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Data from: Multiple-strain infections of borrelia afzelii: a role for within-host interactions in the maintenance of antigenic diversity?
Martin Andersson, Kristin Scherman & Lars Råberg
Genetically diverse infections are common but little is known about what effects coinfecting strains have on each other in natural host-parasite systems. To explore the nature and consequences of interactions in the wild, we studied the tick-transmitted bacterium Borrelia afzelii in one of its main reservoir hosts, the bank vole Myodes glareolus. We measured overall infection intensity with quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and resolved the composition of multiple infections using strain-specific PCR assays targeting...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.24k0s Cite
Data from: Multiple predator species alter prey behavior, population growth and a trophic cascade in a model estuarine food web
Pamela L. Reynolds & John F. Bruno
Predators can influence prey population dynamics by affecting prey behaviors with strong fitness consequences, with cascading effects on lower trophic levels. Here, we demonstrate that multiple predator species can nonconsumptively influence prey population growth and the strength of a trophic cascade in a model marine community. We exposed the herbivorous amphipod Ampithoe longimana to olfactory and visual cues from three common predators (pinfish, mud crabs, brown shrimp) singly and together in a multiple-predator assemblage to...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.kq3c6 Cite
Data from: Genotype-by-genotype specificity remains robust to average temperature variation in an aphid/endosymbiont/parasitoid system
Luis Cayetano & Christoph Vorburger
Genotype-by-genotype interactions demonstrate the existence of variation upon which selection acts in host-parasite systems at respective resistance and infection loci. These interactions can potentially be modified by environmental factors, which would entail that different genotypes are selected under different environmental conditions. In the current study, we checked for a G x G x E interaction in the context of average temperature and the genotypes of asexual lines of the endoparasitoid wasp Lysiphlebus fabarum and isolates...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.8909j Cite
Data from: Differential Expression Analysis for Pathways
Winston A. Haynes, Roger Higdon, Larissa Stanberry, Dwayne Collins & Eugene Kolker
Life science technologies generate a deluge of data that hold the keys to unlocking the secrets of important biological functions and disease mechanisms. We present DEAP, Differential Expression Analysis for Pathways, which capitalizes on information about biological pathways to identify important regulatory patterns from differential expression data. DEAP makes significant improvements over existing approaches by including information about pathway structure and discovering the most differentially expressed portion of the pathway. On simulated data, DEAP significantly...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.qh1pg Cite
Data from: A virus responds instantly to the presence of the vector on the host and forms transmission morphs
Alexandre Martinière, Aurélie Bak, Jean-Luc Macia, Nicole Lautredou, Daniel Gargani, Juliette Doumayrou, Elisa Garzo, Aranzazu Moreno, Alberto Fereres, Stéphane Blanc & Martin Drucker
Many plant and animal viruses are spread by insect vectors. Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) is aphid-transmitted, with the virus being taken up from specialized transmission bodies (TB) formed within infected plant cells. However, the precise events during TB-mediated virus acquisition by aphids are unknown. Here, we show that TBs react instantly to the presence of the vector by ultra-rapid and reversible redistribution of their key components onto microtubules throughout the cell. Enhancing or inhibiting this...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.pd658 Cite
Data from: Family based guilds in the ant Pachycondyla inversa
Heikki Helanterä, Oliver Aehle, Maurice Roux, Jürgen Heinze & Patrizia D'Ettorre
High relatedness promotes the evolution of sociality because potentially costly cooperative behaviours are directed towards kin. However, societies, such as those of social insects, also benefit from genetic diversity, e.g. through enhanced disease resistance and division of labour. Effects of genetic diversity have been investigated in a few complex eusocial species. Here, we show that genetically based division of labour may also be important in ‘simple societies’, with fewer individuals and limited morphological caste differentiation....
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.84dp4 Cite
Data from: Genetic architecture underlying morning and evening circadian phenotypes in fruit flies Drosophila melanogaster
Vijay K. Sharma, Koustubh M. Vaze & K. L. Nikhil
Circadian rhythms are perhaps among the genetically best characterised behaviours. Several mutations with drastic effects on circadian processes have been identified and models developed to explain how clock genes and their products generate self-sustained oscillations. While natural variations in circadian phenotypes have been studied extensively, the genetic basis of such adaptive variations remains largely unknown. Here we report the results of a preliminary genetic analysis of adaptive divergence of circadian phenotypes in populations of fruit...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.4c77r Cite
Data from: Proximity to agriculture is correlated with pesticide tolerance: evidence for the evolution of amphibian resistance to modern pesticides
Rickey D. Cothran, Jenise M. Brown & Rick A. Relyea
Anthropogenic environmental change is a powerful and ubiquitous evolutionary force, so it is critical that we determine the extent to which organisms can evolve in response to anthropogenic environmental change and whether these evolutionary responses have associated costs. This issue is particularly relevant for species of conservation concern including many amphibians, which are experiencing global declines from many causes including widespread exposure to agrochemicals. We used a lab toxicity experiment to assess variation in sensitivity...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.sj5b6 Cite
Data from: Multi-locus phylogenetic analysis reveals the pattern and tempo of bony fish evolution
Richard E. Broughton, Ricardo Betancur-R., Chenhong Li, Gloria Arratia & Guillermo Orti
Over half of all vertebrates are “fishes”, which exhibit enormous diversity in morphology, physiology, behavior, reproductive biology, and ecology. Investigation of fundamental areas of vertebrate biology depend critically on a robust phylogeny of fishes, yet evolutionary relationships among the major actinopterygian and sarcopterygian lineages have not been conclusively resolved. Although a consensus phylogeny of teleosts has been emerging recently, it has been based on analyses of various subsets of actinopterygian taxa, but not on a...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f1t15 Cite
Data from: Parallel tagged next-generation sequencing on pooled samples – a new approach for population genetics in ecology and conservation
Monika Zavodna, Catherine E. Grueber & Neil J. Gemmell
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) on pooled samples has already been broadly applied in human medical diagnostics and plant and animal breeding. However, thus far it has been only sparingly employed in ecology and conservation, where it may serve as a useful diagnostic tool for rapid assessment of species genetic diversity and structure at the population level. Here we undertake a comprehensive evaluation of the accuracy, practicality and limitations of parallel tagged amplicon NGS on pooled population...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f058c Cite
Data from: The effect of collective dispersal on the genetic structure of a subdivided population
Jonathan M. Yearsley, Frédérique Viard & Thomas Broquet
Correlated dispersal paths between two or more individuals are widespread across many taxa. The population genetic implications of this collective dispersal have received relatively little attention. Here we develop two-sample coalescent theory that incorporates collective dispersal in a finite island model to predict expected coalescence times, genetic diversities and F-statistics. We show that collective dispersal reduces mixing in the system, which decreases expected coalescence times and increases FST. The effects are strongest in systems with...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1hf24 Cite
Data from: Diversity dynamics of mammals in relation to tectonic and climatic history: comparison of three Neogene records from North America
Catherine Badgley & John A. Finarelli
In modern ecosystems, regions of topographic heterogeneity, when compared with nearby topographically homogeneous regions, support high species densities of mammals and other groups. This biogeographic pattern could be explained by either greater diversification rates or greater accommodation of species in topographically complex regions. In this context, we assess the hypothesis that changes in landscape history have stimulated diversification in mammals. Landscape history includes tectonic and climatic processes that influence topographic complexity at regional scales. We...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.49m52 Cite
Data from: Reproductive and post-reproductive life history of wild-caught Drosophila melanogaster under laboratory conditions
Peter Klepsatel, Martina Gáliková, Nicola De Maio, Sara Ricci, Christian Schlötterer & Thomas Flatt
The life history of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) is well understood, but fitness components are rarely measured by following single individuals over their lifetime, thereby limiting insights into lifetime reproductive success, reproductive senescence and post-reproductive lifespan. Moreover, most studies have examined long-established laboratory strains rather than freshly caught individuals and may thus be confounded by adaptation to laboratory culture, inbreeding or mutation accumulation. Here, we have followed the life histories of individual females from...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3q332 Cite
Data from: Homing pigeons respond to time-compensated solar cues even in sight of the loft
Chris Armstrong, Helen Wilkinson, Jessica Meade, Dora Biro, Robin Freeman & Tim Guilford
The sun has long been thought to guide bird navigation as the second step in a two-stage process, in which determining position using a map is followed by course setting using a compass, both over unfamiliar and familiar terrain. The animal’s endogenous clock time-compensates the solar compass for the sun’s apparent movement throughout the day, and this allows predictable deflections in orientation to test for the compass’ influence using clock-shift manipulations. To examine the influence...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.pc7pg Cite
Data from: Low fertility of wild hybrid male flycatchers despite recent divergence
Murielle Ålund, Simone Immler, Amber M. Rice, Anna Qvarnström, M. Alund & A. Qvarnstrom
Postzygotic isolation may be important for maintaining species boundaries, particularly when premating barriers are incomplete. Little is known about the course of events leading from minor environmental mismatches affecting hybrid fitness to severe genetic incompatibilities causing sterility or inviability. We investigated whether reduced reproductive success of hybrid males was caused by suboptimal sperm traits or by more severe genetic incompatibilities in a hybrid zone of pied (Ficedula hypoleuca) and collared flycatchers (F. albicollis) on the...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.5d44q Cite
Data from: Signatures of diversifying selection in European pig breeds
Samantha Wilkinson, Zen H. Lu, Hendrik-Jan Megens, Alan L. Archibald, Chris Haley, Ian J. Jackson, Martien A. M. Groenen, Richard P. M. A. Crooijmans, Rob Ogden & Pamela Wiener
Porcine_60K_Data_Wilkinsonetal2013.tarMapping and variant calling data on SSC5:98000000-99000000This file shares the same REAME as SSC11_53500000-55500000.tarSSC5_98000000-99000000.tarMapping and variant calling data on SSC5:3100000-34000000This file shares the same REAME as SSC11_53500000-55500000.tarSSC5_3100000-34000000.tarMapping and variant calling data on SSC11:53500000-55500000SSC11_53500000-55500000.tar
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.c2124 Cite
Data from: The early evolution of synapsids, and the influence of sampling on their fossil record
Neil Brocklehurst, Christian F. Kammerer & Jörg Fröbisch
Synapsids dominated the terrestrial realm between the late Pennsylvanian and the Triassic. Their early evolution includes some of the first amniotes to evolve large size, herbivory, and macro-predators. However, little research has focused on the changes in diversity occurring during this early phase in their evolutionary history, with more effort concentrating on later events such the Permo-Triassic extinction. Here we assess synapsid diversity, at both the species and genus levels, between the Carboniferous (Moscovian) and...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cq376 Cite
Data from: Influence of late Quaternary climate change on present patterns of genetic variation in valley oak, Quercus lobata Née
Paul F. Gugger, Makihiko Ikegami & Victoria L. Sork
Phylogeography and ecological niche models (ENMs) suggest that late Quaternary glacial cycles have played a prominent role in shaping present population genetic structure and diversity, but have not applied quantitative methods to dissect the relative contribution of past and present climate vs. other forces. We integrate multilocus phylogeography, climate-based ENMs and multivariate statistical approaches to infer the effects of late Quaternary climate change on contemporary genetic variation of valley oak (Quercus lobata Née). ENMs indicated...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.g645d Cite
Data from: Multiple global radiations in tadpole shrimps challenge the concept of ‘living fossils’
Thomas C. Mathers, Robert L. Hammond, Ronald A. Jenner, Bernd Haenfling & Africa Gomez
‘Living fossils’, a phrase first coined by Darwin, are defined as species with limited recent diversification and high morphological stasis over long periods of evolutionary time. Morphological stasis, however, can potentially lead to diversification rates being underestimated. Notostraca, or tadpole shrimps, are an ancient, globally distributed order of branchiopod crustaceans regarded as ‘living fossils’ because their rich fossil record dates back to the early Devonian and their morphology is highly conserved. Recent phylogenetic reconstructions have...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.77bt2 Cite
Data from: Disentangling direct and indirect fitness effects of microbial dormancy
William Croft Ratcliff, Mitchell Hoverman, Michael Travisano & R. Ford Denison
Disentangling individual selection from kin selection is one of the greatest challenges of evolutionary biology. Even solitary organisms that do not interact directly with conspecifics may interact indirectly with them through competition for resources. As a result, traits that appear to affect individual fitness alone can also modify the fitness of relatives nearby and thus may evolve partially through these cryptic indirect fitness effects. Here we develop a method to quantitatively separate direct and indirect...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.hf792 Cite
Data from: Within-population polymorphism of sex-determination systems in the common frog (Rana temporaria)
Nicolas Rodrigues, Caroline Betto-Colliard, Hélène Jourdan-Pineau & Nicolas Perrin
In sharp contrast with birds and mammals, the sex chromosomes of ectothermic vertebrates are often undifferentiated, for reasons that remain debated. A linkage map was recently published for Rana temporaria (Linnaeus, 1758) from Fennoscandia (Eastern European lineage), with a proposed sex-determining role for linkage group 2 (LG2). We analysed linkage patterns in lowland and highland populations from Switzerland (Western European lineage), with special focus on LG2. Sibship analyses showed large differences from the Fennoscandian map...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.0mg7h Cite
Data from: Evolutionary change during experimental ocean acidification
Melissa H. Pespeni, Eric Sanford, Tessa M. Hill, Jessica D. Hosfelt, Hannah K. Jaris, Michele LaVigne, Brian Gaylord, Elizabeth A. Lenz, Ann D. Russell, Megan K. Young & Stephen R. Palumbi
Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) conditions are driving unprecedented changes in seawater chemistry, resulting in reduced pH and carbonate ion concentrations in the Earth’s oceans. This ocean acidification has negative but variable impacts on individual performance in many marine species. However, little is known about the adaptive capacity of species to respond to an acidified ocean, and as a result, predictions regarding future ecosystem responses remain incomplete. Here we demonstrate that ocean acidification generates striking...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.6j51n Cite
Data from: Lights out: the evolution of bacterial bioluminescence in Loliginidae
Frank E. Anderson, Alexis Bergman, Samantha H. Cheng, M. Sabrina Pankey & Tooraj Valinassab
Representatives of several metazoan clades engage in symbiotic interactions with bioluminescent bacteria, but the evolution and maintenance of these interactions remain poorly understood. Uroteuthis is a genus of loliginid squid (Cephalopoda: Loliginidae) characterized by paired ventral photophores (light organs) housing bioluminescent bacteria. While previous phylogenetic studies have suggested that Uroteuthis is closely related to Loliolus, a genus of non-bioluminescent species, this relationship remains unresolved. To illuminate Uroteuthis and Loliolus phylogeny and its implications for the...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.93s3n Cite
Data from: Phylogeography of willow grouse (Lagopus lagopus) in the Arctic: taxonomic discordance as inferred from molecular data
Jacob Höglund, Biao Wang, Thomas Axelsson & María Quintela
Using independently segregating nuclear single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and mitochondrial control region sequences, we found an east–west division among sampled willow grouse Lagopus lagopus subspecies. This division cut across the range of the subspecies with the largest distribution (lagopus) and thus contradicted existing taxonomic classifications. Russian Lagopus lagopus lagopus tended to cluster with North American willow grouse partly classified as other subspecies. Scandinavian willow grouse (L. l. lagopus) clustered with red grouse from Britain and...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.k3v35 Cite
Data from: Preservation of RNA and DNA from mammal samples under field conditions
Miguel Camacho-Sanchez, Pablo Burraco, Ivan Gomez-Mestre & Jennifer A. Leonard
Ecological and conservation genetics require sampling of organisms in the wild. Appropriate preservation of the collected samples, usually by cryostorage, is key to the quality of the genetic data obtained. Nevertheless, cryopreservation in the field to ensure RNA and DNA stability is not always possible. We compared several nucleic acid preservation solutions appropriate for field sampling and tested them on rat (Rattus rattus) blood, ear and tail tip, liver, brain and muscle. We compared the...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.8gh7p Cite
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Recharge Your Remarketing With 5 Tips For Q4
Columnist Eric Couch discusses his love of remarketing, complete with tips to improve your own performance this holiday season.
Eric Couch on October 31, 2014 at 9:24 am
I’ll be honest: as a marketer, I love remarketing. A controversial opinion, I know. But it’s so novel, so versatile, and (usually) performs so well that I can’t help but feel compelled to write a love letter to it every once in awhile.
(Which I have. Several times.)
However, to get the most of your remarketing efforts, you can’t just set it and forget it — it needs some care and attention to really flourish.
With Q4 in full swing, it’s long overdue to revisit your strategy. To help you out, here is a collection of five tips you can employ to revitalize your remarketing efforts as we close out 2014.
1. Utilize Analytics Remarketing Lists
There are plenty of benefits to linking your AdWords and Analytics accounts — you can import Analytics goals and transactions into AdWords, view click and cost data in Analytics, and view site engagement metrics alongside your AdWords campaigns.
In addition, you can also create custom remarketing lists for use with AdWords.
For the old timers out there, you’ll remember that Analytics introduced the concept of using a single remarketing tag, then utilizing URL segments to create custom audiences. It was much more user-friendly than AdWords at the time, which has since adopted the same system.
Not to be outdone, Analytics has introduced even fancier targeting methods based off of Analytics site metrics that you can employ to create super-slick custom audiences that are incredibly innovative. Have a look:
The number of options here are mind-boggling.
Now, you can create remarketing lists off of every single segment, dimension, and metric available to you in Analytics.
So you can segment your users by demographic information, the technology used to visit the site, session recency and frequency, transactions, date of visit, the source they found you with, and more. It’s crazy the number of ways you can slice your traffic now with Analytics — and it’s all shareable with your linked AdWords account.
In the above e-commerce example, you can create a custom analytics remarketing list that targets high-revenue users, or targets users that have purchased specific products under a certain revenue total, allowing you to upsell them on related products.
It’s insane — and it’s a good idea to try it out, seeing as how the largest shopping days of the year are right around the corner.
2. Layer Remarketing With Other Targeting Methods
As much as I love remarketing, I’ll be the first to admit: it’s a little disorienting to get served professional remarketing ads when I’m right in the middle of watching cat videos on YouTube. While I may be a visitor to your site, I’m not necessarily in the mood to purchase your product when I’m doing other stuff. It’s a problem of context — the message doesn’t match the content I’m viewing, and conversion rate will suffer when that disconnect exists.
Luckily, we have a few options when it comes to that problem: you can utilize placement exclusions to weed out those poor placements, or you can bypass that problem altogether by layering Contextual Keywords and/or Topics on top of your audience lists.
Here’s an example of how it might assist with this issue:
A purely theoretical example, you see.
Basically, the idea is this: match your ad with the content on the page. An audience member browsing content related to your product likely indicates they’re still in the research phase, so be present when they come to the point of decision.
And try to avoid showing up next to YouTube cat videos… unless, of course, you sell things related to cats.
3. Analyze Your Reach & Frequency
Remarketing walks a fine line: if you don’t show your ads enough, you risk not getting any traffic to the campaign. If you show your ads too much, you’re going to annoy your potential customers.
Unless your name happens to be Comcast, I can’t see angering your customers as a viable business strategy. So what can you do to keep from creeping on your visitors?
The answer is to analyze your Reach and Frequency, and to implement Frequency caps based on what you find.
I won’t walk you through the entire process, but you can find the data in the AdWords Dimensions tab here:
Easy enough to find, I trust. [CLICK TO ENLARGE]
This is the Reach and Frequency data from a Remarketing campaign over the last 30 days, segmented by day. Running a pivot table off of this data, we can get an idea of how our metrics fare each time we connect with an audience member over the course of a day, week, or month.
Here’s that same data pictured above in pivot table form:
In addition to writing love letters to remarketing, I also write them to Pivot Tables.
There’s a pretty clear drop off here once we pass five impressions on a user in a day. Even five is probably pushing it, but it does account for roughly 20% of the volume in this campaign, which is nothing to sneeze at.
I can then go in to the campaign-level settings for this remarketing campaign and put a frequency cap in place, ensuring that I stop badgering these customers more than I have to.
4. Remarketing For Dynamic Search Ads (RDSA)
This is a sneaky trick. Did you know you can apply your remarketing audiences to a Dynamic Search Ad campaign? It’s true — and my colleague Matt Umbro has written about it quite a bit.
For the uninitiated: Dynamic Search Ads comb the content of your website to cover gaps in your keyword list. AdWords will dynamically generate ad headlines tailored to the matched product, making it an invaluable tool for e-commerce accounts.
The benefit to layering a remarketing list on top of that, is that you can capture that Search traffic on the results page, using a much more detailed DSA ad.
Here’s a small comparison of RDSA metrics compiled by my colleague Amanda West-Bookwalter:
Low volume, but high impact. A featherweight campaign, if you will.
The original DSA campaign was turned off due to the Cost-Per-Conversion, but the RDSA test campaign performed smashingly well that the conversion rate was through the roof, and the combination of the dynamic search ad and more qualified traffic increased CTR by 962%.
The key here is that this is highly-qualified traffic due to their previous visit, and they’re being served an ad for a product they’ve likely already viewed before, making them even more likely to convert. It’s definitely lower in traffic volume, but much higher in ROAS. Give it a shot!
5. Diversify Your Remarketing Platforms
Remarketing, as with most things PPC and SEM, is dominated by AdWords… but it’s not the only game in town. Just off the top of my head, you can do the following:
YouTube Retargeting. Allows you to remarket to your AdWords audience lists with video content, as well as create audience lists based off of YouTube engagement metrics.
Twitter Remarketing. Extending beyond “Promoted Accounts” and “Promoted Tweets,” you can now use Twitter Cards to assist with your direct response advertising efforts.
Facebook Remarketing. The same deal as Twitter, except you can also utilize Facebook’s mountain of user interests and demographic data to make a truly customized audience.
For Twitter and Facebook, you can also go to third-party platforms like AdRoll to manage multiple platforms under one umbrella. There are other platforms out there too, like Retargeter, Criteo and Steelhouse, that have their own pros and cons — feel free to share your experiences with them in the comments.
But there’s one more thing:
Ginny Marvin? That name sounds familiar…
At the most recent Bing Ads Next event in Redmond, WA, Bing announced a Remarketing Pilot program for later this year. As Search Engine Land’s paid media reporter Ginny Marvin reported, it’ll be on search to start with, eventually branching in to the Bing content network. Make sure to get in touch with your representatives if you’re interested!
Remarketing is a powerful tool –make sure that you’re getting the most out of it by exploring the new platforms, targeting methods and strategies you can use to optimize it.
What about you, Search Engine Land readers? Any favorite platforms we haven’t mentioned? What about optimization strategies? Your most awkward remarketing ad mismatched with page content? Let us know in the comments, and thanks for reading!
Eric Couch
Eric Couch is a Senior PPC Account Manager and lead trainer at Hanapin Marketing, a Bloomington-based firm that specializes in strategic pay-per-click execution for enterprise caliber businesses. He is Google AdWords-, Google Analytics-, and Bing Ads-certified, and he oversees more than $6 million in ad spend for both ecommerce and lead generation in a variety of fields, including healthcare and industrial components. In addition to his marketing work, he is a featured columnist at PPC Hero and frequent speaker at industry conferences such as SMX and Hero Conf. He is a subject matter expert on AdWords and Bing policy, Excel, data analysis, lead generation, and is an expert in the creation of aggressive client growth strategies. He is also the head of education at Hanapin Marketing, driving the development and growth of both new and experienced PPC professionals.
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Home Scandal and Gossip Oikos University gunman One Goh said to have hated females!
Oikos University gunman One Goh said to have hated females!
Christopher Koulouris: About author bio at bottom of article.
Oikoh University student mourners.
One Goh it has been reported couldn’t stand the fact that he was one of the few males in what he perceived to be an almost all female school. This reasoning according to examiners might shed light why the gunman snapped and why when he did go back to the school Monday morning first on his hit list was a female administrator who as fate would have it that day did not show up to school…
According to one teacher at the school, Romie Delariman, she had this to say:
sfgate: a former construction worker with a string of debts but no criminal record that would keep him from buying a gun – was a good and eager student. But he added, “He just can’t deal with women. … I always advised him, ‘You go to school to learn, not to make friends.’ “
The instructor said Goh was also “mentally unstable” and paranoid. He sometimes spoke of violence, saying he had picked fights with people on the street and had carried a gun with him for protection.
To date investigators have been able to piece that Goh had been apparently planning the attack for weeks. Having been unable to find the administrator he was looking for, Goh instead took a female student hostage and took her back to a classroom where he demanded students to line up against a wall before shooting dead 5 point blank on the spot and injuring 5 others, 2 of whom later died in the hospital.
With respect to pent up anger issues, the uk telegraph reports the following:
Goh had been expelled from Oikos University, a small 100-student religious education establishment, in January for “anger management” issues. He bought a semi-automatic pistol legally the following month.
What preceded his anger is once again shed light by the telegraph in the life One Goh apparently led before having chosen to enroll at the school:
For most of the previous decade he had lived in Virginia, the state where a gunman killed 32 innocent people at the Virginia Tech campus in 2007. While in that state Goh incurred debts including $23,000 (£14,500) in unpaid taxes and $15,000 (£9,500) to banks.
After arriving in California to make a new start he described leaving behind a divorce, a daughter, and a failed building business in Virginia.
He found a job at an Asian food warehouse but was let go after four months for arguing with customers. His former employer said:
“Something inside went wrong. He was very angry all these years.” The death of his war veteran brother in a road accident last year was said to have affected him deeply.
What yet remains to be resolved is where the murder weapon is located as Goh has resisted telling investigators where the gun is. To date investigators have conducted a search along nearby marshes and have come up with nothing.
One Goh is being held without bail and is expected to be formally charged with first degree multiple murder today. Such are the reactions of one man finally imploding after a decade of silent rage…
(readers might find one of the videos particularly distressing….)
One Goh: “Get in line and I’m going to kill you all!”
Oikos University gunman identified as One Goh. Turned himself in at local Safeway store 5 miles from scene of crime.
Expelled student detained after shooting 7 dead and counting at Christian University.
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J.K. Rowling Introduces You To Newt Scamander In This ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Featurette
Posted June 23rd, 2016 by Jax Motes
Are you ready to re-enter the Wizarding World? Though the Harry Potter saga has mostly ended (although it continues onstage with ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’), there still such a rich mythology from the brain of writer J.K. Rowling just waiting to be explored. This winter, we see the first exploration of this universe in ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’, which follows the exploits of Newt Scamander as he tracks down the magical creatures roaming free in the Muggle world.
The film is set in 1926 and is the first Potterverse visit to the New World, a.k.a. the United States, as Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) arrives in the melting pot of New York City on his quest. This graduate of Hogwarts (he was a Hufflepuff) carries with him a magic case, which, like Mary Poppins’ is much larger on the inside than out. Being a Hufflepuff, you can probably imagine that Scamander isn’t exactly action hero material… at least not at first. But look at Neville Longbottom! Sometimes it’s the unlikeliest candidates that muster up the greatest courage when needed.
Rowling, who penned the script for ‘Fantastic Beasts’– a first– says:
“My heroes are always people who feel themselves to be set apart, stigmatized, or others. That’s at the heart of most of what I write, and it’s certainly at the heart of this movie.”
Rowling herself introduces this new unlikely hero in a new featurette. Check it out below:
Honestly, if nothing else, this movie LOOKS spectacular! And Redmayne has proven he has some serious acting chops in ‘The Theory of Everything‘ and ‘The Danish Girl’. (We’ll just pretend ‘Jupiter Ascending’ never happened.)
‘Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them’ directed by David Yates, stars Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Samantha Morton, Jon Voight, Ron Perlman, Carmen Ejogo, Jenn Murray, Faith Wood-Blagrove, and Colin Farrell. It will magically materialize in 3D and IMAX on November 18, 2016.
Are you ready to journey back to Rowling’s Wizarding Wonderland?
Source: Entertainment Weekly
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Untold AI: The survey
9 Apr 2018 by Christopher Noessel
What AI Stories Aren’t We Telling (That We Should Be)?
Last fall I was invited with some other spectacular people to participate in a retreat about AI, happening at the Juvet Landscape Hotel in Ålstad, Norway. (A breathtaking opportunity, and thematically a perfect setting since it was the shooting location for Ex Machina. Thanks to Andy Budd for the whole idea, as well as Ellen de Vries, James Gilyead, and the team at Clearleft who helped organize.) The event was structured like an unconference, so participants could propose sessions and if anyone was interested, join up. One of the workshops I proposed was called “AI Narratives” and it sought to answer the question “What AI Stories Aren’t We Telling (That We Should Be)?” So, why this topic?
Sci-fi, my reasoning goes, plays an informal and largely unacknowledged role in setting public expectations and understanding about technology in general and AI in particular. That, in turn, affects public attitudes, conversations, behaviors at work, and votes. If we found that sci-fi was telling the public misleading stories over and over, we should make a giant call for the sci-fi creating community to consider telling new stories. It’s not that we want to change sci-fi from being entertainment to being propaganda, but rather to try and take its role as informal opinion-shaper more seriously.
In the workshop we were working with a very short timeframe, so we managed to do good work, but not get very far, even though we doubled our original time frame. I have taken time since to extend that work to get to this series of posts for scifiinterfaces.com.
My process to get to an answer will take six big steps.
First I’ll do some term-setting and describe what we managed to get done in the short time we had at Juvet.
Then I’ll share the set of sci-fi films and television shows I identified that deal with AI to consider as canon for the analysis. (Step one and two are today’s post)
I’ll these properties’ aggregated “takeaways” that pertain to AI: What would an audience reasonably presume given the narrative about AI in the real world? These are the stories we are telling ourselves.
Next I’ll look at the handful of manifestos and books dealing with AI futurism to identify their imperatives.
I’ll map the cinematic takeaways to the imperatives.
Finally I’ll run the “diff” to identify find out what stories we aren’t telling ourselves, and hypothesize a bit about why.
Along the way, we’ll get some fun side-analyses, like:
What categories of AI appear in screen sci-fi?
Do more robots or software AI appear?
Are our stories about AI more positive or negative, and how has that changed over time?
What takeaways tend to correlate with other takeaways?
What takeaways appear in mostly well-rated movies (and poorly-rated movies)?
Which movies are most aligned with computer science’s concerns? Which are least?
These will come up in the analysis when they make sense.
Longtime readers of this blog may sense something familiar in this approach, and that’s because I am basing the methodology partly on the thinking I did last year for working through the Fermi Paradox and Sci-Fi question. Also, I should note that, like the Fermi analysis, this isn’t about the interfaces for AI, so it’s technically a little off-topic for the blog. Return later if you’re disinterested in this bit.
Since AI is a big conceptual space, let me establish some terms of art to frame the discussion.
Narrow AI is the AI of today, in which algorithms enact decisions and learn in narrow domains. They are unable to generalize knowledge and adapt to new domains. The Roomba, the Nest Thermostat, and self-driving cars are real-world examples of this kind of AI. Karen from Spider-Man: Homecoming, S.H.I.E.L.D.’s car AIs (also from the MCU), and even the ZF-1 weapon in The Fifth Element are sci-fi examples.
General AI is the as-yet speculative AI that thinks kind of like a human thinks, able to generalize knowledge and adapt readily to new domains. HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Replicants in Blade Runner, and the robots in Star Wars like C3PO and BB-8 are examples of this kind of AI.
Super AI is the speculative AI that is orders of magnitude smarter than general AI, and thereby orders of magnitude smarter than us. It’s arguable that we’ve really ever seen a proper Super AI in screen sci-fi (because characters keep outthinking it and wut?), but Deep Thought from The Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy, the big AI in The Matrix diegesis, and the titular AI from Colossus: The Forbin Project come close.
There are fine arguments to be made that these are insufficient for the likely breadth of AI that we’re going to be facing, but for now, let’s accept these as working categories, because the strategies (and thereby what stories we should be telling ourselves) for each is different.
Narrow AI is the AI of now. It’s in the world. (As long as it’s not autonomous weapons,…) It gets safer as it gets more intelligent. It will enable efficiencies, for some domains, never before seen. It will disrupt our businesses and our civics. It, like any technology, can be misused, but the AI won’t have any ulterior motives of its own.
General AI is what lots of big players are gunning for. It doesn’t exist yet. It gets more dangerous as it gets smarter, largely because it will begin to approach a semblance of sentience and approach the evolutionary threshold to superintelligence. We will restructure society to accomodate it, and it will restructure society. It could come to pass in a number of ways: a willing worker class, a revolt, new world citizenry. It/they will have a convincing consciousness, by definition, so their motives and actions become a factor.
Super AI is the most risky scenario. If we have seeded it poorly, it presents the existential risk that big names like Gates and Musk are worried about. If seeded poorly, it could wipe us out as a side-effect of pursuing its goals. If seeded well, it might help us solve some of the vexing problems plaguing humanity. (c.f. Climate change, inequality, war, disease, overpopulation, maybe even senescence and death.) It’s very hard to really imagine what life will be like in a world with something approaching godlike intelligence. It could conceivably restructure the planet, the solar system, and us to accomplish whatever its goals are.
Since these things are related but categorically so different, we should take care so speak about them differently when talking about our media strategy toward them.
Also I should clarify that I included AI that was embodied in a mobile form, like C-3PO or cylons, and call them robots in the analysis when its pertinent. Other non-embodied AI is just called AI or unembodied.
Those terms established, let me also talk a bit about the foundational work done with a smart group of thinkers at Juvet.
At Juvet
Juvet was an amazing experience generally (we saw the effing northern lights, y’all) and if you’re interested, there was a group write up afterwards, called the Juvet Agenda. Check that out.
My workshop for “AI Narratives” attracted 8 participants. Shouts out to them follows. Many are doing great work in other domains, so give them a look up sometime.
Kate Devlin
Andy Budd
Benjamin Remington
Dan Harvey
Josh Clark
And of course, me, Christopher Noessel
To pursue an answer, this team first wrote up every example of an AI in screen-based sci-fi that we could think of on red Post-It Notes. (A few of us referenced some online sources so it wasn’t just from memory.) Next we clustered those thematically. This was the bulk of the work done there.
I also took time to try and simultaneously put together on yellow Post-It Notes a set of Dire Warnings from the AI community, and even started to use Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat! story frameworks to try and categorize the examples, but we ran out of time before we could begin to pursue any of this. It’s as well. I realized later the Save The Cat! Framework was not useful to this analysis.
Still, a lot of what came out there is baked into the following posts, so let this serve as a general shout-out and thanks to those awesome participants. Can’t wait to meet you at the next one.
But when I got home and began thinking of posting this to scifiinterfaces, I wanted to make sure I was including everything I could. So, I sought out some other sources to check the list against.
What AI Stories Are We Telling in Sci-Fi?
This sounds simple, but it’s not. What counts as AI in sci-fi movies and TV shows? Do Robots? Do automatons? What about magic that acts like technology? What about superhero movies that are on the “edge” of sci-fi? Spy shows? Are we sticking to narrow AI, strong AI, or super AI, or all of the above? At Juvet and since, I’ve eschewed trying to work out some formal definition, and instead go with loose, English language definitions, something like the ones I shared above. We’re looking at the big picture. Because of this, trying to hairsplit the details won’t serve us.
How did you come up with the survey of AI shows?
So, I wound up taking the shows identified at Juvet and then adding in shows in this list from Wikipedia and a few stragglers tagged on IMDB with AI as a keyword. That processes resulted in the following list.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Black Mirror “Be Right Back”
Black Mirror “Black Museum”
Black Mirror “Hang the DJ”
Black Mirror “Hated in the Nation”
Black Mirror “Metalhead”
Black Mirror “San Junipero”
Black Mirror “USS Callister”
Black Mirror “White Christmas”
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Intervention
Colossus: The Forbin Project
D.A.R.Y.L.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008 film)
Demon Seed
Der Herr der Welt (i.e. Master of the World)
Enthiran
Ghost in the Shell (2017 film)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The Invisible Boy
Logan’s Run
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
Passengers (2016 film)
Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams (Series) “Autofac”
Psycho-pass: The Movie
Rick & Morty “The Ricks Must be Crazy”
Robocop (2014 film)
Robot & Frank
S1M0NE
Short Circuit 2
Star Trek First Contact
Star Trek Generations
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
Superman III
Terminator Genisys, aka Terminator 5
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
WALL•E
Now sci-fi is vast, and more is being created all the time. Even accounting for the subset that has been committed to television and movie screens, it’s unlikely that this list contains every possible example. If you want to suggest more, feel free to add them in the comments. I am especially interested in examples that would suggest a tweak to the strategic conclusions at the end of this series of posts.
Did anything not make the cut?
A “greedy” definition of narrow AI would include some fairly mundane automatic technologies. The doors found in the Star Trek diegesis, for example, detect many forms of life (including synthetic) and even gauge the intentions of its users to determine whether or not they should activate. That’s more sophisticated than it first seems. (There was a chapter all about sci-fi doors that wound up on the cutting room floor of the book. Maybe I’ll pick that up and post it someday.) But when you think about this example in terms of cultural imperatives, the benefits of the door are so mundane, and the risks near nil (in the Star Trek universe they work perfectly, even if on set they didn’t), it doesn’t really help us answer the ultimate question driving these posts. Let’s call those smart, utilitarian, low-risk technologies mundane, and exclude those.
That’s not to say workaday, real-world narrow AI is out. IBM’s Watson for Oncology (full disclosure: I’ve worked there the past year and a half) reads X-rays to help identify tumors faster and more accurately than human doctors can keep up with. (Fuller disclosure: It is not without its criticisms.)…(Fullest disclosure: I do not speak on behalf of IBM anywhere on this blog.)
Watson for Oncology winds up being workaday, but still really valuable. It would be great to see such benefits to humanity writ in sci-fi. It would remind us of why we might pursue it even though it presents risk. On the flip side, mundane examples can have pernicious, hard-to-see consequences when implemented at a social scale, and if it’s clear a sci-fi narrow AI illustrates those kind of risks, it would be very valuable to include.
Also comedy may have AI examples, but for the same reason those examples are very difficult to review, they’re also difficult to include in this analysis. What belongs to the joke and what should be considered actually part of the diegesis? So, say, the Fembots from Austin Powers aren’t included.
Why not rate individual AIs?
You’ll note that I put The Avengers: Age of Ultron on one line, rather than listing Ultron, JARVIS, Friday, and Vision as separate things to consider. I did this because the takeaways (detailed in the next post) are tied to the whole story, not just the AI. If a story only has evil AIs, the implied imperative is to steer clear of AI. If a story only has good AIs, it implies we should step on the gas. But when a story has both, the takeaway is more complicated. Maybe it is that we should avoid the thing that made the evil AI evil, or to ensure that AI has human welfare baked into its goals and easy ways to unplug it if it’s become clear that it doesn’t. These examples show that it is the story that is the profitable chunk to examine.
TV shows are more complicated than movies because long-running ones, like Dr. Who or Star Trek, have lots of stories and the strategic takeaways may have changed over episodes much less the decades. For these shows, I’ve had to cheat a little and talk just about Daleks, say, or Data. My one-line coverage does them a bit of a disservice. But to keep this on track and not become a months-long analysis, I’ve gone with the very high level summary.
Similarly, franchises (like the overweighted Terminator series) can get more weight because there are many movies. But without dipping down into counting the actual minutes of time for each show and somehow noting which of those minutes are dedicated, conceptually, to AI, it’s practical simply to note the bias of the selected research strategy and move on.
OMFG you forgot [insert show here]!
If you want to suggest additions, awesome. Look at the Google Sheet (link below), specifically page named “properties”, and comment on this post with all the information that would be necessary to fill in a new row with the new show. Please also be aware a refresh of the subsequent analysis will happen only after some time and/or it becomes apparent that the conclusions would be significantly affected by new examples. Remember that since we’re looking for effects at a social level, the blockbusters and popular shows have more weight than obscure ones. More people see them. And I think the blockbusters and popular shows are all there.
So, that’s the survey from which the rest of this was built.
A first, tiny analysis
Once I had the list, I started working with the shows in the survey. Much of the process was managed in a “Sheets” (Google Docs) spreadsheet, which you can see at the link below.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iLboZJ9zs2OjykYWfGOYMBYEkBruDxi1kErwKjb6aIQ/edit?usp=sharing
Not wanting to have such a major post without at least some analysis, I did a quick breakdown of this data is how many of these shows each year involve AI. As you might guess, that number has been increasing a little over time, but has significantly spiked after 2010.
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Looking at the data, there’s not really many surprises there. We see one or two at the beginning of the prior century. Things picked up following real-world AI hype between 1970–1990. There was a tiny lull before AI became a mainstay in 1999 and ramped up as of 2011.
There’s a bit of statistical weirdness that the years ending in 0 tend not to have shows, but I think that’s just noise.
What isn’t apparent in the chart itself is that cinematic interest in AI did not show a tight mapping to the real-world “AI Winter” (a period of hype-exhaustion that sharply reduced funding and publishing) that computer science suffered in 1974–80 and again 1987–93. It seems that, as audiences, we’re still interested in the narrative issues even when the actual computer science has quieted down.
It’s no sursprise that we’ve been telling ourselves more stories about AI over time. But things get more interesting when we look at the tone of those shows, as discussed in the next post.
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Phil Nichols says: 10 Apr 2018 at 11:45
Interesting project. I look forward to seeing where it goes!
I have a couple of additions to your list, all TV shows. Apologies if you already have these, but I didn’t see them mentioned.
The Martian Chronicles (1980 TV series) – one section deals with androids
Ray Bradbury Theater (1985-92) – several episodes with androids (“Marionettes, Inc”, “The Long Years”, and possibly some others that I’ve forgotten)
The Twilight Zone (1959-62 (?)) – several episodes with robots/androids (“The Lonely”, “Steel”, probably several others)
Shane Lawrence says: 10 Apr 2018 at 15:26
Person of Interest also includes Samaritan, an ambiguously evil ASI counterpart to The Machine, serving as one of the antagonists from season 3 onwards.
Nice catch. Samaritan was accounted for in the takeaways, but not listed in column E.
scifihughf says: 11 Apr 2018 at 03:16
1981, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, BBC short TV series.
Episode 2 in particular.
Not just Marvin, but the ship doors, the ship computer Eddie, whole notion of AI personalities being designed for consumer marketing purposes.
1978 – 1981 Blake’s 7, 4 season BBC TV series
Seasons 1 – 3 Zen, ship computer. General AI. Not really anything new after season 1.
Seasons 2 – 4 Orac, transportable computer. General AI possibly super. Technically introduced in season 1, but only as MacGuffin for the final episode.
Season 2, episode 6. Unnamed computer presiding over court martial.
Season 4, Slave, ship computer. General AI. Deliberately made subservient.
I have so little knowledge about Blake’s 7. Is 3 Zen a “stoic guru” like the ship’s computer in Star Trek TOS? Because I made a hard call to disclude that one.
Varied with different writers, but occasionally Zen and definitely Orac were more active.
I was planning a Blake’s 7 rewatch when my current writing project is more or less done. (Even though it’s British and thus just 13 episodes a season, there’s still a lot to get through.) I’ll take notes and send you anything particularly interesting. (Assuming you haven’t finished this by the time I do the rewatch.)
Stretching the definition of acceptable sources, how about Cortana the AI who is prominent in the Halo computer game? She/it did make very brief appearances in the movie “Forward Unto Dawn” and the collection of animated shorts “Halo Legends”
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Stéphane Lallée says: 19 Apr 2018 at 07:56
Eva is a not so know Catalan movie which really touched me as it depicts a really interesting way to program artificial minds.
It also falls in the “neutral” tone in my opinion, and as Ex Machina or Her, it asks the question of feelings (human -> machine ; machines -> humans ; machine -> machines).
Definitely more refreshing than most of the “mainstream” movies 😉
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_(2011_film)
Laura "Ze Editor" Loolaid says: 22 Apr 2018 at 02:01
I’d perhaps include:
– various self-aware ship computers/avatars (can immediately think of Lucy from “Killjoys” and Romy from “Andromeda” – there are probably many more similar examples, it’s a rather common trope)
– Halo-related: Red vs. Blue – the AI that run some battlesuits and then the plot thickens… (I’ll share a link to a neat summary of RvB timeline that incidentally summarizes the AI situation as well youtu.be/58hi547DUpU)
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2 May 2016 Screen Zealots 2016 Film Reviews 12 comments
LOUISA: MATT:
Do you really need to read a review of “Mother’s Day,” the latest holiday-centric, career killer ensemble film? Don’t we all just expect these movies to be awful since the bar is already set super low? In what’s billed as a supposed ‘celebration of mothers everywhere,’ this stinker of a movie is not even worthy of a rental. In fact, if you take your mom to see this junk it’s more like an insult than a ‘celebration.’
This dud is a poor excuse for a ‘comedy.’ It’s not funny, it’s not heartwarming, it’s not touching, it’s just plain bad. The movie feels like it was made in a by-the-book sitcom factory, churned out on an assembly line for the low IQ set. It’s uninspired, vapid, and has zero reason to exist. This is a stupid movie made to pander to stupid people. Even the storyline setups, all designed to ensure the characters’ lives eventually intersect, are overly clichéd.
Jennifer Aniston and Timothy Olyphant play a friendly divorced couple with two sons (and he with a new twentysomething wife), whose paths cross with gym owner and widower Jason Sudeikis (who has — wait for it– two GIRLS! Wow, I wonder where this story is going?!??).
The always unpleasant Julia Roberts, wearing a harshly styled redhead wig, is a popular Home Shopping Network saleswoman. A big deal is made of the fact that she’s a childless career woman. Jump to another dopey storyline about bar waitress Kristin (Britt Robertson) and her wannabe comedian boyfriend Zack (Jack Whitehall), new parents with a baby girl. Kristin mentions that she was adopted and never knew her birth mother. What’s that you say? Is she planning to track down her birth mom? How did you know?! Bet you can guess who her mom is too!
The storyline that takes the cake centers around Jesse (Kate Hudson) and Gabi (Sarah Chalke), two sisters who moved from Texas to Atlanta to escape their bigoted parents Flo and Earl (Margo Martindale and Robert Pine). Jesse is married to an Indian man (Aasif Mandvi) and has a son while Gabi is gay and a married mom herself. An unexpected visit from their rv-loving mom and dad causes all hell to break loose. Martindale and Pine play the parents with a bizarrely cartoonish, over-the-top delivery style. They talk like simpletons and at times it feels like they are yelling their lines so the 70 year old racist homophobe in the back row of the theater can hear them clearly. Their dialogue is particularly antiquated and pointless; their story borderline offensive.
Loni Love shows up as a wise-cracking African American friend — it’s like you could practically hear the film’s producers worrying that they needed to cast a black character because wait a minute, this story is set in Atlanta! There are a few other cameos from Hector Elizondo, Jennifer Garner and Jon Lovitz (I feel like they deserve to be mentioned so they can be publicly shamed for participating in this crap). No doubt this is a talented cast, but it’s also a cast that gives the impression that they are simply giving up on their careers. Were the actors that hard up for a film role that they agreed to be in this rubbish? It appears so.
The characters repeatedly mention the city of Atlanta for no reason whatsoever, leading me to believe the producers must’ve had an agreement where they got paid whenever Georgia was mentioned in the movie. It started to get funny after the fourth or fifth mention (if you are forced to go to see this movie you can play a game and keep a running count of the mentions)!
Ensemble holiday movies can be mildly amusing (“New Year’s Eve“) or even first-class instant classics (“Love Actually“), but taking on Mother’s Day feels like a desperate money grab of the worst kind. I wasted nearly 2 hours of my life watching this film but at least my sacrifice can do some good in the world. If I can keep just one person from seeing this movie, my work is done. If you love your mom, give her a call, send her a card, take her to lunch. Don’t take her to this movie.
“Mother’s Day” is more fun than watching paint dry, but only slightly. And only because of how unintentionally terrible and ridiculous it is.
Like the holiday-themed movies “New Year’s Eve” and “Valentine’s Day” before it, “Mother’s Day” is another movie that follows a number of different characters in the days and hours leading up to the big day. And like those movies, the stories in “Mother’s Day” eventually intersect with one another in eye-rollingly predictable ways. In choosing a holiday as a framing device for an overlapping narrative revolving around a variety of different characters, all of these films attempt to imitate the success of “Love Actually,” but do so poorly. And “Mother’s Day” is by the worst one yet.
The movie isn’t populated with characters so much as caricatures. The film either looks through rose-colored lenses at a highly idealized version of life, or creates highly contrived conflicts that ring so falsely in our ears. The people populating “Mother’s Day” don’t resemble anyone we know, and consequently there is zero emotional resonance. The plot developments are so obvious that every “surprise” is anything but, and you find yourself waiting for each of your internal predictions about these characters to come true. It’s a paint-by-numbers script that wasn’t so much written as assembled.
In fact, the only thing I really enjoyed about this movie was laughing at it (and not with it). If it wasn’t the beating-you-over-the-head product placement, it was the writing, or the “record scratch” laugh cues for the audience, or the completely inauthentic and unbelievably false reactions background actors and sometimes even the principal cast. It was universally bad.
I do have to say, however, that this movie featured one of the most unintentionally funny secondary characters of any film in recent memory, and this guy single-handedly kept me from walking out. The man who played Earl, the dad of Kate Hudson’s character (Robert Pine) was ridiculously hilarious. To call his performance a caricature is to understate it. If Gabby Hayes, Yosemite Sam, and Foghorn Leghorn had a bastard love child together, he would sound something like Earl. If any one character from any one film ever deserved a supercut of all of his screen time, it’s Earl.
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Fredrick Biedermann says:
Can someone please explain the phenomenon of throwing wig on Julia Roberts head in every Hollywood film she’s in lately? She always looks, as Laura San Giacomo so eloquently put it in “Pretty Woman”, DOPEY.
screenzealots says:
Maybe she has really bad hair? Ha ha — Louisa
Have you all “awarded” a film ZERO STARS yet?
No. It was and is my position that the lowest rating should be one-half star. In my opinion, even the worst movie still gets that because it got made and exists. – Matt
I agree with Matt (and the late Roger Ebert): a movie deserves a half star rating simply for getting made. I can’t bring myself to give out “zero” either. –Louisa
Actually, Roger Ebert gave several films ZERO STARS, most notably the movies “North” (“I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie.”), “The Hitcher” and “Freddy Got Fingered” (“This movie doesn’t scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn’t the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn’t below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels.”)
Ebert, in his older age, changed his tune on zero star reviews. I still have to agree that if a movie got made it deserves no lower than a half star.
I’ve looked at a few reviews of this movie. And they all agree with yours (i.e. this movie stinks).
Oh man, it is SO bad.
stevejdonahue says:
Agree with everything in this review. It’s very hard for me to give a “1 out of 10” to a movie, but Mother’s Day is one of those very few movies that have absolutely no redeemable attributes to it.
Film Music Central says:
ouch, I should’ve guessed this movie didn’t do well when the previews ended and it was never heard of on tv or the internet ever again
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Fawad Khan’s Maula Jatt 2 expected to release in 2017
Maula Jatt 2 is an upcoming action drama film, written and directed by Bilal Lashari, co-produced by Faisal Rafi and Bilal Lashari. It is a sequel to 1979 cult-classic Maula Jatt. The shooting of the film had started mid this year and the film is expected to hit the screens in 2017. The cast of the film includes Fawad Khan, Hamza Ali Abbasi, Sanam Jung, Shamoom Abbasi and Adnan Jaffar.
There is not much revealed about the movie yet but it is confirmed that the film’s story will be all new unlike the first part but dialogues will be taken from 1979 film. The film will be in three languages English, Urdu and Punjabi. Fawad in the film will play the role of Maula Jatt while Hamza will play the role of Noori Nath. We wonder how the new and modern version of the roles maula Jatt and Noori Nath will look like. Hamza Ali Abbasi even did training to work on muscle symmetry, endurance and cardiovascular health. Fawad Khan and Hamza Ali Abbasi who are usually seen in romantic, love struck hero roles will be seen in a totally different role and we’re sure it is going to be something to look forward to because Fawad is going to reprise the role of late legend Sultan Rahi!
“It has to be a lot more than just physical exaggeration and that is why Fawad Afzal Khan as Maula Jatt and Hamza Ali Abbasi as Noori Nath will come as an amazing shocker for the audience.” stated Bilal Lashari
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Video games are the new kings of media, even for Garth Brooks
By Olga KharifBloomberg
Thu., June 4, 2020timer5 min. read
Video-game platforms like Fortnite and Roblox have already become go-to spots to celebrate birthdays, hear new music and watch movie trailers.
Now they’re pushing to become true media hubs, where entire albums may be distributed exclusively and socializing is just as important as gaming. Even as people begin to emerge from pandemic lockdowns — and can get up from the couch — video games look to bolster their status as the new kings of communication.
Garth Brooks is a convert. The country superstar, who has outsold Elvis, expects to start releasing new songs within Zynga Inc.’s mobile games, such as Words With Friends, which recently began offering free content for Amazon Prime subscribers.
“The future is limitless, especially now that they’ve teamed up with Amazon,” Brooks said in a phone interview. “What’s possible is an entire album solely for Zynga and Amazon. And then a year later, it can release into the whole other retail.”
During the COVID-19 lockdowns, video-game use exploded — both as a way to pass the time and maintain friendships. And they began to supplant more traditional social media.
Animal Crossing saw one of the biggest spikes of new user interest among social-media channels, according to a recent report from analytics provider Talkwalker. Players have begun celebrating major life events, including this spring’s graduations, in Roblox, Minecraft, Fortnite and other games.
Using the same platforms to watch entire movies and attend concerts is seen as the logical next step.
“Because of the lockdown and people being confined, they have more time to game, but there are also other things they want to do,” said Billy Pidgeon, an independent game-industry analyst.
Even as the lockdowns are being lifted, many consumers are hesitant to head back to movie theatres and concert halls — and may stay away for some time. Artists and filmmakers can find them inside games.
“With terrestrial radio, they want it to be a hit already before you bring it to them,” said Brooks, who started working with Zynga last year. “With gaming, it allows a lot of people to hear it before it’s played to them. If you make the song famous through gaming, by the time it hits retail, then people don’t have the hesitation of spending the money. It’s a win-win for everybody.”
Already, Brooks has performed in a COVID-19 relief concert on game-streaming site Twitch. Back in April, artists such as Lady Gaga and Billie Eilish participated in the One World: Together at Home concert, with about four million gamers tuning in from Roblox. Nearly 28 million fans flocked to Epic Games’ April concert by Travis Scott in Fortnite. And more recently, Epic premiered a new trailer for the upcoming Christopher Nolan movie “Tenet.”
The hope is that this is all just the beginning. Rockstar Games and 2K have had special events, and corporate parent Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. is “looking at all kind of interesting things” in terms of interactive content, said chief executive officer Strauss Zelnick.
Roblox, played by a third of all Americans under the age of 16, is now working with the movie and music industries to host their content in the game. It expects to make announcements soon.
“Historically, what we’ve been doing has been promotional in nature,” said Craig Donato, chief business officer at Roblox. For instance, Roblox created special characters and contests within the game for Warner Bros. and Walt Disney Co. — to promote “Aquaman” and other titles.
“Now we are very much focused on creating interactive experiences where people are also consuming this entertainment,” Donato said. “I have a team of people talking to movie and music industries, and this is something we are focused on.”
The idea is not just to stream a video inside a game, but to also offer extra features unavailable in a real-life concert or movie theatre. Music fans’ avatars may be able to go backstage to greet their idol, to ask a question or to request a favourite song. And, of course, they can play games and socialize while watching.
“The dimension we are trying to figure out here is truly social consumption,” Donato said. “The people around me, the larger group, my connection to the artist. There’s really opportunities to create compelling experiences.”
“It is a long-term opportunity to bring in a broad audience that will hopefully stick around.”
Here’s how that played out during the One World concert: While the music blared on a big screen, players’ avatars jumped on trampolines, or chilled and chatted on a river in floating flamingos while wearing solidarity shades.
Amrik Raj Singh Chattha, who is 12 and lives in Marin County, Calif., had his avatar wearing a lightsaber and watching on the stage, and said it was “very exciting.”
“When you are watching TV, you might be alone,” he said. “When you are in the video game, there are other users in the game. It feels slightly more lifelike.”
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Artix Entertainment, which has been hosting live events with musicians like Korn since 2009, has begun doing battle concerts in the last six months. They work like this: Players enter a concert for the band Breaking Benjamin through a portal, and end up in a void with floating islands and giant monsters. Depending on what they do, and which monsters they battle, the concert ends differently. Because of that, an average player attends the same concert 10 times, said Artix CEO Adam Bohn.
“Some of them play into the hundreds,” Bohn said. “The game gives a prize for every step of the concert.”
The entertainers are turned into 3-D characters — with input from the artists, who also get to choose what backdrop they’d like for their virtual stage, and how the lights and special effects should look.
“My ultimate dream: I want our game to be like the video-game version of ‘Saturday Night Live,’” Bohn said. “A new musical guest every week.”
To make money from the arrangement, Artix has tried one-time fees and sold collectible band merchandise — with the performers splitting proceeds with the gaming company. But for Artix, it’s more about being able to market the gaming platform to a band’s fans, Bohn said.
Gaming companies could potentially include exclusive concerts in their season passes, according to David Cole, founder of research firm DFC Intelligence. Selling virtual merchandise is another moneymaker, he said.
“For game companies, I think it is a long-term opportunity to bring in a broad audience that will hopefully stick around,” Cole said.
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Local News & Views SFPD tightens its chokehold on Bayview Hunters Point since killing Kenneth Harding
SFPD tightens its chokehold on Bayview Hunters Point since killing Kenneth Harding
Pack the courtroom for Kilo G’s TRO hearing on Friday, Aug. 12, 9 a.m., Room 514, SF Superior Court, 400 McAllister at Polk – come at 8:30 for the press conference
by mesha Monge-Irizarry, Idriss Stelley Foundation
The latest target of a San Francisco police wave of terror is Kilo G. Perry, videographer, freedom fighter, peacemaker and educator and the disabled single father of a 3-year-old boy. Ever since the July 16 killing of Kenneth Wade Harding Jr., 19, at Third and Oakdale by the SFPD thugs in blue, our Bayview Hunters Point community has been threatened, harassed and terrorized by the police more than in recent memory – some say more than in 45 years since the September 1966 rebellion following the police killing of Matthew Johnson, 17, when police sharpshooters and National Guard tanks filled Third Street.
No tanks so far, but a “surge” of police reassigned to patrol BVHP since Kenny’s death take aim daily at anyone they think might incite a community response, especially residents who speak out publicly. Henry Taylor, the first reported target, was arrested just prior to the July 20 meeting at the Bayview Opera House called by Police Chief Greg Suhr, then released without charge the next day.
Jailed after speaking to the press
Henry, a direct eyewitness to the killing, had been widely quoted disputing the police version of the killing – that Kenny had a gun and fired at the police before they fired at him. According to Huffington Post, “Eyewitnesses … [told] ABC7 News they didn’t see any shots being fired at the officers.
“‘I just seen shots going forward,’ said resident Henry Taylor. ‘I didn’t see shots coming backwards.’”
Strangely, that quote is now missing from the ABC7 story cited as its source by Huffington Post. It’s been wiped clean from the San Francisco Examiner, too, which had also cited ABC7 as the source.
Debray Carpenter, better known in the community as Fly Benzo, 22, also widely quoted in the first mainstream media stories on the killing, was arrested after the meeting at the Opera House, where the outraged crowd booed Chief Suhr off the stage. The San Francisco Chronicle reported: “Carpenter said he was disappointed by the forum.
“‘I feel like it went nowhere – our questions were left unanswered,’ he said. ‘We need to shut down the T line until we get answers to our demands – no police on trains, free trains or no trains at all. We’ll make sure there are no trains at all if that’s the way they want it.’”
One of the spearheaders of the struggle for justice for Kenneth Harding, Benzo referred to Muni’s Third Street light rail line because Kenny had just stepped off a T-train when two officers asked to see his transfer as proof he’d paid his $2 fare. He ran from them, and they opened fire. Residents of more upscale neighborhoods say that armed police never conduct fare inspections there. (See the statement of mayoral candidate Teresa Baum below.)
Whenever we talk about boycotting or disrupting transit, all hell breaks loose. The police, who serve and protect the wealthy and corporate interests in the tradition of the slave catchers, crack down on “dissident” voices with brutal force.
Benzo, arrested by nine cops, was released from jail several days later after the community “phone blasted” the DA’s Office demanding his release and dismissal of all charges. One of those charges reportedly was assault on an executive officer, evidently referring to the tough questions Benzo threw at Chief Suhr before Suhr admitted defeat and left the Opera House, saying, according to the Chronicle, “They shouted me down.”
Police terrorism in the town square
On the block where Kenneth Harding was accosted and shot by SFPD is Mendell Plaza, which serves as a town square for Bayview Hunters Point at its main intersection. A farmers’ market used to be held there, events take place often and people congregate there every day. When police harass or attack someone there in broad daylight and in view of dozens of people, they must be intending to intimidate and terrorize the community.
The peaceful, congenial spirit of the plaza has been broken repeatedly since Kenny was killed. Gentle “TipToe,” a brother with severe cerebral palsy, was brutally assaulted by the police. So were “Little Skip” and “Bo” – all of them well known and liked in the community. Bo had a seizure, and the cops who brutalized him mocked him: “Bo, you’re faking!”
Frail elder Charles “Chuck” Nolan, who suffers from longstanding severe asthma and COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), was attacked last Saturday, July 30, merely for standing with about 75 people listening to speakers at a rally to protest the killing of Kenneth Harding organized by the October 22 Coalition against Police Brutality. Chuck and Henry Taylor were the only Blacks in the audience.
Police, perhaps fearing Chuck might speak to the crowd, grabbed him, threw him to the ground and handcuffed him as he struggled to breathe. His cruel arrest was caught on video.
Officers took Chuck to San Francisco General Hospital, then released him to the street that night without charge.
Kilo G. Perry pepper sprayed for daring to film police brutality
It was community videographer Keith G. Perry, 57, better known as Kilo, who recorded Chuck Nolan’s arrest. Now he has become the target of police retaliation. Brother Kilo, the single father of a 3-year-old boy named Angel, has suffered for the past seven years from a painful neurological disability that affects his right arm and hand, causing him excruciating pain when unknowing people shake his hand. Kilo can only type with one finger.
A community peacemaker and producer of “Cameras Not Guns,” Kilo G. has been catching police-community interactions on video. And the police in turn have been taking pictures of him on the street, trying to intimidate him, yelling, “Hey, Kilo G., we got ya on your Facebook.”
Last Sunday, July 31, the day after the rally, the sparring culminated with police pepper spraying Kilo G. merely for filming them! Amazi, who works with Kevin Epps, the critically acclaimed filmmaker of “Straight Outta Hunters Point” and “The Black Rock,” and Lynn Daniels of Channel 29 were among the crowd witnessing this outrageous attack.
SFPD Capt. Paul Chignell, who heads the Bayview precinct station, was there. He asked Kilo if he wanted an ambulance, and Kilo was taken to San Francisco General for treatment, then released.
A few days later, two cops served Kilo G. with a temporary restraining order. They said that Kilo, as he was being pepper-sprayed, had sexually threatened and assaulted Officer Julia Angalet when he echoed the angry crowd saying, “Get up off here with that faggot shit!” I wonder, if he’d called her a pig, would they be alleging animal cruelty.
Officer Williams, who served Kilo with the TRO, told him: “If we see you anywhere near Third and Oakdale [the corner where, on July 16, Kenneth Harding lay unattended, struggling for life in a pool of his own blood, as police trained their guns on him] we will personally arrest you. You are going to jail!”
As usual, 3-year-old Angel was with his father at the time, and Kilo asked the officers not to make such threats in front of his little boy. Kilo is his sole caretaker.
To see the temporary restraining order against Kilo, click here.
‘I’m on it,’ pledge District 10 Supervisor Malia Cohen and Sgt. Hall
Kilo called District 10 Supervisor Malia Cohen, who represents Bayview Hunters Point, about the pepper spraying incident. “I’m on it,” she told him.
Sgt. Dean Hall of the Bayview police station was also contacted by Kilo. “I’m gonna handle it,” he pledged. But their protracted silence remains deafening.
So Kilo G. filed a complaint with the San Francisco Office of Citizens Complaints. Under Director Joyce Hicks, the OCC has been sustaining only 3 percent of the complaints filed against SFPD. But filing with OCC is a mandatory step before the matter can be taken to Internal Affairs and to the Police Commission, on which, out of seven commissioners, the people have only one fierce ally, civil rights attorney Petra DeJesus. Angela Chan, director of Asian Law Caucus, is helpful on some issues. Petra is the sole commissioner, for example, who opposes a contract with Taser International to arm SFPD officers with tasers.
Pack the courtroom on Aug. 12
Comrade Kilo G.’s TRO hearing is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 12, 9 a.m., in Room 514, San Francisco Superior Court, 400 McAllister, at Polk Street. If the judge chooses to believe the police, a three-year restraining order could be issued against Kilo, barring him from being anywhere near Officer Angalet, the Bayview police station or her patrol car. If she comes at him in the next three years, Kilo could be found in violation of his restraining order and face a fine of up to $1,000 and up to a year in jail. Who would then take care of his baby, Angel?
Police continue to accost Kilo G. on the streets, repeatedly asking him if he is on parole or probation, when a simple check from a patrol car’s computer system would turn up a clean record in their database within seconds.
So please come out to support Brother Kilo on Aug. 12. If he and Fly Benzo and Henry Taylor can find the courage to speak up and bear witness for us all, you can too!
Typical of the critical role Kilo plays in the community and the high esteem he’s held in is this message posted by a young woman yesterday on his Facebook wall urging everyone to attend his hearing: “Where is the freedom to view whatever he chooses to view? No one says a word when media is out there. I pray Mr. Perry pleads not guilty, takes it all the way.
“He is a necessity out there in them streets. Nobody else is gonna tell the truth. At least he has a camera. But that’s OK. After this, we need to help this brother invest in a wide or long view lens or something so he can do like media do and sit a half block away and see everything like he’z right there.
Kilo G. Perry is a necessity out there in them streets. Nobody else is gonna tell the truth. Please go speak up for this brother.
“Please go speak up for this brother. Make sure u use a low tone and choose your words carefully. Remember you’re on their ground! Play the game.”
‘I paid my debt to society’
Kilo, who agreed to interview with us at the Idriss Stelley Foundation office, has “paid his debt to society,” as he puts it and has stayed out of the correctional system for the past 16 years, educating youth on non-violence, alternatives to illicit activities, survival and sustainability.
Sustaining the Black community in San Francisco is not to the liking of the powers that be, who shamelessly expedite “Negro removal,” the gentrification process set in motion decades ago. From a high of 13.4 percent of San Francisco’s population in 1970, Blacks have now plummeted to 6 percent or less – the most rapid decline in the Black population of any city in the country.
Kilo G. Perry can be contacted through email at g.styleent@yahoo.com or through Facebook at http://facebook.com/kilo.perry/.
Mesha Monge-Irizarry, mother of Idriss Stelley, who was murdered by San Francisco police June 13, 2001, heads the Idriss Stelley Foundation, the foremost Bay Area agency dedicated to police accountability. ISF provides direct services for survivors of police misconduct and grieving families of loved ones killed by law enforcement, attorney referrals, counseling and support groups, help with organizing press conferences, rallies and protests. Located in the Redstone Building Suite 209, at 2940 16th St., at Capp Street, half a block from the 16th Street BART Station and Muni lines 14, 14L, 22, 33 and 49, the office is wheelchair accessible. Contact ISF through its bilingual crisis line at (415) 595-8251 or through Facebook.
Green Party mayoral candidate Teresa Baum calls for independent investigation of Kenneth Harding’s death
by Teresa Baum
As a candidate for mayor of San Francisco, I join other outraged citizens in calling for an independent investigation of the death of Kenneth Wade Harding Jr. Considering the terrible history of police-community relations in Bayview Hunters Point, considering the history of neglect of the needs of these people by the city, it is understandable that this neighborhood cannot just accept the police department’s version of this tragic death and move on.
There are many troubling questions posed by Harding’s death. Why were police looking for fare evaders in the first place? This is a job for unarmed fare inspectors. Certainly, we don’t see police performing this function in Noe Valley, where I live. Why would police pursue, with guns drawn, someone running from the crime of not having a transfer? Who shot first? Only eyewitnesses can tell us this, and perhaps we will never know with absolutely certainty the answer to this question. Why did police risk the safety of neighborhood children by shooting in the direction of a crowded playground in the middle of the day?
Indeed, no agency can effectively investigate itself. And the incentive is enormous for the police to cover up the possibility that they killed Kenneth Harding. The police press release about the caliber of the fatal bullet made it seem that they were reporting the medical examiner’s results. But in an interview by the Bay Guardian, the Medical Examiner made it clear that it was not her job or her field of expertise to evaluate the caliber of the bullet. The police alone decided that the bullet that killed Harding was a different caliber from the Police Department’s own guns.
In the past year, the San Francisco police have killed Vihn Bui, a mentally ill man in his home in the Bayview, and shot Randal Dunklin through the back of his wheelchair in SoMa. BART police killed Charles Blair Hill, a homeless drunken man, at the Civic Center Station. And now Kenneth Harding. The police are creating a climate of fear in neighborhoods that are ripe for gentrification. It is understandable if the residents feel they’re being pressured to move out, so that others with more money can move in. This is not the San Francisco I want to live in. An investigation by truly independent outsiders would be a step toward creating a climate of police accountability and compassion in our city.
http://youtu.be/ClvBRWZXgPw
This is another of Kilo’s videos. On YouTube, he explains: “This is a slide show that I did for a presentation in my African American history class. It basically shows Black people as slaves and free people – who Blacks were, are and can possibly be.”
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HomeCommission Meeting MinutesMinutes – April 11, 2011
Minutes – April 11, 2011
Minutes of the Regular Meeting of
The San Francisco Ethics Commission
Room 408, City Hall
I. Call to order and roll call.
Chairperson Hur called the meeting to order at 5:32 PM.
COMMISSION MEMBERS PRESENT: Benedict Y. Hur, Chairperson; Jamienne Studley, Vice-Chairperson; Beverly Hayon, Commissioner; Dorothy S. Liu, Commissioner; Charles Ward, Commissioner.
STAFF PRESENT: John St. Croix, Executive Director; Mabel Ng, Deputy Executive Director; Shiasta Shaikh, Assistant Deputy Director; Richard Mo, Chief Enforcement Officer; Garrett Chatfield, Investigator/Legal Analyst; Catherine Arugmedo, Investigator/Legal Analyst.
OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY: Jon Givner, Deputy City Attorney; Molly Lee, Deputy City Attorney.
OTHERS PRESENT: Judy Melinek, Judson True, Thomas Picarillo, John Gollinger, Steven Brewer, Adam Zapala, and other unidentified members of the public.
MATERIALS DISTRIBUTED:
– Memorandum from the Executive Director re: Legislation to amend one-year post-employment restriction, dated April 6, 2011.
– Draft advice letter to Dr. Judy Melinek regarding whether paid expert testimony in a judicial proceeding in San Mateo County violates the Statement of Incompatible Activities of the General Services Agency.
– Report on San Francisco's Limited Public Financing Program.
– Draft Minutes of the Regular Meeting of the San Francisco Ethics Commission on March 14, 2011.
– Executive Director's Report to the Ethics Commission for the Meeting of April 11, 2011.
II. Public comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda that are within the jurisdiction of the Ethics Commission
III. Consideration of legislation to amend San Francisco Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code section 3.234 to allow an appointed former Mayor to obtain full-time City employment within one year of leaving Mayoral office.
Chairperson Hur welcomed Commissioner Liu to the Ethics Commission.
Executive Director St. Croix stated that the Board of Supervisors submitted the amendment to section 3.234 for approval by the Ethics Commission. He stated that staff included members of the Board of Supervisors as part of the amendment to ensure consistency within the Code. He also stated that staff included an option for consideration by the Ethics Commission that would narrow the scope of the amendment so an interim mayor would only be allowed to return the position he or she held prior to the mayoral appointment.
Judson True, representing Board of Supervisors' President, David Chiu, stated that the legislation is narrowly crafted and that the situation that this amendment addresses is a rare occurrence.
Responding to Commissioner Liu's question regarding the policy considerations of the amendment, Mr. True stated that the Board of Supervisors wanted to ensure the amendment was narrowly tailored and straight-forward.
Executive Director St. Croix read the proposed change to section 3.234 that would allow a mayor or a member of the Board of Supervisors to return only to a previously held City position.
Commissioner Ward stated that he was not in favor of including the Board of Supervisors in this change to the Code. He stated that the public would not expect that, in upholding a promise to Mayor Lee, the Ethics Commission would choose to include the Board of Supervisors.
Vice-Chairperson Studley stated that she was in favor of the narrow version which only allowed a mayor to return to his or her previously held City employment. She stated that it is important that the Ethics Commission adopt a change consistent with what the voters approved when they adopted this code section.
Commissioner Hayon and Commissioner Liu both separately stated that they also support the narrower provision.
Deputy City Attorney Givner confirmed that the Mayor Lee's previous position was an appointed position and would be subject to re-appointment by a new mayor. He also stated that another option is to require a cap so that an interim mayor could accept a different position as long as the salary that would be received in the new position did not exceed the salary received in the previous position.
Chairperson Hur also stated he supported the narrower provision. He also stated that the salary cap proposal would limit any risk of the interim mayor setting up a "golden parachute" while in office.
Commissioner Liu stated she was in favor of the salary cap option, and also stated that she would be in favor of including the members of the Board of Supervisors in the amendment with that cap.
Chairperson Hur stated that the inclusion of the Board of Supervisors was unnecessary.
Commission Ward stated that finding an interim member of the Board of Supervisors was likely a much easier process than an interim mayor, and that he would not support including members of the Board of Supervisors in this amendment.
Public Comment:
Thomas Picarillo stated that voters are upset by this proposed change. He stated that this code section was a voter adopted provision and that any amendment must further the purpose of the chapter. He stated that the Supervisors made an illegal promise to Mayor Lee and that they are now asking the Ethics Commission to ratify that promise.
John Gollinger stated that he represented the organization San Franciscan's for Clean Government, and that he was surprised to learn of the proposal to include members of the Board of Supervisors in this amendment. He stated that this provision has remained unchanged since its adoption in the Charter in 1932, and that if the Ethics Commission approves the amendment it should consider including a sunset provision.
Chairperson Hur stated that the Ethics Commission is trying to be consistent with the will of the voters.
Commission Liu stated that after listening to the discussion and the public on this issue, she was not in favor of including members of the Board of Supervisors in this amendment.
Motion 11-04-11-1 (Studley/Ward): Moved, seconded and passed (5-0) to adopt the amendment as follows: Notwithstanding the one year restriction to Subsection (A), a former Mayor who was appointed to that office under Charter Section 13.101.5 to fill a vacancy shall be eligible for appointment to any City employment provided that (i) the former Mayor did not file a declaration of candidacy for election to the office of Mayor after being appointed to that office, (ii) the former Mayor was employed by the City immediately prior to assuming the office of Mayor, and (iii) the salary in the first year of the new employment shall not exceed the salary received by the former Mayor in the City employment that he or she held immediately prior to assuming office as Mayor.
IV. Consideration of letter to Dr. Judy Melinek, including formal written advice, regarding section III.B.3 of the Statement of Incompatible Activities of the General Services Agency, which prohibits employees of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner from providing expert testimony in judicial proceedings unrelated to their official duties unless such employees receive and advance written determination that they may do so.
Deputy Executive Director Ng introduced the advice letter.
Dr. Melinek stated that the draft letter contains several errors. She stated that it was not true that employees were consulted during the draft SIA process. She stated that it is not incompatible with the department to provide expert testimony in a court proceeding. She stated that it is improper that the advance written determination requires a requestor to disclose potentially confidential information in order to determine whether or not it will be approved. She stated that prior to the SIA adoption, there was no issue with providing expert testimony in a court proceeding in another county. She requested that the SIA be amended to reflect the previous policy.
In response to Commissioner Liu, Dr. Melinek outlined her past work providing expert testimony.
In response to Vice-Chairperson Studley, Dr. Melinek stated that she was only aware of the SIA requirements after it was implemented.
Deputy Executive Director Ng stated that the SIA could not be amended without going through the formal process.
Vice-Chairperson Studley stated that the Ethics Commission could ask the department to consider addressing and/or amending any problems with the SIA.
Chairperson Hur stated that Dr. Melinek appears to be an exceptional expert witness, but the Ethics Commission cannot provide the relief she has requested without the formal process to amend the SIA.
Steven Brewer stated that he retained Dr. Melinek as an expert witness. He stated that the SIA asks a requestor to answer six questions. He stated that the last question asks if any party already relied on the requestor's abilities. He stated that in this case, he has already relied on Dr. Melinek.
Adam Zapala stated that the SIA policy violates the First Amendment and that political speech is protected.
Vice-Chairperson Studley stated that although the Ethics Commission has no ability to review an advance written determination, she would like the Ethics Commission to contact the department outlining the Ethics Commission's concerns.
Chairperson Hur directed staff to consult with the General Services Agency regarding the SIA.
Dr. Melinek withdrew her request for formal advice.
V. Staff presentation of public finance report.
Assistant Deputy Director Shaikh introduced the report.
Chairperson Hur and Vice-Chairperson Studley both thanked Ms. Shaikh and her staff for the excellent work.
VI. Closed Session.
Closed session held pursuant to Charter section C3.699-13, Brown Act section 54956.9 (a) and (c) and Sunshine Ordinance section 67.10(d) to discuss anticipated litigation as plaintiff.
Motion 11-04-11-2 (Ward/ Studley): Moved, seconded and passed (5-0) that the Ethics Commission move into closed session.
The Ethics Commission went into closed session at 7:17 PM.
VII. Discussion and vote regarding closed session action and deliberations.
Motion 11-04-11-3 (Studley/Ward) Moved, seconded, and passed (5-0) that pursuant to section C3.699-13, the Ethics Commission finds that it is in the best interests of the public not to disclose its closed session deliberations re: anticipated litigation.
The Ethics Commission went into open session at 9:57 PM.
VIII. Minutes of the Commission's regular meeting of March 14, 2011.
Motion 11-04-11-4 (Ward/Studley): Moved, seconded and passed (5-0) to adopt the minutes of the Ethics Commission's regular meeting of March 14, 2011.
IX. Executive Director's Report.
Executive Director St. Croix stated there were no highlights in this month's report.
X. Items for future meetings.
XI. Public comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda that are within the jurisdiction of the Ethics Commission.
XII. Adjournment.
Motion 11-03-11-5 (Studley/Ward): Moved, seconded and passed (5-0) that the Commission adjourn.
The meeting adjourned at 10:00 PM.
Garrett Chatfield
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Adam Scott Has Gray Hair – Oh, And He Won The Honda
Posted on February 28, 2016 by shutfacegolf
I’m Not Kidding About The Gray Hair
Adam Scott won the 2016 Honda Classic for his first PGA Tour win since the 2014 Colonial. When his final 25 inch putt fell for victory he breathed a heavy sigh of relief, removed his cap to greet his caddie and playing partners, and in doing so exposed to the world that the former Greek god and king of getting boy-band-ass now had speckled portions of gray on his head. God that made me (a year older than Scotty) feel better about myself. Everything else Scott did on his way to victory over the weekend was nearly flawless (if you can ignore what happened Saturday on the 15th hole).
We all watched last week at Riviera when Adam Scott found his game while in contention at the Northern Trust Open. The ball striking. That chip-in. He looked like the Adam Scott we saw for much of 2013 and early 2014. Where had he been? Apparently he’d been busy starting a family with his bride. Shit tends to happen to your golf game when you hit that family stage of life. But as Adam noted in post tournament interviews, he’s now found balance in having a family and his profession. His game obviously shows that this so called balance isn’t just bullshit for the press corps to hear.
Scott’s middle rounds of 65 and 66 this week in South Florida are where he did his damage to vault to the top of the leaderboard. He actually got to -12 at one point in his round Saturday until this dreadful tee shot at the par three 15th hole.
Adam Scott hit his tee shot in the water on No. 15 — the first hole in The Bear Trap. #QuickHits https://t.co/eEDVsrXfiK
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) February 27, 2016
What the clip doesn’t show is his shot from the drop area that also went in the drink. Easy seven. A footnote that Twitter and NBC dropped on us is that Scott is only the 3rd player to win a tournament while making a quadruple bogey (stats kept since 1983). The last player to do so was Phil Mickelson who made one at East Lake in the 2009 Tour Championship. The quad phased Scott, he was clearly dazed for the rest of the round, but he got it in the barn and regrouped to find himself a co-leader after 54 holes. His T1 status on Saturday night probably helped him stay confident. I’m sure he was pissed during dinner but found solace when he realized the tournament was still his to lose. He shot 66 with a quad!
Scott was -2 for the day on Sunday through 8 holes. He appeared to be in a two man race for the title with Sergio Garcia. His bogies at 9 and 10 tightened things up again. At 12 his tee shot found the fairway bunker and with Sergio in position A in the fairway it looked like the two could be all square with 6 to play. Then Scott hit this brilliant shot to make the margin 2 again.
Wow, Adam Scott. Brilliant. #QuickHits https://t.co/kdwfwGBoSa
That would be all he needed from there on in, so long as he didn’t fuck up at the Bear Trap like he did Saturday. No problem. Solid ball striking and clutch putting down the home stretch made Sergio’s final hole birdie matter very little. Scott’s Honda win falls into the same category as several of his other 11 Tour wins. Almost all of them have been on tough courses where ball strikers benefit over grinders who can putt. Scott isn’t going to win many putting contests. Ball striking is his M.O. After all, only a guy with a pure swing like his can play forged blades that are 10 years older than any other wrenches in the bag of a tour pro.
What clubs did Adam Scott use to win @TheHondaClassic? Winner's bag: https://t.co/pcbwCta1DW #PGATour #HondaClassic pic.twitter.com/PXcJJQdS63
— Golfweek Magazine (@GolfweekMag) February 28, 2016
I’m not saying he can’t putt. He simply tends to win on courses and in weather in which putting isn’t an equalizer for the rest of the field. He actually putted damn well this week. Did you see the comparison NBC did with his old anchored stroke next to his new one with a similar lower hand grip? That was brilliant and well illustrated by the peacock. It showed why what he’s doing now is working so well. I never doubted that the anchoring ban would have less of an impact on him because he won before he ever anchored (hi Webb and Keegan!). I guess it just took him some time to figure it out.
The rest of 2016 is wide open for Adam now. He’ll be one of the favorites at Augusta. He could win again as soon as next week at Doral. The Honda is a good reminder that Rory (missed cut), Rickie, Jordan (didn’t play), and others aren’t the only stars that matter. The win is also Scott’s 12th of his career as I noted earlier. That makes him the player on Tour under 40 with the most wins. 12 doesn’t sound like much, but it shows how much Tiger dominated Adam, Sergio, and their peers in their age group while Woods was in his prime.
Sergio Garcia missed the cut at Riviera last week – a course he normally plays very well. He hasn’t won a Tour event in 3 and a half years. I’m not sure he knows how to win anymore, but he certainly plays tough courses well and he was doing more of the same at the Honda. He admitted he didn’t have his A game and I’d have to agree with that. He hit countless shots that were double crossed or flared to the right, but his short game held his rounds together and he ground out a nice showing in finishing 2nd to Scott.
Garcia played with Rickie Fowler for the first two rounds. The pair was electric on Thursday and Friday with birdies galore and very few mistakes on their scorecards. Rickie was 8 under through 36 holes and didn’t make a bogey. Garcia’s mind fuck juju must have eventually rubbed off on Rick because Fowler played PGA National in 74 shots and no birdies to fall off the lead lap going into Sunday. He never had a chance after that. And whatever virus or curse Garcia gave to Rickie, Fowler must have passed it on to former Ryder Cup partner and Saturday playing companion Jimmy Walker. Walker birdied the third hole he played on Saturday and was 10 over from that point forward…..for the round! I blame it all on this gaffe. He was never the same.
"Please welcome … Jimmy Fowler."
Breakfast ball. #QuickHits https://t.co/qYCkQv3hNQ
Did you hear about the Jack Nicklaus hosted Ryder Cup dinner that happened Thursday? I’m sure you did. What came out of it was this now famous picture as tweeted originally by Captain Davis Love III.
Love and Nicklaus invited the top 40 American players in the standings over to the Nicklaus residence for food and fun with their potential teammates. That group didn’t include Justin Thomas. Thomas is good friends with Love. He played collegiate golf with his son. Not being invited to the get together must have been a wake up call for Thomas because he turned it on for the rest of the week and finished T3. Before an unlucky double bogey at the 71st hole Thomas actually had a chance to threaten Garcia and Scott and perhaps win.
Jason Bohn wasn’t at the Ryder Cup dinner either, but you wouldn’t expect him to be. Bohn made the cut on Friday at the Honda then WD’d after experiencing chest pains. It turns out Bohn had a mild heart attack during his round. He was rushed to the hospital where it was discovered that he had a 90% blockage and a stent was put in. He’s a lucky guy that this was discovered when and where it was. Hopefully we see Bohn back in action soon this season.
Shot Of The Day
There were plenty of quality candidates for the Shot of the Day from Sunday at the Honda. The Adam Scott’s fairway bunker shot I showed you above was a tasty option, but it didn’t win. Gary Woodland hit a shot from the hazard with no pants on. Could that win?
No. Gary missed the green from there. Nice effort, but not SFG-SOTD worthy. The honor goes to Justin Thomas. As Thomas was in the middle of his run at the leaders he came to the beginning of the Bear Trap at the 15th tee and nearly flew his ball in the jug. Take a look.
All over it and nearly an ACE! https://t.co/fjB1WikZuM
I get that Adam Scott has a pretty looking swing, but Thomas’ move is damn good too. I could watch him hit balls for hours.
Up And Comer
It’s WGC Doral week. That means two things. First, you’re going to hear “Trump” 10,567 times this week when following either politics or golf. Well, you’re not going to hear it here. Consider this your safe haven from Duck-Faced Donald. Second, March begins on Tuesday and there will be a new Up and Comer of the month posted. Who will it be? I haven’t decided yet. You’ll have to wait to find out. You can also get in a late nomination if you so choose. Just leave a comment. I do actually read every single one of them.
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Hessler release new version of “Bad Blood” with Igz Kincaid handling lead vocals
Chicago, Illinois, USA heavy metal rockers Hessler have released a new version of their song “Bad Blood” with current male singer and guitarist Igz Kincaid handling the lead vocals with more material reportedly coming in January 2018.
Hessler previously released the song “Bad Blood” with female singer Lariyah Daniels handling the lead vocals on their EP of the same name in 2011.
Sleaze Roxx stated the following in its review of Hessler‘s EP Bad Blood back in April 2011: “As I listen to Bad Blood, I think to myself, ‘damn, this sound was done to death almost 30 years ago!’ Yet it is the old-school sound and delivery of Hessler that keeps drawing me in, because even though the formula being used is decades old, there really aren’t many new bands taking this approach — or maybe it’s the seductive photos of Daniels on the group’s website that is clouding my judgment.”
Since that EP, Hessler have released three albums — the full-length album Comes With The Territory (2012) with Daniels on lead vocals, the EP Ghost Dance (2014) with Jessikill singing and Skeleton Crew (2016) with Kincaid at the helm in terms of vocals.
Hessler‘s 2017 version of “Bad Blood” song with Kincaid on lead vocals:
HESSLER – Bad Blood (2017)
Would you like to know more? @ www.hesslerchicago.comSpotify @spotify:album:5K2WqdVmbkHyqUyBGr5PlFBad Blood – by HESSLERAs the clock ticks the time, I wonder…
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We are powerful.
An evening of conversation with Philadelphia's top reentry experts, a group of formerly incarcerated individuals who power the Reentry Think Tank
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Slought is pleased to announce "We are powerful.," an evening of conversation with Philadelphia's top reentry experts, a group of formerly incarcerated individuals who power the Reentry Think Tank, on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 from 7:00-9:00pm. The event, organized with the Criminal Justice Bloc and the Goldring Reentry Initiative (GRI) at the Penn School of Social Policy & Practice, will feature remarks by Think Tank Fellows Joshua Glenn, Aaron Crump, Deana Bell, Jay Adams, Jym Baker, and co-organizers Courtney Bowles and Mark Strandquist.
In the United States, there are more than 70 million people with criminal records—more than the entire population of France. These records create obstacles to employment, housing, education, healthcare, and social mobility, while stigmatizing and shackling people to their past. These struggles are massive but also position former prisoners, and those with criminal records, as the reentry experts that society needs to listen to. While so much could be learned, this expertise is sadly often overlooked, dismissed, and silenced.
The Philadelphia Reentry Think Tank responds to this crisis and opportunity by connecting former prisoners from across the city with the region's top artists, civil rights lawyers, and other community experts to transform the stereotypes, social services, and policies that impact their lives, families, and communities. Think Tank Fellows are nominated by a different reentry organization from across the city and meet together weekly to create powerful media campaigns, consult with reentry sector stakeholders, and co-facilitate community-based social services.
Share a meal at Slought with members of the Think Tank and learn about the city's reentry crisis through the eyes of those most affected.
Preamble of the People's Bill of Rights for Returning Citizens:
We the people.
The other side of America.
The 70 million plus with criminal records.
We exist in multitudes. We lead many lives.
We are 23, 57, 35 years old.
We are not criminals. We are survivors. Scholars. artists. The leaders you need. Your fathers Mothers, Daughters, sons. We are human beings. We deserve a chance to prove our worth.
We did our time. Let us become who we want to be.
Believe in me and I will be the best mother I never had. I will mobilize communities. Will make history. Will achieve all of my goals. Will be a role model for the youth!
But It's not black and white.
Some of us came home to housing. Some of us were homeless. Some spent 7 months trying to get an approved home plan while wasting away in halfway houses. Some of us struggle finding positive support from family and friends, while others came home to mentors, wives, husbands, and so many open arms.
I want you to remember that we need to change people's environment if we want to change their future. That people need community, not condemnation. That we need more support to become what we dream of.
That the world is wrong about us. That we've already come so far. That we need to forgive us. And so do you. That we can make differences in the lives of others. But we need a chance to prove our worth.
That we are powerful!
"We are powerful.," with Courtney Bowles, Mark Strandquist and Think Tank Fellows Joshua Glenn, Aaron Crump, Deana Bell, Jay Adams, and Jym Baker (March 29, 2017)
Audio, 39 minutes.
"These records hold us back, they hold us down. Like a tail, they keep tripping us up; as we try to move our lives forward, they come back to haunt us."
— Karon, 28, project participant
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State Transportation Officials List Seven Road Priorities
State transportation officials hope extra money set aside for South Carolina roads can be used to help get a jump start on several interstate widening projects, reports The Island Packet. Department of Transportation commissioners approved a list of seven projects last week that they want to be completed first, based on a priority ranking from DOT employees that was created by the Legislature.
Improving the Interstate 85-Interstate 385 interchange in Greenville is at the top of the list. The project is ready to go as soon as money to pay for it is in place. The DOT board sent he list to the State Infrastructure Bank, along with a resolution asking the bank to follow it. But the bank, which helps finance major road projects in the state, doesn’t have to follow the commission’s wishes. The bank’s board and DOT officials will meet next month.
The bank has been a sore spot for lawmakers in recent years, who accuse members of preferring project along the coast. Six of the seven projects on the DOT priority list are well inland. “We’re hoping they are going to follow the list. That’s the message I’m going to take to the meeting,” said DOT Commission Chairman Johnny Edwards, who is a member of both boards.
The board’s action comes less than a month after lawmakers approved a bill that used a combination of borrowing, new revenue from growth and reallocated sales taxes from vehicles to raise up to $1 billion for the state’s roads and bridges over the next 10 years.
DOT commissioners want the Infrastructure Bank to use some of that newly available money for the I-385 project, which Is estimated to cost $240 million. That would free up additional money for the six other interstate projects, which also can get federal funding. The other project the DOT want to complete are:
— Widening 5 miles of I-26 to eight lanes west of I-20 in Columbia at $90 million
— Widening 25 miles of I-85 to eight lanes in Greenville and Spartanburg counties at $241 million
— Widening 19 miles of I-526 to six lanes near Charleston at $534 million
— Widening 10 miles of I-20 to six lanes in Lexington County at $155 million
— Widening 3 miles I-77 to six lanes between I-20 and South Carolina Highway 277 in Richland County at $39 million
— Widening 28 miles of I-85 to six lanes in Cherokee County at $425 million.
The highway funding bill also includes extra money for bridges and other roads that the DOT is trying to prioritize. “The goal is to stretch these dollars as much as we can,” DOT spokesman Pete Poore said. Read More.
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Recycling: The Tour
February 1st, 2016 / By: IFAI / Projects
Unifi has recycled more than
4 billion plastic bottles into products people wear and use every day. Photos: Unifi Inc.
These days, there are many reasons to keep that plastic water bottle out of the trash—especially when it can be turned into recycled fiber that can be made into shirts, blankets, artwork and other items.
Unifi Inc., the Greensboro, N.C.-based manufacturer of REPREVE®, a leading recycled fiber brand, wanted to educate consumers about the advantages of recycling. So the company launched the national #TurnItGreen Tour, showcasing their own high-quality products made from transformed plastic bottles.
The tour is fun, interactive and educational, featuring displays in a REPREVE-branded trailer that shows how plastic bottles are transformed into recycled fibers. It also features gaming units and activities that enable participants to win prizes from brands that make REPREVE-based products, including scarves, shirts, canvas artwork and koozies from Volcom®, Polartec® and SnapBox®.
The #TurnItGreen Tour is a fun, interactive way to demonstrate how plastic bottles can be transformed into products people want to use.
The first stop was San Francisco for The North Face® Endurance Challenge presented by Gore-Tex® held in early December 2015. The tour will be stopping at schools, major sporting events, college campuses and retail locations across the country. Unifi is partnering with organizations like Marvel Universe LIVE!, the Detroit Lions and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The mobile experience is sponsored by Polartec, Sage, Renewtra, Volcom and SnapBox, and will be led
by a REPREVE-branded Ford F-350, which uses REPREVE-based fabric made from 16 plastic bottles
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Fabric transforms camper design
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King Diamond Rocks The Fillmore Detroit
King Diamond © John Swider
Detroit, Michigan (November 14, 2019) -When an artist is well into a five decade music career, it is a given that touring has taken its toll both vocally and physically on their body. There are a few, however, that have used time as a learning experience to make their live performance less stressful while still keeping the music and aesthetics just as stimulating as in the past. With the announcement that metal royalty, King Diamond had a new studio record in the can and a subsequent tour aptly named The Institute Tour ready to go, the triumphant return of the King to Detroit was imminent.
The Fillmore Detroit was the chosen venue and served as a perfect backdrop for the Kings diabolical stage setting. Elaborate chandeliers and ornate statues harken back to a bygone era when grandiose theaters were the meeting places for the rich, famous, gangsters and “Dons” who ruled the social gatherings. Tonight, it was a different type clientele filling the historic venue, metalheads on hand to take in the legendary performance of King Diamond .
After a rousing set by British doom rockers Uncle Acid & the Dead Beats and Idle Hands, a well-orchestrated stage changeover ensued that had stage hands constructing an entire set — complete with three levels and multiple staircases. Once the process was complete, the results displayed an elaborate asylum façade that would be the main feature of the Kings performance. It has been 4 excruciatingly long years since Abigail in Concert 2015 Tour and King Diamonds fans have been patient long enough. As door #9 of the institute opens, a hooded servant wheels King Diamond out on a gurney to the eerie introduction to “St. Lucifer’s Hospital.”
Opening the 14-song, one hour and thirty minute set with “The Candle”, a throwback to 1986’s debut, Fatal Portrait, the night was history of King Diamond’s prolific catalog, touching on as much of the band’s classic material as the allotted time permitted. Well-choreographed skits introduced storylines from each of King Diamonds LP’s including the ritualistic murder of the infant Abigail before the ensuing performance of “Arrival” and “A Mansion in Darkness.”
Included in the robust set was the closest thing to a hit single in the band’s discography, the cult classic,“Halloween.” Ironically, it was dually noted by the King that they were “a little late,” for the haunting holiday. None the less, the haunting performance received an ovation like it was actually Halloween night.
If the theatrical performance wasn’t enough to excite the senses, the classic tones of guitarists Andy LaRocque and Mike Wead were full-on and encompassing, the latter ripping off unabashed solos while LaRocque held down his longstanding role as King Diamond’s musical right hand, guiding the songs rhythmically as he has done in the past. If you closed your eyes, you could be instantly teleported back in time with the band sounding just as they did in the ’80s, holding fast to a pure and minimal sonic approach that is fully encompassing and engaging. King Diamond’s iconic falsetto wail was in full force, accentuated by the overlaid backing vocals of Livia Vita, who sang from her platform on the second level of the stage set. In fact, the Kings voice was so strong and vibrant it made you wonder if he had found the Fountain of Youth or conjured up some miracle potion in the Institute!
The only new song in the performance“Masquerade of Madness,” fit seamlessly next to older material and eased any apprehensions as to whether the new studio album, The Institute, would be a drop-off in comparison to earlier King Diamond releases. Based on the crowd’s reaction to the new song mixed with the powerful display of King Diamonds vocals throughout the evening, the new release should be a welcome addition to any of his fans music library and playlists!
King Diamond ended the evening with a somber yet touching tribute to his former Mercyful Fate/King Diamond bandmate, Timi Hansen who unfortunately passed away recently after a long battle with cancer. Hansen played bass on Fatal Portrait and Abigail, bringing the same meticulous beats to those albums as he did alongside King Diamond in Mercyful Fate. The King dedicated “Black Horseman” to his fallen comrade, a fitting tribute to the legacy that the renowned bassist leaves behind. It was poignant moment it time that required no further adieux. King Diamond ended the night as it started, through door #9, looking back in honor of his friend, one last time to wave farewell.
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Pete Cohen films Pat and Steve Clarkson
Posted on January 15, 2014 by didymusjudasthomas
Pat Clarkson, and I come from Danville, California, which is near San Francisco, and I have multiple myeloma; which is not a common cancer
About 20,000 people in the United States have the disease, and about 10,000 die every year, and 10,000 get the disease
So it’s a relatively small number of folks,that have it
So it’s not well
It’s not as well researched as some of the other cancers, um, but we’re hoping that the, um, Burzynski Clinic can help me
There’s not much hope for me
I, I have probably, a, uh, prognosis of a couple, couple years
Maybe a year or two to live, um, without, um, without I, I, an alternative method of treatment, and that’s why
If I could say this a little differently
The conventional medicine, or what we would call conventional medicine, which is, you know, chemotherapy, radiation, uh, surgery; which is not possible with, uh, multiple myeloma because there is no, no large tumor that can be surgically removed, uh, the doctors have told us basically there is no cure, and that, and I, I say doctors; this is our local oncologist, um, and the head of oncology at, um, University of California, San Francisco; which is a very well respected school, uh, hospital, that there is no, uh, no reasonable possibility of a cure
Um, by contrast, uh, Dr. Burzynski, we have found out, has, uh, cured several people with myeloma, and he’s cured many other people with different kinds of cancer
The problem is, uh, that the FDA in its wisdom, will not allow us to, uh, be treated with the, uh, antineoplastons that are the backbone of the Burzynski therapy
Well they’ve told us that they don’t have evidence that it’s, um, that it’s an effective treatment
Uh, that, they don’t have evidence that it’s not, non-toxic; which in fact, uh, is incorrect because the FDA does have evidence that it’s non-toxic
Through the Senator’s office at the, the FDA is saying that they, they don’t know for sure that it’s not toxic; that’s not true, uh, and they don’t know that it will cure the disease, and therefor they can’t approve it
We’re willing
Pat’s willing to take the odds of a treatment, that is not 100% guaranteed, and let’s face it, most of the treatments that are approved by the FDA, are toxic, and are not guaranteed
So we don’t really understand, uh, why they have an issue with it, except that, uh, there’s an awful lot of money involved
Um, one of the peculiarities of the FDA, we understand they’re, by law, required to get much of their funding from the very companies that they’re supposed to be supervising
As, as I understand, uh, the Constitution, there is no basis in the Constitution for the Federal Government to be telling, an American, who they can use for a doctor or what drugs that they can use for, uh, their, their illness
Yet, over the years this, uh, this power has grown and been accepted at the FDA, and now it’s a, uh, uh, it’s, it’s out of control
We have asked the FDA what is different about my case
Why I don’t get an exemption
We don’t have a response yet to that, to that question
While doctors are generally very bright; they have to be to get through medical school, but they don’t have any training in critical, critical thinking, and most of them that I run into are not particularly good critical thinkers
The world they live in is to memorize a set of symptoms, then to look up or remember what those symptoms suggest in terms of a disease, and then remember or look up what the treatment is
So, here we have, um, uh, Dr. Burzynski, who is also a Ph.D biochemist, which is a, a interesting and, and very useful, uh, combination, who discovered that, um, in people who have cancer, they generally don’t have, or they have very reduced levels of what he now calls, uh, antineoplastons, and neoplaston is simply the medical jargon for cancer; so it’s anti-cancer, in effect, um, he discover the people who, uh, don’t have cancer, do have, high levels of this, and determined from research that these are controlled by, um, by the genes, and it’s part of the body’s immune system, in effect
We all produce cancer cells everyday of our lives
Like we produce bac, or have bacteria in our gi, digestive tract, that is controlled, by certain genes
In this case, um, he discovered that by, uh, by injecting, uh, or infusing, uh, these, they’re called peptides, peptide, that the patient could be helped
How, how innocuous, or how anti-toxic, can you have
It’s a, it’s a substance th, the body itself produces, unless the genes have shut down
Which is the case in, uh, some, in most, or at least half I guess, of multiple myeloma cases
My, my message would be that they don’t have the right to tell me to hold a, a life or a death, um, decision
They, they don’t have the right to tell me that, um, I can’t have treatment that I seek, or I will die
I don’t think they have that right to do that
Treatment is available
Uh, it is our choice
We are free Americans
We’re well informed
Uh, well educated
It should be our choice, and the Federal government in any, in any form should not have the authority to interfere with that
Uh, nothing’s guaranteed in this world, um, but we’ve got, um, we’ve got some confidence in this clinic and in this treatment
Pat & Steve Clarkson
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Pete Cohen talks to Steve and Mary Jo Siegel
This is our the best and the dearest, uh, patient who came to our clinic 20
and she was in the, she came with Hodgkin lymphoma, and a stage 4, and she didn’t have good, uh, prognosis
How long, did they tell you
They told me that I was gonna die, of non-Hodgkins lymphoma
That I had a fatal disease
They would treat me for awhile with, uh, chemotherapy and radiation, um, a bone marrow transplant, and, um, we, they, we would see what would happen, but no cure
Not a cure at all
That was 22 years ago
Um, I thank God everyday that I found Dr. Burzynski’s clinic, and Dr. Burzynski and his staff
Um, I was on his treatment for, um, 3 months when this huge tumor on the side of my neck started to reduce and finally disappeared
So we adopted her as our, uh, family
and now, she is our family member, and many others
So tell me, uh, how did you find out about Dr. Burzynski?
I was in a cancer support group, and, uh, one of the ladies in there said, you know, you have non-Hodgkins lymphoma
There’s a doctor in Houston whose been treating it with very good results
You should go and check it out
Which I went back home to my husband and said: “There’s Dr. Burzynski in Houston, Texas, and he’s having good results,” and, ah, Steve said: “You know, I’ve heard of this doctor
You know, I wrote his name down”
He’d heard about him
Wrote his name down for future use, and I think about, uh, the next couple of days we were in Houston, and we got to the clinic and I just felt I was in the right place
Everybody there
The feeling was so different than being at a UCLA or a USC or Dana Farber
It was just
I knew immediately I was in the right place, and I met Dr. Burzynski
Well first of all Dr. Barbara came out and hugged me, and, uh, it was, it was so wonderful and I’ll never forget the feeling of, of, uh, my first walk into the Burzynski Clinic
So tell me, what did, uh, any, did, did you have an oncologist at home and tell them that you were coming here ?
Yeah, we did
Um, uh, I had an oncologist at UCLA who was a lymphoma specialist, and he was the one that told me I would die of the disease
Um, when we told him that we were going to see Dr. Burzynski, he wasn’t, uh, overjoyed, to say the least, and he told us very negative things and, uh, but I thought, he wasn’t offering me anything, and, uh, when I did get to the Burzynski Clinic, Dr. Burzynski said to me: “I think I can help you,” he said
He didn’t
He didn’t tell me, he was going to cure me
He just said: “I think I can help you,” and, it was non-toxic, and the, um, conventional medicine was offering me high-dose chemotherapy, radiation, and in fact, in mu, as much radiation as people who were, uh, within one mile of ground zero at Hiroshima, and, and they were going to bring me as close to death as possible, and then, rescue me
Uh, and then Dr. Burzynski was going to do this and actually have, where actually I would have hope of a cure, non-toxically
My hair never fell out
I felt well
Um, I lead my normal life
I drove my kids to school
I cleaned the house
It’s a wonderful treatment
So, at what point did you realize, I’m free of cancer ?
Do you remember that point of ?
Uh, well I remember the point
I remember it very well
Um, the, it
It’s so big
Um, I had, uh, several CAT scans
I had 2 CAT scans in a row
The first one that showed no cancer at all, and, um, I had them done at UCLA, and, um, and then I had a second one, 3 months later, and that one was, was absolutely clear
So, um, it was, it was an amazing feeling, and actually 48 hours was following me, because it was, it was a really a big story, um, you know
Cancer throughout my body
No, no cancer at all and, and my medical records show, um, you look at my X-rays, my CAT scans, from starting Dr. Burzynski’s treatment, um, to approximately 9 months later
Reduction, reduction, reduction, until there was no cancer
So what did, what did your oncologist say ?
Did you, did you go back to your oncologist and say: “You said I was gonna die”
Uh, yes, we did that
And what did he say ?
And, and actually people would call him and a, people who were interested in Dr. Burzynski, and he would say: “Oh, she’s a spontaneous remission”
He would never accept the fact that I was treated, and cured by Dr. Burzynski, but my medical records prove it, and of, you know I, There are so many patients like me
I’m not the only one
So ok, tell me
Let me ask you a couple more questions
What sort of a person do you think Dr. Burzynski is?
Well aside from being the most wonderful, gentle, sensitive, caring doctor, and you don’t find many of those
I went to many doctors, while, while we were trying to find the answer
Many, and Dr. Burzynski is so above them
He, because he really makes you feel like a person, and that he cares, and, he’s also a genius
He, I know that he speaks about 8 languages
He’s an expert on the Bible
He, he just knows so much about everything
Um, I love to be in the room with him
He’s a very special man
So, you recovered, and then, ’cause you, when did you set up the patient support group, and why did you do that ?
Uh, actually my husband and I did that together, and it was during, um, the trials, uh, the Texas State Board started, in fact, I became a patient, and 2 months later, ah, he was brought to a hearing in front of the Texas State Medical Board, and so Steve and I, um, organized the patients to, um, be at that hearing to support Dr. B, ’cause he’d been going through this long before I became a patient, but, um, we wanted to show support, because I was already starting to fe, I was feeling better already
I was already seeing some reduction, and now my, the medicine was in jeopardy
I, It could be taken away from me at any time
So we decided to organize the patients and to show support, and all the patients wanted to help, a, uh, obviously
So, um, we’d go to every hearing, every, uh, the trial, we were there every day, um, and we would, patients would march in front of the court building, um,
It was, it was really a sight
An unbelievable sight
And why do you think that he was treated the way that he was treated ?
Why do you think they wanted to take him down ?
I think it’s because
There’s many reasons
I think the main reason is because what Dr. Burzynski does is making what all other conventional doctors are doing wrong, because chemotherapy is not the answer
Chemotherapy makes people sick, and, uh, most of the time it does not cure people
Um, all that poison and radiation
There’s gotta be a better way, and there is a better way
Dr. Burzynski has found it
I was sick
I had cancer 22 years ago
Um, my hair never fell out, and, uh, it was a treatment that I was grateful to be on every day
So how many patients have you come in contact with that Dr. Burzynski
Hundreds, and as you say by my patient group web-site
Um, I think I have about 90 stories on there now, and there are many more, because, um, I haven’t been able to get in touch with everybody, but over the years, uh, people give me their stories
Sometimes people will call me, um, but we, we are a patient group because we, we’ve all been helped or cured by Dr. Burzynski, and we, we want everybody to have access to this treatment
Steve actually had the chance to ask one of, uh, one of the prosecutors, um, at the trial, that exact question: “What would you do,” and he was prosecuting Dr. Burzynski, and he actually said: “I’d be first in line”
So, once you know the whole story, and you know the science, and you, especially if you do the research, um, you, you can come to the truth, and the truth is, Dr. Burzynski, has cured cancer
He cured me
I’ve been in remission for, in remission, for, uh, 22 years, and that’s a cure, and, uh, he could help so many, many, many more people
The, he has breast cancer patients now that are, that are doing so well
He has many
I just talked to an ovarian cancer patient
He has, um, all, all different types of cancers
What he needs is funding from our government
Um, all other doctors and, and, um, institutions, they get ah, mu, get so much money from the government
Dr. Burzynski doesn’t get one penny
If we could just think
If, d, if the government would just fund Dr. Burzynski, he could have a cure for all cancers
I believe that with all my heart, and somehow, some day this has to happen
The Sceptics (10:37)
Yeah, just tell me what this whole kind of skeptic movement
You do any research on Dr. Burzynski there’s a few things
that always come up
This guy Saul
Saul Green
and some other stuff
So just tell me
What’s that all about and where did that all come from ?
It stems from, uh, a lawsuit that was filed against, uh, Dr. Burzynski
Actually it was, uh, an insurance company, that didn’t wanna pay for, uh, for the treatment
A particular patient had been treated here in Texas, uh, was put into remission
Was successfully treated and then it turns out the insurance company did not wanna pay for it, so they brought in these people
These quote unquote experts
Cancer experts of, you know, rather dubious backgrounds
This is all that they do, is they look for ways to demean people
They look for ways to blacken their reputation
They ultimately became a group known as Quack watch, and these were brought in as the expert witnesses to say that this is not an approved treatment, albeit, was not true
They said the treatment didn’t work and clearly it did, and, uh, they have since gotten funding from insurance companies, from the government, private funding, and they go around to debunk things that are against mainstream, um, medicine, and, uh, their, their support comes from the insurance company and from the pharmaceutical companies who benefit from, from their work, and, uh, it expanded
Expanded all over the world to, uh, they’re in the United States, they’re in the U.K., they’re in Australia, and, uh, they have a very big presence
When the internet came into being they, you know, they went viral with this kind of stuff
So when you type in Burzynski, uh, a lot of the negative comes up first
So that’s the first thing you see is all this negative stuff, and it’s all hearsay
None of it has any basis in fact
It’s all lies
Um, you know, he, Dr. Burzynski never did anything illegal ever, and it was all based on, on very questionable legal grounds that he was ever sued, that he was, that any case was ever brought against him by the FDA or the Texas Medical Board, and all of those cases failed
They never held up to scrutiny
They all failed, and here Dr. Burzynski is today, and he’s thriving, and people come here from all over the world to be treated
Many are cured of their cancers, and, uh, all of these people in the Quack watch are gone
Uh, Saul Green has passed away
Uh, I don’t wish him ill, but I’m glad he’s not here, thank you, and all of these other people are gone and they’re not thriving, and they’re just like, you know, they’re like bacteria or like fungus under rocks, and when you shine a light on them, they can’t hold up to the scrutiny
The real light is here
The real truth is here in Houston at the Burzynski Clinic
Thoughts on Dr. Burzynski (13:46)
What do you think of Dr. Burzynski, yourself ?
I, I, I think Mary Jo’s pretty much summed it up
Uh, I, am of course
It, it, it’s not an unbiased opinion
He’s the man that saved my wife
Uh, she was cast off, um, as, as, as an incurable
She was told time and time again, not just by her on, oncologist at UCLA, Dr. Peter Rosen, but we went all over the country
We went to USC in, University of Southern California, UCLA, Stanford Medical, Dana-Farber; which is associated with Harvard, uh, in, uh, Boston, and everywhere we went, she was told: “There’s no hope”
“You’re gonna die”
“It’s just a matter of time”
“We have to see how long, how long it’s gonna take”
Um, against my better wishes, we came to the Burzynski Clinic, and she said: “I’m starting today,” and I said: “Don’t you think we should go back and discuss with Dr. Rosen at UCLA ?
She said: “No, they have nothing to offer me”
She was that brave, and we started that day, and we’ve never looked, we’ve never looked back
So to ask me about what I think about Dr. Burzynski, when my wife was told she was gonna die, and I was already making plans for how am I going to take care of my children without Mary Jo; my life partner, and he saved her life, I’m not gonna give you unbiased
an unbiased opinion of how I feel about the man
There’s probably nobody, that I have greater love and greater respect for, uh, in, in the whole world, and, uh, to add about how, how smart, how intelligent this man is, ah, expert on, on history as Barbara was saying
Expert on religion
He’s an expert on mushrooms
He knows more about mushrooms than any 10 mushroom experts in the world
He knows about bees
Who cares about bees, but he knows everything, because bees happen to be a rich production source of antineoplastons
Who knew ?
Dr. Burzynski knew, and that’s why we need to listen to him
We as a society
The world needs to listen to this man
Conventional Cancer Treatment and The FDA (16:05)
When you put some critical thought, critical analysis, you find that chemotherapy initially works
What it is, it’s a good, the first time around it’s a good tumor shrinking, they’re good tumor shrinking agents, but over the long run they create so many problems that eventually, the tumor becomes, the cells become resistant and the tumor takes over, or, if it is successful in shrinking the tumor to, to a, a size where the patient can survive, what happens after that is there’s a secondary cancer that’s created by the chemotherapy, with very few exceptions
Testicular cancer is one exception where it works
Some childhood leukemia’s they’ve had some great success with chemotherapy, but by in large it’s a failed modality, and the side effects are so bad as, as to be called horrific, uh, is how I would describe them from what I’ve seen in, in my family and in my friends, and my associates that’ve had to undergo it
So why do we allow that, when something like antineoplastons and Burzynski’s treatment, totally non-toxic, working with the body, allowing you to lead a normal life, and on it statistically for the number of people that have been treated, uh, compared to the number of people that have walked out of here in remission, or cured after 5 years; whatever definition you wanna use, we don’t allow that
We look at that as, uh, conventional medicine looks at like that as, looks at that as some sort of quackery
This is, this is, uh, critical thinking and science turned on its head, and it doesn’t make sense, and it goes back to what I was saying before
Why it doesn’t make sense, because there’s entrenched financial interests, and there’s a paradigm that says we do for cancer, we do chemotherapy, we do radiation, we do surgery, and that’s it
Anything else is not acceptable, because it goes against the paradigm
In the bureaucracy we know as the FDA
We’ve been fighting them for so long and they’ve been described as “The B Team”
“The B Team” is,that they be here when you come in and you start complaining, your problem starts, they be here, and when you decide to quit complaining because you’ve beat your head against the wall for so many years, they still be here (laugh)
So it’s “The B Team”
They’re bureaucrats
This is what they do
There, they have a certain set of tasks
Certain things that they’re tasked with
Protection of the food and drug supply of the United States, whatever that means
Whatever they deem it to mean
Whatever they decide it means
That’s what they’re gonna do, and it’s pretty hard to fight that
It’s pretty hard, unless you have a political, unless you have a, a, a, a political, ah, constituency, and you can put a lot of pressure on them
and that’s the only way
So what’s the answer ?
What will, uh
How will Dr. Burzynski prevail ?
Ultimately, in, in my, in my, in my view, the real tragedy is, is that he’s not going to prevail here in the United States
It’s going to be extremely difficult
It’s an uphill battle that, knowing Dr. Burzynski, he’s gonna keep fighting it, uh, and, and he’ll keep fighting that battle, but the real opportunity for him is to, uh, move this product and license it overseas, and, uh, other countries are interested
Other countries are more open, uh, to new modalities
They’re not entrenched, uh, and don’t have the financial, uh, interests, the, that are, the entrenched financial interests like we do here, like chemotherapy and, and, uh, radiation therapy, and I think that’s where ultimately we as Americans, as sad as it is, are going to have to go overseas to be treated and to get this medication
The FDA is so capricious in their decision-making, and in their exception granting, uh, that if Pat had AIDS, and this was anti-AIDS medication; proven or not or only with limited, uh, proven efficaciousness, uh, and proven limited proof that it was somewhat non-toxic, she would be able to get approval like that
The FDA has taken a drug approval process that generally takes anywhere from 10 to 15 years, and where there is political, successful political pressure applied, they have reduced that down to some cases 4 to 8 months as in the case of the anti-HIV drugs, and that’s because there is a very strong, very powerful political lobby in Washington, and throughout the country, and they have been able to apply pressure at key points in, uh, Congress
Congress puts that pressure on the FDA, says: “C’mon let’s get the ball forward
These are voting people
We have millions of people in this country with HIV who are compacted together and make a viable political force
Let’s move forward”
In the case of multiple-myeloma
In the case of these cancers or these people that wanna be treated, who have failed all conventional therapy, and wanna be treated by Dr. Burzynski with something that we know works
Something that is, is non-toxic, they, they don’t have
We’re not a viable political force
We’re not important to the Washington bureaucrats, to the Washington lawmakers
So nothing gets done, and these exceptions for the use of antineoplastons are not granted, and that’s, that’s the sad truth
Steve and Mary Jo Siegel
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Turkey Lurkey Thanksgiving Title
Traditionally, Thanksgiving is best known as the Holiday that the Detroit Lions get the “stuffing” knocked out of them
However, this year, it’s time to tender the tainted twisted trophy of Thanksgiving Turkey-Lurkey to Detroit’s toasted triumvirate treat of two-faced twerk-salad troll turpitude, and I have the temerity to tinker and tamper until I pay tribute with therapeutic levels of Thoreauness in response to GorskGeek’s misinformation, disinformation, and MisDisInformation (Missed ‘Dis Information)
Wednesday, 12/21/2005, Indianapolis, Indiana-based Eli Lilly and Company was treated to truthification, in connection with their illegal promotion (misbranding) of pharmaceutical drug EVISTA; (FDA approved for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis in post-menopausal women), in the:
a. prevention in risk of breast cancer
b. reduction in risk of breast cancer
Alleged in information, promoted drug as effective for reducing risk of breast cancer EVEN AFTER PROPOSED LABELING FOR THIS USE SPECIFICALLY REJECTED by FDA [1]
GorskGeek, being the breast cancer oncology specialist he claims to be, and so concerned about breast cancer patients that he is that “guy” who speaks out passionately about issues like the 10-year American Cancer Society Cancer Facts & Figures, “Estimated Breast Cancer Deaths for Women”, which reflect that in 2002, 39,600 (15%) women were estimated to die from breast cancer, and this year, 2013, the estimate is 39,620 (14%), which is 20 women MORE than 10-years ago, and who rails tirelessly about the ACS’s “Estimated New Breast Cancer cases in Women”, which 10-years ago was 203,500 (31%) in 2002, and now, in 2013 is 232,340 (29%), which is ONLY
28,840 MORE than 10-years ago [2]
Now THAT’s progress !
GorskGeek, of course, must accomplish all this under his breath
But I’m sure you’re wondering, dear reader, what was GorskGeek’s outraged blog about this American pharmaceutical manufacturer coughing up $36 MILLION ?
Well, let me tell you … just as soon as I find it
GorskGeek was unable to bring himself to blog about Evista until exactly one year later, on 12/21/2006, and even then, he was “mum’s the word” about the breast cancer claims [3]
Perhaps GorskGeek just “knew” that eventually Evista would finally be approved by the FDA for Eli Lilly’s preventing or reducing risk of breast cancer claims on 9/13/2007, and who were those paper-pushing FDA apparatchiks to prevent Lilly from implementing their “Internal business plan” ? [4-9]
GorskGeek wouldn’t want to damage his slim and non-existent chance of getting some Eli Lilly money for research, by blogging anything that might in any way be possibly construed as him saying anything negatory about the BIG Pharma teat he longs to suck off of
After all, Bob ‘n’ Weave Blaskiewicz (who sees every molehill as a mountain), did say about GorskGeek, 9/28/2013 [10]:
“But he is a, the thing is, the thing is, you thing you have to understand is Gorski, Gorski is a genuine expert, in matters re re regarding on oncology studies“
“I mean, he has a”
“He, He’s able to convince people, he’s able to convince people, on the strength of his record, to give him money to carry out research”
“People who know what they’re talking about”
“To give him money to carry out his research”
Yeah, right
Bobby 🙂
GorskGeek is hoping for a Happy Thanksgiving Golden Parachute; which is where he helps whistleblow about illegal BIG Pharma activity regarding some drug(s), which leaves him as the beneficiary of some funds like Mr. H. Dean Steinke, former Merck employee and his $68,190,000 MILLION from the federal government and states share of settlement amounts:
$44,690,000 MILLION – Mr. H. Dean Steinke, former Merck employee from federal share of settlement amount (1997 – 2001)
$23.5 MILLION – Mr. H. Dean Steinke, former Merck employee from the states share of settlement amount (1997 – 2001)
Next, GorskGeek goes off on his fave autism prescription antipsychotic drug Risperdal, and the 11/4/2013, Monday, allegations concerning Global health care giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and its subsidiaries, $2.2 BILLION + fine regarding J&J Subsidiary Janssen (1999 – 2005) actions [11]
EVISTA (FDA approved for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis in post-menopausal women)
Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, Indiana-based company
In connection with illegal promotion of pharmaceutical drug
Pleading guilty to criminal count of violating Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act by misbranding drug
In addition to criminal plea
agreed to settle civil Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act liabilities by entering into consent decree of permanent injunction
Charged in criminal information filed with violation of Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, following investigation by Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Office of Criminal Investigations
Plea agreement signed by Lilly and United States
Complaint for permanent injunction
Consent decree of permanent injunction signed by company and United States
Information alleges 1st year’s sales of drug in U.S. were disappointing compared to original forecast
According to information
10/1998 – company reduced forecast of drug’s 1st year’s sales in U.S. from $401 million to $120 million
Internal business plan noted:
“Disappointing year versus original forecast.”
Information alleges in order to expand sales of drug, Lilly sought to broaden market for drug by promoting it for unapproved uses
Information alleges strategic marketing plans and promotion touted drug as effective in preventing and reducing risk of diseases for which drug’s labeling lacked adequate directions for use
According to information: Evista
1. brand team
2. sales representatives
promoted drug for:
c. reduction in risk of cardiovascular disease
Under provisions of Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, drug misbranded when labeling didn’t bear adequate directions for each of intended uses
Alleged in information, promoted drug as effective for reducing risk of breast cancer even after proposed labeling for this use specifically rejected by FDA
Information alleges executed illegal conduct using number of tactics, including:
1. One-on-one sales pitches by sales representatives promoting drug to physicians about off-label uses of drug
2. Sales representatives trained to prompt or bait questions by doctors in order to promote drug for unapproved uses
3. Encouraging sales representatives promoting drug to send unsolicited medical letters to promote drug for unapproved use to doctors on their sales routes
4. Organizing “market research summit’ during which drug was discussed with physicians for unapproved uses, including reducing risk of breast cancer
a. Creating
b. distributing
to sales representatives “Evista Best Practices” videotape, in which sales representative states “Evista truly is the best drug for the prevention of all these diseases” referring to:
1). osteoporosis
2). breast cancer
3). cardiovascular disease
Complaint for permanent injunction alleges executed illegal conduct using number of tactics, including:
1. Training sales representatives to promote drug for prevention and reduction in risk of breast cancer by use of medical reprint in way that highlighted key results of drug and thereby promoted drug to doctors for unapproved use
2. Some sales representatives were instructed to hide disclosure page of reprint which noted:
a. “All of the authors were either employees or paid consultants of Eli Lilly at the time this article was written,”
b. “The prescribing information provides that “The effectiveness of [Evista] in reducing the risk of breast cancer has not yet been established.””
3. Organizing “consultant meetings” for physicians who prescribed drug during which unapproved uses of drug discussed
4. Calculating incremental new prescriptions for doctors who attended Evista advisory board meetings in 1998
5. advisory board meetings included discussion of unapproved uses for drug
6. By measuring and analyzing incremental new prescriptions for doctors who attended advisory board meetings, Lilly was using this intervention as tool to promote and sell drug
In addition to agreeing to plead guilty to criminal information and plea agreement signed by Lilly, settlement with United States includes following components:
(a) agreed to settle civil Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act liabilities by entering into consent decree of permanent injunction
(1). As part of consent decree, agreed to comply with terms of permanent injunction, which will require company to implement effective training and supervision of marketing and sales staff for drug, and ensure any future off-label marketing conduct is detected and corrected
(2). agreed to be permanently enjoined from directly or indirectly promoting drug for use in:
a. preventing or reducing risk of breast cancer
b. reducing risk of cardiovascular disease
c. or for any other unapproved use in manner that violates Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act unless and until FDA approves drug for additional use or uses
(b) as part of consent decree, agreed to hire and utilize independent organization to conduct reviews to assist Lilly in assessing and evaluating Lilly’s
1. systems
2. processes
3. policies
4. procedures
relating to promotion of drug and company’s compliance with consent decree
FDA made following announcement to postmenopausal women who have taken drug for prevention or treatment of osteoporosis:
“No postmenopausal woman who has taken Evista for the prevention or treatment of osteoporosis is affected by this action, as this matter today relates only to unapproved uses of Evista.”
Defendant agreed to plead guilty to charge in information
Defendant agreed to resolve complaint for permanent injunction by agreeing to consent decree of permanent injunction
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2005/December/05_civ_685.html
[2] – 11/13/2013 – The War on Cancer (I don’t think it means, what you think it says it means) #Winning?:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/httpcancer-orgacsgroupscontentepidemiologysurveilancedocumentsdocumentacspc-036845-pdf/
[3] – 12/21/2006 – On the messiness of evidence-based medicine
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2006/12/21/the-messiness-of-evidencebased-medicine/
[4] – 9/13/2007 – FDA Approval for Raloxifene Hydrochloride (Brand name(s): Evista®): Approved for breast cancer risk reduction:
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/druginfo/fda-raloxifene-hydrochloride
[5] – 9/14/2007 – FDA Approves New Uses for Evista: Drug Reduces Risk of Invasive Breast Cancer in Postmenopausal Women:
http://www.fda.gov/newsevents/newsroom/pressannouncements/2007/ucm108981.htm
[6] – 9/17/2007 – Evista Approved for Reducing Breast Cancer Risk:
http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm048474.htm
[7] – 2007
Click to access 020815s018lbl.pdf
Click to access ucm088593.pdf
Click to access 022042lbl.pdf
[10] – 10/18/2013 – Deconstructing Dr. David H. (Orac) Gorski – September 28, 2013 “The Skeptics™” Burzynski discussion: By Bob Blaskiewicz – 2:19:51
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/deconstructing-dr-david-h-orac-gorski-september-28-2013-the-skeptics-burzynski-discussion-by-bob-blaskiewicz-21951/
[11] – 11/4/2013
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2013/November/13-ag-1170.html
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We Take Ourselves With Us
November 27, 2013 Malagueta
Today, we ventured out in our new boots (and rose print thermal tights for me!) to get as Britty as we could.
We hopped the Tube to Tottenham Court Road …
for the British Museum!
There, we sought to follow Tennyson’s advice to wear out our feet in search of knowledge and stuff. (Cut me some slack, I was an Early Modernist, not a Victorian.)
As Penn noted, the museum is both overwhelming and awesome, which meant we had to refuel. The big restaurant is closed for refurbishment and reimagining, leaving us with the pop-up No. 63. It offered crazy good holiday themed turkey BLTs (with stuffing and cranberry sauce) and wickedly rich roasted tomato soup with some oregano infused oil. And, wonderfully crusty bread. Yay–we were ready to throw ourselves back into the depths of history.
I’m a smart person and a pretty decent writer, but words are inadequate to express what it’s like to share thousands of years of history with one’s kids. Truly amazing 🙂
And, then we were off for a proper English tea–also very Britty. But, I had cappuccino. (Even in England, tea is disgusting, but that’s just me.) Big thumbs up for the scones, tarts and raspberry jam from all at the table, except Harper, who shunned the scones and went for the lemon cupcakes with strawberry icing–which seemed to have three ingredients, all of them sugar. We picked our tea place because it offered a 2 for 1 special online, and it turned out to be quite mod, which bright orange walls, free form floral shaped chandeliers, and the coolest sinks in the world. Sugar high!
From there, we headed to Covent Garden to stroll a bit in the Christmas cheer. Penn got picked by a street magician to assist in his act, which made his day, especially when he got laughs from the crowd for his reactions and witty banter. Example: Magician, “Son, turns out I’m your long lost father.” Penn, throwing his arms wide for a hug and breaking into a big smile, “Dad!” In the end, the guy gave him a fiver, but Penn donated it back.
And, then, it was off to Matilda, which is just as funny, touching, clever, and engaging as everyone says. Because London theaters are much smaller than their NY cousins, it felt like we could touch the stage, which made the show even more electric. Loved it!
Nearly invisible Harper is doing her Matilda pose below.
Because we were crowding onto the Tube at Covent Garden along with everyone else heading back around 10, the trains were crazy busy. Funny story: we tried to cram onto a full train, but only Harper got on and the doors nearly closed. I jammed my arm and knee into the door to keep it from shutting but it wouldn’t reopen. A guy on the inside also tried opening the door, but it wouldn’t budge. Ned offered helpful advice, “Honey, get off at the next station, we will find you,” which he later said he was channeling from Liam Neeson. I took a more direct approach, pounding on the side of the train with my free arm and shouting, “Open the Door!” repeatedly in my “Going All Anne Kress” mode (as the kids call it). They opened the door. A few moments later, everyone was past the panic and smiling at the weird pug in antlers.
And, then we squeaked into Nando’s 10 minutes before it closed to have wings.
So today’s lessons: history is awesome, scones are yummy, Matilda rocks, going “All Anne Kress” works across national boundaries, and wings are the perfect ending to every day.
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Enterprise CommunicationsFeatured
The Humanity of AI
February 27, 2018 by Dave Michels
I recently enjoyed the movie Sully. Spoiler Alert: He lands the plane in the Hudson River.
After the crash, or “forced water landing,” the movie focuses on the subsequent question if the pilot was a hero or failure. The actual emergency landing was impressive and had no fatalities. However, initial simulations indicated that a runway landing was possible at two different airports.
At a key point, Sully challenges the NTSB investigators to get serious. He says the simulations are not taking into account the “human factor.” That’s a strange defense. If the human factor causes a plane to land in the Hudson and non-humans land at an airport, then take the humans out of the cockpit!
Sully’s point was further clarified to be about reaction time. His assertion was that a human pilot would first diagnose and attempt to restore lift before taking abortive actions. The simulations were immediately returning to the airport after the bird strike.
On that actual flight, Sully and his first officer made several attempts to restore lift. By the time they confirmed the engines lost, the airport runway option was eliminated. This was reproduced with the simulations after they added 30 seconds for assessment and restoration.
The movie concludes that Sully is a hero, and I’m not refuting that. But, I think his humanity defense was wrong.
Many of you reading this post will eventually fly in a pilot-less plane. Self-driving cars are upon us now. Self-flying planes are coming. They are conceptually easier than self-driving cars since there are fewer obstacles (bikes, pedestrians, traffic, etc.) in the sky.
At least in the movie, it appears Sully was confusing humanity with problem determination. He points out that no human pilot has trained for that particular situation. That no commercial plane has lost both engines at such a low altitude over one of the most densely populated places in the world. It was his experience, not rote training, that saved everyone on that plane.
This is why we don’t rely more on auto-pilot today. Autopilot is great a maintaining altitude and course, but can’t properly react to the unexpected. Autopilot is old tech. New tech relies on AI which adapts to new situations.
AI is still young and rapidly evolving. It’s rapidly improving and it is not unreasonable to assume that a future pilot-bot will outperform human, experienced pilots in the not too distant future. The movie demonstrated the Sully and crew performed their duties in a serial, non parallel, manner. Future bots will likely be able to simultaneously communicate the situation and actions, diagnose and attempt to restore the engines, and implement emergency maneuvers. These future pilot-bots are inevitable, necessary, and will become safer than human pilots (eventually).
There is already a shortage of pilots that’s expected to get worse. However, that could change practically overnight if/when the FAA approves single pilot flights accompanied by a co-pilot-bot. Then comes full automation, and the cockpit itself will disappear soon after that.
The implications are significant. Planes will be able to take-off, land, and fly closer together which increases the capacity of existing airports. Pilot-less planes also effectively eliminates the threat of hijackers, at least from onboard.
Sully wasn’t looking for humanity. He was looking for a reasonable response to an extraordinary situation. The initial simulations proved a runway landing was possible, but that’s because the simulations were unrealistic. As our AI improves, we will transfer more ‘experience’ into the both the bots and the simulations. The results will uncover totally new, unfathomable capabilities.
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Tom Goss – His Music on the “Rise”
By tasithoughts December 7, 2008 Feast of Fools gay Gay Music Artist Logo Music Artist Musician Out Musicians Queer Rise Tom Goss
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I have been meaning to write this post for a while after I heard this interview on the award winning podcast Feast of Fools (http://www.feastoffools.net/) in November. You can listen to the full interview by clicking on or pasting the following URL to your browser:
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Out music artist Tom Goss’s song Rise just hit me with its powerful lyrics like a song has not touched me in a long time. I call it a song for our times. It is an anthem. It is pure inspiration. For me it was a revelation. I actually wept after listening to it, because it somehow told my story, too.
Today your face, it slips away, but in a dream I’ll find.
Everything, worth wondering, truth to fuel this live.
Now it’s time to say goodbye, and to leave our skins behind.
Let the dusk, drain the sun and rise.
Falling feet, a vacant street, choose a path to run.
Tenderness, this lovers kiss, simply said and sung.
And you’ll fill all the voids that you long to, if you ever come back down.
Won’t you ever come back down?
Still looking back, past’s steady laugh, shadow clings and fights.
Stubbornness, a patient kiss, bids a child goodnight.
The video to this song has been in the spotlight this year on Logo.
So I decided to visit his website and listen to more of his songs. This man is a poet and storyteller. His portfolio of songs are heartfelt and grassroots, and in some ways revolutionary.
You feel like he has reached down into his core and then has brought that rawness out for all to hear and feel. That is the genius of his music and that is what keeps you mesmerized to it. Some of his music should be played in an open convertible driving on the Pacific Highway in California on summer day. His song “Come Around” is really good for that drive. Get the imagery.
Photography by Todd Franson
Some of his songs send you deep into your thoughts like a good story does where you get lost in some memory or emotion. “King of Something Right” fits that kind of vibe.
Tom Goss path to his current music success has not been easy as showcased in the Cover Story of the August 7th issue of Metro Weekly.
“Spend an hour with local troubadour Tom Goss and you’re bound to fall in love with him. The gay 27-year-old native of Kenosha, Wis., sports a sleepy smile and warm demeanor that is only complemented by his acoustic tunes about overcoming obstacles. But a knack for making people fall in love hasn’t always worked in Goss’ favor. It’s what led to a dark year and a half at a D.C. seminary and drove him away from his dreams of becoming a priest.
Before all that, fresh out of high school in 1999, Goss taught himself how to play guitar by attempting to play Dave Matthews Band material. Fast-forward to 2008 and Goss releasing a new EP, Rise, his first ”big-scale” national tour, and the release of his first music video. The video, which features Goss playing different versions of himself at different points in his life, using the D.C. Metro system as a backdrop, is getting heavy rotation on Logo’s video countdown.
When Goss isn’t performing, he works part-time for Charlie’s Place, an organization dedicated to empowering Washington’s homeless community. It’s a gig he maintained even while touring, thanks to the magic of telecommuting.
Now back home in the District, where he lives with Mike Briggs, his partner of nearly three years, Goss spoke with Metro Weekly about his struggles with the Catholic Church and how he found a different calling with the help of his acoustic guitar. “( Folk Confessional, by Yusef Najafi, MetroWeekly, August 7, 2008)
Goss is still working on his music and hopes to release an album next spring. There are many of us anxiously awaiting this music artist’s work and contribution. We need his voice and inspiration.
I can go on about the man and in his music. Visit his website. Listen to his music and embrace the artist. Like me you will become a fan.
The Tom Goss web site: http://www.tomgossmusic.com
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Wow, what an amazing piece. I am honored that “Rise” touched you so deeply. Thank you for listening and for finding strength in music. It has saved my life.
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Navy recruits are being quarantined at Great Wolf Lodge, but water slides are sadly out of the question
By Jared Keller May 15, 2020
Sailors from the USS Theodore Roosevelt may have spent the last few weeks holed up in a hotel in Guam to avoid the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), but that's nothing compared to two weeks in quarantine at a water park without any fun.
Stars and Stripes reports that the Navy is currently sequestering about 500 recruits at the Great Wolf Lodge Water Park near Chicago for two weeks before shipping them out to basic training.
The lodging situation, which will cost the Navy around $1.1 million for each weekly batch of recruits, is strictly designed to halt the spread of the virus at Recruit Training Command Great Lakes and not for funsies, according to the Navy.
“By moving the [restriction of movement] to an off-site facility, they are able to provide rooms with a small number of recruits, which will reduce the likelihood of spreading of the illness between recruits, protect the recruits and staff already at [recruit training command], and increase the space available at [recruit training command] for physical distancing procedures,” Chief of Naval Personnel spokesman Cmdr. Dave Hecht told Stars and Stripes.
Indeed, Navy recruits can kiss the prospect of a kicking off their Navy careers with some booze waterslide hijinks goodbye: According to Stars and Stripes, none of the “resort-type” amenities are available to recruits, who are allowed to bring two books and one hand-held gaming device into quarantine while they're focusing on course work and training.
Recruit Training Command Great Lakes had previously delayed accepting new recruits for a week after one recruit tested positive for COVID-19 in late March, a delay the service extended in April as personnel made arrangements to slow the spread of the virus as the service's lone boot camp.
On the downside, being quarantined at a water park is a frustratingly tempting scenario on par with a modern day trial of Tantalus, the Greek mythological figure who was doomed to have bodies of water recede at his feet, leaving him thirsty for all eternity.
On the upside, water parks are objectively filthy — which is actually a downside when you consider that the Great Wolf Lodge Water Park that's housing these recruits is probably a more dangerous cesspool of disease than, say, taking a walk through the streets of New York right now.
So enjoy your stay, recruits, and remember: resist the urge to yell “Cannonball!” should you happen to walk by the pool.
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Looking for family days out in Dorset? Here’s some of the best things to do Dorset with kids including family attractions, country parks, activities and historic sights. There’s even ideas for wet days if the weather fails you.
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Moors Valley Country Park
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This is a superb family and dog-friendly day out in Dorset. I’ve been a few times over the years, most recently during our camper van holiday at a campsite in Verwood.
We embraced the wet weather and had a great time getting muddy on the extraordinarily good play trail. There are adventure playgrounds, musical huts, snake tunnels and ants nest mazes.
During a previous visit, when Tot and Baby were tiny, we rode the model steam railway. And before kids I visited to have a go on the epic Go Ape course. There’s also cycle paths, Segways, and fun trails for kids.
When we visited in October the Shaun the Sheep Glow Trail was visiting the forest. A new net adventure course was also about to open.
It’s free to visit the country park but you do need to pay for parking.
Find out more about visiting Moors Valley Country Park.
This waterpark is the perfect place for families to head on a sunny or wet day in Dorset. Splashdown has 13 indoor and outdoor flumes ranging from gentle slides for beginners though to high-speed shoots for adrenline junkies, tyre rides with whirlpools, and black holes. Children must be over the age of six and one meter in height to ride the flumes. They cannot ride with a parent.
For toddlers there’s splash zones suitable for under fives and you can buy a combined attraction ticket to access the neighbouring Lemur Landings Soft Play.
Find out more about visiting Splashdown in Poole.
This is the perfect day out for older kids on summer days. They can tackle inflatable obstacles across the park’s two lakes, wobble over bridges, swing across the monkey bars and whizz down the slides.
Six is the minimum age for this day out close to Corfe Castle. Sessions last an hour and must be booked in advance.
Find out more about visiting Dorset Waterpark.
The Dorset Heavy Horse Centre is a conservation centre where you can learn about the history of heavy horses stretching back 1,000 years. There are also tractor rides, pony rides, vintage vehicles and farm animals to feed.
The Centre is open from Wednesday to Sunday throughout the year and seven days a week during the Dorset school holidays.
Find out more about visiting the Dorset Heavy Horse Centre.
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We’ve had loads of friends recommend a visit to Farmer Palmers Farm Park in Dorset but we are yet to make it along ourselves. I think its a hit because it’s a good day out in Dorset when it’s raining.
There’s always plenty of animals to cuddle, tractor rides and pig races. And in the summer don’t forget the kids’ swim suits for the splash zone and sand playground. You can also hand feed the park’s herd of deer.
Find out more about visiting Farmer Palmers Farm Park.
What better activity for a wet day than going under the sea in Weymouth. Walk through tanks and explore the rock pools to learn about local and international sea creatures. You can also meet some of the world’s smallest penguins.
There are themed events throughout the year.
Find out more about visiting Weymouth SEALIFE Adventure Park.
If your kids are into Scouting or Guiding then they will know all about Brownsea Island which was the site of Lord Baden-Powell’s first camp in 1907. It’s also a haven for wildlife including about 200 endangered red squirrel which have found refuge here away from competitive grey squirrels on the mainland.
You can reach Brownsea Island by ferry from Poole Quay or Sandbanks.
Find out more about visiting Brownsea Island.
There are 20 different species of primates at Monkey World including gibbons, monkeys, orang-utans and chimpanzees. It’s a rescue and rehabilitation centre, which has been working with smuggled and abused monkeys for more than 30 years.
There are half-hourly talks by the primate care staff, who introduce the characters they work with, or you can book a tour for a more in-depth look around.
As well as meeting the monkeys, there’s the Great Ape Play Area – the largest adventure playground in the south.
Find out more about visiting Monkey World.
Abbotsbury Children’s Farm is a hands-on attraction with a programme of animal encounters like pony riding, owl flying displays, ferret racing and bottle feeding lambs throughout the day. Kids can also race toy tractors, use the undercover play area or jump on the bouncy castle.
Find out more about visiting Abbotsbury Children’s Farm.
This military museum tells the story of armoured warfare from World War One to the present day, with more than 300 vehicles and tanks on display.
As well as finding out about the machines themselves, the exhibitions tell the story of the people who built them and the crews that drove them. There’s also a 1916 trench experience and a recreated Afghanistan Forward Operating Base.
Find out about ticket prices and special events by visiting the Tank Museum website.
Train fans will be in awe of the views from the old Southern Railway line between Swanage and Norden. Swanage Railway passes through six miles of countryside and past the magnificent ruins of Corfe Castle. For the very best views sit in the Observation Car for a £1 supplement.
Find out more about visiting Swanage Railway.
If you enjoy visiting historic houses then Athelhampton dates back to Tudor times with grand fire places, classic and modern works of art, plus frocks fit for nobility. Kids will also enjoy exploring the gardens which are full of features for kids like the pyramid shaped yew trees and formal ponds with fountains.
Find out more about visiting Athelhampton House and Gardens.
Kingston Lacy was once home to the renowned Egyptologist William John Bankes. It’s now a National Trust property with a treasure trove of Bankes’ discoveries and an extensive estate and gardens to explore. We visited Kingston Lacy in Spring one year.
Find out more about visiting Kingston Lacy.
This iconic ruin dates back to Norman times. If walks could talk it would have plenty of tales to tell. Murder, royal visits and plans of war have take place in the now lopsided castle walls.
The terraces of the motte on which the castle stands are a great place for a game of hide and seek or a picnic with views of the Purbeck countryside.
Find out more about visiting Corfe Castle.
There has been a light on the site of Portland Bill Lighthouse for more than 500 years. Its task has been to protect seafarers navigating the English Channel. The current lighthouse was built in 1906.
Step inside the visitors centre to find out about the history of the place through interactive displays and an immersive stormy sea experience. You can also climb the lighthouse for a bird’s eye view of Dorset’s Jurassic coastline. Visitors must be 1.1m tall to go up the tower and be able to climb unaided, so this might not be easy for families with young children.
Find out more about visiting Portland Bill Lighthouse.
Want to see artefacts recovered from the tomb of Egypt’s most famous Pharaoh? The Tutankhamun Exhibition in Dorchester is a careful recreation of the treasures which were once on display at the British Museum in 1972. The real artefacts are now being preserved in Egypt.
You can even step inside a recreation of the tomb’s antechamber as it would have looked on the day Howard Carter entered it in 1922.
Find out more about visiting The Tutankhamun Exhibition.
One of our favourite things to do in Dorset with kids is hit the beach. There are some stunning beaches at Poole, Bournemouth and Swanage. Last summer we went to Studland Bay for an afternoon while camping nearby. This is a National Trust beach that welcomes dogs all year round (they must be on a lead during the summer months).
There’s great facilities for families, including a cafe, toilet block, showers and water sports hire, and the beach is easily accessible from the car park. It was the perfect place to entertain the kids for an afternoon with a picnic, paddling and sandcastle building.
Other beaches we love include Bournemouth Beach, Weymouth Lulworth Cove, Sandbanks and West Bay near Bridport.
This Alice in Wonderland themed theme park has lots of things to do whether it’s wet or dry. There’s an indoor play centre, a maze, character shows and rollercoasters and rides suitable for young children as well as teens.
Find out more about visiting Adventure Wonderland.
This award-winning model town and gardens is a 1:10 scale model of the Dorset market town of Wimborne Minster as it would have looked in the 1950s. The level of detail is extraordinary with tiny products in the shop windows.
As well as marvelling at the workmanship that has gone into the model, kids can entertain themselves with a quiz sheet, mini putting lawn and giant game of chess.
Find out more about visiting Wimborne Model Town.
Durdle Door is a stunning natural attraction that has become synonymous with the Dorset coastline. The limestone arch is 10,000-years-old and can be viewed from the coast path or the sweeping shingle beach below.
Find out more about visiting Durdle Door.
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If your kids love planes then they will have fun climbing inside the cockpits of many of the aircraft on show at Bournemouth Aviation Museum. There’s also a free flight simulator, airfield vehicles and aircraft engines to look around.
This is an outdoor attraction so come prepared for the weather. Find out more about visiting Bournemouth Aviation Museum.
There’s loads of wonderful features to explore at Abbotsbury Sub Tropical Gardens including a Burma-style rope bridge, sculpture trail, lily ponds and acres of exotic plants.
Much of the garden is pushchair-friendly but expect a few gravel paths. Dogs are welcome on a lead.
Find out more about visiting Abbotsbury Sub Tropical Gardens.
Our most recent short breaks in Dorset have been camping trips. We have stayed at the Caalm Camp luxury glamping site, South Lychett Manor Caravan and Camping Park and Verwood Camping and Caravanning Club Site.
If hotels are more your style them take a look at Booking.com* for inspiration.
If you are in West Dorset then Devon is not far away. Take a look at these places to visit in East Devon, things to do in Seaton and things to do in Devon with kids.
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India’s second and third largest telecom operators- Vodafone India and Idea Cellular’s merger proposal is in the final stages of approval as told by Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan on Tuesday. “The Idea-Vodafone merger is in the final stages of approval. Because they have got the NCLT (National Company Law Tribunal) and SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) clearances, but there are some FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) approvals that are involved, there are some liberalisation of licences,” Sundararajan said to reporters at IANS. The telecom secretary spoke to the media at an event organised by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI).
“So, there are a number of clearances, it is not a one-step clearance,” she added. Both the telcos announced the merger back in March 2017, touting that it will take at least six quarters for the merger to complete. However, in recent times, it was reported that the merger would be completed much ahead than the estimated time and some reports even said the merger would receive the required approvals by mid-April.
Both the telcos recently announced the leadership team of the merged entity as the operators are expecting the merger to be finished by the end of June 2018. Kumar Mangalam Birla will be non-executive Chairman of the merged entity, and Balesh Sharma who is currently serving the Chief Operating Officer at Vodafone India will become the CEO of the merged entity.
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It would be easy for a book set during the Salem Witch Trials to disintegrate into yet another western racial pastiche where the character of Tituba remains a culturally unimportant shadow in the background of a privileged white morality play. Yet in the strong, capable hands of French (Guadoluopean) author Maryse Condé, Tituba at last has had her day.
In her short novel, I,Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (1986) Condé traces the life journey of the young, delightfully human Tituba. Tituba was conceived from rape (aboard a vessel ironically named Christ the King) and she takes us right up through the end of her life, breathing fresh life, memorable as apotheosis, into a character whose story was long overdue to be told.
Condé’s novels often raise racial, gender and cultural issues in a variety of historical eras and locales. She explores, for example, the 19th-century Bambara Empire of Mali in Segu (1980); and the 20th-century building of the Panama Canal and its influence on increasing the West Indian middle class in The Tree of Life (1992).¹
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, is equally captivating.
Tituba, who possesses the skill and visions of a healer, is biracial. Born on Barbados to a young African slave woman, Abena, and a loving gentle giant named Yao, Tituba eventually becomes a maroon, having no owner, but an outsider to society. She’s taken under the wing of an herbalist named Mama Yaya, learning about traditional healing methods; then falls in love and marries a slave, John Indian, willing to return to slavery on his behalf. Mortal unions with men are to become a weakness of Tituba’s, throughout the story.
Soon after, Tituba and John Indian are sold to Samuel Parris, the Puritan who takes Tituba and John Indian to Boston, then to Salem Village, where Tituba is accused of witchcraft and arrested. Tituba shares a prison cell with a pregnant Hester Prynne, the heroine from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter (Prynne also receives a bit of a feminist makeover.)²
Tituba’s story also includes a relationship with a Jewish merchant, Benjamin Cohen d’Azevedo, and raises issues of shared cultural disenfranchisement and the commonality of oppression.
Condé’s narrative employs elements of traditional storytelling to provide tales within tales, magical as double yolks within eggs, resulting in an extremely well-narrated depiction of Tituba as a larger-than-life yet supremely human protagonist; flawed and as likeable as anyone who has been marginalized and has had to fight to survive. The inclusion of a trinity of spiritual presences, namely Mama Yaya, Yao and Abena, her mother, serve as a sort of often-appearing chorus of the ego, advising and often chiding the very human Tituba as she navigates the racist and misogynist zeitgeist of the 1600’s.
Recently The Wonderlings, a Facebook Reading and Discussion Group voted to read I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem.
Condé’s book is actually the longest work the group has ever read together, and they did a smashing job! A tight core group of readers explored many aspects of the work, including narrative, voice, character development, analysis of passages they felt were brilliant or needing form, as well as history, study of the atrocities of life on a sugar plantation, and waves of feminism which either did, or did not, apply to Tituba.
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem was published in 1986. It would go on to receive the French Grand Prix award for women’s literature.
Although recovering from a fractured ankle, the author was quite gracious in answering several of our member’s questions about I, Tituba. Here are her responses, which were very kindly sent by the translator of the book, Richard Philcox.
Dear Celeste Schantz,
Life has got just a little bit complicated as I have fractured my ankle and my husband will type my answers to your questions.
We greatly appreciate how gracious the author was, to provide these responses.
A Wonderlings Interview with Maryse Condé . . .
TW: You received your PhD in Caribbean literature at the Sorbonne in 1965, what is the title of your dissertation? (PS: Thank you, thank you for your generosity in taking part in our group!) –Rick Williams
MC: The title of my thesis at the Sorbonne in 1975 was “Stereotype of Black Characters in Caribbean Literature.”
TW: There is a vast chasm going back thousands of years between the culture and history of the African peoples and the white people from Western Europe that settled this country. Taking into consideration your personal experiences with racism, do you think there is any solution to the racist problem that presently exists in the US? – Jeri Harbers Thomson
MC: I am not a specialist of racism in the US but I do believe that in spite of the prevalent ideas, racism will die and humanity will become one. Maybe that is a dream, but it is mine.
Tituba and Mary Walcott, illustration by John W. Ehninger Date 1902 Source “Giles Corey of the Salem Farms” (1868), in The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Boston, Houghton, 1902
TW: Within the book you use the heralding “crick, crack!” –the traditional opening used by a West Indian storyteller in front of an audience. It seems to say; “Now, listen! I’m about to tell you a fantastic tale!” Can you elaborate on the use of this device when writing/telling Tituba’s stories? As a proclamation that we as readers are about to hear something fantastic? I loved these passages; they were among the most excellent in the book, because they contain archetypes and dreams and folk tale elements, and the reader or audience member is wondering what is tangible and what is spiritual. I’d love for you to tell a bit about your use of that story opening, “crick, crack!” – Celeste Helene Schantz
MC: Every writer is jealous of the storyteller. There is in the spoken word a spontaneity that writing brings to an end. I wanted to remind my readers that I belong to a society where oral traditions are still alive, that my words convey a magical power and that my story can be seen as a wonderful filter for emotions and knowledge. I was trying to say that people belonging to my part of the world do not simply write, they retain the power to influence deeply the minds of their listeners.
Also check out this 52-minute documentary, Maryse Condé : Une voix singulière (with subtitles)
TW: What did use of the spirit world bring to your story? When in the trance of writing, how did the exchanges come out from the “other world?” Did you write these and let them stand or revise the exchanges? How has this book shaped your later views on other writings/life? –David Delaney
MC: A writer is a dreamer. A book is the fruit of her imagination, complex and full of diverse ideas. There is a magical relationship between Tituba and me; One day when I was searching for books at the UCLA library, Ann Petry’s book on Tituba fell into my hands. That is how I got to know the story of the Salem witch trials. That bond between Tituba and me has never been found again in my writing.
TW: I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem was written in 1986, a time when women’s spirituality, particularly reclaiming witchcraft and goddess lore, was being articulated. Was Tituba’s spirituality, as well as being historically relevant, part of the parody of feminism, or more a depiction of a healthy relationship with spirit which we could emulate today? – Anna Schantz
MC: I Tituba as a book is a parody. I went to the extent of meeting with a real witch in Los Angeles who told me the secret of her art. For me there was a large part of humor in portraying Tituba who would not be taken too seriously. Her spirituality should not be taken as a model.
TW: We appreciated the fact that you refrained from idealizing Tituba, and portrayed her fully, flaws and all, especially her perverse tendency to embrace exploitative situations to her own detriment. What was it about Tituba’s character that affected you most deeply? -Shabnam Mirchandani
MC: In The Crucible by Arthur Miller Tituba has been portrayed as an unimportant, old Negress without any character, a shadow in the background. I wanted to give her a character of her own: young, attractive, fond of handsome men, not at all a role model. I suppose I was trying to make her human.
TW: Do you think that some of your meaning or references to feminism/ parody are lost in translation? How involved are you in the translation process? –Jeri Harbers Thomson
MC: For me translation is another work entirely. My husband is a translator and I never interfere with his work. I never read his translations. They belong to him. If you would like to know more on this topic read the conversation we had between author and translator published in the book Intimate Enemies (Liverpool University Press.)
TW: Are excellent writers born? Or are MFA programs in creative writing useful to hone our skills? Did you personally ever “study” creative writing or did you learn to write on your own through reading and learning from the craft of other authors? What is the most challenging aspect for you when writing a novel? What do you love? – Celeste Helene Schantz
MC: Creative writing programs are an invention of American universities. In the Francophone world we believe that the power to write is a gift which cannot be taught. My fondness for writing comes from my knowledge of literature from different parts of the world. It is by reading certain authors that I learned how to write and influence my readers. I have never studied otherwise. Reading for me is my master.
As for the writers I prefer, the list would be too long, but I make no difference between a Japanese writer, a French writer or an American: all of them can teach me their craft and bring me closer to what I want to achieve.
TW: Can you tell us about what you are working on now? (or at least give us a hint . . .?) –Susan Pigman
MC: I have just published a novel dealing with the major issue of terrorism. It’s called Le destin triste et fabuleux d’Ivan et Ivana, but it has not been translated yet into English. My autobiography of my years in Africa is about to be published by Seagull Press/University of Chicago as What is Africa to Me? True Fragments of an Autobiography. My husband is translating at the present time Of Morsels and Marvels, a travelogue of recipes and journeys throughout the world.
Best regards to all the Book Club members!
Maryse Condé
. . .A Bit About the Author . . .
Born as Maryse Boucolon at Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, the author Maryse Conde’ was the youngest of eight children. After having graduated from high school, she would go on to attend the Sorbonne in Paris.
After graduating, she taught in Guinea, Ghana and Senegal. She returned to Paris, and in 1965 completed her PhD in Caribbean literature at the Sorbonne.
In 1985 Condé was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to teach in the US. She then became a professor of French and Francophone literature at Columbia University in New York City. In addition to her creative writing, Condé retired from Columbia University as Professor Emerita of French. She has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley; UCLA, the Sorbonne, The University of Virginia, and the University of Nanterre. She and her husband (Richard Philcox, the English-language translator of most of her novels) split their time between New York City and Guadeloupe.
About Windward Heights
Her novel Windward Heights (2008) is a reworking of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, which she had first read at the age of 14. She had long wanted to create a work around it, as an act of “homage.” Her novel is set in Guadeloupe, and race and culture are featured as issues that divide people Reflecting on how she drew from her Caribbean background in writing this book, she said:
“To be part of so many worlds—part of the African world because of the African slaves, part of the European world because of the European education—is a kind of double entendre. You can use that in your own way and give sentences another meaning. I was so pleased when I was doing that work, because it was a game, a kind of perverse but joyful game.”³
About Crossing the Mangrove . . .
“Conde writes elegantly in a style that beautifully survives translation from the French…[she] gives readers a flavor of the French and Creole stew that is the Guadeloupan tongue. In so doing, Conde conveys the many subtle distinctions of color, class, and language that made up this society.”–Chicago Tribune
“In this beautifully crafted, Rashomon-like novel, Maryse Conde has written a gripping story imbued with all the nuances and traditions of Caribbean culture. Francis Sancher–a handsome outsider, loved by some and reviled by others–is found dead, face down in the mud on a path outside Riviere au Sel, a small village in Guadeloupe.
None of the villagers are particularly surprised, since Sancher, a secretive and melancholy man, had often predicted an unnatural death for himself. As the villagers come to pay their respects they each–either in a speech to the mourners, or in an internal monologue–reveal another piece of the mystery behind Sancher’s life and death.
Like pieces of an elaborate puzzle, their memories interlock to create a rich and intriguing portrait of a man and a community. In the lush and vivid prose for which she has become famous, Conde has constructed a Guadeloupean wake for Francis Sancher. Retaining the full color and vibrance of Conde’s homeland, Crossing the Mangrove pays homage to Guadeloupe in both subject and structure.”
Maryse Condé’s works go well beyond historical fiction.
Among her plays are: An tan revolisyon, published in 1991, first performed in Guadeloupe in 1989; Comedie d’Amour, first performed in Guadeloupe in 1993; Dieu nous l’a donné, published in 1972, first performed in Paris in 1973; La mort d’Oluwemi d’Ajumako, published in 1973, first performed in 1974 in Gabon; Le morne de Massabielle, first version staged in 1974 in Puteaux (France), later staged in English in New York as The Hills of Massabielle (1991); Pension les Alizes, published in 1988, first staged in Guadeloupe and subsequently staged in New York as Tropical Breeze Hotel (1995); Les sept voyages de Ti Noel (written in collaboration with José Jernidier), first performed in Guadeloupe in 1987.
Prolific, refreshingly honest, and an excellent writer who deserves great praise and place in any canon of world literature . . .Maryse Condé is all of these things.
¹ Wikipedia
² ibid.
³ Rebecca Wolff, Interview: “Maryse Condé”, Bomb Magazine, Vol. 68, Summer 1999, accessed 27 April 2016.
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Fabulous interview, thank you so much for sharing, I love Maryse Condé’s work. I haven’t read this title yet, but I have read four of her books, most recently The Story of the Cannibal Woman which was excellent.
C.H. Schantz
Thanks so much, Claire! We’re glad you enjoyed it! Looking forward to reading more by Condé!
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Supposedly unemployed British builder used in UKIP poster is an Irish actor
elections, immigration, UKIP, unemployment
(not satire – it’s the UKIP!)
Turns out the supposedly unemployed British builder used in one of UKIP’s election posters isn’t British at all:
And he’s not unemployed either. Or even a builder.
In fact he’s an EU immigrant – an Irish actor called Dave O’Rourke. Here he is in a film called ‘Mordere‘:
If you think about it, this means UKIP have used a migrant worker instead of a British worker to play a British worker whose job has been taken by migrant workers in a poster attacking migrant workers for taking British jobs.
Which is why when it comes to satire – I’m a BIG fan of UKIP.
60 thoughts on “Supposedly unemployed British builder used in UKIP poster is an Irish actor”
chunkyfunkymunky said:
Reblogged this on chunkyfunkymunky.
don't call me mark said:
Once again, Farage and his sad band of racist inadequates are caught lying. The head turd of Toad Hall may smirk, but BNP entryists had infiltrated his party and, like a fish, the rot sets in at the head.
I wonder how much he was paid, presuming it was a ‘professional’ shoot
“To design an advertising campaign with the power to shock, the UK Independence party turned to Family, a small creative agency in Edinburgh that has worked for both the Conservatives and the Scottish National party.”
“The imagery and wording on the posters was heavily influenced by Paul Sykes, a Yorkshire businessman who invested £1.5m of his own money to fund the Ukip advertising campaign. Nigel Farage, the party’s leader, also played an important role in the creative process, said Patrick O’Flynn, Ukip communications chief.”
From Robert Cookson at the FT
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9f46bbf8-ca15-11e3-8a31-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2zupEXOEv
Eijnar said:
With almost 2.5 million people out of work, even according to the governments own lying under stated figures, surely they didn’t need to actually employ an ACTOR to pretend to be an unemployed builder?
Furthermore, just look at the shadowy bodies endorsing Toad of Toad Hall’s vile propaganda- MigrantWatch (closet racist bean counters) and the Tax Payers Alliance, who are totally silent about real tax avoiders, but have a Murdoch-like hatred of public services.
laurapalmer98 said:
I can see this somehow being the EU’s fault. Just you wait and see… 😉
are so there employing irish acters instead of British ones hypocrisy or what.
Michael Igoe said:
Couldn’t a group like UKIP find an unemployed British actor to spread lies? And if there’s cheap labour, why isn’t the minimum wage being enforced?
Farage doesn’t care about the British people, he has been boasting about how he’s pocketed £2 million in expenses. He has stated if ukip don’t win “substantial” seats at the general election he will resign. So much for digging in and fighting for the British people. wonder where the £287,000 went from the ukip call centre ??
Gareth said:
It amuses me from the comments on here that one should believe that all the other political parties are squeaky clean. Are you all blind?
Bluecat said:
Yes, Gareth, I AM blind, and am reading this in braille.
And the argument “They’re all doing that bad thing so it’s OK for me to do that bad thing which I have specifically complained about them doing and said I would never do,” actually doesn’t work once you’re out of infant school. (It doesn’t work in infant school either, but people are kinder about it when you’re seven).
couldent they find a reall unemployed builder i mean its not like there arnt any.
UKIP use a Scottish ad agency
http://www.familycomms.com/
Whose clients include the SNP and Scottish Conservative Party
And are part of an international network of ad agencies Tribe Global
http://www.tribeglobal.net/agencies/Member-list
, with ‘associates’ in
France, http://www.tribeglobal.net/agencies/Member-list/Agence-Dagre
Belguim, http://www.tribeglobal.net/agencies/Member-list/comma-merkenmarketeers
Luxembourg, http://www.tribeglobal.net/agencies/Member-list/Interact-s.a
Italy, http://www.tribeglobal.net/agencies/Member-list/Attitude
Holland, http://www.tribeglobal.net/agencies/Member-list/Steam-Advertising
Germany http://www.tribeglobal.net/agencies/Member-list/defacto.X-GmbH
http://www.tribeglobal.net/agencies/Member-list/Punktzwei-Markenagentur
Romania http://www.tribeglobal.net/agencies/Member-list/Brici-Entertainment
Spain http://www.tribeglobal.net/agencies/Member-list/Paradigma-Barcelona
And claim;
“. Multi-culti is in our hearts and we benefit from our diversity as do our clients. We are agile, nimble and energetic; we don’t believe in barriers to doing business”
http://www.tribeglobal.net/who-we-are/Culture
To launch an attack on the UK’s membership of the European Union
Truly it is (not satire – it’s the UKIP!)
Hello Bluecat,
I’m not really quite sure what you are getting at, with all due respect? Please fill me in.
I was going to do something about this, but there really isn’t a lot to say, is there?
You could mention that the ad agency also handled part of the anti-smoking campaign in Scotland
http://www.familycomms.com/portfolio/cancer-research-smoke-free-scotland/
Winning awards for their work.
So I am not sure they are a perfect match for Nigel’s fag n’beer image
tiddk said:
Without putting words in Bluecat’s mouth, I imagine the gist of the message is : Yes, all political parties get up to no good, but UKIP are the champions at it, even more so than the BNP (at least we know where we are with THEM.) So, your comment could be seen as a defence of UKIP. But then, you could be a UKIP employee blogger as far as we know…
Valerie Arnold said:
Please give some indication of why you are accusing Nigel and UKIP supporters of racism and HOW they have bee lying. Yes there are a few “members” that have lied to jin the party, but Nigel acts very quickly to deal with them , unlike Cameron or Milliband when any of their members are caught out,. google “list of MPs convicted of sex offenses” if you want to know what the real dangers are. I WILL BE VOTING UKIP
Eijnar, What member of the public would want their picture plastered all over bill boards, of course they had to hire an actor, he represents thousands of builders, and that is the intention, Ireland is part of the UK and Irish builders have been coming here for decades to work.
Make up your mind, if it had been an English actor, you would say it was racist, Ireland is part of the UK and have been coming here to work for decades, or is that only ok if they are building roads.
I suppose you think the Lab/Cons “care” about the British people, that is why patients are dying on trollies or whilst waiting for an ambulance, why we have 2mill + out of work, food banks (modern day soup kitchens), If Nigel was in it for the money, do yu think he would have spent 10 years with UKIP, he surely would have joined the Lab or Cons and like them would now be very very rich, instead he is trying to get out of Europe and by doing so will lose what you class as a very well paid job. He never stated that if he doesn’t get substantial seats he will resign, he actually said if they didn’t get any seats he would, this was said tongue in cheek, so if you are going to repeat something, get it right.
There have been a number of incidents like this in the past, when politicians promoting a policy have been caught doing the exact opposite. For example, in one election it turned out that the manifesto the Tories issued in Scotland, claiming that they would protect jobs north of the Border, was found to have been actually printed in England. This is more of the same, from UKIP, who are largely the product of the Europhobic Tory Right.
The actual poster itself, however, shows how far back politics has gone in this country, and how far back to the Victorian or Edwardian era UKIP will take us. One of the books I had when studying history at College contained a Tory election poster from the first decade or so of the 20th century. It showed how the Tories were trying to play on working-class fears about emigration. It depicted an employer opening his doors to a compatriot, just arrived in Britain from the Continent, saying something like ‘Welcome, Mein Freund’, while a British workers is thrown out the back. He has been sacked to provide a job for his foreign employer’s fellow countryman. And so the racial fears that marred the first half of the twentieth century have returned in the 21st.
Gareth, unfortunately there are still a lot that are blind to what is happening, they are waking up fast though, the rest obviously want to be part of the new “super State” or as G. Orwell put it “1984”
tiddk: Before you accuse UKIP of being “champions at it” Google this “list of MPs convicted of sex offences”
why are ukip so defensive about this.
and stop puting words into my mouth.
maybe you should acting like the thought police then.
so pretending an Irish actor is an English builder isn’t lying then.
Valerie , after 10 years you still can’t see the truth. here’s an example, UKIP’s Roger Knapman used Polish workers renovating his mansion when asked about employing British workers . Knapman replied “because they are cheaper” . Double standards and betrayal. And where is Roger now Valerie ?
If ukip are for the British interest, why did ukips Roger Knapman employ Poles to renovate his mansion? . When asked he replied “because they are cheaper”. And where is Roger Knapman now? double standards from ukip .
The use of actors in advertising is a normal action, in fact a huge amount of actors earn their livings by being in adverts. It isn’t lying its an advert, just like every other party uses actors. I think you’ll find in the acting industry to pretend to be something you are not is an every day occurrence. P.S. your dad pretended to be father christmas so never speak to the liar again.
Nothing to defend they employed and actor to act which is what his profession is, it’s an advert nothing more nothing less.
They most likely didn’t care who the actor was, after all he would have been supplied by a british agency, and as UKIP is not racist they wouldn’t have even considered asking for a British actor, the man lives, and works here he wasn’t imported for the job. Seems to me you are a racist.
Travis said:
Seeing as UKIP have no MPs, I would say they compare favourably on the sex offences front. However, search for “Bongo Bongo Land” or “Floods caused by gays marriage”, and UKIP might not look so appealing.
You mean the ex tory ex UKIP Roger Knapman by any chance Carl?
Why when there are professional actors who pay their dues and train to do the job, what next get an unemployed sailor to be admiral of the fleet perhaps?
Well UKIP never claimed to be racist, UKIP never said all immigration should stop, only that it should be controlled, and that anyone who brings skills to the nation should be welcomed with open arms, not allowing everybody and anybody into the country is not racist, it’s common sense.
Well ad agencies do what they are paid to do, they don’t have to believe in the product at all.
You mean the ex tory ukip Roger Knapman, how far behind are you with the news, btw we aren’t fighting in korea anymore.
I know more than you think Barry! so you don’t deny his actions then , eh Barry. About 2 years time we’ll see what happens to ukip, you’ve been warned. Knapman just about sums up ukrap.
I never quite understood this United Kippers in Pouches group – are they just very bad performance artists?
If you removed farage and replaced him with a stuffed toy, gave ukip unlimited media coverage, people would still vote ukip and the stuffed toy. Murdoch is pro Europe and for free movement of people across Europe. So why is he promoting ukip?. Are ukipers too thick to work it out ?, they obviously are.
its normal to tell people if your using an actor.
ukip dident.
mopsy said:
Ireland isn’t part of the UK.
Adam Pain said:
Another wonderful example of how a party with no policies, only exceptions, manages to consistently score own goals. Idiots.
Being a musician, I would like to spend a couple of weeks in Bongo Bongo land….does anyone know how you get there??
Northern Ireland is! — Southern Ireland or Eire is part of the EU.
Nigel Farrago queried to journalists whether he should have used muppets or talking meerkats instead?
When all you are required to do is sit on the sidewalk with a begging bowl looking glum…do you really call that ‘acting’….?? Maybe posing, or modelling, perhaps?
Whatever Rupert Murdoch is up to, he is a man not to be trusted.
Thanks for the backup. I can’t believe there are so many people with their heads thoroughly entrenched in the deep sands of time. Then again it only takes a quite short memory to realise how the present incumbents (and the previous idiots) have brought this country to it’s knees. And yes ‘tiddk’ I defend UKIP but I am not employed by them,
but believe they are the only way to get this Country back into the hands of the people.
You’ve gotta admit the current lot are an elected Dictatorship, I mean to pluck one useless Dinosaur they are getting all excited about, the new HS2 rail route ….. eh? This is the 21st Century, we have the Internet you Dummies. Absolutely pathetic.
Exactly – well said
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Strangely Sane said:
I half remember a quote supposedly of something Einstein said along the lines of the definition of insanity being doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome. Well, we’ve all voted Tory / Labour / LibDem over and over again and they’ve all disappointed us over and over again. I say give UKIP a chance – can’t be any worse than what we’ve been doing.
If the one thing they manage is to get us out of the corrupt, undemocratic, and hugely expensive club that is the EU that’ll do me. Think of the things we can spend all those saved billions on every year for the greater good.
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robinmcburnie said:
I think tou’ll find there were a lot of politcal protests, several battles and a small war, at the end of which Ireland emerged as an independent Republic. Northern Ireland is still part of the UK. As the actor in question was from Dublin, he was born in the Republic. Just a bit of basic political geography…
You could try voting for the Green Party instead – but then I suppose they are too keen on actually trying to be decent!
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Toronto city council votes against cutting 2021 police budget by 10 per cent
by News staff and The Canadian Press
Posted Jun 29, 2020 6:02 am EST
Last Updated Jun 29, 2020 at 11:31 pm EST
Toronto city council has voted against a motion seeking to cut the 2021 Toronto police budget by 10 per cent.
Motions to explore alternative response methods and body cameras for officers by 2021 passed.
Thousands of people gathered at Nathan Phillips Square over the weekend to push for police reform in the city
The motion lost by a vote of 8 (YES) to 16 (NO).
A 10 per cent cut represents around $122 million — funds that would then be redirected to community led initiatives including mental health and addiction services.
The motion was brought forward by councillor Josh Matlow and seconded by Coun. Kristyn Wong-Tam.
Shortly after the virtual city council meeting began, Matlow pulled his motion from the agenda and added it as an amendment to Mayor John Tory’s motion calling for changes in the way officers respond to non-violent calls.
Tory’s motion asked that the city manager, in consultation with the Toronto Police Services Board, develop alternative models of community safety.
Reforms proposed by Tory like exploring alternative response methods and body cameras for officers by 2021 were passed by council, which would add another $2.5 million to the police budget.
Tory also called on the province to immediately review and overhaul the Equipment and Use of Force Regulation to emphasize de-escalation, and modify practices that address the use of deadly force.
The motion to ban the use of deadly force and military style weapons like tear gas against civilians also failed by a vote of 8 (YES) to 16 (NO).
But the council did vote in favour of amending the Police Services Act to allow officers to be suspended without pay and for an accountability office to be established for Toronto Police.
As well, his motion asked that the Toronto Police Services Board provide an annual line-by-line breakdown of the existing budget, as well invite the Auditor General to review the budget and identify opportunities for savings and efficiencies.
Thousands of people gathered at Nathan Phillips Square over the weekend to push for police reform in the city.
The “Abolish Police in Canada: A Pride Rally & Teach-in” was organized by the No Pride in Policing Coalition.
Chanting and holding signs that read “Stop Killing Us and “Black Lives Matter,” the demonstrators called on leaders to defund, disarm, demilitarize and abolish police.
There have been calls to defund police budgets in cities across north America, in the wake of George Floyd’s death while in police custody in Minneapolis.
During the council meeting, Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders said he does not support arbitrary cuts to the police budget, but does support overhauling how the force deals with those in crisis.
Saunders cautioned that there is currently no alternative system in place for handling mental health-related calls and says there must be a new plan in place before any reforms take effect.
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Black Richmond, VA (1934)
in: Civil Rights, Eras in Social Welfare History, Great Depression, New Deal
Black Richmond
June Purcell Guild
An article published in Survey Graphic, Vol. 23, No. 6 (June, 1934), p. 276
Editor’s Note: June Purcell Guild (1888-1966) was a distinguished social worker, attorney and author. A native of Columbus, Ohio she received her undergraduate degree from Ohio State University and her law degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She practiced law in Columbus and Kansas City, Mo. Later, while living in Richmond, Virginia she was admitted to practice before the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.
She was married to Arthur Alden Guild and lived for 35 years in Richmond, VA. Among the books she wrote were: “Living with the Law,” “Civil Rights Versus States Rights,” Black Laws of Virginia,” and with her husband, “Social Work Engineering.” Mrs. Guild also directed the Negro Welfare Survey of Richmond.
THERE were several capitals of the confederacy. But everyone knows that Richmond was, and is, The Capital of the Confederacy. There can never be another Richmond, for she is old, beautiful, historic, glamorous, langorous, cultured, ignorant, prejudiced, generous. We all know people like that, soft-voiced, self-centered, at the same time naive, interesting, exciting. That’s Richmond; contradictory and full of contrasts; gorgeous in its gardens in the spring, hideous and unsanitary in its Negro quarters; delightful in sporadic hospitality; disturbing in self-content and indifference to reality; amazing in constant references to the Living Savior of Men and willingness to let His faithful followers suffer neglect; horrifying in Jeffersonian oratory and disregard of the fundamentals of human welfare and justice.
Richmond is a city of 185,000 people. Of these, 53,000 are classified as Negroes. That is to say, located within the confines of the old city, is a separate Negro city of about the size of Austin, Texas; Cedar Rapids or Davenport, Iowa; Decatur, Illinois; Kalamazoo, Michigan; or let the reader mention one. In that crowded, shambly Black Richmond all kinds of Negroes are to be found, for even as you and I, they differ according to heredity and opportunity. There are dandies who drive handsome cars and beautiful girls of the modern mode with painted lips and glossy nails; there are religious exhorters who lash themselves in frenzy on street corners in the name of a white man’s God; important Baptist deacons in decent, shabby black; ragged old cronies who always look hungry; racing, screaming children who sometimes really dance—even as in the books; plenty of plain hard-working folk who go out early in the morning and return again slowly at night; scuffling, half-grown boys who have few cares.
The infant mortality rate in Black Richmond is 88 per 1000 births but many still live there who were born in slavery; individual Negroes often show a remarkable ability to survive life’s handicaps. The illiteracy rate is approximately 10 percent in Black Richmond but there are many teachers and university professors with ample degrees from Columbia and Harvard, and lawyers, doctors, businessmen, social workers, most of them Richmond-born. That’s the one thrilling thing about Black Richmond, the number brought up there who have somehow achieved education, poise, success. A Negro woman born and reared in the black city is the executive director of a large fraternal benefit association, founder and, until recently, the president of a Richmond bank which survived the moratorium. Another small black lady, founder and principal of the one institution resembling a high or vocational school in the neighboring county, has been honored for her achievements by a Harmon Award. Richmond Negroes carry on in many fields away from home, too. Charles Sydney Gilpin who played Emperor Jones, “Bojangles” Robinson of the light and shuffling feet were born in Richmond. Social workers know intimately the National Urban League and its secretary and director of industrial relations, both Richmond men. Legislators in two northern states, a leading doctor and an attorney in Detroit, a state parole officer in New York, a physician on the staff of Bellevue Hospital were born in Richmond.
Why do many able, well-educated Negroes remain in Black Richmond? For most of them, along with the mass of Negro domestics, laborers and unemployed live as completely isolated in Black Richmond from the culture of White Richmond, as though residential segregation were in fact legal and constitutional. The city of Black Richmond itself supplies almost no opportunity for the comforts or the decencies of modern living.
Perhaps the answer is, the Richmond Negro is a Virginian after all. Many Richmond Negroes look as white as their neighbors living just beyond the invisible barrier which separates the black city from the white. Indeed in some of these Negroes flows famous FFV blood, for many of them trace their ancestry back to colonial days. Under Virginia law “any discernible trace of Negro Blood” makes a Negro. Accordingly, it is practically impossible to be in sizeable Negro groups and find any who are free of white taint. Race amalgamation, it would seem therefore, in spite of traditional outcries against it, is inevitable when it is recalled that the very first reference to a Negro in Virginia law is recorded in an enactment at Jamestown designed to punish a white man who had succumbed to the charm of a black woman in 1629. To this day the old commonwealth is one of three states refusing to pass support legislation for illegitimate children. Every time the state assembly meets the same whisper goes round: The state cannot face the embarrassment of bastardy proceedings between plaintiffs and defendants of mixed races. Though law and lip-service may combine to keep Richmond Negroes and whites separate, inexorably they tend to approach one another biologically as well as educationally, culturally, economically.
IT should be added that white Richmond does not know, at least it does not often admit, that there can be a common destiny between white and Negro Americans. Few white Richmonders know how black Richmonders live, how they feel, aspire, sicken, die, except as they know Negroes in their white kitchens or as they sentimentally remember the no-longer-existing mammy of a bygone day. The Negroes themselves are generally suspicious of the whites and, as occasion makes politic, deliberately mislead them or play up to the role expected. Nevertheless every year brings new evidence of rapprochement.
There is much more of pertinent interest in this racial scene. Possibly enough has been suggested to serve as background for our major premise: dreary, conflicting, unpropitious as conditions are in Black Richmond, improvements have recently come and dawn may at last be breaking. Let us examine some details in substantiation.
During 1928 and 1929 a Negro welfare survey was conducted in Richmond by a bi-racial committee, employing a Negro and white staff, under the auspices of the Council of Social Agencies. In itself this was an accomplishment in racial progress, if it be remembered that we are talking about the Capital of the Confederacy. The survey was not the result of sudden realization on the part of the community that almost a third of its population was miserably handicapped in every department of life and holding back the other two thirds. The survey simply represented the vision of a few social workers who needed a practical answer to a perplexing question: What are the priorities in the social problems pressing for attention in Black Richmond?
In a general way the promoters of the survey knew the facts and many of the answers before the work was undertaken. But the final printed report of 136 pages dramatized the situation for the first time and set down in easily available form, for blacks and whites alike, outstanding Negro problems and the type of social program needed. A major conclusion of the study recommended the organization of a permanent inter-racial committee to carry on the unfinished work of the survey and to work out its recommendations, where possible.
The Negro welfare survey and its resultant Negro Welfare Council, assisted by the Richmond Community Fund and the depression, have revolutionized the status of the Richmond Negro. A partial list of recent changes summarizes the contention that in the main that status is improving.
At the time of the survey, Richmond Negroes lived on the average fifteen years less than the whites of the city. The difference in favor of the whites, according to the last report the local health department, notwithstanding the depression, is now fourteen years. This gain, small as it is, is a gain and has come in spite of a very poor record in Negro mortality from tuberculosis, in the same period. During these five years there was an increase in the Negro rate from 147.2 to 174.2 per 100,000 of population, compared to a drop in the white rate from 49.2 to 38.5. In the meantime, additional modern facilities for over seventy-five white tuberculous patients have been provided by the city. Propaganda to remove the small Negro sanitarium from its almshouse location opposite a cemetery, though fruitless to date, has been in itself something distinctly new and if continued may bring results. There is now a Negro nurse on the staff of the tuberculosis association, another novelty. Since the survey, the Medical College of Virginia, a state supported institution, has conducted several summer institutes for Negro physicians.
The Negro welfare survey showed that one third of Richmond Negroes have no water in their kitchens, 70 percent no bath or inside toilet, 65 percent no electricity, 75 percent no gas; 38 percent keep lodgers in homes averaging four rooms each; and unpaved and dirty streets, in Negro sections, are the common rule. Little definite improvement can be shown here, but many in the city do seem to be thoroughly aroused at last to the facts. The comment is made now on all sides that such conditions are a health hazard to Negroes and to the whites as well in whose homes many thousands of Negroes work. Housing committees have been organized, a housing survey with wide publicity has been made by a daily newspaper, and recently a housing corporation attempting to secure federal funds for a Negro housing project has been active. Federal money is putting gutters and sewers in a large section of Black Richmond, and the city itself is condemning and destroying many Negro shanties as unfit for human habitation.
IN the field of education, encouraging indications and some real accomplishments may be seen. The curriculum in the Negro highschool has been progressively revised. Negroes are at last permitted to be principals in Negro schools, several have already been appointed. White Richmonders are now saying to one another that of course it is right to have Negro school principals and that they only wish they could have some Negro probation officers in the juvenile court. Richmond has always restricted its visiting-teacher service to white schools but last year permitted a Negro social worker to act as visiting-teacher with excellent demonstrative results. The budget committee of the community fund recommended that paid service be provided. Last year, for the first time, safety patrols were organized in the Negro schools similar to those in white schools. Following the suggestion of the survey, Virginia Union University several years ago established social-work training-classes for Negroes. The city has opened a fine branch library for Negroes. Negro parent-teacher groups are beginning to function actively. Kindergartens, limited in the past almost exclusively to white children, are now, through federal funds, serving many Negro children. There is still no day nursery for the thousands of children whose mothers work, although the survey and the Negro Welfare Council through a special case study of children of employed mothers have called attention to the need. But ladies of white Richmond are beginning to say a nursery for the children of their servants is needed.
Since the survey, the Urban League has been completely reorganized and is becoming a real force in the community. The small, lone and utterly inadequate Negro orphanage has become a modern child-placing agency with an elastic program. Though its budget is small, it is a satisfaction to add that it has recently received an increase.
THE Negro Boy Scouts have become well established, an excellent beginning has been made in Girl Scouting, a Negro summer camp has been operating, a Negro community house was opened last October with a large new gymnasium, erected by public subscription in the year of the depression 1932. The community house gym is the first in the city for Negroes, there being none at the university nor at the Negro YMCA or YWCA as both of these agencies operate in old private houses. In 1932, the last year for which figures are now available, 863 white delinquent children and 859 Negroes, appeared in the juvenile court. In 1927 when the survey looked at Negro delinquency in Richmond the numbers were: white boys and girls 1040, Negroes 826. There are many reasons and conditions to explain why 53,000 Negroes furnish almost the identical number of juvenile delinquents as 132,000 whites but the comment of the juvenile-court judge is not without significance: “It is difficult to explain these figures on any ground other than stress of poverty which has borne down with unusual force upon Negro families, causing the Negro boys to indulge in stealing to satisfy their wants or to relieve actual necessity.” In this connection it may be of interest to note that not a penny of the city mothers’ pension fund is paid to a Negro mother. The Department of Public Welfare, which dispenses city relief, does not employ a single Negro worker. The municipality in fact refuses to employ Negroes as firemen, policemen, street cleaners or garbage collectors.
Some may say that only an optimist could believe that dawn is breaking in Black Richmond. The answer is that progress in race relations since the Civil War has been almost invisible for decades at a time; if the next five years bring as many discernible changes in Richmond as the last five, the effect will be socially revolutionary, in a long view.
Tolerance is increasing and tolerance is outstandingly needed. White people sometimes now address Negroes as Mr., Mrs., or Miss. Even the newspapers occasionally speak of Negroes so. They have used photographs of Negroes of late. They capitalize the word Negro, too. To those unfamiliar with the southerner’s racial attitudes these instances of racial good-will may seem trifling. To a southerner they are of solemn consequence. I have heard white men, “Christian gentlemen,” say they would die before they would address a Negro as Mr.; others I have heard say they never in their lives expected to do such a thing and then they have turned around and done it because “after all what difference does it make?” or “it makes for better community feeling.” Here little straws may prove the direction of a strong wind. Formerly the Negro division in the community-fund campaign reported at a separate headquarters, now all community-fund workers eat and report at the same meeting, in the same hall, as a matter of course. It is no exaggeration to say that the Negro workers always receive the biggest and most emotional of the ovations. Many an eye is wet when the Negro division reports, many a proud southern heart visibly touched when the meager results of the herculean efforts of that division are announced. I have heard a Negro say that one of them had attended a special church service and had not been asked to leave or go to the gallery. Not much? But unusual, and perhaps it should be added that it is illegal in Virginia not to seat Negroes in public gatherings separately from the whites.
Following the Judge Lowell decision in Boston last summer it was announced that beginning in 1934 Negroes would be included in Richmond jury panels. The law had permitted this before, of course. After a struggle, several qualified Negro social workers have been recommended for membership in the American Association of Social Workers. All this is little enough but Black Richmond knows such things did not happen in other days.
During the early days of the depression, there was flagrant discrimination in the dispensing of relief to Negroes by both public and private agencies. On two occasions the Negro Welfare Council interviewed several hundred unemployed and needy Negroes, checked their cases, formulated recommendations, and saw persons in authority. Improvements have resulted especially in the private agency field. NRA codes have caused the displacement of some Negroes by whites. Undoubtedly new channels of opportunity have been opened to others through the various federal-relief projects. A Negro has been made a member of the state relief committee. It was the common belief not so long ago that hungry Negroes really needed much less food than whites to survive. Now in the most unexpected places whites remark that Negro TB and mortality rates are certainly reflected in that old belief.
LEARNING that relief and work may come directly from the government has caused many Negroes to see the relationship of government, or concretely, voting, to personal status. In fact, strangely enough, it is through relief that psychologically the greatest advance has been made in the status of the Richmond Negro. Hungry Negroes have listened eagerly to the city’s three or four Communists, organized in a so-called unemployed council. The mayor of the city, unreasonably fearing and hating the Communists, has treated their childish efforts in behalf of adequate relief with ruthless disregard of civil rights. Through the amusing and lawless antics of the mayor the Communists have gained some much desired publicity, and the Negroes as never before, have been aroused to the necessity of paying poll taxes, registering and voting. It is probably not too much to say that the defenseless state of Richmond Negroes in the past has been due largely to their voteless state. They have been voteless because of white aggression and Negro apathy. Future aggression will be met because apathy is fast disappearing in Black Richmond.
The Negro-white problem is infinitely complex; there can be no quick, easy solution. Although Richmond Negroes are better off today strategically than before, their material gains admittedly are small. But the phrase, “We must do more for our Negroes,” is heard constantly, nowadays. If Richmond Negroes are indeed to remain “the best in the country” greater accomplishments must prove the good intention.
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How to Cite this Article (APA Format): Guild, J.P. (1934, June). Black Richmond. Social Welfare History Project. Retrieved [date accessed] from http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/great-depression/black-richmond-1934/
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After Harris told that he wasn’t conceived within the U.S. furthermore, that his folks at the time won’t are genuine and naturalized, he said. “I realize it not.” I do not have any acquaintance with it. I’ve recently acknowledged it. I’m getting to attempt.
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The racially-charged “birth” banter which he fanned for a substantial length of your time to challenge President Barack Obama’s readiness for the administration resuscitated President Donald Trump on Thursday. the target is to allow the principal Individual of color to crusade for VP, Kamala Harris.
After her determination as Joe Biden’s campaigner, numerous pundits on the left have endeavored to challenge the citizenship of Harris on the premise that her folks India origin mother and Jamaican father — weren’t naturalized residents when she was raised during the US.
They contended that however Harris proved unable, by resolution, become President and VP, as a “characteristic brought into the planet American” under the Constitution.
Trump told journalists at a gathering that worries were presented concerning Harris’s section to an ‘anchor kid,’ an expression utilized for non-resident youngsters on excursions to the US so on make most of the family move to the US, “I discovered today that she won’t satisfy these principles and from how the attorney who composed the article is amazingly qualified, brilliant,” Trump highlighted a Newsweek story that offered this expression simply because.
“I do not have a clue whether it’s correct,” he said. “I need to have felt that the Democrats need to have researched it before she was chosen VP.”
The president waited rather than dismissing the ludicrous hypothesis. “It’s a real one Is it safe to mention that they were stating that she doesn’t matter because during this nation she wasn’t conceived? “He checked.
At the purpose when Harris was informed that his folks weren’t legitimately living or naturalized residents at the time, really he was conceived within the US. He said. “I realize it not.” I do not have a clue. I acknowledged it just now. I’ll investigate. “I’ll investigate.
The 55-year old Harris was conceived in Oakland, California on October 20, 1964, and permits her to show into a standard resident fitting the bill for White House enrollment or another US official. Her folks met at the school of California, Berkeley, as graduate understudies.
Before hours after the Biden-Harris dispatch, be that because it may, Maya Harris, a younger sister of Kamala Harris, said that “there are not any angles in birth advising. The introduction of the President didn’t loan him the ridiculous contention. She composed on Facebook, following an ever-developing intrigue to overlook the “birther’s” discussion’s exertion to revive it.
In 2011, Trump propelled the “birther” crusade when he imagined about running for the White House genuinely. He started scrutinizing the White House citizenship of President Barack Obama and erroneously accepted he wasn’t conceived within the US. Obama was conceived in Hawaii however needed to form a long-structure birth record.
Trump conceded that years after the very fact he wasn’t right. within the years following, however, Ted Cruz, the rest of its key snags, utilized an identical strategy thereto his endeavors.
Cruz was conceived in Calgary, Canada to a dad who was an area American resident from Cuba and to a mother. Cruz lost the essential and afterward returned as President Trump’s firm help.
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Erdogan, Other Parties Vie to Win Hearts and Minds of Turkey’s Kurds
By Staff Writer On Jun 13, 2018
Erdogan speaks in Diyarbakir. (Photo: state media)
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other candidates try to win hearts and minds of Turkey’s Kurds whose votes are critical in determining the outcome of June 24 presidential and parliamentary elections.
Diyarbakir, the largest Kurdish-majority city in Turkey, has turned into an electoral battleground, even though the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and its jailed presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtas are sure to leave rivals trailing.
Over the last week both Erdogan and his main challenger, Muharrem Ince of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), have made trips to Diyarbakir to sway the votes of a potentially skeptical electorate.
Kurds make up at least one-fifth of Turkey’s 80 million population, by far its largest ethnic minority. The Diyarbakir region is a stronghold of the HDP, which in November 2015 parliamentary elections won over 71 percent of the vote there and Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) just 22 percent.
Every Kurdish vote will count in the June 24 snap parliamentary and presidential polls. But not all Kurds vote automatically for the HDP.
For the AKP to win an absolute majority in the next parliament will depend largely on whether the HDP breaks through the 10 percent overall threshold needed for seats.
Although in the presidential race Demirtas will be the favored candidate of most Kurds, their votes will be crucial in helping Ince if he succeeds in forcing Erdogan into a run-off.
The election is taking place against the background of ongoing troubles in the Kurdish-dominated southeast, where the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has waged an insurgency since 1984 that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
And Demirtas, by far the HDP’s most charismatic figure, is having to run his campaign from behind bars after being jailed in November 2016 on charges of links to the PKK.
‘At the Expense of Kurds’
Analysts say that the AKP faces an even greater struggle than usual to win Kurdish votes after allying itself with the right-wing Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) which is despised by many Kurds.
“The AKP chose the MHP at the expense of the Kurds,” said Mehmet Vural, president of the Dicle Social Research Centre.
“This has irritated the Kurds in general, not just the HDP supporters but also those who vote AKP,” he added.
Many Kurds were also dismayed by Ankara’s bitter opposition to the September 2017 independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as the Turkish military operation in the Afrin region of Syria earlier this year to dislodge a Kurdish militia.
At his rally in Diyarbakir on June 3, Erdogan told voters the area was enjoying “peace like never in the last 40 years” and launched a lacerating attack on the HDP, saying “we (the AKP) build but they destroy.”
Winning votes in Diyarbakir is even tougher for the CHP, which in the November 2015 parliamentary polls took a mere two percent of the vote in the area.
The party, which was set up by modern Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, has historically shown little enthusiasm for the Kurdish cause.
But Ince, who held a rally in the city on June 11 in Station Square, the identical spot to Erdogan, has made a clear effort to forge a rapprochement.
One of the first acts of his campaign was to visit Demirtas in jail, a move that was roundly condemned by Erdogan.
‘We Will Be Kingmakers’
Some commentators noted that the turnout at Ince’s Diyarbakir rally was notably fuller than at the one for Erdogan, prompting the incumbent president to snipe that those who showed up to hear Ince “were almost all HDP”.
“We are going to vote for Demirtas in the first round. And in the second round, we will vote for Ince and we will work with him,” said Diyarbakir resident Mehmet Coban.
Filiz Buluttekin, co-head of the HDP’s branch in Diyarbakir, predicted the party would win over former AKP voters as “Erdogan behaves like the enemy of the Kurds.”
“If there is a run-off between Erdogan and Ince, we will be the kingmakers,” she added.
Diyarbakir is not totally representative of the entire Kurdish vote, with some Kurdish-populated regions like Adiyaman and Elazig opting for the AKP.
“The large (Kurdish) clans and Sunni religious orders… will probably largely continue to support Erdogan and the AKP,” said Berkay Mandiraci, Turkey analyst with the International Crisis Group (ICG).
“A small segment of mostly urban conservative Kurds” has been disillusioned by the AKP-MHP alliance and Erdogan’s nationalism, he added.
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Classics 1962 1 hr 43 min
A seminal classic of 1960s cinema and one of the enduring peaks of the British New Wave, Tony Richardson's socially-engaged drama The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner catapulted near-newcomer Tom Courtenay from obscurity to BAFTA-winning stardom. He is rivetingly, harrowingly real as Colin, a troubled, sharp-tongued inner-city teenager from the English Midlands whose criminal ways see him sent to a rural "borstal" youth-prison. Colin's snarlingly cynical, proto-punk attitudes see him repeatedly clash with the hard-line guards—but the scrawny lad's unexpected athletic prowess also makes him a favourite of the avuncular governor (Michael Redgrave.) Building inexorably to a famously stunning finale that still packs a serious punch, this adaptation of the award-winning short novel by Alan Sillitoe features a gallery of soon-to-be-familiar faces (John Thaw, James Bolam, Edward Fox) in an atmospheric, acerbic and timeless tale of youth in revolt.
Starring Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, Avis Bunnage
Director Tony Richardson
Reformatory Governor
Peter Madden
James Bolam
Dervis Ward
Raymond Dyer
Brown, House Master
Alan Sillitoe
Woodfall Film Productions
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Original Script Reading of BOJACK HORSEMAN TV Show, by Cameron Chapman
Set at the end of Season Three, BoJack takes his new philosophy of isolation literally when he’s accidentally kidnapped by a health and wellness cult.
Genre: Comedy, Animation
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Laura Kyswaty
BoJack: Rob Notman
Kevin Spacey: James Boutcher
Buzz: Luke Robinson
Ethan: Brandon Knox
Olivia: Lindsay Rolland Mills
Sabrina: Premika Leo
Lizzie: Julie McCarthy
Get to know the writer:
What is your screenplay based on the TV show about?
This BoJack Horseman Spec Script picks up right at the end of Season Three when BoJack is accidentally kidnapped by a health and wellness cult and their charismatic leader, Kevin Spacey. While unknowingly trapped in their desert compound he explores his newfound philosophy of isolation while deep-diving into an old episode of his former sitcom “Horsin’ Around”.
I tried to connect BoJack closer with his character from “Horsin’ Around” through the idea that they both manage to surround themselves with a supporting cast, mainly, to not allow themselves to be truly alone. When he flees to the desert at the end of the third season I think there’s this notion that BoJack needs to work on breaking down all the emotional barriers he’s built up over the years but I liked the idea that, in true BoJack self destructive style, he decides what he needs is the opposite. That he needs the isolation and maybe in his own BoJack way, he’s not wrong?
How does this screenplay fit into the context of the TV series?
When I wrote this I envisioned it as essentially Episode 13 of Season 3 of the series, picking up right where we left off, BoJack in the desert, alone, watching the herd of wild horses running off in the distance. Of course since then Season 4 has been released so I would have assumed it’s context within the full arc of the series would be obliterated, however with a couple tiny tweaks I can still see it slipping in quite nicely between the first and second episodes of Season 4 which starts off with BoJack still AWOL.
How would you describe this script in two words?
Alone together, (question mark)…
What TV show do you keep watching over and over again?
Obviously BoJack Horseman, I usually crush it in a hurry the day it’s released but they created such a rich, fast paced show and it’s wall to wall jokes so it’s always worth going back over again and again to pick up more details. I also love Man Seeking Woman, Rick & Morty and Silicon Valley. This past year Search Party, Fleabag and Catastrophe were especially great. There’s so much great TV on right now in all genres, on so many platforms, I’m just devouring it all!
How long have you been working on this screenplay?
I wrote this in 14 days, start to finish. Hahaha! I received an email about applying to a writing program at an animation studio and part of the application process was to write a Spec Script off their list of approved shows. I saw BoJack on there and thought, yup, this is happening! Unfortunately the deadline to apply was in 14 days but somehow I finished and submitted in time. It was the first Spec I’ve ever written but it all came together fairly quickly.
How many stories have you written?
I’ve written several short and full length screenplays and am currently about six episodes into a Series that, I suppose, would fall into the 1 hour drama category. I work full time in the Film Industry mainly as a Production Coordinator so I try to write as much as I can. Of course, anyone familiar with the hours we work in film might question my sanity but this is why we do it. Right?! We’re here to tell stories no matter how self destructive, Hahaha!
What is your favorite song? (Or, what song have you listened to the most times in your life?)
I’ve always said that “Rainbow Connection” by Kermit the Frog is my favourite song of all time. There’s a beautiful cover by Willie Nelson too.
What obstacles did you face to finish this screenplay?
Well as I said above, I was working full time, 12-14 hour days on a Series for SyFy called Wynonna Earp when I wrote this and I remember being on the ice at hockey one night thinking, “Oh what if this happened in BoJack or what if that happened” or whatever. Hahaha! I also have an amazing Wife and two incredible Children so I would say the hardest part was not sleeping for two weeks.
Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?
I’m Canadian so naturally I’m a huge Hockey fan but I love Baseball, Music and Film, anything Star Wars… I love Comedy and Animation. My Family is the most important thing in the world to me so every chance I get to share one of my passions, including my writing, with them is very special.
What influenced you to enter the festival? What were your feelings on the initial feedback you received?
I had entered this same Spec Script into a different contest and it luckily performed quite well, making it to the semi-finals. There was only one other Spec in that group of scripts and I noticed it was one that had previously won this Festival. When I saw that the reward for winning was a live reading I couldn’t not enter it. The value as a writer of hearing your script read aloud in the hands of professional actors is too immense and can’t be overstated. It was a no brainer. Plus I was really looking forward to seeing who got cast as a man with the head of a horse.
The feedback was unexpectedly thoughtful. I was bracing to get raked a bit for writing such a BoJack-centric BoJack episode which I assume is not the best way to tackle a Spec Script but I feel like the feedback I received understood most of the themes and what I was going for. That was a pleasant surprise which really helped me to push forward on some other projects I’m working on and to trust myself going forward.
Any advice or tips you’d like to pass on to other writers?
Share! Don’t be overprotective of your ideas or your writing. You’re not alone in the universe, you’re not the only one scratching out crappy dialogue at 3:00am on a Sunday. Find like minded people either in your hometown or online and share, work together, go away and write, come back together and give feedback. Talk about it, work it, be open, make it better.
Producer: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Director: Kierston Drier
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editor: John Johnson
Camera Operator: Mary Cox
Author tvfestivalPosted on September 20, 2017 Categories animation, interview, Matthew Toffolo WILDsound, table read, tableread, television festival, television scripts, tv comedy, tv spec screenplay, Uncategorized, watch winning television scripts, wildsound festival review, winning screenplays, writing festivalTags BOJACK HORSEMAN TV Show, by Cameron Chapman, television festival, television scripts, tv shows
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Cupcake to Donut – Android 1.6 is here
By Anita Z / October 7, 2009 October 7, 2015 / Uncategorized / Android / 3 Comments
Cupcake is out and Donut is in. This past weekend many T-Mobile G1 and MyTouch G1 users received Android 1.6 (a.k.a Donut) that updated the previous version known as Cupcake. I got mine Sunday morning. I’ve been playing around with the new features, which include a new faster camera/video interface, Quick search box, battery usage indicator, updates to Google Maps, and a new look for Android Market.
The camera and video interface looks completely different. A sliding on-screen button allows you to move from camera mode to video mode easily. Camera operation is MUCH faster, 39% faster for the first picture and 28% for subsequent pictures, to be exact!
The Quick search box is a little piece of Google doing what it does best: searching. Quick search does a global search across applications, browser bookmarks and history, contacts, and previous Google searches. Suggested search results are shown as a search term is typed. I like this feature because it gives a quicker way to get to what I want across my entire phone rather than making several selections to get where I am going.
Market has fresh new look. Applications on market can now include screenshots. In addition to the text description, the screen shots help me quickly understand the application’s capabilities and what it will look like. Applications in Market are sorted a little differently now. Apps are organized under Top paid, Top free, and Just In.
Google Maps on G1/MyTouch 3G now act more like the Google maps website. The Map application includes walking directions, public transit, and traffic. Also, pressing a location on the map gives the address and street view snapshot of the pressed location. You can also map to the pressed location, making it easier to get direction on the map when you don’t have an exact address. Latitude updated to include a shout out feature which allows you to send quick messages to other latitude friends. Shout out seems to take a long time to go through. In my use, at least 20 mins. These updates make Google maps more useful. But I would like to see speaking directions, which could come in handy when driving.
A new battery usage indicator can be accessed through Settings – About phone – Battery use. As shown, this screen gives a percentile rundown of the resources on your phone that are sucking your battery life. It may have been nicer if there was a way to add this feature as a shortcut onto the desktop, but I’m hoping there will be new (free) apps in Android Market that will take advantage of the battery status.
Virtual Private Network (VPN) feature has been added. This could potentially allow you to VPN into your work network. I have not tried this feature yet, but those who have, please do share!
Android 1.6 SDK also includes new features that will trickle down into application and onto other devices. Since Android is opening up to other phones and providers, the SDK has also been updated to give developers more tools to create applications for these opportunities.
Share your Donut experience!
Anita Z
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thanks for the info, got my girlfriend her first android mytouch phone saturday and fell in love with it. I hate to say it but about 3 months ago I almost switched to at&t for an iphone, because I thought they had the only phone with crazy and fun apps. Until i started doing research on t-mobile and came across Android. I love this market alot so much I decided to stay with t-mobile and get my own android phone, so I compared the mytouch to the new motorola cliq and seen that they had two different android operating systems cliq has 1.5 cupcake and mytouch has 1.6 donut. Confused as to which one is better to get. So your saying that donut no longer exist and cupcake is the new android? Also which phone would you choose?
T-mobile pushed out Android 1.6 (a.k.a. donut) for G1 and mytouch users. All users got it as an auto update a few weeks ago. Donut 1.6 is the latest Android operating system and it adds modification to the prior version which was Android 1.5 (a.k.a. Cupcake). I cant say one is much better than the other. the basic functionalities are the same but donut adds a few more bells and whistles as outline in the post.
I’ve never played with the motorola cliq yet but it looks sweet and has Motoblur.
I ordered the Cliq a week ago. It has got to be one of the sweetest phones I have ever owned. Motoblur is off the chain! Im looking into the upgrade to 1.6. If I find out the upgrade is possible I will repost. My G1 looks all sad. But I keep it as a backup.
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Category: Don’t Bunt to Break Up a No-Hitter
Don't Bunt to Break Up a No-Hitter
Bunting During A No-Hitter is No Bueno, Even In The Minor Leagues
Posted on June 5, 2019 June 7, 2019 by Jason Turbow
Finally, we have some unwritten-rules stuff in baseball that doesn’t involve bat flips or pitchers annoyed by bat flips or bat flippers annoyed by the fact that pitchers get annoyed by bat flips.
A minor-league game yesterday harkened back to one of the great moments in unwritten-rules history (as defined by something that seems utterly inconsequential being elevated to a level of national importance):
Bunting to break up a no-hitter.
The event we remember best in this regard happened back in 2001, when San Diego catcher Ben Davis broke up Curt Schilling’s perfect game by laying one down. Folks on the Arizona bench were irate. I went over this in some detail in The Baseball Codes, including a meaty excerpt of the section that ran on the 10th anniversary of the event.
Yesterday it happened again in a Double-A game between the Trenton Thunder and the Hartford Yard Goats. With one out in the ninth and his team having gone 0-for-25 to that point, Trenton’s Matt Lipka laid one down in front of surprised closer Ben Bowden, and beat it out.
Here is the bunt that broke up the @GoYardGoats no-hit bid in the 9th. What does Hartford starter Rico Garcia think of it? 👉 https://t.co/JKJTmZDBEb pic.twitter.com/24r6ZHwEj4
— Minor League Baseball (@MiLB) June 5, 2019
Bowden quickly got the remaining two outs, but his teammates were disgruntled to the point of wanting to fight, which led to a postgame infield scrum before the teams could decamp for their respective clubhouses. No punches appear to have been thrown.
Aftermath of a near fight at the end of the @GoYardGoats and @TrentonThunder game at Dunkin’ Donuts Park. 3-0 win for the Goats allowing only one hit as a team. #NoGoatsNoGlory #Pride #NBCCT @NBCConnecticut @GLucivero pic.twitter.com/N1QL5XUWFo
— Paul Ross (@RealPaulRoss) June 5, 2019
The idea behind the prohibition against such bunts is that players should not resort to trickery to avoid ending up on the wrong end of history. No-hitters don’t come around that often, and any pitcher dominant enough to take one late into a game deserves the opposition’s best effort, not some weasely backdoor attempt to slap a hit on the board in any way possible.
This kind of thing happens far more frequently than one might think.
As with Ben Davis’ bunt against Schilling 18 years ago, of course, there were some mitigating factors in Hartford.
For one thing, it wasn’t one Hartford pitcher having an all-time dominant day, but four: right-hander Rico Garcia pitched the first six innings, followed by one frame each by a trio of relievers. Two Trenton runners had already reached base earlier in the game on errors
Far more importantly, the score at the time of the bunt was only 3-0. By reaching safely, Lipka put the tying run on deck and got Bowden into the stretch. After more than eight innings of baseball, it was his team’s best chance to get back into the game. (In case you haven’t already clicked the above link, Davis’ bunt came in a 2-0 game, and Schilling didn’t hold it against him.)
Ultimately, as with any unwritten rule, winning trumps the Code. Just as close games serve to stifle retaliatory tendencies, they also allow players to get away with some tactics that would never play with a different score.
Even, it appears, in the minors.
Update, 6/7: Well, that took a dark turn. Some fans are nuts.
Belt’s (Sort-Of) Bunt Breaks Up No-No, Everybody Remains Calm
Posted on April 19, 2018 by Jason Turbow
We have another entry in the bunting-to-break-up-a-no-hitter category only a short way into the season: Brandon Belt did it on Tuesday to ruin Patrick Corbin’s no-no in the eighth inning. It was completely aboveboard, for a host of reasons:
It was a swinging bunt, not a squared-up affair. Arizona manager Torey Lovullo called it a check-swing, but it looked to me more like a clear push toward the left side.
It would have been okay even if it was the buntiest of squared-up bunts, given that the game was scoreless and Belt represented the go-ahead run.
The reason Belt so wanted to push the ball to the left side was that, like Minnesota before them, the Diamondbacks had put on an extreme right-side shift against him. It paid off for them earlier in the game, when Belt grounded out to third baseman Daniel Descalso, positioned to the right side of second base, in the third inning. Descalso was positioned similarly in the eighth. It didn’t work out so well the second time around.
Unlike Minnesota, nobody on Arizona’s side of the field seemed to take umbrage with Belt’s tactics following the D’Backs’ 1-0 victory. “Unfortunately we play a shift, we play an aggressive overshift and you saw what happened,” said Lovullo after the game, blaming himself, not Belt, in an MLB.com report.
This year we’ve already seen Cleveland bunt against the shift during a one-hitter and the Angels bunt against Cleveland during a no-hitter, which follow last year’s incidents involving Justin Verlander and Gio Gonzalez.
The good news is that, save for a few profoundly sensitive players in Minnesota, nobody really thought twice about any of these situations.
As for Belt, he continued to be a thorn in Arizona’s side on Wednesday night.
Thank you, Brandon Belt! #SFGiants pic.twitter.com/wWCoQt9Q2V
— San Francisco Giants (@SFGiants) April 19, 2018
Bunt appropriately, Don't Bunt to Break Up a No-Hitter
In Wake Of When-To-Bunt Talk, Simmons Bunts Whenever The Hell He Feels Like It, World Continues To Turn
Posted on April 5, 2018 April 6, 2018 by Jason Turbow
A week into the season and we’re neck deep in When Not to Bunt waters. Unlike Chance Sisco’s effort against the Twins on Sunday, Anaheim’s Andrelton Simmons actually dropped one down yesterday while Corey Kluber was tossing a no-hitter. Also unlike Sisco, that’s an actual violation of the unwritten rules.
If a team is behind by a reasonable margin in the late innings of a no-hitter, the theory holds that it is incumbent upon them to avoid resorting to trickery to ruin a masterful effort. Fair enough.
Yesterday, however, when Simmons noted the deep positioning of third baseman Jose Ramirez, it was only the fifth inning. Even more pertinently, the Angels trailed only 2-0 at the time. By reaching base, Simmons brought the tying run to the plate in the person of Shohei Otani.
#Indians @ #Angels
Simmonds bunts his way on (00:49)
MLB Gameday: https://t.co/Scz64o2CW5 pic.twitter.com/lroU7DdwWP
— Ballpark Videos (@BallparkVids) April 4, 2018
It paid off when Otani homered, tying the game and allowing LA to win it in the 13th.
To their credit, unlike various members of the Twins, Cleveland players didn’t much complain about it, probably because it was so obviously kosher. Here’s hoping whoever next encounters something similar will feel the same way.
Dozier Doubles Down on Blowout Bunt Talk
Brian Dozier wants to explain himself.
After invoking baseball’s unwritten rules in ridiculous ways on Sunday to defend his disenchantment with the fact that an opponent had the audacity to bunt against the Twins’ shift, he felt some clarity was in order. So he continued to talk.
It all had to do, he said on Monday, with the fact that Baltimore had, an inning earlier, failed to hold Minnesota’s Ryan LeMarre on base after he’d singled in the ninth. The game situation—a 7-0 twins lead—was nearly identical the one that Dozier found so offensive only moments later.
“When they didn’t hold our runner on, they conceded to the fact they didn’t want us to steal, so we didn’t steal,” Dozier said in a Pioneer Press report. “We could have very easily stolen and put up more runs, so therefore in return you don’t bunt. That’s what everybody is missing in this whole thing.”
It’s an interesting point. In Dozier’s reading, the Orioles tacitly approved late-game blowout tactics by not holding LeMarre close to first, thereby giving themselves a defensive advantage by positioning first baseman Chris Davis in the hole rather than tethering him to first base. Adhering to the Code, LeMarre stayed put, and did not attempt to steal.
It was a classic example of straightforward blowout tactics, fanciness stripped out in favor of straight-up baseball designed to push the pace and end things quickly. The point that Dozier seems to have missed is that Minnesota’s shift against Sisco was not that. Positioning three fielders to the right side of second base is anything but straight-up baseball, and if the Twins felt that the game situation was insufficient to dissuade them from doing so, they had no business complaining that the game situation was insufficient to dissuade Sisco from responding.
Bill James, meanwhile, made an equally ludicrous suggestion on the opposite side of the argument:
I know I am out on a limb here and will probably be blitzed for saying this, but I think the Commissioner should suspend any veteran player or m'ger who makes comments suggesting that a young player is doing something improper when he is simply trying to win. That's intolerable.
— Bill James Online (@billjamesonline) April 2, 2018
Ignore for a moment the idea of suspension for the outspoken members of the Twins, because James’ suggestion doesn’t apply here. Sisco wasn’t trying to win the game, he was trying to beat the shift, down seven runs with the bases empty and two outs to go. There’s value in that, even during a blowout. If Sisco wants to leverage the bunt as a means of getting teams to stop shifting on him, a lopsided score should not interfere with an opportunity to do so. It had little to do with winning.
As for James’ idea of MLB implementing thought police, it’s pure fantasy, and he knows it. It’s analogous to the idea of automatically suspending pitchers who throw at batters, which would lead to a number of issues, none bigger than the impossibility of determining intent. Who in baseball would want to be charged with containing that morass? With that in mind, under James’ proposed rule, what kind of comments would be okay for players to make, and who would judge the gray area, and how would a team’s fan base react to a star player being suspended for having thoughts?
In a league where good vibes rule and the commissioner would love nothing more than for every ounce of drama to be contained to the field, this suggestion would blow up in fabulous and unexpected ways. James doesn’t strike me as the type to say sensational things simply to garner attention, but this statement certainly qualifies.
Ninth-Inning Bunt Bothers Berrios, Twins Talk Tersely About Turf Tactics
We didn’t even make it out of the season’s opening weekend before being hit with 2018’s first Guy Who Bunted When He Shouldn’t Have Bunted controversy.
We’ve rehashed the most famous example of this, Ben Davis breaking up Curt Schilling’s perfect game in 2001, many times now. Davis was a slow-footed catcher who had no business doing what he did, save for one detail: The score was 2-0 in the eighth inning, and by reaching safely Davis brought the tying run to the plate. One dictate in baseball’s unwritten rulebook is incontrovertible: winning trumps everything, and Davis had just given his team its best chance at pulling out a W.
Yesterday in Baltimore, another catcher, rookie Chance Sisco, dropped down a ninth-inning bunt against Twins starter Jose Berrios, who was two outs from wrapping up not only the first shutout of his career, but the first complete game. Berrios, however, had already given up a hit—a double in the third, also to Sisco—so he should have been cool with it, right?
Right, except for this: The Twins led, 7-0, a point at which—with one out and nobody on in the ninth inning—baseball etiquette dictates that players stop trying to get cute and play simple, straight-up baseball. That means a lack of nibbling around the corners for pitchers, and nothing but hard hacks for hitters. The sooner a blowout ends, the quicker everybody can go home.
“Obviously, we’re not a fan of [Sisco’s bunt],” said Twins second baseman Brian Dozier after the game, in an MLB.com report. “He’s a young kid. I could’ve said something at second base, but they have tremendous veteran leadership over there with Chris Davis, Adam Jones and those guys. I’m sure they’ll address it and move forward. It’s all about learning up here.”
“It’s not good for baseball in that situation,” said Berrios. “That’s it.”
Okay, then. So Sisco shouldn’t have bunted. Right?
Right, except for this: Despite their lead, the Twins were employing a full shift against the rookie. Another unwritten rule says that when a defense calls off the dogs late in a blowout, the offense will not take advantage. Usually this refers to opting against holding a runner on first base, with the understanding that said runner will not attempt to steal second. Like the hard-hacks theory above, it’s aimed at more quickly reaching a conclusion that is virtually inevitable. With the game out of hand, positioning the first baseman back gives the defense a better chance to make a play.
Chance Sisco doesn't mind if you put the shift on him. The #Orioles' No. 3 prospect had no trouble laying down this bunt for an easy single 👀@Orioles Top 30 list: https://t.co/oB8UYJ6DbL pic.twitter.com/NHKryIQV2m
— MLB Pipeline (@MLBPipeline) April 1, 2018
That said, there’s a difference between playing one’s first baseman back with a man aboard, and what happened yesterday. The Twins were trying to end the game quickly by deploying what they felt was their most effective defensive formation, but such extreme shifts allow opponents unfettered opportunities to bunt down the line. By exploiting such a glaring hole, Sisco did his part—as, frankly, most hitters should—to make Minnesota consider the ongoing value of shifting against him like that. It was part of a long game, and the catcher had every right to take advantage.
If the Twins want to cede the possibility of such an outcome, they shouldn’t be all too surprised when it happens. And they sure as hell shouldn’t whine about it afterward.
Minnesota’s defense as Sisco’s bunt rolls. That’s a lot of line.
Related: Dozier Doubles Down on Blowout Bunt Talk (4-4-18)
Don't Bunt to Break Up a No-Hitter, No-Hitter Etiquette
Dee Gordon Swings Away Because of No-Bunting-During-a-No-Hitter Rule, Gets a Hit Anyway
Posted on August 1, 2017 August 2, 2017 by Jason Turbow
Baseball’s unwritten rules have a pervasive role in the fabric of the sport, helping to maintain a degree of respect and decorum. That part is good. But sometimes they’re just stupid.
Take yesterday. In the sixth inning of the Nationals-Marlins game, with Washington’s Gio Gonzalez throwing a no-hitter, Florida’s Dee Gordon thought about trying to bunt for a hit.
Typically, this is a no-no. We’ve already looked back this season at the infamous Ben Davis bunt that broke up Curt Schilling’s perfect game in 2001.
Except that Davis was a slow-footed catcher who had never bunted for a hit in his life. Gordon is second in the National League with 38 steals, a player for whom bunting is an essential tool. Also, it was a 1-0 game and Gordon represented the tying run.
“My game is to bunt,” Gordon said in a Miami Herald report, discussing his consternation over the unwritten rules. “I didn’t know if I could bunt or not. I was kind of in a weird situation for myself.”
Gordon didn’t bunt. Instead, he struck out. When he came up again in the ninth, Gonzalez’s no-hitter was still intact. Gordon didn’t even consider bunting.
Instead, he slashed a single to left field, Code be damned.
Verlander’s No-No Beaten By Bunt, and Nobody Seems to Mind
Posted on June 22, 2017 by Jason Turbow
It’s a convoluted question, so bear with me: Can the circumstances following a clear violation of the unwritten rules somehow alter how that rule is perceived?
In other words, might the end of a play justify the means?
The play in question is Jarrod Dyson’s bunt in the sixth inning of yesterday’s game against the Tigers, which broke up Justin Verlander’s perfect game.
Justin Verlander's perfect game broken up in the sixth by a Jarrod Dyson bunt. pic.twitter.com/oTHmmN48KY
— Brad Galli (@BradGalli) June 22, 2017
Such a thing, of course, has long been frowned upon by baseball moralists as disrespectful of a pitcher’s attempt at greatness. To challenge a guy fully, the theory goes, one must do so in a straightforward manner, without trickery or deceit.
The most famous example of this, as outlined in The Baseball Codes, was the bunt laid down by Padres catcher Ben Davis against Arizona’s Curt Schilling in 2001. Davis was San Diego’s 23rd batter of the night but the first—after his ill-executed attempt managed to drop between the mound and second base—to reach safely. Afterward, Diamondbacks manager Bob Brenly called the play “chickenshit” and said that Davis “has a lot to learn about how the game is played.”
Part of it was the intrusion on attempted perfection. Part of it was that Davis was a slow-footed catcher for whom bunting and speed were hardly part of his repertoire. Part of it was that the attempt came in the eighth inning, with Schilling only five outs from immortality.
One detail, however, served as adequate cover. The score was 2-0, and Davis had managed to bring the tying run to the plate. No matter how much animosity his bunt engendered in the opposing dugout, it is impossible to ignore the prime directive governing baseball’s unwritten rules: Winning trumps everything, and Davis had given his team its best chance on the day to win. Justification.
The circumstances yesterday in Seattle were somewhat different. Dyson’s bunt came in the sixth inning—early enough, perhaps, to validate it on its own merits. Take it from a different Seattle player, Jarrod Washburn—who pitched for the Mariners for four seasons, through 2009—whose own no-hitter was broken up by a bunt from Tampa Bay rookie Ben Zobrist in 2006. Like Dyson, Zobrist did it in the sixth inning, and it didn’t bother Washburn a bit. “If it was the eighth or ninth, maybe that would have rubbed me the wrong way,” he said at the time, “but bunting is just part of the game, and he was just trying to make something happen.”
Also in Dyson’s favor is that, unlike Davis, speed is an integral part of his game. Still, the play occurred while the Tigers held a 4-0 lead, and Dyson hardly represented the tying run. Sixteen years earlier, Davis could have creditably claimed that winning informed his strategy, but down four runs, Dyson’s rationalization was considerably more specious … save for two little words: And then.
And then, pitching out of the stretch for the first time all night, Verlander walked Mike Zunino. And then Jean Segura collected an infield single to load the bases. And then Ben Gamel scored Dyson with a single to center. And then, after Verlander struck out Robinson Cano, Nelson Cruz brought home two more with a double. And then it was 4-3 and Verlander’s day was over. After retiring Seattle’s first 16 hitters, he retired only one of its next six, including Dyson’s bunt. Seattle scored four more against Detroit’s bullpen, and went home with a 7-5 victory.
Regardless of how things may have seemed at the moment Dyson laid down his bunt, there’s no questioning that the effort played a significant role in his team’s victory. Justification.
After the game, Verlander said that he had no problem with Dyson’s strategy. The best summation, however, came from Schilling, in reference to his own spoiled no-hitter all those years earlier. “Unwritten rules or not, you’re paid to win games,” he said in The Baseball Codes. “That’s the only reason you’re playing in the big leagues.”
When Unwritten Rules Collide: Proper Shift Etiquette During a No-No
Posted on September 17, 2014 by Jason Turbow
You don’t break up a no-hitter with a bunt. It’s a cornerstone of baseball’s unwritten rules. I’m giving you my best as a pitcher, and I expect your best as a hitter, the theory goes, and with this much on the line, ticky-tack small-ball tricks hardly count as anyone’s best.
Except for one caveat: If it’s a close game, everything’s in bounds. If your team needs a baserunner, then by golly you go out and become that baserunner the most effective way you know how.
On Monday, the Padres added another caveat to the list. With Andrew Cashner working a no-no one out into the fifth, Dominic Brown pushed a bunt down the left field line. Nobody came close to making a play, and Brown was on with a single. It was only a 1-0 game, and as the possible tying run Brown had every right to do what he did.
Especially when the Padres put on the freaking shift.
Which brings us to No-Hitter Etiquette Exception No. 2: If You Don’t Want a Guy to Get a Hit, Try to Avoid Making the Process Unduly Easy for Him. That this is the Padres—at this point known primarily as the only franchise never to throw a no-no—makes it all the worse. Since the Padres came on the scene in 1969, they’ve been at the wrong end of nine of them. The Dodgers have thrown two this season. The St. Louis Terriers, who played in the Federal League in 1914-15, have a no-hitter to their name. But not the Padres.
And still, manager Bud Black put on the shift. When Brown bunted the ball down the third base line, it was fait accompli. Alexi Amarista was the closest guy to it as it rolled down the line, and he was playing shortstop. At the very least, Black was defying the baseball gods by ignoring another no-hitter rule: Don’t change anything up—not a spot on the bench between innings, not a guy warming up in the pen, and especially not an overt defensive assignment.
Which brings us to the third rule the Padres broke. That would be, Don’t Complain When Somebody Exploits your Shift During a No-Hitter. Especially When it’s 1-0. Cashner was visibly displeased on the mound, but settled down to end the inning. (He eventually gave up a second hit, to Marlon Byrd.) There was some dugout grumbling and the fans booed wildly. (Which is not to say that everybody in the home clubhouse was crying. “This is baseball,” said catcher Rene Rivera in an MLB.com report. “If you’re going to give a guy that side of the infield, why not take your hit?”)
It brings to mind that only two seasons ago, Jarrod Saltalamacchia also bunted against a shift to break up a no-hitter, which, like this one, was a fine thing to do. It also brings to mind that earlier this season, Colby Lewis got upset when somebody bunted to break up his no-hitter in the fifth inning, despite it being a perfectly acceptable thing to do. What it really brings to mind, though, is the most famous no-hitter-destroying bunt in history, which also involved the Padres, though in 2001 it was one of their own doing the bunting. And Ben Davis didn’t even bunt into a shift when he did it.
As for Brown, he said afterward that he wouldn’t have bunted had it been the ninth inning, but in the fifth all bets are on the table. It showed good awareness of the rules, though it probably won’t buy him any goodwill from the Padres fans who were ignorant enough to boo him in the first place.
Don't Bunt to Break Up a No-Hitter, Oakland A's, The First Hit of a Game Must be Clean
1972: A’s Unhappy Over Bunt that Broke up Vida’s No-No
Posted on December 30, 2013 April 19, 2018 by Jason Turbow
Research for my next book, about the Oakland A’s dynasty of the 1970s, to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2015, has turned up boundless examples of unwritten rules from that bygone era. The latest is from Oakland Tribune beat writer Ron Bergman, on Aug. 1, 1972. Of note is that A’s players did not appear to be upset over a bunt as the game’s first hit so much as the official scorer’s unwillingness to call it an error:
Vida Blue retired the first 17 men he faced before opposing pitcher Rich Hand [of the Texas Rangers] laid down a bunt with two out in the sixth inning. The score was 1-0 at the time. Third baseman Sal Bando swooped in to pick up the ball, stumbled off balance when it landed in his glove and then couldn’t extract it. By the time he plucked it out for an errant throw to first base, it was too late.
Official scorer Joe Sargis of UPI called it a hit, which took some courage. A line drive single by pinch-hitter Toby Harrah on the first pitch of the ninth didn’t mitigate the anger in the A’s clubhouse.
Blue seem to be the least disturbed.
“A hit is a hit, “Vida said. “No hits or 55 hits, you’ve still got to get 27 outs.”
“It should have been an error,” Bando declared. “I couldn’t get the ball out of my glove. I threw it over there to give them a chance to call it an error. I’ve seen games in which something like that is called an error, and if there’s another hit they go back and change the first call. The first hit is supposed to be a clean hit. I think that if that was called an error, Vida would have pitched a no-hitter.”
“We all were sure it would be called an error,” A’s manager Dick Williams told Sargis.
Hand said he saw Bando back up after the first pitch, “so I decided to give the bunt a whirl. It was a hit all the way, as clear as it’s going to be. I don’t see what they’re yelling about over there. They won, didn’t they?”
Don't Bunt to Break Up a No-Hitter, Jarrod Saltalamacchia
Perfecto Broken Up by Bunt … and for Once That’s Okay
Posted on September 3, 2012 by Jason Turbow
Boston, a day after getting gut-punched 20-2 by the Oakland A’s, had mustered not so much as a baserunner with two outs in the fifth inning Saturday against right-hander A.J. Griffin.
Frustration was inevitable, but was it sufficient to explain why Jarrod Saltalamacchia would bunt in the middle of a perfect game? The Red Sox catcher did, and reached base safely, which seems like a no-brainer: The guy was in clear violation of the Code. Heck, he even had a parallel with the most famous perfect game breaker-upper in history, Ben Davis—another catcher, who pulled the trick against Curt Schilling in 2001.
There was, however, a notable difference: For some unexplainable reason, A’s manager Bob Melvin had put on a defensive shift. With third baseman Adam Rosales positioned where the shortstop usually stands, Saltalamacchia was given the same kind of wide-open invitation all left-handed batters receive in that situation: an easy base hit with a well-placed bunt. Saltalamacchia, who has all of three sacrifice bunts in his career—all in 2007—took him up on the offer. (Watch it here, starting at the 1:03 mark.)
If the theory behind the governing rule is that a team’s first hit should be above board, with no gimmickry involved, then it should only follow that the defensive positioning of the pitcher’s team should follow suit. When Melvin opted not to play things straight up—despite holding a 5-0 lead—his opposition can hardly be faulted for acting similarly.
Melvin acknowledged as much after the game. “I probably should have had the third baseman in,” he told the San Francisco Chronicle.
To Griffin’s credit, the pitcher appeared to not hold any grudges. “It’s a good way to try to get momentum for your team,” he said. “There’s not anything I can do about it except try to get the next guy. Whatever.” (Bobby Valentine, who has far bigger controversies to consider than this one, added the sentiment, “Who cares?”)
There’s lots of blame to go around for Boston’s misery this season, but not on this play. If Griffin has a beef with anybody, it should be Bob Melvin.
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PPP loan fraud a ‘significant’ risk, says government watchdog
by Macy Maryam July 3, 2020
There is a “significant risk” of fraud for Paycheck Protection Program loans, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said Thursday, urging the Small Business Administration to ramp up efforts to respond to such risks.
In a report released Thursday, the government watchdog, which is charged with overseeing spending for the CARES Act, said that “Because of the number of loans approved, the speed with which they were processed, and the limited safeguards, there is a significant risk that some fraudulent or inflated applications were approved,” the GAO said. “In addition, the lack of clear guidance has increased the likelihood that borrowers may misuse loan proceeds or be surprised they do not qualify for full loan forgiveness.”
The GAO said the SBA had limited safeguards in place and has not provided details on “how it plans to identify and respond to risks in PPP,” and urged the administration to develop more oversight plans to ensure the program’s integrity and address possible fraud. The office acknowledged that while the SBA has set up some safeguards, it has “provided limited information on how it will implement” them.
The $670 billion program was set up quickly to give small businesses emergency loans of up to $10 million that could be converted into grants, but the process has been chaotic from day one. Borrowers have struggled with quickly changing guidelines and rules from the administration that made the process (and applying for forgiveness) confusing for many.
The GAO noted that, given how quickly the administration needed to disburse funds, the SBA allowed lenders to “rely on borrower certifications to determine borrowers’ eligibility, raising the potential for fraud.” The SBA has said it will review loans over $2 million, but the government watchdog said that as of June 15, the administration hadn’t provided details on “how it planned to carry out that work, and it had not provided information on oversight plans for the more than 4 million loans of less than $2 million each.”
Meanwhile, the office maintained the SBA to date has “failed to provide information critical to our review, including a detailed description of data on loans made.” In contrast, the GAO said, “most agencies were generally able to provide GAO timely access to information for this report while executing their responsibilities during this unprecedented national crisis.”
Indeed, the GAO has been trying to procure more information from the SBA for weeks. In response to the report, the SBA said in a letter that it had indeed provided documents to the GAO and made staff available for meetings, and maintained it was “not accurate” to say the administration hadn’t planned for proper oversight, among other comments. In a separate statement following the report, Jennifer Kelly, a spokeswoman for the SBA, said “Unfortunately, the report minimizes the historic work that SBA has undertaken to implement the CARES Act and mischaracterizes SBA’s engagement with GAO.” The SBA also said in the statement “While providing emergency economic relief to millions of small businesses nationwide, SBA made senior officials available for interviews with GAO and produced hundreds of pages of documents to GAO. SBA, while carrying out work that is unprecedented in scope and scale, prioritized providing information that GAO expressly asked for and information that directly responded to GAO’s questions. SBA continues to provide additional information to GAO on a rolling basis.”
After weeks of mounting pressure, the SBA and Treasury announced on Friday the agencies would be providing more details for loans of over $150,000, including the names and business addresses of borrowers. However, loan amounts would only be disclosed in ranges, up to the $10 million cap. Based on the most recent data from the SBA, the vast majority of the over 4.7 million borrowers would remain unnamed.
Now, the GAO’s report likely confirms what lenders, lawyers, and experts have long assumed. Indeed, the “significant” risk for fraud isn’t surprising to many involved in the program.
Kevin Cohee, the CEO of OneUnited Bank, a PPP lender, recently told Fortune the bank had to work through “a lot” of fraudulent applications for PPP loans: “That was one big part of the challenge. That might be the biggest drain on the [bank’s] resources.”
Others including lawyers have long noted the risk for fraud was high for the program. “There will be fake companies, and there will be people doing fraudulent things, and no bank wants to be the one that approved that [application],” Maria Earley, a financial services regulatory and enforcement partner at international law firm Reed Smith, told Fortune back in April, days after the program began.
Thus far, the Justice Department has already brought cases against several PPP borrowers, accusing them of fraud.
Update, June 27: This article has been updated with a comment from the SBA.
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4K Box Set Now Available for Pre-Order at Best Buy
Discussion in 'General Movie Discussion' started by SegNerd, Feb 20, 2020.
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I didn't see any other threads about this, so I just thought I would let you know that the 4K box set (Episodes 1-9) is now available for pre-order at Best Buy.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/star-w...lu-ray-only--best-buy/6393929.p?skuId=6393929
The release date is listed as 3/31/20 but it is unclear if this is a placeholder or the actual date.
#1 SegNerd, Feb 20, 2020
Do we have any idea what's in this besides the 9 films? There are 3 discs per film, right? (Will there be near-theatrical versions of the OT, for example?)
Also, it is a bit strange to read that Rogue One is in this set lovely, but strange
#2 Angelman, Feb 20, 2020
SegNerd said: ↑
No that is the release date.
--- Double Post Merged, Feb 20, 2020, Original Post Date: Feb 20, 2020 ---
The 3rd disc of each movie is likely bts, It doesn't have R1(?). It's probably their special edition version of 1-6.
#3 Andrew Waples, Feb 20, 2020
Andrew Waples said: ↑
"On March 31, coinciding with the physical release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, eight Star Wars films are being released on 4K UHD for the first time: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: A New Hope, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story." (my underlining, from the quote on the SWNN article on this release)
Perhaps I misunderstood? This is not from the big set?
The image that Best Buy has doesn't have R1.
Too Bob Bit Force Attuned
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Ah.. I was confused by this at first. Like you, I thought they were saying Rogue One is in the Skywalker Saga boxset. Which just led me to think "okay.. so why not put Solo in there as well?"
But what I think they are saying, is that AS WELL as the box set - which is just the nine saga films in 4K UHD - they are also releasing everything separately, MOST of which are in 4K UHD for the the first time. So Solo, and TJL for that matter, are not listed because they are already available in 4K UHD.
So no, R1 is NOT in the box set, is my understanding from parsing the statement!
#6 Too Bob Bit, Feb 20, 2020
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$250 is still a bit steep for me to pay. I may hold out and see if the price drops and when other retailers start to carry it.
#7 deadmanwalkin009, Feb 20, 2020
I already preordered it, and I don’t even own a 4K Blu Ray player.
4K Blu Ray players are still kind of pricy ($200ish), and it seems silly to buy one now when the PS5 is less than a year away.
So I guess for now, I will just admire the shiny box and continue streaming the movies on Disney+, hehe.
If you can find XBOX One S for pretty cheap you can use that as 4k bluray player or just wait for November/December and get the PS5. My One X is my 4k bluray player.
Too Bob Bit said: ↑
Right! That makes sense I just put 2 & 2 together and got 5, heh heh.
So... stupid question for tech-illiterate idiots like myself... What's the point with 4K? Is it just some super-crisp image thingy? (I tend to prefer lower resolution images as seeing individual pores in actor's faces, and the like, takes me out of the experience; lol! )
#10 Angelman, Feb 20, 2020
Maybe the easiest way to think about it would be to compare a DVD to a Blu Ray. That will give you a feel of what a big jump in resolution feels like. 4K Blu Ray is the next step up after Blu-Ray.
#11 SegNerd, Feb 20, 2020
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Holy maclunkey I have been waiting for this for years.....cannot wait to see A New Hope in 4K. Hope it is high quality. Hey @Jayson , do you know the process that is used to "clean up" a movie and convert to 4K?
#12 Lock_S_Foils, Feb 21, 2020
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Lock_S_Foils said: ↑
Yes. It's not very magical, I'm afraid.
The 4K part is pretty straight forward. That's just resolution. Film is inherently (in potential) WAY above 4K. However, the cameras they used weren't. You can't make the resolution go higher than what the filmstock had from the camera's capability to capture light. And the fidelity of cameras then was good, but it wasn't as high caliber as the technology today. Lens technology has really come a long way, and back then, there was a lot more shaking going on inside the camera from the reel and shutter mechanisms than there is today, which added to the quality issues somewhat. The biggest limiter was the lenses though. Well, that and the ability to keep the internals of the camera clean. Shooting all the Tatooine stuff was a nightmare, and Hoth was insanity...trying to keep the cameras clean and warm was a huge struggle.
So the best you can get in resolution is what the footage looked like on the first viewing at the studio (since theater projectors and shipping the film around had a lot to do with the bad quality at the theater).
The bigger variable is the HDR conversion.
This is where the big mess or win happens.
This is the color and lighting correction.
Specifically, it's where they take the range of light in a frame and crack it wide open to a much wider range by computation that uses a relative scale.
An easy way to think of it is like scale models of buildings (or AT-ATs ).
A tiny model of the Empire State building that only stands a foot tall still has all the same dimensions as the full scale version. It's just so small in scale that the fidelity is much lower than the full scale version.
And as we all know from years of Star Wars behind the scenes, the bigger you make the model, the higher and higher the fidelty gets.
What doesn't change is the proportion.
The Falcon is always the Falcon regardless of the scale. The cockpit is always the same relative distance from the thrusters. What changes is how much surface area light can bounce off of and reflectively hit the lens of the camera, therefore giving you more aparrent detail.
And that is the trick. More surface area means more light can hit it. More light hitting it means more light.
And because of our ocular system being light sensative primarily, the more light, the higher the fidelity.
HDR is much the same, but instead of a physical surface, it's a digital map in the mind of a process of light adjustment of a frame.
That is, the frame is like the Falcon model.
However, instead of saying that we need to make a bigger Falcon and reshoot the scene to get better fidelity, we suggest that we can just take the fidelity that we have, and artificially increase the fidelity by digitally adding more light than was captured.
In concept, it's very easy. It goes back to that scale model idea. If we look at an image and see the brightest point is one level, and the darkest point another, but the amount of light levels between these two points is only 5 levels of light, then we're going to have a pretty terrible image.
Conversely, if we see that there are hudrends of levels of difference, then we're doing better. Crank to a few thousand, and we're really cooking...at least in theory.
Think of it like this. If I give you one candle in a box that is 16 inches on each side, that is the amount of light of 1 "nit".
1000 nits is to say that you crammed 1000 candles in that box.
Isn't that blinding after a point?
Yes, it is, but we're measuring the brightest point possible in that in much the same way in the scale model example we're measuring the highest point of the Empire State building possible. We're not saying everything is 1450 feet in the air. That would be a hovering flat disc; not a building.
We're quoting the highest peak an implicitly understanding that below that is filled in relative to that height according to the scale.
So if it's 16 feet tall as a model, we can visualize the range of the building pretty easily from that one number - our brain fills in the image rather easily - we don't even think about it.
The nit thing is the same. We're quoting the highest point and filling in the rest until we hit the ground - the darkest point.
In a similar way our brain does for a building.
Now, the conversion works the way scale models work in our mind. A model of the Falcon looks like a big object when we're shown a human in a chair in the cockpit, and then we see the cockpit in relation to the rest of the ship. What we just did was turn a model a few feet in diameter into a giant ship that towers over us.
The actual object didn't change. We changed our visualization of it by inserting more feet between parts of the ship than there were.
This is what HDR does with light.
It takes the brightest light and the lowest light.
Then it pushes the brightest light to (up to) a couple thousand nits.
Now the distance between the brightest point and the darkest point (maximum) isn't 50 candles. It's thousands of candles.
That's a lot of feet between parts on the model!
So here's also where the problem comes in.
What should the brightest point of a shot be?
Should every shot be 2000 nits bright as the brightest point?
Hmm. * looks at Batman 1989 * mmm...Probably not.
Sooo...what should it be?
The real answer is...nothing.
It's 0 divided by 0; undefined.
It should be decided by a trained human who knows what it should look like by selecting a pleasing setting manually.
That, unfortunately, takes a lot of time.
So, like everything else, for most things we turn to automation.
Then we protect the problems by setting a limit.
A false ceiling.
If our 3D printer is going to automate scale models for us, we probably don't want it attempting 40 foot high models just because the design that came through would scale to that at the default foot per pixel computation.
But what limit?
Well. How about the limit of 1080p? We know that's good because we mastered the film to that, so we know it's safe and won't blow out.
That's around 200 to 300 nits.
Cool, we're good.
What does a TV capable of 2000 nits think of a 200 nit max image?
Eh...that depends.
And this comes back to the HDR method used.
Some are scalable while others are fixed.
Meaning, some will translate that 200 nit to the max value of the TV and spread the difference.
Others will translate that 200 nit straight over with no adjustment, so if you have a 2000 nit screen that 200 nit can cause the image to look dim if the image is full of pixel areas far less than the 200 nit artificial ceiling.
So...it all depends how they do the conversion.
If they automate it to 200 or 300 nits, then it comes down to your TV.
If you have a Dolby Vision in your TV, then you should be fine regardless.
If you have HDR10, it could be rough if the content is low nit ceilinged (e.g. Solo).
If you have HDR10+...flip a coin. Basically, if you have a top end high brand big TV, then your HDR10+ is probably good. If you have a smaller TV or a budget TV, maybe not so much. Because Samsung (HDR10+ developer) permits scaling the technology by manufacturers, something Dolby Vision does not.
#13 Jayson, Feb 21, 2020
What he said
New Maybe the easiest way to think about it would be to compare a DVD to a Blu Ray. That will give you a feel of what a big jump in resolution feels like. 4K Blu Ray is the next step up after Blu-Ray.
As someone who's slowly converting my bluray library to 4k, the jump between 1080p to 4k isn't nearly as big of a jump that 720p and 1080p was but it's still noticeable. One example I can think of is The Martian. On the standard bluray version, the control panels in the various ships are blurry while the 4k version the same controls are clearer. 4k allows the more details to be shown in the background and makes the picture looks brighter. But once you watch a true 4k movie on a a nice set up, you don't want to go back.
#14 deadmanwalkin009, Feb 22, 2020
What's the point with 4K? Is it just some super-crisp image thingy?
Kind of yes, kind of no.
The point is to bring more light into the shot.
Higher fidelity.
However that doesn't mean higher resolution.
The 4k part, yes. Just higher resolution through either transfer or upscale if older, or possibly native if new.
The bigger part everyone notices, HDR, no.
HDR isn't about sharpness.
It's about vividness.
Similar, but different.
It's the difference between the visual idea of "flat" and "pop".
Muted tones of color and light don't grab our eye as much as bright light with contrasting colors.
HDR came about as the final solution of color improvement. Sony thought they had it by adding yellow, but that didn't pan out as well as HDR did because HDR is dynamic and scalable.
Think of HDR's pupose like an old painting that gets restored. It didn't get higher resolution. It's still the exact same painting, but hundreds of years of grime have been taken off and now the colors just pop alive. If you're used to seeing it the old way, it's a BIG jump.
That's what the HDR part is about.
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Looks cool but also super-expensive... Then again, I have seen worse.
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After growing up in Hobart the Capital city of Tasmania, Australia, in August 1997 Martin took up residence in Chapel Hill NC and so begun one of the most decorated footy careers of any USAFL player so far. This isn’t just about 200 games at USAFL level, it is so much more.
Martin’s first game here in the US at the young age of 23 was with North Carolina when they took on the short lived South Carolina team at a clinic that was run at the time by an AFL legend himself, Paul Roos. Roosey ran the clinic then umpired the game with players from Atlanta, SC & NC and Tri Cities TN playing. News is the Marto kicked a handy 6 goals in that game on his USAFL debut.
Martin played 5 years at the North Carolina Tigers, coaching for 4. He worked tirelessly on and off the field to help develop that club, before spending a year in Tucson AZ playing summer league footy with the Tucson Javelinas.
It was playing with the Tuscon/Mojave Desert Greens combined team at the Atlanta 2004 USAFL National Championships that Martin got chatting to Clay Atkins from Seattle who was also moving to Portland Oregon around the same time. In 2005 they would join forces with club founder Scott Johnson, who was trying to get the club off the ground. With only a handful of players they began building the foundation of the Portland club. In the early stages Coventry and Johnson both played with the Seattle Grizzlies who were also pretty new on the USAFL scene.
So let us get back to the start, what makes Martin one of the most decorated players in the USAFL history? Try this on, 15, yes 15 Best & Fairest (MVP) club player awards. Martin won 3 B&Fs at North Carolina and has won 12 at the Portl and Steelheads, including 11 of those in a B&F winning streak that could be the longest in the world. With 106 games now also for Portland, surely there must be an award with Martin’s name on it soon in Portland! He also has 3 Best at Nationals club awards to go with 3 USAFL Nationals B&F player awards.
Along with his amazing playing achievements and dedication, he has been VP of both NC Tigers and Portland “for a few years” (his words) as well as President twice of the Portland Steelheads. And we are not done there, Martin also won the Paul O’Keefe Award for ‘Administrative Excellence' from the USAFL in 2010.
Success hasn’t been just his, Martin has played in seven USAFL Grand Finals at the National Championships with Portland & Seattle teams. His greatest day being Captain of the Portland 2016 Div 3 Championship team, winning the Div 3 B&F, and Div 3 Grand Final MVP all on the same weekend. Wow!
In 2013 women’s footy started up in Portland and Martin has grown to love the women’s footy development as well and been part of that success. Currently the Head Coach of the Portland women’s team and Assistant Coach of the Freedom, the USA National Women’s team, he continues to give back to the sport, ably assisted by his footy playing partner in crime Lauren Skonieczny.
“Over the years the thing that has changed the most is probably there are far more teams now. Back when I started there was barely a Div 2 at Nationals. Now we have 5 men’s and 2 women’s divisions.” Martin told USfootyNews. ‘ The standard is way better than ever before also and women’s footy continues to grow at a fantastic rate”, he went on to say.
Right now at the still young age of 44 Martin still enjoys being part of the team, out there on the wing, still able to keep up with the younger players and his involvement in women’s footy continues to drive his enthusiasm for the sport. “There is less pressure now on the field these days which is great, I don’t have to be the best player out there all the time, I can just enjoy myself” Martin offered also.
So what does he think is the best way to grown the sport from here on? Martin replied ‘ In Portland we have multi levels of the game now. We have non-contact games in the colder months using an indoor soccer arena. You can play tackle metro footy or USAFL footy. Introducing the game however at Social level or Ausball games, is so important. It Is where it all starts and players can play without having to worry about being bumped or tackled. This is how to best grow the game, have multiple levels of the game, so anyone can play and learn the game.”
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INTERVIEW: Amber Ojeda
RJ Frometa September 15, 2016 Artist Interviews 1 Comment
How would you classify your music?
I would say my music can be put into many different boxes, as I like to really explore and meld different styles and genres. It can be eclectic. If I must categorize it, I would say Electropop/R&B/Soul.
Who are some of your top 5 musical influences?
This is always such a fun question to answer. Right now, I would say at the top is Janet Jackson for her fearlessness and ability to transform herself through the years, Frank Ocean for his honest and emotive writing, Emily King for her vocal control and beautiful melodies, Johnny Cash for his sincerity, and Ella Fitzgerald for her vocal range and control.
What do you want fans to take from your music?
I hope my fans connect, period. What they take from each song is their own journey. That is one of the things I love most about music; I can hear a particular song and it transports me to a specific moment in time, while someone sitting next to me listening to the same song could be a light-year away on their own emotional flashback.
Tell us about your latest release?
My latest release, Geminis & Virgins, is all about skimming the boundaries of fighting through and giving into my fear of commitment. It’s a rollercoaster. Some songs are very playful and electropop sounding and others fall into a darker tone with R&B influences.
What do you love and hate about the Music Business in your opinion?
I know it’s cheesy, but I don’t hate anything. There can be challenges for sure, but the possibilities far outweigh the negatives. What I love about the industry today is that artists no longer heavily must rely on a record deal to get in the public eye. We now have the ability to connect with fans on a personal level through a variety of social media platforms. It’s a game changer for the independent artist.
What is the best concert you have been to? What do you like most about playing live?
That is almost impossible to answer; every artist brings something different to the table. I prefer intimate shows, so I’ll say in the last year my favorite concert has been Alabama Shakes at the Greek Theater in L.A. Their energy is infectious and they have a great chemistry on stage.
What I love most about playing live is losing myself. I am hyper analytical. I mean up to the moment before I step on the stage my brain is working overtime, but right when my foot hits the platform my energy shifts to something beyond what I can control. I’m free from myself, hallelujah!
How have you evolved as an artist or band over the last year?
My previous albums were much more emotionally guarded and sounded ‘prettier.’ With Geminis & Virgins I wanted to jump off the deep end. There are vocal tones that I would not have attempted in the past as I did on this album, and I also allowed myself to go more Pop than ever before. I usually feel more comfortable in the Jazz and R&B world, but my producer David Michael Ott nudged me to not take myself too seriously.
If you could meet, play a gig, co-write a song, have dinner, get drunk with any band or artist (dead or alive) who would it be?
John Mayer. I think he is an incredible songwriter.
More writing! My true love is writing songs, so I’m currently in the studio working on projects for other artists, as well as writing music for TV shows.
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Lizzo Joins The Griswolds On Their New Track “YDLM ft. Lizzo”
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Australian alt-rockers The Griswolds have unveiled “YDLM ft. Lizzo,” the latest track off of the band’s forthcoming sophomore album High Times For Low Lives – Click HERE to listen/embed. The song, which premiered via Consequence of Sound, features the acclaimed and much buzzed-about vocalist-rapper Lizzo, and is yet another sneak peek of The Griswolds’ expanded soundscape that encompasses beat-laden R&B, funky Motown soul and electro-pop on top of the band’s signature alt-rock panache. “YDLM ft. Lizzo” will be available Friday, October 28th. Produced by Grammy Award-winner Andrew Dawson (Kanye West, Sleigh Bells, fun.), High Times For Low Lives is now available for pre-order HERE ahead its release on November 11th via Wind-up Records.
“YDLM ft. Lizzo” comes on the heels of the release of the infectious and explosive lead single “Out Of My Head,” which premiered via Huffington Post, as well as title track, “High Times For Low Lives,” which made its debut on Entertainment Weekly. The Griswolds recently made their national TV debut when they performed “Out Of My Head” on the TODAY Show with Kathie Lee and Hoda as Elvis Duran’s Artist of The Month (PRESS HERE to watch). The single has racked up nearly 1 million Spotify streams, and is quickly heating up at Alternative Radio, including climbing into SiriusXM Alt Nation’s Alt 18 Countdown. The Griswolds are currently being featured in a worldwide Apple Music ad campaign for the Apple Music Student Plan.
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Y.O.U.N.G kick back in new single ‘Lazy’ out now
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Genre-blending Manchester collective Y.O.U.N.G have today released their new single ‘Lazy’. The youthful five-piece kick back in the new single with chilled hip-hop beats and mellow reggae guitars alongside a bleary-eyed flow, rising into an infectious chorus – all combining to create an anthem for lazy people across the world.
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‘Lazy’ follows the release of ‘Exposure’ in late 2017, which has had over 200,000 combined views on YouTube whilst its remixes entered the Music Week Club Chart Top 10.
Rapper Ben James said of the track, “Our whole lives people have been calling us lazy. The track plays on the idea of what we would do every day if we were as lazy as people said. It’s true everybody has lazy days, we are no exception, but overall the aim of ‘Lazy’ is to mock the idea that all we do is nothing.
“The chorus is written from the point of view of the patronising adult, whilst the rap verse gives a first hand view of what a lazy day would consist of. Even though the song is a mockery, we can’t deny that brews, candles and chilling are genuine passions of ours! Dressing gowns make an appearance in the live show, bringing the laid back bedroom vibes to the stage and adding to the tongue in cheek nature of the tune.”
The five-piece (Chez Davis – vocals/guitar, Ben James – rap, James Skehan – guitar/production, Tom Whitehead – bass and Graeme Smith – drums) have built a fervent fanbase across Europe with their cheeky genre mash-ups and extensive touring.
Y.O.U.N.G will be playing their first ever UK headline tour in association with Live Nation through February and March. The band will play five-dates calling at Glasgow, Birmingham, Newcastle, London and Manchester. Tickets are on sale now via TicketWeb.
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Home/News/All Aboard! Jim Kirkpatrick Serves Up a Brand-New Video for His Storming Take on Quo’s ‘Gravy Train’
All Aboard! Jim Kirkpatrick Serves Up a Brand-New Video for His Storming Take on Quo’s ‘Gravy Train’
Jim Kirkpatrick is delighted to announce the release of his video for the blazing Blues-Rock ‘Gravy Train’, taken from his recent, 12-track solo album ‘Ballad of a Prodigal Son’.
Check out the new video here https://youtu.be/f3l2FgTgegs
in the Blues and Rock scenes, Jim is well-respected, both as a songwriter and as a deft-fingered, multi-skilled guitarist. Jim is best-known as the lead guitarist of the legendary British classic rock band FM, with whom he’s served since 2008. However, in his storied career he’s also worked with many other major names, several of whom guest on the album, as on this very track.
“’Gravy Train’ is an obscure Status Quo song written by John ‘Rhino’ Edwards and the late, great Rick Parfitt,” Jim explains, “Rhino is a really good friend of mine and I regularly play guitar for him in his band Rhino’s Revenge. ‘Gravy Train’ is one of my favourite songs that we play together. I thought a cover of it would fit great on my album. Rhino agreed to me covering the song, as long as he played bass. Who could refuse that offer?”
The album’s debut single — its title track ‘Ballad of a Prodigal Son’ — became one of Classic Rock’s Tracks of the Week and won amongst those picked. For Classic Rock, the album confirms “Kirkpatrick as an assured and able lead vocalist and, above all, an accomplished writer”.
Reviewers have raved over ‘Ballad of a Prodigal Son’and awarded it much praise and high marks.
Maximum Volume awarded the album 9/10 and put it on par with the work of one particular rock giant: “I don’t say this flippantly… if Joe Bonamassa had made a record as good as this… Blues Enthused also made the comparison: “…if you’re sitting there waiting with bated breath waiting for the new Joe Bonamassa album, then stop it. Breathe. Relax. And get your order in for ‘Ballad of a Prodigal Son’. You won’t be disappointed.” Likewise, said Blues Matters, “What we have in Jim Kirkpatrick is England’s equivalent to Joe Bonamassa. This is the joint album of the year. Fact.”
“Jim Kirkpatrick’s a pretty unassuming bloke and not one to big himself up. Therefore I’ll do it for him,” said Fireworks, singing his praises.
Blues Rock Review particularly praised Jim’s songwriting: ‘“Ballad of A Prodigal Son’ is an album that shows Kirkpatrick as a prolific songwriter and riff maker…, ‘Ballad of A Prodigal Son’ is an album where Kirkpatrick put all his talent to serve and legitimize his path as a blues rocker.
In other news, Jim Kirkpatrick has confirmed three solo acoustic shows.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Democratic lawmakers’ push to impeach him in the last days of his presidency is “absolutely ridiculous.”
Speaking to reporters for the first time since thousands of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday to try to upend his defeat for reelection, Trump rejected any contention that he was responsible for the mayhem that left five people dead.
Trump had urged thousands of his supporters at a rally near the White House to “fight” against lawmakers certifying that he had lost his reelection contest to Democrat Joe Biden. But the president said Tuesday, “It’s been analyzed, and people thought that what I said was totally appropriate.”
Hours after police restored order at the Capitol, lawmakers certified the Electoral College vote showing Biden defeated Trump in the November election. Biden now will be inaugurated in eight days as the country’s 46th president, ending Trump’s four-year term.
World Leaders Condemn Pro-Trump Riot at US Capitol European officials express disbelief at the unprecedented scenes on Capitol Hill, side with President-elect Joe Biden Trump offered his comments as he headed to the southwest border with Mexico to inspect the wall that he had built to thwart illegal immigration, which Trump considers one of his top achievements as president.
He contended that the impeachment effort against him is a “continuation of the greatest witch hunt in the history of politics,” his description of earlier investigations targeting him — that Russia helped him win the 2016 election, and his 2019 impeachment after he solicited Ukraine’s help in digging up dirt against Biden ahead of the November election. The Senate acquitted him last February in the impeachment case.
US House Moves to Remove Trump from OfficeDemocrats accuse US leader of ‘incitement of insurrection’ in last week’s storming of the Capitol by a mob of Trump supportersTrump said he wants no more violence as Biden takes office but said the impeachment effort brought by the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives is “causing tremendous anger.”
The House is set to vote Tuesday on a resolution calling for Vice President Mike Pence and members of Trump’s Cabinet to use their constitutional authority to remove Trump from office as unfit to serve.
The measure, which is expected to pass, sets a 24-hour deadline for Pence to respond, but he has given no indication he supports the removal of Trump. That would set the stage for a House vote Wednesday on impeachment.
“The President represents an imminent threat to our Constitution, our Country and the American people, and he must be removed from office immediately,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a written statement on Monday.
Aside from Pence, no Cabinet member has given any public indication of supporting Trump’s ouster in the waning days of his presidency through use of the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which allows for the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to declare a president “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
Trump and Pence met late Monday at the White House for the first time since last week. Pence had angered Trump by rebuffing his entreaties to reject the Electoral College votes from several states Biden narrowly won, giving him the presidency.
A senior administration official said Trump and Pence “reiterated that those who broke the law and stormed the Capitol last week do not represent the America First movement backed by 75 million Americans (who voted for Trump) and pledged to continue the work on behalf of the country for the remainder of their term.”Members of the National Guard stand inside fencing that surrounds the Capitol complex, Jan. 10, 2021, in Washington, amid intense security measures ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration Jan. 20, 2021.Even though Trump’s four-year term expires at noon January 20, the four-page proposed House impeachment resolution said Trump has “demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national security, democracy, and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of law.”
The impeachment resolution cites Trump’s unfounded accusations that he was cheated out of a second term by voting and vote-counting irregularities, his pressure on election officials in the southern state of Georgia to “find” him more than 11,000 votes to overtake Biden’s margin of victory in the state, and his statements at a rally last Wednesday urging thousands of supporters to march to the Capitol to pressure lawmakers to overturn the election outcome.
A total of 218 Democrats have signed on to the resolution, ensuring a majority in the 435-member House without any Republican votes against the outgoing Republican president.
But it is unclear whether House leaders would immediately send the resolution to the Senate for a trial on whether to convict Trump and remove him from office, given that his term ends next week.
Biden said it is his “hope and expectation” that the Senate could simultaneously hold an impeachment trial and confirm his Cabinet appointments after he takes office, while also approving more aid for the flagging U.S. economy weakened by the soaring coronavirus pandemic.
He said Monday of the rioters, “It is critically important that there’ll be a real serious focus on holding those folks who engaged in sedition and threatening the lives, defacing public property, caused great damage — that they be held accountable.”
Biden also told reporters, “I’m not afraid of taking the oath outside,” referring to next week’s swearing-in ceremony, which traditionally takes place at the U.S. Capitol’s west steps, one of the areas where people stormed the building.
FBI Examines Threats to Biden Inauguration Officials say they are worried about groups bent on “violence and destruction of property,” as the National Guard authorizes up to 15,000 troops to help with security Even if Trump has already left office, a Senate impeachment conviction after his term ends would bar him from holding federal office again.
Republican Congressman Tom Reed said in a New York Times opinion piece that he would join an unspecified number of House colleagues in introducing a censure resolution against Trump on Tuesday as an alternative to a “hasty impeachment.”
“If our leaders make the wrong decision in how to hold him accountable, it could damage the integrity of our system of justice, further fan the flames of division, and disillusion millions of Americans ─ all while failing to accomplish anything,” Reed wrote.
If he is impeached again, Trump would hold a singular distinction among 45 U.S. presidents in the 245-year history of the United States, by becoming the only chief executive to be impeached twice.
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Record cold reported, global warming still not debunked
Warning on Hwy 141 in Georgia.
Credit: John Amis/AP
Al Jazeera America has a nice compact feature about how the record low temperatures and unusual storm activity are evidence that climate change is real and an increasing threat. Peter Moscowitz also makes a distinction that is overlooked (or willfully ignored) by mainstream media outlets translating scientific information-
But those who think cold weather disproves climate change may be ignoring a solid and ever-increasing body of evidence.
Cold weather is just that — weather, which is defined by NASA as “conditions of the atmosphere…over a short period of time.”
According to most climate scientists, no weather condition can be linked to climate change.
Just as the cold snap can’t necessarily be linked to climate by itself, neither can the unprecedented heat wave currently hitting Australia. (It’s so hot, meteorologists have been forced to add new colors to their heat maps.)
But unlike individual events, weather patterns can be linked to climate change. And scientists point out that patterns suggest it’s getting hotter and weather is becoming more dangerous.
Individuals and groups bent on denying scientific consensus use a key dodge in cases like this- where bizarre weather strikes the Pacific Northwest, the Eastern seaboard , and now (again) the South. It is to conflate two related but different terms- global warming and climate change. Skeptical Science has a nice piece explaining the two, and debunking the myth that the former was phased out by political consultants like Frank Lutz.
Global warming is the increase in temperature associated with increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, and climate change are the visible effects of that change. Groups like Fox News and conservative column writers tend to say that record cold weather disproves global warming- when in fact it validates the concept of climate change. Also (probably) willfully ignored is the difference between short-term and long-term. A three-day storm in a region of one country does not reverse decades of planet-wide temperature increase. Perhaps it is a bit of American chauvinism that weather in the United States can prove or disprove global climate theories.
Also, to prove that the latest rabble about global warming being a hoax is regurgitated, here’s a Daily Show segment from almost exactly four years ago. Just because it’s cold doesn’t mean we’re headed for Hoth. Just like when it gets dark at night, eventually the sun will come up.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-february-10-2010/unusually-large-snowstorm
Author Andrew MackayPosted on February 13, 2014 February 13, 2014 Categories Environment, MediaTags al jazeera america, climate change, daily show, Fox News, global warming, snow, storm, weatherLeave a comment on Record cold reported, global warming still not debunked
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Nate Burleson Was The Absolute Star Of Nickelodeon’s Bears-Saints Playoff Broadcast
Ryan NagelhoutTwitterContributing Writer
Even before the NFL aired its first playoff game on Nickelodeon, you couldn’t help but wonder where CBS had been hiding Nate Burleson all this time. The 11-year NFL veteran spent the pregame show before Bears-Saints on Sunday counting down the best sports-related moments from SpongeBob SquarePants. More importantly, he was selling the hell out of it. Burleson made jokes, quoted the show he clearly grew up watching and seemed to be having a blast. And then he called one of the best games as a color man we’ve seen in a spot no broadcaster has ever experienced.
Don’t get me wrong, Burleson is already a busy man. He’s been on the NFL on CBS studio broadcasts since 2017 and appears on Good Morning Football and Access Hollywood. But on a broadcast filled with slime cannons exploding after touchdowns, a Minecraft-inspired halftime highlight show and Nickelodeon’s first-ever f-bomb, Burleson was still the star of the show.
It cannot be said enough that this broadcast could have been an absolute disaster. Brand partnerships often happen not because they should, but because both willing parties see an opportunity to make money. And just because it might look fun it may not actually provide much value. But the broadcast, for those willing to give it a shot, was almost universally praised.
While Young Sheldon popping up on screen to explain penalties was nearly a deal-breaker, the broadcast was dominated by Burleson in his bag calling a playoff football broadcast on a children’s television network. Nostalgia is an easy thing to fall back on, but the broadcast wasn’t simply trotting out SpongeBob tropes and pandering to kids. What Nickelodeon aired on Sunday was a legitimately entertaining broadcast of a pretty underwhelming playoff football game.
When Bears wideout Javon Wims dropped an easy touchdown on a trick play in the first quarter, Burleson immediately noted that he had just made a tough play on the sideline and couldn’t make “the easy one.” The play deprived us an opportunity to see the hilarious slime cannons explode on the broadcast, but it was a perfect example of how, in a game broadcast on a cartoon network, Burleson managed to correctly convey the importance of the moment to the flow of the game.
While play-by-play man Noah Eagle made a point to include the other member of the broadcast team — actress Gabrielle Neveah Green, a rookie doing color as well — Burleson rarely needed any help. He seamlessly filled space not only providing meaningful commentary, but was able to give context to the kids potentially watching for the first time while entertaining everyone else whose curiosity had been piqued by the novelty of the broadcast.
It’s easy to make exceptionally lame analogies when trying to shoehorn things like cartoons and football together. But the analogies were actually pretty strong throughout the broadcast, and none were as cringe-worthy as Young Sheldon. Burleson explained that turnovers in football are kind of like when someone drops an easy pop up in kickball: you have to take advantage of a mistake while you can.
Later on, he explained a blocker getting “down under” someone’s pads to gain superior position on them “like Rocko’s Modern Life.” Along with the other subtle rule explanations from Eagle during the broadcast and Green adding interesting tidbits about NFL history, it actually made for a pretty well-rounded broadcast. And Burleson wasn’t afraid to call out a bad quarterback when he sees one, even if he did it a bit more gently than was maybe necessary.
Nate Burleson on the Nickelodeon broadcast: "I'm not going to get heavy into the X's and O's here, but if you're trying to score before halftime but you don't throw it once, what are you saying about the quarterback?"
— Conor Orr (@ConorOrr) January 10, 2021
Nate Burleson explaining how Mitch Trubisky's season was a like getting a C in class but now the playoffs are like a chance to earn extra credit…🤣
— Melissa Jacobs (@thefootballgirl) January 10, 2021
Burleson later joked that when he gets older, he wants to be like Tommy Pickles from Rugrats.
“I wanna walk around in my diaper, just doing what I want,” he said. It’s important to note that Rugrats went off the air 16 years ago. But it was super impressive how many shows Nate referenced, and it was clear that he truly did grow up watching Nickelodeon and it had an impact on him. Perhaps that’s why it seemed like he had so much fun doing the broadcast, but the performance felt far from a gimmick. It can be a challenge not to talk down
And for every awkward interruption of a big play to let the audience know what flavor of ice cream the receiver likes best, Burleson was there to seamlessly pick up the slack and carry that language into an explanation of what happened and why it was a big play. The best sports broadcasts not only showcase the game, but also can teach you something new about what you’re seeing. No matter how old you are.
Good color work during a football game doesn’t always have to be Tony Romo-level predictions or breaking down mesh in real time, and Burleson never got that technical on a network where the first down line was a pulsating orange and green. But he proved himself more than capable of providing a great broadcast on Sunday, one that embraced all the fun that sports are supposed to be while not leaning too heavy into the ridiculousness of the graphics or the cheesiness that often comes with brand partnerships.
Not all playoff football games should be broadcast on Nickelodeon. In fact, the NFL may have picked the perfect game to put on the network because it was so lopsided and fairly uninteresting without all that slime. But Burleson proved on Sunday he belongs in the booth calling more than just games with Double Dare music beds leading into commercial breaks. He more than earned the shot, if it’s something he wants.
Topics: #NFL, #NickelodeonTags: Nate Burleson, NFL, NICKELODEON
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Stone Mad
A Karen Memory Adventure
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On Sale: 03/20/2018
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Readers met the irrepressible Karen Memory in Elizabeth Bear’s 2015 novel Karen Memory, and fell in love with her steampunk Victorian Pacific Northwest city, and her down-to-earth story-telling voice.
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Now Karen is back with Stone Mad, a new story about spiritualists, magicians, con-men, and an angry lost tommy-knocker—a magical creature who generally lives in the deep gold mines of Alaska, but has been kidnapped and brought to Rapid City.
Karen and Priya are out for a night on the town, celebrating the purchase of their own little ranch and Karen’s retirement from the Hotel Ma Cherie, when they meet the Arcadia Sisters, spiritualists who unexpectedly stir up the tommy-knocker in the basement. The ensuing show could bring down the house, if Karen didn’t rush in to rescue everyone she can.
Praise for Stone Mad
“Bear's narrative skill and flair for both plot and character continue to impress.”—Booklist
Praise for Karen Memory
“Surreally captivating, Bear’s latest melds the genres of steampunk, fantasy, adventure and dime-store western together perfectly.”—RT Book Reviews, 4 ½ Stars! Top Pick!
“Karen Memory breezes by at a leisurely pace, a bracing yet charming adventure yarn that never feels forced, despite the brassy confidence of its delivery.” — Jason Heller, NPR
“Karen Memory is a delight, a tour-de-force of historical reimagining and character creation, and a ripping yarn full of surprises.”—Russell Letson for Locus
“Bear pumps fresh energy in the steampunk genre with a light touch on the gadgetry and a vivid sense of place. Karen has a voice that is folksy but true, and the entire cast of heroic women doing the best they can in an age that was not kind to their gender is a delight.” —Library Journal, starred review
ELIZABETH BEAR was the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2005. She has won two Hugo Awards for her short fiction, a Sturgeon Award, and the Locus Award for Best First Novel. She is the author of many novels, including Karen Memory and The Eternal Sky series. Bear lives in South Hadley, Massachusetts, with her husband, novelist Scott Lynch.
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DynaTrace Targets Developers, Testers With Continuous App Management
DynaTrace Software, a closely held supplier of performance management software, this week upgraded its platform to allow developers to monitor, test and troubleshoot globally distributed SOA-based applications.
With its new dynaTrace 3 suite, which continuously monitors transactions throughout all layers of an application infrastructure, the company is now offering tooling specifically for application developers and testers. The core software runs on a common platform that monitors both Java and .NET applications and lets testers and developers track business-level transactions throughout the application lifecycle and determine at the code level the cause of existing or potential problems.
"We are able to catch each and every single transaction," said Alois Reitbauer, a senior architect at Linz, Austria-based dynaTrace. "Other solutions normally use statistical correlation values, so if the production environment has hundreds of transactions going through the environment, a lot of data has to be calculated and this creates overhead."
While developers can embed censors or agents within applications, the overhead issue is offset by having the transaction-level data continuously processed on the separate dynaTrace Server. By offloading the discovery and processing to a separate tier, "we can reduce overhead to just 3 to 5 percent in the production environment," Reitbauer said.
"[DynaTrace's] agents are injected into the JVM or CLR and they are running 24x7 recording data and watching things, so if we have an issue we will have forensics to help us to understand why we had an issue," said David Anderson, principal architect at Peopleclick, one of dynaTrace's earliest U.S. customers. Peopleclick offers a hosted employee recruiting service that started using the dynaTrace solution more than a year ago to track the performance of applications on its Web site, which can get 5 million page views on any given day.
The new dynaTrace 3 release is designed to let developers trace transactions across geographically distributed systems. The company said it can be used in large scalable virtualized server clusters for business-critical applications that require 24x7 uptime. The company is also open sourcing its Web services-based plug-in interfaces via the Open Gateway Services initiative (OGSi).
DynaTrace said it has made inroads in the U.S. market over the past year with customers such as Bank of America, Fidelity Investments, LinkedIn and Macy's. It has 100 customers but has seen rapid growth in recent quarters, the company said. But dynaTrace, which is backed by Bain Capital and Bay Partners, is a much smaller player than market leader CA, whose Wily Technology is used by more than 1,000 customers.
The company also finds itself going up against a number of well-known players, notably Oracle, which acquired ClearPath late last year, as well as Compuware, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Quest Software. There are a number of startups targeting application performance management, as well, including Precise Software Solutions (recently spun off from Symantec) and OpTier.
"Most of the vendors like CA Wiley and others manage at the application server tier," said Forrester Research analyst Jean-Pierre Garbani. "DynaTrace manages all the components of the application." It is safe to presume vendors such as CA and Oracle are moving in that same direction, Garbani added.
Before deciding on dynaTrace, Peopleclick had also considered the CA Wiley product and HP's Mercury Topaz. "What made them stand out was the true parity in both platforms -- it was the same product, the same UI and the same feature set," Anderson said. When passing data from JDBC or ADO calls, dynaTrace not only pulls SQL statements but the bind variables underneath them, Anderson added. "So you get the context of what data was actually being passed on to the SQL statement, whereas the other products either couldn't do that or required another product," he said.
The new release is being offered in three components: production, test and developer editions. The test center is now available and the other two editions are slated for release next month.
Pricing is based on the configuration but initial deals start anywhere from $30,000 to $60,000 and larger installations are in the "mid-six figures," said Eric Senunas, dynaTrace's senior director of marketing.
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You are here: Home » Community, Schools » Demolition progress at Uckfield College
Friday, January 8, 2021 | Last updated 8 minutes ago
Demolition progress at Uckfield College
Heavy machinery on the Uckfield College site, photographed from Lime Tree Avenue. The leisure centre roof can be seen to the right.
Demolition of old buildings is under way at Uckfield College as these photographs taken at the end of December show.
A new school building, which stretches along the front of the college site parallel with Downsview Crescent opened in November.
Work is under way again on the next stage of development.
Looking derelict and partially demolished is one of the buildings on the Uckfield College site.
Following demolition a new building will go up to the south of the site and the project will be finished with a new full-sized rugby pitch and multi-use games are in the centre of the site between the new buildings.
Read more about the plans in another Uckfield News story: Uckfield College redevelopment plans revealed.
Boards surround the development site at Uckfield College. A new building which opened in September can be seen left.
Here’s a plan showing the new sports field, multi-use games area between new buildings in the centre of the redeveloped college site. The red broken line shows where the existing main building was.
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Alibaba vies for a piece of China's booming EV market
Rita Liao
26 November 2020, 10:56 pm ·2-min read
There's no lack of news these days on China's tech giants teaming up with traditional carmakers. Companies from Alibaba to Huawei are striving to become relevant in the trillion-dollar auto industry, which itself is seeking an electric transition and intelligent upgrade as 5G comes of age.
State-owned automaker SAIC Motor, a major player in China, unveiled this week a new electric vehicle arm called Zhiji, in which Alibaba and a Shanghai government-backed entity are minority shareholders. The tie-up comes as Chinese EV startups like Xpeng and Nio and their predecessor Tesla see their stocks soaring in recent months.
Alibaba's ties with SAIC can be traced back to 2015 when they jointly announced a $160 million investment in internet-connected cars. The partners moved on to form a joint venture called Banma (or 'Zebra') and Alibaba has since developed a slew of auto solutions for the Banma platform to enable everything from voice-activated navigation to voice ordering coffee, which is, of course, linked to the Alipay e-wallet.
Alibaba is certainly not SAIC's exclusive supplier, as it's also worked closely with the likes of BMW and Audi as well over the years.
For SAIC's new EV brand, Alibaba will continue to be its "technology solution provider," an Alibaba spokesperson told TechCrunch.
The other tech giant making big moves in auto is Huawei. Just this week, the telecoms equipment and smartphone maker announced it would fold its smart car unit into its consumer business group, which previously focused on handsets. The expanded group will continue to be steered by Richard Yu, regarded as the man who helped grow Huawei from an underdog in the mobile industry to a leading global player.
Huawei's ambition in auto is "not to manufacture cars but to focus on developing ICT [information and communications technology] to assist automakers in producing cars," the firm asserts in the statement, addressing rumors that it wants to encroach on traditional carmakers' turf.
Huawei's phone business has taken a hit since U.S. sanctions hobbled its supply chain. It sold its budget phone brand Honor recently in the hope that the spinoff, independent from Huawei, will be free from trade curbs.
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Currys has put up new PlayStation 5s for sale – and then immediately been hit by technical issues and large queues. While some of those people are likely to be real people searching for consoles, the numbers are also sure to include vast numbers of automated systems that have been buying up the PS5 and then selling it on at inflated prices. Currys is offering a range of different options on the PS5, including bundles with games such as Sackboy.
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It’s a far cry from a normal inauguration, with Washington locked down due to security concerns, and most inaugural events gone virtual because of the raging coronavirus pandemic. A slew of glittery celebrities is descending on Washington — virtually or in person — to welcome the new administration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, a duo popular in Hollywood, where Donald Trump was decidedly not.
Katie Holmes Channelled Her Dawson’s Creek Character With Her Latest Look
On Monday, Dawson’s Creek star Katie Holmes was seen shopping in Manhattan wearing an outfit not unlike those worn by her character Joey Potter (and others on the show) in the fictional seaside town of Capeside, MA. For the occasion, the actress wore a black, double-breasted coat, jeans, and loafers paired with black socks. What gave her casual look the Capeside touch was the cream-coloured, fisherman-style sweater she wore tied around her shoulders. Capeside, though not a real place, was inspired by Cape Cod. As such, Breton shirts, collegiate crewnecks, and J.Crew sweater sets were a common sight on the show. In fact, in 1998, the preppy retailer featured the cast of the show, including Holmes, James van der Beek, Michelle Williams, and Joshua Jackson, in one of its catalogues. In it, the cast wore J.Crew’s signature cable-knit sweaters and button-downs while rowing a boat. Though not included in the catalog, Holmes’ around-the-shoulders fisherman sweater would have undoubtedly fit right into the editorial. Capeside wasn’t the only place where we saw sweaters mimicking scarves in the late ‘90s and ‘00s. Throughout the show’s run between 1998 and 2003, the style hack appeared in other TV shows and films and pop culture in general. Selma Blair frequented them in nearly every movie she starred in during the two decades, including Legally Blonde and Cruel Intentions. Autumn Reeser from The OC — which ran a little later, from 2003 to 2007 — frequently wore her lime green and pink cardigans tied around her shoulders, too. Though slightly preppier than what we’ve grown accustomed to seeing Holmes in lately, given that the back-to-school look is on the rise again (think: Bella Hadid’s recent varsity jacket and the return of Gossip Girl), it’s really no surprise that the actress would borrow a signature styling trick from her fictional hometown. Now, we’ll be recreating the look, too. Like what you see? How about some more R29 goodness, right here?We’re Living For Katie Holmes’ All-Denim Look4 Fashion Trends Making 2021 Look Better Already5 Stylish Women On Their 2021 Fashion Resolutions
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Out of quarantine and into the fray, India tour gets underway
By Nick Mulvenney
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - The plans for India's tour of Australia have been ripped up and redrawn dozens of times over the last eight months but the action finally gets underway with the first one-day international at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday.
It was at the same venerable ground on March 13 that Australia last hosted international men's cricket, with the hosts beating New Zealand by 71 runs to snap a five-match losing streak in one-dayers.
The 48,000 seats were empty that day as the COVID-19 pandemic began to bite but Australia's relative success at containing the virus means up to half of them will be occupied on Friday.
India's squad will be raring to go after coming out of two weeks of quarantine, while Australia's players will be reunited after preparing in two separate groups to satisfy biosecurity protocols.
Virat Kohli's tourists are the second ranked ODI side in the world and will be looking to get into their groove in the three 50-over and three Twenty20 matches that precede the four-match test series around the new year.
"It's important to start well in the white-ball series," India vice-captain KL Rahul said.
"We are playing for the country after a while. We enjoy coming here and playing hard cricket."
Skipper Kohli will return home after the first test to attend the birth of his first child.
India have not played a one-dayer since they lost a series 3-0 in New Zealand in February but the players have had plenty of opportunities to sharpen their skills in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant was left out of the ODI squad and opener Rohit Sharma will miss the two short format series at least with a hamstring issue.
Aaron Finch led Australia to a 2-1 series triumph in England in September and his side is likely to look pretty similar with the all-important addition of former skipper Steve Smith, who missed the 50-over matches because of concussion.
Smith and opener David Warner were also absent in the aftermath of the Newlands ball-tampering scandal when India won ODI and test series on their last visit but both batsmen will be in the Australia team.
All-rounder Mitchell Marsh's absence with an ankle injury might offer an opportunity to uncapped youngsters Cameron Green and Will Pucovski, who have been in prolific form with the bat in the Sheffield Shield.
Finch said he thought the unusual preparations would not have an impact on the Australian players, who will stand in a circle barefoot to recognise the country's indigenous people before the match.
"I think everyone's on the same page in terms of how we want to play one-day cricket and build up some really good momentum," he told reporters on Thursday.
"Everyone's just really looking forward to getting out and playing for Australia."
(Additional reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi, editing by Ken Ferris)
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IN MEMORIAM: Mark Fitzgeorge-Parker aka Mark Daniel Born 1942 Died 03-May-2014 …
IN MEMORIAM: Mark Fitzgeorge-Parker aka Mark Daniel Born 1942 Died 03-May-2014
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IN MEMORIAM: Mark Fitzgeorge-Parker aka Mark Daniel Born 1942 Died 03-May-2014 Mark sadly died in Cheltenham of pneumonia aged 72
Mark Fitzgeorge-Parker who used the nom de plume Mark Daniel was born 1942
he sadly died early in the morning on Saturday 03-May-2014, in Cheltenham of pneumonia, aged 72.
I was saddened to hear of the untimely death of Mark who I first met in 2005 when he phoned me up and asked if I would permit him to buy me lunch in Chepstow as he was researching a book on UKIP for Roger Knapman:
who was at that time the leader of UKIP.
Subsequently we spoke in detail, often several times a week and asked to be on my mailing list, whilst he researched his book.
Mark was an interesting and well informed character and I soon learned from him of his Ampleforth & Cambridge education and the background and details of his earlier life and career. He made no effort to disguise any part of his colourful life, be that prison for passing dud cheques or being sued by his Father!
In 2005, shortly before the election, he published his book ‘Cranks & Gadflies, The Story of UKIP’, which is still thwe best and most accurate history and exposee of UKIP to that date. I well recall at the time Roger proclaimed his support for the book however I well remember Nigel Farage’s reticence to promote the book as he felt it was a little too accurate and comprehensive, perhaps as comment6ators said ‘warts and all’. Sadly no better nor more accurate book has been written about UKIP.
It is notable that despite Nigel’s reticence the book soon sold out and was very readable such that Mark was subsequently commissioned by Nigel Farage to write the two books about him, Mark was sufficiently competent a writer to write to a brief and be able to put a slant on a book to flatter and promote his client!
The quote which was added was a comment made by Nigel farage’s long term associate the anti Islamic extremist and liar who inclines to incite racial hatred, Gerard Batten a UKIP MEP.
Mark’s second book promoting Farage was ‘Flying Free’ published in 2011.
In keeping with Mark’s willingness to publish warts and all when unrestrained the following review of his book on UKIP tells much of his history and personality:
‘A party of idiots, paranoiacs, whores and vagabonds’
Alexander Waugh reviews Cranks and Gadflies: the Story of UKIP by Mark Daniel.
Isn’t it odd how people who group together under the banner of a shared opinion always seem to disagree more violently among themselves than with their declared enemies? It has always been the case. Take, for example, the early Christians. According to the ancient record of Celsus, written in about 178 AD: “Christians utterly detest each other, they slander each other constantly with the vilest forms of abuse… Each sect fills the head of its own with deceitful nonsense and makes perfect little pigs of those it wins over to its side.”
And so it is with UKIP – the United Kingdom Independence Party – whose founding purpose (to extricate Britain from the European Union) has been subsumed, in the 12 short years since its formation, by such a torrent of plotting, denouncing, suing, counter-suing, shrieking, back-stabbing and cussing that one wonders how many of its members have retained any memory of why they signed up with the party in the first place.
At a recent National Executive Council meeting one member became so livid with rage that he suffered a heart attack and died. And what about the time when such an almighty row broke out over who should be UKIP’s leader that the party was rent in twain and, for a while, two defiant UKIPs ran simultaneously out of two separate offices ?
In his absorbing history of the party, Mark Daniel appears to relish each scandal as it arises, gleefully relating how UKIP’s founder drained the party’s coffers to defend himself against accusations of slander and how a South East MEP stood for election in 2004 without mentioning that he was facing charges of housing benefit fraud (which remain subjudice and he denies fiercely).
Daniel also reveals how the party was infiltrated by the BNP activist, Mark Deavin; how UKIP’s Scottish organiser wrote to the newspapers declaring that the Nazi holocaust was grossly exaggerated; and he describes, with seeming glee, a party membership that is comprised of “idiots, paranoiacs and conspiracy theorists… freelance artists… traders, whores and vagabonds”.
From the outset, Daniel declares: “I have never been a party member.” It might easily be assumed from this that he is a disaffected party apparatchik whose sole purpose is to discredit UKIP in such a way that nobody ever votes for it again. But a couple of seconds of Google espionage reveals that Mark Daniel is in fact a nom de plume for Mark Fitzgeorge-Parker – who stood as a UKIP candidate in Exeter at this year’s General Election, ending in sixth place with 3.37 per cent of the vote.
A further scrimmage into the Fitzgeorge-Parker mystery reveals that the author enjoys something of a maverick past himself. Having been imprisoned as a young man for issuing duff cheques and pilfering precious books from Cambridge University libraries he used the Daniel pseudonym for a fictionalised account of his jail experiences. After his release, he found himself once again up in court on charges of libel and, in a parallel action, was sued by his own father for breach of copyright.
Perhaps none of this would be relevant had Daniel not chosen to call his book Cranks and Gadflies, a phrase drawn directly from Michael Howard’s intended slur on the UKIP membership, or if Nigel Farage, UKIP’s second-in-command, had not stood before the European Parliament denouncing individual members of José Barrosa’s Commission as ex-crooks, ex-communists and liars.
Daniel’s purpose in this warts-and-all exposé is not then, as far as I can tell, to discredit UKIP but, on the contrary, to make it seem like a quaintly attractive collective of “real people”. “Don’t mind me, I’m mad,” folks used to say to endear themselves to their school friends. That ploy didn’t work then and is unlikely to work for UKIP now. And if Daniel’s high-risk public relations experiment backfires it will cost the cranks and gadflies dearly.
To see the original of this extended review CLICK HERE
A close friend of Mark’s, Hannah Wright, said:
“He was just so intelligent and had a vast knowledge. He was a person that people would turn to for help and he would do anything for anyone.
“He had a great interaction with people and he was a real showman. But he was a complicated man and had a private side and could be reclusive at times.
“He was very kind and generous, but he could also be a difficult man, cantankerous and rude at times, but people were never offended.
“He was very good at reading people and was a truly gifted man.
“As one neighbour put it, he was often outrageous, but generally right”.
“He was passionate about so many things in Cheltenham – with one of them being that the town’s Jazz Festival was too quiet and should be louder.
“He had a massive impact on people’s lives and will be missed.”
I must say I found Mark to have all of these attributes and characteristics and thoroughly enjoyed my conversations with him and was flattered by the amount he used my then frequent eMails and my blogging as a source for his research, as of course did both media and UKIP leadership alike.
Mark in his younger days had been a keen fisherman and surfer and had inheristed his fathert’s love or art and also his father’s interest in horses, having been a competitive steeplechaser.
Tim Fitzgeorge-Parker was well known as a character and author particularly in the horse racing world.
Mark having lived in Italy, Ireland and France was fluent in both French and Italian and during my dealings with him was taking trips on costal cruisers in Norway and other Scandinavian ports as part of his work whilst living in Exeter as a regular columnist for The Western Morning News. Not only had he written 1,000s of columns for a variety of media but had published some 41 books.
In 2011 Mark moved to Cheltenham to live closer to his 20 year old son Kit.
Having moved to Montpellier in Cheltenham he threw himself, with his notable enthusiasm and commitment to people into life in Cheltenham and last year stood in the Gloucester County Council election for Lansdown and Park and this year was standing for a seat on Cheltenham Borough Council in Charlton Park ward. He had also stood for UKIP in the past when in Exeter.
An impressive intellect and sound knowlege in many fields will make the death of Mark a loss to many – the world is less colourful for his departure.
My condolences to his family and those whose lives he had touched.
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The Great BreXit Party Swindle …
THE GREAT BREXIT PARTY SWINDLE
Otto English
Otto English on what his investigation into Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party has revealed about the ‘sticking it to the elites’ populism it claims to be based on.
It was the night of 14 January 1978 and the Sex Pistols’ acrimonious US tour was drawing to a weary end. Britain’s premium punk export had failed to live up to the hype and, as the band concluded a halfhearted encore at the Winterland, San Francisco, a sneering Johnny Rotten, weary of it all, turned on the audience and jeered contemptuously: “Ha, ha, ha – ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”
Contrary to a popular Photoshopped meme, man of the Paypal Nigel Farage was never a punk. In 1978, he was a posh teenage boy at the exclusive Dulwich College – where fees are currently £40,000 a year – failing his way through exams and upsetting teachers by allegedly singing Hitler Youth songs.
But, perhaps something of the punk ethos filtered through to young Nigel, because he’s been living off that Johnny Rotten mantra for years. Take his latest project – the Great Brexit Party Swindle.
In February, Farage along with eight fellow UKIP MEPs, defected to Brexit Party Ltd, which had been registered with Companies House in November 2018. In its first few months, the party had already received £1 million in pledges and had 200 individuals willing to stand in the European Elections.
What is Nigel Farage’s New Brexit Party?
In March, Farage was crowned king, displacing the party’s founder Catherine Blaiklock and her unfortunate anti-Islamic tweets.
A website was then set up for the Brexit Party, inviting people to donate £25 and become “registered supporters”. By the end of April, a spokesperson was boasting that 100,000 people had logged on and paid their £25 – that’s £2.5 million, in case you don’t have a calculator to hand, and an awful lot of money and data for a couple of round robin emails a month. The link remains live and presumably many more have paid up since.
If the fancy took them, Brexit Party supporters could donate up to £500 – an amount conveniently below that which has to be declared to the elections watchdog, the Electoral Commission. However, no one could actually join the party. Membership was limited to Farage, Richard Tice and a handful of their mates.
When challenged on this peculiar model, a Brexit Party representative told the Electoral Commission that the lack of membership was deliberate in order to prevent “members of the BNP” and confusingly “the EDF” from joining the party. Quite why customers of a French energy firm should be barred from joining the Brexit movement will have to be left to the history books, but the excuse rang hollow.
In his years at UKIP, Farage had come to loathe the inconvenience of the party faithful. Members can be awkward people. He was far happier to be the unaccountable, self-appointed head of his party – even as he railed against unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. And it didn’t seem to bother the fans because the money and support kept flooding in.
EXCLUSIVE Brexit Party Parliamentary Candidates: Another Money-Making Scheme?
In addition to all of those undeclared online payments, between April and June 2019, the party recorded additional private donations of £1,049,000.
As I and others raised concerns about Farage being a man of the Paypal, the Electoral Commission found that the “the fundraising structure adopted by the party leaves it open to high and ongoing risk of receiving and accepting impermissible donations”. But, Farage faced little censure and carried on regardless.
Candidates Dumped
Having stormed the European Elections with a team that included former Revolutionary Communist Party comrades and Spiked Online hangers-on – such as Claire Fox – the party began to set its sights on the inevitable forthcoming General Election.
Claiming that it was revolutionising politics by offering ordinary people the chance to be MPs, in May, the Brexit Party invited rank-and-file Brexiters to apply to be parliamentary candidates. By June, it was boasting that more than 3,000 had applied.
But, here was the curious thing. As I revealed at the time, having filled in a short form, candidates were then asked for a non-refundable £100 ‘handling fee’.
That link stayed live long after Farage had paraded his first 100 candidates in public and long after the secretive selection meetings in Vauxhall had found the rest. It was finally taken down in late summer and, in that time, it is anyone’s guess as to how many people applied.
It is 99.9% Likely Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party Hid Impermissible Donations – and PayPal Can Prove It
Turlough Conway
We know that the Brexit Party received 3,000 applications in early June and it would not be unreasonable to (conservatively) assume that there were at least a further thousand in the following three months – bringing the sum total of money raised in this manner to £400,000.
It was obvious that many thousands more hopefuls had signed up than could ever be accommodated or processed by the Brexit Party’s small team. As the weeks went by, a surprising number of disaffected applicants cottoned on to this and turned to me to express their fury. Farage had angered many of his core supporters but, with typical disdain, he barely paused to breathe as the Brexit Party cavalcade rolled on.
When the final list of 600 prospective MPs was revealed, it was fascinating to note quite how many chums had been granted plum constituencies. Anyone who had applied to be or was an MEP for the Brexit Party had the £100 fee waived. A number of sitting MEPs, including Ann Widdecombe, Rupert Lowe, Martin Daubney, Alexandra Phillips, the hedge fund manager Robert Rowland, Matthew Patten and Richard Tice all became parliamentary candidates. While it was clear that a few had made it through the online selection process, thousands more had simply been taken for a ride.
A great number of the selected candidates had been picked because they were already on the inside. I was told of one man who boasted loudly during a hospital appointment that he was going to be a parliamentary candidate because he had once gone bass fishing with Nigel Farage.
The Brexit Party Ltd: Nigel Farage’s Track Record on Limited Companies and Unlawful Dividends
Phil in Gibraltar
When the General Election was called on 6 November, Farage and his team paraded 600 candidates and declared themselves ready. But, curiously, Farage himself decided not to stand. It seemed odd that the leader of this exciting new political force wasn’t prepared to storm his way to Parliament on a tide of populist, pro-Brexit sentiment.
Farage claimed modestly that he could better serve the party by touring the country than running for a seat. In truth, he has always been little more than a political heckler. He wants responsibility in the same way that a herring lusts after a life on the land.
For a party hoping to get MPs elected, you would think that there’d be a manifesto. But there isn’t one. In fact, beyond Brexit, the party only appears to have two or so policies. If elected, it would halve overseas aid, which helps the very poorest people in the world, and scrap inheritance tax, which benefits the very wealthiest 4% in the UK.
Brexit Party MEPs are the richest, by far, of any party in the EU Parliament. According to EU integrity Watch, they collectively earn up to €4,683,916 on top of their EU salaries. For such a purportedly anti-elite bunch, they are very rich indeed and sit, for the most part, in the earning bracket that would most benefit from the abolition of inheritance tax.
Not that the party is likely to win many seats.
‘We’ve Been Misled’ – Brexit Party MP Hopefuls Left Out in the Cold
Since next month’s General Election was called, the Brexit Party has stagnated in the polls. Farage’s attempts to create a Brexit alliance with the Tories was publicly rebuffed. Since then, presumably in part to save face and money, it has unilaterally declared that it will be standing down 317 candidates in Conservative seats and concentrate its efforts on Labour and Lib Dem ones.
The news came as a shock to many of its selected candidates. Darren Selkus, the candidate in Epping, only discovered that he was no longer running to be an MP when a man in a van pulled up next to his stall in the constituency and told him he had heard on the radio that he shouldn’t be bothering. Selkus was furious and dozens of other angry candidates, including MEP Alexandra Phillips, took to social media to complain. Many of the 317 had upturned their lives to run in the General Election. Some had given up their lives or taken unpaid leave and now they were being unceremoniously dumped.
Even as this was going on, Farage was busy announcing new candidates. The Apprentice star Michelle Dewberry was declared the Brexit Party candidate for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle this week, while Richard Tice, the Brexit Party’s chairman, was parachuted into Hartlepool – one of the few seats the party could win. As the deadline for nominations neared, there was an almighty shuffle as preferred candidates were moved into seats and others pushed out. Happily, there was still time to find a potential seat for Ed Punchard in Tynemouth – despite him living 9,000 miles from his potential constituency in East Fremantle, Western Australia.
Since Byline Times broke the story of the Brexit Party’s £100 charge for potential candidates in June, it has slowly gained traction across the mainstream media.
Pressure began to mount on Farage to refund the money to the 317 dumped parliamentary candidates. Challenged by LBC’s Eddie Mair on the matter, the Brexit Party leader said he would not be paying the money back.
That £31,700 is but the tip of the iceberg, of course.
Farage and his Brexit Party associates have raised millions of pounds during the course of this year and the full amount might never be known. Most of that money has come from donations from ordinary people who have handed over hard-earned cash in good faith. Others have given free time at their own expense to help the Brexit Party machine – and it all seems for the sum total of nothing.
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Peter Jukes
The only winnable seat in this General Election is being contested by the Brexit Party’s multi-millionaire chairman. The few ordinary candidates there were seem to have been swept aside in favour of reality TV stars and chums of the party leadership.
Farage has returned the loyalty of his followers with a giant helping of contempt. How long will those who have remained steadfast let him get away with it? Or will he be brought down by the wrath of his own people?
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Squabbling like ferrets in a sack typifies UKIP since 1993 even when it was the Farage cult …
following the ever-present squabbling like ferrets in a sack, that typifies the behaviour of UKIP since 1993, even when it was the Farage cult before he moved his cult to form his own party, even more to his style, with bo apparent hierarchy, board, NEC or interference with his personal unbridled ambitions and profit.
The Brexit Party clearly is more suited to Farage, in that he calls it ‘MY PARTY’, and it requires no attention to detail as its policies merely run to a single populist issue!
It is with great difficulty that I write to inform you that I have been forced to take serious action against Richard Braine, Tony Sharp, Jeff Armstrong and Mark Dent who have now all been suspended from the Party.
Upon reviewing evidence, I have now made a report to the Police – Action Fraud Department for their part in an attempted theft of UKIP data which took place on Wednesday 16th October.
Whatever your view of me as Chairman, you must understand that I will always act in accordance with the law and take whatever measures are necessary to protect our members. Nobody is above the law, not even Richard Braine, who even after being suspended for his actions, attempted to gain access to our Head Office again yesterday morning, accompanied by Mark Dent who tried to physically force his way in.
My huge thanks goes to David Challice at HQ who was able to remove him. A police complaint regarding this incident has also taken place.
Some members of the Party and even the board have been anonymously contacted with threats and blackmail. These will also be treated seriously and police reports will continue to be filed.
Suspending the Leader of the Party I love so much was a hugely difficult decision, and not one I made lightly. I would not have followed this course of action if I did not have sufficient evidence and legal advice to do so. The measures I’ve taken would be expected of any company and UK Independence Party Limited is no different.
I do not yet know what the media implications of this will be, but assure you it will be handled professionally and at all times in accordance with both our constitution and the law.
Be in no doubt that we have taken all precautionary measures to protect your information and we are certain that nobody was able to gain access to our database but if you believe you have received a threat yourself or are the victim of intimidation please contact the police. If you have received anything from anyone without your consent, please report it to the Information Commissioners Office.
Neil Hamilton, who has been hugely helpful in sharing his legal expertise throughout this saga reminds us that we can move forward –
“Gerard has done for UKIP what Gerald Ratner did for his jewellery company. This has done Tommy Robinson no good but has done catastrophic damage to UKIP.
It took us 20 years to be taken seriously and Gerard undid it all in just a few months.
We must go forward on a popular as well as populist programme.
We have little to lose and everything to gain from drawing a line under Gerard’s disastrous leadership and re-connecting with political reality.”
I will continue to liaise with the NEC in regard to next steps and will provide more information as soon as possible.
The NEC election is well under way and I understand the candidates have now been notified. The Returning Officer, Piers Wauchope will update you on the election soon.
In the meantime, we are trying to organise a Brexit Celebration in Westminster on 31st October. We will provide more details shortly but do hope you’ll be able to join us!!
It would be foolish to think this outburst would go unchallenged:
Regards,Greg_L-W.
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The odious racist Gerard Batten displays his expertise as a leader of Ukip by causing its demise & then runs away! …
Gerard Batten Ukip’s leader quits after his catastrophic leadership led them to abject disaster in the #EU elections.
Nigel Farage having left the party there were a series of utterly useless leaders who were clearly scraping the bottom of the barrel in a party that had no future and few if any members of any merit whatsoever.
Eventually they reached the very bottom of the barrel and appointed Gerard Batten as leader.
Batten took over after a lack lustre career as lick spittle to Nigel Farage – he had absolutely no discernible ability as a leader and displayed that during his tenure of office.
In Nigel Farage’s last EU election as leader of Ukip the party managed to elect 24 MPs, making them the largest British Party, but due to lack of leadership he soon began to lose them, some fell by the wayside due to corruption, many fell out with Farage whom no one of any sense was likely to trust once they had experienced him at close quarters, apart from a few scoundrels who for lack of ability rode his coat tails as sycophants.
Nattrass & Batten were examples, who had followed in his wake and become MEPs but when exposed to scrutiny without his protection soon showed their utter ineptitude – though Farage hiself had lost about half of his MEPs by the time Batten had eviscerated the party there were but Batten and 2 MEPs left to contest the election on 23-May-2019!
Batten had put the final kiss of death on Ukip, the outcome was inevitable – the party had collapsed from 24 MEPs to zero.
Nigel Farage’s bullying and duplicitous behaviour as leader was the start of the collapse which in her 18 days as leader Diane James did nothing to stem.
Clearly Farage stepping in again added to the confussion and his protégé Nattrass was indisputably a low life who became the laughing stock of the press and members alike with his fantasy CV and embellishment of lies.
The interim leader Henry Bolton who as disasters go was only outperformed by Batten.
Batten had a long history of utter ineptitude with his hate soaked superstition & extreme overt attacks on Muslims,
Charter of Muslim Understanding AUS TEXT
most probably driven by his Pilipino wife, who doubtless would have grown up as a Catholic under the aegis of Cardinal Sin. That latterly Batten had openly allied himself to extremist self-proclaimed Christians helped him not a Jot. His appointment of the convicted criminal & extremist racist Tommy Robinson as his personal adviser
was just another nail in Ukip’s political coffin and his own career compounded by having thus attracted some real scum as supporters, from the now largely defunct National Front & BNP and the relatively newly emerged EDL.
Clearly with Batten at the helm Ukip was doomed but to be fair there was absolutely no one of any probity or stature left in the party and definitely no one anyone of principles would wish to be represented by – even by the low calibre of those attracted to political office nowadays, Ukip’s offering were a very sorry shower!
Ukip has only ever seemed to attract those who had failed elsewhere be that Farage engaging in politics having failed in The City dallied with the National Front
realised he stood no chance in Margaret Thatcher’s Tory Party he joined Ukip in its early days shortly after its foundation by Alan Skedd. He fell out with many in Ukip and seemingly explored the possibility of leadership of the BNP
prior to realising Ukip was his best vehicle for enrichment!
Ukip under Farage’s leadership attracted similar rejects, but never anyone of competence or stature, who remained for much more than a month or two – the party was not a nice place to be for anyone of finesse or ability then or now. A party which has largely attracted the gutter sweepings of politics as can be seen from those who have held office in the past.
I would contend to make ANY effort to resurrect the party now would be an act of tasteless pure folly, not just because trying to breathe life into a corpse is more suited to Mary Shelley, but that it carries too much malodorous baggage – the inability of Farage to build a sound structure over his 20 years of defacto leadership has been displayed most clearly by the absolute & abject failure under subsequent leadership, not even a structure remains.
It should be noted that even those who positioned themseloves with EU ‘Golden Parachutes’ and pensions abandoned the party, there is no sign of any ex Ukip MEPs making any meaningfull contributions to the party that elevated them – were ANY of them there for the cause or were they all only there for their own gain as seems likely.
Astonishingly in its entire existence Ukip has NEVER has a strategy that considered any sort of vision, as to how to protect Britain and the interests of the British peoples nor any vision or structure for our country as to how to take advantage of liberation from the malign control of the EU.
Farage in all his years in control, philandering, carousing & fiddling has never amounted to being much beyond the simpering child at the back of the class with the winning smile who makes rude noises and gestures behind the backs of the grown-ups to gain popularity amongst a claque of fools.
As for his recent foray with the Brexit Party he has clearly learned, with his two speeches, to deliver them ever better but even now he would seem to have no clear strategy nor credible plan in the best interests of those he has beguiled to vote for his masters, handlers who now keep him on a tighter reign.
Of all who have believed in self-determination and independence for these United Kingdoms it could self-evidently be said that not one has done more to harm the possibilities and opportunities the British people could have through BreXit and few did more to try to stall the process than Nigel Farage – right down to positioning an inept fool to lead Ukip to its demise as Gerard Batten has done, in his hubristic ignorance & utter incompetence.
Farage is and always has been a pawn to other influences, all be it a financially well rewarded pawn, be that of his earlier masters who manipulated him or be they those who fund him directly and indirectly to this day – to be fair as a political prostitute he has navigated the paying punters with some cunning – even duping the gullible to believe he had a major role in gaining BreXit, where the informed are well aware he tried to block it!
Be assured Batten on the other hand got one thing right – he said ‘if Ukip does badly in the EU elections his position will be untenable’ he was right and good riddance to the odious little creep.
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The Background To The BreXit Party OR Inspite Of Farage! …
it may interest less frequent readers of our blog regarding Nigel Farage and his various cults be they Ukip, EUkip, EFD Group, EFDD Group his antics with Aaron Banks, his toadying with Donal Trump, his several financial scams his various mistresses and now his latest incarnation with The BreXit Party it has frequently been this blog that has published the facts first – whether that was his relationship with Annabelle Fuller some 15 years ago, his wife’s threatening his mistress at a Party conference or his tax dodging deposit of £1/4 Million in The Isle of Mann in the name of Farage Educational Trust years before the media caught up with the scam.
It was also this blog, together with Daniel Foggo that exposed the embezzelment of money by Tom Wise in his association with Lindsey Jenkins. We also orchestrated the foreward to one of Lindsey Jenkins’ books and part funding of its publication by Nigel Farage and when he tried to renege on his payment we ensured he settled the debt.
We colluded in the exposure of Farage’s paying his wife £30K a year with tax payers’ money seemingly as hush money as a result of his long term affair with Annabelle Fuller. We also colluded in denouncing Farage employing his staff as sexual partners at the taxpayers’ expense on the floor of the EU parliament.
We were publishing details of ‘Dark Money’ long before it was fashionable and at least 10 years we were publishing facts regarding Farage’s ongoing affair with Laure Ferrarri when she was about 25 and just one of his, apparently fully funded, stable of mistresses.
Long before Annabelle Fuller changed her name to Trixie Sanderson and sold her kiss and tell story to The Sun we had published the facts, without the lurid embellishments! It was as a result of our constant publication of facts that we were frequently threatened by Faragistas and endlessly lied about by one of the most consumate liars and serial degenerates Nigel Farage.
For years Farage lied about his debauchery and much else!
All of that said, lets face it the British public; who were unaware of the enormity of the incompetence, profligacy, self serving dishonesty of the clear majority of politicians; have recently learned in watching the machinations and corrupt antics of politicians relative to BreXit in recent months.
I guess the real start of the dishonestly regarding the EU, as far as Britain was concerned, was with Eden, MacMillan and on becoming more obvious with Heath & Rippon. Thatcher tried to stem the corruption but even she lacked the courage to advocate leaving and it took the likes of Norris McWhirter and a small group of stalwarts from the The Anti_Common Market League founded in 1961 to start to highlight the issues for the public.
Ukip was a late arriver when Alan Skedd founded the party in 1993 – Farage joined quite early on, as of course did Mark Deavin of the BNP!
Farage fell out with Skedd and at one stage quit the party during which time he is believed to have actively sought the leadership of the BNP as discussed with LeComber & Deavin:
and so the story goes on – all covered in detail elsewhere in this blog.
It is however worthy of note that Nigel Farage has done much to undermine and seemingly seek to sabotage the #BreXit movement – refusing to actively oppose the introduction of the New EU Constitution in Britain which having been voted down by the French, the Dutch, The danish and the Irish was rapidly reprinted with minor alterations in a different point size to seem different when restyled The Lisbon Treaty!.
Even when it came to the original campaign to get BreXit Farage did very little and in fact did a great deal to avoid leaving the EU as anyone who has followed the facts relative to his behaviour regarding Nikki Sinclaire can attest.
Although never creditted with the achievement Sit was Nikki Sinclaire who is directly responsible for forcing the Government to a debate and vote in Parliament and the inclusion of the promise of an In/Out vote in a Referendum and the solemn PROMISE that whatever the Peoples’ Vote decided would be honoured by the Government.
It was Paddy Ashdown who said on the night of the count:
I will respect no one who does not respect the sovereign vote of the British people once it has spoken whether it is a majority of one percent or 20 percent.When the British people have spoken you do what they command. Either you believe in democracy or you don’t.
(Paddy Ashdown whilst awaiting the result of the Referendum count 23-Jun-2016)
His memory is soon forgotten by clearly lesser men in the Lib Dems who are clearly far from Liberal & no lovers of democracy.
I hope, inspite of the facts pertaining to Nigel Farage you will, like me, on the 23rd. May hold your nose and inspite of Farage & his cult VOTE FOR The BreXit Party, particularly if you value democracy after the obscene behaviour of our Parliament who have betrayed and lied to the electorate.
‘I dream about you Nigel!’ Liz Hurley confessed her affections for Farage, claim his camp as the Brexit Party maintains its 18 point lead over the Tories ahead of May 23 EU elections
Supermodel, 53, reportedly told Mr Farage her secret at a recent London party
Source said: ‘Nigel said that Liz Hurley once told him at a party: ‘I dream about you Nigel!’ Women are just sort of drawn to him – but then so are men’
Mr Farage has given up pints for a rare glass of wine and has a fitness regime
He said: ‘It’s made a massive difference. I’m not going to the pub every day. I had enough of not feeling good’
New EU election poll puts Brexit Party on 30%, Labour on 24% and Tories on 12%
By Martin Robinson, Chief Reporter For Mailonline
Published: 09:18, 15 May 2019 | Updated: 19:01, 15 May 2019
Liz Hurley allegedly confessed her admiration for Nigel Farage and told him that she ‘dreams about him’ as it was revealed the Brexit Party today opened up an 18-point lead over the Tories.
The claim about the supermodel, 53, was made by ‘friends’ of Mr Farage, 59, as he revealed a new clean-living regime with pints swapped for red wine while he campaigns around Britain.
His lifestyle change came in the wake of this 2010 plane crash and heavy drinking in previous elections – combined with a more professional American-style approach to politics – and he believes it has helped his anti-EU movement surge in the polls.
Today a new survey for Good Morning Britain found that 30 per cent of people intend to vote for the Brexit Party in the May 23 European elections, with the Tories far behind on 12 per cent and Labour on 24 per cent.
And while Mr Farage campaigns around the nation – landing in Wales today – a source told the Telegraph that ‘women are queuing up to meet him’.
The source added: ‘Nigel said that Liz Hurley once told him at a party: ‘I dream about you Nigel!’ Women are just sort of drawn to him – but then so are men’.
The supermodel is a known Brexiteer having already backed the campaign to leave the EU by stripping off on the eve of polling day in 2016 declaring: ‘No whinging from the losers’.
Liz Hurley, pictured this week enjoying the sun on Instagram, reportedly told Nigel Farage (right in Pontefract on Monday) ‘she dreams about him’
A new GMB poll found that 30 per cent of people intend to vote for the Brexit Party on May 23 – way ahead of the Tories and leading Labour too
Mr Farage, whose new party is set to give the Tories and Labour a bruising on May 23, has been in a relationship with 39-year-old French former waitress Laure Ferrari, ‘for around a decade’, according to the Telegraph.
Liz Hurley backed the campaign to leave the EU by stripping off on the eve of polling day in 2016 (pictured)
In 2017 his second wife Kirsten revealed they were living ‘separate lives’ and he had moved out of their Kent home.
‘Nigel is not a misogynist – he loves women, but he is an old-fashioned sexist’, a Brexit Party insider claimed.
‘There are women queuing up to meet him. Mainly it tends to be women of a certain age these days’.
Mr Farage is in Wales today for another Brexit Party rally, but will not be going to the pub afterwards having decided to get ‘off the beer’ for the sake of his health – but does have a glass of Rioja from time to time.
He’s also doing fitness work after long days of campaigning for UKIP in general and European elections with his second wife Kirsten saying that she feared his drinking, smoking and long working hours could make him seriously ill.
He told the Telegraph today: ‘I did myself a lot of damage but it helps if I do exercise little and often. It’s made a massive difference. I’m not going to the pub every day. I had enough of not feeling good. I was just not physically as fit as I need to be’.
Ministers now fear a bloodbath at the hands of Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party next week when the country goes to the polls for European parliament elections that would not have taken place if the UK had left the EU on time.
A YouGov poll this week found that the Tories were on course to slump to fifth place behind the Greens in next week’s elections.
The survey for the Times put the Brexit Party on 34 points, well ahead of Labour on 16, the Liberal Democrats on 15 and the Greens on 11. The poll put Tory support on just 10 per cent.
After his second marriage ended two years ago, Mr Farage said he was ‘separated and skint’.
He has used his own cash built up from lucrative speaking tours in America in what he called the ‘start-up phase’ of the Brexit Party before securing huge donations from disillusioned Brexiteers.
Mr Farage, whose new party is set to give the Tories and Labour a bruising on May 23, has been in a relationship with 39-year-old French former waitress Laure Ferrari (pictured), ‘for around a decade’, according to the Telegraph
Kirsten Farage, the second wife of former UKIP leader Nigel Farage, leaves the family home at Downe, Kent, after they officially split in 2017
Financier Jeremy Hosking, 60, a former Tory donor who owns a major share of Crystal Palace Football Club, said he has given £200,000 over the past two to three weeks.
Mr Farage has said the party had already raised ‘well over’ £2million to fight the European contests, with 90 per cent of it from some 88,000 people paying a £25 fee to become registered supporters.
Away from work he has found love with Laure Ferrari, who once branded English women ‘drunken tarts’ in an email to a woman previously named as Mr Farage’s mistress.
Miss Ferrari began working for Mr Farage and fellow Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom after meeting them in the Strasbourg restaurant where she waited tables in 2007.
Describing the meeting she said: ‘I met these two MEPs and we started talking about politics. The two Brits have no hierarchy and neither of them comes from a political background.’
In June 2013, Miss Ferrari posted on Twitter a link to a newspaper feature asking ‘Why do more women want to bed Nigel Farage over David Cameron?’
Miss Ferrari spoke alongside UKIP politicians and other Brexit campaigners at public events in Dorset and Norfolk ahead of the 2016 EU referendum and has moved in with Mr Farage.
In 2017 he described himself as ‘separated and skint’ as he walked away from his marriage to second wife Kirsten. They have two children.
Mrs Farage admitted at the time they have been living separate lives ‘for years’ and ‘that suits everyone’. Mr Farage remained silent but a month earlier, when asked about the state of his marriage, he replied: ‘We get by and bumble along, like most people.’
In 2014 he was accused of having had an affair with Annabelle Fuller, then 32, one of his spin doctors.
According to the Mirror, Mrs Farage confronted her at a UKIP election party and allegedly told her: ‘I will have security drag you out by your hair if you don’t leave’.
Both Farage and Fuller have vehemently denied any affair.
Farage married German-born Kirsten Mehr in 1999 after his divorce from first wife, Gráinne Hayes, an Irish nurse and the mother of his eldest two children.
They met after he had serious car accident at the age of 21 because Ms Hayes was the nurse who treated him in hospital for months where he was in traction and unable to have a bath.
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Nigel Farage Legs It From An Accident, Whilst Campaigning To Leave The EU …
FARAGEY-BARGY
Nigel Farage ‘legs it’ after his driver crashed with Jag carrying 13-month-old toddler in Kent
The Brexit Party boss said he checked nobody was hurt before leaving
By Nick Parker
10th May 2019, 9:42 pm
Updated: 11th May 2019, 12:08 pm
NIGEL Farage legged it after his chauffeur-driven 4×4 crashed head-on with a Jag carrying a toddler, it was claimed last night.
Pub landlord Patrick Tranter says son George, 13 months, was badly shaken by the Kent smas
Pub landlord Patrick Tranter says son George, 13 months, was badly shaken by the Kent smash involving Nigel Farage’s chauffeur-driven 4X4
He said of Brexit Party boss Farage, 55: “He didn’t even bother to see if we were OK.”
The pint-loving politician has now been banned from Mr Tranter’s pub amid the claims he walked away from the smash.
Furious Patrick Tranter, who needed hospital treatment, told The Sun: “He lives two miles away and loves a pint, but he won’t get one from me. Man of the people, my arse. As far as I’m concerned he’s barred.”
Last night Mr Farage insisted he checked nobody was hurt and claimed Patrick was abusive. He said he had visited the George and Dragon in Westerham, Kent, in the past but added: “If I’m banned, then it’s not too terrible is it?”
Patrick, 38, had dropped off his wife at the station and was driving home when his vintage Jag collided head-on with Mr Farage’s chauffeur-driven Range Rover on Thursday morning.
Son George, 13 months, was in his seat in the back. He was also rushed to hospital.
SCREAMING TODDLER
Patrick said: “We crashed with an enormous bang. Farage could not possibly have failed to hear George screaming. I ran out to see if my little boy was OK.
“Farage stepped out of the Range Rover, collected his bag from the boot and walked off.
“He didn’t have the common decency to see if we were OK, and never even looked back.
“God knows where (he went) as it was a country lane. He just vanished. I turned around and asked one of his people, ‘Is that Farage?’ and she said yes.
“It would be pure speculation to guess how fast his car was going but it is his response which has really p***ed me off.
“His driver Dean Chapman confirmed it was him but I was dumbfounded by his behaviour. Who does he think he is?”
Patrick says his 1986 Jaguar Series 3 Sovereign was written off in the smash in Titsey at 9.30am.
Ex-Ukip leader Mr Farage, the driver and another passenger escaped injury because their motor had airbags.
He continued with campaigning for his Brexit Party ahead of the European elections.
Pint-loving politician Nigel Farage has been banned from Mr Tranter’s pub — just two miles from his home — amid claims he walked away from the smash
Damage to the front of the Range Rover that Nigel Farage was being driven in
Where the smash happened in Westerham, Kent
Later he clashed with Change UK’s Anna Soubry on BBC TV’s Question Time in Northampton.
Patrick did not vote in the 2016 EU referendum and said he would not dream of backing Mr Farage’s new party.
He added: “If he’d asked how I was he would have recognised me.
“I worked with his daughter Victoria at a wedding a year ago.
“The cars crashed with so much force that my car was pushed back into the bushes on the other side of the road.
“His driver was really courteous and waited by our car. He called the police and ambulance too.”
‘THE OTHER DRIVER WAS ABUSIVE’
Patrick and George — described as distressed by the ambulance service — were taken to Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington. Patrick had neck and shoulder injuries and possible whiplash.
Mr Farage said last night: “The driver of the other car was abusive. He was swearing very loudly and after accidents people do all sorts of things. It was a pretty full-on smash and I understand why people can be a bit shocked.
“Once I had ascertained that everyone was OK I made discreet withdrawal from the situation.
“I didn’t think that me, with a rather a well-known face, going into that situation would have helped anything or anybody.
“Had anybody been hurt I would have stayed and waited for the ambulance.
“I just thought there was nothing to be added by me talking to him.
“I didn’t hear his child screaming so I walked up the road.”
Mr Farage said he had drunk at Patrick’s pub but wouldn’t be back.
Police are not investigating any offences relating to the accident.
A TORY Party backer, Crystal Palace and Flybe investor Jeremy Hoskins, has switched his allegiance and donated £200,000 to the Brexit Party.
Police at the scene of the smash near Westerham in Kent – but cops say they are not investigating any offences
Mr Farage said: ‘Once I had ascertained that everyone was OK I made discreet withdrawal from the situation’
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Farage’s Son of Ukip Cult Seems To Have The Same Morals & Ethics As Its Odious Forerunner …
it seems Farage’s inability to cope with details, racism and factual inexactitude follows him wherever he goes. As the article below shows!
In reality The BreXit Party is yet again a Farage Cult, with many of the same followers however in view of the lies and betrayal that have been emmanating from Parliament many people, like myself, will find that subsequent to Parliament’s betrayal of the electorate, its own promises and the manifestly self serving behaviour of the proven majority in the House of Commons – we are left with no choice, at the moment, but to hold our noses and inspite of Nigel Farage and some of his cult followers we shall vote for the BreXit Party, on matters pertaining to the EU.
Brexit Party figures who left over offensive posts are still directors
Former leader and former treasurer of Nigel Farage’s party were supposed to have cut ties
Peter Walker Political correspondent
@peterwalker99
Sun 5 May 2019 11.00 BST Last modified on Sun 5 May 2019 20.00 BST
Catherine Blaiklock and Michael McGough. Composite: Getty/Alamy
Two senior members of Nigel Farage’s Brexit party who left their roles after the Guardian uncovered offensive social media messages they had sent are still directors of the organisation weeks after they had supposedly cut all ties, it has emerged.
Catherine Blaiklock, the first leader of the party, who resigned over a series of anti-Islam messages, and the former treasurer Michael McGough, who was ousted because of antisemitic and other offensive Facebook posts, are still listed as directors.
Blaiklock, who also retweeted far-right messages, including one from a former British National party activist referring to “white genocide”, also resigned as company secretary of the party soon after the posts emerged, six weeks ago. But despite that change being made to the Companies House register, she remains listed as a director.
McGough is also still a director. He was removed as treasurer a month ago after posting what the party called “unacceptable statements”. A party statement at the time said he would no longer have any role in the organisation.
The only other two directors are Farage and the new treasurer, Phillip Basey, a former Ukip activist.
In some messages, McGough referred to Ed and David Miliband and Peter Mandelson as having “shallow UK roots” or being “devoid of UK roots” – seen as a common antisemitic trope about Jewish people.
One post from 2017 called David Miliband the “son of an east European communist now milking it from a charity in New York and devoid of UK roots”.
Another message said: “The Miliband dudes and Mandelson have the shortest of roots. Transient folk they have no loyalty to the UK.” One reply by another user tells McGough he is on “slightly dangerous ground”. McGough replies: “True, but there is a valid point to be made even if it seems offensive. It is not dissimilar to Lord Tebbit’s cricket test.”
A post about Mandelson reads: “I resent being called racist by an old queen with shallow UK roots.”
Blaiklock sent offensive tweets that she later deleted, including one saying: “Islam = submission – mostly to raping men it seems.”
She also retweeted seven messages from the far-right activist Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. Farage left Ukip after its current leader, Gerard Batten, made Robinson an adviser.
Other tweets sent by Blaiklock included one that referred to Islam as “a non-democracy ideology that is incompatible with liberal democracy”. Another said of Islam that it was “perfectly rational to be phobic about people who want to kill you”.
Both Blaiklock and McGough were longtime former Ukip members, and moved to the Brexit party with Farage. Their departures marked a tricky launch for the party, which has since rebounded spectacularly, and is leading in the polls for the European elections.
The Brexit party was approached for comment but did not respond.
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#Ukip Has Yet Again BeenForced To Repay Public Money Fraudulently Obtained & Spent …
EU recovers £200,000 from Ukip MEPs accused of misusing funds
Time running out to recoup money from others alleged to have broken rules
Jennifer Rankin in Brussels
Fri 3 May 2019 18.17 BST Last modified on Fri 3 May 2019 18.18 BST
Paul Nuttall, the former Ukip leader, is entitled to a €68,428 transition allowance. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA
The European parliament has recovered more than £200,000 from Ukip MEPs accused of misusing public funds through payments to party workers. But with three weeks to go until European elections, time is running out to recoup money from others alleged to have broken EU rules.
The parliament has suspended the pay of two staff attached to Ukip’s former leader Paul Nuttall and his fellow North West England MEP Louise Bours, the Guardian has learned. Neither MEP is standing for re-election on 23 May, which could make it harder for officials to recover money.
Since the Guardian revealed the parliament’s investigation into Ukip misspending in 2017, £202,667 has been recovered from two current MEPs and one former one.
Nigel Farage was docked half his MEP’s salary for 10 months in 2018, and he is judged to have repaid a £39,653 debt to the EU. European parliament financial controllers said Farage broke the rules by paying a Ukip party worker with EU funds meant to pay for staffing of his MEP office. Farage, who left Ukip in December and now leads the Brexit party, has always denied the charge.
Raymond Finch was docked £61,650 of his MEP’s salary over the employment of two assistants, including Farage’s estranged wife, Kirsten.
Roger Helmer, who stood down as an MEP in 2017 when allegations against him emerged, lost £101,364 of a transition allowance for former MEPs.
While Nuttall and Bours could lose their transitional allowances, it is not clear whether this would be enough to cover the alleged losses from the EU budget.
Elected in 2014, Bours would be entitled to a €40,949 (£35,025) after-tax transition payment, while Nuttall’s stint as an MEP since 2009 could entitle him to €68,428. The payments are based on the length of time served as an MEP, but are not meant to be claimed by ex-politicians with another job or pension.
Earlier calculations put repayment demands on then Ukip MEPs at around £500,000, but cases against two were later closed without any action.
All MEPs have strenuously rejected claims that the rules were broken. Their bloc in the European parliament, the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy, has previously described the investigation as “a vindicative campaign” against Eurosceptic MEPs.
Responding to the latest findings, an EFDD spokesman said the parliament had behaved “disgracefully” towards the former employees of Bours and Nuttall. “Both of them have been doing the jobs they have been contracted to do and one of the guys lost his house,” the spokesman said.
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Having crashed his old bus Farage has a new one for his new cash cow – The BreXit Party …
what is the ‘Exit & Survival Strategy’ this time Farage or is it same old same old froth & folly like the last part you destroyed for lack of vision?
Brexit: a different bus
Richard North, 19/04/2019
As we all struggle to find solutions to Brexit, it is rather ironic – the extent of being bizarre – that so many should be turning to a man who bears much of the responsibility for the current mess.
The best chance of there ever being a smooth Brexit – however forlorn the hope might have been – rested not on the referendum campaign (or its immediate aftermath) but in the years leading up to it. Long before it got to a vote, the Eurosceptic movement needed to have agreed what we were, at the turn of the century, calling an “exit and survival plan”.
As the leader of the then only dedicated anti-EU party, Nigel Farage was perhaps the only man who could have fostered the development of a plan and united the disparate factions behind it. Instead, he blocked any progress in that direction and settled on a strategy based on building a base of MPs in Westminster, with himself at the head.
His idea was that the pressure exerted by Ukip MPs would create such stresses in the Parliamentary Conservative Party that it would split. The larger number, he believed, would join Ukip, building a majority that could form a government to take us out of the EU.
In this fantasy, there was no need for an exit plan. His new government would have the civil service, which would do as instructed and work up the detail. All Farage’s party had to do was win enough elections and the problem was solved.
Well, we all know how that worked out. Despite multiple attempts, Farage never got near winning a seat in the Commons, much less populating the green seats with his own. He didn’t even manage to keep control of his own party, allowing it to be seized from him, ending up in the hands of the dire Gerard Batten. Its record 24 MEPs dwindling to a mere four.
Now the resurgent demagogue has created a new party, over which he has almost total control, untroubled by such inconvenient things as a democracy. And yet, Lewis Goodhall, the political correspondent for Sky News, describes him as a man who “cannot be faulted for his appreciation of strategy”.
Despite that, the “electric” Mr Farage is a one-trick pony, capable of delivering only a single core speech. With its variations, it may be enough to impress the untutored but, after the third or fourth time of hearing, the underlying emptiness becomes all too apparent. And, as a man whose appreciation of strategy can’t be faulted, he opposed a referendum. His strategy, and everything else he touches beyond personal enrichment, has been an unremitting failure.
Currently, he favours a no-deal Brexit – another example of his strategic acumen (not). Presumably, he believes that his latest strategy of “winning” an unnecessary and irrelevant election is a way to exert pressure on Mrs May to achieve that end. Once again, we see the limits of his thinking, where his only game is to force the Conservatives into taking action, to uncertain effect.
If that was the whole extent of our options, we would be in far more serious trouble than we could possibly imagine. But if there is salvation to be had, it is more likely to lie in a careful study of our situation and in an evaluation of the broader options.
Bringing it down to its basics, the essence of our problem, I would aver, is that the Brexit process is beyond the capacity of our political system to implement, and it has neither the desire nor the incentive to seek enduring solutions. The logical response to that – or, at least, the first element – might be to break the process down into bite-sized chunks that the system can handle, or to hand the job over to bodies which are better equipped to perform the functions involved in the process.
Working along those lines, it seems reasonable to argue that, if the majority of MPs (and much of government) do not have the capacity to evaluate the merits of competing Brexit plans, or even work out whether any particular plan will satisfy stated objectives, it is pointless offering the collective any plans to study.
By avoiding this trap, we would be accepting that parliament is not a planning body and neither is it capable of evaluating plans. We would thus cease to expect it to do things for which it was not designed, and for which it is manifestly not capable. By the same token, asking for indicative votes seems an obvious waste of time.
In the past, we used to refer the evaluation of public policy to such bodies as Royal Commissions. Commissions, in particular, could examine topics for some years, gathering evidence and assessing various alternatives, before coming up with detailed recommendations to guide governments in the choices they made.
Yet, despite the importance of Brexit, and the hugely damaging consequences of getting it wrong, I do not recall seeing any formal inquiry of any great weight, that has assessed our options and made recommendations. To a very great extent, our government and public institutions – and the rest of us – are flying blind.
Such is the complexity of the Brexit process that, in an earlier piece, I suggested that, before we went any further with the EU, we needed a series of scoping meetings. These would enable us to decide what is possible to achieve from our negotiations on a future relationship.
Before we even get there, though, we need as a nation to decide where we want to go. That decision `must be informed by factual analysis and a clear understanding of what is actually possible, together with an appreciation of what our negotiating partners might accept.
Even now, that in itself might be too much to ask of a divided nation that has not fully come to terms with the prospect of leaving. As long as we have active campaigns aimed at reversing the referendum result, it seems hardly likely that we can get down to the task of discussing the best way to leave.
That, it would seem, is the heart of the problem. It isn’t just the establishment which isn’t up to the job. We have an unfocused nation which is not only too easily distracted from the task at hand – mainly because it hasn’t fully decided that this is a task it wants to undertake.
To resolve this, there are those who still hanker after another referendum. But it would be wrong to assert that we are, as a nation, any better informed about Brexit than we were during the last referendum campaign.
Where we can seriously entertain a discussion about the value of a customs union in facilitating frictionless trade, all we have is evidence of monumental ignorance. Those who want a re-run on the basis that we now know more about the issue clearly haven’t been following the debate for the past three years. If we are to be judged as incapable of reaching a knowledge-based decision in June 2016, we are no better equipped now.
On the other hand, a general election is no more suitable a platform for a national debate than is a referendum – and it would be an abuse of process. General elections are for choosing our governments, not for settling contentious issues. For that, supposedly, we have referendums – we are back full circle.
Therefore, I begin to warm to the idea of putting the Brexit process “on hold”, in order to refer it to an independent review body such as a Royal Commission. And since six months would hardly be enough time for it to conclude its work, we would also need to ask the EU for extra time.
One important limitation of this idea, though, relates to the composition of the inquiry body. The great and the good who would normally comprise the panel are, in the main, the very people who have made such a hash of the process so far. And if the panel took evidence from the same “prestigious” witnesses that have polluted select committees and the like, we would be no further forward, no matter how long it was given to perform its task.
On that basis, the idea of an independent inquiry begins to look considerably less attractive, which means that we might have to look elsewhere for our solutions. But, actually, we may not have to look too far. Breaking out of the box, we could be thinking not of one inquiry body but two. One would shadow the other, each with slightly different terms of reference and composition. If one explored the arguments, the other might deliberately set out to challenge received wisdom.
This was the stratagem recommended by Irving Janis in his book on groupthink, where the creation of competing (or complementary) bodies to examine the same issues reduced the danger of a single mindset emerging and remaining unchallenged. Such a multiple-group structure was, apparently, used by the Truman administration in developing the Marshall Plan, so it is hardly a new or untried idea.
To those who would cavil at the extra time this would take, we could offer the aphorism that, if you act in haste you will repent at leisure. There cannot be any rational objection to taking a few years to unravel a process which has taken the UK 47 years to develop.
As much to the point, almost exactly two years ago, I was writing of Alan S Milward and his book, The Rise and Fall of a National Strategy, 1945-63. The point which emerged from it was that governments in general find it difficult to change strategies quickly. Progressing from opposition to UK entanglement in European political integration to support for membership of the EEC took 18 years.
What we are now seeing, I then wrote, is the inevitable consequence of a forced change, for which the government is unprepared, where the speed of change is beyond its ability to accommodate.
I would sooner give the government time to adjust, rather than lose the chance of Brexit altogether, or risk ending up with a bodged outcome which takes decades to repair. If Brexit is to succeed, the process must be properly informed and the issues must be fully discussed and understood, not just by our legislators but also by the public at large.
Effectively, we need a different bus with a better message. And if that takes a couple more years, it is worth the wait.
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Richard Corben, 'Bat Out of Hell' Cover Artist, Dies
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Bob Kulick Dies: Rockers React
Fellow musicians took to social media to share their condolences.
Guitarist Bob Kulick Reportedly Dead at 70
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Watch Meat Loaf Join the ‘Bat Out of Hell’ Cast On Stage
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Meat Loaf Settles Lawsuit Over 'I'd Do Anything For Love'
The chart-topping song played a major role in his early '90s-era comeback.
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Meat Loaf Says Health Issues Mean He May Never Sing Again
Meat Loaf has revealed that problems with his back have prevented him from singing for a year now, and that he may never be able to perform again.
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KFC on Highway 54 Closed Now, But Will Re-Open After a Remodel
Dave Spencer/Townsquare Media
We've had a lot of questions about the KFC on Highway 54 in Owensboro. Folks have gone by and noticed no one there and a sign on the door.
But that KFC--the only one in Owensboro--is not closed permanently.
You may have already noticed construction crews on site. Well, that's because KFC will re-open, better than ever.
That's right. It's undergoing a major remodeling.
JRN, Inc. is a KFC franchisee and has purchased the Highway 54 location.
I spoke with JRN marketing executive administrator Frankie Bostick who told me that JRN, which operates more than 150 stores in 11 states, plans to remodel and improve the 54 KFC location.
The plan is to re-open the store in early 2020.
Categories: Owensboro – Daviess County News, What's New
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Tabernacle by Tabernacle
Posted on 3 February 2016 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
A while back there was a flurry of discussion in Madison, WI about the long-standing, patiently-implemented, diocesan-wide policy of returning the tabernacles for the Blessed Sacrament to the center of churches.
News reached me that in Brooklyn, a church is being restored to its focus on the Blessed Sacrament with the restoration of its altar that was (heinously) removed some 30 years ago.
From the Brooklyn Daily:
Second coming! Church’s rescued relic restored [See what they did there? Cutesy.]
An important piece of a Bath Beach church’s century-old altar has returned from the grave thanks to a pious parishioner whose de-shrine intervention saved it 30 years ago, his pastor said.
“The high altar is right in the center of the church, and the piece Bill saved is an important piece of it,” said the Rev. Michael Louis Gelfant.
Bill Coppa rescued the face of St. Finbar Church’s tabernacle — where Catholics store what they believe is the body of Jesus Christ — from a garbage pile during a 1984 renovation. A previous pastor didn’t give a frock about the gilded marble masterpiece, but Coppa thought trashing it was a sin, so he put it in his den, he said.
“I ran back in and I said ‘Father! There’s this beautiful piece there, and it’s thrown in the trash,’ and I asked if I could take it,” Coppa said. “He didn’t mind, so I grabbed it, and I’ve had it in my home office for 32 years.”
The congregation is in the midst of a larger renovation, and Coppa jumped at the chance to return the relic, he said.
Gelfant discovered two other pieces of the altar in a forgotten storeroom shortly after inheriting the flock in 2010, and the revelation inspired him to return the church to its former glory, he said.
“Those two great finds sparked the possibility we could restore it to the way it was,” Gelfant said.
Parishioners raised nearly a million dollars for the renovations, which started in October 2015. The church is tearing up 30-year-old tile to reveal the main sanctuary’s original terrazzo floor, sprucing up pews, and rehabbing the building’s exterior.
Gelfant expects they’ll resurrect the sanctuary, including the altar, in time for Easter, and anticipates the rest done in the following months.
The project has many long-time parishioners excited, and some handy churchgoers even volunteered their talent, Gelfant said.
“The people are so proud they’re getting their church back, and some have donated their labor — it’s been a real community effort,” he said. “People were never really happy with the 1984 renovations, a lot of them called it a ‘wreck-o-vation.’ ”
No, they weren’t. And they still aren’t.
Church architecture and decoration reflect what the Church believes about herself. When we wreck beautiful church, stripping them of any trace of the transcendent, and turn them into confused and tacky meeting spaces, when we build church that look more like municipal airports than they do sacred spaces, we have a clue that something is deeply twisted in our prevailing Catholic identity.
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9 Responses to Tabernacle by Tabernacle
Pigeon says:
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Houston, based on a picture I saw in a bulletin a couple months back, is fixing the altar and tabernacle so they’re not staggered (currently the tabernacle is on the left and the altar is on the right), and also adding altar rails.
frjim4321 says:
As much as I may not like some of the artifacts I found in this church when I got there I would never think of discarding them. Somebody paid for them. [EXACTLY. This is something that many priests didn’t grasp/forgot/ignored.] And you can’t buy quality stuff anymore. I really don’t like hearing about priests throwing stuff out, simply because it does not conform to their personal taste.
acardnal says:
I funded the replacement of a tabernacle in a previous parish I once attended.
The existing tabernacle was a cheap, lightweight, brass (bronze?) sphere sitting on a table off to the side. It was most certainly NOT worthy of the Blessed Sacrament and could easily have been stolen or tampered with. The new pastor took advantage of my offer and purchased a refurbished, classic tabernacle from a church used-goods store in Milwaukee. I paid for a new rear altar (reredos?) to be built, placed against the rear wall and the new tabernacle was placed inside of it; it is now in the center of the sanctuary behind the main altar. Prior to implementation, the parish council was consulted and approved the use of the new tabernacle. The pastor implied that the old, brass spherical tabernacle would be sent to the missions.
cda_sister says:
@Pigeon….This renovation is in abundant thanks to their new, and our recently former..(insert sad face with tears), pastor, FrSBR. This church was/is in need of some serious work and TLC. His architectural vision for restoring traditional beauty to our churches, especially the sanctuary, is phenomenal. And they are even getting an altar rail!!!! How awesome is that??? If you want to see the results of his gift of vision, come visit and see what he brought about at St Theresa’s in Sugar Land. When you walk thru the new doors (made of wood salvaged from the floors of St Mary’s Cathedral – thanks again to Fr), you know instantly that you are in a Catholic church. Your eyes are drawn immediately, straight up the center aisle, to the breathtaking, lifelike Crucifix ( I will never forget it’s unveiling), hanging on the back wall behind and above the altar, and just below, the beautiful gold tabernacle to hold the precious body and blood of our Lord. Christ Crucified and Christ Risen, all in one place. Next is the gorgeous marble altar, with reliquary holding relics of St. Therese in the center of the base. And who can forget our fabulous pipe organ that resounds with sacred music every Sunday. Little did anyone realize what a gift all this beauty would be to us but along with it, and the gift of FrSBR priestly ministry, came a renewed reverence and sacredness to the celebration of the Holy Mass. You truly feel the presence of our Lord. All of this a result of this amazing, humble and dedicated priest’s vision and prayers. Through the tremendous financial generosity of parishioners, his visions became reality. Though there are many of us who continue to dearly miss his presence with us, we’ve but to look around our campus….the church, chapel, school….and of course, just across the street to the beautiful new rectory that was also a result of his vision and much prayer, to know that he will never be far from us. His spirit is with us thru the fruits of his visions…ours to treasure and share… his legacy to us and to those yet to join the family of St T’s. We are praying for him and the success of his renovation efforts at St Elizabeth Ann Seton, and cannot wait to see the finished results.
Charivari Rob says:
I don’t know how much one can really say that you can/can’t buy quality stuff anymore.
To have something made… perhaps. I think talented craftsmen are more readily available for wood working rather than metal/stone/marble.
To buy something already made… It’s an unfortunate by-product of church closings that there is beautiful stuff available on the salvage market. My native parish in suburban NJ built a new church several years ago – did a beautiful job acquiring key elements from a salvage warehouse somewhere in PA (the older church remains in use as the chapel, so nothing was removed from there). Altar, ambo, tabernacle in marble; stations of the Cross in marble/mosaic. I doubt they could’ve had pieces of similar quantity made for a similar price.
kurtmasur says:
Great news! While it is heartening to know that in 2015 efforts such as this one took place to restore this church to its former glory, it saddens me to know that also in 2015 some churches are still going through wreck-o-vations. For those who are familiar with the shrine of the Infant Jesus of Prague Church in Prague, Czech Republic, (Church of Our Lady Victorious), the Carmelite superior in charge of the church is of a certain *modernist* mentality that thinks that anything traditional must be discarded with. Just a few months ago he replaced the NO altar with a slab stone altar that while nice, it is something that I would personally choose to have as a fancy table if I had some fancy law office. He took away the pulpit from the sanctuary, and placed a permanent pulpit (as in, attached to the floor), in the area just off the steps leading to the sanctuary, but in front of the pews! Not only that, he removed most of the seating for the clergy, including the celebrant’s chair, out of the sanctuary, and moved it to the same area where the new pulpit is, between the sanctuary and pews. So in effect, clergy only enter the sanctuary as soon as the whole first part of the Mass finishes (Liturgy of the Word), and it is time to begin the second half, starting from the Offertory and remain up in the sanctuary until Communion finishes.
And yes, he removed the tabernacle from the sanctuary (it was always at the center on the original traditional pre-Vatican II altar), and designated the tabernacle on the side altar (where the statue of the Infant Jesus is) to be the church’s tabernacle. He erected a big ugly cross in place of the old altar tabernacle.
Now that I think about this, things could have been much worse. From what I understand, the superior had more ambitious plans such as destroying the stone altar rail. Fortunately, the church structure itself is protected by municipal laws that aim to preserve historic monuments and buildings, so the City of Prague told him “NO!” when he wanted to destroy the altar rail. It is quite ironic to think that the Czech Republic being the atheist country that it is, that it was precisely atheists who stopped a church’s destruction in the hands of a priest!
The only thing *positive* that I see with the changes, however, is that with the pulpit gone from the sanctuary, no lectors (i.e. lay people) will have to enter the sanctuary anymore in order to read the readings. And as for the new altar itself, the only consolation is that the original pre-Vatican II altar still remains there, even if hidden in the back. Oh yeah, for the record, I hate Vatican II :-)
Anyways, here you can see a series of photos from the consecration of the new altar, and you can see the new pulpit too here: http://www.pragjesu.cz/aktuality/sveceni-oltare/. You can see the new modernist cross in the background of the 2nd photo, but it’s not that good of a quality image. In the middle photos, you can see the ugly permanent pulpit right in front of the pews. And towards the last photos, you can see….a guitar!
NoraLee9 says:
St. Finbar’s is one of the most beautiful churches in a a borough of beautiful churches. What was done in 1984 was criminal. I attended my cousin’s funeral there in 1995. There I was with my mantilla, and Fr. was canonizing cousin from the pulpit. It had been a memorable wake, in that he had been in the Navy, stationed in PR, and married a woman from there. HER family knew what to do at the wake, and when THEIR priest started us in the devotions for the departed soul and the Rosary, the entire family (my side) got behind ME to follow my words and what I was doing. (“Hey Nora, you got any extra beads in your purse?)
I literally RAN from the Church at the end of the funeral, as the recessional “hymn” selected was “The Rose.”
We drove over to the VA cemetery in PA where THEIR priest blessed the coffin and the grave and sang parts of Faure’s Requiem. THAT was beautiful. When they lowered him into the earth, the wife tried to throw herself in after him.
To which I asked the husband, “Are you sure they aren’t Irish?”
Not to worry, her sisters caught her.
I am EXTREMELY GLAD that St. Finbar’s is getting a much needed restoration. Undoubtedly Una Voce Brooklyn will set up an ExtraOrdinary Rite Mass there to celebrate the finish. I promised my 18-year old a trip down there, and after prayers of thanksgiving, we will visit one of the many pasticceriae down there and bring a box home.
Brick-by-brick.
frgelfant says:
This might be of interest as well. We appreciate the well wishes.
https://youtu.be/VkITYg2gq0c
mburduck says:
Well done, Father!
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Making profit - Adsense contains too many stopwords
I was thinking of using Adsense, but after I've read about the stopwords policy... Too many words are banned: "a**, s**t, id**t, a****le, bu****it," etc.. That generally means that I cannot use Adsense, unless I edit my posts.
How else would I go about making some profit out of my site?
I don't want to use things like popups, text-link ads, I can't post many shoplinks, and my site is too small to sell adspace.
For specific reasons, I also don't do videos, am not planning on starting a forum or premium content, or anything very close to what's in this sentence.
The reason for this post is basically the fact that I've seen sites without any ads, huge sites, and I started to wonder: how do they make money? That was Gizmodo to be precise.
Some info about my site: It's a blog where I review games and post news. There is no forum, no registration.
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JackJack
lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+make+money+from+a+website There are literally hundreds of ways of making money. A simple Google search goes a long way. At least show that you've made some effort at this. You didn't even tell us relevant details about your website. I.E. is it a blog? a forum? etc.? What's the content about? are there areas where users must login to see? – Randy E Sep 5 '12 at 11:54
Right, sorry about that, I'm used to not giving details, as people aren't interested in them. Let me edit the post. – Jack Sep 5 '12 at 12:03
Okie dokie :) Unfortunately most people in the world don't care about the details of our websites, but those that want to help us do! – Randy E Sep 5 '12 at 12:05
Added information that i could think of. :) – Jack Sep 5 '12 at 12:14
You could easily incorporate affiliate links into your reviews for places like Amazon where they can purchase the games that you're recommending. You just have to remember to have a disclaimer on your blog about making money from links as there was a law passed about a year or so ago that oyu have to do something like that.
Another thing you could do is contact publishers of the games you're talking about, or the developers depending on how large the company's are, and discuss advertisement options with them. You want to make sure whatever you decide is relevant to the topic of the site.
I know you said you don't want to use text link adds, but it would be an easy monetization for the site, and an easy step to add, to add an affiliate link to where to buy it at the bottom of the article. Something like "To purchase this game visit [insert link]."
But another question is why are you using those words to begin with? I can understand wanting to do candid reviews but if you're wanting to monetize it many sources of income prohibit text like that.
Randy ERandy E
Because some of those words are part of the language, and an occasional use of them is okay, as I see it. I'm not talking about using 20 of them in a post, I'm using about 2 or 3 in a long post. But anyway: store pages I do that already, but most people are buying stuff on Steam. So far, those links were completely useless. advertisement options do you think it's okay to do it? I mean, contacting a company and asking if they would like to advertise with a site who reviews their games is kinda odd; nonetheless my site isn't very big. – Jack Sep 5 '12 at 13:44
@Jack I'd be very reluctant to do so. Even if you're completely above the board and objective in your reviews you've created the appearance of a conflict of interest by taking money from the company selling the product being reviewed. – Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight Sep 5 '12 at 15:47
@Randy E Indeed my thoughts, and if we're talking about affiliate game links, that's what I would be going for. The only other option that I can think of is game stores, which, as I've mentioned, is quite useless. I certainly wouldn't want to advertise other sites like mine too. – Jack Sep 5 '12 at 16:05
It seems like you've shot down most conventional means of monetization - Affiliate links, adsense, banner ads, text link ads, direct ads etc. - It may be a good time to consider if this model is what you're looking for, perhaps it's best to leave it as a hobby, or use it to get exposure & a paying gig reviewing games, or maybe you want to turn it into one big project and get it funded on kickstarter, you could build a big user base then sell the site to a larger company and so on. There are infinite options but none of them will produce results if you don't try them. – Joshak Sep 5 '12 at 16:24
I've not done anything with CPM ads so I can't recommend from persona experience, but here are a few links that compare networks. problogger.net/archives/2008/03/03/… and socialcompare.com/en/comparison/… – Joshak Sep 6 '12 at 17:48
I'd say check out affiliate programs for monetization given your stated parameters.
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Social media’s power debated amid political turmoil
January 12, 2021 11:26 pm Alex Menke, Howard Packowitz Peoria News, Political, Top Stories
PEORIA (WEEK) - Social media giants have stirred up a debate whether they're exhibiting too much power by locking out the President of the United States.
Major platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram imposed permanent bans on President Trump last week after riots turned deadly at the U.S. Capitol.
Social media firms have been tip-toeing around issues like this, when prominent figures violate their terms of service, said Cory Barker, Assistant Professor of Communications at Bradley University.
"I think you saw the thought process come over the course of the last calendar year, where they started to add more of the disclaimers to his tweets as far as the election specifically, like this misinformation around the election," Barker said.
The professor predicts the use of social media platforms in politics will continue to grow in the years ahead.
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Running for president of the United States undoubtedly provides candidates with a unique platform to present ideas, influence change, and express ideas. Donald Trump’s candidacy, however absurd, has even sparked plenty of support because he addresses issues others are afraid to say, according to some. However, Trump has also been met with major criticism and Republican candidate Ben Carson is following in very similar footsteps, if not already miles ahead of him.
The retired neurosurgeon told NBC’s Meet The Press that he completely disagreed with electing a Muslim to run the United States of America because the Islam faith “is inconsistent with the values and principles of the Constitution,” which calls into question why a person’s faith should be a determining factor in becoming president. The comment comes after a member of a Donald Trump rally called President Obama a Muslim, claiming that Muslims were a problem in this country. Trump responded to the comment on CNN’s State Of The Union calling “radical Muslims” an issue, not quite defending Obama, but let’s keep things in perspective.
Carson, who is a devout Christian, went on to say that it depends on who the Muslim is, and “if their life has been consistent with things that will elevate this nation and make it possible for everybody to succeed and bring peace and harmony, then I’m with them.” But, couldn’t the same be said about Christians?
Muslim and Minnesota Democratic representative Keith Ellison was appalled by Carson’s sentiment, saying that for him or any Republican candidate for that matter, “to suggest that someone of any faith is unfit for office is out of touch with who we are as a people…every American should be disturbed that these rational figures are engaging in and tolerating blatant acts of religious bigotry,” even calling Carson’s comments a form of fear mongering.
And Ellison was not the only one with something to say. Fellow GOP candidate Lindsey Graham tweeted that Carson is “not ready to be Commander-in-Chief. America is an idea, not owned by a particular religion.” He also tweeted that Carson needs to apologize for his comments. Meanwhile, the Council on American-Islamic values is preparing to ask for Carson’s withdrawal from the race.
On the other hand, some strongly agree with Carson’s claim, including political activist Pamela Geller, who said in reference to Barack Obama, “He claims he is a Christian, but his father and his stepfather were Muslims and he was raised in a Muslim country. He went to an Islamic school and excelled in Qur’an classes while growing up in Jakarta,” writing that it would be dangerous to elect a Muslim president on her website.
Geller’s statement is alarming on so many levels and the point of the matter here is that it’s ridiculous that this argument is even being had in the year 2015. I’m with the majority. Ben Carson needs to apologize for his ignorant statements and needs to take a long look in the mirror to analyze whether or not HE is someone who makes it possible to bring peace and harmony to the nation, because right now he is doing everything but that.
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Al Quds activists call for Israel’s destruction
Pro-Palestinian supporters take part in a rally in central London, Sunday July 3, 2016, to commemorate Al-Quds Day.Credit: Rick Findle
Calls for the destruction of Israel were heard at Al Quds marches in London, New York and Berlin last weekend.
Protesters marched in central London with banners declaring it to be a “crime” to support Zionism.
During the rally a group of activists burnt an Israeli flag while chants included “we don’t need no Zionism, we don’t need no Zionist control”.
Mick Napier, Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign the Secretary, told protesters disgraced Labour Party member Peter Willsman should not have been suspended for his much-publicised allegations about the Israeli Embassy.
Prior to the parade, CAA met with Metropolitan Police Service who vowed to enforce the law if Hezballah flags were flown.
Unlike previous years, there was no visible display of flags or support for the terror group following a ruling by Home Secretary, Sajid Javid with support from Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt.
Anti-terrorism activists displaying Israeli flags confronted marchers.
Demonstrators at a protest in Times Square were filmed chanting “we don’t want no two-state (solution) we want all of it” while speakers called on supporters to “smash the settler-Zionist state”.
Protesters at an anti-Israel al-Quds rally in Berlin chanting “Palestine will be reborn!”, “Free Gaza!”.
At the same time a pro-Israel rally attracted hundreds of supporters including German politicians.
Only last week Germany’s Bild newspaper called on readers to wear a cut-out kippa after Felix Klein, Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight against Antisemitism, faced a backlash after warning Jews about the dangers of wearing a kippah in the wake of anti-Jewish attacks.
Klein’s comments were criticised by the German government, Jewish community, Israel President Reuven Rivlin together with organisations and politicians around the world.
Bild’s cut-out blue kippa displayed three Stars of David accompanied by a plea to wear it.
Klein backed down from his statement after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert joined the debate.
“The state must see to it that the free exercise of religion is possible for all and that anyone can go anywhere in our country in full security wearing a kippa,” Seibert told a press conference.
Klein said, “I call on all citizens of Berlin and across Germany to wear the kippa if there are new, intolerable attacks targeting Israel and Jews on the occasion of al-Quds day in Berlin.”
Klein marched alongside Andreas Geisel, Israeli Ambassador in Germany, Jeremy Issacharoff, Berlin’s top security official at the pro-Israel gathering, Geisel, urging the German government to consider banning the political wing of Hezbollah.
German Ambassador to Israel, Dr. Susanne Wasum-Rainer, noted during an address at a Jerusalem conference co-organised by World Jewish Congress’ that the “kippah belonged to Germany”.
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Chris Ilitch declines commenting on Wings as he visits Lakeland
Updated at 3:36 PM: The Free Press’s George Sipple asked Tigers and Red Wings owner Chris Ilitch to weigh in on the hockey team as the man in charge made an appearance in Lakeland, Florida, and here’s what Ilitch has to say–or not say–about the Wings:
Chris Ilitch spoke to reporters about the #tigers today. I did ask him if he wants Ken Holland back as GM and he said he was here to talk about @tigers @DetroitRedWings
— George Sipple (@GeorgeSipple) March 3, 2018
Chris Ilitch said he addressed @Tigers when he arrived in Lakeland. He said he reminded them of “my incredible passion for baseball.”
Ilitch mentioned passion his father had for the game and said he shares it. Mentioned playing HS baseball and coaching his children last few yrs
For what it’s worth, Ilitch also plays men’s league hockey with Bill Ford…
But I don’t believe that we’re going to get an update on the “state of the Wings” until locker room clean-out day, if we receive a “state of the Wings” update at all.
Update: The Free Press’s Sipple penned an article regarding the exchange:
Ilitch spoke for more than 10 minutes to reporters near the home dugout of Joker Marchant Stadium, the spring training home of the Detroit Tigers. While he was there to talk about the upcoming baseball season, I twice asked Ilitch about the future of Holland. He opted not to address the situation.
Asked what it would take for Holland to return and when discussions needed to begin on an extension, Ilitch said: “We, of course, have 11 operating companies that we’re involved with, the Tigers and the Red Wings being two of those. Today, I’m in Lakeland, Florida. This is spring training for the Tigers. So, I’m happy to talk to you about the Tigers and really want to keep the focus today on the Detroit Tigers.”
Do you think Ken Holland will remain GM of the @DetroitRedWings ?
I quickly followed up, asking Ilitch if he wanted Holland back as GM.
“And I’ll be happy to take any more questions you have on the Detroit Tigers,” Ilitch said, finishing his comment.
Aaaannndd…
Holland offered a “no comment” when reached by phone Saturday in response to what Ilitch said.
Neither Holland or Ilitch are talking to the media, which is their prerogative.
Posted on March 3, 2018 March 3, 2018 Author George Malik
4 thoughts on “Chris Ilitch declines commenting on Wings as he visits Lakeland”
WingedRider says:
It appears he doesn’t give a rats ass about hockey, I really think he likes to have KH take all the public needs of the Wings.
I shouldn’t be surprised but I am. The apple never fell anywhere near the right tree!
George Malik says:
Chris does care about hockey–he also played it growing up–but Chris is not someone who makes a comment to the media until he has to. I would not be surprised if we don’t hear from him until locker room clean-out day, if we hear from him at all, as Chris is about walking softly and carrying a big stick.
His passion for the business of sports appears to out-weigh his passion for sports, I will say that.
Cyril Rogers(aka as NewfieWing) says:
I will give him the benefit of the doubt until this season is mercifully over. If he fails to act at that point, then it will truly be an indictment of him and his lack of passion and commitment to improving the Red Wings.
The first order of business, in my opinion, should be to fire or give Ken Holland the choice to move upstairs.
Second, should be to ensure the new GM understands the need to hire a coach who can help players grow, while formulating a strategy to shed the team of most of the albatross contracts by the end of next season.
If he fails to deliver in those areas, the Wings’ decline will accelerate.
That makes sense but Holland has shown a need for power. I am just guessing but Holland will go outside his job description and meddle in hockey operations.
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American intellectuals and the black radical tradition
by Jesse McCarthy
This essay appears in a special symposium on intellectuals, which is entirely composed of essays by the editors of The Point. Click here to read all of the essays from the symposium.
We are living through a moment of national reckoning. Ugly revelations daily unravel the pieties we normally tell ourselves about America’s special character, leadership and destiny. The ship of state heaves in choppy waters, its Ahab-like captain driven by wretched obsessions. Yet the crisis is not limited to one particular political figure or any single social struggle. Rather, one feels a sense of collective dislocation, a momentous shift as Americans of all backgrounds and political persuasions feel instinctively that they are experiencing the breakup of a world they had taken for granted, the loss of assured privileges, the end of safety. Conservatives see themselves fighting a last-ditch battle for the very soul of the country—rushing the cockpit to avert catastrophe. Liberals shake their heads and mutter that they no longer recognize the country at all. Progressives swing between visions of romantic liberation and a panicked despair fearful of internal dissent. Against this backdrop of disarray, the coalition of right-wing ideologies we call Trumpism has swiftly and successfully captured a political party, the public imagination and the summits of executive power, with as yet unforeseeable long-term consequences.
Many have wondered in this bewildering and fractious atmosphere about the resurgence of interest in the life and work of James Baldwin. It’s been electrifying, and not just for critics: his books are once again best-sellers. Four years ago, the New York Times expressed dismay on the ninetieth anniversary of the writer’s birth at how “in recent years Baldwin’s presence has diminished in many high school classrooms.” True enough, but in the previous year Vintage Books had done its part to counter the trend by reissuing Baldwin’s novels in paperback. The revival gathered steam in 2015 with the founding of a scholarly journal, the James Baldwin Review. The release of Raoul Peck’s documentary I Am Not Your Negro made it seem that Baldwin had explained Ferguson, Black Lives Matter and Colin Kaepernick decades in advance. Later this year, the love story of a black couple struggling against despair in Baldwin’s 1974 novel, If Beale Street Could Talk, will be brought to the screen by Barry Jenkins, the acclaimed director of Moonlight. But above all, the center of this groundswell has been the publication of Between the World and Me in 2015, in which Ta-Nehisi Coates drew inspiration from Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time to reinvigorate a style of address that he could not believe had been so carelessly discarded.
Why Baldwin now, and with such passion? Has he become the doppelgänger of the principled Barack Obama whom voters had thought, or hoped, they had twice elected? Has the renewal of street protests since Trump’s election stirred up memories of Baldwin and the radical Sixties, as Peck’s film suggests? Undoubtedly these were proximate contributing factors. But then why weren’t the ghosts of other public figures similarly awakened? It seems that Coates got it right when he noticed something about Baldwin’s rhetorical presence and power, which had been neglected or discounted for all the wrong reasons.
The Baldwin renaissance shows that there’s a deep yearning in our society not only for sensate, intelligent, moral reasoning, but also for the prophetic witness unique to the black radical tradition. By tapping into it, Coates cleared the air in a public sphere crowded with shrill and shallow analysis. Even when people openly disagree with him, as I have, they respect and perhaps fear the rhetorical power that crackles in his prose like fire behind a furnace door. They recognize that he is carrying the torch of the black intellectual, and though they may seek to deny it, they know in their hearts that its flame is the essential, foundational ingredient of our country’s moral and political imagination.
In this symposium we are being asked to think about the role of the intellectual today. I want to place the emphasis on the practice of the black intellectual, and do so by engaging (as I have in the past) with Coates’s writings, and specifically his evaluation of Trump’s election. I hope it will be clear that I intend to discuss his work in a spirit of camaraderie and admiration. Nothing bothers me more than a “battle royal” between black male writers. (It’s hard to think of a case that doesn’t involve two men.)
The path of the black intellectual is unenviable, often appearing at cross-purposes with one’s self-understanding. It has been in a state of “crisis” since at least 1967, if one goes back to Harold Cruse. Or it is “an uncanny site of contradictions,” in the evocative words of Hortense Spillers, who no less than bell hooks has remained one of the leading black intellectuals of the last thirty years. However defined, the path is fraught on all sides. Will white readers sample you as the “black spokesman du jour,” the latest remedy for soothing their conscience? And how will you do right by a world of dire circumstances and life-threatening urgency that you are as ill-equipped to transform as most anyone, even though you might be (slightly) better positioned to speak about it? Cruse had some clear answers:
The special function of the Negro intellectual is a cultural one. He should take to the rostrum and assail the stultifying blight of the commercially depraved white middle class who has poisoned the structural roots of the American ethos and transformed the American people into a nation of intellectual dolts. He should explain the economic and institutional causes of this American cultural depravity. He should tell black America how and why Negroes are trapped in this cultural degeneracy, and how it has dehumanized their essential identity, squeezed the lifeblood of their inherited cultural ingredients out of them, and then relegated them to the cultural slums. They should tell this brainwashed white America, this “nation of sheep,” this overfed, overdeveloped, overprivileged (but culturally pauperized) federation of unassimilated European remnants that their days of grace are numbered.
This is a tall order, but also a genuine challenge. The black radical tradition in this country has never merely asked for redress or understanding, or as I have argued in these pages, strictly monetary reparations (see “Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?”). The tradition questions the nation’s self-understanding, and in so doing claims for itself—the tradition, not the person who happens to invoke it—a moral authority based on witness, suffering, perseverance and vigilance. All the disagreements in a living current of thought need not distract us from that clear understanding of a common goal, a desired destination.
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I believe Coates is absolutely right about the pervasive power of race as a mobilizing force in American politics, one whose potency has never fluctuated since the founding of our slave-holding republic. In “The First White President,” published in the tenth month of Trump’s presidency, he argued that Trump had successfully seized on the “eldritch energies” of white redemption politics, a strategy with roots in the violent overthrow of Reconstruction by Jim Crow law and lynch-mob terrorism. Trump cast himself as a new redeemer who in similar fashion would remove the anomalous stain of the first black presidency on white honor. Lacking any history of public service and boasting a staggering record of repugnant words and deeds, Trump made the restoration of white power his uniquequalification. As Coates wrote, Trump is “the first president whose entire political existence hinges on the fact of a black president. And so it will not suffice to say that Trump is a white man like all the others who rose to become president. He must be called by his rightful honorific—America’s first white president.”
But Trump’s mobilization of the politics of white grievance and ressentiment isn’t shocking or unprecedented, for him or the country. That dog-eared playbook, as Coates himself noted, is almost a cliché of American politics. More impressive and foreboding was Trump’s ability to trash an unspoken requirement of American politics: at the very least, it had been thought, a semblance of moral rectitude and responsibility was a prerequisite for entry to the highest office in the land. Trump was able to circumvent this barrier in two ways: by mocking the rhetorical conventions of prevailing political discourse, recasting them as weak and dissembling, and by couching his bid for power explicitly in utilitarian terms. Trump is all about ends; he scarcely seems to comprehend means. A lie is just a tactical move made on the way to winning—which in Trump’s middle-school-coach-slash-wise-guy-from-Queens style of delivery means something like what Charlie Sheen intended in his infamous coked-up interview rants: “Defeating the naysayers … you’re either winning or you’re losing, there’s nothing in between.”
Coates is right that Trump’s election can only be understood through the prism of race, in the light of our nation’s wrestling with its “original sin,” to employ a favored euphemism of the Obama years (a prim phrase for the consequences of a 250-year chokehold). And he is also right to argue that the violation of the symbolic order of whiteness by the election of the nation’s first black president has been a decisive factor in contemporary politics. (The Baldwin renaissance attests to this as well.) Coates is the only major public intellectual to have argued this point forcefully, and to have made it stick. When people look back and ask how thinking people grappled with the Trump presidency, “The First White President” will be in the conversation; Coates’s work will be required reading.
That said, there are positions of Coates’s that are worth debating, not in the interest of dismissing them, but in the hopes of pushing beyond the impasse that his work gravitates toward, which raises our anguish only to leave us fatally stranded. Without wading too deep into what I think is ultimately an unproductive argument over “identity politics” within the liberal left, I nevertheless think a salutary reckoning between the interests of black Americans and those of the Democratic Party is long overdue. We can’t afford to continue endorsing a Clintonite triangulation that pays lip service to loving black people when it is expedient but, because it is enthralled to moneyed interests, continues to serve a class that contains virtually none of us. This also means supporting serious and robust efforts to reform the ideological orientation of that party.
I agree with Coates that Bernie Sanders clumsily handled issues like political correctness and identity politics on the campaign trail. But painting Sanders as simply one more fixture in the constellation of white power, as Coates does in “The First White President,” is glib and dishonest. Coates’s dismissal of Sanders’s assertion that “I come from the white working class, and I am deeply humiliated that the Democratic Party cannot talk to the people where I came from” is particularly ill-considered. Coates implies that the senator, whom he eventually endorsed, wanted his party to address only or primarily white workers, a claim Coates himself does not seem to actually believe. And Coates knows that what Sanders meant is by and large true, not least because Coates has talked to plenty of black working-class Democrats who have themselves long been disillusioned with the Democratic Party’s rhetoric. Their support of Obama, as Coates perceptively chronicled, often came despite a rhetoric that alienated them. Obama’s commencement speech at Morehouse, arguably the rhetorical nadir of his presidency, was a thin and uncharitable performance that spoke to a massive divide between the hopes of the class that put him in office and the change he proposed to deliver once in power.
Yet the bitter and increasingly uncertain loyalty of blacks to the Democratic Party is an issue that is notably absent from “The First White President.” It’s true that, by demographic share, more black men than white women voted for a white woman to become president; but it’s also true that in key states, notably Michigan, the low turnout of black voters may well have made the difference and cost Clinton the election. Black votes matter, and pointing to black and brown voter share for Clinton as evidence that they are content with the party’s messaging is like mistaking a hostage for a dinner guest. Coates only mentions in passing the bitter disillusionment and disgust in the black community with the Democratic Party across several administrations. Many black Democrats have historically voted for their candidates out of a sense of duty, fidelity, distant hope and fear of what the alternative might bring. During the Obama years, their disappointment could be mitigated by the satisfaction of voting for a black president. But many did so for just that sense of satisfaction, not because they truly believed he would improve their lives.
And what are working-class whites supposed to make of the Democrats? Coates’s frustration over the national obsession with them as the main protagonist of American politics is justified. But it would be equally foolish to pretend that the largest demographic bloc in the U.S. population can simply be dispensed with by fine-tuning an electoral calculus or abolishing the electoral college. Any sincere and realistic political project will have to talk to those people, and not just talk at them—they have to be appealed to, won over; that’s what the art of politics is about. Reconstructing and uprooting racist mindsets may not be a humanly achievable goal. But to imagine that this leaves us hostage to a fate we can do nothing about drastically underestimates the thick and complicated field of social relations. Women radicalized by the rise of Trumpism are identifying common concerns across racial lines; on a range of issues the young (most notably in Black Lives Matter protests) increasingly demonstrate a racially integrated front; the working poor, black and white, and concerned environmentalists all share an interest in securing a right to clean public water, clean air and quality health care. The best answer to white supremacy is to go about creating what it fears. It’s to do the work of building solidarity, even in the form of antagonistic cooperation; to link struggles and build up popular-front movements that speak to the interests of the downtrodden and disinherited, who though unequal in their access to the American creed (a fact whites are all too often papering over with banalities like “all lives matter!”) nevertheless have more to gain by uniting against the powerful than they do from pointing fingers at each other.
Should the Democrats be ashamed of the way they speak to thesepeople? In a word, yes. “Deplorables” is not a word one uses to address the hopes, frustrations or fears of working-class people, white or black. It is straight out of the lexicon of upwardly mobile snobbery and was justifiably perceived as such when Clinton used it at a banquet dinner at Cipriani. Coates isn’t wrong to chide certain white liberals, but can he really fail to see that this kind of overt contempt and explicit class warfare has political implications and electoral consequences too? Are we supposed to understand that the election was a referendum on race to the exclusion of the appalling lack of empathy and basic honesty in the rhetorical playbook of the political party claiming the moral high ground? Why isn’t the honest reckoning Ta-Nehisi Coates calls for one in which all of these things are on the table?
Consider the following sentence from “The First White President”: “White workers are not divided by the fact of labor from other white demographics; they are divided from all other laborers by the fact of their whiteness.” Coates is making a point about the demographic composition of the Democratic Party. But it’s unclear whether he really means to refer only to workers voting for Democrats. The interpretation we’re encouraged to accept, especially given the thrust of the rest of the essay, is that the sentence simply holds for white working-class Americans, period. Yet some of the evidence Coates cites in his own essay seems to undermine that first clause. For instance, the wide gap in educational attainment of a college degree between Trump and non-Trump white voters is quite obviously a substantial marker of a class divide. One could draw up a list of other data points including incarceration rates and geographic mobility, but it’s not really necessary, because Coates isn’t saying that a white working class doesn’t exist; he’s saying that a virtuous white working class, unmotivated by racism, is a myth, one chiefly created and perpetuated by wealthy white liberals with a bad conscience. I entirely agree.
Still, this moment in his essay is worth examining more closely. Why can’t both halves of Coates’s sentence be true? That white workers are divided from other whites by their class rank, and that they are also divided from all other laborers by their whiteness? What stands in the way of an overlapping conjunction of class and racial markers, as opposed to a story that Coates feels he needs to tell about the triumph of one over the other? The answer most readily supplied by the structure of his essay is that he’s engaged in a battle with commentators and journalists whom he sees, often quite rightly, as de facto apologists for white working-class racism; if they will overstate the case of class, he must counter with the overstatement of race. It’s understandable as a matter of tactics, and in a loud and diffuse public sphere perhaps it is necessary to get a point across.
I can’t help thinking that Coates wastes too much of his energy battling with the likes of Mark Lilla, David Frum and George Packer, who, setting aside the question of sympathies, demonstrate no understanding or serious study of the black intellectual tradition that he is advancing. What’s the reward of getting bogged down in disputes with them? Why not instead use the power of the megaphone to engage with radical projects that matter to black America? Remind the nation that children are still being washed and fed from bottled water in Flint, Michigan. Examine the efforts of Ras Baraka to bring change to the city of Newark or Chokwe Antar Lumumba’s grassroots political mobilization in Jackson, Mississippi. Shine a light on the importance of HBCUs, and drive investment and donations to them. Work together to advance mutually reinforcing causes, as Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, one of the most important rising voices in black intellectual life, has urged us to do, by linking guns, school shootings and the fight for black lives. Are there really no movements that broach these issues while appealing across social categories that we can encourage, amplify and learn from?
The good news is that there are. The bad news is that they must fight a culture that is so morally and intellectually bankrupt it defies satire. Even I struggled to fathom the depth of corporate America’s nihilism and depravity as I watched it loot and vandalize the speech of Martin Luther King, Jr. in order to sell Dodge trucks during the Super Bowl, a feat that could be a gag line in a Paul Beatty novel. The moral opposite, the opponent of such spiritual death, does exist, however—and it is no coincidence that it seeks to return and renew the work King was doing when he was murdered fifty years ago at the height of a never-completed campaign to dismantle unnecessary poverty, disenthrall the state from militarism and dislodge the power of avarice and racial hatred from our politics.
The Poor People’s Campaign of 2018 has issued “a national call for moral revival” and already begun mobilizing, descending upon state capitol buildings across the country to peacefully protest and make their voices heard. Led by the Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, the movement has grown out of the “Moral Mondays” protests supported by the NAACP that began in North Carolina in 2013 in response to legislation proposed by the newly elected Republican governor, Pat McCrory, that would restrict voter registration, limit Medicaid expansion and deregulate the public schools. The tactics of the Poor People’s Campaign are relatively modest—so far it has attempted to deliver letters to congressional leaders and staged rallies to petition the government for redress. But the possibility of changing the discourse, of bringing the issue of poverty instead of “hardworking Americans” into focus, the repurposing and re-centering of an ethical and spiritual impulse to collective action—these are deeply significant interventions in our current climate.
On April 2, 2017 Reverend Barber delivered a sermon at Riverside Church in New York City. “When Silence Is Not an Option” paid homage to King’s April 4, 1967 Riverside address, “A Time to Break Silence.” Exactly one year before his assassination, King publicly broke with the Johnson administration by denouncing the war in Vietnam, calling for “a radical revolution of values” and warning that “when machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” Thundering from the pulpit half a century on, the Reverend Barber reminded his audience of this radical King and, by way of the biblical parable of the valley of the dry bones, he enjoined them to breathe life into the dry bones scattered across the country who represent “the people who believe the forces of injustice have won … people who said, ‘I never thought this could happen in my nation’ … those who are poor who have been told poverty is their own fault … African Americans who see mean and power-drunk politicians working to take away voting rights.”
Speaking out in defense of those who have lost hope, and indeed about conditions and situations deemed supposedly hopeless, is our moral responsibility:
Silence is not an option because we must have a living word … not just an analysis of the pain, but a word that points us toward the kind of subversive hope that gives people the possibility to fight up out of valleys of dry bones. We must dare to raise the question: Is America possible? … And then we must say yes, and join our place among the generations before us who faced and had to raise the same questions against odds that were much greater than the ones we face today. If they said something in the face of slavery, if they said something in the face of Jim Crow, if people said something in the face of the Holocaust, if they said something in the face of apartheid, surely we can say something and sound a living word.
Ta-Nehisi Coates is not wrong about the white redemption politics of Trump or the importance of racial animus and its role in his rise to power. Nor is he wrong to say that it’s also the central dialectic of American history, conditioning and revealing our most intense contradictions, our most vicious crimes, our unique endurance, our character and our fate. But his analysis always seems to end precisely where I think we ought to begin: where the tradition of black radical organizing and subversive hope has taken up the burden that the white leaders of this country have, since 1787, simply kicked down the road. What of our magnificent insistence that we will pull this country into righteousness and justice by our own hands, by our own words and deeds and witness, by any means necessary? Not out of naïve optimism about the grand intellectual project of the Enlightenment; not out of a sentimental faith in the innate goodness of our former masters; not out of a facile comfort in providence or a self-loathing desire to improve ourselves; not because the universe necessarily bends in a hopeful direction, whatever that might mean.
Our tradition impels us and gives us confidence quite simply because our souls look back in wonder; because we are endowed at birth with that special vertigo inherited from our foremothers and fathers; how they got over; how they came through “the blood-stained gate”; how they made a way out of no way; what it cost to be alive; to be unbroken in spirit; to know the value of freedom; to know one another’s beauty in a world ceaselessly mocking and denigrating its dignity; and yes, to laugh like Zora and sharpen our oyster knives: the price of the ticket paid.
A little over a century ago, W. E. B. Du Bois prodded white America: “Your country? How came it yours?” He continued: “Around us the history of the land has centred for thrice a hundred years; out of the nation’s heart we have called all that was best to throttle and subdue all that was worst.” That “we” is a proud black people whose labor and indomitable determination made the very notion of American greatness possible.
One should never underestimate the force of black love for this country. Not for its flag, or its army, or its anthem, or even its supposedly hallowed parchments and pageants; but the love for the people—the everyday people of America which is so obvious in the gift of our music, our irrepressible desire to see people free to be themselves, free from bondage of every kind. It is, as Baldwin understood, a love that is greater than the sum of all the violence directed against it, the rash of slander and injustice that ever threatens to break out and destroy the black soulfulness that proves the foundational lie of American slavery and the mentalities slavery bequeathed.
The pragmatic question today is how to return the great force of this tradition into our political body, into our political culture, our rhetoric, our candidates, our meetings and conversations, our workplaces and relationships. We have a moral language and a popular tongue at our disposal—but we need to learn to use it again. The language of our politics should come from the street, not from think tanks, think pieces or the academy. Our ordinary words are already spiritual and moral; we can carry them into the public square and be respectful and confident, open and engaged, not fearful, controlling or defensive. And for those who doubt whether this can come to pass, or believe mine is simply another empty rhetorical exercise, I would ask you to look to the Poor People’s Campaign of 2018; listen to the folks who are assembled under its banner; consider their backgrounds; listen to how they talk; listen to the Reverend Barber sermonize; ask yourself if you really believe these people assembled in moral indignation are wrongheaded; ask yourself what would be possible if ever such a movement swept like a prairie fire through the nation.
I do not doubt the specter of white supremacy is a clear and present danger. But I also know the song-lit race that American slavery ignited carries an even more powerful and precious light, and it cannot be put out.
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What the ICC can learn from Sam Warburton's red card in the Rugby World Cup semi-final
Sport at the top-level is often decided by the slenderest of margins through a flash of genius or an individual error and sometimes a combination of the two.
If Shane Warne hadn't put down a fairly straightforward chance to repreive Kevin Pietersen at The Oval in 2005, Australia would have gone on to the level the most tumultuous of Ashes encounters and there would have been no urinating in the garden at 10 Downing Street, no flag-waving celebrations in Trafalgar Square and no MBEs.
Instead, Pietersen made the most of his lucky escape to score the most thrilling of maiden Test hundreds and Warne, who had been so magnificent in Australia's defence of the Ashes was left to rue the one that got away. That is how sport should be.
However, when the individual error is down to a match official especially in the rarified atmosphere of a World Cup semi-final then defeat is all the harder to take. The decision of Ireland's half-French referee Alain Rolland to send off Welsh skipper in the 17th minute of a thunderous semi-final on Saturday was just plain wrong.
Even with 14 men, Wales were still by far the superior side. This made Rolland's decision all the more galling. With their inspirational talisman, it is not inconceivable that Wales would have marched onto their first World Cup final by a 15-20 point margin such was the gap between the sides. Instead, a poor French side that was beaten by Tonga and has only performed well in the tournament for 40 minutes against England will fight for the sport's biggest prize next Saturday.
Ironically, Rugby is the sport that pioneered the use of technology to help eradicate human error from its officials. If Rolland had resisted the temptation to make a hasty decision, he could have gone to his touch judges or video referee to consult and consider and most importantly given himself time for the emotion of the incident to die down.
He would have then learnt that although Warburton's tackle appeared to be dangerous on first viewing, the fact that it wasn't malicious nor did the open-side fling Vincent Clerc to the floor with murderous intent meant that the right decision was a penalty to France and at most a yellow card for Warburton.
Rolland should have made use of the technology at his disposal and so should the ICC, whose u-turn on making the use of DRS mandatory was announced last week at the behest of the all-powerful BCCI. Technology is not perfect, because it doesn't capture everything and the final interpretation is still down to a human being, but it does reduce the number of mistakes and this has to be the key point.
Warburton and a nation of dragons would surely agree.
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Agree entirely...except for the bit about France playing a good half against England - that was England playing badly rather than France playing well!
The implementation of the UDRS (or DRS which they eventually wanted it known as - even the name wasn't correct to start with!) has been disasterous. That doesn't mean that it's not a vital part of the game moving forwards though. Perhaps an understanding of change management wouldn't go amiss at the ICC - in private business such a bungled attempt to implement something new but inevitable would have seen the departure of those leading the company.
Until cricket administration sets itself higher standards we'll continue going from problem to problem...
Posted by: Ed Lamb | Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 13:26
You're right Ed, England's effort at the RWC was truly awful if not quite as bad as the ICC's continuing ineptitude. Any more u-turns and a place at the cabinet table in the Coalition government would be their's for the taking!
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Turkey has remained target of international scheming since 2016’s failed coup attempt, scholar says
Ali Murat Alhas | 16.08.2018
Said Ahmad Penjweny, Iraqi cleric
By Mazin Majeed Asaad Baqal
ERBIL, Iraq
Said Ahmad Penjweny, an Iraqi cleric who represents the International Union of Muslim Scholars in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region, has called on the Muslim world to support Turkey against recent speculative attacks on its economy and currency.
Penjweny told Anadolu Agency on Thursday that Turkey had remained the target of international and regional scheming since the failure of 2016’s coup plot against it.
“This economic war is just another part of the conspiracy against the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,” he said.
“The heroism shown by Erdogan -- and the people’s noble support of the government -- will bring shame to the perpetrators, both here and in the hereafter, just like what happened in the failed coup attempt."
According to Penjweny, neither Egypt nor the Arab Gulf States enjoy such a strong bond of love between public and government as is seen in Turkey.
“There is no love lost between public and government in these countries,” he said. “The people of these countries have been angered by the campaigns waged against Turkey and pray that the dark cloud will dissipate soon.”
“If the [2016] coup attempt in Turkey had succeeded,” he added, “the Turkish people would be worse off than their counterparts in Egypt, Palestine and the Gulf.”
Penjweny urged Muslim states to stand by Turkey, noting that countries like the U.S. would continue to “play” in the region unless the Muslim world -- as the defenders of freedom and justice -- closed ranks against foreign interference and hegemony.
“U.S. President Donald Trump is a paper tiger,” he asserted, adding that weak Middle Eastern governments had allowed the U.S. to maintain its hegemonic position unchallenged.
“The U.S. seems invincible to those prepared to surrender, but it is nothing,” he added. “God willing, these incidents [i.e., speculative attacks on Turkey’s economy] will only serve to shorten its lifespan.”
Turkey-U.S. relations took a nosedive on Aug. 1, when Washington imposed sanctions on Turkey’s interior and justice ministers after Ankara refused to release an American pastor who faces terrorism-related charges in Turkey.
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The industry body for magazines, The Magazine Publishers of Australia (MPA), is today revealing a new brand positioning and name for the group, called Magazine Networks.
The industry body is made up of publishers: Bauer Media, NewslifeMedia and Pacific Magazines, with the concept for the new brand being centred around a research project which was designed to understand the role that magazines play in the lives of consumers today.
As well as the new name, the body will also be launching a trade campaign with the tagline ‘passion, response’, as well as a newly redesigned website.
Magazine Networks chairman and Pacific Magazines CEO, Peter Zavecz, says: “The rebrand signifies how magazines are truly multi-platform brands, with a network of engaged audiences across platforms.
“Trust in our professional curation of content accompanied by high levels of engagement continues to differentiate the magazine medium. We have a clear role to play in the media mix and it’s high time this was recognised,” he added.
The research conducted by Fiftyfive5 analysed readers’ perceptions of print and online magazines across key market categories by surveying their levels of engagement, influence and response to purchase. Mary Ann Azer, executive director of Magazine Networks explained that magazines have a “clear role to play in igniting brand response, directing brand response and activating it”.
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Magazine Networks is the second industry body to reshape its brand positing in the past few months, with the newspaper industry body also coming up with the new name of NewsMediaWorks. The moves was also done to highlight the multi-media offering of modern day newspaper brands.
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In this issue, you’ll see reviews of 30 books published in 2017 that members of WORLD’s books committee heartily recommend. You won’t see any beer recommendations, but in the 21st century beer and books have in common both the letter B and an industry description: bipolar. Small presses and craft beer are common, and so is production by massive conglomerates.
Five big corporations—Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House (which includes Doubleday, Knopf, and Pantheon), Holtzbrinck (a German publishing house that includes Macmillan), Hachette Livre (a French group that publishes Basic Books and Twelve), and HarperCollins (part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. that includes Zondervan, Thomas Nelson, HarperOne, and Broadside Books)—control much of American book publishing. Those companies published 10 of the books on our short lists of excellent reading.
And yet, small presses publish some good books, and long-lived Christian publishing houses like Crossway, Baker, Moody, and P&R have maintained their independence. So have conservative entities like Encounter Books and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, moderate organizations like the Philanthropy Roundtable, and the Darwin-criticizing Discovery Institute. These smaller organizations published 12 of the books on our short lists.
The remaining eight books come from university and educational publishers: Princeton, Oxford, and Stanford universities, and Houghton Mifflin and Transaction. We are not reviewing fiction in this issue: Since novel tastes and tolerances among our readers vary particularly widely, we’d need more than a two-page spread to dive into nuances, and will do that in our June summer reading issue. For now, here are authors, titles, and publishers of our nonfiction 30:
Book of the Year in our “Understanding America” category is Peter Cove’s Poor No More (Transaction). Others in that short list: Karl Zinsmeister, The Almanac of American Philanthropy (Philanthropy Roundtable); Benjamin Barton and Stephanos Bibas, Rebooting Justice (Encounter); Daniel Drezner, The Ideas Industry (Oxford); Henry Olsen, The Working Class Republican (Broadside); and Gene Dattel, Reckoning with Race (Encounter).
In the “Understanding the World” category, Anne Applebaum’s Red Famine (Doubleday) is our Book of the Year. Also in the short list: Emma Reyes, The Book of Emma Reyes (Penguin); Paul Kengor, A Pope and a President (Intercollegiate Studies Institute); Ian Johnson, The Souls of China (Pantheon); Walter Scheidel, The Great Leveler (Princeton); and Condoleezza Rice, Democracy (Twelve).
Our “History” category leads with Moshe Halbertal and Stephen Holmes, The Beginning of Politics (Princeton), and follows with Victor Davis Hanson, The Second World Wars (Basic); John Cogan, The High Cost of Good Intentions (Stanford); Norman Ohler, Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich (Houghton Mifflin); Eric Metaxas, Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World (Viking); and Yuri Slezkine, The House of Government (Princeton).
The “Origins” category is for books exploring the creation/evolution battle, which is the most significant worldview clash of our time outside those concerning theology itself. As in all these categories, we looked for books that intelligent nonspecialists—that’s most WORLD members—could understand. Our Book of the Year is Tom Bethell’s Darwin’s House of Cards (Discovery). Others on that short list: J. Scott Turner, Purpose & Desire (HarperOne); Jonathan Wells, Zombie Science (Discovery); and two multiauthored books, Theistic Evolution (Crossway) and Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design (Zondervan).
In our final “Accessible Theology” category, we again spotlight books for thoughtful laypeople rather than theologians. David Gibson’s Living Life Backward (Crossway) is our Book of the Year. Our short list includes Nathan Busenitz, Long Before Luther (Moody); Kenneth Samples, God Among Sages (Baker); Brett McCracken, Uncomfortable (Crossway); Christopher Wright, Hearing the Message of Daniel (Zondervan); and Thomas Robinson, Who Were the First Christians? (Oxford).
You’ll find reviews of all these books on the next 10 pages. Our special section ends with two more pages, one on a book from 2016 that we overlooked last year and a final page on our Series of the Year, P&R’s Reformed Expository Commentary, with a specific look at its newly published commentary on Revelation.
Marvin Olasky
Marvin is editor in chief of WORLD and dean of World Journalism Institute. He joined WORLD in 1992 and has also been a university professor and provost. He has written more than 20 books, including Reforming Journalism. Marvin resides with his wife, Susan, in Austin, Texas. Follow him on Twitter @MarvinOlasky.
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Parents, teachers demand answers amid embezzlement accusations against Mesa Public Schools superintendent
Parents, teachers and concerned community members packed into the school board's first meeting since news broke of the superintendent's departure.
Author: Bianca Buono
Published: 10:56 PM MST November 26, 2019
Updated: 10:58 PM MST November 26, 2019
The Mesa Public Schools Board is still not saying why it’s in the process of firing Superintendent Ember Conley.
Parents, teachers and concerned community members packed into Tuesday night’s board meeting hoping for answers. It was the first board meeting since news broke of Conley’s departure.
“I’m upset, like, I’m really angry,” said Joanne Hathaway, a teacher in the district.
Hathaway is disappointed with what she’s seen and heard over the past week.
“I’m disappointed in the superintendent. I feel that she has damaged relationships beyond repair,” Hathaway said.
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Hathaway among others in the meeting expressed concern over the timing of the announcement about Conley. She and other teachers just finished campaigning for a $54 million taxpayer-funded budget override, which passed.
The board is also not commenting on Conley’s possible severance settlement, which could be more than $500,000.
“We understand the community’s strong interest in the superintendent’s status and the district’s leadership. The district does not, however, comment on pending personnel matters,” said Robert Haws, an attorney representing the Mesa Public Schools district.
In light of controversy with Conley, there has been scrutiny surrounding spending after everyone on her executive team each received a $22,500 bump in pay, among other perks, earlier this year.
A criminal complaint has been filed with the Attorney General’s office alleging Conley committed theft and embezzlement. It says she gave raises and bonuses to top administrators that were higher than those approved by the board.
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During Tuesday’s meeting, the board president disputed part of that complaint.
“It is actually not bonuses. Every year we look at an increase as a result of inflation, inflationary increase, every year for all employees,” said Board President Elaine Miner.
Members of the board seemed frustrated and disappointed in the lack of community trust and are trying to improve transparency. But their answers were not satisfying to many who showed up to the meeting.
“I just feel like we didn’t get the answers we all deserve,” Rebecca Trejo, a teacher in the district.
“You can argue semantics all you want, but it was extra money that they get for doing what?” said Hathaway.
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The reason why liquor and cannabis stores are considered essential services in Manitoba
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Published Monday, November 23, 2020 5:57PM CST Last Updated Tuesday, November 24, 2020 9:33AM CST
A display of beer is pictured at a Manitoba Liquor Store in an undated image
WINNIPEG -- With high COVID-19 case counts, many in Manitoba are asking why certain businesses are still open – including liquor and cannabis stores.
On Monday, Dr. Brent Roussin, Manitoba’s chief provincial public health official, said taking liquor stores and cannabis stores off the list of the essential services and shutting them down could cause more harm than good.
“Unintended consequences of not allowing access to these types of products,” Roussin said.
For more than 40 years, Mitch Bourbonniere, a community outreach worker, has been working with those who are impacted by mental health and addiction. He says those untended consequences can be physical, emotional, and psychological withdrawals, and it could be life-threatening.
“Addiction has no demographic. Anyone and everyone can be afflicted by addiction in the wrong circumstance,” he said.
Addiction is an illness, he said, that causes intense suffering usually brought on by trauma. If the stores are closed, people are most likely to turn to more dangerous substances.
“Whether it is home brew, whether it is crack, whether it is meth, prescription drugs, anything they can get their hands on, if they can’t get a safe, viable, government-run product,” Bourbonniere said.
Bourbonniere also says closing stores opens the door for organized crime to take over the sales.
“People are absolutely going to get desperate and go to organized crime, they are going to go to the street, they are going to go to gangs,” said Bourbonniere.
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The Kalamazoo Wings proved there is certainly no place like home, as the K-Wings defeated the Wheeling Nailers in game three of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals with a decisive 5-1 victory to take a two games to one lead in the Best-of-Five Series.
Keeping up with the trend of the first two games of the series, Kalamazoo scored the game’s first goal. Crashing in from the point, Elgin Reid (1st) registered his first point of the playoffs 14:35 into the opening period knocking in Dwight Helminen rebound.
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Back to basics? Campaigning in a Tory majority Parliament
Posted on February 19, 2020 by Richard Darlington — 3 Comments
Amid all the headlines about the historic nature of the 2019 election result, campaigners in charities and think tanks would be forgiven for missing just how radical it might turn out to be for the story of their careers. You’d need to be in your fifties to have any professional experience of operating in an environment where a Conservative government commands such a stable and substantive majority in Parliament.
I wrote for New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) on the lessons and opportunities of campaigning in a hung Parliament, for the NPC Ignites conference last year. Maybe you can dust that blog off in four or five years because the next half decade is going to be very different.
The Coalition years were often about finding wedge issues, when voters were tight. The hung Parliament, in which Teressa May was held hostage by the European Research Group, was about gathering enough cross-party support to build Parliamentary roadblocks. But the first half of the twenty twenties is going to be all about the dynamics within the executive. Whitehall is once again going to dominate Westminster.
Those who worked in Whitehall during the late nineties and noughties will remember the Tony Blair-Gordon Brown dynamic as an all-encompassing bipolar hinge. But we are only at the beginning of understanding how the Tory tribes are going to skirmish during this Parliament. Beyond Brexit, the free-marketeers saw an opportunity to keep on Taking Back Control of economic policy. But the working class Blue Collar Conservatives now feel equally vindicated and can plausibly argue that to keep control of the ‘Red Wall’ of former Labour heartlands is going to require more than just spending promises. One Nation Tories seeking the centre ground will point to just how many seats there are in which the Lib Dems are now in second place, and how many seats in the south are accelerating a demographic journey to multicultural, social liberalism.
Take, as an example, Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary and the stand-in at PMQs. He was one of the free-market authors of Britain Unchained, but is number two in a government established via an electoral coalition that includes small towns left behind by globalisation and suffocated by a decade of austerity. In his own backyard, he’s gone from a comfy five figure majority in leafy Surrey to having to defend a marginal seat against the Lib Dems next time around. Having finished fifth in the Tory leadership race, but knowing that probably only the former Chancellor Sajid Javid will run again, this ambitious 40-something is going to be pulled in at least three directions.
This is the ‘big picture’ backdrop for the big beasts in Cabinet, who are going to be taking all the big decisions that the Prime Minster delegates. And, from what we know about the executive style of the former Mayor of London, Boris is prepared to delegate a lot. When he’s not delegating to Cabinet Ministers, he will be delegating to No10 staff. So, reading the long reads in the Sunday papers and signing up to SW1 focused daily email briefings in going to be vital in understanding who at No10 is briefing against who. The real skill will to be able to work out why.
If your organisation is dominated by well-meaning progressives who are broadly on the left (and let’s face it, that’s most charities), the best ten minutes you can spend each day is listening to the Spectator’s Coffee House Shots podcast. That will give you a rapid summary of how “Tory figures” (which is Katy Balls’ catchphrase) see the top issues if the day. When James Forsyth tells you what Cabinet Ministers are thinking, that’s basically because they’ve told him.
And don’t think that those Cabinet Ministers can’t be influenced by your charity campaign. They can. You just have to understand the trajectory of their careers and the of rhythm of their week.
Most politicians are genuinely motivated by a desire to serve their community and country. But I think you can divide the career position of just about every government minister (or politician, for that matter) into three types:
Those looking up – ambitious for promotion and calculating every move as pre-positioning for their next step on the career ladder.
Those looking down – worried about the latest ‘next big thing’ that’s going to come along and eat their lunch, they are often paranoid about being sacked or demoted.
Those looking out – they know they have already peaked in their political career and are now looking for a legacy, something they can be remembered for when their career eventually ends, as all do, in failure.
No one thinks that politicians work nine to five but very few really understand how their weekly rhythm. On Monday morning they often travel to London from their constituency. Monday to Thursday they are held hostage by their diaries of back-to-back meetings and late-night votes, usually in SW1 but always in London. On Thursday night they travel back to their constituency and on Friday and Saturday morning they take the pulse of public opinion. Sunday is a day for reintroducing themselves to their families.
Friday and Saturday, in the constituency, is when politicians are at their most accessible to campaigns and are at their most receptive to campaigners. But if those campaigns do not resonate with their constituents and if those campaigners do not at least appear to be voters who might change their minds, they are simply dismissed.
This is how the culture war is playing out in the UK. Six million people signed a petition to revoke Article 50. A million people took to the streets to call for a People’s Vote. And Boris Johnson dismissed thousands of people joining the Extinction Rebellion as “crusties who haven’t had a shower.” If people look like ‘other people’s people’, from a politician’s perspective, they are dismissed, irrespective of how many of them there are.
In the coming years, campaigns need local resonance and they need to resonate in Conservative held constituencies: either in the safe (mainly) southern seats of Cabinet ministers or in the (mainly) northern seats of the new 2019 intake.
Richard Darlington is Campaign Director for 25 leading UK NGOs and an Original founder of WonkComms
Post was commissioned by, and first published by, New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) here
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Tunisia files cases against Ben Ali
The former president, living in exile in Saudi Arabia, faces charges of voluntary manslaughter and drug trafficking.
The government has called on Interpol to help arrest Zine El Abidine Ben Ali [EPA]
Tunisian authorities have prepared 18 legal cases against former president Zine El Abidine
Ben Ali, including “voluntary manslaughter” and “drug trafficking”, the state TAP news agency reported.
The revelation was made by Justice Minister Lazhar Karoui Chebbi in an interview aired on state television on Wednesday, TAP said.
Other charges include “conspiring against the state” and “drug use.”
Arsalan Iftikhar speaks to Al Jazeera on the charges against the former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
The news agency quoted Chebbi as saying a total of 44 legal cases had been prepared by his ministry against Ben Ali, his family and his inner circle.
Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia after he was toppled by mass protests on January 14 after 23 years in power. Several members of his family and security and some of his closest allies were detained shortly after he was forced out.
The caretaker authorities, trying to assert their authority and gain legitimacy in the eyes of protesters who forced the transition, are attacking the vestiges of his long rule.
Chebbi said the Justice Ministry was exploring legal ways to extradite Ben Ali from Saudi Arabia to face trial. He gave no further details.
Tunisia announced on January 26 that it had asked Interpol to help arrest Ben Ali, his wife Leila Trabelsi and other members of the family who fled the country during the uprising.
The interim authorities appointed a new government on March 7 and disbanded the state security apparatus, notorious for human rights abuses under Ben Ali.
The former president’s brother, Slah Ben Ali, was arrested on Sunday in the city of Sousse.
Tunisia seeks arrest of ex-leader
Ousted President Ben Ali is wanted to stand trial for theft and currency offences, says the nation’s justice minister.
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Do you have a favorite sports anime? Or perhaps not a favorite, but a few you did kind of like? What are they? Tell us about them. Here are some of mine, in no particular order: Big Windup. The star pitcher for a losing high school baseball team always gets the blame for their losses. ...
Poll: Youjo Senki: Imperial Magic Vs Russi Technology
In the Saga of Tanya the Evil Movie, the Imperial Military that relies entirely on mages armed with only bolt-action rifles is pitted against the Russi Federation to the east which uses no mages and relies only on technology which is mass produced in large quantity by the Federation because of its...
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What is your favorite anime/manga?
A note from Gjallarhorn: We get one of these "What is your favorite anime/manga?" threads once every two months or so, which then sinks into the abyss and is replaced by another. I'm putting a knife in the back of this pattern, and stickying this thread as the "official" version of the thread. ...
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Favorite Road Anime
What is a road anime? It is an anime about characters who travel along the road. Not useful, huh? OK, it is an anime where the main character(s) are on a journey, and that’s the plot or main plot device. There aren’t too many of these which come to mind, so let me broaden the definition to...
Great Military Anime and Japanese Video Games
What Military Anime and Japanese Video Games Would You Recommend? Here are the categories of military fiction: Military Historical - set in an actual war from history. Military Science Fiction - war in a science fiction setting. Military Fantasy - war in a fantasy setting.
What is the best unpopular anime you can watch?
Hello everyone I watched a lot of wonderful and famous anime, and now I don't know what I will watch :( So I hope that you would suggest some wonderful and unpopular anime for me.
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Best friends Tried to Kill Them
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Stalkers, psychos and Perverts
So who are your favorite stalkers, psychos, and perverts in anime? And by "stalker" I mean anyone who follows another character around without their permission or sometimes even their knowledge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jpKC1GdUYo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5FCAl8cSP4 ...
Animation in Japanese Music Videos
Here's some fun. Let's look at Japanese music videos which incorporate animation. I did not post this under the music tab because it is not just the music I am interested in, but the animation as well. By the way, openings and closings for anime series, or home made fan videos using scenes...
Anime Match Maker
Let's play a game. It's called Anime Matchmaker. Take two characters from two different anime series or movies, and match them up. I'll start it off, and then you post one. Don't be shy. Don't just come here to read then leave. Contribute! I propose matching Lucy from Elfin Lied with...
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Top 10 Demon Characters
Here is my Top Ten Demon Characters in Anime. By demon, I mean any supernatural character who is not a god, and who does not fit into other supernatural categories, such as a vampire or witch. So from the bottom up: 10. Kyubey from Puella Magi Madoka Magica. I expect a little push back...
Cyberpunk is Real
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Favorite Buddy Anime
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Anime Sidekicks
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Drone Package Delivery Will be Fast. Here’s How to make it Green.
Carefully deployed package delivery by drones could reduce energy use and cut greenhouse gas emissions. Realizing the environmental benefits of drone delivery will require smaller drones, cleaner sources of electricity to charge their batteries, and less warehouses built to support them.
By Prachi Patel
Package delivery by drones is expected to take off in the next few years. That should reduce energy use and cut greenhouse gas emissions, but only if done with care, new research published in Nature Communications finds.
The environmental impact of drone delivery depends on the size and efficiency of drones, the source of electricity used to recharge their batteries, and, most importantly, on the warehouses that would have to be built to support them.
Small drones carrying packages up to 0.5 kilogram in weight would have lower emissions than any truck or van, researchers calculated. But larger drones carrying packages weighing up to 8 kg could generate much more emissions than trucks in regions with fossil fuel-powered electricity.
“To realize the environmental benefits of drone delivery, regulators and firms should focus on minimizing extra warehousing and limiting the size of drones,” researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Carnegie Mellon University write in the paper.
Small, battery-powered drones will mostly replace large diesel trucks and vans to cover the last few miles from warehouses to customers. A previous study has shown that drones emit less carbon dioxide than trucks when they cover short distances and deliver fewer packages.
In the new work, researchers consider the energy use of delivery vehicles but also the logistics system built around them. Companies like Amazon are promising a delivery time of 30 minutes from the time of purchase. That will require building a several local warehouses that stock goods. So while drones use less energy per package than diesel trucks, the additional energy used by warehouses waters down that benefit, the researchers found.
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The team estimated energy use and greenhouse gas emissions per package delivery from a truck and two different types of drones: four-rotor and eight-rotor. They included emissions from warehouse energy use in both scenarios. For drone emissions, they took into account electricity grids in two regions with different fuel mixes: California, where the electric grid is cleaner, and Missouri, which has a high-carbon-intensity grid.
Small drones emitted less carbon dioxide than trucks and vans in both states, according to the results. But the impact of larger drones was fuzzy because the carbon intensity of the grid mattered more. In this case, drones had 9 percent less emissions than truck delivery in California, but had 77 percent higher emissions than truck delivery in Missouri.
“The focus of drones should be on light packages, with heavier packages left for ground vehicles,” the researchers say. “The continued reduction in the carbon intensity of the electricity system, coupled with energy efficiency improvements in associated commercial buildings, are essential to realize the potential environmental benefits of freight delivery by drones.”
Source: Joshuah K. Stolaroff et al. Energy use and lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of drones for commercial package delivery. Nature Communications. 2018.
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Man and dog: where did domestication occur?
Man and dog built their special relationship millennia ago through the gradual process of domestication of the wolves. From an initial sporadic contact between humans and canines the relationship evolved to one of real collaboration for mutual survival. A fascinating puzzle which has been missing some key pieces concerning where the domestication took place, the focus of recent research.
This ‘meeting’ of man and dog: where did it occur?
To conclusively establish the place where the crucial domestication of the canine first occurred, scholars at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, conducted a study, which was recently published in the scientific journal PNAS. The subjects of the research were so-called village dogs, stray dogs that over the centuries were able to mate without any limitations. In particular, they examined genetic samples from 549 dogs from 38 nations and examined DNA samples from 4,676 pure-bred dogs encompassing 161 breeds, even looking at the chromosomes the animals inherited from both parents for more accuracy. With 185,805 genetic markers available, scholars reconstructed the route taken by the domestic dog throughout the world concluding that the friendship was probably first forged in an area near Nepal and Mongolia in central Asia. From there, the research showed that domestication spread to India and south west and eastern Asia. An interesting result since theories that emerged from previous studies positioned this meeting in Europe and southern China.
Wolf and man, an ancient relationship
Wherever the centuries-old relationship formed, we should not forget that the initial contact took place between man and wolf. The latter approached man to establish a mutual hunting collaboration – a quid pro quo: the canids tracked and hunted the prey while the humans fought off dangerous carnivores. Can we talk about opportunism? In the words of biologists, this is commensalism, a kind of symbiosis in which one species derives a benefit while the other does not suffer damage. A collaboration that is far removed from the modern day man-dog relationship and that teaches us, once again, that although dog and wolf have notable differences, they both have admirable features.
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Imaging brachial plexus pathology
By James Thomas Patrick Decourcy Hallinan, MBChB; Mini N. Pathria, MD; and Brady K. Huang, MD
Brachial plexus disorders can be diagnostic challenges, owing to the region’s complex anatomy and nonspecific symptomatology. MRI remains the best modality for assessing the brachial plexus (BP), due to its superior soft-tissue contrast compared to CT or ultrasound. Trauma is the most common cause of BP dysfunction, closely followed by tumor infiltration. Infection, inflammation and iatrogenic causes are less common. This review article will provide an overview of anatomy and practical, up-to-date BP imaging techniques for general radiologists, followed by a step-wise discussion of common pathology. Clinically relevant advances such as dynamic thoracic outlet MRI will also be discussed.
This article is accredited for one SA-CME credit. Visit appliedradiology.org/SAM2 for full SA-CME information.
The BP provides motor innervation to the ipsilateral chest, shoulder, and upper limb with the exception of the trapezius, which is supplied by the spinal accessory nerve. It is divided anatomically into roots, trunks, divisions, cords, terminal and collateral branches (Figure 1). These constituents may best be recalled using this mnemonic: Radiology (roots) Technicians (trunks) Drink (divisions) Cold (cords) Brew (terminal branches) Coffee (collateral branches) —a slight divergence from the usual alcohol-based memory tools.
The BP roots arise from the C5-T1 ventral rami of the spinal cord, with variable C4 and T1 contributions. As a result, the “roots” are actually the ventral rami of the spinal nerves formed from the dorsal and ventral rootlets arising from the spinal cord.1 Although “roots” is a misnomer, the term is well established in the literature and will be used throughout this article.
The roots exit through their respective neural foramina, and travel between the anterior and middle/posterior scalene muscles in the interscalene triangle, or space (Figures 2, 3). Lateral to the middle scalene muscle the three trunks are formed: C5 and C6 combine into the upper trunk, C7 continues alone as the middle trunk, and C8 and T1 combine to form the lower trunk (Figures 2, 4). The trunks traverse posterosuperior to the subclavian artery behind the clavicle and each divides into anterior and posterior divisions within the costoclavicular space. The vessels lie inferiorly at the costoclavicular space with the subclavian vein anterior to the artery. 2,3 This space, bounded by the clavicle superiorly, subclavius muscle anteriorly, and the first rib and middle scalene muscle posteriorly, is a common site of BP and subclavian vascular compression.
The conversion of the six divisions into three cords occurs at the lateral border of the first rib (Figure 5). The cords extend into the retropectoralis minor space and can be readily identified due to their relationship to the axillary artery; The medial cord lies posteroinferiorly, lateral cord anterosuperiorly and posterior cord posterosuperiorly. The cords divide into five major terminal branches at the lateral border of the pectoralis minor: the median, ulnar, radial, musculocutaneous and axillary nerves.4,5 In addition there are numerous (~11) collateral branches that exit along the BP more proximally, eg,, suprascapular nerve from the superior trunk. Table 1 shows the innervation of the cords and terminal branches.
MR imaging protocol
Accurate visualization of the BP from the roots to terminal branches must take into consideration its oblique superomedial to inferolateral course. As such, oblique coronal and sagittal images are preferred, but not mandatory. Our protocol utilizes initial large field of view images for bilateral comparison of the brachial plexuses. These are typically performed with T1W fast spin echo images and three-dimensional T2W fat-suppressed sequences, which allows for multiplanar reconstructions. In a high-volume facility, isotropic imaging can shorten imaging time and decrease the need for custom-tailored exams.4,6
Dedicated, multiplanar, small field of view images of the affected plexus are then performed. Coronal T2W fat-saturated sequences are useful for assessment of abnormal neural edema and enlargement; T1W sagittal images are especially useful for assessment of fat planes along with surrounding bony and muscular anomalies; eg, cervical ribs. 7 High resolution, axial, pre-ganglionic, T2W images of the cervical region and nerve roots are also performed. These are useful for assessment of traumatic nerve root avulsions and pseudomeningoceles.3,5
Both 1.5T and 3T platforms may be used, with a sample protocol shown in Table 2 (For 3T only). 3T is preferred due to better resolution and signal-to-noise profile over 1.5T, with 1.5T reserved for patients with hardware or contraindications to 3T. Neurovascular surface coils or a wrap-around body coil can be utilized.
Intravenous gadolinium-based contrast is not routinely required for BP imaging as most nerve pathology is well assessed on the high-resolution, fat-suppressed T2W images. Contrast administration is typically required in cases of suspected infection or tumor infiltration. Contrast allows for more accurate assessment of disease extent, identification of drainable collections and characterization of focal masses, such as neurogenic tumors.1,4
Another common indication for imaging is thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS). The aim is to assess for the site of vascular and/or neural compression, which is typically at the costoclavicular space and may involve anomalous ribs or musculature, or fibrous bands. 4,8 Provocative maneuvers, such as arm raising and head turning, can unmask the extent and location of the compression. Bilateral coronal T1W sequences and post-contrast MR angiography are commonly performed in each position (Table 2).
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) with fiber tractography has the potential to detect microstructural abnormalities beyond the resolution of conventional, anatomic MRI sequences. It is still an experimental tool, but has been shown to detect tract disruption, infiltration and internal disorganization, which could allow for earlier diagnosis of neoplastic or inflammatory neuropathies.5,9,10
CT of the brachial plexus
CT also plays a role in the diagnosis of BP pathology. Extension of neoplastic disease into the plexus (eg, Pancoast tumor), rib and clavicle anomalies, and adjacent fractures and hematomas can be visualized. CT angiography also provides a high-resolution and rapid assessment of arterial and venous patency in trauma and TOS.
Ultrasound of the brachial plexus
Ultrasound of the BP is technically feasible, but challenging due to the complex anatomy and bony relations.11,12 In skilled hands, it is a useful bedside tool for assessing traumatic BP injury and is routinely used by anesthesiologists to perform nerve blocks.13 It is also commonly used for dynamic vascular assessment in suspected TOS.14,15 Lapeque et al (2014) provide a practical review on BP ultrasound. However, for the majority of BP injuries, MRI remains the standard examination, with ultrasound as a useful adjunct.
Brachial plexus lesions
BP lesions can be classified broadly into two categories: traumatic and non-traumatic lesions.16 Traumatic lesions form the majority of BP injuries, and are the major indication for imaging. Non-traumatic lesions are a heterogeneous group encompassing neoplastic processes, infection/inflammation and functional neurovascular compression or TOS.17
Motor vehicle accidents are responsible for the majority of traumatic BP injuries. Traumatic traction on the BP can lead to proximal spinal nerve root avulsion (pre-ganglionic) or more distal rupture (post-ganglionic).18
Clinical examination of the neurological injury should be documented promptly to determine the site and clinical course of lesions (recovery or stable deficit) and whether surgery is indicated. Upper limb paralysis is complete in approximately 75% of patients, with a supraclavicular site of injury seen in 72% of cases. 19 Delineation of the site of injury is important for prognosis and management. Pre-ganglionic injuries may require early (<3 months) reconstruction using nerve transfers, whereas postganglionic injuries may be repaired after a longer period of observation.1,5
Identification of pre-ganglionic lesions requires high-resolution 3D T2W images, which are typically viewed in the axial plane (Figure 6). Intradural nerve rootlets should be assessed for integrity from the root entry zone to the dorsal root ganglion within the neural foramen. These injuries are associated with traumatic pseudomeningoceles in 80% of cases.1,5,12 Other common associated findings in pre-ganglionic avulsion include contralateral cord displacement, syrinx, epidural hematoma and spinal cord edema. The posterior paraspinal musculature should also be assessed for denervation edema, which can occur due to a nerve root avulsion at or before the dorsal root ganglion. Stretching or incomplete avulsion of the pre-ganglionic rootlets is more challenging to diagnose, and may be suggested when there is differential enhancement of the rootlets.1,5
Post-ganglionic avulsions distal to the neural foramina typically occur proximally at the scalene triangle, but may variably involve the trunks to distal branches. These can also be partial or complete; complete ruptures are usually associated with distal nerve retraction (Figure 7). Another finding is nodular thickening and mild enhancement due to a post-traumatic neuroma in continuity. Indirect findings include formation of hematomas at the site of avulsion and denervation edema and enhancement at the shoulder girdle musculature.1,5,20
MRI is the mainstay for diagnosis, although ultrasound can provide an accessible bedside examination in critically injured patients. 11 Ultrasound can be used to assess for post-ganglionic injuries at the interscalene triangle or distal to the costoclavicular space. Thickening or discontinuity of the trunks or cords can be assessed using the contralateral side as a readily accessible control. 10,11,12 CT myelography also remains an accurate technique for assessing pre-ganglionic avulsions with clear depiction of the intradural rootlets.17,21
Plexus traction injuries in neonates are well-recognized, although they are uncommonly imaged. Traction on the superior plexus at C5-7 (Erb-Duchenne palsy) is more common than the inferior plexus at C8 and T1 (Klumpke palsy). These injuries are usually managed conservatively, with surgery reserved for those with poor functional recovery and suspected pre-ganglionic injury on imaging. 1,22
Malignant involvement of the BP is more common than primary benign lesions, and occurs in an older age group. The BP can be infiltrated by primary malignant tumors, local secondary malignancy or metastatic disease (Figure 8). Lesions arising directly from the plexus include malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors and a plethora of uncommon sarcomatous lesions (eg, fibrosarcoma or radiation induced tumors). Local malignant extension commonly occurs secondary to a Pancoast tumor at the lung apex or due to a head and neck carcinoma (Figure 9). 1,5,15
These lesions can involve multiple structures including the vertebral bodies, ribs and clavicle with compression and direct invasion of the neural and vascular structures. Clinically, there is usually pain followed by paraesthesia and weakness at the upper limb, predominantly involving the inferior trunk and spinal nerves in a Pancoast tumor. In addition, adjacent infiltration of the sympathetic chain (stellate ganglion) may result in Horner’s syndrome.6,23
Metastatic disease of the BP commonly arises in the adjacent regional lymph nodes. In particular, breast carcinoma can metastasize along the axillary and supraclavicular nodes resulting in focal masses or even diffuse plexus infiltration (Figure 10). Head and neck carcinomas and lymphoma are other common causes of metastatic infiltration.16,17
MR imaging for suspected malignant involvement should include post-contrast sequences to assess for focal masses and any perineural or leptomeningeal enhancement extending to the spinal cord. The imaging report should also document potential involvement of the ipsilateral vertebral artery, which could be further evaluated using MR angiography.1,5,6
Radiation plexopathy
Any discussion of malignant infiltration at the BP is incomplete without considering treatment complications. Radiotherapy is utilized for numerous malignancies and secondary nodal disease at the plexus, including breast, lung and head and neck carcinomas. Radiotherapy is a common cause of non-traumatic plexus injury with histology showing fibrous tissue sheathing the plexus and underlying neural degeneration. As in other forms of plexopathy, parasthesias dominate the clinical picture, with motor loss less common.1,13,17
On imaging, it is challenging to differentiate radiation plexopathy from recurrent/residual tumor. MRI of radiation plexopathy in the acute phase (<6months) appears as a non-specific plexopathy with diffuse neural thickening, T2W hyperintensity and mild enhancement (Figure 11). In the more chronic fibrotic phase MRI can demonstrate T2W and T1W hypointense thickening without a focal mass. Enhancement is variable in the fibrotic phase, again making differentiation from tumor challenging. 24 Clinical history is crucial to assess for this entity, with information such as radiation dose (less likely if less than 50Gy) and time course (peak presentation is several years after therapy) especially useful. When doubt remains, early follow-up MRI or additional FDG PET-CT, which can assess for recurrent hypermetabolic tumor, can be utilized.3,25
Numerous benign lesions can arise directly from or in the vicinity of the BP. Peripheral nerve sheath tumors (PNST) such as schwannomas and neurofibromas are the most common primary benign lesion of the BP. 26 The majority of PNST are not associated with underlying neurofibromatosis. Patients usually report a painless supraclavicular mass without parasthesia or weakness. A positive Tinel sign may be present. On imaging the lesions are usually well-circumscribed, ovoid (parallel to the course of the BP), with T2W hyperintensity and avid enhancement. A target sign may also be demonstrated (more commonly in neurofibromas) consisting of central low signal and surrounding peripheral T2W hyperintensity (Figure 12). Schwannomas may also demonstrate the salt and pepper fascicular sign, and can undergo degenerative cystic changes (ancient schwannoma).1,26
Other compressive benign lesions arising in the vicinity of the BP include lipomas, fibroproliferative conditions, and vascular lesions (eg hemangioma, arteriovenous malformations or pseudoaneurysms).24
Lipomatous lesions are well characterized on both ultrasound and MRI. On T1W and T2W images the lesions are hyperintense with loss of signal on fat suppression. Differentiating lipomas from low-grade liposarcomas remains difficult, although imaging features such as numerous thick septations, extensive non-fatty components and a large size (>10cm) suggest a more malignant potential.27
Fibroproliferative conditions can present as large masses and include fibromatosis (locally aggressive extra-abdominal desmoid tumor) and nodular fasciitis. The former is typically painless with MRI demonstrating avid enhancement, heterogeneous T2W and hypointense T1W signal and infiltrative margins. In contrast, nodular fasciitis usually presents as a markedly tender mass with similar MR signal characteristics but less marked enhancement. Surgical resection is typically curative in nodular fasciitis, whereas fibromatosis is prone to recurrence following resection and is therefore difficult to treat. For this reason, close MRI follow-up is common in fibromatosis, and may coincide with additional radiation or chemotherapy.1,5,17,28
Brachial plexitis
Inflammation of the BP, termed brachial plexitis, typically presents with acute onset of severe shoulder pain, parasthesias and delayed weakness with muscular atrophy. On clinical follow-up the typical clinical course of pain improvement followed by muscle weakness can differentiate the condition from cervical spondyloarthropathy. The supraspinatus nerve is most commonly affected (~97%) and is involved solely in half of cases.13,17
The cause of brachial plexitis remains uncertain with viral, post-vaccination or auto-immune mechanisms postulated. It is therefore usually termed acute sporadic brachial plexitis or Parsonage-Turner syndrome. 8 A subset of brachial plexitis can occur due to autosomal dominant hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy. Another condition to be aware of is chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, which is rare but classically leads to marked, diffuse thickening of the cervical nerve roots and plexus. 29
MRI is the preferred examination and in the acute phase may show denervation edema in the shoulder girdle musculature, which can progress to fatty atrophy with chronicity (Figure 13). Less commonly, MRI can show nerve root thickening and edema with increased T2W signal.17,24 Contrast administration is not strictly required, but can highlight neural enhancement, indicative of ongoing active inflammation. Practically, the major role of MRI is to exclude a compressive mass, which may require surgical intervention. Ultrasound does not have a major role in brachial plexitis, but may highlight fatty atrophy of the shoulder girdle musculature, and can also exclude compressive lesions; eg, a spinoglenoid notch cyst leading to suprascapular nerve compression.11,13
Infection of the BP is uncommon and can occur secondary to penetrating trauma or adjacent soft tissue infection, vertebral osteomyelitis, septic arthritis of the glenohumeral joint or direct extension of infection from the lung apex. In patients with suspected infection, especially the immunocompromised, there should be a low threshold for contrast-enhanced MRI. This allows for assessment of infective extent, any adjacent primary source; eg,spinal infection, and for any fluid collections, which could then be targeted for aspiration or surgical debridement. Numerous pathogens are implicated with bacterial infections most common, especially staphylococcus aureus or tuberculosis.1,5,30
Compression of the subclavian vessels and BP as they traverse the thoracic outlet may produce symptoms such as paresthesia, pain, or swelling. Three potential sites of entrapment exist: interscalene triangle, costoclavicular space (most common site of arterial compression) and the retropectoralis minor space. 8,31 The clinical evaluation of this syndrome is challenging, and provocative ultrasound and MRI can be used in tandem to aid diagnosis. Ultrasound can provide real-time evaluation of vessel stenosis or occlusion using B-mode and Doppler imaging (Figure 14). MRI can then provide high-resolution anatomical detail to highlight the site of compression (Figure 15).8,13
Provocative maneuvers typically involve arm hyperabduction, which accentuates any narrowing at the costoclavicular and retropectoralis minor spaces. The syndrome may result from a variety of causes including a cervical rib, anomalous muscle (eg, subclavius posticus muscle), clavicular fractures with callus formation, fibrous bands or neoplastic lesions.1,17,32,33,34 Diagnosis can be challenging as some degree of venous compression is apparent in most asymptomatic patients on arm abduction.35 In this regard, bilateral imaging may highlight the region of abnormal narrowing on the symptomatic side (Figure 16).
Due to the vague and non-specific symptoms of BP lesions, it is important to first exclude much more common cervical spondylotic changes. Disc bulges, osteophytes, uncovertebral and facet joint arthropathy can combine to cause cervical cord and/or nerve root compression. Although the cervical spine is covered to some degree on BP protocols, initial dedicated cervical spine MRI may identify the cause of the clinical complaint avoiding the need for the more time intensive BP examination.
The BP can be imaged in detail using dedicated MRI protocols, which allow for accurate interpretation by the radiologist. A dedicated BP protocol should include bilateral coronal and unilateral sagittal sections to identify normal anatomy and highlight pathology. A plethora of lesions occur at the BP, predominantly associated with trauma, but also including primary and secondary neoplasia, inflammation and less commonly infection. Practical reporting should include the site of the BP lesion (pre versus post-ganglionic), involved segment (eg, root, division, etc.), and any associated mass or compressive structure (eg, cervical rib). In the latter, a dedicated thoracic outlet MRI protocol in tandem with Doppler ultrasound can be used to assess dynamic changes in adjacent subclavian vascular caliber and flow.
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=='''Project Description'''==
* The main goal of this [[Mech425]] project is to design a simple, cost effective indoor light source that can be used in areas of the world that do not have access to [[electricity]] or safe [[lighting]] at night. If this design proves viable, the technical specifications as well as methodology and costs will be available to anyone who has access to the internet or to programs such as the [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Home One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Program].
* The main goal of this [[Mech425]] project is to design a simple, cost effective indoor light source that can be used in areas of the world that do not have access to electricity or safe lighting at night. If this design proves viable, the technical specifications as well as methodology and costs will be available to anyone who has access to the internet or to programs such as the [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Home One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Program].
* The proposed design utilizes a recycled bottle and cap (with a cap diameter equal to or greater than that of a 2L pop bottle) as a portable, durable platform for a high efficiency [[LED]] lighting system that is charged using a small solar panel. The bottle cap will house the lighting equipment and act as the bulb ballast and the pop bottle will act as the diffuser and stand.
* The [[Mech425]] project guidelines and background can be found [http://www.appropedia.org/images/7/7f/Mech425-AT.pdf here]
=='''Background'''==
===[[LED]] Technology===
LED is an acronym for a lighting system known as a light-emitting diode. LED's are semiconductors that emit light when a junction is exposed to a forward biased electrical charge (electro luminescence). This application will use white LED's, which can be used as a much more efficient replacement for incandescent light bulbs. The main advantages of LED use are the efficiency and lifespan compared to standard incandescent bulbs. First of all, LED's produce many more lumens/watt of light than incandescent bulbs, resulting in a reduced power requirement as well as increased running time when powered by batteries. They also have extremely long lifetimes (anywhere from 10 000 to 100 000 hours) compared to incandescent bulbs (1000-2000 hours) <ref> Appropedia, "LED Lighting", http://www.appropedia.org/LED, Accessed March 23, 2010 </ref><ref> Marktech Optoelectronics, White LED's, http://www.marktechopto.com/Engineering-Services/white-leds.cfm, Accessed March 24, 2010</ref> <ref> Theledlight.com, "Technical Information", http://www.theledlight.com/LED101.html, Accessed March 23, 2010 </ref>.
LED is an acronym for a lighting system known as a light-emitting diode. LED's are semiconductors that emit light when a junction is exposed to a forward biased electrical charge (electro luminescence). This application will use white LED's, which can be used as a much more efficient replacement for incandescent light bulbs. The main advantages of LED use are the efficiency and lifespan compared to standard incandescent bulbs. First of all, LED's produce many more lumens/watt of light than incandescent bulbs, resulting in a reduced power requirement as well as increased running time when powered by batteries. They also have extremely long lifetimes (anywhere from 10 000 to 100 000 hours) compared to incandescent bulbs (1000-2000 hours) <ref> Appropedia, "LED Lighting", https://www.appropedia.org/LED, Accessed March 23, 2010 </ref><ref> Marktech Optoelectronics, White LED's, http://www.marktechopto.com/Engineering-Services/white-leds.cfm, Accessed March 24, 2010</ref> <ref> Theledlight.com, "Technical Information", http://www.theledlight.com/LED101.html, Accessed March 23, 2010 </ref>.
These qualities have made LED lighting ideal for grass roots, low power applications such as this project, and have been used in similar endeavors. Some examples include:
* [http://www.barefootpower.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=4 Barefoot Power], which develops AC and solar lighting products for the developing world and is involved with projects such as [http://www.lightingafrica.org/ Lighting Africa] and
[http://www.barefootpower.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=4 Barefoot Power], which develops AC and solar lighting products for the developing world and is involved with projects such as [http://www.lightingafrica.org/ Lighting Africa] and
* [http://light.lbl.gov/pubs/specter.html The Lumina Project] <ref name="Barefoot"> Barefoot Power, "Barefoot Power", http://www.barefootpower.com/, Accessed March 20, 2010 </ref>
[http://light.lbl.gov/pubs/specter.html The Lumina Project] <ref name="Barefoot"> Barefoot Power, "Barefoot Power", http://www.barefootpower.com/, Accessed March 20, 2010 </ref>
* [http://www.sollight.com/products/lc200.cfm SOLLIGHT TM], which is a solar LED system designed for wide mouthed water bottles <ref>Simply Brilliant, LLC, "Sollight",http://www.sollight.com/products/lc200.cfm, accessed March 20, 2010 </ref>
* [http://www.cosmosignite.com/product-brief.htm Cosmos Ignite Innovations], which provides lighting solutions for developing nations. <ref> Cosmos Ignite Innovations, "Mighty Light", http://www.cosmosignite.com/product-brief.htm, Accessed March 20, 2010</ref>
[http://www.sollight.com/products/lc200.cfm SOLLIGHT TM], which is a solar LED system designed for wide mouthed water bottles <ref>Simply Brilliant, LLC, "Sollight",http://www.sollight.com/products/lc200.cfm, accessed March 20, 2010 </ref>
[http://www.cosmosignite.com/product-brief.htm Cosmos Ignite Innovations], which provides lighting solutions for developing nations. <ref> Cosmos Ignite Innovations, "Mighty Light", http://www.cosmosignite.com/product-brief.htm, Accessed March 20, 2010</ref>
===Lighting Issues Around the World===
The final product (unlike the final design in Figure 9 which is missing the solar panel and switchh) is a self sustaining indoor and outdoor solar LED light fixture. It can be recharged daily by leaving it in the sun during peak daylight hours. The total battery capacity is 1000 mAh when new, which at a draw of 15 mA, will last up to 67 hours, so the light will not need to be charged every day. Make sure not to leave the assembly in the rain as it is not waterproof.
The final product (unlike the final design in Figure 9 which is missing the solar panel and switch) is a self sustaining indoor and outdoor solar LED light fixture. '''It is important to note here that the design outlined here has not been tested in a completed form with the PV.''' It can be recharged daily by leaving it in the sun during peak daylight hours. The total battery capacity is 1000 mAh when new, which at a draw of 15 mA, will last up to 67 hours, so the light will not need to be charged every day. Make sure not to leave the assembly in the rain as it is not waterproof.
=='''Economic Considerations'''==
If there are any questions or concerns, feel free to contact me --[[User:5sg12|S. Gennings]] 01:53, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
== Future Work==
* Discussion of charge controller
* Build full prototype with PV
* Optimize sizing of PV and LED components
== '''References''' ==
{{Mech425}}
[[Category: Photovoltaics]]
[[Category: Appropriate technology]]
[[Category: Energy storage and use]]
[[Category: Energy storage]]
[[Category:Lighting]]
[[Category: Electric lighting]]
Bottle Cap LED Lighting
The proposed design utilizes a recycled bottle and cap (with a cap diameter equal to or greater than that of a 2L pop bottle) as a portable, durable platform for a high efficiency LED lighting system that is charged using a small solar panel
LED, solar, micro solar, bottle cap lighting
development, education, industry
Scott Gennings
Made?
Replicated? Was this project made independently by someone other than the authors and without their guidance?
Countries of design
SDG09 Industry innovation and infrastructure
SDG10 Reduced inequalities
SDG07 Affordable and clean energy
Documentation data
Manifest data
Kathy Nativi
info@appropedia.org
Photovoltaics (Book)
Deep-cycle lead-acid batteries for renewable energy storage
How to calculate how much PV you need to cover your electrical needs
PVTOM Operation Instructions
Solar resource measurement for PV applications
Troubleshooting a PV System/Literature Review
Troubleshooting a Photovoltaic System
Using Solid State Lighting
APSC 100 213B Solar Powered Laptop
Argentina photovoltaic
Briceland PV
Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamps
Commercially available photovoltaic modules
Engr 305 solar learning station
Arsenide solar cells
HEIF music building PV system a
Photovoltaic system at St. Jude's church
Queen's Innovation Park Test Site
Solar Photovoltaic Cells for the Kingston Home FAQ
Solar powered Internet cafe in Nairobi
Photovoltaic vaccine refrigeration at Centro De Salud
Potawot Health Village Solar Energy: Installation and History
Robin deterrent for solar charger
Solar Charged Lawnmower
Solar charged flashlight
Solar photovoltaic ground mounting
Solar photovoltaic software
Solar powered air conditioner
UTC photovoltaic learning station
This Open Source Appropriate Technology has been designed but not yet tested — use at your own risk.
This Open Source Appropriate Technology has been prototyped.
Partially prototyped -- needs full test with photovoltaics
1 Project Description
2.1 LED Technology
2.2 Lighting Issues Around the World
3 LED Light Source Design Requirements
4 Circuit Design
4.1 Circuit Economic Analysis
5 Bottle Cap LED Fixture Design
5.1 Custom Designed Fixture
5.1.1 Required Parts
5.1.2 Housing
5.1.3 Assembly
5.1.4 Installation Into Bottle
5.2 Prototype
5.2.1 Circuit Construction
5.2.2 Cap Assembly Construction
6 Economic Considerations
8 Future Work
The main goal of this Mech425 project is to design a simple, cost effective indoor light source that can be used in areas of the world that do not have access to electricity or safe lighting at night. If this design proves viable, the technical specifications as well as methodology and costs will be available to anyone who has access to the internet or to programs such as the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Program.
The proposed design utilizes a recycled bottle and cap (with a cap diameter equal to or greater than that of a 2L pop bottle) as a portable, durable platform for a high efficiency LED lighting system that is charged using a small solar panel. The bottle cap will house the lighting equipment and act as the bulb ballast and the pop bottle will act as the diffuser and stand.
LED is an acronym for a lighting system known as a light-emitting diode. LED's are semiconductors that emit light when a junction is exposed to a forward biased electrical charge (electro luminescence). This application will use white LED's, which can be used as a much more efficient replacement for incandescent light bulbs. The main advantages of LED use are the efficiency and lifespan compared to standard incandescent bulbs. First of all, LED's produce many more lumens/watt of light than incandescent bulbs, resulting in a reduced power requirement as well as increased running time when powered by batteries. They also have extremely long lifetimes (anywhere from 10 000 to 100 000 hours) compared to incandescent bulbs (1000-2000 hours) [1][2] [3].
Barefoot Power, which develops AC and solar lighting products for the developing world and is involved with projects such as Lighting Africa and
The Lumina Project [4]
SOLLIGHT TM, which is a solar LED system designed for wide mouthed water bottles [5]
Cosmos Ignite Innovations, which provides lighting solutions for developing nations. [6]
Lighting Issues Around the World
Approximately two billion people, almost 30% of the world population have no access to electricity, thus relying on fuel-based lighting, such as kerosene wick lamps and candles. This is a very dangerous alternative that is unsafe, expensive, and provides very inefficient lighting. Being limited by the amount of sunlight during the day makes it very difficult to perform tasks efficiently at night. The main problem is that these tasks include homework or studies by adults and children, and without proper lighting, reading books or chalkboards is impossible. This presents a barrier to education and economic development, not to mention literacy improvement. Efficient, self sufficient lighting can therefore impact the well being of people who cannot function efficiently after the sun has set. [7]
A major push to switch to LED lighting is the widespread use of dangerous, expensive fuels such as kerosene. Kerosene is very expensive for people living in poverty. In places such as rural India, purchasing enough kerosene to light a small household can represent more than 4% of a household budget. The light that these kerosene lamps produce is also very inefficient; LED’s can produce more than 200 times the useful light. For example, an entire village can be lit using less energy than a single 100W normal bulb [8].
Making the switch to solar powered LED lighting systems not only presents a more cost effective, efficient alternative, but also a much safer one. According to the World Health Organization, indoor air pollution from kerosene and other burned fuels used for indoor lighting and cooking is the cause of more than 1.5 million deaths to date [8]. There is also additional risk of fire when using kerosene, providing yet another reason to switch to LED lighting.
LED Light Source Design Requirements
The design must fulfill the following functional requirements in order to be an appropriate solution to the lighting problem:
System Cost: The cost of the system must be minimized as much as possible in order for people in developing countries who survive on as little as $1 per day to afford it without marginalizing food and shelter requirements. If the cost is too high, people will not be able to cover the overhead, and will not be able to benefit from safe, efficient lighting.
Simplicity: The design must be as simple as possible in order to minimize overhead costs and complexity. This simplicity will lead to increased durability and lifespan.
Maintenance: The design must be easy to maintain, with little to know technical knowledge required. It must therefore be a contained unit that requires no additional maintenance other than initial installation.
Self Sufficient: The light must be able to recharge and run itself without any additional charging or battery replacement. The solar cell must fully charge the battery when exposed to peak sunlight during the day, and the battery must retain the charge without replacement over a long period of time.
Environmental Impact: The production and operation of the light must be optimized with regards to environmental impact. This means that the component choice must maximize the use of recycled materials and the end of life disposal must produce minimal impact.
Ease of Use: The installation and use of the light must be as simple as possible in order to minimize the chance of confusion or degradation due to misuse.
The functional requirements have been weighted according to relative importance with respect to applications in developing nations. The results are shown in Table 1.
Table 1: Design Functional Requirements
Function Requirement
Importance Weighting
System Cost 50
Simplicity 10
Maintenance 10
Self Sufficient 10
Environmental Impact 10
Total Weight 100
Each of the functional requirements and their relative importance will be considered in the design of the LED lighting system. The first step is to design the circuit that will power the LED.
The first step in this light source design is the circuitry. A solar charged battery light circuit is relatively simple, because the energy input can be modeled as an external power source, and the battery can be charged constantly without backward current flow using a diode. The only problem with compact LED lighting systems is the limitation of voltage from small battery packages. AAA's and AA's (which will be used in this application) are limited to maximum 1.5V, which is half of the optimum voltage for a white LED. This problem leads to two distinct circuit design solutions; one that is simple and runs the LED at 3V but requires 2 batteries and one that is complex that runs the LED at the full voltage through the use of a voltage booster. The circuit diagram for the simple solution can be seen in Figure 1.
Figure 1: 2 Battery 'Simple' Circuit
Ortho View
This simple solution would result in suitable performance but would require 2 batteries (which is relatively expensive and environmentally costly)and depending on the LED choice, would not need a resistor. This layout can possibly extend the life of the light because it is running at a slightly lower voltage.
The components required the 'simple' circuit with 2 batteries totaling approximately 3V will be:
[math] \ V = 2 x 1.5V [/math]
[math] \ I = 15 mA (required by LED) [/math]
[math] \ Capacity \gt 200 mAH [/math]
Solar Panel:
[math] \ V = 4 V [/math]
[math] \ I \gt 15 mA [/math]
[math] \ P \gt 0.2 W [/math]
Resistor:
Not required due to the limited voltage being supplied.
The diagram for the single 1.5V battery with a more 'complex' wiring solution can be seen in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Solar Charged 1.5V Boosted LED Lighting Wiring Schematic ('Complex' Layout)
This 'complex' solution would result in optimum lighting quality from the LED, but would significantly increase the cost of parts and manufacturing as well as limit the life of the device (voltage boosters are limited to a few hundred hours of runtime, depending on the voltage increase required[9]). The inductance based voltage booster can be made from a ring of ferrous material wrapped in 2 separate copper wires, and provides a simple, relatively cheap solution to the lack of voltage produced by the battery [10]. The main advantage is the reduction in reliance on 2 batteries, hence reducing the cost and environmental impact. [11]
The components required the 'complex' circuit with for a single 1.5V source boosted to approximately 4.5V will be:
[math] \ V = 1.2 to 1.5 V [/math]
[math] \Delta\ V = V_{in} - V_{req'd} = 1.5 V [/math]
[math] R = (\frac{\Delta\ V}{I}) = 1000 \Omega\ [/math]
Circuit Economic Analysis
In order to determine which of the two wiring options is more suitable to this low cost, simple application, an economic evaluation must be performed. Whichever option provides a more cost effective parts and labor outcome will be used in the final design. Tables 2 and 3 show the summary of parts and costs in order to determine the total individual circuit costs. Please note that the labor costs have been approximated based on the possibility of manufacturing in China where the labor rate is lower [12].
Table 2: 2 Battery 'Simple' Circuit Cost
AAA Battery [13] $0.53 BTY NIMH 1000 mAH AAA Hotock Group
Diode [14] $0.28 Schottkey 60V 15 mA Diode STMicroelectronics
Switch [15] $0.45 DPDT Slide Switch Anticsonline
LED [16] $0.68 5mm White LED PCToys
Solar Panel (4V) [17] $5.48 4V 60 mA 0.24W Keawin
Labor [12] $1.20
Table 3: 1 Battery 'Complex' Circuit Cost
Transformer $0.45 Ferrous ring with coil N/A
Resistor [18] $0.20 271-1321 10K resistor Radioshack
Transistor [19] $0.11 BC549 30V 100mA limit Fairchild Semiconductors
The excel file can be seen here: File:Wiring Cost Comparison.xls
The more complex, voltage boosting circuit is the least expensive to produce because of the lower power requirement for the solar cell as well as the reduction in number of batteries required. The only limiting factor may now be the lifespan of the voltage boosting transformer, which can be maximized by using high quality components as well as standardized construction procedures. The overall cost of $8.67 CAD is slightly higher than originally predicted for the wiring component of the design, but it can be minimized if it is mass produced. Also, if the product efficiency and environmental impact can be optimized, then the additional price is worthwhile.
Bottle Cap LED Fixture Design
There are two main methodologies that have been explored in order to develop a suitable appropriate technology designation for this design. The first of which relies on mass production (or at least semi-mass production) to justify the housing design as well as the parts purchases. The methodology relies on recycling all parts, which would be relatively difficult where there is little technology available, and designing based on parts available. The first methodology has been applied to develop a single part and assembly methodology that can be mass produced using injection molding and labor in China. The second methodology has been applied through the development of a prototype that utilizes the most recycled components as possible.
Custom Designed Fixture
Required Parts
The mass production design requires a larger investment on the part of a sponsor or company in the short term, but will provide people with a reliable, water resistant, efficient lighting source that requires minimal maintenance. This design involves the production of a central component housing with the purchase of multiple electrical components. The parts required for the design are as follows:
Table 4: Parts List and Description
CAD Representation
1 x Housing To be produced
1 x LED 5mm, White, 3V
1 x Transistor BC549, 30V, 100mA, NPN
1 x Diode IN5711, 70V, 15mA, DO-35
1 x Resistor 271-1321, 1/4W, 1kohm
1 x Transformer Ferrous Ring
1 x AAA Rechargeable Battery NIMH AAA, 1.2V, 1000mAH
1 x Plastic Washer 15.5mm Plastic Washer
1 x Switch DPDT Slide Switch
2 x 3mm Screw 3mm Threaded Flat Screw
1 x Solar Panel 2V, 70mA, 0.14W
The part that must be manufactured is the housing for all of the components, and it can be seen in Figure 3, with it's dimensioned engineering specifications in Figure 4. It can be made in China using injection molding in order to minimize the overall cost of production. The bottom concave surface around the LED must be sprayed with a reflective paint in order to maximize light projection into the diffuser (bottle).
Figure 3: Housing Design
Bottom View
The engineering drawing is shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: Housing Dimensions
The assembly process is performed as follows:
Construct the circuit shown in Figure 3, leaving the solar panel and switch wires disconnected
Insert the connected LED,transistor, diode, resistor, transformer and battery into the housing in that order
Feed the wires for the solar panel and switch through the hole of the plastic housing cap
Apply glue to the edges of the cap, and press it into place, making sure to line up the flat edge with the switch location
Slide the switch into the side opening
Thread the 3mm screws into the switch screw holes to secure it in place
Connect the switch wires to the leads on the back side of the switch
Connect the solar panel wires to the leads on the reverse side of the solar panel
Apply glue to the top lip of the housing (square section)
Line up and set the solar panel on the top lip of the housing (bottom side down, making sure to tuck the wires into the opening
Hold the panel in place until the glue has set, and the panel is firmly set in place
The assembled final product can be seen in Figure 5 and the dimensioned engineering specs can be seen in Figure 6.
Figure 5: Final LED Fixture Design
Figure 6: Assembly Dimensions
Installation Into Bottle
Installing the light fixture is very simple.
Cut a 175 mm hole in the center of the recycled pop bottle cap using a sharp knife
Insert the end of the assembled fixture through the hole (through the top of the cap)
Push it in until it reaches the lip approximately 3/4 of the way up the housing
Force the lip through the hole and stop when the housing is completely inserted into the cap
Thread the cap with the fixture installed onto the top of the bottle to complete the luminaire
If the bottle is top heavy, which may happen in tall or small diameter bottles, it can be inverted to rest on the solar cell
Figure 7: Cap and Bottle Assembly
Cut 175mm Hole
Push Fixture Through Cap
Screw Assembly onto Bottle
A prototype was constructed in order to demonstrate a simplistic methodology utilizing minimal capital and maximizing the use of recycled materials. This ideology presents some major problems in that recycled materials are not always the correct size and do not always come together into an optimal design. It is a fair price to pay in order to minimize the overall cost and maximize the practicality of the design.
In this case, the parts attained were not exactly to specification, but worked anyway. For example, the recycled ferrite toroid ring is much larger than required, but no other parts were available. The leads for the recycled resistor and LED were very short, making soldering difficult. New parts will make the construction process much more efficient.
Circuit Construction
The first step to constructing the prototype is to make the internal circuit. To help simplify the process, a helpful walk through for the construction of the voltage booster portion of the circuit can be seen HERE. The visual steps can be seen in Figure 8 and is followed by a step by step walk through.
Figure 8: Prototype Circuit Construction
1. Required Parts
2. Ferrite Ring
3. Inductor
4. Transistor, Resistor, LED
5. Battery Test
6. Diode
Construction Walk through:
Walk Through:
Twist together one of the pair of ends of the wires selected for the inductor portion of the circuit (see picture 2)
Pull the twisted end through the center of the ring and continue to feed the wires through, wrapping the ring in the wire pairs. (see picture 2 for the partially completed inductor and picture 3 for the final product)
Solder one of the blue wires to one of the red wires, leaving the solder and wire ends exposed
Solder on of the remaining wires to the 1K resistor and clip the remaining lead off
Spread the two exterior leads on the transistor apart and bend the middle lead backwards
Solder the middle lead to the lead on the resistor and clip the remaining lead off
Bend the leads on the LED outward
Solder the LED leads to the remaining transistor leads (one LED lead to one transistor lead)
Solder the remaining wire from the inductor to the lead opposite to the flat side of the LED (see picture 4)
Solder a small section of wire to the remaining lead of the LED, stripping both ends (this will act as the battery contact)
Connect the battery by connecting the small section of wire from the LED to the positive end of the battery (do not solder, simply test the circuit by touching the lead), and the soldered ends of the inductor wire to the negative end of the battery (this end can be soldered)(see picture 5) (hint: I utilized a recycled battery housing in order to be able to easily connect to the battery electrodes)
Solder the diode (white striped end closest) to the positive battery lead (see picture 6)
Solder a wire extension to the remaining diode lead (this will act as the positive solar panel connection)
Solder another wire extension to the negative lead of the battery (this will act as the negative solar panel connection)
The circuit assembly can now be installed into a suitable bottle cap and bottle.
Cap Assembly Construction
This portion of the prototype is open to customization because each bottle and circuit housing situation will be very different. The visual steps to constructing the bottle fixture can be seen in Figure 9 and is followed by a step by step walk through.
Figure 9: Cap and Bottle Prototype Assembly
1. Cap Size Test
2. Housing Installation
3. Cap Installation
6. Cap Wiring
5. Lighting Test
Cut proof gloves
Glue (can be substituted by cutting larger hole)
Circular housing for the circuit (I utilized a tape core, but the part can easily be substituted)
Inspect the cap and neck opening of the bottle to ensure that the circuit assembly can be easily fit through (see picture 1)
Cut a small hole in the center of the cap for the wires if you have glue, or cut a large hole to suspend the housing if you do not have glue
Insert the wiring assembly into the selected housing, making sure to feed the two solar panel wires and connection leads through (the connection leads will be connected to a switch) (see picture 2)
If you have glue: Apply glue to the top side of the housing and install it on the inside of the cap. If you do not have glue: Slide the round housing through the hole in the cap (it should be a tight fit)
The next steps are not shown in the pictures because I was not able to obtain a functional switch or solar panel in time for the end of this project
Solder the switch to the two switch leads protruding through the bottle cap
Glue the switch to the side of the cap if you have glue, or pressure fit it if possible
Solder the positive and negative solar panel wires to the corresponding leads on the solar panel
Glue or attach the solar panel to the top of the cap
Screw the assembly onto the bottle (see pictures 3 and 4)
Turn off the lights in the room and test the light fixture (see picture 5)
The final product (unlike the final design in Figure 9 which is missing the solar panel and switch) is a self sustaining indoor and outdoor solar LED light fixture. It is important to note here that the design outlined here has not been tested in a completed form with the PV. It can be recharged daily by leaving it in the sun during peak daylight hours. The total battery capacity is 1000 mAh when new, which at a draw of 15 mA, will last up to 67 hours, so the light will not need to be charged every day. Make sure not to leave the assembly in the rain as it is not waterproof.
Economic Considerations
The custom designed fixture will require very high investment in the short term, but if mass produced, costs could be reduced drastically, making it a viable solution. The prototype solution has lower initial costs, but buying individual parts for each reproduction could be more expensive than mass producing a design. An economic feasibility analysis will be performed in order to determine which is more feasible over the long term.
This portion of the economic analysis has been based on the paper Early Cost Estimation for Injection Molded Parts [21] produced by Dr. O. Kazmer. The paper presents a valid model for predicting the overall production costs involved in tooling and producing injection molded parts, such as the housing portion of this design. He also generated a Java Applet that calculates individual unit costs based on the number of parts produced [22], which I used as a general model to predict costs over several production stages. The plot of the model can be seen in Figure 10.
Figure 10: Cost Model Plot
The same assumptions and part costs used in the initial circuit analysis have been applied to this analysis, with the addition of the Kazmer cost model and the results are as follows:
Table 5: Mass Produced LED Fixture Economic Analysis
Number of Units Produced
Housing Cost / Unit ($) [22] 967.65 102.73 33.47 10.91 3.55
Labor Cost / Unit ($) [12] 1.20 1.20 1.20 1.20 1.20
Total Parts Cost / Unit ($) 6.72 3.36 1.68 0.84 0.42
Total Cost / Unit ($) 975.15 107.29 36.35 12.95 5.17
The economic analysis spreadsheet for the ideal design can be seen here: File:Mass Production Economic Analysis.xls
The resultant costs in the last row of Table 5 indicate that the final product will become extremely affordable when production exceeds 10000. The closest comparable product on the market sells for almost $25 [4], so the costs of $12.95 / unit at 10000 produced, and $5.17 / unit at 100000 produced are very reasonable. If mass production is undergone, and up to 100 000 are made, the final cost of $5.17 plus any additional profit margin markups will be much cheaper than the prototype cost which includes the initial circuit cost of $8.67 (labor included) + any additional part costs associated with construction.
This portion of the design requires a much more simple cost analysis that is almost identical to the wiring cost analysis with the addition of the assembly parts cost. Most of the parts that I used were recycled, but I am going to consider a worst case scenario where all parts must be purchased (excluding the bottle and bottle cap which must be recycled). The entire construction and assembly process required 30 minutes but I was not being paid (and neither will someone else if they are making it themselves) so labor costs will not be included in the analysis.
Table 6: Prototype Fixture Economic Analysis
Circuit 6.57 (labor subtracted from quoted cost)
Wiring 0.15
Solder 0.05
Housing 0.50
Bottle + Cap 0.00
Total Cost / Unit 7.27 (without labor)
The cost analysis spreadsheet for the prototype can be found here: File:Prototype Cost Analysis.xls
The total cost per unit is higher than the mass production final cost (at 100 000), but will be much more affordable in the short term. The prototype solution requires very little overhead investment and will provide a suitable, reliable lighting solution. The fixture will have a shorter life cycle than the mass produced option due to construction inconsistencies and potential quality shortcomings of poorly soldered connections. The reduced overhead cost does however justify this chance of quality reduction.
The main goal of this Mech425 project was to design a simple, cost effective indoor light source that can be used in areas of the world that do not have access to electricity or safe lighting at night. The design utilizes a recycled bottle and cap (with a cap diameter equal to or greater than that of a 2L pop bottle) as a portable, durable platform for a high efficiency LED lighting system that is charged using a small solar panel. The final design had to comply with the functional requirements of minimal cost, maximum simplicity, minimal maintenance, maximum self sufficiency, minimal environmental impact and maximum ease of use.
These requirements led to the choice of a voltage boosted, single AAA, solar charged circuit design that would be applied in either a mass produced, or individually produced housing assembly. Both options come with distinct advantages and disadvantages. Mass production offers very high quality control of parts and assembly, along with minimal parts and labor costs, but only comes with a reduced unit price when high numbers are made. Individual, prototype style production comes with higher parts cost with reduced quality but offers a simple design that can be replicated at a relatively low cost by individuals; thus maximizing simplicity of production. In order to fulfill the ideology of developing a simple, cost effective light source that can be used in areas of the world that function without electricity; the 'prototype' style design would be most appropriate. This option allows the builder to customize the light fixture depending on available parts and tools. This final prototyped design totals a cost of $7.27 for parts, assuming that the builder will not be paid to assemble the unit and all required tools are available.
If funding is provided, the mass production option is viable with a final unit cost of $5.17. This is a much more economically suitable solution for developing nations compared to similar products on the market right now which can cost up to $55.00. The main conclusion that can be deduced from this project analysis is that appropriate solutions, with minimal cost, for problems in developing countries can be easily solved by switching our mindsets from profitable designs to minimal cost designs. It has been proven in this design that a serious problem can be solved with an investment of less than $10.00. These lessons should be applied to engineers and designers everywhere in order to shift mindsets and make a difference in the world.
If there are any questions or concerns, feel free to contact me --S. Gennings 01:53, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
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IBISWorld reveals Australia’s Top 1000 Companies for 2017
Retail heavyweights Wesfarmers and Woolworths sit at the top of IBISWorld’s list of Australia’s top 1000 companies for the second year on the trot.
IBISWorld’s 2017 Top 1000 list, which was released last week, offers a comprehensive and thorough insight into the corporate landscape in Australia, including the largest firms, growing and declining sectors, and new businesses to watch in 2018 and beyond.
According to IBISWorld data, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia has retained its 3rd position from last year’s ranking, with BHP, Westpac, Rio Tinto, ANZ Banking Group, NAB, Testra and NSW Health also securing a top ten position.
Jason Aravanis, Senior Industry Analyst at IBISWorld, noted that the firms on IBISWorld’s 2017 Top 1000 list, which account for approximately 28% of all trade in Australia, have had a slightly slower year in terms of revenue when compared to last year.
“Approximately one-third of companies on the list reported lower revenue for the year, with total revenue for the list declining by 2.0% since IBISWorld’s 2016 Top 1000 companies list,” Mr Aravanis remarked.
He said that although total revenue across the 2017 list has fallen, this loss has been concentrated amongst a small number of large firms.
“Notable companies that generated lower revenue include Westpac, Rio Tinto, ANZ, NAB, and Caltex Australia,” Mr Aravanis continued.
“In contrast, JB Hi-Fi, BHP, CIMIC Group and other major companies expanded revenue over the year. Overall, the 2017 top 1000 companies’ performance was mixed. For example, 52% of companies on the 2017 list improved profitability.”
IBISWorld data also showed that the superannuation funds industry, the mining sector and the petroleum product wholesaling industry have been Australia’s top performing industries in 2017, with the telecommunications services industry and consumer goods retailing identified as weaker performing industries for the year.
“Despite the overall decline in industry revenue, the industry’s major players, Wesfarmers and Woolworths, were able to grow their revenue as consumers sought out cheap prices at these large establishments,” Mr Aravanis said.
“These large firms have been able to succeed in a difficult operating environment due to their economies of scale, which have enabled them to gain market share from smaller competitors.”
To access the full list and further analysis visit www.ibisworld.com.au/2017top1000
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The windshield (North American English) or windscreen (Commonwealth English) of an aircraft, car, bus, motorbike or tram is the front window, which provides visibility whilst protecting occupants from the elements. Modern windshields are generally made of laminated safety glass, a type of treated glass, which consists of, typically, two curved sheets of glass with a plastic layer laminated between them for safety, and bonded into the window frame.
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Written on: 17 July 2020
Written by: Frances Hardcastle
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As June rolled on by, the Apprentice of the Month nominations kept rolling in. This month, the resilience, innovation and adaptability of IT support during these tricky times has really hit home. An astonishing 5 out of 6 nominations we’re for our incredible IT apprentices this time around!
Let’s dive in and announce June’s winner and our stand-out nominees. Drumroll please…
Apprentice of the Month
This month’s winner is Evan Wood, a Level 3 IT Infrastructure apprentice at NP Managed Technology Services & Solutions. Evan was nominated by Sarah Nimmo, who told us all about Evan’s star qualities:
“Evan is a young friendly engineer and a star in the eyes of our customers. No matter the type of service ticket that comes his way, Evan always tackles it with a positive attitude and strives to do his best. Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Evan managed to seamlessly migrate to a fully remote working environment and continue serving our customers in an excellent manner.
We even have customers ringing up and requesting to only speak to Evan because they know he is brilliant at what he does.
Evan has also made some fundamental progress in our business, mainly our documentation system. Evan is always helping the team around him by making sure documentation is updated and a colleague doesn’t have to struggle through the same problems he has once before.
Evan is a joy to work with and everyone at NP sings his praises. We are taking on a new apprentice next month, and we are confident Evan will be someone for him to look up to and will go on to have an excellent career in IT.”
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We received 5 other amazing nominations for the title this month, and couldn’t resist sharing some snippets singing their praises.
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He has received positive feedback from colleagues and customers alike; he is proactive, takes charge of issues, monitors them and sees them through to resolution, which is very impressive for someone who is just starting out.
Jamie is always flexible and helpful with his colleagues, providing cover as and where required and very much has a can-do attitude, something which both Baltic and he should be really proud of.”
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During Covid-19 as we suddenly all had to work from home, this was no problem for Adam. Working from home means he does not have the same level of support he would have in the office however he has been really mature, and is not scared about taking on new jobs by himself – although we are all missing his cuppa teas!
He has the traits of a brilliant IT engineer – you would not know by the work he does that he hasn’t even been an engineer for a year yet. We look forward to seeing his skills develop and can see him going far within our organisation, well done Adam and thank you for helping us to get through the pandemic in unprecedented times.”
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He’s applied his knowledge of Google Analytics extremely well and now owns the weekly and monthly reporting for digital marketing channels. After he completed his course with Baltic, Bini requested to be more involved so that he could apply his new-found-knowledge, which is a testament to his drive to succeed and do well.”
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Home / Business News / Stash just nabbed $112 million from investors including LendingTree. CEO Brandon Krieg explained how the Series F will help the fintech's expansion into lending.
Stash just nabbed $112 million from investors including LendingTree. CEO Brandon Krieg explained how the Series F will help the fintech's expansion into lending.
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Investing and banking app Stash announced the closing of a $112 million Series F on Wednesday.
LendingTree, the online marketplace, and T. Rowe Price both joined Stash's cap table as new investors.
Brandon Krieg, Stash's cofounder and CEO, told Business Insider the strategic investment from LendingTree will help the fintech explore offering lending products.
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Personal finance app Stash closed a $112 million Series F Wednesday that included new investors LendingTree and T. Rowe Price in the midst of what has been a record-setting period for the startup.
Market volatility and uncertainty as a result of the coronavirus pandemic has helped Stash enjoy significant growth. Brandon Krieg, Stash's cofounder and CEO, previously told Business Insider customer deposits and account openings jumped by 50% and 35%, respectively, in March compared to the previous month. By April the New York-based startup eclipsed $1 billion in assets under management.
Previous investors Breyer Capital, Goodwater Capital, Greenspring Associates, and Union Square Ventures all also participated in the round. Krieg declined to disclose the firm's valuation, but said it was an up round "by a lot" compared to the fintech's March 2019 $65 million Series E.
Bringing LendingTree, which is a strategic investor, onto Stash's cap table is a nod towards Krieg's hopes of pushing the startup towards offering lending products.
"A lot of the things that LendingTree does, maybe over time we could do more with them to incorporate more lending products into Stash and also at the same time accelerate the amount of customers that we have," Krieg said.
"For us, being able to offer some of the products that LendingTree offers and working closer with them on that, it's going to be really good for our customers," he added.
It's not just experience on how to offer lending products Krieg is hoping to get from LendingTree. He also mentioned LendingTree's strength at marketing and growth.
Acquiring customers efficiently is a top priority for nearly every fintech in personal finance. High customer acquisition costs are often one of the biggest things holding companies back from profitability.
Krieg said Stash is on a path to profitability, although he declined to offer a specific timeline. The latest round of funding gives the startup a good amount of runway to hit its goals, he added.
"We're moving strongly in that direction, and we are thinking a lot about controlling our destiny and how do we ultimately not always have to raise," he said. "I think that we're in a good position, especially with this round, to get to the place where we continue to build out a business that's self-sustaining."
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The Durbin Amendment and Fraud
Insiders Say Interchange Issue Could Hurt Fight Against Fraud Tracy Kitten (FraudBlogger) • April 26, 2011
Good news for banking institutions could be on tap this week, as discussions on Capitol Hill surrounding the Durbin amendment to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act are expected to take a more pointed tone.
The highly debated amendment from Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., calls for the Federal Reserve to significantly cut interchange fees card-issuing banks and credit unions collect on debit transactions.
But a new amendment tied to a small business bill [S. 493] could delay the Fed's rule on debit card interchange, and postpone or cripple Durbin's effect. Proposed by Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., the so-called Tester bill would give the financial industry two years to evaluate the impact a reduction in debit interchange would have on consumers and the economy. The bill is expected to be voted on when Congress reconvenes.
Durbin's Fraud Connection
The Durbin amendment is the only portion of Dodd-Frank that directly touches fraud concerns. The legislation proposes institutions charge fees to cover their fraud prevention investments. "They left the door open for fraud detection to be connected to the interchange fee," says Julie McNelley, an analyst at Aite Group.
But the allowed amount does not come close to covering the actual expense for banks, McNelley says.
"Based on the first round of comments [to the Fed], they saw that debit fraud prevention was somewhere around 1.5 cents," McNelley says. "If that's what they're considering, then it's not going to be anywhere close to making up for the interchange cuts Durbin would represent."
One banking/security leader, who asked not to be named, says: "Durbin, as it stands today, is very poor for the payments industry and the consumer, because it would lend itself to reducing fraud prevention and detection."
Complexity and contention surrounding the debit interchange debate, brought on by Durbin, has complicated already touchy reform issues, including the future role the Fed might play in mandating card-security enhancements and the amount of oversight and input the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will have over financial transactions. Industry groups such as BITS, a division of the Financial Services Roundtable, the American Bankers Association and the National Credit Union Administration, to name a few, have spent months talking with financial institutions, legislators and lobbyists about what Durbin really means for the industry. Gigi Hyland, board member of the NCUA, says when it comes to Durbin's long-term impact on banking institutions, only time will tell. "The Durbin amendment is the hot topic of the day. Interchange is being fought very heatedly," she says. "It's certainly not an easy issue; it's a multidimensional issue."
The Fed received more than 11,000 comments from the financial and merchant communities about Durbin. Sifting through all of those comments and finding common ground will take time, especially given the April 21 comment-review deadline that had been imposed on the Fed and was missed, McNelley says.
"There are so many disparities coming from the merchant community versus the bank community," McNelley says. "Most of the financial institutions I've spoken with are coming up with plans from A through Z; it's really across the board. But the one thing they all are very much preparing for is the loss of this revenue stream. They've lost the overdraft fees, and this could mean the loss of debit interchange. They're looking at everything from getting rid of debit rewards to experimenting with caps on ATM transactions. I think we'll see a lot more of that if Durbin proceeds on schedule."
More Time to Plan?
Mike Urban, senior director of fraud product management at FICO, a card-fraud analytics provider, says Tester's legislation and its two-year review period could be a catalyst for positive changes to the Durbin amendment. "With both sides of the aisle looking at the amendment, and with all of the questions that have come out from the House and the Senate about the bill, I think any additional time would be worthwhile," he says.
Urban says the Durbin amendment was hurriedly tacked on to Dodd-Frank, creating the problems banks and credit unions have with the legislation. For instance, Durbin's interchange fee analysis does not consider costs associated with technology expenses for fraud detection or ancillary expenses associated the payments chain infrastructure, generally. "The Fed was told to come up with the price of the transaction, but not the costs that surround the transaction - the background support costs - that are not included in the interchange," Urban says. "So the banks are coming back and saying, 'You're forcing us to provide a service that we are losing money on,'" and government can't force a private business to offer any product or service that's not profitable.
With more time, the Durbin amendment could be fine-tuned to better meet the needs of consumers and payments providers, Urban says.
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Roll of Honour James Niven
23rd Australian Infantry Battalion
Australian Imperial Force
Conflict/Operation
Conflict Eligibility Date
Place of Association
Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
Cemetery or Memorial Details
Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army
Location on the Roll of Honour
James Niven's name is located at panel 99 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial (as indicated by the poppy on the plan).
Roll of Honour circular
For the First World War the circulars were forms sent to next of kin seeking details regarding the deceased. They form the basis of the card indexes from which the original Roll of Honour was compiled.
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Personal Service Records
For information about obtaining service records please see National Archives of Australia - Personal service records .
War Graves
The Office of Australian War Graves has the location and other information about war graves and memorials. Search the records of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for details about First and Second World War graves.
Roll of Honour name projection
James Niven's name will be projected onto the exterior of the Hall of Memory on:
Tue 23 March 2021 at 10:22pm
Wed 26 May 2021 at 7:29pm
These dates and times are estimates. Please note that previous advised times on this site have recently been changed to ensure that early evening projections are clearly visible and not affected by twilight. The actual time of projection could also change as a result of weather and other factors, so it is advisable to check closer to the date. In the rare event of a temporary loss of electrical power, the names scheduled for display in that period will not appear until the next time listed.
Villers-Bretonneux Memorial
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AYSA Exports - Gavin Records Assist In Rising Victory
Arizona Youth Soccer Association Exports is a feature in which we track the progress of those from the state who are playing professional soccer. If we have left anyone out please let us know by emailing Garrett Cleverly at garrettcleverly@azyouthsoccer.org.
A brief note, all players must have played for an Arizona youth club as some point in their youth career.
For a full run down on all the weekend’s action, check out the capsules below. Match recaps from: August 2 -August 8
Julie Ertz: Started and played 54 minutes in the USWNT’s 3-0 over Japan in the 2017 Tournament of Nations on Thursday
Sydney Leroux: Was a 73rd minute substitute in the USWNT’s 3-0 over Japan in the 2017 Tournament of Nations on Thursday
Greg Vanney, Toronto FC (Tempe Soccer Club): Played D.C. United to a 1-1 draw on Saturday.
Season: 12-8-3; 44 points (1st in Eastern Conference)
Pablo Mastroeni, Colorado Rapids (Santos): Played Vancouver to a 2-2 draw on Saturday.
Season: 6-3-12; 21 points (11th in Western Conference)
Julie Ertz, D, Chicago Red Stars (Arizona Arsenal/Sereno SC): Did not play this past week as she is with the national team.
Season: 15 matches, 2 goals, 1 assist
Cali Farquharson, F, Washington Spirit (SC del Sol): Was a 89th minute substitute in Washington’s 4-1 win over Sky Blue on Friday night.
Season: 2 matches
Jessica McDonald, F, North Carolina Courage (Sereno SC): Was a 62nd minute substitute in Carolina’s 1-0 win over Seattle Reign.
Sydney Leroux, F, FC Kansas City (Sereno SC): Did not play this past week as she is with the national team.
Toppserien (Norway)
Arianna Romero, D, Valerenga (Sereno SC): No match schedules this past week
Justen Glad, D, Real Salt Lake (Cisco Tucson): Started and played 90 minutes in Real Salt Lake’s scoreless draw against Houston on Saturday.
Brooks Lennon, F, Real Salt Lake (Sereno SC): Was a 64th minute substitute in Real Salt Lake’s scoreless draw against Houston on Saturday.
Season: 15 matches, 1 goal, 1 assist
Jose Hernandez, M, Real Salt Lake (Tuzos): Did not play in Real Salt Lake’s scoreless draw against Houston on Saturday. He instead started for the Monarchs and played 85 minutes in the 2-0 loss to OKC on Saturday.
Season: 7 matches, 1 goal
Ricardo Velazco, M, Real Salt Lake (Tucson Soccer Academy): Did not play in Real Salt Lake’s scoreless draw against Houston on Saturday.
Brad Evans, D, Seattle Sounders (Tempe Pros): Was a 64th minute substitute in Seattle’s 4-0 win over Minnesota on Saturday.
Season: 11 matches, 1 goals
George Malki, M, Houston Dynamo (Sereno SC): Malki is still recovering from a torn ACL in March.
Justin Davis, D, Minnesota United (Sereno): Did not play in Minnesota’s 4-0 loss to Seattle on Saturday.
Nick DeLeon, M, D.C. United (Cisco): Started and played 90 minutes in D.C. United’s 1-1 draw against Toronto FC on Saturday.
Luis Robles, GK, New York Red Bulls (Tucson Soccer Academy): Started, played 90 minutes and made seven saves in Red Bulls’ 3-2 loss to NYCFC on Sunday.
Season: 22 matches, 7 clean sheets, 78 saves, 23 goals against
Donny Toia, D, Orlando City (Tucson Soccer Academy): Started and played 90 minutes in Orlando’s 2-1 loss to Montreal on Saturday.
Season: 19 matches, 2 assists
Matt Bersano, GK, San Jose Earthquakes (Cisco): Bersano has been loaned out to Reno 1868 for the 2017 season. Check USL for his stats.
Ventura Alvarado, D, Santos Laguna (Tuzos): Did not play in Santos Laguna’s 1-1 draw against Morelia on Friday.
Blair Gavin, M, Phoenix Rising (Sereno SC): Started, played 90 minutes, and NOTCHED AN ASSIST in Rising’s 2-0 win over LA Galaxy II on Saturday.
Season: 6 matches, 1 assist
Miguel Salazar, M, San Antonio FC (Tucson Soccer Academy): Miguel is currently injured
Matt Bersano, GK, Reno 1868 (Cisco): Started, played 90 minutes and made three saves in Reno’s 1-0 loss to OKC on Wednesday. Started, played 90 minutes and made two saves in Reno’s 3-2 win over Tulsa on Saturday
Season: 16 matches, 6 clean sheets, 43 saves, 21 goals conceded
Danny Cruz, M, San Francisco Deltas (Sereno SC): Started and played 69 minutes in San Francisco’s 1-2 win over Cosmos on Saturday.
Season: 14 matches, 1 goal, 2 assists
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Home » ACC Power Rankings: Top Three Unchanged Moving Into Final Round of Games
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ACC Power Rankings: Top Three Unchanged Moving Into Final Round of Games
by Peter Kim
March 7, 2019 Updated June 5, 2020 at 1:24 pm
Another week of games means another week of changes to our ACC Power Rankings, including a boost for Florida State after a pair of huge home wins and praise for Georgia Tech, which ended the regular season on a high note with a road win over North Carolina State.
1) North Carolina (25-5, 15-2 Atlantic Coast, AP No. 3) ↔
The Tar Heels just keep rolling along, and have now won six games in a row after a disappointing loss to No. 2 Virginia three weeks ago. Their latest conquest? A 79-66 win over Boston College, where UNC outrebounded the Eagles, 60-35, held BC to 34.3-percent shooting, and didn’t trail by less than 14 in the second half. The performance—which included five Tar Heels reaching double figures—was just another reminder that UNC can beat teams in a myriad of ways and is fully capable of capturing another national championship. Before that, though, the Tar Heels have one more test: a date with No. 4 Duke in Chapel Hill to close out the regular season.
2) Virginia (27-2, 15-2, AP No. 2) ↔
With a 79-53 win over Syracuse Monday night, the Cavaliers ran their record against teams not named Duke to 27-0 this season. UVA’s defense was again stifling—limiting the Orange to just 10 points in the final 15 minutes of the game—but it was the offense that stole the show. The Cavaliers knocked down 18 triples—which tied a school record—and the dynamic backcourt of Kyle Guy and Ty Jerome combined for 41 points. With the second-best offense and defense in the country, per KenPom, UVA, much like UNC, has the look of a team capable of a deep run come March.
3) Duke (26-4, 14-3, AP No. 4) ↔
The Blue Devils narrowly avoided disaster at home against Wake Forest, as Chaundee Brown’s short jumper rimmed in and out at the buzzer to hand Duke a heart-stopping 71-70 win. It was just another reminder that, despite all the top-tier talent, the Blue Devils are an entirely different team without Zion Williamson, who remains sidelined with a knee sprain. Luckily for Duke, Mike Krzyzewski did say that he was hopeful the freshman star would be healthy enough to play by the ACC Tournament next week. In the meantime, the Blue Devils should probably work a little bit on free throw shooting. They make just 68.9 percent of their shots at the charity stripe—second worst in the conference.
4) Florida State (24-6, 12-5, AP No. 14) ↑2
No team in the conference might have had a better week than the Seminoles, who notched a pair of huge wins against N.C. State and Virginia Tech (in overtime) at home to seal a double bye in the conference tournament next week. The win against the Hokies was particularly impressive, given that FSU trailed by 14 at halftime and shot just 37.9 percent from the floor. FSU may be overshadowed by the teams ahead of it in the conference standings, but make no mistake, the Seminoles are an excellent team, with 10 players that play at least 10 minutes per contest, and a stifling defense that is rated 13th-best in the country.
5) Virginia Tech (22-7, 11-6, AP No. 15) ↓1
Heartbreak might be the best way to describe the Hokies’ loss to FSU on Tuesday. VTech was leading by 14 points at the break and tied the game at 61 with 14 seconds to play, thanks to an Ahmed Hill triple before running out of gas in the extra period. The emergence of Kerry Blackshear—who had three straight double-doubles before fouling out late in the second half of the defeat to the Seminoles—has helped the Hokies cope with the continued absence of point guard Justin Robinson, but VTech needs him back badly. Just seven Hokies saw the floor against FSU.
6) Louisville (19-11, 10-7) ↑2
The Cardinals somewhat righted the ship on Sunday, beating hapless Notre Dame at home to snap a three-game losing streak—a stretch in which they failed to top the 60-point mark. Head coach Chris Mack criticized his team’s toughness after a loss to BC, and Louisville responded by outrebounding the Irish, 49-30, and holding a 46-26 edge in points in the paint, a good sign for a team that had been floundering after a collapse against Duke three weeks ago. The Cardinals will need all of that toughness in the final game of the regular season, a trip to Virginia to play the No. 2 Cavaliers.
7) Syracuse (19-11, 10-7) ↓1
With 15:05 left to play Monday night against UVA, a Tyus Battle corner triple gave the Orange a 43-42 lead, and it seemed like Syracuse had a chance to pull an upset. Instead, the Cavaliers turned it up on both ends and ran away comfortable victors. The 18 UVA 3-pointers were the most Syracuse has allowed in program history, but the Orange should probably be more concerned about offense moving forwards. Jim Boeheim’s team averages exactly 70 points per game, just 10th best in the conference.
8) North Carolina State (20-10, 8-9) ↓1
The Wolfpack is one of those teams where you never quite know what you’re going to get, as evidenced by Wednesday’s last-second loss to Georgia Tech—at home on Senior Night no less. N.C. State is more than capable of scoring the basketball—it averages 82 points per game and shoots 46.8 percent from the floor as a team—but issues defensively continue to plague the Wolfpack. It allows opponents to shoot 44 percent from the floor, third worst in the conference.
9) Clemson (18-12, 8-9) ↔
Head coach Brad Brownell’s team continues to be an enigma, capable of playing up and down to any team in the conference, as evidenced by a two-point loss to the Tar Heels on Saturday, as well as a two-point win at Notre Dame Wednesday evening. The Tigers don’t really have a signature victory—and likely missed their last chance against UNC, but still have a reasonable shot to make the NCAA tournament. Clemson currently resides in Joe Lunardi’s “First four out” with just one game left to play in the regular season, and that’s in large part to Marquise Reed, who averages 19.2 points per game and played a starring role against the Fighting Irish with 22 points on 8-of-13 shooting.
10) Georgia Tech (14-17, 6-12) ↑1
Kudos to the Yellow Jackets, who won two conference games in a row for the first time all season in style, knocking off the Wolfpack behind James Banks’ game-winning three-point play with just two seconds to play. GT has undeniably had problems scoring the ball this year, so Banks’ hot shooting moving into the ACC Tournament has to be a blessing. The junior forward is shooting a combined 20-of-26 in the past three games and has hit double figures in each of those contests.
11) Boston College (14-15, 5-12) ↓1
The Eagles simply looked like they didn’t belong on the same floor as No. 3 UNC for much of the game Tuesday night, falling behind, 48-25, at halftime and never making a serious comeback effort. BC has the pieces to be a decent team, with Ky Bowman, Nik Popovic, and Jordan Chatman making up three solid options offensively, but has struggled for consistency throughout the 2018-19 campaign. After all, this is a team with an upset win over FSU in January, but also two puzzling losses to Notre Dame to its name.
12) Miami (13-16, 5-12) ↓1
The Hurricanes nearly let an 11-point lead slip against Pittsburgh—the last place team in the ACC—but held on to win its fourth consecutive home game behind 27 points from senior Anthony Lawrence, who surpassed the 1,000-point milestone in the process. Still, a win over the worst team in the conference won’t draw many plaudits with the difficult season Miami has had, or the Hurricanes’ struggles on defense. Opponents shoot 44.7 percent against Miami, the second-worst defensive mark in the ACC.
13) Wake Forest (11-18, 4-13) ↔
Inches were all that separated the Demon Deacons from one of the biggest upsets of the season, as Brown’s jumper rolled around the rim before falling out to hand Wake Forest a devastating loss. A win would have been a nice silver lining to the season for a team that still hasn’t won at Cameron Indoor Stadium since 1997, but certainly wouldn’t have changed the fact that the Demon Deacons have struggled throughout Danny Manning’s fifth season. Wake Forest still has the worst scoring margin, field goal percentage, and field goal percentage defense in the conference.
14) Notre Dame (13-17, 3-14) ↔
In fairness to the Fighting Irish, they continue to find a way to make games close—just one of their past seven contests (all losses) has been decided by more than 10 points. Notre Dame has taken Florida State, Virginia, Virginia Tech, and now Clemson to the wire before coming up just short in all four games. Unfortunately for the Irish, they haven’t had a consistent scorer outside of double-double machine John Mooney for much of the season, and that’s meant that Mike Brey’s team has continued to lose these close games.
15) Pittsburgh (12-18, 2-15) ↔
A loss to Miami ensured that the Panthers streak of futility on the road continues—Pitt has now lost 24 consecutive games away from home. That’s just one concerning statistic for a team whose season has completely unraveled after a promising start to conference play. The last time the Panthers won a game was Jan. 9, when they unseated Louisville at home. Pittsburgh has never stopped trying—a credit to a young team that’s had a trying two months, but the reality is that the Panthers are now assured of finishing last in the conference for the second consecutive year, and the rebuild under new head coach Jeff Capel still has a long way to go.
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Graphing and reporting heterogeneous treatment effects through reference classes.
Watson JA., Holmes CC.
BACKGROUND:Exploration and modelling of heterogeneous treatment effects as a function of baseline covariates is an important aspect of precision medicine in randomised controlled trials (RCTs). Randomisation generally guarantees the internal validity of an RCT, but heterogeneity in treatment effect can reduce external validity. Estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects is usually done via a predictive model for individual outcomes, where one searches for interactions between treatment allocation and important patient baseline covariates. However, such models are prone to overfitting and multiple testing and typically demand a transformation of the outcome measurement, for example, from the absolute risk in the original RCT to log-odds of risk in the predictive model. METHODS:We show how reference classes derived from baseline covariates can be used to explore heterogeneous treatment effects via a two-stage approach. We first estimate a risk score which captures on a single dimension some of the heterogeneity in outcomes of the trial population. Heterogeneity in the treatment effect can then be explored via reweighting schemes along this axis of variation. This two-stage approach bypasses the search for interactions with multiple covariates, thus protecting against multiple testing. It also allows for exploration of heterogeneous treatment effects on the original outcome scale of the RCT. This approach would typically be applied to multivariable models of baseline risk to assess the stability of average treatment effects with respect to the distribution of risk in the population studied. CASE STUDY:We illustrate this approach using the single largest randomised treatment trial in severe falciparum malaria and demonstrate how the estimated treatment effect in terms of absolute mortality risk reduction increases considerably in higher risk strata. CONCLUSIONS:'Local' and 'tilting' reweighting schemes based on ranking patients by baseline risk can be used as a general approach for exploring, graphing and reporting heterogeneity of treatment effect in RCTs. TRIAL REGISTRATION:ISRCTN clinical trials registry: ISRCTN50258054. Prospectively registered on 22 July 2005.
Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand. jwatowatson@gmail.com.
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The Hobbit By J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit By J. R. R. Tolkien quantity Quantity
A great modern classic and the prelude to The Lord of the Rings.
Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon. Bilbo reluctantly joins their quest, unaware that on his journey to the Lonely Mountain he will encounter both a magic ring and a frightening creature known as Gollum.
“A glorious account of a magnificent adventure, filled with suspense and seasoned with a quiet humor that is irresistible . . . All those, young or old, who love a fine adventurous tale, beautifully told, will take The Hobbit to their hearts.” – New York Times Book Review
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White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India By William Dalrymple
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News from Bolton at Home
Here you'll find news articles from across the organisation, from important tenant updates and new housing developments, to community events and activities.
Bolton’s Fund to help children get the best start in life
Charities and community organisations can access a total of £225,000 in funding to help give Bolton children the best possible start in life.
As part of Bolton’s Fund, groups are invited to bid for grants to fund projects aimed at supporting young people.
Depending on the size of the projects, organisations can bid for up to £1,500 or up to £5,000. Grants of £25,000 and over are also available for larger projects.
Each bid must set out how the project will achieve one of the following outcomes:
Improving the mental wellbeing of children and young people (including early years).
Increasing engagement in activities that promote good nutrition and healthy lifestyle activities.
Improving access to out of school activities for children and young people of all ages.
Improving the ability of young people to take control of their lives and reduce their risk of exploitation.
Bolton’s Fund is a voluntary sector grants programme delivered by Bolton Council, NHS Bolton Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Bolton at Home and Bolton CVS (Community and Voluntary Services).
Bolton Council’s Executive Cabinet Member for Stronger Communities, Cllr Nadim Muslim, said: “Giving children and young people the best possible start in life is a core commitment of Bolton Council and our partners.
“Children who are supported by the community today will go on to be the happy and successful adults of the future.
“I look forward to seeing this funding make a real difference in the lives of Bolton’s young people by supporting their wellbeing and improving their life chances.”
Helen Tomlinson, Interim Chief Executive at Bolton CVS, said: “It has been a difficult time for many children and young people during the last few months which is why we are delighted to announce the launch of this new Bolton’s Fund programme.
“The programme aims to help children and young people get the best start in life and invest in projects which will strengthen the outcomes from early years onwards.
“If your group has an idea that will help improve the lives of children and young people in Bolton, we’d love to hear from you.”
Applications for the £25,000+ grants close at 5pm on 13 January. Applications for smaller grants will close at 5pm on 27 January.
All Bolton’s Fund grant decisions are made by a panel of independent volunteer assessors from across the community.
For more information and to apply, visit the Bolton CVS website here: www.boltoncvs.org.uk/boltons-fund-0.
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