robust and innovative national economy.
Although the Americans like to think of the rise of the USA after WWI as the succession of the USA to the status of global hegemon what actually happened is that the Western Alliance become dominant economically and the USA became dominant militarily. The new empire should be called the “West” and it controlled over half of global GDP for 60 years. In economic and social terms it was very much the continuation of the British Empire with the governance shifting to Washington.
Each empire arose because of innovations that had a huge economic impact. Ancient Greece rose on the invention of democracy and civic culture, the Romans rose on engineering skills and the deft management of a slave economy, Charlemagne centred the village and town on the Church as a holy Roman Empire, the Arabs used Islam to centralise power and this was co-opted by the Ottomans, the Han Chinese invented the Civil Service and the British used science, industry and banking. The USA turned science, industry and banking into an art form for generating prosperity.
At the turn of the twentieth century it looked like China would become yet another Western country. However, the availability of information technology meant that it was unnecessary for China to relinquish tyranny to obtain prosperity. China discovered that almost one and a half billion people could be closely controlled yet permitted to develop their personal wealth.
The rise of China is being accompanied by civil unrest in the USA and, to some extent, in the UK. This is to be expected because serious civil unrest is almost always due to the meddling of foreign powers. The French Empire financed and supported the Secession of the USA from the British Empire, the USA supported the French Revolution, the Germans financed Lenin, the Russians financed Mao, the industrial unrest in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s was Soviet inspired. The USA financed the birth of the EU and the overthrow of more leftist governments than we can easily count.
China is exceptionally adept at subversion.
China has penetrated the UK Government and Corporate Elite, largely as a result of the corruption and hidden ownership that is possible by using the trillion dollar Chinese Cayman and Virgin Island Accounts. (See Daily Mail: China grooming storm).
The usual anti-British suspects such as Lord Heseltine (President of the European Movement) and Peter Mandelson are involved. Heseltine is even a major patron of the Chinese 48 Group, Tony Blair was on the list but only his sister in law remains to keep the seat warm after the group became the focus of public interest.
China is practicing international Jujitsu, it has watched Western politics and assessed which destabilising movements fit the bill of being supported by the Corporate Elite and by active members on the ground. The Soviet Union had already primed their fifth column with the idea of race war in the late 1960s (Black Liberation Movement – BLM – Black Lives Matter – see History of the Modern Black Liberation Movement). China set its Maoist sympathisers in the West loose.
Obviously there are rights and wrongs in any civil unrest but the elevation of unrest to create serious political damage needs external help, like the EU and USA are helping Belarus. BLM will sputter out but it dents the sense of purpose of the USA at a critical moment in the game of empires.
What is most interesting is that the Establishment in the USA still believes that China is no more than a regional power. This has strong echoes of British hubris at the end of Empire.
Where do we go from here? China is showing the way with its innovative use of information technology. In the West automation happened last century and IT has only shifted sales from retail outlets to online stores, IT has not boosted the UK economy in the past 25 years but it has boosted China. The features of the Chinese economy that can be copied without destroying our liberties are a National Firewall which keeps online sales within the domestic market and the central direction of IT infrastructure. China is now continuing a largely closed economy which allows the gross imbalance between Chinese wages and prices and those of the rest of the world (this is why China’s GDP is greater than that of the USA on the PPP measure but considerably less in international dollars).
No-one in the UK wants another empire but if we are to survive the rise of China we will need to automate the production of industrial commodities plus providing widely available low cost, small scale automation and provide sufficient income to sustain demand and produce the concentration of wealth needed for innovation. This displacement of the economy will require the Chinese model of economic openness. Only an automated economy will be able to counter the threat from China, it cannot be done by pursuing the policies of the past.
What happens if we do not act? When there is a change of dominant empire the whole world changes to imitate it. Imitating China’s automated autocracy will be very attractive to many countries and China will help finance the necessary changes. Winning the game of empires is crucial if we are to avoid global government on the Chinese model. China has played a masterstroke by helping to push racism into conflict. It is ironic that perhaps the most racist country on Earth has paralysed the West in this way. China will probably manage to persuade us that it is racist to say that it is attempting to become a dominant empire because while they are perceived as not being dominant it must be the West that is racist by accusing them of ambition.
A note on the extension of “racism”
The extension of “racism” to include the concept of the “nation” or other localised groups is a remarkable development. Without separate groups it becomes impossible for diversity to develop and hence far harder for new systems of social and economic management to arise. The extension of “racism” to cover national separateness stymies progress and diversity. It also devalues the idea of racism within a society. It is absurd to equate discrimination by skin colour with the protection of independent cultures and systems in nation states.
Who is responsible for the blurring of “racism” into the condemnation of the diversity of nations? Multinational corporations who want no barriers to their global trading dominance, competing empires which desire the removal of hot spots that could develop into competitors and “the other”, the academics and public service broadcasters who are government financed and see themselves as unattached to reality.
It is ironic that once “racism” is extended to include benign nationalism the anti-racist begins to discriminate against diversity and becomes racist. This has given us a truly postmodern racist anti-racism. Our media have excelled themselves.
This post was originally published by the author on his personal blog: https://pol-check.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-fall-of-empires.html
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Dr John Sydenham has worked in International Pharmaceuticals and for one of the "big four" International Consultancies. He ran a successful company for 15 years and after selling the company devotes his time to travel, science, black labradors and freedom.
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By Donna Douglas
Let's go back, if you will, to 1974. Yikes, indeed! That's 33 years ago. Well, I was 26, and my first husband and I had just bought our first house, a 900 square foot poured concrete palace on Penetang Street. We loved it and our neighbours and the east end captured our hearts.
I was also the editor of The Banner, Barrie's privately owned weekly newspaper.
(Just for the record, many of you ask about my first husband. He's still my husband. Keeps him on his toes! I have to clarify because I'm hearing our old neighbours keep asking about our status when they read this in my columns!)
Anyway, our little house had one bedroom... sort of a Noddy house, if you are a Noddy story fan. The bedroom was the only room on the second floor with one dormer window that looked out onto the street. And that's where we were when the phone rang about 2 am one Tuesday morning.
Now, I must back up a little... Mondays were always busy for me since I covered City Council meetings at the old city hall. The meetings were very long, usually wrapping up around 11 pm. I would go home, fire up the Smith Corona portable, and pound out as many stories as I could. Then I'd grab an hour or two of sleep and grab my film and articles and head over to the office to start laying out the news portions of that week's newspaper.
So, when the phone rang, I was in hour one of my two-hours of sleep for that night.
Husband #1 answered the phone which was on the other side of the room. He came back and jostled me. "Donna, the mayor wants you on the phone!"
I didn't believe him. Thought he was joking. I opened one eye and looked at my alarm clock. 2:05 am. I rolled over and went back to sleep. I think I might have even told him off.
He jostled me again. "Donna! It's really the mayor. You have to get up and answer the phone. She's waiting. Honest!"
I squinted across the room. Indeed, the handset was off the cradle (no cordless phones in those days, or answering machines, other than first husbands).
I got up--bone weary--and grabbed the side edge of a newspaper (for note-taking) and went to the phone.
It was Dorian Parker. Dorian had been a fervent alderman for Ward Four (Allandale). She was like a bulldog for her constituents. She was shameless in her demands for Ward Four. She was protective of her ward and she knew how to fight.
She also knew how to phone.
"Donna! After we went in-camera tonight, we made decisions that turned around earlier decisions made in public. You need to know this." Now, I'd be lying if I said I remembered what the issues were... something to do with land acquisition, likely. But, she was determined that my reporting would be accurate and wanted to make sure we told the 'truth.'
When I read the front page today of Dorian's death Sunday it gave me pause to remember her. While her performance as mayor (the city's second female mayor, after Marjorie Hamilton) wasn't visionary, it was certainly solid.
Dorian served two terms as mayor. She fought some battles that she won. She fought some battles that she lost. At the end of her second term, she lost to Ross Archer, another Ward Four alderman.
Barrie was a small city in those days, mired in potential growth issues, the economic threat of outskirt malls, annexation of agricultural land, and the need for balanced budgets and rainy day money.
As an alderman Dorian lead the pack when the Barrie Country Club put its land up for sale and moved to its spacious facility on St Vincent St half way to Midhurst. Their 80 acre parcel of land, complete with treed ravines and gentle slopes was certainly being sought by developers. Dorian thought it should remain pristine and passive, quietly reflective of nature. As an alderman she could see ahead to the time when 80 acres of nature would be a real jewel at the heart of the city. And she was right. Sunnidale Park has remained an important solace in our city llights. The Country Clubhouse became a gathering place for weddings (it was one of the few places before the Southshore Community Centre was built). It was a fitting tribute that the building was re-named the Dorian Parker Centre a few years ago.
Dorian made a rare public appearance recently to fight the installation of a water reservoir in the park. It's one of the battles she lost.
She was opinionated. She worked hard. She worked really hard as mayor. It was her full time job. She raised two kids from a modest bungalow on Marcus St. She was an Allandale girl... all the way.
As people gather this week to attend visitations, to reflect on people served and people gone, Dorian's passing will give us an opportunity to look back. In many ways, Dorian lead this city when it was at a crossroads between growing up and staying small. Those were difficult decisions, fraught with unharnessed opinions that often did not reach consensus.
Dorian seldom laughed. She took her life and her role in this community very seriously. She did the very best that she could do.
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FILE – In this June 4, 2019, file photo Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks at a conference involving its review of its interest-rate policy strategy and communications in Chicago. The slightest hint that the Federal Reserve might lower interest rates often puts investors in a buying mood, stoking their expectations of greater stock market returns. But it doesn’t always work that way. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he has no intention of ending his public attacks on the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policies even though he knows he has made Chairman Jerome Powell’s job more difficult.
Trump told ABC News in an interview released Friday that he thinks economic growth and stock market indexes would be substantially higher if the chairman “wouldn’t have raised interest rates so much.” The Fed raised rates four times last year. But Powell has signaled that the Fed is prepared to cut rates should it decide that Trump’s trade war with China threatened the economic expansion.
The Fed has long sought to operate free of political influence to maintain its credibility as the world’s leading central bank. Powell, whom Trump elevated to chairman, has said before that he wouldn’t resign despite pressure from Trump.
In the ABC interview, which will air Sunday, Trump is asked if he was concerned that his public attacks on Powell were inappropriate and were putting the Fed chairman “in a box.”
“I’m gonna do it anyway because I’ve waited long enough,” Trump said. “If he did the interest rate increases half as much, if he didn’t do tightening,” the economy would be growing faster and the stock market would be higher.
In an earlier interview this week with CNBC, Trump lamented that he had to deal with a Fed that is “very destructive to us” and suggested that President Xi Jinping of China was much luckier because Xi essentially controls his country’s central bank.
Four of the Fed’s five current board members are Trump nominees, and two vacancies on the seven-member board are available for the president to fill.
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Hands-on with the Panasonic Lumix S5
Published Sep 2, 2020 | Richard Butler
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The Panasonic Lumix DC-S5 is a less-expensive addition to the company's full-frame range of L-mount mirrorless cameras. It's smaller and lighter than the existing models and is designed for both stills and video shooting.
It's based around the same 24MP BSI CMOS sensor as the S1 but as far as the rest of the specification goes it differs in a number of ways. Panasonic promises some autofocus improvements over the existing cameras (at least until firmware updates are issued for the other models). The company highlights 'ambitious amateur photographers' and 'video creators' as users who'll appreciate the camera.
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jackspra
That with the 50mm would be perfect.
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FrankS009
The Panasonic GX8 is my go -to camera. It is big and heavy enough for me. If Panasonic can make a GM5, perhaps they can make a full frame camera and lens system no heavier than the GX8 and PL 25mm 1.4.
Albert Valentino
Looks very good. I am a m43 shooter and loving it, but would seriously consider this model if I even wanted to go back to FF
Checat
Even with faster readouts, I do not see any advantage in having less information about the depth of the scene.
It looks like some sort of cost savings.
Jonassubvert
Panasonic and Leica are the only camera manufacturers where the build quality of the bodies really impressive me these days. It hurts people even mention Fujifilm, Nikon or Sony when talking about costs of Panasonic, they are not in same league when it comes to build quality. I think it was Steve Huff that said in a review of S1 that when you hold the camera it makes you wonder what the other manufacturers are doing. Couldn’t agree more but other than he, it’s never get highlighted enough I think.
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pseudobreccia
It is sad that you believe this.
I’d include my Olympus EM1 in the mix for excellent build quality
eliehbk
I agree. I had a Z6 which was very well built, especially when compared to the hollow-feeling of my Fuji gear. Holding the SL2 next to the Z6, I get instantly that the camera is three times better built!i think Olympus is another manufacturer that built good cameras. The canon R felt so plasticky to me..
Yeah, of the few Olympus cameras I played around with I have been surprised how rock solid they feel. That’s true :)
Think Canon and Nikon saw a possibility too cheap down on build quality when going mirrorless. Canon R5 wouldnt exactly hold up like Canon 5D did in the torture test Kai and DigitalReview did many years ago.
EDIT: I by no means say the other manufacturers was bad build, just not the same level. Can also say Panasonic S Pro lenses has a weak point and that is the manual focus clutch. I would preferred if they skipped it or made it stronger. Feels like a weak point for sure.
@eliebk. You'd expect the Leica SL2 to be top build given what they're charging for it! We're talking about the S5 here. The Z6 is indeed very well built.
Mr Bolton
In hand, the Fuji X-H1 is obviously better built and more solid than the X-T3. I'm not saying the T3 is bad by any means-it's well more than adequate. But the H1 has that real, Made in Japan solidity that the Exacti subcontract models just can't duplicate. Maybe like the body of a real German BMW versus one of the SUV things they bolt together here in the States? The USA made one is up to snuff, for sure.. but even as an old American iron aficionado, there is a difference to be felt in the way the real German ones are built.
Jastojan
This is true. The built quality of panasonic cameras is in other league. I am old canon and fuji shooter, but have to be honest, the built quality of the cameras of major brands like canon or nikon (when we talk about mirrorless) is behind the panasonic. It is the same like it was during pentax k-5 series - I owned pentax k-5iis and canon (1000d, 40d,50d,80d, 7d) and have to say that pentax k5iis was simply the best built camera - and it still is very well built (not a plastic toy like 80d and so on). It is kinda sad to see so many people blaming other brands products only because of their favorite brand is not so good in all parameters. You should wake up and face the true and objective facts. And if you cant, enjoy your favorite brand without hate the other brands. These comments like "It is sad that you believe this" is such a wasting of time to write (and even my fault I reply on that...).
scokill
nice camera
John Gellings
It is sad that this body is considered compact these days...
Clickalot
"From $1997.99" .... "a less-expensive addition to the company's full-frame range "
The established camera industry is rejecting its former bread & butter demographic just as determinedly as that demo is exclusively plunking for smartphone photography.
This seems lose/lose to me.
Scottelly
How is the industry "rejecting its former bread & butter demographic" Clickalot? Is it because they aren't making new DSLR bodies, or is it that they aren't making new higher megapixel cameras, or is it something else?
No overthinking necessary; the cameras are simply too damn expensive for ordinary people who already have decent enough cameras in the holy sacristy of their lives, their smartphones.
Jacques Cornell
People who "already have decent enough cameras" don't need this one.
Also, you talk as if $2,000 was the starting price for interchangeable-lens cameras. It sounds like someone with an old film P&S complaining about the price of a Mamiya RZ67. There are plenty of much more affordable MFT and APS cameras that offer much better usability, versatility and image quality than any phone. 35mm format is way overkill for most casual shooters. The audience here is pros and advanced amateurs. $2000 for this level of performance strikes me as a bargain.
Son of Thunder
For full frame cameras are cheaper than they have been since cameras went digital
Hoxton Bridge
For many who may wish to migrate/add mirrorless to their photographic world coming from OVF or rangefinder backgrounds, the EVF is one major consideration - at least is it for me. Anything below a minimum of 3.6 ish dampens my interest (this particular issue from Panasonic included). Thus far only the Leica SL2, Canon R5, and Panasonic SR! (maybe more) pique my interest. Others, of course, may differ, just my two penneth.
When it was launched, the Sony A7r IV had the highest resolution viewfinder ever made. What is it about the Sony that makes you not want it?
Scott: FYI, Leica SL released in 2015 had 4.4mp and Leica SL2 with Panasonic S1 have 5.7mp released before Sony a7rvi
Scottelly: No it wasn't. However, I agree the Sony is a very capable camera. I did say maybe more, but it just doesn't do it for me. It's one of those inexplicable biases I guess... The Panasonic aside, I suspect I will just stick to what I know: Leica or Canon.
Bobby Supardi
It really make me wonder what Sony will offer in A7m4.
Their head start seem to diminish with the existence of s5.
It also make me worried that Nikon Z6S may not be able to compete with these 2 giants in video sector.
I guessed only time will tell which companies will appear as victorious. As for Canon, their users commitment seemed to rooted in stone. But as long as Canon keep on self-sabotaging their products, others companies will keeping fighting for the lands of the self-indulging fat king.
Well - TBH - Nikon and canon have never really tried to compete with Sony or Panasonic in video. Maybe now they will as ML seem to be a natural for video. But canon and Nikon always competed based on strong lens selection and great ergonomics. As well as good colors - or at least comfortable colors in jpg
How is Nikon to compete with Canon, when Canon does everything the Nikon does for the same price, plus 8K video? Nikon will HAVE to put high-end video into their cameras, or miss out on a lot of customers, who would otherwise buy their cameras. Until now, Nikon offered more dynamic range, but now the R5 has the dynamic range AND it can do 8K video. That makes the Z7 seem pretty lame, doesn't it?
I agree that the Canon R5 is a great camera, but it is £1700 more expensive than the Z7; it would be worrying for Canon if it were not a significantly more impressive beast. I suspect the R5's competition will emerge in the Z8 or 9. It might be me (I'm sure it is) but I wonder how significant video is for the purchasers of high-end cameras...
TomCodyPleasedToMeetYa
Why is it the reviewers are predominantly men yet the photos of the gear are always of women holding the camera body and lenses?
MikeRan
I think you answered your own question.
kayphoto
I was gonna say the same thing but I might get called on and even worst call a jerk.
Nothing jerkish about pointing out an obvious question. This is the 21st century after all, where are the women...?
I heard a stat on KEXP (Seattle area public radio station) that something like less than three percent of the production tech sector (camera operators, lighting, post, etc.) are women.
Which is a shame. Because for so long, women simply weren't encouraged or allowed into the good ole' boy's clubs of these professions.
"Why is it the reviewers are predominantly men . . ." Because it's virtually impossible to find a woman who has any interest in cameras. ". . . yet the photos of the gear are always of women holding the camera body and lenses?" Because most of us are straight men (I think gay men only make up less than 5% of the male population.), and who do you think straight men would rather see holding a camera, some guy or some pretty girl/woman? Notice the females holding cameras are not fat old women. When was the last time you saw some Budweiser advertisement with a fat old woman or man on it? Same reason - people (especially men) like to see pretty girls/women.
@Scottelly Is it fun back there in the 1940s?
s1oth1ovechunk
He is right. Women are certainly interested in photography, but not in sitting around on the internet reading about and discussing photography gear.
In general, with at least a standard deviation separation, women are more interested in people compared with men who are more interested in things.
Richard Butler
Before this sub-thread gets any stranger, please consider the impact of covid restrictions: the safest way to get these in-hand images is to ask the people we live with to hold the new camera as we take the pictures.
So in this particular instance, a male member of staff asked their partner to hold the camera. It's as simple as that: we're not making decisions about who would make the camera look more appealing, on gender lines, it's just easier than trying to hold the product being shot at arm's length.
Scottelly has a point about how advertising is (or at least used to be) set up. To put it bluntly: sex sells.
However, the times they are a-changin' and in this area, for the better. Even if more slowly than they should.
taktak91
What make you so sure that the person holding the camera is a woman?
It is simple biology...guys like to take pictures of gals! It sure is sad that this isn't obvious!
That's just nonsense. So, no, not obvious.
inframan
One more knee-jerk PCer.
I like to take pictures of gals.
One more idiot.
Are you trying to take the extremely unscientific, religious view that gender is a social construct?
Or do you really think it's pervy or something to enjoy photographing women? It's not really my favorite subject but it's definitely higher on the list than photographing other men. Is that not a truism for most heterosexual males?
Not sure where to go with word salad...
Alright Hoxton, what are we supposed to think? Jeebus, I like to think that I'm reasonably woke most of the time, but I am the proverbial CIS, het, white male. Yes, my type are to blame in general for the patriarchy, vast overprivilege, etc. and I get that. But in what general way is the statement that I like to photograph women-with their enthusiastic consent of course-indicative of me, or anyone else who shares this interest, being an idiot?
No. I wasn't referring to you, I get that the way threads work to make it look that way. :)
I'm really confused what you think is stupid or nonesense?
Maybe you can take a position instead of just acting righteous?
I think calling people a "knee jerk PCer" (not you) is not especially bright. Confusing the difference between biological sex and gender, however, reflects a basic misunderstanding. Equally, The notion that gender is a social construct, which it is, has nothing to do with religion or an inability to discern the difference between stating what is, and what is not, a scientific or unscientific statement. "taking pictures of gals", is not in itself nonsensical or stupid depending on the context, but just "taking pics of gals" on the primaeval notion that men like looking at them, is objectification at best. Is that position enough for you or do you need further clarification?
Yes that's much better. It sounds like the Major disagreements here are just different ways of communicating something that are being largely misinterpreted.
As far as gender bring a social construct. When you believe a premise with no evidence, it is a religious belief, like the earth being 6000 years old. Or that am all knowing, all powerful benevolent being exists and he cares about your problems. These are all beliefs that beg the question.
Sex is a biological fact (aside from very rare instances). Gender is a set of behaviours, dress, roles, assumptions about disposition and capability, etc that are socially (and consequently differently) determined - the evidence, in so far as it is needed is manifest and largely uncontested. In other words, girls are not born in dresses, wearing makeup, and wanting to serve men dinner.
Given that what I have said, cannot by any stretch of the imagination, be a premise without evidence, the religion analogy is entirely false. Although I do agree that those who believe the world is only 6000 years old and was designed by an all-powerful being are in fact quite mad. Nevertheless, they are at liberty to believe what they like as a matter of private - and not public - choice, in a free and secular state.
Your depiction of gender roles has nothing to do with gender. This is a straw man. Of course a particular culture's gender roles are culturally determined. The argument is circular.
The consequences of gender being entirely a cultural construct would mean there would be no measurable differences between men and women outside of the physical characteristics that define their sex. This is easily proven false by contradiction. I gave an example: women's preference for people vs men's preference for things. There are many more such examples. The natural sciences continue to provide these examples, while the pseudo-scientific gender study departments continue to practice the same apologetics the religious do, and continually beg the question.
The relevance to dpreview is clear. Do you think women are culturally conditioned not to come here to discuss photography equipment? No, there are no women here because they are not interested. Yes, I'm speaking in generalities.
Sloth you lost me at "pseudoscientific gender studies departments" versus the "natural sciences."
There is no "natural science" that predisposes women to prefer people or men to prefer things. That is one hundred percent cultural conditioning. Actual science continues to prove that. I could say that I know a number of women who are far more inclined to spend time interacting with things than with people; and a lot of men who are more into people than things. But my sample size isn't valid by itself.
It turns out that there isn't any measurable difference beyond the physical characteristics that happen to determine what form our wedding tackle takes on. Women can be soldiers. Men can be house husbands.
These things can be true while it is also true that as a whole, het males like to look at pictures of females.
See, we just found Mr. Bolton, effectively a young earth creationist.
We have only ever observed many statistically significant differences between men and women. Almost every single animal on the face of the earth has statistically significant differences between genders. But somehow humans are physically different (created in the image of god?) and any observed difference is caused by culture. This is taken as an article of faith. This is the idea you wish were true and then you work backwards to explain the mountains of contradicting data. That's called apologetics, not science.
Me, a young earth creationist because I argue that gender studies is a real science and that "the fairer sex" is one hundred percent cultural conditioning?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA come on, you're pulling my leg, right?!
You know I'm an Athiest, right? I apologize for nothing.
You're obviously not a young earth creationist, but you seem to subscribe to an ideology just as ludicrous and counter to physical evidence. The idea that women, who are physically required to carry and feed babies for a non-trivial percentage of their life does not result in many real gender differences (due to different 'fitness functions' in natural selection) is just as insane as young earth creationism.
Someone who believes such nonesense does not see the world through the lens of biological evolution and does not pay attention to the women and even toddlers in their life. Also, where are the women on this board? Do they not have the internet? I've seen them on the internet. They use it just as much as men, but they don't come here, in general. Is that social conditioning? Ridiculous...
They come here to learn about camera stuff, and then read ev psych crapola about how women have babies and therefore are so much different.
I'm married and have two daughters, one 15 and one 19. So yeah, you can come at me with your beliefs, but I know where I'm coming from.
And with regards to your question of 'Do you think women are culturally conditioned not to come here to discuss photography equipment?' It doesn't matter what I think: every woman I know thinks that. Because yes, it's still a Good Ole' Boy's club when less than three percent of post production, support, editing etc. jobs are held by women. About 18 percent of pro photographers are women despite almost 70 percent of photography students being women.
Here, let's have a look: https://femaleinfocus.com/data/
Yeah. Come at me with that ev psych BS, Bro.
You have two daughters? So no contrast? Surely you can contrast how you think about thinks vs your wife? Are you just not introspective at all?
I think there are many more women photographers than there are women photographers that want to discuss photography equipment. Photography is more universally appealing. Discussing DFD, PDAF, and format equivalence with strangers is apparently not interesting to most women.
As far as evolutionary pscyhology being bunk but womens studies being a hard science.... I don't know what paradigm you make sense of the world with, but it must be a very confused one. "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution"
Way to totally, completely miss the point I just made. "I think there are many more women photographers.." The scientific stats say otherwise. If 18 percent of women are pro photographers, then shouldn't 18 percent of posts here be from women? Maybe they are, and hiding their gender because who could blame them.. but maybe not.
Do you know any women photographers? Why don't you ask them if they lurk on gear sites.
I know more women photographers than men photographers because sometimes my job brings me in contact with photo editors. None of them have any interest in photography gear palaver.
I do know many more men who don't consider themselves photographers but have the newest cameras and care about their gadgets. They also take pictures.
Look, saying male/female differences wouldn't exist without some kind of cultural conditioning begs the question. It is a circular argument with no primary, generative evidence. It's just an article of faith of a modern day religion.
Does culture keep women away from industries where they would thrive? Of course. I'm a software engineer, I believe fully that my industry would benefit from more women.
On the other hand, your position is contradictory. If women and men are the same, hirng more women does not actually increase diversity.
You're changing the argument. There's a difference between women and men being the same as in, there are no gender difference; versus the way cultural conditioning has spent ages warping those differences into "men are gearheads, women don't care about their gear."
And yes, I do know a number of women photographers-they're quite conversant on what their gear can and cannot do. If you read what both female and male photographers that I know would say about their gear (on paper, so you didn't know if male or female) it would be impossible to discern the gender of the person talking.
I am also a software industry veteran, although it's been awhile. Arguments like yours are the reason why "the fairer sex" aren't more prevalent in the software world. You don't come out and call them that, but it's what you're saying.
I'm calling them the fairer sex because I think they don't geek out on gear? You didn't actually contradict me. You said they know things about their gear, I never said they didn't. I said they aren't interested in their gear the same way men are, in general.
Are you really having difficulty understanding this distinction? Do you use Pinterest? Are you an instagram influencer? Women naturally are interested in different things than men and it has nothing to do with culture. Is that really that difficult to admit or imagine?
What's wrong with the software industry is a perception problem. Women thrive in it but they aren't attracted to it because it has an image problem. I believe the broken cultures in silicon valley are due to not having enough women and this becomes a self perpetuating situation unfortunately....
No, I'm not. I'm saying *you are wrong in the generalization that women don't geek out on their gear like men do.*
That's as clear as I can make it.
My spouse works in the software sector and she'll tell you why there aren't more women in this world: the men within it are oftentimes @ssholes who talk down to women and mansplain. Women don't behave differently because they're different-they behave differently because an acerbic male is a "leader" and an acerbic female is a "b1tch." Because you know, natural science.
No, I'm correct, women do not geek out on gear, and it doesn't make them whatever pejorative thing you are trying to construe it makes them. It just makes them different. Which they are. Which you keep proving over and over again, but your paradigm for looking at this is just so broken that you don't see all of the contradictions that you have to take on...
Basically, what your'e saying is that men and women act the same, but our culture perceives them differently and women are penalized. Again, this is just wrong. Men and women do not lead with the same styles. Women are much more socially aware and I think make better people managers than men, in general. I have had women managers and men managers, they are NOT the same. That's GOOD! It means increasing diversity will probably have a positive effect on the whole company, vs trying to brainwash everyone into believing that men and women are the same but are just perceived differently. That is a just a lie at this point.
Maybe the the comments are from women using male names.Who knows
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. Women are penalized when they are acerbic and take charge. Deny it all you want, it's the truth.
Or were you not paying attention back when a more than competent woman whose IQ could boil water, and who *could actually name the three branches of government, and point to Iran on a map* was "shrill" and people "didn't like her" and she lost to.. well, the tw@twaffle that she didn't lose to but that the EC handed us. In point of fact, HRC's record says she has lied less than most any pol, although she's told a few stretchers. Yet she was "crooked" compared to the man with six bankruptcies, ties to the Russian mob, 25 credible sexual assault allegations, a thousand lawsuits from unpaid contractors.
If HRC had been a man, there would have been zero contest and tRump pretty much would have had to drop out after the first debate.
A good Benghazi to you, Sir.
Great 👍
Hilary Clinton is your example of someone negatively impacted because of being a woman? Shouldn't you use a less successful woman as an example? I mean she did win the popular vote. You want her to win the election too? Maybe she should have been less phony and she could have beaten the orange goon in the electoral college?
Regardless, you're not really proving your point. If a woman is called 'bossy' or a 'b"""*' for, as you are intimating, acting like a man, it's not like the person is giving them constructive feedback, they are being insulting. The thing about insults is that if there is no plausibility to them, they are just nonesense.
You're married and you're telling me your wife did not behave differently towards your daughters vs you. Who was "bossier"? Who was more cautious and worrisome? Have you honestly no personal experience that you have to ignore to pretend men and women are the same?
You have no idea what the actual F you are talking about now. Throughout much of my marriage, I was by far the more emotionally in tune partner. The emotionally distant breadwinner father stereotype wasn't a thing in my house. In fact, since she has far more education than me and could earn more money in the corporate world, I was a stay at home Dad on several occasions, eventually opening my own business from home so I could be around for my girls.
Women in the workplace *have to be more conciliatory and team building* because when they try to lead like a man with "Just get it done" it doesn't go well, oftentimes, because of the differences in perception.
There isn't enough space here to go into just how negatively HRC-of whom I'm no fan for various policy reasons, BTW-was effected by trying to lead as a woman. But yeah, go deep and lose that argument too, if you must..
I said nothing about being "emotionally intune". You're not arguing with a cliche here, you're arguing with someone who actually pays attention and has decades of science on their side.
You didnt answer my question. I asked who was "bossier". The truth is that women generally don't lead like men. If someone is trying to knock a woman down a peg, it's not to enforce gender roles. Power is being struggled for. Maybe the person doing it is misogynistic, but it's done because it can be effective.
And no one ever became president without being attacked. The truth is that Hillary was a bad candidate at the wrong time that a gender change would not fix. They've changed the gender this year and the polling simulations have not improved much. Hillary had a 70pct chance of winning the day of the election. Biden has maybe a 75 at this point. The unfair perception of gendered behavior has little to no effect here. I'm sure some sexism did, but that's not the same thing.
Women and men have two major evolutionary causes of gender differences. In as simplistic language as possible:
One is the sex differences, the physical stature. This leads to clear genetically generated differences in survival strategies. Men could be more independent, less social. Women had to maneuver in this world more socially. Ask your wife how many high-performing, independent aholes there are at work, then ask how many are women. The selfish, independent ahole is not a good survival strategy for women in an evolutionary context, something we still have not shaken.
The second is how much more women have invested in a given child during reproduction. This causes them to optimize to prevent type 2 errors. While men optimize to prevent type 1 errors. This is why both sexes call the other irrational. They have decision making apparatus with different fitness functions. This reproductive assymetry also pushes many more gender differences.
HJVN
Gotta say, That is a good looking camera. I like it.
Not something I usually would say about a Panasonic camera.
But this one - It has a flair to it.
Romasito
Myself on the other hand I think it looks a bit too much like Sony A7* series... not the biggest fan of those.
Except the S5 has a decent grip. The front dial around the shutter button doesn't crowd the other fingers and leave the pinky dangling as with an a7*.
Mister J
Fully articulated screen, just right for me.
Me too. In fact, I moved away from Canon because they REFUSED to put a fully-articulating screen on a pro body (and so did Nikon for a long time). It's PATHETIC that they took SO long to finally do it. I feel like I should not reward them by jumping back into the Canon world, but the R5 is so close to being the camera that I've wanted for such a long time. I just wish it had a GPS in it, like my Sony A65 has. Then it would be almost perfect. Upgrade that sensor from 45 MP to 60 or 80 MP, and then I'd truly be in heaven, and I'd buy it ASAP. I'll tell you what . . . if Sony makes a new A7r V, with a stacked version of that 60 MP sensor and a fully-articulating rear screen, which can do 8K video as well as the Canon R5, I will buy it. Now I play the waiting game once again . . . because Canon screwed up, and instead of making a sensor with more MP than their previous flagship high-end full-frame camera, they made a sensor with fewer MP. I find that a little perplexing, frankly.
dpkoop
I like that... it‘s not canon, not nikon, not sony... so it‘s good....
Yes. Nothing like judging the product based on its capability rather than the manufacturer.
PC-dot-Com
LOL oh now MikeRan, of all people :)
Sorry you’re still bitter about Sony ceasing A-Mount development and not sending you a notification.
Way to deflect the topic to something else Mike. Can't take a jab at the truth? LOL
And I'm not bitter at all, that's not the right word. I'm disappointed, there is a big difference. And as a Sony "investor" you should of all people be taking notes on how Sony handles their business lines and their customers. They abandoned the A-Mount, everyone invested in the A-Mount worst fear has come true, and yet so many defended Sony about.
If I were solely invested (*like you are) in the A-Mount I'd be taking serious note of what Sony have done.
I’m sorry you haven’t seen the writing on the wall. Sony gave a little extra life to a dying Minolta Mount and ended up coming up with something better for their future technology platform. Just like Nikon and Canon did. Let’s see if you’re disappointed about how Canon and Nikon handle the obsolescence of EF and F mounts.
Didn't Sony just now come up-in 2020-with an adapter for FE to A that even has the screwdriver for 1987 vintage AF lenses?! That seems pretty supportive to me, and lord knows I'm no Sony fan. But facts is facts, and that is a seriously lovely coda for Sony and the A mount.
kurtjofsen
it seems to be a nice camera, I give you that
Any small lenses being released to go with the S5? The current L lenses are all very big and heavy.....
There's a bunch of f1.8 primes coming, smaller and lighter than the f1.4's.
Excellent! Takes me back to my film days with an OM-2n and some small primes... :-)
Hustle76
Article here here - https://www.dpreview.com/news/8413354019/panasonic-unveils-new-24-35-50-and-85mm-f1-8-l-mount-primes
There’s also a 70-300 lens, which looks pretty compact.
Also, I would add that the Sigma 45mm lens, which is available as ‘free’ when ordering the camera in the UK (and I think the rest of Europe) is a fairly small lens as well. There are some L lenses that are lighter and smaller than some would expect - although not a huge amount currently!
I guess the Pana 35/1.8 S Lens would nothing being cheap, after all.
Being an "S Series" Lens, it won't come for 500 bucks, sad, but true.
@Marc - I guess we’ll have to wait, but my gut feeling is that the S 20-60mm is an indicator of how some lenses will be priced - i.e. at a more affordable level.
In the UK, the S 20-60mm is £619, which is half the price of the next cheapest S lens.
I guess the Panasonic f1.8 lenses for L mount will be more expensive than Sigma's f2.8 lenses for L mount.
Marty4650
I suppose if we wait a few more years a 6 million dot EVF will be "totally unacceptable" because someone else will have an 8 million dot version on the market. And any camera that lacks dual card slots (BOTH being high speed) will suffer a similar fate.
One thing about technology.... it ALWAYS improves. Your new camera will be obsolete in record time!
Video-vs-photo
You are absolutely right. Exactly because of this they need to innovate in faster pace and drop the sale margins as with other IT equipment. And they need to provide good services that everyone would like to use and create money for them. And not throw customers to Adobe and other service providers.
icexe
Maybe card slots will become like razors, with cameras having 5 card slots...just to be sure. :)
Marty. There is already a 9M dot EVF. Tech is advancing at a blistering pace.
Ruekon
"Your new camera will be obsolete in record time!" With 2.36 M-dot, the EVF is obsolete at release time as it suffers from pixelation. That's a pity for an otherwise nicely specced $2000 camera. The EOS RP has a similar EVF, but for a significantly lower price.
Yes but RP also has significantly bad senor. So all of them are trying to cheat with crippling of some components and features.
muljao
@Reukon , the 2.36 million for evf didn't seem to suffer from pixelation on release a few years back, why does it now?
As always there is a point of diminishing returns. The 1MP EVFs were the bare minimum to be usable. 2MP was a noticeable improvement.
The S5 has a fairly low VF magnification. Surely done to make the 2MP VF more palatable, as a larger magnification VF would show pixelation more. 3 MP VFs are where we can start to forget we are starting at a small TV screen and equally importantly it allows a large VF magnification. I'm sure 5MP and more helps, but I think 3MP gets you to the sweet spot and certainly is not leading edge tech anymore.
The S5 is neither really cheap nor really small (only in relation to Panny's other large/expensive cameras) so a small 2 MP EVF on a $2K camera makes no sense in 2020.
I own a Canon RP with a 2 MP VF and its pretty good, but it also has a rather small magnification which is necessary to obtain the cameras very compact size. On a camera like the RP where the size is really compact and the price is half the S5 I'm OK with that.
A camera is never obsolete. It will work as good as the day it came to market. Manufacturers just need to keep making new products to keep the business line going. Consumers love "new" news.
Most things improve except camera screens. iPhones and Samsungs have screens about 10 times better sharper and with more resolution.
@muljao 2.36 M-dot suffered from pixelation a few years back too. At that time I was insisting in an OVF. Only high M-dot numbers and refresh rates of recent cameras make me rethink.
Btw. I'm living with 2.36 M-dot on my P950 because there is no better compact option for 2000mm equiv. on the market -- and it's not my main camera. But the S5 should be a different league -- and it faces strong competition.
Just checked: the GH5 released 3 years ago has an EVF with 3.68 M-dots, so does the newly released DC-G100 for $750 with lens.
Interesting to see how each manufacturer adds at least one thing that holds sales back, being it Canon with overheating, Nikon with an embarrassing 24-50 kit lens or Panasonic with this EVF.
Paul S Churcher
Great mix of form factor, features and price! Sure it’s not for everyone, but that’s why you have a range to choose from! This model still allows room for G Series in the market too.
Panasonic seems to be doing the same thing Fuji has done. Both offer two systems that are 2 stops apart with incompatible lens mounts.
Maybe an interesting camera for m43 owners who want to upgrade. Improved DFD and the L-mount are further pluses. But the EVF?
A higher res EVF could make the S5 also attractive for DSLR owners looking at mirrorless. Panasonic might be afraid of too fast growth :(
More likely they don’t want to take sales from the larger S range. But those others are huge and heavy and horrible. The S5 coulda been a contender with a top notch EvF.
Panasonic you're the star of this L mount though don't go the Leica way regarding the price. I like your cameras but don't like how you price it.
MirrorlessFrame
Noah M
It looks like an affordable high end video camera that also is capable of good quality 24MP stills. In other words a good hybrid.
Some cameras advertised as video cameras (that can only shoot low resolution stills) don't have most of the video related features this camera will have. Wave forms, vectorscopes, shutter angle control, C4K, oversampling 4K, etc. All missing in some cameras that cost $1400 more.
It is faaaar away from high end video cameras by many reasons BUT it is not bad hybrid.
Handsome90
You forgot to parrot this point in the comment section of the sample gallery of S5.
Its one of the better ILCs for video with C4K, oversampling for 4K, wave forms, vectorscopes, shutter angle control, all missing in the ILCs made mostly for vlogging.
Although in the engadget review they say the S5 will be the best vlogging camera for $2000. They said the AF is reliable enough. I guess time will tell.
If anything.... this could turn out to a Panasonic S1 killer.
deep7
You might be right - though I'd personally choose the S1 because I can't stand those foldy-flippy screens! GREAT that they provide a choice though.
I also would prefer the slightly bigger body on the S1 and like having the top screen. Then again, some second hand Leica SLs are hitting the market...
entoman
It does leave the S1 in a strange position.
The S1 is big and heavy - heavier than most DSLRs in fact, but probably more rugged as a result. The tilting screen would also make me lean towards the S1, as a stills shooter.
But the lighter weight and smaller size of the S5 make it an attractive proposition, especially as the ergonomics don't appear to have been sacrificed in the quest for compactness, as they have on some other MILCs.
Personally I've never been turned off by the size of the S1 and S1R. What matters to me isn't how big a camera is, but rather how good it feels in my hands. Cameras large and small can both have good ergonomics, so I don't personally consider a specific size to be a priority in and of itself.
I think what would push me toward the S1 is its viewfinder. The viewfinder is possibly the most important single element in a camera's UI, and the one in the S1 is notably better than the S5's. I'm going to be spending quality time with the viewfinder every time I use the camera, so a better viewfinder makes the whole photographic experience more enjoyable.
Halftrack - Well, as someone who has for several years lugged Canon FF DSLRs up mountains and across rivers, I'd normally agree with you, but as I'm hitting 70 and not a Sherpa, I'm feeling the need for something lighter and more portable now.
I also think there is a general move among photographers, towards lighter and more compact cameras (often fitted with monstrously heavy lenses!!), so cameras such as the S5 definitely have strong market potential.
I agree absolutely about EVFs. I find the coarse EVF of Olympus EM1Mkii and Canon RP unbearable. I could just about live with the 3.86K EVF of a Canon R6, although I infinitely prefer a good OVF such as those on the 5DMkiv and Nikon D850.
I have yet to try a Sony a7Riv, Panasonic S1R or Canon R5, but I'd regard their 5.7K resolution as the bare minimum.
**A good viewfinder not only makes a camera easier to use, it also makes it a hell of a lot more enjoyable**.
The viewfinder in the X-H1 is what sold me. I was going to get a second hand X-T2 which has a quite adequate finder, but the sale price of the H1 got my attention, and the EVF sold me on it. Not quite as good as the S1, but not quite four grand, either..
sirkhann
That 2.36 MP EVF ... 😐😐😐
Adam Maas
It's more than a bit laughable when there's multiple cameras at $1399 with 3.69MP finders at 0.75x or better (X-T3 and Z5)
This is almost as bad as Sony still selling cameras with 1.44MP finders (A6100)
Urbex Mark
Agree. EVF just seems to me to be a place where you don't skimp, since it's so integral to the shooting experience.
fjbyrne
It's called cutting costs to hit a price target
For 2K USD, a 2.36 MP like onto my 2013 Sony A7 is nowadays, Fall 2020 some kind of strange thing, 3.69 MP EVFs should being standard.
I see the S5 compared to the Nikon Z5 into the 1200-1400 USD Range, no offense.
Elliot H
protecting S1 sales
Just right, but i'd rather buy a Z50, and spent the saved Money for interesting Journeys, to make Pictures from, if i would need new Gear, but i am settled.
snapshtr
Nikon Z5 did not scrimp on the EVF, but they did on the non-BSI sensor. Yes, a good EVF is important but a good sensor is just as important. If the Z5 sensor performance is only marginally worse than the S5's, I'd pick the Nikon, otherwise I'd pick the Panasonic
The problem with the Z5 is that non-BSI = slower to read. People told me that the AF is not as good as Z6 in low light, and you are getting also more rolling shutter effect with the Z5.
Right. As far as image quality itself I think there will be negligable difference. But in terms of other performance - that's where BSI helps
fPrime
All fine and good but when you rack up 20-24MP mirrorless cameras from best to worst, the S5 is still at the bottom.
1. Canon R6
2. Sony A7III
3. Nikon Z5
4. Panasonic S5
DarnGoodPhotos
You have some serious Panasonic hate to be banging the "S5 sucks" drum this hard.
Legitimate customer criticism can help Panasonic improve its offering. They need the help, trust me.
That depends on what you shoot.
For continuous AF/drive stuff, sure. Panasonic's DFD is a bad joke for sports/wildlife although it may do alright for continuous AF for portrait use.
However the S5 absolutely owns for landscape/architecture thanks to the robust multi-shot capability. And that 20-60 is almost the perfect hiking companion lens for the landscape guy. Once the new 70-300 ships Panasonic can give you 20mm to 300mm with 2 lenses and only a small gap between 60-75mm. Everybody else needs a 3rd lens to get wider than 24 or has a huge gap between 30-35mm and 70mm
Adam Maas - Yes, the 20-60mm is a very unusual but clever choice by Panasonic, especially for a fairly compact camera that landscape shooters will appreciate.
I currently lug a 16-35mm, a 24-105mm and a 100-400mm up and down mountains, but a 20-60mm and 70-300mm would cover a hell of a lot of possibilities and be much more portable.
Please no one start an "M43 is even better" debate...
david vella
Adam Maas can believe that for still subjects. I used to love my 4/3 for such shots and it was good for video too but then I had children and the AF truly stinks for rapid fire portraits. I'm sure it's improved but I'd never go back.
@returner
Exactly! Panasonic will have hard times reaching mass customers without PDAF or something else that could track faster and solid as PDAF. This is the sole reason I do not own decent Panasonic ILC. All else is decent or better compared to competition.
w_lam
Review by Richard Wong
https://youtu.be/CEugIQZOAck
Swerky
I might be as well served with a Nikon Z5 for a considerably cheaper price.
k4J98
The Z5 is a very different device. These S bodies, like the GH line, are hybrid cameras. Panasonic's GH line is overpriced for stills-only shooters, just like the S line.
However, when one's requirements include video and stills, these bodies are very intriguing investments.
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Don't worry, your expenses will match pretty fast once you start buying Z lenses (vs L-Mount Sigma).
I already have lenses that I wish to adapt.
Z5 is an excellent choice for stills use. Not as good if video is a big concern.
Really seems like Z5 is what many stills shooters are begging for! So well done Nikon. And Z6 is not bad as hybrid. And all this for first generation 135 format MILCs. Not bad.
BrentSchumer
@LP
What? L mount is nutty. You pay $950 for a nifty fifty and many of the lenses are monstrous pieces of glass to lug around (e.g. 35mm). And selling the 20-60mm F3.5-5.6 for $600 is nutty when Tamron sells a 28-200mm for $730 over on E mount.
Impulses
To be fair E mount started off much the same way (55/1.8 & 35/2.8 pricing...), and I think LP was suggesting Sigma would fill a lot of lower price points... 1st party prices are going up across the board tho, every other Nikon f1.8 prime seems to be priced at $100 over Sony's which were often already pricier than their DSLR counterparts... Sometimes there's a technical justification, sometimes it's just a sign of a contracting market.
I like that 20-60, I'm curious to see what other unusual lens designs Pana comes up with if L mount gets room to breathe... The competition is definitely fierce tho, they should try and lure more third party lens makers in before they go Z/RF.
I agree that the Z5 looks like a good deal for still shooters...until you start adding multiple Z lenses and the total kit price becomes not that different from other brands. Good for current owners of older Nikon-mount lenses, but not as compelling for newcomers.
The Panasonic lenses aren't cheap either. And most of the L mount Sigma lenses are adapted DSLR designs which don't work particularly well with the DFD autofocus system.
Yeah, I know. Sigma is developing more DN lenses to follow the recent 85/1.4, though. And, in my case, unless the S5 is deficient in some significant way, I might be willing to take a (slight) loss on my Sony gear to go all-Panasonic simply because I like my MFT cameras, would appreciate the consistency of UI across all of them, and find my Sonys' interfaces mildly off-putting.
The S5 is actually a $1450 camera because they will give you the Sigma 45mm f2.8 when you preorder.
Jones Indiana
Except that body only price is set for $1999 USD body-only, or $2299 with the Lumix S 20-60mm F3.5.5.6 lens. As could be read in the press release.
Except you get a $550 lens for free when you preorder the S5. As can be read when you go to a store that sells the camera.
US only.
UK as well:
https://www.wilkinson.co.uk/panasonic-lumix-s5-20-60mm-f-3-5-5-6-lens/
It ends up being a £1,299.00 camera
Richmondthefish
It's still costs $2000, you happen to get the lens for free. It doesn't work the other way around. Thats used car salesmen talk.
It costs you $2k for the camera and a $550 lens. As opposed to $2550 for both if the deal didn't exist.
real342
That's a great deal, seeing how lenses hold their value over time pretty well, as opposed to say an upgraded car stereo.
"It costs you $2k for the camera and a $550 lens. As opposed to $2550 for both if the deal didn't exist."
Yes a $2,000 camera that gives you a msrp $550 lens that was on sale for $400 for most of the year(which they took the sale away as it makes people think the deal you mention is better than it is).
Its a good deal either way but wording it in ways to make it sound better than it is doesn't make sense unless you work for Panasonic.
satijntje
In Germany as well, also if you buy the body only. Great offer
https://www.foto-mundus.de/?etcc_med=SEA&etcc_par=Google&etcc_cmp=Foto_Mundus&etcc_grp=22245068439&gclid=Cj0KCQjw7sz6BRDYARIsAPHzrNKGpXUPS8VbR4cnEOizp-WhIFtBqOMLFAX4VE_kvKkm8FpraZTVw2UaAl2zEALw_wcB
SteveY80
If they'd kept the S1's tilting screen then I'd be very tempted, but as a still shooter the side hinged screen completely kills any interest I had in it.
Raist3d
Same :-(
Honestly, I'd rather have the S5's screen than the S1's. I shoot a lot of portrait orientation stuff at odd angles and the single-tilt screens are no better than fixed screens for that.
Both are inferior to an X-T3's screen for stills work. Fuji's dual-tilt screen is by far the best option for tripod shooting without l-bracket interference.
Adam Maas - The S1's screen is the same at the X-T3s.
Yes, but the Fuji isn't the right *brand*. ;)
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White Rock Lake is one of the city's most beloved outdoor spaces and East Dallas' greatest asset. Photo by Kristi and Scot Redman.
Meet the Candidates Running for the Open City Council Seat in District 9
A woman will be elected to represent the neighborhoods around White Rock Lake for the first time in a decade. Let's see what they're about.
By Doyle Rader Published in FrontBurner April 25, 2019 12:29 pm
In the weeks after Councilman Mark Clayton announced he would not seek another term to represent the neighborhoods surrounding White Rock Lake, five candidates declared their intention to succeed him.
Paul Sims, the presumed frontrunner and park board member, quickly dropped out. Remaining is Paula Blackmon, a former strategist for mayors Tom Leppert and Mike Rawlings. There is Sarah Lamb, the relative newcomer to town who became known for her opposition to TxDOT’s plan for the intersection known as 3G, or where Gaston, Garland, and Grand chaotically come together. There is Erin Moore, the activist and volunteer whose day job is executive assistant to County Commissioner Theresa Daniel. Tami Brown Rodriquez is there too; she owns a consulting firm and touts her background in business and financial services at forums.
The sprawling District 9 encompasses Lakewood, Forest Hills, Old Lake Highlands, Lochwood, Casa Linda, and Casa View. In 2015, Clayton, who owns an insurance business in Old East Dallas, was one of four candidates vying for the seat vacated by Sheffie Kadane. It wasn’t a close race. Clayton won almost 60 percent of the vote, thanks in part to his opposition of the Trinity Toll Road.
Clayton is leaving the horseshoe after four years. His largest role was co-chair of the Mayor’s Poverty Task Force, where he has worked to implement a new homelessness commission in Dallas County. He has been outspoken and sympathetic to the city’s most vulnerable, and his time in office will be remembered as such. But he also helped get a new aquatics center built at Harry Stone Recreation Center and spearheaded the ongoing redevelopment of the Casa View shopping center. However, the Garland Road Vision plan remains unrealized and newer developments, such as the former Steakley Chevrolet dealership on Northwest Highway, cater to suburban-style revitalization of big box stores and fast food chains. Judge that how you will.
Coming into May’s election, recent forums show a significant concern for the health and future of White Rock Lake, which desperately needs to be dredged. Property taxes are a central issue for voters considering the district is primarily single-family. There are also the priorities that seem almost standardized across all 14 districts: public safety, infrastructure, transportation, and homelessness.
Paula Blackmon with her family. (Courtesy: Blackmon’s campaign)
Prior to entering the race, Blackmon was the campaign manager for former City Attorney Larry Casto’s now defunct mayoral campaign. She has the most political experience of the bunch, having worked in education as an advisor to former Dallas ISD superintendent Mike Miles in addition to her work with the mayors. Because of her close ties to City Hall, she’s often looked at as an establishment candidate, a label that she wholly rejects. But she has raised more than the combined total of her opponents—$45,146.87—and shares donors in the class she’s trying to avoid.
They include former mayor Ron Kirk; former Councilwoman Veletta Forsythe-Lill; Gloria Tarpley, chair of Dallas’ city plan commission; DISD school board member Dustin Marshall; park board president and former mayoral candidate Max Wells; and some of the city’s most prominent developers.
Lamb, on the other hand, is trying to establish herself as the antiestablishment candidate. Although she says that she did not get into the race to be groomed or swayed by the factions at City Hall, she likens herself to Clayton. She holds views similar to outgoing councilmember and current mayoral candidate Scott Griggs and District 14 Councilman Philip Kingston. She wants to dissolve VisitDallas, the beleaguered tourism entity, and is critical of Mayor Rawlings’ prioritization of a “shiny object” agenda during his time in office.
Erin Moore. (Courtesy: Moore’s campaign)
Moore defines herself as a bleeding heart liberal and stakes out a similar position as Lamb on the controversies facing the city today. She’s in favor of getting rid of VisitDallas and wants to refocus taxpayer dollars away from vanity projects. She has worked extensively with disadvantaged communities to eradicate homelessness through housing solutions with Dallas Homeless Solutions.
Brown Rodriquez, who has raised the least money of all the candidates, also sees herself as an outsider. Her campaign is focused on eliminating corruption at City Hall through better business practices as well as using her finance background to scrub the budget. She brands herself as a vocal advocate for the police.
Despite their sometimes-differing agenda, each candidate fell squarely on the side of zealous protectionism when it comes to White Rock Lake. None of them want to see it developed in any way and each wants it to remain a public gem, beloved in the district. However, they do want to see the lake dredged, for which neighbors formed a group last October to identify potential funding and begin developing a plan.
Blackmon, however, takes her protectionism a step further. She wants to hold Dallas’ northern suburbs accountable for the pollution they create that finds its way into White Rock like last summer’s raw sewage spill.
“Are we going to take on Frisco and sue them?” Blackmon said. “Because they’re dumping into our lake.”
Keeping the lake natural is an easy sell to voters. What to do about skyrocketing property taxes is another matter. Of all concerns facing the candidates from voters, none is seemingly more contentious and unifying at the same time. Both Blackmon and Brown Rodriquez say they’d comb the budget to find unnecessary expenditures to save property owners money. (Neither provided specifics on what those would be.) Blackmon wants to see the state legislature to improve funding for public schools to alleviate the burden it placed on homeowners. Moore wants to see full transparency from the Dallas Central Appraisal District on how it assesses value. Lamb is calling for an audit of DCAD and promised to protect seniors by capping property taxes if elected.
Sarah Lamb with her family. (Courtesy: Lamb’s campaign)
“What I can tell you is I’d like to prioritize the basics,” Lamb said. “That bill would hurt a little less every year if we knew the resources we were investing when we’re having to spend our property taxes being used more wisely. I would like to see us actually work hard at City Hall to try to do a true freeze or at least a cap for our seniors to make sure they aren’t priced out because they’re on a fixed income.”
The candidates all want to give raises to police and fire fighters. Brown Rodriquez put supporting the police at the top of her campaign. She is also a vocal opponent of the Community Police Oversight Board, which the City Council expanded powers for on Wednesday. She was active in her opposition, saying she “was engaged in the process to stop the excessive funding for that board.”
But of the four, only Blackmon presented a plan to raise funds for the police. She is proposing to take a half cent of the one cent tax that currently goes to DART to fund a pay increase because, as she puts it, “the system is already built.”
Differences between the candidates emerge as they discuss housing. Dallas is short 20,000 affordable units, but none of the candidates spent much time discussing the role of affordable housing in D9. Blackmon and Moore did mention that they are in favor mixed use, mixed income residential and retail development in the district, but do not support up-zoning in single family neighborhoods.
They did discuss Dallas’ chronic homelessness issue, though. At last count, the city’s homeless population rose to 1,153, an increase of 5 percent from 2018. Each candidate wants to see homelessness eradicated and acknowledges that there are larger, systemic matters at play that makes the issue so pervasive. To solve it, they want to provide housing, not just in downtown, as well as partner with the private sector and nonprofits to find a solution. For Moore, that solution is immediate housing.
Tami Brown Rodriquez. (Credit: Rodriquez’s campaign)
“The industry flip term for it is the answer to homelessness is a home,” Moore said. “The problem is, how do you get there? … Tract one is immediate shelter, which is the most expensive way to handle the issues of homelessness. Tract two is roving shelters around the city and inclement weather shelters, which was not pass because the communities could not come to an agreement on. Tract three is with Dallas Homeless Solutions is rapid rehousing and tract four is building home stock.”
Lamb advocated for providing transportation to the homeless. She also addressed the grossly anemic state of public transit in the district.
“Our DART, our bus routes could be better,” Lamb said. “It takes, in certain areas of the district and across the city, people two and a half hours to get to work because the buses and bus routes aren’t where it needs to be. So, we need to focus on that.”
Lamb has tried to liken herself to the popular, outgoing Clayton. He hasn’t endorsed any of the candidates, though it’s rumored that it’s only a matter of time before he does. One thing is certain in District 9. Come May 4, voters will send a woman to the dais at City Hall for the first time in over a decade.
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In a move that surprised many, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners have now included nicotine vape juice and vaping as one of the options for nicotine replacement therapy. Under the new guidelines, GPs and other health professionals can not only introduce, but actually recommend and prescribe vaping as a legitimate tool for quitting smoking.
In the past, GPs who support the use of vaping and nicotine e-juice were reluctant to prescribe and recommend it as a smoking cessation tool because of the lack of approval from the authorities. But now with the RACGP including it in the list of approved cessation tools, it opens up a whole new chapter to those who have been wanting to quit and were previously unsuccessful in doing so.
This move gives Australians who were scared to try vaping due to it being illegal a real shot at quitting cigarettes. This opens the doors to safer and legal ways to purchase nicotine e-juice and protection from black-market products.
“Those who use e-cigarettes are more likely to try to quit and quit successfully than those who do not use e-cigarettes.”
Nicotine E-Juice, No Longer Taboo
Back in 2009, Australia banned the use, possession and sale of electronic cigarettes that contain nicotine. The main reason for this ban was that that aside from the traditional nicotine replacement therapies, every form of nicotine was considered to be a poison in all preparations except for:
Tobacco products prepared and packed for smoking.
Preparations for human therapeutic use. (NRTs)
At this point in time, most electronic cigarettes were a far cry from the modern devices of today. Devices from 2009 mostly resembled tobacco products and were marketed as a cessation aid and thus were banned even though they did not contain nicotine. This was due to that fact that cessation aids were required to be registered with the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).
While it was legal for doctors to provide prescriptions for nicotine under the National Poisons Standard, it wasn’t widely prescribed as there wasn’t a full consensus from the RACGP on whether it was an effective cessation tool or not. In fact, it was only last year that Dr. Nick Zwar, Chair of the RACGP Smoking Cessation Group, said that widespread consumption of e-cigarettes could open a “Pandora’s box” of new harms.
This all changed when the latest Supporting Smoking Cessation guide came out.
This was one of the conclusions of the report released by the RACGP entitled, “Supporting Smoking Cessation – A Guide for Health Professionals, Second Edition.” This echoes what pro-vaping advocates have been saying for years that e-cigarettes are an effective cessation tool and are a safer alternative to traditional cigarettes.
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There seems to be a consensus, albeit a misinformed one, that nicotine is the culprit behind all of the diseases linked to smoking. This is not true. The real culprits are the chemicals that are added to the processing of the tobacco and the chemicals that are being released when that tobacco is burned.
Nicotine in itself is a mild stimulant and is present in many items, including food. Even medicinal nicotine in the form of sprays, patches or gums in replacement therapies have proven to be safe and non-carcinogenic. There is negligible risk in moderate intake of nicotine in healthy individuals. Some might even argue that nicotine can have some sort of therapeutic effect as evidenced by some studies which use nicotine in early cases of Alzheimer’s.
The real danger from nicotine is that it is habit-forming and addictive. There is no one in the vaping industry and medical field that will argue with that point. Yes, nicotine is addictive and habit-forming, but that is also why vaping as a smoking cessation tool is so effective. Using nicotine vape juice deliver the same amount of nicotine as a traditional cigarette so the transition from smoking to vaping becomes easier.
One thing is for sure: There is no debate that smoking is deadly and causes all sorts of health problems. In fact, smoking is the biggest preventable cause of mortality in developed nations. This is why the decision by the RACGP to include vaping as a smoking cessation tool is a very welcome development.
The Concept of Harm Reduction with Nicotine E-juice
In light of arguments that vaping is still harmful, this inclusion of vaping and the use of nicotine e-juice into nicotine replacement therapy by the RACGP shows their commitment to stop or at the very least, reduce harm from tobacco-related health problems. While it isn’t proven to be 100% safe, many studies have shown that vaping is at least 95% safer than traditional tobacco products and two-times more effective than traditional therapies.
A study that was released in Harm Reduction Journal states that; “e-cigarettes can substitute the physical, psychological, social, cultural and identity-related dimensions that were previously enjoyed about tobacco smoking, and thus may uniquely support long-term smoking relapse prevention”
This was also echoed in the RACGP smoking cessation guide when they quoted studies from the United States and UK showing that the uptake of combustible tobacco products has gone down with the increase in usage of nicotine vape juice.
Flavored Nicotine Vape Juice - Best Tool to Transition From Smoking
A point that is being pointed out by legislators and pundits with regard to the banning of vape products is that nicotine vape juices come in many different flavors, and that these flavors might lead the younger generation to start vaping. Yes, these different flavors are delicious, but that is also one of the key reasons why those who have transitioned to vaping are more successful in permanently quitting than those who rely on traditional replacement therapies.
A majority of vapers who were formerly smokers will tell you that once they have tried the different flavors of nicotine e-juice, then going back to smoking will be something that they will view with disgust. People who used to think that the smell of cigarette smoke was “normal” and “bearable” will now react the same way as non-smokers do, with disgust.
This is the body’s natural reaction when confronted scents that are not good for us. See the big difference? Non-smokers will first physically react to the vapor being exhaled as this is the natural reaction to “smoke” but there is usually no physical reaction to the smell of the vapor coming from nicotine e-juice, some even like it outright.
Cold Turkey Doesn’t Work and Why Nicotine Vape Juice is A Must
Since it is an established fact that nicotine is addicting, going cold turkey only leads to withdrawal symptoms and more often than not, leads to smoking relapse.
In the latest iteration of the Supporting Cessation Guide, the RACGP stated that “Reducing cigarette intake without a nicotine supplement is not recommended and has little proven health benefit.” This is good news for those who were on the fence about trying nicotine vape juice as a part of their cessation journey. This acknowledges the need for nicotine e-juice for those who are really serious about quitting cigarettes.
The beauty with nicotine e-juice is that they come in a variety of concentrations. From 50mg/mL all the way down to zero mg/mL. This means that those who are totally motivated to quit smoking and beating their nicotine addiction can taper down to the point where they are no longer addicted to nicotine and can completely stop.
Nicotine Vape Juice, A Step in The Right Direction
While the retail of nicotine vape juice within Australia is still deemed illegal to this day, this recommendation by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners is a real welcome development.
“Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists supports the legalisation and regulation of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes and other vaporised nicotine products to facilitate their use as harm reduction tools”
Their support for legislation and (hopefully fair!) regulation of e-cigarettes and nicotine vape juice is a step in the right direction in supporting those who need to kick the habit. Even though it is last on the list of recommendations, the 15th to be precise, it is worth noting that the mere fact that nicotine eliquid is on that list for smoking cessation means that they recognize the value that vaping brings to the table. Thousands, if not millions, of Australians have already gone through that list of recommendations and failed to quit smoking and now they have a real chance of quitting with the use of nicotine vape juice.
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What Does Next-Generation, Passive RPG Protection Look Like?
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Posted: February 26, 2020 | By: Michael Salvucci, Matthew Magner, Michael Wheaton
Rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) are a well-known threat to tactical, reconnaissance, engineering, and combat vehicles that operate in hostile environments. Technologies designed to defeat RPG-type threats include active, reactive, and passive armor solutions—each varying in cost, weight, and complexity. Regardless of the system, RPG protection has been a requirement for ground vehicle platforms for over a decade. Many ground vehicle platforms, however, favor passive, fuze-disrupting armors (FDAs) to provide increased RPG protection at the lowest cost and weight burden possible. These FDA systems, also characterized as “statistical armors,” traditionally require bars or slats (steel) for successful system function.
While technically mature, there are limitations in these systems’ compositions. Specifically, direct impact on a hard surface like steel or aluminum may initiate the detonator of the RPG, leading to severe penetration of any substrate in its path, including the vehicle’s armor. Therefore, the ability to limit hard impacts like this provides the best opportunity for realizing potential performance improvements. Optimizing passive RPG protection lies in removing geometric constraints and hard surfaces; this effectively generates a system that is transparent to the fuze.
Foster-Miller, Inc. (doing business as QinetiQ North America [QNA]) and the U.S. Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC) (formerly the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center [TARDEC]) have teamed up to develop a novel passive system constructed from a lightweight, cellular material transparent to the RPG’s fuze. Termed “Advanced RPG Defeat Dispersed Media (ARDDM),” this technology eliminates the aforementioned constraints and hard surfaces. Figure 1 shows geometrical limitations in performance (red) and compares ARDDM to slat or bar armor. Based on material composition, note the area in which slat armor is ineffective.
Figure 1: Geometric Limitations (Source: QNAL).
FIGHTING THE FUZE
Point-initiated, base-detonating fuzes (PIBDs) are commonly used in the detonation chain of threats within the RPG family. PIBDs are equipped with a piezoelectric crystal designed to generate an electrical charge when facing any nonyielding material. The level of charge generated during an engagement corresponds to the force experienced during impact. The higher the impact force due to the velocity at impact or the mass of the impacted object, the higher the output charge. During these impact events, if the charge is sufficient, a spark will form and trigger the shaped charge of the RPG.
In 2015, QNA hypothesized that if a material could be engineered to have a specific density and stiffness, it would undergo adiabatic shear at the point initiator. It is a complex phenomenon dependent on strain rates but generally thought to occur when thermal softening overtakes strain rate hardening. With the phenomenon that occurs during RPG engagements, this adiabatic shearing drastically reduces the piezoelectric crystal’s ability to generate a charge. ARDDM exploits these principles using a cellular polymeric media, which allows the adiabatic shearing to occur. This engineered material also remains suitably rigid to provide a level of durability required to function similar to legacy passive RPG defeat systems. Figure 2 demonstrates the adiabatic shearing effect that occurs during engagement and the fuze disruption through ARDDM’s thickness [1].
Figure 2: Adiabatic Shearing Effects (Sources: QNA and GVSC).
Early experimental results indicated that material properties needed for fuze transparency and the properties required for passive protection were inversely related. Consequently, changes made to benefit piezoelectric fuze transparency were detrimental to defeat functionality. The material properties that had the most influence on performance were changes to the media’s mass and stiffness. However, large reductions in mass from the media negated ARDDM’s ability to function as an FDA system.
Traditional passive RPG FDA solutions are independent of piezoelectric fuze interaction and based primarily on shot location and intercept angle. However, ARDDM functions by managing the fuze output, reducing the influence of intercept angle or location. Intuitively, fuzes with higher tested voltage will expend a larger charge during impact, potentially triggering the shaped charge. Hence, fuzes with higher tested voltages are known as “sensitive” fuzes; inversely, fuzes with low tested voltages are labeled “insensitive.” Characterization of these fuze types allowed predictive performance of ARDDM. Furthermore, because defeat performance is influenced by fuze sensitivity, this characterization created a high level of confidence going into dynamic (live-fire) testing.
During fuze characterization, all samples responded primarily to changes in velocity (strain rate), mass (density), and stiffness (modulus), with output levels varying based on sensitivity.
Naturally, variance in impact velocity modified the stress-strain relationship of ARDDM and how well the mechanism would defeat the threat. Additionally, this response is influenced by the material’s relative density and relative stiffness (ρ* and E*). This stress-strain relationship is a measurement of a specified material’s density compared to its solid counterpart. It was determined that medias must be compared in their “relative” forms [2]. Figure 3 illustrates the changes in behavior seen in a stress-strain response, most notably an increase in plateau stress and a shortening to the densification region [2, 3].
Figure 3: Stress-Strain Response (Source: Gardner [3]).
ARDDM has been vetted in lab and live-fire environments. Air cannon testing was conducted during multiple stages of development using QNA’s rapid test facility (RTF) and GVSC’s Air Cannon Lab. The primary function of the RTF was to capture material and threat behavior via high-speed video and analyze its effectiveness as an FDA. Lab devices were launched at a range of velocities, and experiments were designed to downselect materials based on density, stiffness, and thickness. Figure 4 depicts successive time steps during a test. Note the formation of the “plug” seen exiting the rear of the panel.
Figure 4: Time Steps During Testing Steps During Testing (Source: GVS).
Fuze response was measured using two versions of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) of similar design principle. Both systems (GVSC pictured in Figure 5) were integrated into lab devices for nondestructive testing. These systems were designed to capture data at high sample rates, use variable triggers mechanisms, and be capable of withstanding extreme G-loading (>300 g). The components in the MEMS were used to trigger data collection, provide power, reduce noise, and ultimately measure the response of the piezoelectric fuze in a lab setting.
Figure 5: GVSC Lab Device (Source: GVSC).
Live-fire testing was facilitated by CCDC-GVSC, with on-site support and analysis also conducted via high-speed video capture. Cameras were positioned to capture both the penetration mechanics as well as shot location on the target. By reviewing the high-speed footage between shots, it could be determined what properties required adjustment, how the threat performed, and how ARDDM performed. Multiple engagement scenarios were used in an effort to map ARDDM performance against different conditions.
ARDDM’s mechanical properties—mass, density, and stiffness—could only be honed through extensive live-fire and air-cannon testing. The data sets allowed QNA to make a direct correlation between ARDDM’s ability to be fuze transparent but also maintain fuze disruption. Additionally, increases in mass had a negative effect on fuze output but a positive effect on FDA functionality. The role of engagement, or the velocity of impact at which ARDDM was engaged, changed the mechanical response of the material. This phenomenon reduced the mass required for defeat at velocities while simultaneously increasing fuze response.
The mechanical relationship, plotted in Figure 6, illustrates these effects. Three density gradients are plotted as ρ High > ρ Medium > ρ Low. As shown, when velocity increases (left to right), the required mass or thickness required for fuze disruption is reduced. Alternatively, the corresponding fuze output, represented by a dashed line, increases. This paradigm dictates which fuzes the media could receive, as a fuze of higher “sensitivity” would generate a larger electrical output and potentially trigger a detonation. This also demonstrates ARDDM’s ability to handle increasingly sensitive fuzes at lower velocities.
Figure 6: Mechanical Relationships (Source: QNA).
In order to understand the effects of azimuth and elevation, obliquity testing was conducted. Test results aligned with those that could be extrapolated empirically. Increasing the angle of intercept produced an increase in through-thickness material being penetrated. This effectively increased the shear forces required to “plug” the media and led to an increase in fuze response and lower mass threshold. Additionally, due to the homogeneity of ARDDM, the mechanical response is predicted to behave uniformly, making the changes in elevation response equal to changes in azimuth.
ENHANCING SURVIVABILITY
Engineered first and foremost to function as an FDA solution, ARDDM provided additional survivability tools that became evident upon testing. Due to ARDDM’s construction, which consists of millions of microscopic, closed-cell air pockets, it is a natural insulator. This secondary property provides a thermal barrier between any two sources (i.e., a vehicle and an observer). Two testing methods were conducted to evaluate ARDDM’s thermal transmission. Figure 7 depicts both methods—the first simulating the MIL-810 vehicle exposure and the second emulating a more extreme but practical scenario. Results are shown in Table 1.
Figure 7: Thermal Transmission Test Methods (Source: QNA).
In addition to thermal mitigation, the air pockets comprising ARDDM collapse when impacted, effectively absorbing large amounts of energy. Following live-fire testing, consistent evaluation of ARDDM samples revealed that large amounts of debris were embedded in the media, capturing a portion of the fragment generated during low-order deflagration and blast. Similar to the fuze and defeat mechanisms, this fragmentation capture and blast mitigation was studied analytically and found to be driven by strain rate.
Figure 8 shows the comparison of lethality in blast pressure from an RPG threat, with and without ARDDM. ARDDM’s energy absorption is strain-rate dependent and exponential, which can be seen by the growing distance in milliseconds between the RPG overpressure curve and an RPG with an ARDDM mitigation curve. This is due to the difference in shock front velocity between a 1% survival scenario and 50% survival scenario. As the velocity decreases, the material has more time to react and compress, increasing its energy absorption potential. Table 2 shows the reduction in lethality of the blast wave as a function of standoff.
Figure 8: Blast Absorption Curves (Source: QNA).
In order to quantify the embedded debris found in the samples, a model was generated following Gurney and Mott to determine any reductions in lethality [1, 4–6]. Figure 9 represents a fragmentation scenario aimed to mimic an RPG fragmentation round where the lethal radius equates to 23 ft with body armor and 492 ft without body armor. Twenty-three feet from detonation, the velocity of the fragments generated during an RPG threat of this type can reach 1800 m/s. Assuming mild steel as the fragment material (0.25 in x 0.25 in x 0.25 in), ARDDM can reduce the lethality from 23 ft to 13 ft (43% reduction) when body armor is worn. When no additional body armor is present, this reduction in lethality goes from 492 ft to 239 ft (51% reduction).
Figure 9: Fragmentation Protection (Source: QNA).
The development of ARDDM has demonstrated that a passive FDA system can be constructed from a single, cellular, lightweight material. The engineered material removes slats and hard points previous systems relied upon for effectiveness. Testing concluded that ARDDM’s performance is maximized when fuze response is minimized, whether by the studied adiabatic shearing or by tailoring mechanical properties. The correlation between material properties, impact velocities, and fuze response was also studied, indicating an inverse relationship between fuze response and mass required for defeat functionality.
Additionally, the thermal properties of ARDDM were investigated in order to determine its impact on a vehicle’s signature. Testing demonstrated a significant temperature gradient (>35%) in the through-thickness direction of the material. ARDDM’s reduced thermal signature (85 °F) would dramatically reduce the contrast between ambient conditions (68 °F) and operating vehicle temperatures (130 °F).
Lastly, evidence of ARDDM as a means for high-velocity fragmentation capture was observed, and a theoretical analysis confirmed its potential. These findings reveal a technology which contains the added benefits of decreasing soldier lethality.
Postanalysis results of ARDDM demonstrate a highly capable FDA system at ranges where other systems are more inept. For those reasons, ARDDM would be well suited as a complement solution to active protection systems (APS). The combination of its fragmentation lethality mitigation and ability to reduce blast pressures generated during APS near intercept events makes ARDDM a welcome addition to the U.S. military arsenal of state-of-the-art protection systems (Figure 10).
Figure 10: Prototype ARDDM Kit Integrated Onto M113 Troop Carrier (Source: QNA)
Due to the cost and weight burdens of current active systems, passive protection will continue to be essential. Effective RPG protection will be critical in safeguarding the Warfighter from the ubiquity with which RPGs are stockpiled. ARDDM provides multifaceted survivability by combining lightweight RPG protection with innate signature management and fratricidal mitigation. ARDDM’s capability serves as a holistic solution that compliments today’s APS while providing the adaptability necessary for future combat vehicles.
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MICHAEL SALVUCCI is a senior mechanical engineer at QNA working as the principal investigator for ARDDM and composite armor solutions. His interests and expertise include materials, composite design, ballistics, and analytics. Mr. Salvucci holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where his research focused on improving the through-thickness thermal conductivity of carbon fiber airfoils.
MATTHEW MAGNER is a research general engineer at the CCDC GVSC in Warren, MI, focusing on passive armor systems for small arms and RPG defeat. He has over 10 years of experience with ballistic and live-fire testing of armor in lab and field environments and continues to conduct experiments focused on the technical development and integration of armor systems on ground vehicles. Mr. Magner holds a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering from Western Michigan University and a master’s degree in engineering management from Ohio University.
MICHAEL WHEATON is a principal mechanical engineer at QNA in Waltham, MA, serving as the Product Manager for QNA’s Q-NET product line. He has over 12 years of material testing, product design, integration, and product life-cycle management for land- and marine-based applications. Mr. Wheaton holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
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“Our role is to minimise the trauma of the whole experience as much as we can” Emma reiterates. “We are there to support the family as well as arrange the transfer of their loved one. If they want to have more time with them, then we respect their wishes and offer advice to help make it a comfortable experience. If someone has died at home in bed, we’ll also strip the bed off, replace the sheets and tidy the room - anything to try to ease the burden on the loved ones.”
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Planning to fail?
So, is your organisation planning to fail? Or only failing to plan for crises? Most organisations would emphatically state that they are not planning to fail, however, as this article will illustrate, if the organisation is failing to prepare for a crisis then the outcome could well be the same.
Planning for a crisis isn't about the doomsday scenario, but about ensuring organisations seize the opportunity presented in a crisis and create a more resilient body: one that is both responsive, alert to future challenges and able to deliver to the customer, the stakeholder and meet shareholder expectations.
There are 10 critical aspects relating to crisis management: -
1. Sponsorship - senior executive engagement is critical to a successful crisis programme.
2. Definition - Defining crisis, what it means and how the organisation should respond.
3. Training - Train people, crisis leadership is not innate, most leaders have tried to avoid it so many will have limited experience.
4. Leadership - Must be with ownership and humanity, so too must the communications (both internally and externally).
5. Clarity - assigning roles and responsibility is critical
6. Assess the crisis - Situation, Information, Thoughts, Actions, Communication.
7. Protect - People, brand and reputation.
8. Respond - Consistently and at the speed of the incident, not that of the organisation.
9. Recover - As quickly as possible in line with the recovery time objectives.
10. Debrief – Learn and improve ready for next time.
These aspects were confirmed and underlined across numerous industries during a recent panel discussion I moderated covering crisis management and communications. The debate considered the impact of current high profile operational incidents, terrorism and cyber attacks and how organisations could best prepare and respond to the ever-changing risk and threat landscape.
They are also in line with a recent industry survey, where 46% identified lack of senior management buy-in and support as the most significant challenge to efficiently prepare their organisation for a crisis.
Buy In
Without support at a level that is senior enough and from an individual who has both the motivation and the political capital to support the project, it is unlikely to succeed. Articulating the benefits to stakeholders of a comprehensive programme including horizon scanning and exercising is vital to gaining buy-in and engagement. Commonly realised gains include increased efficiency and cost-savings through avoiding or pre-preparing for incidents, better cross-functional working, greater empowerment and motivation of staff.
Crisis what crisis?
One may think that defining this would be a relatively simple task. Anyone dealing with either business continuity management or crisis management in a corporate environment has probably come across statements such as "We handle crises every day?” or "I will know it when I see it".
We've seen many high-profile examples of crisis management in action recently. What becomes apparent is the responses of those well-drilled in crisis response, usually displaying slick actions, being efficient and instilling confidence in those around them. What is equally clear is the responses from those whose crisis management protocols fall short of expected standards. One has only to look at the 2017 case studies of British Airways or United Airlines and their respective crisis communications as examples negatively affecting both brand reputation and shareholder value.
One dictionary meaning of crisis is a "time when a difficult or important decision must be made; the situation has reached crisis point."
This definition primarily revolves around what constitutes a crisis and what sets it apart from a routine emergency. An element of pre-planning and mitigation can usually be put in place in relation to a routine emergency, due to the likelihood or predictability of that scenario occurring. Although still challenging, routine means some element of predictability allowing for advanced preparation.
One could see a crisis as being at the edges of a storm; you can be so busy dealing with the initial effects that you do not stand back to see the whole picture revealing that you are just in the eye of the storm. If you don’t stand back, how do you know you have reached and dealt with the end of the crisis?
We should be mindful that what is a crisis for one industry could well be business as usual for another. Having people in harm's way is what news media do regularly, but for the majority of businesses, this could indicate a crisis. Equally, what looks like a crisis for one department may not even raise pulses in another. Therefore a formal, aligned and agreed definition adequately documented within company policy is vital.
Preparation - Team Structure, Roles and Responsibilities, Exercise
Those slick teams mentioned previously, didn’t get that way by accident. They prepared… a lot. In addition to their knowledge on processes and operations, members knew their roles and responsibilities. Without this forethought, dealing with even routine emergencies can be unnecessarily challenging.
Practice, Practice, Practice
Crises can affect organisations both directly and indirectly, as we have seen from instances as wide-ranging as terrorism, natural disasters, and operational emergencies. Many people, myself included, have dealt with those types of scenarios in a corporate environment; however, others across different parts of your organisation will not have, and even those experienced in each crisis type will acknowledge that seemingly similar crises present various new and unique challenges.
Some skills are learned, others are innate... Crisis management and the teamwork needed for a successful outcome require practice, and that means testing the process together. It is critical that people understand their roles, and responsibilities, but are also ready to get involved with other requirements which might not be immediately apparent other than in a crisis or during an exercise i.e. how do we prepare people for the unexpected? One cannot know if the organisation is resilient until it is tested.
Desktop exercises allow any flaws in the plan, documentation or often existing business processes to be understood while the opportunity to rectify them is there. Having facilitated exercises where the person responsible for the documentation is "100% certain" it is up to date, only to find incorrect phone numbers, or that someone left the business a year ago, is humorous during an exercise, but not funny when lives or the company are at stake.
Responsibilities, Roles and Clarity
Keeping the strategic core team small enough to be efficient in decision-making and broad enough to cover core business is an important step. People or departments not included initially can be brought in as required. Defining who is overall responsible at Strategic, Tactical and Operational levels (also often referred to as gold, silver and bronze levels) should usually follow existing departmental and organisational lines, with precise definitions of relevant considerations being outlined per department. Pre-defining this also saves time during any incident.
Assessing the Crisis
A mnemonic I have used for many years is SITAC:
Situation – What’s happened? Where? Who’s involved? Who’s nearby? Can we account for our team?
Information - What do we know? What don’t we know? How will we fill in the blanks? You will rarely have all the facts
Thoughts - of the Strategic, Tactical or Operational teams (both within the organisation and external advisors such as the Emergency Services).
Actions - What do we need to decide? What do we need to act on? By when? By Who?
Communications - How often? To whom? Consider both internal and external stakeholders, What and when will we communicate to different populations?
Everything must be documented comprehensively; it may be required post-event for internal organisational debriefs or legal/regulatory actions.
Organisations should review pre-scheduled marketing communications that are due to go out via social media. Such communications are often a source of embarrassment, when what had been perfectly acceptable becomes unacceptable due to a specific crisis topic. British Airways, United Airlines and GCHQ have all fallen foul of this during a crisis.
People, brand and reputation are amongst the most vital aspects to consider relating to both crisis and routine emergencies. People (from employees to the public) have to be at the heart of all discussions and decisions.
Any response must always be at the speed of the incident, and not at the speed of the organisation. Some organisations will need to become quicker at decision making, while others will be required to pause and ensure they have adequate information and have considered the situation. Social media will often accelerate that speed particularly in relation to PR and communications.
If adequate planning has occurred before any crisis, priorities will be understood across the business enabling responses that match with and are focused on recovery time objectives.
How do you improve, if you don't identify what went well and what needs improvement? Remember those slick teams I mentioned? Debriefing is fundamental to their success - make it an essential part of your crisis management team’s success.
If you're a CEO, COO or other Senior Executive accountable for considering how to deliver crisis management to your organisation, or how to create a business continuity plan. Please contact us info@enterprisesecurityrisk.com
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Tactical Electronics helps Investigators in Colorado Massacre
Broken Arrow Company Helps Investigators In Colorado Massacre
Jul 23, 2012 in New and Notable
BROKEN ARROW, Oklahoma – Oklahoma’s Own gave a helping hand in the aftermath of the Colorado movie theater Massacre.
After a gunman opened fire in the theater, shooting 71 and killing 12, law enforcement began working overtime.
Investigators used bomb-searching equipment from a Broken Arrow company to help look through the suspect’s booby trapped apartment.
The company specializes in making products for the military and law enforcement to use during risky situations.
It’s the image that’s been captured this weekend — bomb squads trying to gain access into the Colorado shooting suspect’s booby-trapped apartment.
Investigators were seen holding a pole through the suspected gunman’s window. At the end, there’s a camera that can check out what’s going on inside.”
“It’s the eyes of the operator, and it allows them to gain an advantage to look into an area without exposing themselves,” Tactical Electronics Training Support Manager Heath Arning said.
Tactical Electronics sells things like the Long Pole Search System used in Colorado, as well as unmanned helicopters equipped with cameras.
After the Colorado footage hit airways, Heath Arning said an employee notified him that their equipment was being used in the high-profile case.
“We’re proud that our products are helping those guys do their job and try to do it safely despite how tragic this was,” Arning said. “We’re happy that our products can help them do their job.”
In this case, the cameras were able to show a trip wire at the suspect’s door, which was designed to trigger an explosion.
As a retired SWAT team member, Arning says proper equipment could be the difference between life and death.
“The ability to do these types of operations with less risk to yourself, because our first mission was to complete the mission at hand and secondly, we’re going to go home at the end of the shift,” Arning said.
Tactical Electronics sells products and provides training to law enforcement agencies across the globe.
The police department in Colorado already had purchased that pole camera before the shooting happened.
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ESL to return to Odense for ODINCON 2020
ESL are delighted to announce the extension of the partnership with Odense Sport & Event, therefore bringing another quality tournament to ODINCON in 2020.
Last year the Odense Congress Center brought in a record-breaking 26,000 visitors over 3 days during the event, which showcases everything from video games and esports to gear and gadgets. ODINCON 2020 promises to build on the successes of previous iterations to reach even greater heights.
‘From the get-go we have seen great potential in arranging an international gaming event in Odense, and therefore we are very excited to announce that our partners are pleased to build on this joint success’, says Enrico Augustinus, CEO of Odense Sport & Event, and owner of Odense Congress Center.
Ulrich Schulze, Senior Vice President of Product at ESL says:
‘Partnering with Odense Sport & Event has always been a great experience for us with exciting and sold out esports events. We are happy to join forces with them for future projects again in 2020 and want to thank the passionate Danish community for their ongoing support’
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People synchronize their walking gaits when carrying a stretcher-like object together
The synchronized gaits are associated with quadrupedal gaits, particularly pacing and trotting
IMAGE: This is two humans carrying an object exhibit quadrupedal-like gaits. view more
Credit: Jessica Lanini
When two people walk one in front of the other while carrying a stretcher-like object, they typically synchronize their gaits, according to a study published September 6, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jessica Lanini from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and colleagues.
Human walking has been studied extensively, yet there has been less work on how people adapt their gaits while coupled by a mechanical link as in the case of collaborative carrying of an object. Such adaptation could result from the mechanical properties of the coupling, or from high-level strategies such as foot placement.
Lanini and colleagues investigated one case of interactive locomotion: two people walking one in front of the other while carrying a rigid, stretcher-like object between them. The researchers conducted interactive locomotion experiments on six people (four men and two women) who were grouped into 7 pairs, with four trials per pair. Each pair did two trials that entailed walking 12 meters two times (that is, back and forth); and another two trials where pairs were mechanically coupled by carrying a stretcher-like object that was 150 centimeters long and weighed eight kilograms. The researchers analyzed the pairs' adaptation of walking gaits and coordination of foot-fall patterns. In addition, the researchers used a simple model -- two bipedal agents connected with a spring-damper -- for mechanical analysis of the interactive locomotion.
The researchers found that mechanical coupling changed peoples' walking gaits and reduced step length and the speed of movement. In addition, subjects carrying the stretcher-like object coordinated their foot-fall patterns in more than 70% of the experiments, synchronizing in a way that is reminiscent of quadrupedal gaits.
The simple model predicted some locomotion characteristics of two people coupled by a mechanical link, including the preference for synchronized gaits as well as some foot-fall patterns associated with quadrupedal gaits (in particular, pace and trot gaits). The researchers suggest that the observed synchronization of people carrying objects together can be explained by passive mechanical properties rather than high-level control strategies such as foot placement. However, they also say that other features of the paired walking gait might be related to cognitive and/or psychological effects, and that more complex motor control actions likely should be considered to better understand this phenomenon.
In your coverage please use this URL to provide access to the freely available article in PLOS ONE: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0179989
Citation: Lanini J, Duburcq A, Razavi H, Le Goff CG, Ijspeert AJ (2017) Interactive locomotion: Investigation and modeling of physically-paired humans while walking. PLoS ONE 12(9): e0179989. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179989
Funding: The authors Jessica Lanini and Auke Ijspeert received funding from European Commission project CogIMon, H2020-ICT-2014-1 for this work. Author Hamed Razavi received funding from European Commission project WALKMAN, FP7-ICT-2013- 10. Author Alexis Duburcq received no specific funding for this work.
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Ukraine's Ambassador to Turkey assesses Ukrainian-Turkish defense industry relations
In an exclusive interview with Defensehere, the Ukrainian Ambassador to ankara Mr. Andrii Sybiha touched on the strong defense industry and military relationships between Turkey and Ukraine.
Mr. Sybiha talked about different joint-projects that are subject of negotiations between both countries and stress on the massive potential that both countries have for joint production of aircraft and unmnanned aireal vehicles.
In the written interview Mr. Sybiha replied to the following questions:
Can you evaluate Turkish defense industry companies and their products?
When we look at the recent developments that took place in Turkey during my service time there, we can clearly tell that Turkey is a world leader in creating the conditions for the development of its defense industry and for the companies that operate in the field.
It is interesting to see the number of Turkish defense industry companies that managed to enter the Defense News Top 100 list for the last year, which is one of the most prestigious lists in the field of defense industry.
The number of the companies that managed to secure a place in the list increased to 7 in 2020 with ASELSAN, TAI, BMC, ROKETSAN, STM, FNSS and HAVELSAN, and the number increases each year.
Ukraine celebrates its Turkish friends for reaching such a prestigious position and deserved place in the field of high-tech military technical production. The level the Turkish Defense Industry has reached, proves Turkey’s wise management in this sector to the world.
My personal opinion is that; Turkey is one of the best examples for other countries to follow in successfully coordinating country resources and private sector companies with the correct deployment of technology in reforming defense industry.
However, I believe that our countries will achieve even more success in the field of defense industry, since both Turkey and Ukraine have incredible potential. The mutually technology transfer that the Ukrainian and Turkish companies are ready to carry alongside their years-long experience will undoubtedly bring success.
At what level now is the cooperation between Ukraine and Turkey in the field of defense industry?
The historical adventure of the cooperation between Ukraine and Turkey and taking into account the current situation, I always say the following sentence: "Our cooperation starts from underground resources and expands to space."
The relations of both countries in regards to the sector of defense industry are developing according to the classic "win-win" formula, and it is only a matter of time for the defense industry companies of our countries to take their worthy place in the world's TOP 100 Leaders List.
In my opinion the success of the Ukrainian-Turkish cooperation stems from the fact that it focuses on unifying the potential of both countries in joint research, in found joint-ventures as well as establishing joint production infrastructures, rather than just focusing on arms and military equipment trade between the two countries. Focusing on joint development and production of innovative technologies will reinforce this success.
However, our cooperation doesn't pose any threats to third countries, but rather aims at increasing the defense opportunities of the two countries and ensuring the security of the Black Sea region.
We can say to the forefront of the technological potential of Ukraine and Turkey's own defense industry by looking at the development strategy of air and space area of mutual strategic cooperation should take the leading role.
By looking at the outstanding technological potential of Ukraine and Turkey’s strategy for developing its national defense industry, we can conclude that the mutual strategic cooperation between the two countries in the field of aerospace technologies should take a complementary role to both sides.
Therefore, among the most important issues on the agenda regarding our cooperation is the production of aircraft on the basis of Antonov's aircraft and the air subsystems of the Ivchenko-Progress State Agency. Therefore, on of the most important topics on the agenda of our cooperation is the production of aircrafts on the basis of Antonov's aircrafts and the aeronautical subsystems of the Ivchenko-Progress State Agency.
I wish to see Antonov’s An family of aircrafts produced in Turkey in the coming years.
Ukraine and Turkey's military technology and defense industry cooperation to a new level recently appeared in the area, continues to be one of the key elements of Ukraine and Turkey strategic cooperation.
Cooperation in military and defense industry technologies between Ukraine and Turkey has recently reached new levels, continuing to be one of the key elements of strategic cooperation between the two countries.
The remarkable production capacity and scientific-research data base of both Ukraine and Turkey are complementary to each other, which results in them being key-partners.
The agreement between both countries in the field of defense industry and the formation of expert and coordinating groups in the field make the interaction process between both of them even more efficient.
The cooperation between Ukrainian and Turkish defense industries covers key business and strategic areas such as; aviation, space, land systems, shipping and shipbuilding as well as special equipment and tool production.
In the last few years, cooperation agreements have been made in areas such as land and air platforms, composite materials, avionic systems and ammunition.
Various projects are being carried out to equip the Ukrainian Armed Forces with communication systems produced by the Turkish company "ASELSAN".
Turkish armored vehicles are modernized with active protection systems, dynamic armors and guided ammunition, that are produced in Ukraine.
Respective Ukrainian companies continues to modernize the Soviet-manufactured helicopters used by the Turkish Armed Forces.
Cooperation talks on the production of engines for Turkish unmanned aerial vehicles and other areal platforms are also actively in progress.
I would also like to highlight the products of the Baykar Defense company. The drones produced by this company have shown that they are extremely effective in regional conflicts in Libya, Syria and Nagorno-Karabakh.
We would like to thank the Turkish government and Baykar defense’s board of directors. Because while Ukraine was going through a very difficult period of time, no country other than Turkey provided military support to the Ukrainian Armed Forces; where Turkey provided a significant number of unmanned aerial vehicles to Ukraine. Ukraine was the first foreign country to purchase the Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicle systems. While being one of the most comprehensive agreements in the extended relations between the two countries, this agreement has taken our relations to a completely new level. However, our work towards that direction is gradually improving. Within the framework of our latest agreement, the engines of the Akinci UCAVs will be produced by Ukraine. In addition, both parties are still in talks regarding the manufacturing of the Ukrainian engines in Turkey as well as the manufacturing of the Turkish UAVs in Ukraine.
Another promising topic is the joint production of armored vehicles’ engines. As of today, the partnership between the two countries in the fields of aviation, space and defense industry, continues with more than 30 joint-projects.
Cooperation in the field of space also proceeds in parallel. Realizing the potential in the rocket and space industry of Ukrainian companies, the president of the Turkish Space Agency, Serdar Yıldırım, visited Ukraine on 15-18 September 2020 to discuss mutual cooperation opportunities between the two countries in the field of space industry.
The Turkish delegation visited the production facilities and held meetings with the managers of state institutions in the Dnipro region, such as the KB 'Pivdenne' and 'Pivdenniy Mashinobudivniy Zavod' (Southern Machine-Building Plant).
Taking into account the demands of the Missile Technology Control Regime, the parties agreed to develop bilateral cooperation agreements on satellite technologies, space launch systems and Infrastructure, joint processing and use of space information/data as well as the exchange of experts in the field of rocket science and space and providing them with training programs.
How does the relation between Ukraine and Turkey in the field of defense industry affect other sectors?
If we consider the immense trust both parties have for each other as well as the existing cooperation experience, also the readiness of both parties to share their technologies unlike other potential partners and the fact that strategic partnership in the fields of defense industry and aerospace is one of the key elements of the highest political level negotiations between both countries, then undoubtedly defense industry affects all the sectors on the agenda of the political dialogue between our countries.
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MILLENNIAL MONEY: How to discuss family finances in a crisis
By SARA RATHNER NerdWallet
With 10.7 million Americans out of work as of November 2020 (and 3.9 million of those workers unemployed for 27 weeks or more), many have been forced into having tough money conversations as a result of the pandemic.
Whenever your life changes significantly, it’s a good time to check back in on your financial plan, because things like marriage, divorce, a new baby or a career change can profoundly affect your household’s situation and cause you to rethink who is responsible for what.
Whether you share expenses with a roommate, a partner, adult children or parents, now is an especially good time to talk about money. Here are some ways to ease into these difficult conversations.
FIRST, FEEL YOUR FEELINGS
Few are having the 2020 they thought they’d have, and no one knows when normalcy will return. Mark Reyes, a Los Angeles-based certified financial planner who works for Albert, a financial wellness mobile app, experienced a major disappointment of his own: Earlier this year, he and his wife canceled their wedding after more than two years of planning, opting to elope in his aunt’s backyard instead.
Though they feel they did the right thing, “we kind of grieved our wedding,” Reyes says. “We planned so much and worked so hard for one special day.”
He notes that it’s OK, even necessary, to process those emotions; burying them can make it difficult to meet financial goals because you’ll continue to fear the unexpected.
“My wife and I were just real with how we were feeling,” Reyes says.
He’s seeing plenty of emotional turmoil from clients, too, he says. His company works with people who have been laid off, and those who’ve lost their jobs may feel like they’ve also lost part of their identity and what they thought their role was in their household.
“Just because there’s a lack of income, or you’re not earning income, doesn’t mean you don’t have value as a person,” Reyes says.
Reyes says his company helps such clients with actionable steps, such as identifying and cutting back on nonessential spending, and considering side gigs as a way to get to the next month.
But giving yourself the space to feel sad and angry can also help. Let the process of voicing your worries get you back on the path to setting financial goals and dreaming again.
“Bring it back to what’s realistic and important to you in these trying times,” Reyes says.
COMPASSIONATELY RENEGOTIATE HOUSEHOLD RESPONSIBILITIES
It’s an age-old recipe for resentment: One spouse loses their job, yet the working spouse still carries the larger burden of household chores. Or both spouses work from home while supervising kids in remote school, but one of them feels like they get interrupted more often and can’t focus on their job. (And let’s be real about whose work gets interrupted more in many opposite-sex couples: It’s the mom.)
Chores don’t just include cooking and cleaning. Money management takes time, too, and all adults in a household need to be involved. According to UBS Financial Services’ Own Your Worth 2020 report, 49% of women defer to their spouses when it comes to financial decisions.
The report also found that because of the pandemic, more than half of women take care of responsibilities like child care, cooking and cleaning, while nearly three-quarters of men handle the finances.
Depending on your household’s situation right now, the division of labor may no longer make sense, and that means it’s time for a talk. Of course, these conversations can get heated.
Nathaniel Ivers, an associate professor in the department of counseling at Wake Forest University, believes that interpersonal conflicts stem from your desire to be understood by the other person, while at the same time, you don’t understand where the other person is coming from. He recommends using “I statements” when discussing hot-button issues.
“If you say, ‘I’m feeling overwhelmed with the extra responsibilities I have now,’ that will sometimes trigger compassion,” Ivers says. “But if it comes with finger-pointing, the last thing you get is compassion and empathy.”
SET BOUNDARIES WHEN HELPING LOVED ONES FINANCIALLY
If a friend or family member needs money and you’re in a position to help, you can do them a world of good at a difficult time. But this can be tough if lending or gifting money means you’ll struggle to pay for your own expenses.
“It’s so challenging. You want to help — you are helping — but you only thought it would be a one-time or two-time thing and now it’s been six months,” Reyes says. “That’s a very difficult position to be in.”
Rather than providing open-ended help when you can’t afford to do so, offer to pay for specific things, like a month of rent or three months of electric bills. Your loved one gets some relief, while you cover a predictable expense you can budget for over a set period.
“You have to be firm yet kind,” Ivers says. “What I would say is, ‘I can help you with this particular thing for this amount of time.’ That’s where the boundary piece is.”
This column was provided to The Associated Press by the personal finance website NerdWallet. Sara Rathner is a writer at NerdWallet. Email: srathner@nerdwallet.com. Twitter: @SaraKRathner.
Bureau of Labor and Statistics: The Employment Situation — November 2020 https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
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Rt. Rev. Dr. Gregorios Mar Stephanos Episcopa
Parents Kochi Panayapally Parayil
Mr. K. P. Varkey and Mrs. Kunjamma (Late)
Born on March 16, 1959
Ordained as Deacon June 27, 1986
Ordained as Kassissa July 30, 1986
Ordained as Ramban May 07, 2011
Consecrated as Episcopa August 13, 2011
Diocese Delhi Diocese
Contact Rt. Rev. Dr. Gregorios Mar Stephanos Episcopa
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26, Bhai Vir Singh Marg, Gole Market,
New Delhi -110 001, India.
Ph: +91 11 23342828 (O), 23369151 (P)
Rt. Rev. Dr. Gregorios Mar Stephanos Episcopa was born on 16th March 1959 as the son of Kochi Panayapally Parayil Sri. K. P. Varkey and Smt. Kunjamma. Fort Kochi St. George is the mother Parish.
He continued his education in Kochi where his father was employed after early studies in Niranam Mar Thoma LP School. After completing Pre-Degree from Cochin College he took B. A and M. A in Philosophy from Maharajas College. Then he procured M.Phil from Chennai University. Along with college education he was member of College football and hockey teams in addition to being the General Captain of the college and proved his ability.
During 1982-86 he got degree in theology from Kolkatta Bishops College. Thereafter he was ordained as Semmas on 16th March 1986 at St. Thomas Church, Thiruvalla and as Kaseesa on 27th June 1986 at his home Parish by Rt. Rev. Easow Mar Timotheos Episcopa.
Bilaspur, Korba, Ambikapur, Chennai-Chetpet, Thambaram, St. Thomas Mount, Kolalampur, Ranchi, Mumbai Santacruz, Maramon, Venmoney, Kavumbhagom were the parishes he served as Vicar.
He was awarded with many prizes in recognition of his efficient management of the School as the Principal of St. Thomas School, Ranchi in 1996. Chief among them were the honour of “Best Principal Award” from “Prathibha Udhan Samithi”, “International Millenium Gold Star”, “Vijayasri Puraskar”. The active leadership of Mumbai Navajeevan Kendra, Medical Mission Secretary and leadership of education reform Committees were rich experiences of active life. He led the mission work of Ranchi also.
He was consecrated as Ramban on 7th May 2011 at the specially prepared holy Madbaha in the St. Alberts College ground by Rt. Rev. Dr. Geevarghese Mar Theodosius Episcopa along with Rev. Dr. Varghese Mathai and Rev. Dr. Oommen George. He was elevated as Episcopa with the name Gregorios Mar Stephanos on 13th August 2011 at the specially prepared Holy Madbaha at the Thiruvalla SCS ground.
Thirumeni conferred with Doctorate from the London Graduate School and Commonwealth University, Dubai for his prolonged tireless service to the Church and Society.
Thirumeni has served in the Kunnamkulam Malabar Diocese from 2011- 2016 as the Diocesan Episcopa and has pioneered the growth and development of various educational institutions at Chungathara School, College, Chundale St. Thomas School, Chulliyode St. Thomas School, Ponnani St. Thomas School, Neduvallor St. Thomas School, Akkikavu St. Thomas School and Angadiserrithattu St. Thomas School. Also various Mission Centres like Uppada Mission Complex, Thenhipalam Youth and Study Centre, Mukthi De - addiction Centre and the renowned Camp Centre at Attapady Dr. Joseph Mar Thoma and Mar Stephanos Camp Centre. Thirumeni’s leadership, zeal, commitment and dedication in the Spiritual and holistic development of the Church are commendable. From the year 2016 onwards he is serving as a Bishop of Delhi Diocese of Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church. The Delhi Diocese is comprised of Eighteen states of Northern India.
He is serving as a Chairperson of North West India Council of Churches (NWICC) a body which works for the unity of the different Christian denominations. Board Member of Christian Medical College Ludhiana, Board member of SHUATS University Allahabad and Advisory Committee member of Delhi Minority Commission.
He is the Chairperson of the many Societies with an aim to provide establish endow maintain control, manage or help educational research institutions in the field general education viz, Arts, Science, Commerce, Technical Industrial and other normal and informal educational field inclusive of faculties of Medicine, Agriculture, Philosophy, Ethics, Theology, etc. Which are conductive of equipping the humanity for establish itself in life and ably face the challenges confronted by the human irrespective of caste, creed, religion, sex, nationality etc.
Strong leadership ability, unshakable faith in God and timely vision of Kingdom of God activities are the hall mark of Thirumeni’s activities. Thirumeni is giving a commendable leadership for the growth of the diocese in every sphere of life. Thirumeni’s regular visit to the Parishes and Institutions made a remarkable impact upon the Parish members and members of the Institutions. Thirumeni’s dynamic and inspiring Leadership especially in the growth and development of the institutions is commendable. Being an educationalist and a visionary leader Thirumeni has been at the forefront of Church’s progress in the North Indian states, particularly in the field of education. For this he has received several accolades, both at national and state level.
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Del Mar officials looking to include vision for fairgrounds in land use plan
By Claire Harlin
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As it stands, the Del Mar city plan does not pay much attention to the development potential and vision for the Del Mar Fairgrounds, and city officials are looking to change that.
The Del Mar City Council gave direction to city staff on Nov. 7 in pursuing a Local Coastal Program Amendment (LCPA), as well as changes to the zoning code and community plan that will outline more specific development parameters for the fairgrounds. The issue will return to the council on Dec. 12 for further discussion.
City planning manager Adam Birnbaum said the California Coastal Commission (CCC), which is the final authority on development projects, is currently using standards for Del Mar set forth in the 1970s. If the CCC approves an LCPA with more specific guidelines for the fairgrounds, however, those review standards would be used by the CCC.
“In other areas of the city there are goals identified,” said Birnbaum. “But in this major part [the fairgrounds] there is no vision set forth.”
Birnbaum said this is probably due to the sentiment years ago that the City had limited influence over the Del Mar Fairgrounds because it is under the control of an independent state agency. That sentiment has since changed somewhat, as the state has considered selling the fairgrounds.
Both Birnbaum and Del Mar Councilman Terry Sinnott expressed the importance of including regional stakeholders, such as the City of Solana Beach and the 22nd District Agricultural Association, on the process of developing an LCPA.
“We should be creative in involving stakeholders in the process and encouraging stakeholders to be involved,” said Sinnott. “If they could help with design they may also have influence later on.”
Sinnott said this proposal is a tremendous opportunity to gather all stakeholders in the region and come together as group to “identify what everybody’s hopes and wishes are for that asset.”
“It’s essential that this is a regional plan,” he said. “We may be the facilitator because it’s in our regional boundaries, but this is good way to demonstrate how to make a make a good plan on a regional basis.”
Councilman Marc Filanc said it would be more appropriate to involve regional stakeholders in the public comment process, but develop the LCPA independently.
“It would be difficult to involve other jurisdictions in our approval process,” he said.
City officials suggested reconvening the Del Mar Fairgrounds Master Plan Ad-Hoc Committee to work on this item, and stressed the importance of not taking away from current projects and deadlines — namely Village revitalization.
Mayor Don Mosier said the benefit of developing an LCPA is to be more clear about what Del Mar’s vision is, and “give more feedback to the Coastal Commission about what’s appropriate development on the fairgrounds property.”
“Our decisions will only be guiding suggestions to the Coastal Commission, which has ultimate authority,” he said.
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Health Care Act rests on Kennedy
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Anthony Kennedy is the swing vote in the SCOTUS. Just a few more hours until their decision is announced. Does anyone want to make predictions oh how it will turn out? Unconstitutional? Constitutional? A mixture of both?
I predict a 6-3 vote in favor of everything except the individual mandate. I think the individual mandate will also be approved or let stand for now, but with some restrictions or clarifications, much like the Arizona "Papers Please Law" was handled by the court. Part of that caveat may be that the court will decide to review the individual mandate provision again at a later date after it has some history of practice. That could be a face saver for the conservatives, but in reality, once it's implemented it's much harder to undo.
Scalia, Thomas and Alito will vote as a block against. Kennedy and Roberts will vote with the liberals. Roberts will write the majority opinion. Scalia will write the minority opinion, or at least one opinion. If he gets too political like he did with the Arizona law, there may be two or more minority opinions.
Okay that's my "expert prediction" assuming the six of the justices will follow constitutional law precedent and three will adhere to politics. I guess we'll find out in exactly one hour or so.
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And now, CVAG proposes to spend $100 million on a project I believe would be voted down if citizens were given a chance to vote. Further, think of the $20 million of Measure A funds that will go to the CV Link dream instead of the roadways, like Highway 111 in Palm Springs. The current condition of the road is dangerous, with occasional potholes deep enough to throw a car off its course.
We do not need to build the CV Link to find out what we already know. It is a monumental waste of money and an increase to the financial burdens already tough enough for our cities to manage.
Roger D. Sack, Rancho Mirage
Why all the drugs?
Of the 509 people who died at the hands police as of early July, according to the Washington Post, 484 were male and 25 were female; 123 were black and 248 were white.
Many had a criminal background and many had some form of drugs in their system.
We don’t have a police problem; we have a drug problem in America. And now many states are considering or have legalized pot. Most of them are run by Democrats.
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Is fixing the problem the goal?
I was appalled to read that a disabled Arizona woman has filed multiple lawsuits against local hotels due to their lack of a pool lift. While everyone supports removing barriers for disabled people, there must be a better way to accomplish this than threatening businesses with punitive legal action and enriching opportunistic individuals and their lawyers.
By my calculations, if the woman in question is successful in collecting on even half of the 330 lawsuits she has filed, she will receive close to $1.5 million and her attorney will be similarly enriched. If she is truly interested in correcting the problem, I suggest that she set up a fund with this money to assist hotels that cannot afford to comply with ADA requirements.
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The Bureau of Land Management’s Desert Renewable Energy and Conservation Plan (DRECP) sets aside over 600 square miles of desert public land as renewable energy development focus areas – way more than enough to satisfy any state or federal renewable goals for the foreseeable future.
Industry lobbyists exaggerate the plan’s conservation requirements. For instance, transmission lines from a solar farm to the main grid are only required to be undergrounded in limited cases, such as beneath dirt roads, which are relatively uncommon on public lands in the desert.
Inevitably our renewable energy future lies in rooftop solar, combined with energy efficient buildings and local “microgrids” with storage to protect us from blackouts. This will provide sustainable local jobs, unlike the boom and bust of large remote solar projects. In the meantime, the BLM renewable plan directs large-scale solar projects to the lowest conflict public lands, thereby ensuring both renewable development and protection for irreplaceable desert public land resources.
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Answering concerns
Re: “Five things to consider,” July 14 letter to the editor by Stuart Goldfine
I found this naïve and uninformed.
1. Minnesota and Louisiana permit gun ownership, including by black men. Why did you question the legality of their purchase?
2. The president never blamed the police for the recent shootings, instead he stated police have difficult jobs. The high number of incarcerated blacks is a reflection of social conditions and uneven application of the law. The number of single-parents has increased in all ethnic groups, not just blacks. That fact alone does not doom children to crime. President Obama was raised by a single parent.
3. Black unemployment is historically high due to numerous factors. The president’s attempt to remedy this hasn’t received congressional support.
4. Chicago has many unresolved social issues not effectively addressed by any administration, although President Obama has tried to help. It is his home town after all. He knows people with good opportunities usually don’t commit crimes.
5. Getting black houses in order will require getting our country’s house in order starting with ensuring that all people are treated fairly. You are correct that respect is in order. This respect must be given to everyone police or citizen, black or white.
Alicia Meredith, Cathedral City
911 isn’t a game
The mentality of those who would call 911 as a means to assist them in finding Pokémon has to be beyond moronic.
Persons who deliberately abuse the 911 system should be arrested, fined and required to perform community service. Has common sense left us completely?
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Nichelle Narcisi | Essays
Except You
Command X was supposed to serve as comic relief at the AIGA's Next Conference last month in Denver. Seven young designers from around the country were chosen to compete in a real-time design competition, taking on a series of assignments and risking elimination in the manner of "Project Runway" and any number of other television reality shows. No one was sure whether it would work, including the organizers. But it did work, and powerfully so, in no small part due to the compelling performances of the contestants.
The last of the three challenges was the most serious: propose a strategy to raise the turnout of voters between 18 and 24. With less than 24 hours to work, each of the finalists came up with a provocative response. But it was Nichelle Narcisi's all-text solution that caught the enthusiasm of the visually-biased 2000-plus audience, gaining her the only standing ovation of the entire three-day conference. She has agreed to share it here with the readers of Design Observer. [The Editors]
I don't care what you think of my writing or my message. You're not included in what is going on here. Your opinion is worthless and everyone here knows it. Everyone else has something worthwhile to contribute, except you.
You're the outcast. Everyone else has this figured out, except you. Everyone fits in, except you. Everyone, except you. Except you.
Exclusion is uncomfortable, isn't it? So it's surprising that so many of us 18-24 year olds have chosen to exclude ourselves by not voting.
If we've learned anything from MySpace and Facebook, it's that my generation values being a part of the group and having a say. We're mavericks of social networking, communication and internal organization. We become passionate about anything the peer consensus agrees to rally around, including skateboarding dogs. So why not focus that social muscle on something that really matters? Something like going to war. Or global warming. It's obvious that we care about those things. Getting us to act is the hard part.
One reason we shy away from involvement may be that we're actually too media savvy. We've spent our entire lives being bombarded by targeted advertising and we're fully aware of it. We've become jaded and suspicious toward anyone who may try to persuade us, especially if it's for our own good.
At the same time, all that marketing attention has fostered a feeling of entitlement. We want the messages we receive to be polished, entertaining and immediate, otherwise we can't be bothered. The only thing we're willing to invest time in is our social scene and the warm inclusive blankie that comes with having amassed a small army of MySpace friends.
So, how do you motivate us to vote? First you'll have to jolt us out of that complacency. We want to be taken seriously, we hate being talked down to, and more than anything else, we're afraid of being excluded. So make us feel awkward and uncomfortable. Make us the outsider and point your finger while you do it.
The message has to be short, like our attention span, and it should leave a mark. "Except you." Wrap some relevant topics around that phrase. Be brief and blunt. No fancy graphics, just an abrasive accusation mocking us from a dorm hallway. When you don't vote, no one cares what you think or have to say. You don't matter. "Everyone counts, except you." We will respond to belittlement, and when we do we'll see that we've missed something vital and in that oversight have lost our voice.
This is just the beginning of the idea. Right now these are pdfs with simple peer pressure-driven messages that any interested or irritated individual can print out, adding their own black and white proclamations. They'll find inclusion and empowerment as they realize that they do in fact matter and can wield their voice with mighty affect. Could this theme become a movement for our generation?
The reality is that our political system doesn't value young non-voters. With "Except You," I'm simply bringing that fact to our attention — and trusting that our rebellious spirit, fanning the flames, will do the rest.
If you want to be included, visit www.exceptyou.org.
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I can see why this earned a standing ovation! Really, this is a brilliant idea and it is wonderfully executed. I hope this catches on.
Joey Pfeifer
I love this campaingn. However, I suspect that the issue of inclusion isn't the only problem.
In my opinion, another issue about voting that keeps people of this demographic away is being able to know what each party is actally all about. I find that politicians are very untrustworthy people who make false promises during campaign time, and switch their arguments / actions to suit their needs.
For me, it's not that I don't want to vote, it's that a) I don't know who to vote for, and b) I don't know anyone in the running I do trust.
On top of that, it's very hard to decide what party you believe in (which party you agree with most) overall. There's one site I saw a few years ago that my friends made which helped with making an objective decision when choosing a political party during election time in Canada called The Undecided which acted as a 'blind taste test' of political issues.
I do think that with both of these sites and campaigns do make for a very powerful argument towards both educating youth, and compelling them to vote. I am certainly one of them.
Edrea Lita
what clarity. what force. yes, no wonder this got a standing ovation.
i've been mulling over the message for the past hour and mostly appreciate the choice of wraparound themes, which shows a grasp of all the interconnectedness of themes that constitute our political reality. in this case, i think the campaign works best as a package of themes, since politics is rarely about any one thing. i love that these issues are presented as political.
i am on the fence, however, about the exclusion message, but it did make me pause, which says so much about the strength of the campaign. i wish ms. narcisi all the best in this endeavour and that it gets noticed and viral, the way she conceives it to be.
i also appreciate's DO's choice to include this. it says as much about the ideas as it does the inventor. fresh and potent, which is certainly what we want from this generation.
last week's time magazine had a disturbing article about the 300 million 20-30 something emerging middle class in china who only want snowboards and nintendo's who really don't care about politics at all. material wealth is all but brand new in chinese society, and this novelty of consumption without representation is sure to last for decades. the point here being that american 18-24 year olds have been in this political-awareness-free state for some time now. and they've had rights all this time.
prosperity is not the same thing as democracy. apropos myspace, et al - you can see terabytes of loud and pop-culture-y visual language of a properous culture - but what is the visual language of a politically astute culture?
i think ms. narcisi's stark minimalist presentation is the whisper amongst the din, and i worship her boldness.
Gong Szeto
This was really the icing on the cake for the best AIGA conference I've attended.
While I always enjoy the conferences, but this was the first time I'd felt like we (the community) were "all in it together," and the programming had a finger on the pulse of topics that seemed to have shared importance for most of the attendees.
I left the conference thinking, "there is no way we won't look back on Nichelle's presentation as a landmark of some sort." It was, truly, powerful.
I felt both gigantic and proud to be a designer, and small and self-conscious in the face of such an inordinate amount of talent, personality, and confidence as Nichelle projected.
Randy J. Hunt
In my direct experience (three younger sibs, none of whom voted in the last election) I find that the issue isn't necessarily apathy, it is energy. Getting to voting booth is hard work. And boring! And even when you really really try to get there you find that the line is sooooooo long. And then there are all of these things to vote for that you've never heard of and it is confusing! And sometimes you go to one place and find that you're not on the list and have to go to another place! And the voting booths close so early and there's all these old people there. Plus, I'm tired and don't feel like going. Seriously, I had a hard day. And I there's that survey on myspace that I have to take.
Monostereo
Tell me again why we want to ENCOURAGE these adolescents to vote? Only a society eager to bring about its own destruction would court the political involvement of this demographic. In an era without civics classes, all we can do is wait for these kids to grow up of their own accord.
Ben Kessler
Great design at its best. The message is bold and so is the design, there could not have been a better match.
Tanner Christensen
I have to say that I think Nichelle's campaign spans more than just 18 to 24 year olds. Even my age group does not enjoy the feeling of exclusion. They all still scramble for togetherness at things like happy hour and sporting events.
Nichelle accomplished something that most seasoned designers could not . . . appealing to a group by touching on their insecurities. While most would deny their longing to be included, they secretly agree with the message she has presented.
I often think that too much importance is put on "young" and "new" designers. Every designer has a unique way of conveying an idea/message, no matter what their age or experience level is.
However, in a conference that was wrought with "young" and "new," I applaud her for being able to go above and beyond it all.
My only issue with this idea is the body copy that seems slanted in one direction on some of the issues presented. The strong message is brilliant, but it should encourage free thought and discussion, not influence it.
Well-deserved of the standing ovation.
Sean Flanagan
I'm not sure the term "comic relief" is the correct one to describe this aspect of the conference. Certainly none of the promotions from AIGA soliciting submissions touted it as such. Similarly, the tone of the application itself (no, I didn't apply) was actually fairly formal and serious, and promised benefits such as widespread exposure, etc.
Yes, Mr. Beirut's performance was loose and campy (and dead-on), and yes the judges traded light-hearted barbs with the contestants and each other, but I wouldn't relegate any of this to comic relief — not in intent, and in retrospect. To do so I think downgrades the contribution of these magnificent seven to a sort of side show to the main event — a lightweight diversion from the "real content." I think we've heard over and over now that Command-X provided some of the weekend's best insight, discourse and commentary on the process of designing. Many have exalted it as the unequivocal highlight of the conference.
There was laughter, yes, but I saw seven earnest, thoughtful, creative and remarkably articulate young people on that stage. Seven young people who risked more than any other presenter and in doing so provided a catalyst for real discussion in the process. I cried three times during Nichelle's final presentation. I was so proud for her, so moved by her effort. And while I don't think anyone anticipated that these seven would move us as they did, nor that they would take their assignments so seriously, that is certainly what they were encouraged to do, and what we were promised to expect.
In my mind they were presenters, every one. Let's not call them jesters.
Christopher Simmons
This really was one of the three moments in the conference that brought me close to tears. It was a freaking amazing and powerful moment.
I loved that the solution was so rooted copy writing. Words are pure communication and it was great to see a designer that had such a strong grasp of communication in all its forms. I am a big proponent of designers flexing their copy writing skills more. Content is strategy. Content is design. It's all communication and I commend Nichelle for being such a pro at it.
Most designers just put Lorem Ipsum and say, here is where my headline would go. Ugh.
Congrats again.
agrayspace
In my very humble (and Dutch) opinion, i think the problem could be in a strong decrease in the trust of where the votes go. I mean, Bush stole it earlier, that must be such a desillusion first and foremost. Strange things happen here in The Netherlands too but i truely foresee serious riots when the same would happen here. It all just seems a little to friendly... Big hooray anyway for the 'unconventional' method of approaching. Seeing everybody so cheerful, guess i should've been there... ;(
Ben Kessler wrote: "Tell me again why we want to ENCOURAGE these adolescents to vote? . . ."
Is this is meant to be funny somehow? If it is not, I can only think of mentioning that we allow, even encourage, 18-24 year old "adolescents" to join the military and give up their lives for our country.
Michelle Narcisi has produced some great work, really nice to see it here on DO.
Rob Henning
I'm not sure the term "comic relief" is the correct one to describe this aspect of the conference.
Sorry. I agree "comic relief" is not an accurate way to describe the intentions of the people that put together Command X, and certainly not the participants. I do maintain that it was meant to be one of the lighter segments at the conference (and certainly was in spots), and that no one was quite prepared for the seriousness that attended the final presentations. At least I wasn't.
Those who were there will well remember that Nichelle also had the funniest solution for the Jimmy Dean Pancakes and Sausage on a Stick showdown. To come back the next day with "Except You" makes her performance all the more impressive.
Michael Bierut
This is design.
It's been way too long, and there have been way too many Nike guerilla campaigns, too many iPod wild-postings - too much meaningless fluff. An exhilarating relief.
And guess what monostereo, the most valuable things in life are hard work. And I'm not talking about myspace. Your apathy (however you describe it) will not serve you much longer.
Mr. One-Hundred
...unless, of course, you are being sarcastic. Which, I guess, would make me one of the old people in that line.
Amazing ads! They really catch the eye, and the statement forces you to read the rest. I couldn't help but feel angered at first, then upon reading it; blame myself!
I to am part of the 18-24 generation. It seems everyone is more concerned with medial issues that what should matter!
EXCELLENT READ! Thank you!
Karl Hotovec
Don't bother with the endless seminars, books and websites that go on and on about 'what graphic design is'. Just look at this idea. Excellent work.
Gary Cook
This is powerful stuff and I really want to believe that design can be more than just eye candy and make a difference in our world.
Well, another form of design that's helping us change the world would be sustainable design. Incidentally, I just heard about an event dealing with sustainable design -- Utterubbish, in the Singapore Design Festival. You can check it out at www.singaporedesignfestival.com.
Good to know design has the power to make a difference!
I'm just waiting to hear when Nichelle is going to be rescued from a marketing agency in East Petersburg, PA.
Did she recieve get her "lovely parting gifts"?
felix sockwell
Yes. I agree. It is great DESIGN. It is compelling, it is interesting, it is as Mr. One-Hundred sez it is a refreshing change fromthe too-hip guerilla-ipod fad of the day. It's good design.
However I just came back from the voting booth here in WA state. How many of the posters creaming about design actually voted today or will vote today?
Mark Kaufman
I will not vote.
I have given up on voting just as I have given up on health insurance. I did not pay my premium because it is too expensive.
As i said last July:
Well, I used to think voting (health insurance) was important, every voice (body) had to be heard (healthy).
Then I considered myself ill informed, and I postured that voting (paying high premium health insurance) for the wrong person (unhealthy individuals who don't execise, smoke, drink, and feed on junk food) is worse than not voting (not having insurance at all) at all.
Reluctantly, I continued to vote (pay for ins.) for who I thought was right, aka vote my conscious, but they never won.(I never got sick enough to see a doctor) I came to the assumption that voting (insurance never changes my healthiness) never changes anything and may as well be forbidden or rigged. (forgotten)
After seeing this, I gather that we are in a brand new phase of voting. It may have numbed our minds, but not our nuts.
My mind is numb am I am nuts, but a picture of physical health
Excuse me I am coming off of a eighteen hour roadtrip from Nebraska to Indiana via South Dakota. I got in at 3:30 am. Am very tired but still need to be heard. I will try harder next time.
Proof ReAD, COPY 1 CORRECTION AFTER ROUGH DRAFT.
I not i
exeRcise not execise
for WHOM I thought was right
my mind is numb AND I am nuts.
I will probably have to run this through draft mode 2 or 3 more times. I learned in seventh grade language arts that I piece of writing is not done until you run through it four times. (vintage 1972 education theory)
Thank you, Miss Nussbaum, my seventh grade teacher. translated she was a nuttree, too.
Rescued?
Tisk tisk.
If there's one thing today's technology has empowered in design, it's the ability to do world-class work anywhere in the world. I wouldn't trade my 10 minute traffic-free commute, $1.25 large coffees or fresh clean air for any big city. Regardless of the parting gifts...
No way, no how.
Lest we think that 18 to 24 year olds are the only ones disenfranchised by apathy and by a low profile on the political radar, I should point out that minorities and the working poor have long fallen in this category. They suffer more for this act of self-exclusion, or an act induced by political hopelessness, than the young, like myself, who generally have healthy bodies and a future of possibiity before them. Don't working, single mothers also need to know that voting is not too insignificant in their labor-heavy lives? I hope people realize that these people (although they are not design-savvy) need to be targeted by a campaign like Narcisi's.
Henry Ng
Oh please... young single moms get enough attention. What about washed up, divorced grandmothers who haven't worked a day in their life?
There are no entitlement programs for us, or is it just me?
Silence is louder than voting anyway.
Dont vote. Dont be heard.
They not listening , they not listening still,
Perhaps they never will.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5-kMXwkmPk
I'm calling for a 10% voting turnout.
Tisk tisk
Right, I'm sure the dial up internet service just outside of Lancaster. is built to suit taskmasters.
ps- my coffe is free and commute is nada... thought I can't say the airs all that great in central New Jersey.
Congratulations to Nichelle Narcisi for her clever and provocative work, which has been met with near-unanimous praise by a critical audience.
I'm reluctant to be a naysayer, but feel compelled to take a minute to mourn the idea that young people could possibly be inspired -- whether it be by current events, media, family, friends, or the core of their being -- to exercise their right to vote. Rather, it seems certain members of the young generation need to be shamed into cultivating an opinion (by advertising no less), and that this "opinion" is just another form of pop culture as self-definition.
Emily Nussbaum, in a recent New York Magazine piece about the widening generation gap, suggested that today's young people think of themselves as "having an audience" and have therefore developed "thicker skin" than previous generations. If this campaign were to launch, let's hope that young people would be immune to the fact the these ads are not only manipulating them, but belittling them.
While I want to advocate any tactic that gets people to the polls, my question is this: Once you get them to the polls, who and what will these young people vote for, when they lack true conviction, and are driven to action primarily by their vanity, and fear of being excluded?
Laura Forde
It's just you.
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I was busy typing and didn't see Laura Forde's post pop up.
Laura-absolutely brilliant. Naysay away. One of the most intelligent posts I have seen on DO. No tongue in cheek on my part, either.
The only thing I would quibble on is the fact that the young do not have a corner on narcicism, fear, and lack of conviction.
The tone of your comment indicates to me that I've offended you. You should redirect your anger toward Narcisi. She's the one claiming that post-teens are a bunch of thumb-sucking, websurfing Linklaterites who need to be heckled into a voting booth. I'm happy to say that I outgrew that demographic years ago and have little to no interaction with those whose high-school diplomas bear fresh ink. Lacking first-hand knowledge, I yield to Narcisi, but my comment was meant to point out the contradiction implicit in her campaign: If youth are so feckless as to practically require an engraved invitation to perform their democratic duties, why should older folks be so solicitous of their votes? It may be true that high-schoolers in America today are more familiar with Army recruiters than New York Times columnists, but at least the military provides soldiers with basic training before thrusting them into battle. What congruent program is there for our young civilians?
Excuse me, Mark, but if you check my ideas on adblogs, you will see that many of them have come to fruition. Just that I'm paranoid that they could have been stolen. Course, adfirms and pr companies don't steal> they borrow. They really shouldn't try to be artists, dammit, artists steal. THEY ARE DESIGNERS.
I'm not impaired. I don't even drink absinthe yet. Though, my bottle of ouzo that is almost a year old is half empty.
Please see my skillfull use of very difficult 3-d programs, films that could stop a clock. Please check out my posts on adblogs which reflect the same themes as dove's real beauty campaigns.
Please see what I can do in a typography video here:
I never even finished a typography course> eight lessons is all I had.
http://homepage.mac.com/nancy9.9/Movies/iMovieTheater10.html
How many people see a person in that apple logo? The apple of an eye. How many people look that close? At least one that maybe could get a job reference in my hometown.
If any one is mentally impaired, it is my teacher at school who failed to nurture a beautiful designer career at heart. Though, I got a feeling they dip quite deeply into government entitlement over there. State reps who earn 100K for being on their board, etc.
Brilliant designs. BUT, as anyone who knows a bit about political science, these messages are so misleading it's laughable. Instead of educating you, they end-up communicating false information.
"Everyone counts, except you."
The voting system IS broken. Voting won't change that. Statistically there can be no winner on a presidential level that does not come from either the Democratic or Republican party. This is a problem inherent in the single-member system, not in the number of people who vote.
"Everyone can influence political candidates, except you."
The information at the bottom is VERY misleading. Politicians do not represent your interests because you voted for them. They represent the interests of those who funded the advertising to get you to vote for them. They'll tell you anything you want to hear to get your vote, but your interests are not represented by that vote.
Excellent designs, they will provoke so much thought and discussion and curiosity that is required for us to advance ourselves politically.
allusiv
Content is strategy. Content is design.
Strongly agreed with Allusiv's comment - where the series of designs are just misleading.
But then again, don't you agree that the purpose of most marketing campaign is to mislead? Nichelle Narcisi's work definitely did that well and put her on top of the class. :)
soufulow
Just wait till Oprah finds out about this - Nichelle you'll be flown to Chicago in no time for an "except you" special, and "except you" will be more powerful than the "oh so 90s" MTV's Rock the Vote. And because Oprah's influence reaches the whole world (and not only becasue of that), "except you" will probably be exported to Europe and translated in over 20 languages for all the Lisbon Treaty referenda. And let's not forget the real 18-24 year-old mob is in the developing countries. And they are certanly left out of a lot. How do you write "Except you" in Mandarin? Now that's graphic design.
No marketing campaign or clever design will get young people interested in voting if there are no candidates that speak to them. We've been down this road before, many times, in fact.
Since 1972 when the voting age was lowered to 18, we've heard time and again, every four years, about the promise of the "Youth Vote". Never. Happens. It's the middle-aged and the elderly who vote in far higher proportion. And, to be frank, that not only makes sense and I don't find that a bad thing. After all, these are people with double, triple the life experience of an 18-year-old, people with an investment in their communities. What does an 18-year-old have? New ideas, maybe. Hope? Maybe. Energy? Sure. Sound judgment? Maybe not better or worse than a 50-year-old. But experience? Not so much. [I myself am not even 40, by the way.]
So, yeah, while the rest of you get all teary-eyed at the "Message" of this, I shrug. I mean -- oh, don't get me wrong, it's a brilliant design campaign. But effective? Eh. Maybe. You would need a candidate who speaks this way to young voters to get young voters away from their Wii and Facebook.
It's naive to think you can get huge numbers of 18- to 24-year-olds to focus on something more than school, sex/friends, drinking, and games. Call that cynical; I prefer the term realist.
Christian in NYC
I think there are several things missed in some of the comments here.
First, while the assignment was to target 18-24 yr olds, why does everyone assume this can only speak to 18-24 yr olds? If I remember correctly (and my vision isn't failing too badly), Nichelle started off her presentation by pointing at someone in the crowd and "excluding" them and saying "except you." and that someone wasn't an 18-24 yr old. This campaign could easily be adapted with some very minor text tweaking to apply to *anyone* who doesn't vote.
Second, while I'll agree that, to some extent, politicians "represent the interests of those who funded the advertising to get you to vote for them," they also have to deal with speaking to large voter blocks, even if they aren't all represented by a large lobbying group. So while the lack of a large, well-funded lobbying group for 18-24 yr olds is definitely one reason politicians ignore them, another reason is they just don't vote. so why bother campaigning at them? you target your campaign (and your actions leading to reelection, once you're in office) toward the people who can and will vote for you. As long as youth don't vote, it doesn't really matter because they're insignificant to politicians (other than as potential volunteers with lots of energy). Voting is the first step.
More importantly, in the long run, people who vote at 20 are more likely to vote at 40 or 50. The sooner we can get people to at least pay attention to government and think about voting, the more likely we are to stave off continued drops in voter turnout.
I'd like to see what Nichelle could do to adapt this either to be used for other segments or to be more generic and just aimed at voter apathy in general.
"Once you get them to the polls, who and what will these young people vote for, when they lack true conviction, and are driven to action primarily by their vanity, and fear of being excluded?"
Since when has everyone who voted been filled with true conviction, or not been driven by their vanity? Everyone is different and have their own reasons and driving forces behind their decision to vote. Later generations are not superior to the Newer generations. The Older generations have developed their own ideals and beliefs as individuals, the same as younger generations do and have.
Since 1971, when individuals 18 and up were allowed to vote, their opinions, beliefs and ideals became relevant. So why then do people continue to exclude them and belittle them and their ideas? By telling them they don't matter, all it does is push them deeper and further away from what matters. Keeping the government in check, by letting their voices be heard.
So, it is important to get them involved, no matter how few end up being reached. If Nichelle Narcisi's Except You campaign does so, it is because it feeds off of the negativity that has been built up against younger generations of voters.
What I hoped to say is maybe if people stopped shunning them and tried listening to their ideas instead of dismissing them as young and naive, it might serve to instill a little confidence in our government from a younger disillusioned generation.
You gotta, uh.. gotta love each other or ... otherwise (strum guitar chord) politics is just a joke.
Okay, it might appear sappy, but it's not. I got that quote from the mclean YouTube video 1979 version of Mr. Como's i love you so.
I'm happy to say that I outgrew that demographic years ago and have little to no interaction with those whose high-school diplomas bear fresh ink.
- Ben Kessler
- Christian in NYC
Excuse me, but this kind of ageism is completely inappropriate. (However you feel about Nichelle's campaign.) What, exactly, is inherently wrong about being a young adult? My friends are, for the most part, politically engaged and follow the news as much as any older adult I know. My girlfriend is interning at a major presidential campaign. Christian and Ben: At what age, exactly, is it appropriate for one to become politically involved? Is there a specific birthday I'll hit when I'll suddenly have the wisdom necessary to choose a candidate?
When I do, I can only hope I haven't become cranky, arrogant, and disdainful of anyone younger than I am.
- Teddy (Age 23)
Teddy Blanks
It has been suggested that politicians have nothing to offer the 18-24 year old demographic, so that's why this group does not vote. This is a bit of a chicken/egg scenario--which came first? Do 18-24 year olds fail to vote because politicians are ignoring them? Or, are politicians ignoring them because they fail to vote? If 18-24 years olds were voting in droves, I rather suspect that politicians would sit up and begin to take notice. Every politician wants votes and is going to pander (err, I mean "communicate") to whatever group(s) can deliver the most votes.
Just as an aside, I wonder what would happen if, next Presidential election, we had one candidate who wanted to reinstitute the draft for 18-24 year olds, and one who was opposed to that idea? Would 18-24 year olds get out and vote in record numbers because of an issue that could directly affect them?
This campaign is based on what might be a faulty premise. That is, that the intended audience actually cares about the things that make up the first line of each message (saving the environment, advising military, etc.). If they don't already have some interest in these things, why would they even read on? It is a bit like asking someone to join a club that they have no interest in joining. One might not mind being excluded from the "save the environment club if one has no interest in saving the environment to begin with. Indeed, one might even be happy if that club would just get one's my back. In that way, these messages may not speak to the person who is totally disconnected, but, rather speak more to the person who is already somewhat aware of the political issues expressed—-and somewhat already engaged by those issues.
Even so, I still think it is great work and conveys important messages in a very clear, concise way.
The majority of those young people who vote do so because they already care, not because some piece of boring white paper is telling them they might make a difference. There is no visual hook, nothing at all exciting, or anything remotely interesting in the work to drive those who don't care to take the time to read on and maybe care. All that is being done here is preaching to the converted. Sure, theres an "idea" behind it, but unfotunately thats only half of graphic design. Standing ovation? God, no wonder I'm not a member of the AIGA.
While many of the comments above are insightful, thoughtful and intelligent... don't we all get tired of pretending we have everything all figured out ALL THE TIME.
Whenever one is moved to such degrees by a piece of work we should take the time to pause and ask ourselves some very critical questions. With the gleeful emotional outpouring slowly subduing we are presented with such an opportunity - one where we can reflect a little clearer on this idea.
Political action takes many forms and 'voting' is merely just one method of navigating a representative democracy. The posters in question seek to capture the critical potentiality of an emergent generation and direct them down well trodden avenues, to maintain and foster an adherence to order and normative values. The campaign does not question the political structure or the intricate relations between the problems and the systems in place to solve them - they are merely posited as reasons to vote. The emphasis is on voting, being seen to vote - to confirm that the structure is a sound one and that you confirm and conform rather than think. The message is "The problems we face are many and new, but the way to solve them is through voting". We should ask ourselves; who is this voice? and what is it's real motivation.
As some have noted, this campaign simply follows the formulaic advertising procedure. 1st. It seeks to convince you there is a problem. 2nd. It isolates, creates, and locates the lack at an individual level, and then 3rd. Supplies the one-size fits all solution - no thinking required. Everything can remain the same.
Indeed, we should make the intentions of the posters quite clear - the campaign is not targeted towards non-voters. Non-voters exist outside the remit of this simple message and are much more concerned with discovering, experimenting, forging new political approaches. That these formations exist outside of the limited scope of box-ticking is of no concern to this advert. Rather (as many of the comments appear to confirm) this work sets out to convince those that already do vote, that there procedural performance matters and has effect. It provides a sense of vindication and relieves voters of the guilt and frustration they feel when noting the systematic failure occur yet again. It is an appeasement, a certificate of citizenship handed out like sleeping pills to coma patients. When those who are not our friends make us feel comfortable, it's usually because they want something from us - and it's more often than not at our own expense.
i disagree that the ad doesn't target non-voters at all. i'm not part of the demographic (i'm in my 40s and i vote, always have), but i have a significant number of friends who are in their 20s who have strong political opinions and beliefs, but who don't vote because they think their vote doesn't matter. *THAT* is who the target demographic is for this campaign, IMO. the person who cares about what happens, but thinks their vote doesn't matter. and it's a more significant portion of the population than people might think (and not just the 18-24 demographic, either).
to agrayspace,
This is a discussion, not a bunch of know it all's preaching! You state your opinions, someone else theirs and a dialogue is born. It's how progress is made.
Teddy,
Again, the "ageism" you object to in my comments originates with Narcisi, to whom I defer on the assumption that she knows her generation as well as she clearly thinks she does. It would be ludicrous for an oldster like me to question the low opinion she holds of her peers. Her depressing description of today's youth does indeed make me say, with Maurice Chevalier, "I'm glad I'm not young anymore." However, it also doesn't inspire me to do all I can to increase voter turnout among post-teens.
I hate to re-quote here, but the first comment you left was: Tell me again why we want to ENCOURAGE these adolescents to vote? Only a society eager to bring about its own destruction would court the political involvement of this demographic. You say your opinion of our generation "originates with Narcisi," but even if her comments on our propensity for social networking reflect negatively, what I took away from her introduction is that 18-to-24-year-olds are simply too suspicious of targeted advertising, and too media-savvy to be reached by traditional "youth vote" campaigns.
This observation alone could hardly lead to your dismissal of young adults as 'adolescents' that will 'bring about society's destruction' if we enter the voting booths.
And, for the record, I'm glad you're not young anymore as well.
@Teddy: It is not "ageism" to point out that for 30+ years people have been talking about the promise of the Youth Vote. And for 30+ years, it ain't happened. Meaning, young adults have not become a voting force like, say, the AARP-age folks are a voting force. There are blips and regionalisms -- I distinctly recall it was a huge surge in college student voting that got Jesse Ventura elected governor in 1998 in Minnesota. . . [without any judgement on what kind of governor he turned out to be or, you know, the wisdom of electing that guy.]
Neither is it some criticism of "your generation" to state factually that older people have more experience and, generally, more investment in their communities. This has been true throughout time, and remains true. [See: the thousands of years of cultures that revere and defer to their elders.] There could be a good, evolutionary reasons for this: the people who have survived, survived, and maybe they have something wiser to say than those who didn't make it (e.g. "Here's how you avoid being eaten by a lion") or haven't had as much experience.
I am no way saying that young adults don't have things to contribute and if you had read my post, perhaps you might have gleaned that. I was pointing out the history of trying to get young people to vote (not much success).
I learned from my parents to be a responsible citizen, to be interested in what was going on around me. When I turned 18, I voted, and I have voted in every Presidential campaign since. Trying to instil that sense of citizenship into 18-24 year-olds, if they DON'T already have it. . . I am doubtful. I vote not because of some "clever" design campaign compells me to do so. It's a worldview. A way of thinking. I am a citizen and I participate. I take pride in that. I'm sure there are always many young people who learn the same lesson I did and act the same way. And I am also sure there are many young people who never learned about citizenship and don't care, and don't connect to their community or their country and no marketing campaign will change that. That isn't "ageism", Teddy (though kind of you to play the victim), that's just reality. If you want 18-year-olds to vote in numbers, start teaching citizenship in kindergarten to every child in the US. Otherwise, you're wasting your time.
Christian, your point is well taken. Your opinion that it's better to give up on getting young people to vote simply because it hasn't worked in the past isn't ageist, it's defeatist. I mostly take issue with the language you used, that my generation only cares about "school, sex/friends, drinking, and games." (To which games are you referring?) It's these blanket statements that are ageist.
Nobody is asking you to devote your life to getting young people to vote - It's not a particular priority of mine, either. I just ask that this forum, which seems at the moment to be devoted to a lot of speculation as to my generation's concerns and ideals, be a little more civil.
As to your contention that one should have life experience (how much, exactly?) to have a say in government, well, I say that all one needs to participate in democracy is the status of being a legal adult who is affected by the decisions our legislators and presidents make. Which is, if I'm not mistaken, how it works in this country.
@Teddy: My final comment on this. Every single bit of marketing you will see that targets 18-24 year-olds focuses exceedingly on "sex/friends, drinking, and games". Computers games, I meant [an industry that is now bigger than Hollywood]. Why do advertisers spend so much money on these subjects to lure this demographic (I mean, sorry, "your generation") to buy their goods/services? It is because those are things that interest this age group. As it did the generation before them. As it did me. As it did our grandparents. Unless you under some kind of delusion that your generation invented sex or is somehow unique among the thousands of generations this world has seen. I posit that you, like everyone else who was/is your age, is driven by millenia-old instinctual drives to pass on those genes. Men's sexual peak is at age 18, in general, women at 21. Biology is pretty much forefront for, oh, much of our species at this age, not politics. So it's really no wonder that people in this demographic have other priorities. You want to call that "ageist", fine. I call it "human".
RE life experience -- I didn't expressly say one *should* have more life experience to participate (or any experience, for that matter). I only say that those who do have more life experience happen to vote more often and regularly than those who don't. And, logically, doesn't that make sense? You're welcome to try to get your generation out in droves to study policy positions and zoning ordinances. Good luck w/ that.
There are dreamers and there are pragmatists. I never said I was the former. The world needs both.
If you want youth to vote in numbers, then make voting mandatory, like most other countries do. And start civics in pre-school. And a bunch of other long-term, systemic, institutional changes. But a standing ovation for a clever design campaign does not a revolution make. And gets exactly zero youth to the polls.
There is nothing defeatist in pointing out facts. 30 years of hoping for the youth vote to materialize hasn't really produced anything. That could change. Certainly the internet is changing politics in a big way. But that's not generation-specific. I venture to say that most political bloggers, actually, are older than you.
But, you know, I'm older than 30, so what do I know, right?
Now I'm done raining on your parade.
You say the elections are probably rigged
the politicians are corrupt
and the entire system is out dated
but our vote is our only voice
so why aren't we voting?
Didn't you just answer your own question?
You say we're at war. Americans just like me are dying.
It's true. The Republican's started the 'war'
and the Democrats had the power to stop it but didn't.
Who do you suggest i vote for?
You say the government is wasting our money
Wouldn't i like to know where it's going?
Yeah i sure would.
My parents vote, and they don't have a clue where the money goes.
If i vote will the government tell me?
You say i buy a lot of stuff therefore i'm an important part of the economy.
Shouldn't i have a say in how it works?
Yes I should.
I heard that the Federal Reserve - the institution that controls our monetary policy
is a privately owned company operating mostly outside the constraints of government.
Why should i vote again?
You say there's an environmental crisis
and it's going to affect me one way or another so i should vote.
I did. I voted for Al gore in the last election.
You say if i don't vote i don't count.
But is that all there is to being a citizen?
Being counted?
Democracy reduced down to
a single multiple choice question
once every 4 years
when we have the technology at our fingertips
to be active citizens
participating in the actual decisions our governments make.
We don't need to be jolted into voting
the system itself needs to be turned inside out.
When the system responds to our involvement
we will get involved.
When the government lets us help govern
we will cast out vote.
What I learned:
1.Content is power.
2.Simplicity has strength.
3.That I think I don't matter.
cfair
Voting is just a small slice of your engagement in a democracy. If voting is all you do, then you are effectively still only involved in the running of your country for 1 day every 4/5 years.
Democracy is ugly, kitschy, touchy, feely, and can also be jumpstarted by anyone with a camera, computer, and internet access, right, sam? especially outside aiga membership?
vote with your feet. Get up and do something!
Way too much copy.
Good idea, though.
Travis Lyle
I love the message your going for here. Awesome. I am 20 and currently still in school and I think that our generation is going to face some very serious problems. We need to unite our generation in a way that can topple the mindless power struggle and political system that has taken over this country.
How about you start a grunge campaign like OBEY. Slap it these posters on every street corner in america and see if we call can't make a difference!
My hat is off, to you.
Two-thirds say they'll do it for a year's tuition. And for a few, even an iPod touch will do.
That's what NYU students said they'd take in exchange for their right to vote in the next presidential election, a recent survey by an NYU journalism class found.
Only 20 percent said they'd exchange their vote for an iPod touch.
But 66 percent said they'd forfeit their vote for a free ride to NYU. And half said they'd give up the right to vote forever for $1 million.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/6892.html
As ok points out above - These posters would do nothing to get jaded citizens out to vote. They illuminate the problems without offering any solutions.
They do offer solution by invoke certain feeling from the people she targeted at, people who wouldn't voice their opinion.
The people who find this design ineffective are people who would normally think they are counted, think their opinion matters (probably reason why they post comment on Design Observer I guess :) )
ut, and this is the reason why I believe her design is ingenius, her target is not US. Us as in the people who would normally always voice what we think.
You have to ask yourself first, people who don't vote, people who don't get up and defend their rights... why don't they do it in the first place? To me, they are the people who can't be direct with. They think other things are more important than providing their input. May be they think that their opinion really doesn't matter, despite what everyone around them say... but what if someone to tell that to their face for real. And so she use sarcasm to get to them.
Her posters are like saying "get out to vote" except in the language of the people who normally wouldn't. To say that she offer just the problem and not solution, that is like saying "take out the garbage" only illuminate that there is a garbage.
It's not. This design works.
Panasit Ch
Nichelle Narcisi graduated magna cum laude from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 2006. She currently works as a graphic designer at Go Welsh Inc. in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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Perception of food manufacturers towards adoption of halal food supply chain in Malaysia: Exploratory factor analysis
Fadhlur Rahim Azmi, Abu Abdullah, Haslinda Musa and Wan Hasrulnizzam Wan Mahmood
Food industry players obtain the advantages of profits growth within the halal industry whereby the market is dynamic to generate profit. Hence, this study aims to analyse…
Food industry players obtain the advantages of profits growth within the halal industry whereby the market is dynamic to generate profit. Hence, this study aims to analyse the perception of food manufacturers towards the adoption of the halal food supply chain (HFSC).
For this study, 103 halal food manufacturers in Malaysia were selected as respondents. Perceptions of respondents towards HFSC were recorded using a five-point questionnaire. The questionnaire was designed by authors and adapted from a previous study. The questionnaire was circulated by two experts with proficiency in this filed.
By conducting exploratory factor analysis, the study found the perception of food manufacturers, which is expected business benefits play an important role in the adoption of HFSC. Halal integrity becomes the second factor to lead the company to its adoption. Organizational readiness is the third factor that drives the company to adopt HFSC.
Majority of the sample was responded by Bumiputera companies. The study suggests focussing the study for non-Bumiputera companies to examine their influence towards HFSC. Furthermore, future studies should explore different sectors of halal, such as pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, travel and tourism, logistics, finance and e-commerce. Moreover, ensuring the status of halal should be more emphasized in food chains; thus, the source of risk in HFSC should be explored to secure the integrity of halal.
The paper includes implications for the halal food industry, whereby the adoption of HFSC will contribute to the business benefits to create a more competitive advantage to the industry. Moreover, the implications of halal practice can create consumers’ trust on the halal product.
This paper fulfils an analysed need to study specifically on upstream parties by adopting HFSC.
Journal of Islamic Marketing, vol. 11 no. 3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JIMA-12-2018-0236
Halal adoption
Halal food supply chain
Islamic Pedagogy for Embodied Learning
Glenn Hardaker and Aishah Ahmad Sabki
Pedagogy in Islamic Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78754-531-120181007
Influence of economic freedom and its subcomponents on risk-taking behavior: Evidence from dual banking system of Malaysia
Rafik Harkati, Syed Musa Alhabshi and Salina Kassim
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of economic freedom and six relevant subcomponents of it on the risk-taking behavior of banks in the Malaysian…
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of economic freedom and six relevant subcomponents of it on the risk-taking behavior of banks in the Malaysian dual banking system. It also aims to make a comparative analysis between Islamic and conventional banks operating in this dual banking sector. Moreover, the study is an effort to enrich the existing literature by presenting empirical evidence on the argument that the risk-taking behavior of the two types of banks is indistinguishable given that they operate in the same regulatory environment.
Secondary data of all banks operating in the Malaysian banking sector are collected from FitchConnect database, in addition to the economic freedom index from Foundation Heritage for the period 2011–2017. Generalized least squares technique is employed to estimate the influence of economic freedom and the six relevant subcomponents of it on the risk-taking behavior of banks.
The level of economic freedom influenced risk-taking behavior within the banking sector as a whole, conventional and Islamic banking sectors negatively during the study period (2011–2017). Risk-taking behavior of conventional and Islamic banks is similar. However, conventional banks turn to be less influenced by economic freedom level as compared to Islamic banks.
The government and regulators may benefit from the results by rethinking and setting the best economic freedom index that better serves the stability of the banking system, and lessens banks’ risk-taking inclination.
To the present time, this paper is thought to be of a significant contribution. Given the argument that Islamic and conventional banks behave in the same way. This is one of the first attempts to address this issue in light of the influence of economic freedom and six subcomponents of it on the risk-taking behavior of banks operating in a dual banking system.
Review of Behavioral Finance, vol. 12 no. 4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/RBF-09-2019-0119
Islamic banks
Conventional banks
Economic freedom subcomponents
Risk-taking behaviour
Causality in Islamic marketing research: Building consistent theories and stating correct hypotheses
Djavlonbek Kadirov, Ibraheem Bahiss and Ahmet Bardakcı
Highlighting the need for a profound move towards desecularisation of Islamic scholarship, this conceptual paper aims to clarify the concept of causality from the Islamic…
Highlighting the need for a profound move towards desecularisation of Islamic scholarship, this conceptual paper aims to clarify the concept of causality from the Islamic marketing research perspective and extends a number of suggestions for improving theory building and hypothesis development in the field.
The approach taken is largely conceptual. In addition, this study collates the stated hypotheses in the articles published in this journal in the past five years and analyses the structure of causal statements to uncover key tendencies.
The review of historical and current views on causality indicates that most commentators agree that assuming the existence of the necessary connection between cause and effect is misleading. The Islamic traditions based on occasionalism and modern science agree that causal statements reflect, at best, probabilistic assumptions.
This paper offers a number of insights and recommendations for theory building and hypothesis development in Islamic marketing. By following the occasionalism perspective and the notion of Sunnah of Allah, researchers will be able to build methodologically coherent and genuine Islamic marketing knowledge.
Correctly stated and tested hypotheses can be used by public policymakers to enforce effective consumer and market policies.
This paper tackles a complex issue of causality in Islamic marketing research which has not hitherto been discussed well in the literature. This research is also a unique step towards developing pioneering avenues within the domain of Islamic marketing research methodology.
Journal of Islamic Marketing, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
Desecularization
Hypothesis development
Islamic marketing
Housing delivery to the low income in Botswana
Johnson Kampamba, Simon Kachepa, Boipuso Nkwae, Ntombi Godiraone Matlhogojane and Tuelo Outule
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the housing delivery to the low income through the Self Help Housing Agency (SHHA) in Gaborone, Botswana.
Data were collected through the use of questionnaire, interviews, records searches and observations using the mixed-method approach to establish why people sale houses. Proportionate and simple random sampling was used to obtain a sample size of 93 plots for both new SHHA areas and old SHHA areas at 90 per cent confidence level. For each plot, data pertaining to plot allocation, plot ownership, exchange of ownership over the years were collected.
The findings revealed that the programme has been hit by challenges emanating from the low-income group selling their houses to middle-income group which is predominant in the area thus leading to gentrification. It was also established that the number of sales in SHHA areas were increasing as evidenced from the transfers that were taking place. This could be influenced by the increasing demand for housing due to a growing population in Gaborone. The findings also revealed that demand is one of the determinants of rising prices, thus an incentive to the low-income group to sell their houses at higher prices.
The implication of these findings is that the low income will be displaced and might become homeless in future thus creating an opportunity for illegal settlements to develop.
The study has provided a context in which housing delivery to the low-income group can be safe guarded.
International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, vol. 11 no. 2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHMA-06-2017-0059
Housing delivery
Low-income group
SHHA
Publication date: 18 July 2019
Measuring corporate halal reputation: A corporate halal reputation index and research propositions
Marco Tieman
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new framework to measure corporate halal reputation. In this conceptual paper, the “Corporate Halal Reputation Index” is…
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new framework to measure corporate halal reputation. In this conceptual paper, the “Corporate Halal Reputation Index” is proposed, which acts as predictor for corporate halal reputation and sales in Muslim markets.
This paper builds further on previous work published in the Journal of Islamic Marketing on Islamic Branding. Research propositions are constructed on the drivers and moderating variables of corporate halal reputation.
Halal authenticity, trustworthiness of halal certification body, messages by company and supply chain partners, messages by external stakeholders and the moderating variables category of Islamic brand and sensitivity of product are expected to determine the corporate halal reputation. Alignment between the corporate halal reputation drivers and halal market requirements will be critical for brands to earn and protect their license to operate in Muslim markets.
This conceptual paper proposes that halal authenticity, trustworthiness of halal certification body, messages by company and supply chain partners, and messages by external stakeholders, as well as two moderating variables, are essentially determining the corporate halal reputation. However, empirical research is needed through a case study and survey research to validate the proposed “Corporate Halal Reputation Index” and test these research propositions.
This study shows that corporate halal reputation management is different from conventional corporate reputation management. The corporate halal reputation index should be measured and included in balanced scorecards at top management level.
The “Corporate Halal Reputation Index” is envisioned to be the new key performance indicator for both the top management and halal committee (halal management team) operating in Muslim markets. As there is an evident lack of academic research in the field of corporate halal reputation management, it provides an important reference for corporate communication and Islamic branding and marketing.
Halal reputation
Corporate halal reputation
Halal authenticity
Halal reputation index
The mediating role of intellectual capital in corporate governance and the corporate performance relationship
Tamer Mohamed Shahwan and Mohamed Mahmoud Fathalla
This paper aims to investigate the impact of intellectual capital (IC) as a mediator variable on the association between corporate governance (CG) practices and firm…
This paper aims to investigate the impact of intellectual capital (IC) as a mediator variable on the association between corporate governance (CG) practices and firm performance. This study also examines bi-causality linkages between these variables.
The designated corporate governance index and the value-added intellectual coefficient method were used to assess the level of CG practices and the performance of IC. Tobin’s Q (TQ) and operating efficiency ratio were used to measure firm performance.
The aggregate CG score has a significant positive impact on the IC and the two measures of firm performance. However, the IC has only a partial mediation effect on the relationship between the aggregate corporate governance score and a firm’s operational efficiency ratio. The IC has partial and full mediation effects in the relationship between the sub-dimensions of corporate governance and the performance of Egyptian corporates. Moreover, a bi-causality relationship can be observed between CG and TQ.
Generalizing the obtained results would require the sample size to be extended.
The findings should alert legislative institutions and practitioners of the need to comply with good CG practices and develop the efficiency of IC to elicit a firm’s superior performance.
This study is one of the first attempts to investigate the causality relationships and the mediation impact of IC on the relationship between CG practices and corporate performance in the Egyptian context.
International Journal of Ethics and Systems, vol. 36 no. 4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOES-03-2020-0022
VAIC
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Proceedings of MICoMS 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-793-1-00000
Publication date: 12 June 2017
An Islamic macromarketing perspective on sustainability
Noha M. El-Bassiouny, Jonathan A.J. Wilson and Suzan Esmat
The purpose of this paper is to present a new conceptualization of sustainability. The authors adopt a macromarketing perspective based on Islamic traditions while delving…
The purpose of this paper is to present a new conceptualization of sustainability. The authors adopt a macromarketing perspective based on Islamic traditions while delving into divine attributes (Asmaa’ Allah-ul-Husna) as an extension to the foundational principle of God-consciousness that lies at the heart of Islamic theology and jurisprudence.
This approach relies on identifying and extending the conceptual overlaps between the literature domains of sustainability, Islamic macromarketing and Islamic theology.
Through adopting an Islamic lens, the authors identify that relating to divinity empowers the Muslim faithful to mediate between the transient and transcendent, and to make judgments according to the attributes of their creator Allah (the Abrahamic monotheistic God).
The paper adopts a conceptual approach that expands the concept of sustainability from an Islamic perspective to take on a holistic systems approach.
By making these links, the implications are fivefold: the imperative to strive for sustainable activities has greater resonance; the remit of sustainability is wider; the time horizon for accountability is extended; greater risk-tasking is encouraged; and, finally, sustainability is embedded and diffused throughout business activities – as opposed to being an upstream strategic objective.
The merge in conceptualization between sustainability and Islamic macromarketing can prove relevant to scholars delving into the new realm of Islamic macromarketing, as well as to both Muslim and non-Muslim communities in their quest for sustainable development.
The paper is original in identifying an unprecedented perspective on sustainability, namely, “Islamic-macromarketing sustainability”, which warrants further future research related to the different stakeholders involved in the Islamic macromarketing system.
Journal of Islamic Marketing, vol. 8 no. 2
Halal market
Islamic business ethics
Islamic life style markets
Islamic macromarketing
ABE SUPPLEMENT: Malaysian Division
Eleanor Macdonald
What is Management? A number of classic definitions of the purpose and functions of management exist which serve to give overall comprehension and insight into this very…
What is Management? A number of classic definitions of the purpose and functions of management exist which serve to give overall comprehension and insight into this very complex activity. To state broad principles is very important, as they give the essential perspective to the manager's role. All too often day‐to‐day working on a job, particularly in the rapidly‐changing conditions in which management is practised today, tends to give an ant's eye, rather than a bird's eye, view of the manager's job. So much paper — so many crisis situations — too few resources — too many constraints — make many managers into 'doers” of mini‐tasks, too few into broad vision organisers aiming for results.
Education + Training, vol. 26 no. 2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb017003
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Strategic Oversight Committee for Faculty Hiring
The 2012 College of Engineering Draft Strategic Plan sets two specific goals regarding recruitment and retention of faculty. The percentage of female faculty should increase from 14% to 20%, and the percentage of underrepresented minority faculty should increase from 7% to 10% by 2020. In addition, the College remains committed to the goal of Cornell's ADVANCE grant of having at least 20% women in each science and engineering department.
Our commitment to hiring a diverse faculty
To facilitate faculty recruiting that will support these goals, in 2007 the Cornell Engineering established the Strategic Oversight Committee (SOC) for faculty hiring. This committee’s mission is to help ensure that faculty searches in the College follow best practices for achieving diversity in new faculty hires. The committee will have five members: three senior faculty members, plus the Associate Dean for Diversity, Faculty Recruiting and Mentoring, and the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs.
The committee is advisory to the Dean and will interface with the departmental search committee at three critical stages: (1) search approval, (2) invitations to candidates for interviews, and (3) offer approval. The departmental search committee chair will meet with the SOC prior to each of these three stages and report on specific aspects of the recruiting process. These meetings are detailed below:
(1) In the summer to early fall time period, requests from department directors/chairs for new faculty searches will be made to the Dean (see the Faculty Search and Startup Request document1). In parallel, the departmental search committee chair will submit a recruitment plan incorporating key points to the SOC (see Appendix A). The SOC will make a recommendation to the Dean regarding approval of the search. In the event of a negative recommendation, the SOC will provide detailed feedback to the departmental search committee chair regarding the elements essential for approval. If the search is approved, the department director/chair will inform the Dean and SOC about the membership of each search committee. The search committee members are required to participate in at least one of the search committee training sessions sponsored by the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity. At the start of the search the departmental search committee will meet with the Associate Dean for Diversity to discuss best practices in interviewing. The Associate Dean will provide the committee with information and discuss best practices in the context of the particular departmental search.
(2) Prior to extending invitations to interview candidates, the search committee must demonstrate the diversity of the applicant pool to the SOC. Required elements of this demonstration are detailed in Appendix B. The SOC will provide an assessment of the faculty search process to the departmental search committee, with a particular focus on diversity efforts. As searches continue and further invitations require action, search committees may perform a "running update" with the SOC to facilitate quick action on further invitations.
(3) When the department wishes to make an offer to a faculty candidate, the departmental search committee will provide the SOC with summary information on the diversity of the search, and justify the candidate receiving the offer. The faculty vote must be included. The SOC will then make a recommendation to the Dean on the approval of the offer. Offers will not be made to candidates without a recommendation to the Dean by the SOC and approval granted to the department director/chair by the Dean. The department director/chair will meet separately with the Dean to discuss the candidate before approval is granted.
The College, with assistance from the campus, may be able to provide startup or bridging funds necessary to successfully recruit candidates from an under-represented group. If an exceptional diverse candidate is identified, but his/her expertise is outside of the search area, the College may be able to create a new faculty position if the candidate’s area of expertise is related to the goals of the College’s strategic plan.
Appendix A: Information required to initiate searches
When presenting a request to the SOC, the following items will be expected from the Departmental Search Committee (DSC):
1. Job description, proposed advertising language, rank and area, along with a five-year departmental search history with gender and URM3 (under-represented minority) breakdown of hires plus interviewed candidates for each previous search.
2. A list of Women and URMs in the same field as department at top-30 ranked institutions, separated as senior/post-tenure and junior/ pre- tenure and indicating current institution and contact information. The list may be used to contact some individuals regarding their interest in the position and/or to ask them to help in identifying particularly promising Women and URMs currently in non-faculty positions. The individuals contacted for this particular search should be tracked and noted.
3. Describe the department’s plans to actively develop a diverse applicant pool. At a minimum this should include the advertising plan, and the plan for identifying and contacting potential applicants.
Appendix B: Demonstration of diversity in applicant pool
Prior to extending invitations to interview candidates, the search committee must document that active efforts were taken to diversify the applicant pool and must demonstrate the diversity of the applicant pool to the SOC. Required elements of this demonstration are:
1. A running tally of gender and URM breakdown of all applicants (Note: this is a running tally as a DSC may need to approach the SOC multiple times to request interviewees)
2. Four ranked lists:
top 10 applicants to date
top 5 male applicants
top 5 feamle applicants
top 5 under-represented minority applications
*It is possible that a desirable candidate will emerge before the interviewing process is complete. A request to offer can be made at this stage of the search.
*URM refers to all U.S. citizens, either naturalized or permanent residents that have African, Hispanic or Native American heritage.
For each of these ranked applicants, include current position and institution, Ph.D. institution and whether the application was solicited/unsolicited.
In addition to the above data, the DSC Chair (or other representative) should be prepared to answer the following questions if meeting with the SOC in person or provide the answers if submitting a written request:
Where was the position ad posted?
How many applications resulted from the advertisement?
How many applications resulted from individual solicitations?
Who did the DSC contact at peer institutions for recommendations of people to consider?
Who in the department beyond the DSC contributed contacts at other institutions or applicants to consider for the position?
What has the DSC done to actively diversify the applicant pool?
What has the DSC done to ensure that the top candidates are diverse?
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Foundry Corporate News - Topic Low-pressure diecasting - Topic Pressure Die Casting - Topic Discharging, Decoring, Fettling, Finishing
RÖSLER - Fast and cost effective finishing of aluminum die-castings
Vibratory finishing system utilizes customer’s existing material handling & drying equipment
When it comes to high volume production of complex aluminum die-castings, Kovolis Hedvikov a.s. is a sought after partner by numerous car manufacturers and their suppliers. To expand its capacity and achieve more flexibility in the overall manufacturing process this company purchased a new vibratory finishing system that can handle a wide work piece spectrum and was custom engineered to fit into the available space at the customer’s premises.
The die-casting company Kovolis Hedvikov a.s., founded in 1816 as an ironworking operation, has a long and eventful history. Since 1945 the company focus has been entirely on aluminum die-casting. Today, Kovolis produces components from nine different aluminum alloys weighing between 200 grams (7 ounces) and 8 kg (18 lbs.) with different casting technologies like vacuum investment casting and rheocasting. Their product range includes brakes, power steering systems, turbo chargers and compressors for air conditioning systems. Their customers are renowned car manufacturers and tier-1 suppliers who also employ Kovolis as an important partner for product development. In addition, the company provides services for machining, heat treatment and surface finishing.
Fast and gentle surface finishing
Jiri Buzek, manager of foundry III at Kovolis, explains the need for a new vibratory finishing system as follows: “Our product portfolio underwent a drastic change in the past years. The trend goes more and more to larger and more delicate components, which require a vibratory finishing step after punch deburring for their downstream handling. Our existing finishing system was not designed for this and had also reached the end of its productive service life.” The new system had not only to cope with larger work pieces, but the finishing process also had to be a lot gentler. Additional customer requirements were high equipment uptimes and cost efficiency. And, above all else, the new finishing system had to be integrated into the existing manufacturing operation, utilizing the existing work piece loading device and hot air belt drier.
The planning engineers at Kovolis submitted these specifications to two German equipment suppliers. The foundry manager continues: “We decided to go with the Rösler continuous feed vibratory finishing system, because it offers ample capacity, and Rösler met all our special technical requirements. Of course, the fact that our company has had excellent experience with other equipment from the same supplier certainly helped.” Important was also that besides the equipment Rösler can also supply all compounds and finishing media the customer needs. This allows the perfect adaptation of the finishing process to the customer’s work pieces.
Fully automatic feeding of the work pieces every 30 seconds
The new finishing system consists of a linear continuous feed machine, type R 550/4600 DA, with a usable length of 4.6 meters (15 feet). The functions of the existing work piece loading system and hot air belt drier were integrated into the overall system controls. „Rösler met all our technical requirements and provided valuable support in optimizing our finishing process,” explains Mr. Buzek.
About 30 different work pieces with a maximum diameter of 300 mm (12 inches) are currently processed in the R 550/4600 DA. Since it can handle parts with diameters of up to 400 mm (16 inches), this machine offers a high degree of flexibility for the future. Moreover, the system for automatic work piece loading can be easily adapted to a new work piece loading system, which may be installed later on. Depending on their individual design the castings are fed into the finishing system at cycle times between 30 and 60 seconds. The single curve U-shaped cross section of the processing channel guarantees the optimum movement of the media and work pieces through the machine. This unique design and the use of high performance plastic media, type RKM, produces perfect finishing results within a maximum processing time of eight minutes. The processing time can be adjusted by simple inclination of the processing bowl. Compared to systems with a separate vibratory discharge channel the work pieces are travelling through the machine at a constant speed. This prevents any jams, which could cause nicking or, even, deformation of the work pieces.
Dual stage separation with rinsing station
To prevent any damage to the delicate work pieces during the separation cycle, the multi-deck vibratory screening unit contains two steps with minimal drop heights. The undersize media classification system is equipped with an adjustable bar screen, which allows Kovolis to decide at which dimensions undersize media must be discharged.
Since the finished die-castings do not undergo a separate cleaning step for removal of media fines from their surface, the separation unit is equipped with a spray-rinse station. After the work pieces have passed through the hot air belt drier, they go straight to packaging or machining.
Cleaning of the process water with an automatic centrifuge
In addition to the R 550/4600 DA finishing machine the customer also purchased a fully automatic centrifuge, type Z 1000 for cleaning of the process water. Besides the new finishing system this unit also handles all existing rotary vibrators. With a centrifugal force of up to 2,000 g the centrifuge removes solid particles bigger than 2 µm from the process water. Discharge of the sludge weighing up to 30 kg (66 lbs.) from the rotating drum takes place fully automatically. While in competitive centrifugal systems the peeling knife is constantly rotating with the drum, the Z 1000 is equipped with a stationary peeling knife. During the peeling cycle the knife pneumatically moves to the inner wall of the slowly rotating drum and removes the sludge without placing any additional load on the drum bearings. Upon completion of the peeling cycle the inside of the drum is cleaned by a spray rinse system. This prevents any sludge deposits, which during subsequent peeling cycles might lead to an imbalance causing premat re wear of the drum bearings. Mr. Buzek concludes: “In the past we cleaned our process water chemically or with a semi-automatic centrifuge. This was highly labor intensive and costly. With respect to process water-cleaning Rösler provided us again with the optimum solution. We are certain that with the new equipment we will not only improve the quality of our finishing operation but, at the same time, will become more cost efficient.”
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"THE MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER" (1953) Review
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Tyrone Power's career took a strange turn during the post-World War II years. Although he still managed to maintain his position as one of Twentieth Century Fox's top stars during the remainder of the 1940s, something happened as the 1950s dawned. Powers still found himself in Grade A movies during that particular decade. But he also seemed to appear in a growing number of standard costume melodramas.
Twentieth Century Fox lent Powers to Universal Pictures to star in the 1953 drama called "THE MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER". Directed by Rudolph Maté, "THE MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER" told the story of a New York-born gambler named Mark Fallon, who moves to New Orleans with ambitions to create his own gambling casino. During the riverboat journey down the Mississippi River, Mark becomes the friend and protégé of an older gambler named Kansas John Polly. The pair also run afoul of a crooked gambler and two Creole siblings named Angelique and Laurent Dureau. During a poker game, Mark exposes the crooked gambler. Also Laurent Dureau loses all of his money and his sister's priceless necklace during the game. Upon his arrival in New Orleans, Mark becomes acquainted with the Dureaus' father, Edmond Dureau. The latter admires Mark and realizes that the younger man is in love with Angelique. Unfortunately, she refuses to acknowledge Mark and sets matrimonial sights upon a friend of her brother's, banker George Elwood. Mark and Kansas John meet and help Ann Conant, the daughter of an unlucky gambler who had committed suicide. She helps the two friends build their casino, yet at the same time, falls in love with Mark. And both she and Mark become uncomfortably aware that Laurent Dureau has fallen in love with her.
While reading the synopsis of this film, I noticed that it was identified as an adventure film. "THE MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER" does feature some action sequences that include a fist fight aboard a riverboat, at least two duels and a murder attempt. But for some reason, I am hard pressed to consider it an adventure film. There seemed to be a lot more drama and action in this film. Especially melodrama. Production wise, "THE MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER" struck me as an attractive looking film. Being a constant visitor of the Universal Studios theme park, it was easy to recognize some of the exterior scenes from the studio's back lot. I doubt that "THE MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER" had the budget to be shot on location in Louisiana. But I still would not describe it as cheap looking for a standard melodrama, thanks to Irving Glassberg's sharp photography. Even Bill Thomas' costume designs added to the film's visual style. However, there was one costume worn by leading lady Piper Laurie that reflected the early 1950s, instead of the early 1850s.
I have no problems with the movie's performances. Tyrone Powers gave a subtle, yet excellent performance as the good-hearted Mark Fallon, who had not only become enamored of New Orleans society, but also the leading lady. His chemistry with Piper Laurie struck me as pretty solid, but not particularly striking. I think Laurie's portrayal of the aristocratic and hot-tempered Angelique seemed a bit too fiery . . . and possibly too young for the more sedate Powers. The actor seemed to have better chemistry with Julie Adams, who portrayed the sweet-tempered, yet practical and mature Ann Conant. I found myself wishing that her character was Powers' leading lady. The lead actor certainly clicked with John McIntire, who portrayed Mark's close friend, Kansas John Polly. The two men seemed to have created their own on-screen bromance with considerable ease. John Bear gave a very credible performance as Laurent Dureau, the careless, yet passionate young scion who happened to be the leading lady's brother. Paul Cavanaugh was equally competent as Angelique and Laurent's elegant father, Edmond Dureau. I would comment on the rest of the cast. But if I must be honest, I found them unmemorable . . . including Ron Randell, who portrayed Angelique's corrupt husband, George Elwood.
While reading about the film, I also learned that "THE MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER" was a big hit during early 1953. Leslie I. Carey, even managed to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Sound Recording for his work on the movie. But you know what? Despite the decent production designs, visual styles and solid performances from the cast, I have a pretty low opinion of "THE MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER". In fact, I am astounded that this movie was a box office hit. Perhaps that sounded arrogant. Who am I to judge the artistic tastes of others? I certainly do not like for others to judge my tastes or attempt to infringe their tastes upon me. But I have to say that I did not like "THE MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER".
What was it about the movie that I disliked? Seton I. Miller's screenplay. I found it very ineffective. In other words, I thought it sucked. Exactly what was this movie about? Mark Fallon's struggles to build his New Orleans casino? His adventures as a riverboat gambler? His romance (it that is what you want to call it) with Angelique Dureau. Apparently, it is all of the above. But Miller's story struck me as extremely vague and very episodic. The only storyline that remained consistent from beginning to end was the love story between Mark Fallon and Angelique Dureau. And honestly, it did not strike me as a well constructed love story. The problem seemed to be the character of George Elwood. Instead of marrying him earlier in the story, Angelique did not marry him until the final half hour.
The love story was not the only problem I had with the plot for "THE MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER". One scene featured the leading characters witnessing a dance number by slaves or free blacks in an area known as Congo Square. I am aware that such performances did occurred in 19th century New Orleans. I found it more than disconcerting that the dancers featured in the movie were white performers in blackface as African-Americans. Mark Fallon's struggle to build a casino did not come off as much of a struggle to me. In fact, Mark, Kansas John and Ann Conant managed to build the casino within the movie's second half hour and lose it, thanks to George Elwood's financial manipulations by the last half hour. Not only did the banker's financial manipulations concluded the story line regarding the casino in an unsatisfying manner, but the same could be said about how Mark and Angelique's love story ended. I could go into detail about what happened, but why bother? It would be a waste of time. All I can say is that I found the conclusion of Miller's story vague, rushed and very unsatisfying.
In a nutshell, "THE MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER" possessed both a decent visual style and production designs. It also featured solid performances from a cast led by Tyrone Power and Piper Laurie. But the first-class costume melodrama that Universal Pictures set out to create was undermined by a vague and unsatisfying story written by screenwriter Seton I. Miller. It seemed a pity that within the seven to eight years following the end of World War II, Tyrone Power's career led him to this.
A Beautiful Tale: recap of episode 8 (War & Peace)
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Andrei, as usual, is weary of life. This guy seriously he was born disatisfied with life and sad. Well I guess it isn’t really strange with that crazy, patriarchal, selfish father and that annoying sister of his. However when he meets Natasha at the Rostov family home it’s like a fresh breath of life and obviously he fells in love with her. It’s absolutely natural that he feels drawn to her, since Natasha is so charming, pretty and full of life.
Lieutenant Berg, who is set to marry Vera Rostov, discusses the question of her dowry with the Count and he is so much in love with her that...
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UN expert report unmasks Libya arms embargo violations
Tripoli (AFP)
From buying an Irish navy boat re-registered as a "pleasure yacht" to enlisting a Canadian firm to recruit Sudanese fighters -- Libya's warring parties are running rings around a UN arms embargo.
That's the upshot of a near-400-word report published this week by UN experts, who accuse an array of firms and external powers of violating a 2011 embargo by delivering arms or fighters to the North African country.
Mired in chaos since the NATO-backed uprising that toppled and killed dictator Moamer Kadhafi eight years ago, Libya's military malaise has deepened further this year.
Eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar in April launched an offensive against the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) -- a military campaign the UN panel of experts says has "unleashed new transfers of military equipment" to Libya.
Such transfers have been "repeated and sometimes blatant, with scant regard paid to compliance with the sanctions measures", the report says, noting that some deliveries were long planned and painstakingly disguised.
The UN experts conclude "the arms embargo was ineffective, and resulted in regular maritime and air transfers to Libya of military material".
For example, they detail the opaque process surrounding the transfer of an Irish navy patrol boat to Haftar's forces.
Sold for 110,000 euros ($122,000) in March 2017 by the Irish government to a Dutch company, it was then bought for $525,000 by an Emirati firm and re-registered in Panama as a "pleasure yacht".
- 'External parties' -
The ship was subsequently bought by Haftar's forces for $1.5 million.
The vessel was supposed to be delivered to Alexandria, the report says, but instead arrived in the eastern Libyan coastal city of Benghazi without ever docking at the Egyptian port, the UN investigators found.
Once in Benghazi -- held by Haftar's forces -- it was refitted with weaponry akin to when it was an Irish navy vessel, including a 40-millimetre-calibre cannon and two 20-millimetre cannons, says the report.
In an interview last month with AFP, Ghassan Salame, the head of the UN mission in Libya, decried the escalatory activity of "external parties".
The UN report highlights Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey as regular embargo violators, with Amman and Abu Dhabi allegedly funnelling arms to Haftar, while Ankara equips the GNA.
More and more sophisticated arms including drones, armoured vehicles and anti-tank missiles have been delivered to the two camps in recent months.
The report accuses the UAE of delivering a Russian aerial defence system (Pantsir-S1) to Haftar's forces.
- Sudanese militiamen -
The report says foreign combatants have been recruited by both sides, including from Sudan and Chad, but makes no mention of Russian mercenaries who -- according to media reports denied by Moscow -- have fought alongside Haftar's forces.
It names recruiters and middlemen, including one who allegedly played both sides, transferring fighters to both Haftar's forces and GNA loyalists.
The biggest contingent, some 1,000 fighters, came from Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia in support of Haftar, the experts say.
They were deployed in Libya on July 25 this year by RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, a key player in Sudan's political transition in following the ouster earlier this year of veteran dictator Omar al-Bashir.
The UN experts say that the Sudanese fighters were sent to Libya under a contract signed in Khartoum on May 7 between Canadian firm Dickens & Madson and Daglo, in the name of Sudan's military council.
The contract, annexed to the UN report, saw the company pledge to Daglo that it would "strive to obtain funding for your council" from Haftar's administration in exchange for the military assistance.
Contacted by AFP, the RSF denied sending any soldiers to Libya.
The experts said they were still examining the role played by the Canadian company in the alleged deployment of Sudanese soldiers.
They deplored the persistent and growing involvement of international and regional actors, both state and non-state, as a military stalemate continues on the ground on the outskirts of Tripoli.
This week, Ankara even promised to send troops to Libya to support the GNA, if required, further exacerbating tensions.
In a bid to revive the political process, Salame has set up an international conference in Berlin for early 2020 with the stated goal of putting to an end to international divisions on Libya.
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HDR video formats - the prospects
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In The State of HDR mid-2017 I explain what HDR video formats there are, and what brands support each, but not much about the future outlook. How strong is each format’s position? What is the sentiment in the market and the media? Let’s have a look.
HDR10, the first HDR video format, is firmly established. It is widely supported: Every single TV brand that offers an HDR TV supports HDR10. On the content side, HDR10 is also omnipresent. It’s the default HDR format on Ultra HD Blu-ray and all OTT video streaming services with HDR content support it now, including Netflix, Amazon Video and Vudu. Also, the game consoles that can handle HDR – Sony PlayStation4 Slim/Pro and Microsoft Xbox One S/X – output HDR10.
Dolby Vision is not universally supported. Notable absentees include TV makers Samsung and Panasonic, plus movie studio 20th Century Fox, for reasons explained further down under HDR10+, but Dolby Vision is clearly established as the premium HDR format. No premium Ultra HD TV should be without it. This could become a problem for Samsung and Panasonic.
On a sideline note, Samsung of course faces another issue: the company lacks OLED TVs in their line-up. By now, OLED has already become a metaphor for a superior product, at least where contrast is concerned. In just two years time we’ve witnessed a complete reversal: In 2015, LG was alone in using OLED in their flagship TVs. Now LG, Sony, Panasonic, Philips, B&O and Loewe all use OLED in their flagship models, and Samsung is virtually alone in using LCD in their top-of-the-range TV sets.
Will Samsung give in and adopt OLED for its premium TVs at some point? It's hard to see how they could do so without losing face. Samsung is now attacking OLED display technology, which is odd if you consider that Samsung is huge in small form factor OLED displays for mobiles and tablets. Yet the manufacturer can't seem to make large-size OLED panels for UHD TVs while with LG the situation is exactly the other way round: Samsung's flagship mobiles and LG's flagship TVs use OLED while Samsung's flagship TVs and LG's top-of-the-range handsets use LCDs. At one point, Samsung had their own OLED HDTV set (not Ultra HD) but like Sony and Panasonic they abandoned OLED TV production apparently because they couldn't achieve high enough yields in the panel manufacture.
Right now, it seems as if Samsung is trying to confuse consumers. On the way to true QLED panels (self-emissive ones we'll probably see by 2019) Samsung's hijacked the QLED branding for its Quantum Dot LCDs but note how they're meticulously avoiding any mention of "LCD" in their marketing. A lot of tech journalists seem to buy it, and very few call it what it really is.
Sometimes the confusion is likely unintentional, like when Samsung’s own marketing department gets confused by their own branding of HDR10+ (their dynamic metadata HDR format) and HDR+ (their SDR-to-HDR upconversion algorithm).
Anyway, we’re drifting off. Samsung is the biggest TV maker in world, and it could prove difficult to defend their position in the high-end market segment lacking OLED as well as Dolby Vision.
In terms of content support, Dolby Vision is ramping up very well. We’re seeing Ultra HD Blu-rays with Dolby Vision getting released since the middle of 2017. Some of the most important streaming services offer Dolby Vision content, notably Netflix, Amazon Video and Vudu. And Dolby Vision just got a strong boost from the Apple TV 4K / iTunes announcement. In fact, the Apple news was also a major shot in the arm for HDR and even 4K in general. They can now be regarded mainstream; there’s no reason any longer to claim they are niche things.
Most press coverage so far mentions only two HDR formats. HDR10 and Dolby Vision. Only rarely one or two of the other three relevant formats are mentioned.
Hybrid Log Gamma, the HDR format developed by NHK and BBC, is actively used in Japan by broadcasters such as SkyPerfecTV. In Europe it is barely used yet, even by BBC itself. There has been a very brief iPlayer trial with a limited selection of Panasonic TV models supported. The content, a fragment from BBC’s Planet Earth II documentary, was in UHD but it’s not clear whether it was actual HDR. Stateside, HLG is even less present. TravelXP 4K and Insight TV, special interest channels broadcast by satellite and distributed to consumers in Europe and North America via cable and IPTV, are the first to transmit in 4K HDR using HLG.
Most TV brands now support HLG, even Samsung, reportedly, although there is no official statement about this to be found anywhere. HLG is also supported by professional equipment such as Sony cameras and monitors.
At IFA 2016, many TV brands had HLG demos. At IFA 2017 however there was less of it rather than more.
It seems BBC and NHK have focused on getting HLG into standards such as the Ultra HD Forum’s UHD Phase A spec, and BT.2100.
HLG has still got the best position for HDR broadcasting. It’s a practical short-term solution because it’s very compatible with existing workflows. Dolby Vision is ready for broadcast however. It may have the best cards for the long term.
Philips/Technicolor SL-HDR1
The joint HDR format of Philips and Technicolor, SL-HDR1 (formerly Prime Single) may suffer from the same issue: It seems the companies have been focusing their efforts mostly on getting their format into standards. SL-HDR1 is a candidate standard for ATSC 3.0, along with Dolby Vision. Philips HDR is also one of the two optional HDR formats on Ultra HD Blu-ray. Dolby Vision is the other one, while HDR10 is the mandatory HDR format. It’s taken Dolby Vision some time to get supported in authoring tools from vendors such as Scenarist, Sony DADC and Deluxe but they pulled that off and now UHD BD titles with Dolby Vision are getting released. Philips HDR is not there.
This situation is similar to the early days of DVD. Dolby Digital (AC-3) was mandated for NTSC discs while Philips had managed to get their MPEG2 Multichannel audio format accepted as the standard for PAL discs. Philips did not do a major push for content support like Dolby did, or at least not as successful. About five DVD titles with MPEG2 audio were released. The market switched to Dolby Digital after all.
Note how no Philips-branded TV currently supports the Philips/Technicolor HDR format – neither the ones made for Europe by TP Vision nor the ones for the USA market made by P&F (Funai) – only LG does so far.
HDR10+, the dynamic metadata extension to HDR10 developed by Samsung has been in the making for a while. The first publication about their approach was in an SMPTE paper in 2015. At NAB 2016, the company did a demo of HDR with static vs dynamic metadata, using their then proprietary format. In March 2017, Samsung announced their HDR format would be a license-free open standard. Shortly after, Amazon was announced as first content/service provider partner. At IFA in that same year, Samsung announced a sort of alliance for promoting HDR10+ with Panasonic and 20th Century Fox as the other two members. This was more or less where the public push began. Yet the message to anyone who wanted to see or learn more was “please come back at CES 2018.” The only news since then was the unofficial announcement of TP Vision, which makes Philips’ televisions for mainly the European market (not the U.S. market), that they’ll go with HDR10+ rather than Dolby Vision.
It may have cost Samsung less time to create HDR10+ than it took Dolby to develop Dolby Vision (which took about eight years from the acquisition of Brightside Technologies) but it’s evident that with HDR10+ Samsung is running years behind Dolby Vision.
Was the HDR10+ initiative driven by an aversion to paying royalties to Dolby? Samsung says the motivation is more philosophical – it’s about not taking picture control away from TV makers and end users. That may be true. Either way though, it looks as if it’s been driven more by engineering than by marketing. There isn’t even a logo yet.
There is no content yet either, but that could soon arrive via Amazon Video. Mind you, Amazon is not a member of the HDR10+ Alliance, probably mainly because Amazon Video is agnostic where it comes to HDR formats. The service also supports HDR10 and Dolby Vision.
On Ultra HD Blu-ray, HDR10+ is not yet one of the optional formats but reportedly the procedure for this is in progress. The BDA (Blu-ray Disc Association) will have to approve it first. Samsung and Panasonic have a fairly strong position here and Sony may not care much about this issue.
Once the update for UHD BD is in place, Fox may start using it. Before that time they may already use it for “digital distribution” on streaming platforms. Note how the studio follows the same approach for Dolby Vision as for Dolby Atmos: They use both standards in theatrical releases but their Home Entertainment division uses neither with their home video releases; instead they use HDR10 (for now) and DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1. Will other studios follow Fox’s example? It’s hard to say at the moment. No other studio has publicly expressed any commitment to HDR10+. Concerning Fox’s commitment, it has just transpired that Disney has engaged in talks with 21st Century Fox about possible acquisition, mainly of their entertainment business i.e. 20th Century Fox. If this deal materializes, Fox – currently the only studio committed to HDR10+ – may align with new owner Disney’s policies and use Dolby Vision rather than HDR10+.
It’s important to bear in mind that HDR10+ builds on top of HDR10 and offers graceful degradation: if the hardware doesn’t support it you’ll get HDR10 at least. This is great for consumers, but it may also reduce the urge to get a product that decodes the whole signal.
Is there a format war?
Is there an HDR format war? Earlier this year I argued there is not. Now, it’s become more contentious. There are more formats now and suddenly there’s a blank space in the centre of the venn diagram, so consumers are still forced to choose. Will anyone choose HDR10+ over Dolby Vision? Perhaps die-hard Samsung fans will but otherwise it seems unlikely, given the current state of affairs, especially with respect to content.
In practice, probably few consumers are aware of all the ins and outs. Universal HDR support is a strong selling point. It works like an insurance premium. After all, as a consumer you never know what will happen in the future. Personally, I was worried that TV makers implementing Dolby’s VS10 playback engine would have a hard time customizing anything, particularly adding HDR10+ support, which Dolby surely never will add to their solution. At least one Semiconductor vendor however has already added it to their silicon/software, so question becomes which will become first TV brand to support this. So far LG is the king of multi-HDR support. It’s not a given at all they’ll support HDR10+ though because of the eternal LG–Samsung rivalry. Perhaps Sony will, or high-end brands such as B&O and Loewe. They can afford it, and likely are not interested in choosing sides. Philips also could do it, but right now TPV doesn’t support Dolby Vision in Europe while P&F USA doesn’t support HLG so the brand is further away from universal HDR support than the venn diagram makes it seem. Brands like TCL and HiSense could be contenders but are US-focused and so far lack HLG support.
Anyway, the argument that there’s no actual HDR format war will likely be valid again soon – as soon as hardware with universal HDR support appears.
Do I favor one particular HDR format? I advocate universal HDR support (especially in hardware) but that doesn’t mean I think HDR formats stand equal chances. HDR10 is omnipresent and Dolby Vision unlikely to be beaten as the premium format. HLG stands a chance of establishing itself as the format for broadcast TV and live OTT streaming but needs to work harder to gain support. SL-HDR1 and HDR10+ seem to be fighting an uphill battle and running behind.
More focus articles
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HDR Ecosystem Tracker fall 2020 update
Guide: How to set up Xbox Series X for 4K, 120Hz, HDMI 2.1, VRR & HDR
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Transwing®Art Gallery
Joemarie C. Sanclaire
fanstastic painter of modern art
9 Pictures in stock
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Born on April 10, 1987 in Paranaque, Metro Manila, Joemarie Sanclaria Chua grew up to be passionately driven as a young artist and started out as a musical theater performer. Joemarie studied Education at the Oxfordian Colleges in Dasmarinas, Cavite and Website Design at the Informatics College in Bacoor, Cavite.
He has participated in different group art exhibits here and abroad. His art media include oil paints, acrylic, oil pastel, soft pastel, but his favorite medium is watercolor.
He is an active leader of the Sining Aklateko Group that facilitates Feeding Programs and Art Workshops for Children in remote places in Dasmarinas, Cavite such as Sitio Malabon, Sitio Silangan and Sitio Ilaya.
He is also an art teacher for the sick children of the Missionaries of Charity in Tayuman, tondo, Manila and the underprivileged children at the Sentrong Kabataan of Pangarap Foundation at Paliparan Site also in Dasmarinas, Cavite. He participated in the art workshops at the PREDA Foundation in Olongapo City, sponsored by Hands for Hope Asia. Joemarie has been involved in outreach programs, teaching Art to the children of Sitio Bitin in Tagaytay, giving entertainment to the elderly of the Saint Joseph Home for the Aged and helping elementary schools boost their enrollment.
In 2015 he became affiliated with the Tuesday Group of Artists, Antipolo Artist Group, Fernando Sena Buenas Artes Group, Let’s Paint Group and International Watercolor Society.
Stillife/ Flowers
Abstract/ Modern
Landscape/ Houses
Revisting 'Mabini Art'
El Filibusterismo
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© 2020 Transwing® Art Gallery.
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Alia Bhatt’s Sweet Gesture Boosts The Spirits Of Covid-19 Warriors
Our frontline workers are the true warriors, who are giving their all to fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Like the masses, celebrities too have been acknowledging their efforts from time to time. Recently, actress Alia Bhatt sent over a sweet surprise with a note to boost the morale of frontline workers.
Expressing gratitude, Alia wrote, “Thank you for everything you’re doing to keep the community healthy and safe. You are the real heroes.” A doctor named Shripad Gangapurkar after receiving the box of assorted goodies, took to social media and thanked her. The doctor wrote, “Thank you @aliaa08 for such a sweet surprise... much appreciated in these bitter times of pandemic..!!” When fans of the actress asked the doctor what it was, he replied saying, “Alia sent chocolates as a token of gratitude to all the doctors and health care workers out there fighting the coronavirus pandemic in Mumbai.”
Thank you @aliaa08 for such a sweet surprise..much appreciated in these bitter times of pandemic..!! pic.twitter.com/6eBP1Czf9r
— Dr. Shripad Gangapurkar (@Shripad97) May 17, 2020
On the work front, Alia Bhatt will be next seen in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangubai Kathiawadi and in Ayan Mukerji's Brahmastra.
More on: Alia Bhatt
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