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Amount of Vitamin K in Soft drinks
Welcome to the nutritional vitamin k content in 18 different types of soft drinks, ranging from 0 ug to 0 ug per 100g. The basic type of soft drinks is Carbonated beverage, root beer, where the amount of vitamin k in 100g is 0 ug.
0 ug of vitamin k per 100g, from Carbonated beverage, root beer corresponds to % of the vitamin k RDA. For a typical serving size of 1 fl oz (or 30.8 g) the amount of Vitamin K is 0 ug. This corresponds to an RDA percentage of %.
The percentage of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) for vitamin k is based on a 80 ug RDA level for a mature adult.
Top ten soft drinks products high in vitamin k
Below is a summary list for the top ten soft drinks items ranked by the amount or level of vitamin k in 100g.
1. Carbonated beverage, club soda : 0ug
2. Carbonated beverage, cream soda : 0ug
3. Carbonated beverage, ginger ale : 0ug
4. Carbonated beverage, low calorie, other than cola or pepper, without caffeine : 0ug
5. Carbonated beverage, lemon-lime soda, contains caffeine : 0ug
6. Carbonated beverage, SPRITE, lemon-lime, without caffeine : 0ug
7. Carbonated beverage, low calorie, cola or pepper-type, with aspartame, without caffeine : 0ug
8. Carbonated beverage, cola, without caffeine : 0ug
9. Carbonated beverage, cola, with higher caffeine : 0ug
10. Carbonated beverage, reduced sugar, cola, contains caffeine and sweeteners : 0ug
Following on from the ten top soft drinks items or products containing vitamin k we have a more comprehensive break down of Carbonated beverage, root beer, and the highest item containing vitamin k which is Carbonated beverage, club soda. We also give a comparison of average values, median values and lowest values along with a comparison with other food groups and assess the effects of storage and preparation on the 18 types of soft drinks.
At the bottom of the page is the full list for the 18 different types of soft drinks based on the content in different servings in grams and oz (and other serving sizes), providing a comprehensive analysis of the vitamin k content in soft drinks.
Carbonated beverage, root beer - Nutritional Content and Chart
The full nutrition content, RDA percentages and levels for Carbonated beverage, root beer should be considered along with the vitamin k content. This food profile is part of our list of food and drinks under the general group Beverages.Other important and vitamin k related nutrients are Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate. For this 100g serving in your diet, the amount of Calories is 41 kcal (2% RDA), the amount of Protein is 0 g, the amount of Fat is 0 g and the amount of Carbohydrate is 10.6 g (8% RDA). The nutritional content and facts for 100g, which includes Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate is shown in the RDA chart below as percentages of the recommended daily allowance along with the vitamin k levels in soft drinks.
Our proprietary nutritional density score gives a nutritional value out of 100 based on 9 different vitamins, minerals and macro nutrients. Carbonated beverage, root beer has a nutritional value score of 13 out of 100.
Amount of vitamin k per 100 Calories
100 calories of carbonated beverage, root beer is a serving size of 2.44 g, and the amount of Vitamin K is 0 ug. Other important and related nutrients and macronutrients such as Fat, in 100 Calories are as follows; Protein 0 g (0% RDA), Fat 0 g (0% RDA), Carbohydrate 25.85 g (19.51% RDA). This is shown in the vitamin k RDA percentage chart below, based on 100 Calories, along with the other important nutrients and macro nutrients.
Content per Typical Serving Size 1 fl oz (or 30.8 g)
For the food Carbonated beverage, root beer the typical serving size is 1 fl oz (or 30.8 g) which contains 0 ug of Vitamin K. In terms of the gram weight and total content for this serving the Calories content is 12.63 kcal, the Protein content is 0 g, the Fat content is 0 g and the Carbohydrate content is 3.26 g. The percentages are shown below in the vitamin k chart, for the typical serving of vitamin k and the related and important nutritional values.
Macronutrients in Carbonated beverage, root beer
The amount of protein, fat and carbs from this food described above is measured in grams per 100g and grams in a typical serving size (in this case 1 fl oz or 30.8 g), although it is also useful to give the number of calories from protein, fat and carbohydrate which are the most important macronutrients. For this serving in your diet here are the macronutrient calories. From protein the number of calories is 0.0 (kcal).The number of calories from Fat is 0.0 (kcal).The total calories from carbohydrate is 12.6 (kcal).
Ug of vitamin k in soft drinks (per 100g)
This list of 18 types of soft drinks, is brought to you by www.dietandfitnesstoday.com and ranges from Carbonated beverage, club soda through to Carbonated beverage, chocolate-flavored soda where all food items are ranked by the content or amount per 100g. The nutritional vitamin k content can be scaled by the amount in grams, oz or typical serving sizes. Simply click on a food item or beverage from the list at the bottom of the page to give a full dietary nutritional breakdown to answer the question how much vitamin k in soft drinks.
The list below gives the total vitamin k content in the 18 items from the general description 'soft drinks' each of which show the vitamin k amount as well as Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate. Below, is the top 18 food items shown in the vitamin k chart. This gives a quick and easy dietary comparison for the different items, where each item is listed at the bottom of the page with a nutritional summary.
The corresponding nutritional value for soft drinks based on our density score out of 100 (ranked by the amount of vitamin k per 100g) is shown in the below nutritional density chart.
The corresponding Calories for soft drinks ranked by the amount of vitamin k per 100g is shown below in the soft drinks calories chart.
Average Content for soft drinks
The average (or more correctly the arithmetic mean) amount of vitamin k contained in 100g of soft drinks, based on the list below of 18 different items under the general description of soft drinks, is 0.00 ug of vitamin k. The averages for the different nutrients are as follows; the average amount of Calories is 25.39 kcal, the average amount of Protein is 0.04 g, the average amount of Fat is 0.01 g and the average amount of Carbohydrate is g.
Median Amount
The median value of Vitamin K is found in Carbonated beverage, cola, with higher caffeine which in 100g contains 0 ug of Vitamin K. For this serving the amount of Calories is 41 kcal, the amount of Protein is 0 g, the amount of Fat is 0 g and the amount of Carbohydrate is 10.58 g.
Highest vitamin k Content per 100g
Using the list below for the 18 different soft drinks nutrition entries in our database, the highest amount of vitamin k is found in Carbonated beverage, club soda which contains 0 ug of vitamin k per 100g. The associated percentage of RDA is %. For this 100g serving the Calories content is 0 kcal, the Protein content is 0 g, the Fat content is 0 g, the Carbohydrate content is 0 g.
The lowest amount of vitamin k in 100g is in Carbonated beverage, chocolate-flavored soda which contains 0 ug. This gives as percentage of the recommended daily allowance % of the RDA. For this 100g serving the amount of Calories is 42 kcal, the amount of Protein is 0 g, the amount of Fat is 0 g, the amount of Carbohydrate is 10.7 g.
The difference between the highest and lowest values gives a vitamin k range of 0 ug per 100g. The range for the other nutrients are as follows; 42 kcal for Calories, 0 g for Protein, 0 g for Fat, 0 g for Carbohydrate.
Highest Amount of vitamin k per Serving
Please remember that the above gives an accurate value in 100g for high vitamin k foods in your diet. For example 100g of Carbonated beverage, root beer contains 0 ug of vitamin k. However, there are other factors to consider when you are assessing your nutritional requirements. You should also take into account portion sizes when you are considering the vitamin k nutritional content.
The food with the highest vitamin k content per typical serving is Carbonated beverage, chocolate-flavored soda which contains 0 ug in 1 fl oz (or 31 g). For this serving the Calories content is 13.02 kcal, the Protein content is 0 g, the Fat content is 0 g and the Carbohydrate content is 3.32 g.
Nutritional Information Summary
From the list below you can find a full nutrition facts breakdown for all foods containing vitamin k which can be scaled for different servings and quantities. We have also sorted our complete nutritional information and vitamin database of over 7000 foods, to give a list of foods high in vitamin k.
Soft drinks List, vitamin k Content per 100g
1. Carbonated beverage, club soda - Vitamin K
Nutritional Value : 13 / 100 food group - Beverages
(%RDA) Calories
(%RDA) Carbohydrate
(%RDA) Fat
(%RDA) Protein
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Profile for a 100g serving :
0 ug 0 kcal (0%) 0 g (0%) 0 g (0%) 0 g (0%)
Typical Serving size of 1 fl oz (or 29.6g):
Other serving sizes 1 can or bottle (16 fl oz) (or 474g):
2. Carbonated beverage, cream soda - Vitamin K
Vitamin K Calories Carbohydrate Fat Protein
0 ug 51 kcal (3%) 13.3 g (10%) 0 g (0%) 0 g (0%)
0 ug 15.76 kcal (1%) 4.11 g (3%) 0 g (0%) 0 g (0%)
0 ug 251.94 kcal (13%) 65.7 g (51%) 0 g (0%) 0 g (0%)
0 ug 189.21 kcal (9%) 49.34 g (38%) 0 g (0%) 0 g (0%)
3. Carbonated beverage, ginger ale - Vitamin K
0 ug 34 kcal (2%) 8.77 g (7%) 0 g (0%) 0 g (0%)
0 ug 165.92 kcal (8%) 42.8 g (33%) 0 g (0%) 0 g (0%)
4. Carbonated beverage, low calorie, other than cola or pepper, without caffeine - Vitamin K
0 ug 0 kcal (0%) 0 g (0%) 0 g (0%) 0.1 g (0%)
0 ug 0 kcal (0%) 0 g (0%) 0 g (0%) 0.03 g (0%)
Other serving sizes 1 can (12 fl oz) (or 355g):
5. Carbonated beverage, lemon-lime soda, contains caffeine - Vitamin K
0 ug 41 kcal (2%) 10.42 g (8%) 0 g (0%) 0.09 g (0%)
0 ug 12.63 kcal (1%) 3.21 g (2%) 0 g (0%) 0.03 g (0%)
Other serving sizes 1 can 12 fl oz (or 369g):
0 ug 151.29 kcal (8%) 38.45 g (30%) 0 g (0%) 0.33 g (1%)
Other serving sizes 1 bottle 16 fl oz (or 492g):
0 ug 201.72 kcal (10%) 51.27 g (39%) 0 g (0%) 0.44 g (1%)
6. Carbonated beverage, SPRITE, lemon-lime, without caffeine - Vitamin K
0 ug 40 kcal (2%) 10.14 g (8%) 0.02 g (0%) 0.05 g (0%)
0 ug 12.32 kcal (1%) 3.12 g (2%) 0.01 g (0%) 0.02 g (0%)
0 ug 147.6 kcal (7%) 37.42 g (29%) 0.07 g (0%) 0.18 g (0%)
0 ug 196.8 kcal (10%) 49.89 g (38%) 0.1 g (0%) 0.25 g (0%)
Other serving sizes 1 child cup 12 fl oz size cup (or 258g):
Other serving sizes 1 small cup 16 fl oz size cup (or 347g):
Other serving sizes 1 medium cup 21 fl oz size cup (or 486g):
Other serving sizes 1 large cup 32 fl oz size cup (or 722g):
0 ug 288.8 kcal (14%) 73.21 g (56%) 0.14 g (0%) 0.36 g (1%)
7. Carbonated beverage, low calorie, cola or pepper-type, with aspartame, without caffeine - Vitamin K
0 ug 1 kcal (0%) 0.15 g (0%) 0 g (0%) 0.12 g (0%)
0 ug 0.3 kcal (0%) 0.04 g (0%) 0 g (0%) 0.04 g (0%)
0 ug 4.73 kcal (0%) 0.71 g (1%) 0 g (0%) 0.57 g (1%)
8. Carbonated beverage, cola, without caffeine - Vitamin K
0 ug 41 kcal (2%) 10.58 g (8%) 0 g (0%) 0 g (0%)
0 ug 201.31 kcal (10%) 51.95 g (40%) 0 g (0%) 0 g (0%)
9. Carbonated beverage, cola, with higher caffeine - Vitamin K
10. Carbonated beverage, reduced sugar, cola, contains caffeine and sweeteners - Vitamin K
0 ug 5.92 kcal (0%) 1.53 g (1%) 0 g (0%) 0 g (0%)
Other serving sizes 1 can (8 fl oz) (or 355g):
0 ug 71 kcal (4%) 18.32 g (14%) 0 g (0%) 0 g (0%)
11. Carbonated beverage, low calorie, other than cola or pepper, with aspartame, contains caffeine - Vitamin K
12. Carbonated beverage, tonic water - Vitamin K
0 ug 34 kcal (2%) 8.8 g (7%) 0 g (0%) 0 g (0%)
Other serving sizes 1 bottle (11 fl oz) (or 336g):
13. Carbonated beverage, root beer - Vitamin K
0 ug 41 kcal (2%) 10.6 g (8%) 0 g (0%) 0 g (0%)
0 ug 151.7 kcal (8%) 39.22 g (30%) 0 g (0%) 0 g (0%)
14. Carbonated beverage, low calorie, cola or pepper-types, with sodium saccharin, contains caffeine - Vitamin K
0 ug 0 kcal (0%) 0.1 g (0%) 0 g (0%) 0 g (0%)
0 ug 0 kcal (0%) 0.03 g (0%) 0 g (0%) 0 g (0%)
15. Carbonated beverage, cola, contains caffeine - Vitamin K
0 ug 37 kcal (2%) 9.56 g (7%) 0.02 g (0%) 0.07 g (0%)
0 ug 136.16 kcal (7%) 35.18 g (27%) 0.07 g (0%) 0.26 g (0%)
0 ug 181.67 kcal (9%) 46.94 g (36%) 0.1 g (0%) 0.34 g (1%)
Other serving sizes 1 cup child fast food, 12 fl oz capacity and weight of the drink only with no ice added (or 258g):
0 ug 95.46 kcal (5%) 24.66 g (19%) 0.05 g (0%) 0.18 g (0%)
Other serving sizes 1 cup small fast food, 16 fl oz capacity and weight of the drink only with no ice added (or 347g):
Other serving sizes 1 cup medium fast food, 21 fl oz capacity and weight of the drink only with no ice added (or 486g):
Other serving sizes 1 cup large fast food, 32 fl oz capacity and weight of the drink only with no ice added (or 722g):
0 ug 267.14 kcal (13%) 69.02 g (53%) 0.14 g (0%) 0.51 g (1%)
16. Carbonated beverage, low calorie, cola or pepper-type, with aspartame, contains caffeine - Vitamin K
0 ug 2 kcal (0%) 0.29 g (0%) 0.03 g (0%) 0.11 g (0%)
0 ug 0.59 kcal (0%) 0.09 g (0%) 0.01 g (0%) 0.03 g (0%)
0 ug 7.1 kcal (0%) 1.03 g (1%) 0.11 g (0%) 0.39 g (1%)
0 ug 6.94 kcal (0%) 1.01 g (1%) 0.1 g (0%) 0.38 g (1%)
17. Sports drink, COCA-COLA, POWERADE, lemon-lime flavored, ready-to-drink - Vitamin K
0 ug 32 kcal (2%) 7.84 g (6%) 0.05 g (0%) 0 g (0%)
0 ug 9.76 kcal (0%) 2.39 g (2%) 0.02 g (0%) 0 g (0%)
Other serving sizes 8 fl oz (or 244g):
0 ug 78.08 kcal (4%) 19.13 g (15%) 0.12 g (0%) 0 g (0%)
Other serving sizes 12 fl oz (or 365g):
0 ug 116.8 kcal (6%) 28.62 g (22%) 0.18 g (0%) 0 g (0%)
18. Carbonated beverage, chocolate-flavored soda - Vitamin K
Typical Serving size of 1 fl oz (or 31g):
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 Forecast
by: iceprinxess 1 comment
categories: 2013 movie, cartoon, movie review, review
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 picks up where Sony Pictures Animation's hit comedy left off. Inventor Flint Lockwood's genius is finally being recognized as he's invited by his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, where the best and brightest inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. Chester's right-hand-gal - and one of his greatest inventions - is Barb (a highly evolved orangutan with a human brain, who is also devious, manipulative and likes to wear lipstick).
It's always been Flint's dream to be recognized as a great inventor, but everything changes when he discovers that his most infamous machine (which turns water into food) is still operating and is now creating food-animal hybrids - "foodimals!" With the fate of humanity in his hands, Chester sends Flint and his friends on a dangerously delicious mission, battling hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, apple pie-thons, double bacon cheespiders and other food creatures to save the world again!
With a photo of my foodimal, I joined a contest held by Sony Pictures and Churp Churp.... and managed to get preview tickets to watch the movie!
Animations such as Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 is one which should be enjoyed without much thinking into the (mechanics of) plot: with talking primates, quirky scientists creating out of this world inventions (e.g. spray-on shoes) and foodimals (animals in the form of food), any logically person would think it ridiculous. So, as long as you are not realistic and logical, it is a fun good movie. It is fiction after all and fiction is all about imagination (and makes some sort of sense – in a quirky way of course).
In the opening of the movie (a sequel to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs), we are reminded that the protangonist – Flint Lockwood (an aspiring scientist) - had created a machine called the “FLDSMDFR” (Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamin Food Replication). The machine could create food (delicious food at that) with just water. Unfortunately, the machine went rouge and started altering the weather with food (snowing ice-cream, raining burgers and a spaghetti tornado are some examples).
So in a bid to stop the machine from wracking havoc, Flink attempted to disable the machine (and in gets lost in the process)… which resulted in an island overridden with food and even more food. And this is where the movie begins, as the inhabitants of the island figure out going about cleaning up there island.
However, before they even start, they are interrupted by Flint’s idol and role model, Chester V (a creative and successful scientist who promotes science and for some weird reason is obessed with fruit bars; his company’s lifeblood is in its fruitbars more than anything else). Chester and team manage to persuade the islands inhabitants to leave the island (Swallow Falls) while they carry out the cleanup operation on their behalf. Much to Flint’s delight, he is even offered a position at Chester’s company (but unbeknownst to him, Chester has a much more sinister plan).
Within a matter of months Flint and company (friends and family) have settled into the nearby town where they have been located to. Flint works at Chester’s company in a highly competitive (and propagandized) environment with a caffeine station at almost every corner and monitors displaying the image of Chester to “motivate” and “inspire” his think tanks (by overdosing them on caffeine and overworking them). You kind of get a feeling that Chester is not as big-hearted and kind as he portrays himself to be; a clever (charismatic) slave master in the truest sense. Perhaps only adults or a more mature audience comprehend this spoof of its real world counterpart, but for children it’s still good old cartoon fun.
Somewhere along in the story Chester V’s failure to locate the “FLDSMDFR” prompts him to persuade Flint to locate it for him disguised as a way to redeem himself for a blunder he had committed at work. He manages to convince Flint to take up the mission, letting him believe that the half animals half food creatures (Cheesespiders ) have taken over Swallow Falls and are going to destroy the world (in essence).
Flint and company arrive the their island which is overridden with amazing creatures in the form of food: pickles who love eating sardines, strawberries that talk, leeks that scream, adorable mushmellows etc...
Initially, Chester wanted Flint to carry out his mission alone, but it was foiled when Flint’s girlfriend, father and friends tag along. So he disrupts the group and tries to break the bonds Flint has, causing Flint a moment of identity crisis - wanting to gain the approval and acknowledgement of his idol (Chester) and losing the trust of his friends. Thankfully Flint comes to his senses and saves the day.
Overall, it was an entertaining movie and I simply adored the foodimals! The plot could have been more developed, but it was sufficient to bring about the flow of the storyline, bringing you right into the action and not getting lost (even if you have not watch the prequel). In fact, the foodimals were more interesting than the actual characters.
With living breathing (even talking) foodimals, the adorableness is a saccharinely delight (for those who adore adorable little things!). And I must say, strawberries have never been cuter! Berry stole the show away (for me).
My absolute favorite character of them all. A strawberry with a mean punch too!
Of course, as with all stories (targeted mostly for children) there is a morale behind this, and that having good friends and cherishing those bonds are important as they are precious. The opinions of good friends (and family) who understand and know you should carry more weight than what your idol (e.g. person you admire but hardly know or have a bond with) tells you. Just because you look up to a person doesn't mean they would think of your well-being. After all, there's a fine line between helping and being made used of. Just because they portray a certain image to show that they are nice, doesn't really mean that they are nice.
Drama Queen October 12, 2013 at 7:42 PM
Interesting review. 👍
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Home » SFF Reviews » The Death of Vivek Oji: ”Beautyful” writing
The Death of Vivek Oji: ”Beautyful” writing
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
On the same day a riot destroys the market in Ngwa, Nigeria, the body of Vivek Oji is left on his parents’ doorstep, naked except for a length of cloth. Gradually, through a variety of points of view, Akwaeke Emezi unfolds the story of Vivek’s life and death, and how that death affects Vivek’s loved ones — drawing some people closer together, driving faultlines between others.
Readers who’ve read Emezi’s earlier work might expect more supernatural elements than The Death of Vivek Oji (2020) actually contains. This short novel is mostly a realistic story, with two exceptions: Vivek occasionally narrates from beyond the grave, and it is implied that reincarnation exists. However, I think readers who enjoy Emezi’s “beautyful” writing (you’ll have to read the book to find out why I spelled it that way!) and explorations of gender and identity will find a lot to like here.
A central theme of the novel is the way Vivek is prevented from being his true self because of pressures from his family: both their expectations about what a son should be, and their fears about what might happen to him if he doesn’t toe the line. Vivek’s brief life plays out against a background of violence perpetrated on people who don’t conform in terms of gender or sexuality. (It’s a big contrast with the utopia of Pet, where no-fuss acceptance is the norm.) Another major element, though, is the nurturing environment he finds with his friends, some of whom are keeping secrets of their own.
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The story that develops is sometimes devastating, sometimes heartwarming, sometimes infuriating, sometimes sensual. Emezi offers insight into a wide range of characters with diverse backgrounds and mindsets. The descriptive prose is beautiful; the dialogue, which includes a lot of Nigerian colloquialisms, can take a few minutes for an American reader to adjust to, but quickly clicks into place.
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When we find out what actually happened to Vivek Oji, there’s a little relief in it, because it’s not as terrible as what we might have built up and dreaded in our heads — just a tragic accident. But it’s also tragic that the one character who knows the truth is unable to tell it, because of that same tangle of family expectations.
The Death of Vivek Oji may not feature much in the way of the fantastic, but it’s a deeply affecting read that I think will have some crossover appeal for fantasy readers. I especially recommend it if you’ve enjoyed Emezi’s work before, or are interested in themes of grief, identity, and gender.
Published in August 2020. Named one of the year’s most anticipated books by The New York Times, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, BuzzFeed, Refinery29, and more. What does it mean for a family to lose a child they never really knew? One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son’s body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at her feet. What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one family’s struggle to understand a child whose spirit is both gentle and mysterious. Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienting blackouts, moments of disconnection between self and surroundings. As adolescence gives way to adulthood, Vivek finds solace in friendships with the warm, boisterous daughters of the Nigerwives, foreign-born women married to Nigerian men. But Vivek’s closest bond is with Osita, the worldly, high-spirited cousin whose teasing confidence masks a guarded private life. As their relationship deepens—and Osita struggles to understand Vivek’s escalating crisis—the mystery gives way to a heart-stopping act of violence in a moment of exhilarating freedom. Propulsively readable, teeming with unforgettable characters, The Death of Vivek Oji is a novel of family and friendship that challenges expectations—a dramatic story of loss and transcendence that will move every reader.
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Supplementary Materialsmmc1. Finally, an RNA-binding protein immunoprecipitation assay and Western blotting were used to detect whether N6-methyladenosine mediates the decreased TRAF4 expression during adipogenic differentiation. Findings The results exhibited that TRAF4 negatively regulates MSC adipogenesis in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistically, we revealed that TRAF4 binds to PKM2 to activate the Detomidine hydrochloride kinase activity of PKM2, which subsequently activates -catenin signaling and then inhibits adipogenesis. Furthermore, TRAF4 downregulation during adipogenesis is usually regulated by ALKBH5-mediated N6-methyladenosine RNA demethylation. Interpretation TRAF4 negatively regulates the adipogenesis of MSCs by activating PKM2 kinase activity, which may act as a checkpoint to fine-tune the balance of adipo-osteogenic differentiation, and suggests that TRAF4 may be a novel target of MSCs in clinical use and may also illuminate the underlying mechanisms of bone metabolic diseases. Funding This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81871750 and 81971518) and the Science and Technology Project of Guangdong Province (2019B02023600 and 2017A020215070). strong class=”kwd-title” Detomidine hydrochloride Keywords: TRAF4, Mesenchymal stem cells, Adipogenic differentiation, PKM2 Research in context em Evidence before this study /em TRAF4 is usually a member of the TRAF family of scaffold proteins, and previous animal study experienced exhibited that TRAF4 deficiency can lead to severe skeletal malformation, which suggests that TRAF4 plays a critical role in bone development and metabolism, however, its exact molecular mechanism requires further study. Accumulating studies have revealed that this adipogenic-osteogenic balance plays a critical role in bone metabolism. We previously reported that TRAF4 positively regulates the osteogenic differentiation of MSCs by acting as an E3 ubiquitin ligase to degrade Smurf2. However, whether TRAF4 affects the adipogenic differentiation of MSCs continues to be unclear. em Added worth of this research /em We showed that TRAF4 adversely regulates MSC adipogenesis in vitro and in vivo, and we further uncovered that TRAF4 binds to PKM2 to activate the kinase activity of PKM2, which eventually activates -catenin signaling and inhibits adipogenesis. Used together, our outcomes suggest that TRAF4 serves as a destiny checkpoint to modify the adipogenic-osteogenic differentiation of MSCs. Oddly enough, TRAF4 appearance was reduced in the marrow cavity of rats with osteoporosis. Furthermore, TRAF4 downregulation during adipogenesis was governed by ALKBH5-mediated m6A RNA demethylation. em Implications of all available proof /em This research showed that TRAF4 may become a checkpoint to fine-tune the total amount of adipogenic-osteogenic differentiation, and it might be a book focus on of MSCs in scientific use and could also illuminate the root mechanisms of bone tissue metabolic illnesses. Alt-text: Unlabelled container Mouse monoclonal to LAMB1 1.?Launch Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), which are seed cells with a wide range of clinical applications, can selectively differentiate into adipocytes and osteoblasts under the appropriate conditions Detomidine hydrochloride [1]. Like a common progenitor of adipocytes and osteoblasts, MSCs engage in bone homeostasis via the following two mechanisms after differentiation: MSCs can differentiate into osteoblasts that directly mediate bone development [2] or MSCs can differentiate into adipocytes that regulate the bone marrow microenvironment and consequently affect bone metabolism [3]. Although adipocytes and osteoblasts are differentiated from MSCs, they travel contrasting Detomidine hydrochloride metabolic decisions [4]. Therefore, tightly controlled MSC differentiation is definitely highly significant for the maintenance of bone homeostasis, which has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Considerable evidence has shown the adipogenic and osteogenic differentiation of MSCs is definitely under the control of several key checkpoints [5,6]. These molecules positively or negatively impact downstream signaling pathways, including the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma (PPAR-) [7], transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-)/bone morphogenic protein (BMP) [8] and Wnt signaling pathways [9], which eventually impact the MSC differentiation direction. Thus, exploring and identifying these checkpoints could improve the software effectiveness of MSCs and illuminate the underlying mechanisms of bone rate of metabolism?disorders. TNF receptor-associated element 4 (TRAF4) is definitely a member of the TRAF family (TRAF 1 to 7) of seven scaffold proteins, which are involved in.
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Home » Artists » Concertos 2 & 3
11/18/2017 Metro Chamber Orchestra / New York, NY
11/30/2017 Jazz at Lincoln Center / New York, NY
01/13/2018 Lancaster Symphony Orchestra / Lancaster, PA
04/27/2018 National Theater / Taipei, Taiwan
06/02/2018 Brooklyn Academy of Music / New York, NY
03/15/2019 Brooklyn Music School Playhouse / Brooklyn, NY
David Chesky: Bio
Three-time Grammy nominee David Chesky has earned great respect for his fresh and unique approach to musical compositions, which span the jazz and classical genres. Captivating audiences around the world, The New York Times raves, "Chesky combines a gritty sophistication with street-level energy and currents of exotic folkishness." As a composer of orchestral works, operas and ballets, an author of children's books, a jazz pianist and a world-renowned innovator of audio technologies, Chesky redefines the role of a modern-day renaissance man. Critics describe his music as "highly individualistic," "memorable," "dynamic" and "exotic."
In his 2010-2011 season, Chesky served as the Composer-in-Residence for the National Symphony of Taiwan, where he gave his world premiere of New York Variations. His comedic adult opera, The Pig, the Farmer, and the Artist also premiered at the New York Fringe Festival, leaving audiences in laughter-filled tears. Opera News praised that "Chesky could turn out to be a one-man Brecht-Weill for the twenty-first century." Last year also saw the release of his two new albums, Urbanicity and String Theory, both of which received critical acclaim. Classics Today said of the latter, "This music has integrity, and it gets under your skin."
In 2012-2013 Chesky won the prestigious Lancaster Symphony composer award. Chesky released his solo piano album The New York Rags, that The Absolute Sound cited "as being one of the best piano albums ever recorded". In addition two other CDs will be released in 2013, Chesky's jazz quintet, Jazz in the New Harmonic that fuses 21st century classical harmony with the urban grooves of Jazz and his children's orchestral ballet the Zephyrtine.
Best known for his thrilling and driving "Urban Orchestral" music, a term which he himself coined, Chesky has developed his own unique style of composition, merging classical techniques with sounds emanating from the streets of New York. Critics praise his unique style noting, "Chesky fuses diverse influences into a musical language all his own." (Gramophone Magazine) Chesky has composed concertos for electric guitar, violin, and cello, featured on his 2011 albums Urbanicity and String Theory.
Chesky, in recent years, has ventured into the world of comic opera. His controversial and cutting edge The Pig, the Farmer, and the Artist, garnered the highest acclaim from both opera and theater critics after premiering at the New York Fringe Festival. His newest opera, Juliet & Romeo, is a ‘what if' comedy about Shakespeare's two lovers if they were to have the chance to live out their lives and marry one another. Juliet & Romeo is set to be released later this year.
In 2009, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater commissioned Chesky's ballet, Hope, taking it on tour all over the United States. In addition to Hope, Chesky has four other ballets including his children's ballet, The Zephyrtine, and The Central Park Dances, Urbanicity and The New York Variations; all three of which are wild reflections of modern life in a fast city.
Chesky is committed to fostering music education in young children, fully aware that our audiences tomorrow depend on introducing classical music to today's youth. Consequently, Chesky created the album Classical Cats™, a fun, endearing story that gives children an introduction to the orchestra and classical music, awarded Dr. Toy's Recognition of Excellence. In 2011, his children's opera, The Mice War, was presented at The National Theater of Taiwan in Chinese to sold-out audiences. With such a positive response, the libretto is now being translated into Polish, Italian and Portuguese, and is set for DVD release later this year. Chesky is also the author of The Snowbears of Lake Louise™, a book that educates children about the importance of preserving the environment.
Miami native Chesky moved to New York in 1974 to officially begin his career as a musician. With an interest in both classical and jazz, he immediately began studying composition with Pulitzer Prize winner, David Del Tredici, and piano with John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet. His blending of genres was first reflected in the culmination of his big band, The David Chesky Big Band, where he performed at every major jazz club and festival including; The Village Vanguard, Storyville, and the Newport, JVC and Monterey Jazz Festivals. Still active as a jazz pianist today, Chesky plays and composes for his new group, Jazz in the New Harmonic, incorporating 12-tone and contemporary classical harmonies into jazz, and his Grammy nominated Latin-jazz fusion, The Body Acoustic.
David is the founder of the audiophile label Chesky Records. Considered as one of the preeminent audiophile record labels among critics, Chesky Records has produced over 500 albums with highly accomplished artists in genres spanning classical, jazz and world music. Chesky Records produces the highest quality of recordings available today. David is on the forefront of audio technology; having created the world's first 128x oversampled recordings, 96kHz/24bit recordings, and created the 6.0 multichannel 192kHz/24bit DVD-Audio Disc layout.
Today, David continues his quest for high quality digital music. In 2007, he opened HDtracks.com, the world's premiere online download service that delivers high sound quality in AIFF, FLAC and 192kHz/24bit high-resolution files.
Chesky currently resides in New York City with his wife, Brazilian actress Patricia Dinely and their two children; Paloma and Lucca.
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Following the release of his stunning Venetian Concertos, composer/pianist David Chesky has written two new concertos, this time for piano. Inspired by the chaos of his adopted New York City, these virtuosic concertos are a mixture of energy, rhythmic drive and serenity. Like most of his recent work, they combine modern compositional styles with both jazz and reverence for classical forms in Chesky's own unique manner.
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David Chesky's source for The Abreu Danzas is the sound and energy of New York City / WFMT: Featured New Release
Posted At : August 28, 2020 12:00 AM
Meticulously designed, intense, and streetwise, David Chesky's music proposes a variation on an old musical gambit. Classical composers have long drawn from their national folk music for their work. Chesky's source for The Abreu Danzas is the sound and energy of New York City or, to be precise, a Latin New York City. The centerpiece of the album is a five-movement ballet dedicated to the late Venezuelan conductor, pianist, educator, and politician Jose Antonio Abreu, founder of El Sistema. The program, which started in 1975, brought free music education to the poorest neighborhoods in Venezuela and has since inspired similar systems in several countries, including the United States. For August 28, David Chesky - The Abreu Danzas is the WFMT: Chicago 'Featured New Release'
David Chesky's opera about an opera opens at the Fort Greene Playhouse / Brooklyn Paper
Posted At : March 14, 2019 12:00 AM
Call it a meta-soprano! An offbeat and often risque operetta will belt out its satiric tunes at Fort Greene's Brooklyn Playhouse on March 15 and 16. Audiences at "La Farranucci," will discover a saucy show that mocks the stodgy world of divas and double arias, according to its director. The musical comedy, written by composer David Chesky, is an opera about an opera, and it turns a satirical eye on the practical concerns that underpin - and often undermine - the artistic endeavors of the medium's cash-strapped creators. Chesky's "La Farranucci" opens on a troubled production of a fictional opera with the same name, as members of a Texan theater company struggle to meet the demands of their new producer, a former stripper who married into wealth, and is now afflicting her high-brow beneficiaries with her low-brow sensibilities. READ THE FULL Brooklyn Paper ARTICLE p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d; min-height: 14.0px}
Piano Concertos 2&3 from David Chesky / stereophile review
Given that David Chesky has just followed the digital release of his Second and Third Piano Concertos with a January 13 performance of his Violin Concerto No.3 by Rachel Barton Pine and the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, some might say he's on a roll. Others, listening to the pace of two new piano concertos inspired what liner notes writer Harold Lester calls "the chaos of [Chesky's] adopted New York City," might instead think "roller coaster." Using the same Chesky-assembled Orchestra of the 21st Century as on The Spanish Poems recording that he released six months earlier, but this time with himself as soloist, Chesky launches into a "collision of atonal harmonies in counterpoint." That some of the music in Concerto No.2 for Piano and Orchestra (2017) is atonal is, to these ears, secondary to the frenzied pace of the 6-minute opening movement. Chesky's fugal writing and counterpoint add extra life to a non-stop experience that could leave some holding on for dear life, and cause more than one caged hamster to jump off the wheel. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060; min-height: 14.0px} READ THE FULL stereophile ARTICLE
CES opens as RIAA reports first half of 2017 sees streaming accounting for 62% of music-industry revenues / TWICE
The music industry is shifting to a streaming model from a download model, spurring new high-res streaming services to prepare for launch and more audio hardware companies here at CES to support high-res streaming services. Retailers at CES will also find a growing selection of car audio products that support various high-res formats, a growing selection of high-res home and portable products supporting studio-quality MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) audio, and more wireless-multiroom speakers supporting high-res playback. Attesting to the streaming shift, the RIAA reported that, in the first half of 2017, retail-level music-industry streaming revenues grew 48 percent to $2.5 billion to account for 62 percent of total industry revenues of $3.99 billion. Downloads accounted for only 19 percent of industry revenues in the first half, falling 24 percent during that time to $757 million. The shift in consumer preference has also had an impact on high-res music downloads. "High-res downloads are holding their own," said David Chesky, co-founder and CEO of download site HDtracks. "We feel the streaming pinch but nowhere as much as the industry standard." MusicWatch statistics also underscore the shift. Seventy percent of the Internet population ages 13 and older streamed music in the past month, or about 156 million streamers, based on Sept. 2017 data, said managing partner Russ Crupnick. That compares to 19 percent of the population that, in 2016, bought at least one music download, or about 42 million people, and they're listening less to their downloads as "download listeners increasingly substitute streaming," said Crupnick. With the shift, HDtracks plans to launch HDmusicStream, a streaming site featuring MQA-encoded music. It was originally targeted for a late-2016 launch. HDmusicStream will join Tidal, which launched an MQA streaming service in 2017 with titles from the big three music companies and independents. Groovers in Korea was expected to launch MQA streaming before the end of 2017. AndNugs.net, which offers high-res MQA downloads globally, is gearing up for a global MQA streaming launch through iOS and desktop players. In addition, Deezer made an "announcement of intent" to stream MQA in 2018, said MQA inventor MQA Ltd. In 2017, Pandora and Napster also announced intentions to offer high-res streaming, but the projects had not yet come to fruition by the end of the year following management changes. Meanwhile, the amount of high-res music available has grown to more than 40,000 high-res albums globally as of late 2017, most available to U.S. consumers, the FindHDmusic.com database shows. Of that number, thousands of MQA-encoded albums were available to U.S. consumers for download in late 2017 from three online stores - HIGHRESAUDIO, 2L and Onkyo Music - from such labels as Warner Music, RME Premium Recordings, Sono Luminus, Unamas, and 2L, said MQA Ltd. In addition, Nugs.net provides MQA downloads globally of recorded concerts. High-res music is available through more download sites than ever before, hitting 90 at the end of 2017, most of which are available to U.S. consumers, the FindHDmusic.com database shows. The sites include artist and music-label sites. Despite growing interest and availability, high-res audio is still a niche, said HDtracks's Chesky. CTA statistics support that assessment. In its mid-2017 forecast, CTA forecast that high-res-capable home-audio receivers would account for 32 percent of 1.32 million receivers sold in 2017 at the factory level. That percentage will slip through 2012 to 28.6 percent of 1.31 million units sold. READ THE FULL TWICE ARTICLE p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060; min-height: 14.0px}
David Chesky - The Venetian Concertos / KDFC: Download of the Week
Posted At : April 20, 2016 12:00 AM
Each week KDFC: San Francisco members can download a free mp3 from some of the biggest releases in the world of Classical music. This week's download is from David Chesky's newest radically original powerful compositions, The Venetian Concertos. A tribute to the classic Italian Concerto Grosso form, Chesky uses his fondness for the Baroque as a starting point. However, influenced and inspired by Brazilian, Urban, and Latin music, he then replaces the Baroque line contour with dense chromatic polyphony. The collision of styles creates a powerful new definition of the Orchestral Concerto form, one which embraces a more contemporary and relevant approach to both counterpoint and energy. Grab a fresh track from this new release for free. Download now!
David Chesky - Primal Scream / Step Tempest
Posted At : June 1, 2015 12:00 AM
Though the Chesky name is well-known in the recording industry for its groundbreaking audiophile label (started in 1978 by brothers Norman and David), I must admit I was mostly unaware of David Chesky's work as a composer and pianist. One glance at his webpage (www.davidchesky.com) is enlightening, informing one of his classical endeavors, compositions for dance troupes, children's ballets and various jazz projects dating back to the . In 2013, Chesky introduced his latest band, a quintet known as Jazz in the New Harmonic (pictured below) featuring Billy Drummond (drums), Javon Jackson (tenor saxophone, clarinet), Peter Washington (bass) and Jeremy Pelt (trumpet). The quintet's second CD, "Primal Scream" (Chesky Records) posits the band in the heart of the late 1950s "Kind of Blue" sound that led to the classic Miles Davis Quintet (Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, and Ron Carter. To the composer's credit, he is not imitating that music as much as channeling the mood. The opening cut, "Check Point Charlie" places the music in that era and conjures up the classic Davis Lp cited above. Mesmerizing pieces such as "Kill The Philharmonic" and "Quiet Desperation" have a trance-like quality due mostly to the airy and angular quality of the piano chords and the circular bass lines. Yet, on the first track mentioned (and throughout the program), Drummond supplies the fire that heats the music. He kicks hard beneath Pelt's passionate solo and drops into a funky "boogaloo" for Jackson's playful tenor spotlight. The title of the CD might conjure images of Dr. Arthur Janov's controversial therapy practices of the mid-1960s; the track itself has great energy coming from the bass and drums plus sparkling solos from Jackson and Pelt but the highlight is the dream-like piano solo (cannot miss the classical inferences) over the powerful rhythm section. The closing cut, the highly rhythmical "Sleepless In New York", has a playful melody for saxophone plus muted trumpet and piano counterpoint. Washington's bass lines dance alongside Drummond's elemental drumming (no frills, just the constancy of the rhythm). When Chesky steps out, he picks up on the playfulness of the previous soloists but also gets deep into the bass "groove." "Jazz In The New Harmonic: Primal Scream" makes no bones about its debt to the music of the masters and makes a powerful statement about the need for jazz to "dance" again. David Chesky, through his music and prose, states "we're a groove-based society", inviting all listeners to this darkly shaded yet funky experience. Kudos to all involved! SEE THE Step Tempest PAGE
David Chesky - Primal Scream / Jazz Weekly
Posted At : May 5, 2015 12:00 AM
If you're into film noirish sounds from 50s B movies, this release lead by pianist/composer David Chesky is a real treat. He forms a quintet with a series of super modern studs such as Billy Drummond/dr, Javon Jackosn/ts-cl, Jeremy Pelt/tp and Peter Washington/b. And, yes, these guys know how to hit hard and bop with the best, the mood here is more subtle, impressionistic and hip-ly cerebral. Gentle piano chords chime on "Check Point Charlie" with almost Gil Evans-like hauntingly understated and muted horns. Jackosn's tenor is smoulders like a Cuban here, while the laid back and bluesy "Isolation" features Pelt on his mute. Muscles are flexed as well here, as Pelt bears down on "Primal Scream," but for the most part, the feel is like an Orson Wells or John Cassavetes flick, as the impressionistic "Quiet Desperation" and rich harmonies on "Cultural Treason" feature the subtle rhythm team supporting Javon's haunting horn on the former and Pelt's less is more horn on the latter. This album reinforces the classic point about communication; in order to get someone to pay attention, whisper. SEE THE Jazz Weekly PAGE
David Chesky - Primal Scream / Westwood One: America This Week
Once again pianist/composer David Chesky courts a dark, masterful muse on this second recording by his Jazz in the New Harmonic quintet. The noirish atmosphere on Primal Scream prevails from his first dissonant stabs at the keyboard with cool solos from veteran jazz artists Javon Jackson and Jeremy Pelt, while Peter Washington and Billy Drummond lock down the time. This is a different kind of cool jazz, one that grooves along steadily. Close your eyes and you can feel the pulse of the New York streets colliding with 21st century ethereal classical harmony. Chuck Rich's May 2 and 3 segment for Syndicated America This Week with Jim Bohannon, concluded with Chesky's -- Jazz In The New Harmonic: Primal Scream as the music suggestion for that week. "America This Week" is heard on 90 Westwood One radio affiliates. Listen to the attached excerpt.
In Honor of the Holocaust Days of Remembrance, David Chesky releases - 'Psalm No. 1 for String Orchestra'
Composer David Chesky's haunting new video, "Psalm No.1 for String Orchestra," is juxtaposed with photos of children and families held in concentration camps during World War II. The music is stunning and combined with this imagery edited by the composer's wife Patricia Dinely Chesky, provides an honest sadness. The work searingly captures the horrific reality of the Holocaust. The orchestral work is performed by the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg, featuring violinist Christian Richter and is conducted by acclaimed interpreter of American repertoire, Stephen Somary. "Psalm No. 1 for String Orchestra" is a beautifully moving piece, and as Chesky interprets, "This is a composition in remembrance, and in the hope that the human kind will learn from its past." We cannot forget that the tragedy of the Holocaust brought about the deaths of one and a half million innocent children. While writing this work, the composer constantly asked himself, "What kind of human could do such a thing?" We are reminded of Hannah Arendt's book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil; it is not the crazed monster that is always the perpetrator, but rather it could be the most normal people that can completely invert human ethics and implicitly accept, and even participate in, the calculated destruction of an entire race. This composer could not let these unknown faces, that were extinguished before they could flourish, be forgotten. The "Psalm No. 1 for String Orchestra" honors the Days of Remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust, an annual 8-day period designated by the Unites States of Congress for civic commemorations and special educational programs that help citizens remember and draw lessons from the Holocaust. This year Holocaust Remembrance week is from April 27–May 4, 2014.
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David Chesky puts his own twist on bridging the worlds of jazz and classical in Jazz in the New Harmonic
David Chesky's Jazz in the New Harmonic (Chesky Records and HDtracks.com) puts the acclaimed pianist and composer's own personal twist on bridging the disparate worlds of jazz and classical. The music has its roots in Third Stream, the hybrid term coined in 1957 by Gunther Schuller to identify a new emerging musical sensibility that was essentially a confluence of classical music and jazz, with improvisation being a vital component. Since then, composers like John LaPorta, John Lewis, Stan Kenton, George Russell and Schuller himself dabbled in Third Stream while more contemporary composers such as Henry Threadgill, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, John Zorn, Ohad Talmor and Joel Harrison have put forth their own ambitious chamber jazz projects. But Jazz in the New Harmonic is more than a Third Stream project in the strictly Schullerian sense of the word: Chesky's recording is a striking manifesto that deals with dissonance and rhythm on equal footing. "I wanted to take the harmonic language of 21st century classical music and make it groove," he says of his bold new direction in jazz. "The ideal for me was to create an absolutely new concept of composition in which the jazz and classical would be so blended that you would not be able to identify the jazz roots from the classical roots." Fueled by the cool, simmering rhythm tandem hookup between jazz veterans Peter Washington on bass and Billy Drummond on drums and colored by Chesky's provocative comping, Jazz in the New Harmonic is further characterized by the searching spirit of principal soloists Javon Jackson on tenor saxophone and Jeremy Pelt on trumpet. "With Peter and Billy holding it down, I can do the painting above it with my harmonic language, which is coming from the Messiaen, Webern and Ives school," Chesky explains. "So I'm giving Javon and Jeremy chords that they don't usually hear in jazz. This is not C major or C minor of some dominant raised sharp nine chord. It's a new vocabulary and it's forcing them to adapt and come up with it." And both Jackson and Pelt deliver the goods with solos that are probing and profound. Whether it's their agile interaction with tenor and muted trumpet on the moody, mid tempo swinging title track, their bold, unbridled blowing on the dark Bitches Brew/In a Silent Way-inspired "Broadway" or their potent playing on the dirge-like "American Culture X," their musical choices are always unpredictable and in the moment. Pelt, one of the leading lights on the under-40 jazz scene today, also contributes an outstanding blues-tinged muted trumpet solo on "Burnout." Jackson, the former Jazz Messenger, takes his time in formulating an answer to Pelt's solo on that sinister offering. Bassist Washington's deep, woody-toned ostinatos solidly anchor the proceedings. His catchy "The Beat Goes On" riff propels the title track while his repetitive motif on "Broadway" recalls moody Miles Davis vehicles like "Spanish Key" and "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down" from Bitches Brew or the atmospheric "Shhh/Peaceful" from In a Silent Way. Washington also breaks loose for extended upright solos on the aptly titled "Grooves from the Underground" and "Burnout" that reveal his dexterity and ingenuity on the instrument. Drummond deftly crafts a different approach on the kit to perfectly underscore the vibe of each piece, whether it's his subdued funky drummer take on "American Culture X," his insistently swinging syncopations on the noir-ish "Duke's Groove," his vaguely Latin-flavored beat on "Transcendental Tripping" or his patient, understated and unerring time-keeping on the laid-back dub-flavored jam "Grooves from the Underground" and the ominous jam "Burnout." Drummond is also prominently featured throughout the infectious "Deconstruction," which culminates in a dramatic, unaccompanied drum showcase. "Billy and Peter are the ultimate groove masters," says Chesky. "They've got such a great feel together and they lay this carpet down for Javon and Jeremy to do their thing. Both Javon and Jeremy play with incredible soul. When you hear them play, there's an indescribable feeling to it. They organically play jazz. It's not something they learned, it's who they are." Beneath it all, in almost subliminal fashion, is Chesky, deliberately feeding his crew darkly dissonant chord voicings with a crystalline touch on the keys, subtly tweaking the proceedings along the way with his startling vocabulary. "We had some rehearsals with Jeremy and Javon and myself, just to get comfortable with the harmonic language," he recalls. "And it's not really dissonant to me at all. When I play that way, to me it sounds like I'm playing ‘The Candy Man' or some kids' song. I'm so used to it that it just sounds normal to me. It's a nice color in my palette and I like it." Throughout Jazz in the New Harmonic, Chesky takes a decidedly sparse, mysterioso approach to his piano solos, though he does open up and stretch in his own enigmatic fashion on "Burnout" and "Transcendental Tripping." As he explains, "The music is about space so I'm not really looking to play 90 miles an hour. This is not about chops. When I do my solos, they're all constructed on large, dissonant intervals. There's no real blowing over chords or the normal blues type blowing in patterns. It's almost like instant composition, like doing a modern piano sonata in the moment." Full of provocative ideas, imbued with soulful expression and charged with the spirit of anticipation, Jazz in the New Harmonic is a portent of things to come from this accomplished composer and sonic provocateur.
David Chesky: Jazz In The New Harmonic gets Downbeat Editor's Pick' for August 2013
Posted At : August 7, 2013 12:00 AM
David Chesky has said that for his new quintet album, he wanted to take his "harmonic language" (influenced by the classical composers Ives, Webern and Messiaen) and merge it with a strong sense of groove. The pianist/composer certainly achieved that goal with Jazz In The New Harmonic , thanks to his stellar band: Billy Drummond (drums), Peter Washington (bass), Jeremy Pelt (trumpet) and Javon Jackson (tenor saxophone). Although Chesky is the leader here, this isn't a piano showcase, as he lets his collaborators shine. During this cohesive program, the rhythm section locks into insistent grooves, providing a sturdy setting for impressive, athletic bouts between Pelt and Jackson. The track "American Culture X" features one of their best sparring matches, as Pelt's muted trumpet delivers cool jabs while Jackson's tenor bobs and weaves at a deliberate pace. On "Grooves From The Underground," Washington offers a propulsive, unrelenting bass riff that is complemented by Pelt's cool, muted trumpet coloration. The album's eight tracks were recorded at Brooklyn's Hirsch Center by Nicholas Prout, who co-produced the album with Chesky. This is a binaural recording that sounds fantastic through a good set of headphones.
SiriusXM: Pops / Linked Music: This month's guest is David Chesky
Posted At : July 19, 2013 12:00 AM
This month's guest on SiriusXM: Pops / Linked Music is three-time Grammy nominee David Chesky, has earned great respect for his fresh and unique approach to musical compositions spanning jazz, classical, and opera. His latest album is Jazz in the New Harmonic. All About Jazz describes it as, "Full of provocative ideas, imbued with soulful expression and charged with the spirit of anticipation, Jazz in the New Harmonic is a portent of things to come from this accomplished composer and sonic provocateur," and called it "a striking manifesto that deals with dissonance and rhythm on equal footing." In addition to David on piano, the album features Peter Washington on bass, Billy Drummond on drums, Javon Jackson on tenor saxophone, and Jeremy Pelt on trumpet. David said of the recording: "I wanted to take the harmonic language of 21st century classical music and make it groove…The ideal for me was to create an absolutely new concept of composition in which the jazz and classical would be so blended that you would not be able to identify the jazz roots from the classical roots." Enjoy this sample from the album and tune in this weekend to hear Peter's interview with David: Saturday, July 20, at 9am (EST), with repeats Sunday, July 21, at 8pm, and Monday, July 23, at 11pm on SiriusXM Pops.
Radio's Loves David Chesky's New York Rags
Radio has been responding enthusistically to David Chesky's latest CD: 'The New York Rags.' As hoped, the album is resonating with both Classical and Jazz programmers. Here's what they are saying. Plaudits to Chesky, a bullseye from this fan of Reginald Robinson, Scott Joplin et al. Love 'Kids You're Late For School Rag.'
WNUR: Chicago This went straight into ROT. Ragtime on steriods. This album just made me smile. I could practically see New York as I was listening.
KSPC: Claremont CA 'New York Rags FULL of riches'
WBGO: Newark NJ(NYC) A lot of head and hands on these. Astounding technique. Short virtuosic bursts of brilliance. BTW, we also used for pledge and it fit perfectly between pitches.
WDVR: Sergeantsville NJ( Phila. ) Love David Chesky! Your one sheet alluded to one of the greatest piano records ever and for once I understand the hyperbole. I'd say it's the best ‘pianist's record' record of the year so far. I never thought Ragtime & New Music could be such a natural combo.
KUNM: Albuquerque Excited by the Chesky record. Also about the label and it's amazing vision. They are trailblazers and fascinating. Loved our Interview.
CFBX: Kamloops, BC CAN We BLOGGED about it! http://www.tpr.org/term/david-chesky
Texas Public Radio Pretty interesting
KCRW: Los Angeles A very good addition with its varied programmatic titles
KXMS: Joplin MO
Texas Public Radio reviews David Chesky's new album: 'The New York Rags'
Visiting New York City is exhilarating. The hassle of air travel, the expense of the cabs and buses falls away and suddenly you are there, surrounded by familiar buildings, that great skyline beckoning, and people! Thousands and millions of busy, hurried people swarm all around you and this is where the adrenaline kicks in. At first you feel like a fifth grader at university - slow, turned around and lost - but as the hours pass you acclimate and subtly and imperceptibly speed up. Suddenly there you are, keeping up, cutting ahead and jaywalking with the best of them; you are now at New York speed. That is the impression I had with David Chesky's new album, "The New York Rags." At first the selections seem impossibly fast, clangorous and loud, but with repeated hearings those impressions fall away and you get to the music inside all those speeding notes. Like bricks are to buildings, standard note values are to music, and Chesky's rags maybe short, but contain thousands of notes - pounding away, zipping this way and that. Patterns emerge and hang, often obscuring the music within. It could be seen as a contradiction that the big, loud and brash covers up the quiet message, but that too is very New York. Here are some selections from the album from Spotify Just getting out of your taxi and taking in the city is best exemplified by the first rag,"The New Yorker." The Big Apple isn't always crowded, every now and again you round a corner and come across a small square or park and suddenly the big city falls away. This experience is personified in "The Circle at Fifth." There is also the day-to-day New York that fits any American city in, "Kids, You are late for School Rag." This recording is in binaural sound, which can, with the proper equipment like headphones, give the illusion of depth or 3D sound. I had no trouble listening to it on my computer speakers, but your mileage may vary.
David Chesky Is Back in Action
Posted At : February 12, 2013 12:00 AM
David Chesky's three new concertos have redefined the role of the modern string soloist. By fusing the classical concerto form with the modern harmonic language of American rhythmic jazz, these innovative works extend theoretical parameters to realms reserved only for the few pioneers truly revolutionizing their instruments today. Tom Chiu and Dave Eggar are by turn chamber soloists, free jazz experimentalists, and poetic sound abstractionists who bring a volcanic rock-and-roll energy to these works, transcending the typical concerto. Fiendishly difficult passage work and extreme timbral ranges present a new athleticism to the musical virtuosity as the soloists debate, collide and duel with the orchestra and also with each other. Throughout, Chesky's poignant juxtaposition of primitive power of urban groove and the elegance of classical refinement reveals the birth of a new genre in American music. Tom Chiu and Dave Eggar discuss David Chesky's 'String Theory' in the clip
Crossover Media Projects with: David Chesky
The Spanish Poems
The Venetian Concertos
Jazz in the New Harmonic Quintet - Primal Scream
Joy & Sorrow
The New York Rags
Jazz in the New Harmonic
The Zephyrtine Ballet
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Five Keys to Surviving a Crisis
Crises come in differing sizes and impact business and the public in varying ways. While no two are
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Crises come in differing sizes and impact business and the public in varying ways. While no two are alike, certain keys are vital to communicate during a crisis. Our top five:
Peacetime Planning Can Equal Crisis Survival
A crisis is, at its core, uncomfortable. Certainly, it’s uncomfortable to live through and frequently uncomfortable to watch or even discuss. These realities make it critical for companies to make strategic crisis decisions – those that can be made anyway – during “peacetime,” or outside of the throes of a crisis. Build a written crisis plan that includes media and message training for executive leadership. This approach will assure that important decisions are made for strategic reasons and not emotional ones.
Acknowledge Responsibility
When a crisis plays out publicly – which is nearly all the time – news and social media channels are not always about finding the truth as much as assigning blame. Take responsibility for that which your organization is responsible and move on to solving the problem. The quicker this happens; the faster efforts begin building a foundation for an organization to emerge from a crisis.
Show Empathy
When a crisis occurs, someone usually is harmed in some way. Showing empathy for those experiencing human consequences due to a crisis is the act of an ethical organization run by ethical people. This also helps repair cracks the crisis may have caused in the foundation of an organization’s reputation and build a strategic platform from which a company can emerge from a crisis stronger than ever.
Say it First and Repeat
Staying ahead of the information curve, both internally and via social channels and the news media is critical. Sharing news – even bad news – before the public is aware is vital to controlling the message and assuring that the public and specific stakeholder audiences receive accurate information in the correct context. Be careful. Execution is key here. The way information is shared during a crisis will determine whether we’re moving the crisis closer to a conclusion or giving it more life.
Leverage the Spotlight
The attention organizations receive during a crisis is typically higher than during peacetime. It is critical to use the time in the spotlight to deliver key messages that will define the company as it emerges from a crisis. This activity must be executed in a sensitive and strategically sound manner to be effective. Without delivering carefully-crafted messages during a crisis, an organization runs the risk of allowing the crisis to define it, possibly permanently.
For perspectives on how to manage your organizations’ strategic communications challenges, contact Chuck Sanger at chuck@cscommpr.com or 262-352-2077.
Rodgers Comment Offers Valuable Lesson
It’s a simple lesson that many of us who work with the media still need to be reminded
It’s a simple lesson that many of us who work with the media still need to be reminded of from time to time. The latest such lesson came yesterday from Green Bay Packers hall-of-famer-in-waiting Aaron Rodgers.
“I think that the more that we give credence to stuff like that, the more it’s gonna live on,” Rodgers said in an interview with NFL.com reporter Michael Silver. The comment was referring to President Donald Trump’s endless Twitter criticism of NFL players “protests” (or whatever you want to call them) during the pregame playing of the National Anthem.
Rodgers is correct. The President’s tweets will live on. Due in large part to Rodgers’ comments.
Strategic media relations discussions often center around not giving a negative story “legs.” In other words, don’t give more exposure to something you’d like to see have less exposure. It’s a simple and intuitive notion, but one that even professional communications strategists sometimes need to keep in mind. When commenting on the issue, Rodgers’ objective clearly was to give the President’s Tweets less attention, when just the opposite happened.
When you are one of the most prominent athletes on the planet, commenting on anything gives it legs. Not only did the comment draw more attention to the President’s rants, pushing the tweets into another news cycle, it also caused the coverage to spill into non-sports media, giving the comments infinitely more exposure. It takes a lot for “real” journalists to pay attention to a comment from a sports figure. Those quips are usually limited to sports media, what some news reporters derisively call journalism’s “toy store.”
Another path might’ve been to create consensus within the National Football League Players’ Association (NFLPA) – an effort I’m sure is ongoing – with the objective of drawing as little attention as possible to the President’s narrative while crafting a message that support’s the NFLPA’s objective.
Having logged a few years as a sportswriter and working in public relations with an NFL club, I recognize that this approach is a bit like herding cats, or to use a football analogy, “tackling smoke.”
However, the best approach rarely is the easiest, a point of which the NFL and the NFLPA are, no doubt, keenly aware.
For another perspective on how to manage your organizations’ strategic communications challenges, contact Chuck Sanger at chuck@cscommpr.com or 262-352-2077.
Sweet! Nestlé’s Sugar Announcement a Game-changer
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By Chuck Sanger
Some over-the-top media characterizations of Nestlé’s “magic sugar” created by its “Mad Scientists” notwithstanding, the announcement that the company has discovered a way to create the same sweet taste while using less sugar is a game-changer.
Major players in the nutrition space such as the Center for Science in the Public Interest [CSPI] will make sure that the game changes on the heels of its announcement, whether the discovery delivers as promised or not.
Expect CSPI and other nongovernmental organizations [NGOs], that long have surmised that the technology exists to do just what Nestlé’s claiming, to start making the rounds of other major food producers challenging those companies to make similar moves.
Nestlé deserves props for making the announcement, delivering on a public desire for less sugary [I won’t say ‘healthier’] treats and in so doing engaging with NGOs, either directly or indirectly, and creating a dialogue that the public wants to have.
Many companies are afraid to take that step. Nestlé isn’t. What company will be next?
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Circuit breaker still in use despite safety concerns
By Elisabeth Leamy The Washington Post
Published May 18,2018
Millions of U.S. and Canadian homes were built with circuit breaker panels that one expert has questioned as a potential fire hazard. Issues about Federal Pacific Electric's Stab-Lok circuit breakers were first raised decades ago with the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The CPSC closed its investigation in 1983 because data then available did not establish "that the circuit breakers pose a serious threat of injury to consumers." In a 2011 update, it clarified that the investigation was closed "without making a determination as to the safety of FPE circuit breakers or the accuracy of the manufacturer's position on the matter."
Now a man who played a key role in identifying issues with FPE breakers has a new claim, that Stab-Lok breakers made by other brands may also pose a fire hazard, and is strongly urging homeowners to replace all Stab-Lok-type panels and breakers.
Electrical engineer Jesse Aronstein, 82, who has been testing the FPE breakers for decades, last month asked the CPSC to warn consumers definitively about the danger.
"Nobody whose word can be taken as an authority . . . has made a positive recommendation that people should change out their [breaker] panels for safety reasons," Aronstein told CPSC staff. "When some agency of authority picks up the ball on this, then I can stop."
In a statement to The Washington Post, the agency said, "CPSC will be reviewing the information to determine if additional investigation is warranted under our statutes."
Aronstein, who has a doctorate in materials science, has lectured at universities and served as an expert witness in U.S. and Canadian court cases. He got involved with the CPSC and circuit breakers in the 1980s. The CPSC hired the company he worked for to test the safety of FPE's Stab-Lok breakers, which were installed in homes built from 1960 to 1985.
Circuit breakers are supposed to trip, or shut off, when electrical wires are overloaded so the wires don't heat up and cause a fire. But when Aronstein's team tested the FPE Stab-Lok breakers, 51 percent failed to trip, according to the results he submitted to the CPSC.
Nobody knows how many fires FPE breakers have caused because authorities don't routinely consider breakers when investigating. Aronstein co-wrote a peer-reviewed paper that attempted to quantify the scope of the problem by applying statistics to published fire reports. They found FPE Stab-Lok breakers may be responsible for as many as 2,800 fires, 13 deaths and $40 million in property damage annually.
FPE's parent company, Reliance Electric, acknowledged "a possible defect" in a 1982 Securities and Exchange Commission filing. It also said FPE had obtained the Underwriters Laboratories seal of approval for its breakers "through the use of deceptive and improper practices" and noted that Underwriters Laboratories had revoked UL listing for most of FPE's products.
In 1983, when the CPSC announced that it was closing its investigation, it noted that Reliance had submitted test data the company said proved the breakers "do not create a hazard in the household environment," and the CPSC said it had "insufficient data" to accept or refute that position. Reliance told the agency that the FPE breakers will trip reliably at most overload levels unless the breakers have been operated in a repetitive, abusive manner that should not occur during residential use. Reliance also maintained that at those few overload levels where FPE breakers may fail to trip under realistic-use conditions, currents will be too low to generate hazardous temperatures in household wiring.
"Based on the Commission's limited budget," the news release said, "and the uncertainty of the results of such a costly investigation, the Commission has decided not to commit further re
sources to its investigation of FPE's circuit breakers." Aronstein was floored. "I couldn't understand why," he said recently.
FPE eventually stopped manufacturing products under its own name, but its Stab-Lok circuit breakers were already in millions of homes. And other companies acquired the rights to manufacture Stab-Lok products under different names. They made entire Stab-Lok systems -- boxes, panels and breakers -- until about 1990. Today, two companies still make Stab-Lok-type products: Connecticut Electric produces breakers under the name UBI, and Canadian Schneider Electric makes breakers and panels under the name Federal Pioneer.
Over the years, Aronstein says, the CPSC hired him as a consultant at least 10 more times but never revisited the FPE breaker problem or questioned the new Stab-Lok products.
But home inspectors and homeowners did. They started sending Aronstein the replacement Stab-Lok breakers -- pulled from homes -- to test. He expected them to perform well, but in his tests, the replacement brands had problems with tripping as well. He published his findings in another peer-reviewed paper. At Aronstein's April meeting with the CPSC, he asked the agency to issue a clear warning about old Stab-Lok breakers and to issue a recall of new ones.
"We don't believe the product should be recalled," said Jeff Jensen, CEO of Connecticut Electric. "We believe our products are made with very high quality." The company tests its breakers at half a dozen different points and ETL, a federally approved testing lab, conducts surprise inspections, he said. "Dr. Aronstein is not ETL, and he's not UL. He's one person."
Schneider Electric said in an email that its Stab-Lok breakers are not affiliated with those manufactured or sold by Federal Pacific and that any component failure "would need to be investigated by our engineering team . . . before we can provide an educated response."
While the CPSC decides whether to conduct its own investigation, homeowners must decide for themselves about breakers. Here's some information to help.
How to Identify FPE Breakers>
• The breaker box door usually says "Federal Pacific Electric" or "FPE."
• When you open the door, you will usually see the words "Stab-Lok" in the center or on the side of the breaker panel.
• A website called InspectAPedia supplies photos and further steps for identifying FPE Stab-Lok panels and breakers.
• Still unsure? Ask an electrician to remove individual breakers from the panel (you could be electrocuted if you do it yourself) and look for the E-shaped and F-shaped openings that are unique to Stab-Lok breakers.
How to Identify Successor Stab-Lok Breakers Made Under Other Brand Names
• The replacement Stab-Lok brands went by at least a dozen names. The InspectAPedia website keeps an updated list of those brands that you can compare with any names you see on your own circuit breaker equipment.
What to Do If You Find FPE or Replacement Stab-Lok Breakers
In an email to The Washington Post, a CPSC representative recommends that consumers have a qualified electrician inspect their circuit breaker panels for signs of overheating or malfunction.
Aronstein, who has tested more than 4,000 breakers, says a visual inspection won't work. The only way to identify defective breakers is by removing and testing them, which can cost more than simply replacing the panel, he said. A new breaker system costs $500 to $1,700.
Many home inspectors also recommend replacing rather than repairing the panels. "You don't know you have a problem until the firetruck pulls up," said Scott Patterson, president-elect of the American Society of Home Inspectors. "The entire panel needs to be replaced. That's what I advise all my clients to do. They just have too bad of a history."
Leamy is a 13-time Emmy winner and 25-year consumer advocate for programs such as "Good Morning America" and "The Dr. Oz Show."
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Five Guys Burgers & Fries
1-3 Long Acre WC2E 9LH
Five Guys is a US burger restaurant (chain) that opened its first restaurant (if you can call it that) in London in Covent Garden last summer. Even Obama apparently loves Five Guys burgers, so if the burgers are good enough for a US president, I decided to make my way down to Covent Garden and try Five Guys. Five Guys opened its first store in 1986 (Five Guys is almost as old as me!) in Arlington, Washington. Then they rapidly expanded over the years and now there are over 1000 locations (they do franchise stores) in 47 states in the US, 6 Canadian provinces and now in UK (they have managed to open 7 stores in the UK since opening the first one last summer in Covent Garden).
Tommi’s Burger Joint
30 Thayer Street W1U 2QP
Tommi’s Burger Joint is burger restaurant that originally comes from Iceland (there are many Tommi’s Burgers restaurants now in Iceland) and now Tommi’s has also come to London. Tommi’s started as a pop up in Marylebone last summer and operated there for a few months. I went there for a burger and really enjoyed it. A few months later it closed, as they had always planned, and then a few months ago they opened a permanent restaurant on Marylebone High Street.
In case you are wondering who is Tommi, like my boyfriend was, when he entered the restaurant, Tommi is a now a very old Icelandic man (there was a picture of him in the restaurant which you can see in my pictures below) who started the burger empire in Iceland. Needless to say, he was not hanging around the Marylebone branch.
Patty & Bun
54 James Street, W1U 1EU
I had once had a takeaway from Patty & Bun that my boyfriend brought back home with him, and I did not really find the burger or the fries that amazing, so for a long time I did not understand what the hype about Patty & Bun was. After many times walking past this place and seeing crazy queues outside, I decided I had to go once more to see whether I had been right in my critical opinion about this place.
Patty & Bun started as a pop up but now has a permanent place in Marylebone, close to Bond Street tube station. They apparently use the best ingredients you can get, and try to use British ingredients whenever possible.
24, Market Building, The Piazza, Covent Garden, WC2E 8RD
There is serious hype surrounding this burger restaurant (and another one called Five Guys). I had read about 5 articles about both of these burger restaurants, both from America and both located in Covent Garden, before they had opened, then since they have opened have read about 30 reviews and have tried really hard to stay away from this hype as I did not want to make this restaurant a destination, I wanted to go there when I was in the vicinity and hungry, so in a way I did not want food to dictate my life, but when I told my boyfriend about this burger place, he got super excited and really wanted to come here on a Saturday lunch time and then I knew, there was no way how I could avoid the hype and I was going there like any other London foodie.
Jamie Oliver's Diner
19-23 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 7EE
Jamie Oliver is a very successful entrepreneur that has made a lot of money through his books and various restaurants and his latest venture is equally smart, a diner on Shaftsbury Avenue. Everyone in London these days is crazy for comfort food, burgers, pizzas, fried chicken, the type of food you should not eat, but somehow we think that if it is served in a nice restaurant and is more expensive than McDonalds and uses better meat, it is ok for us. Jamie’s latest restaurant appeals to people that love this sort of food and the menu features burgers, chicken, meatballs, tacos and ribs. Also he has labeled his new restaurant a “pop up” despite the fact that it will be here for 3 years, and my fiend Katrina was shocked when she found out about this and said that she would not have come if she knew it was going to be here for such a long time.
Street Burgers
Brīvības iela 40
My boyfriend and I landed quite late in Riga on a Friday night and we were keen to get some food. My brother suggested all sorts of places where we can get some food but the one that caught my attention was a burger place that he said had just opened up close to where we were staying and he said he has never been there but from the outside it looked good, so we decided to go and check it out. The place is called “Street Burgers” and is located on one side of a car park next to one of the main roads in Riga and you can see the place from far away as the little restaurant (separate building) is decorated with traffic lights and also there is a painting of a man eating a burger with “Street Burgers” sign, decorating a whole one side of a building next to the restaurant, so the chances are you are unlikely to miss this place.
Honest Burgers
Unit 12, Brixton Village SW9 8PR
I went to Honest Burgers by coincidence. Looking rough and gangster like and trying to blend in, I headed to Brixton as I wanted to go to a new Southern fried chicken and beer place called Wishbone in the Brixton Market, but when I got there and walked around a few times (and got some people shouting at me “hey sexy” clearly an example that my dressing down and trying to blend in was not working) and could not find the place, I googled it once again and realised it was not yet open. So I had to come up with another plan of where to go for food on a Friday evening. I could have gone back to central London and given up on the whole Brixton thing, but on my printed out map it actually had tagged a few restaurants (google maps thankfully does it these days) and one of the places was “Honest Burgers”, and I had heard and read a lot about this place, so I was keen to try it.
MEATliquor
74 Welbeck Street, W1G 0BA
I have mixed feelings about this burger restaurant. I really like their burgers and their NY atmosphere but I don’t like their pretentious service and attitude towards customers. MEATliquor as the name slightly suggests is a burger restaurant with a bar on one side of the room serving funky cocktails, located just behind the Oxford Street Debenhams.
DeliSnack
Aristida Briāna iela 9, LV-1010
My brother was taking a few of us clubbing to the club Piens in Riga and after our night out the boys were feeling a bit hungry so my brother suggested we all go to DeliSnack for some mid night food, as DeliSnack is located right next to the club (there are now more locations of DeliSnack, including one in the old town of Riga, and one in Liepaja, another city in Latvia). The Riga branch was very casual and was half full with people like us enjoying a meal after clubbing.
Burger Joint at Le Parker Meridien Hotel
119 West 56th Street NY 10019
This place is soooooooo cool!! Burger Joint is located in "Le Parker Meridien" hotel, in the uptown area of New York, which means you are in this posh area (Nobu next door) and walk into this beautiful high ceiling hotel Le Parker Meridien and then go past the reception, turn a corner, and you are in literally in “a burger joint” – a little corner burger place that has around 30 seats and burgers are sold over the counter (like Mc Donalds), with nice movie posters posted all over the walls. The transformation you see from that amazing hotel to this burger joint is something what makes this place so super cool … And they do serve amazing burgers. I have really been thinking about various burgers post visiting this place.
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About the Railway Club Mh.6
The Railway Club Mh.6 is located at the roundhouse in Ober-Grafendorf near St. Pölten in Lower Austria. Our volunteers are engaged in various activities around the heritage rolling stock of Austrian narrow gauge railways, in particular the Mariazell Railway.
Our mission is the restoration and conservation of Austrian narrow gauge railway rolling stock for posterity.
The origin of todays activities has been the restoration of the well-known steam Locomotive Mh.6 (M= Mariazell Railway, h= Superheated Steam, 6= 6th built engine of this type) by a group of enthusiasts around engine driver Erich Dürnecker. Over a couple of years, they spent 11000 working hours until the retired locomotive was fully functional reverted to her condition of delivery in 1908.
In addition to the maintenance of the steam locomotive Mh.6, our club members also were involved in the restoration of passenger wagons for the Panoramic 760 consist wagons, which were en route in this special livery on the Mariazell Railway until 2014
In 1998, our club members restored the Austrian federal railways eldest narrow gauge freight wagon (G/s 106, built 1896), which has been found in a very poor condition into a shining masterpiece of Austrian railway history. Since then, It is equipped with a power generator and carried as crew and power wagon with Mh.6 pulled trains on the Mariazell Railway.
Furthermore, we maintain our railway facilities in Ober-Grafendorf. In addition to our steam or diesel locomotives and wagons, visitors there can explore heritage railway infrastructure like our water tower, railway turntable or roundhouse with one of our members.
We offer german guided tours around our facilities from Mai until October on saturdays from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm at the roundhouse. Please contact us for an individual tour with an english speaking guide.
We appreciate your donation or membership for funding our club activities
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Dwightia Wilson C.B., 1924
Podoplea (Superorder)
Harpacticoida (Order)
Miraciidae (Family)
Dwightia (Genus)
unaccepted (synonym)
Macrosetella Scott A., 1909
Dwightia tenuicornis (Dana, 1847) accepted as Macrosetella tenuicornis (Dana, 1847) (type by original designation)
Miraciidae Dana, 1846
Setella Dana, 1846 (synonym)
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Species Dwightia aciculus (Dana, 1847) accepted as Macrosetella acicula (Dana, 1847) (synonym)
Species Dwightia gracilis (Dana, 1846) accepted as Macrosetella gracilis (Dana, 1846) (synonym)
Species Dwightia longicauda (Dana, 1847) accepted as Macrosetella longicauda (Dana, 1847) (synonym)
Species Dwightia norvegica (Boeck, 1865) accepted as Macrosetella norvegica (Boeck, 1865) accepted as Microsetella norvegica (Boeck, 1865) (synonym)
Species Dwightia tenuicornis (Dana, 1847) accepted as Macrosetella tenuicornis (Dana, 1847) (synonym)
Wilson, C.B. (1924). New North American parasitic copepods, new hosts and notes on copepod nomenclature. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 64(17)(2507):1-22, pls. 1-3. [details] Available for editors [request]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2020). World of Copepods database. Dwightia Wilson C.B., 1924. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=347088 on 2021-01-20
Walter, T. Chad
original description Wilson, C.B. (1924). New North American parasitic copepods, new hosts and notes on copepod nomenclature. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 64(17)(2507):1-22, pls. 1-3. [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Walter, Chad. The world of Copepods. , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda [details]
source of synonymy Walter, Chad. The world of Copepods. , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda [details]
3x5 C.B. Wilson Taxonomic Card - Dwightia
3x5 C.B. Wilson Taxonomic Card - Setella (from synonym Setella Dana, 1846)
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For an engine equipped with a carburetor, this is pretty straightforward. Air comes in the air filter housing, passes through the air filter, into the carburetor where the fuel is mixed with it. Then it passes through the intake manifold and is drawn into the cylinders. The most advanced part of the system was an Air Temperature Sensor in the air intake. It was used to measure the air temperature and, by opening and closing a flap, allow cool air in through the air horn or heated air piped in from around an exhaust manifold. This was to prevent carburetor icing that would cause the car to stall and die out. It also facilitated vaporization of the fuel into the air stream.
Very simple and straight forward. There was only one draw back; there was no way to accurately measure the incoming air for the proper fuel mixture. You could use an emission analyzer and adjust the fuel mixture, but that was only at idle and not under a load. At higher speeds the mixture would be incorrect. Some automobile manufacturers recommend adjusting the carburetor on a dynamometer with the engine under load.
In a fuel-injected car it's a whole different ball game. Air is drawn in through the air intake. This is usually a long plastic tube going into the air filter housing. The reason the intake tube is long is to get the air moving in a fairly steady, coherent stream. It then passes through the air filter and then through an Air Flow Meter.
There are two types of AFM's, a vane type and a hot wire type. The vane type has a flap that is pushed by the income air. The more air coming in, the more the flap is pushed backed. There is a potentiometer attached to the flap that sends a voltage signal to the Powertrain Control Module (PCM). There is also a second vane behind the main vane that fits into a closed camber that dampens the movement of the vane giving a more accurate measurement. There is also an Air Temperature Sensor built into the AFM and works exactly as it did in the carbureted engine.
The hot wire AFM uses a series of wires strung in the air stream. The resistance of the wire at normal operating temperature is a known constant and will allow a set voltage through it. As the air passes the hot wire, it cools. As it cools, the resistance of the wire decreases allowing more voltage to pass through it. This voltage signal then goes to the main EFI computer and allows the adjustment of the fuel mixture. From the AFM it goes to the throttle chamber.
The throttle chamber controls the airflow into the engine. When it's closed, the car idles. There is a small bypass chamber that allows a small amount of air to bypass the throttle plate and go into the engine. By adjusting the amount of air through the bypass, we can adjust the idle speed of the engine. There is also a Throttle Position Sensor (TPS) mounted on the throttle plate that sends a signal to the main EFI computer telling it weather it is at idle, midrange cruising or wide open throttle. From the throttle chamber it goes through the intake manifold and into the cylinders.
One last component is the Cold Start Valve. It is electrically heated and performs the same function as the choke on a carburetor. The Cold Start Valve is a valve with a bi-metallic element that expands as it's heated. When it's cold, it allows a large quantity of air to bypass the throttle plate thus causing an increase in idle speed. As the element heats up, it closes the bypass passage and lowers the idle speed as the engine obtains normal operating temperature.
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Arrow Episode Guide: Season 6, Episode 9 - Irreconcilable Differences
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Oliver and Felicity's wedding reception is dampened by disturbing news - The FBI have a witness ready to testify that Oliver Queen is The Green Arrow and it's someone on Team Arrow! Paranoia runs deep, as the team questions who they can trust but their fears will have to be put on hold when Quentin Lance is taken hostage by Cayden James and Black Siren.
The Mission Impossible films (the heist on ARGUS)
Black Siren shows far more martial arts skill here than she has in previous episodes, being capable of knocking out both Thea Queen and Quentin Lance with one punch.
It is said that the nano-aluminum amplifier could be used to increase the power of a thermobaric bomb by twenty-fold. John says this is enough to destroy Star City and then some. However, it was said in the Thanksgiving episode that the bomb's radius was 200 yards. 4,000 yards is a considerable distance but not the size of a large city.
As neat an idea as it is trying to tie all the villains from the first half of this season into a unified villain group, it really doesn't make sense in the context of the characters. Forget the psychotic Black Siren being made to heel. There's no logical reason (yet) for Anatoly to involve himself with the destruction of a whole city nor for Ricardo Diaz. And don't get me started on Vigilante teaming with a group of criminals unless this is part of a major long con on his part.
You never realize how much you miss Willa Holland as Thea until she's back after being gone for a few episodes.
The script does a good job at the beginning of playing up the mystery of who the traitor to Team Arrow is. While we know it probably isn't Dinah, enough wiggle room is left (along with the revelation that Vigilante knows Oliver Queen is Green Arrow) to make it uncertain, along with Curtis' heavy drinking and Rene's confession of wondering if they'd be better off without Team Arrow.
There is one nice shot of Oliver Queen, standing before the racks holding all of Team Arrow's costumes, after telling John to assemble the team... the whole team.
The episode opens with the original Season 6 introduction, with Oliver once again declaring that he is The Green Arrow.
The Arrow Title Card is back to having the symbols for Black Canary, Wild Dog, Mister Terrific, Overwatch, Spartan and Green Arrow.
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Cayden James requests a nano-aluminum amplifier in exchange for Quentin Lance's life.
The vault holding the nano-aluminum amplifier has a pressure-sensitive floor rigged to its alarm.
The nano-aluminum amplifier can be used to increase the explosive power of a thermobaric bomb by twenty-fold. That is enough power to blow up all of Star City.
Curtis says he can disable the amplifier by back-channeling a path into the circuitry. Felicity suggests he also hide that behind the existing board.
Dialogue Triumphs
Donna: I want you to know that I have forgiven both of you for running off. And eloping. And waiting to propose to my daughter until you were under indictment.
Oliver: Oh! Actually, Felicity proposed to me.
(After Oliver and Felicity escape from her parents.)
Felicity: Those whack jobs are already your in-laws, so if you're having second thoughts, it's too late for you.
Oliver: I wouldn't have it any other way.
Felicity: (softly) You really do love me.
(Curtis is awkwardly and obviously lying to Rene about all the men he is dating.)
Curtis: There's one guy in particular who I'm dating. His name is... Dom Perignon. He is smooth and expensive, and uh, he's really nice. Uh, but there's, like, other guys too.
Rene: Who? Tom Collins? Rob Roy?
Curtis: Not actually a gin guy.
(Quentin gives Oliver a small box. It contains a fancy gold watch.)
Quentin: Yeah, I know. It doesn't look like much. (chuckles nervously) But... my dad gave that to me on my wedding day.
Oliver: Quentin, I can't accept this!
Quentin: It's not like I've got anybody I can give it to, is it? (pauses) And besides, it's not right you don't have a parent here tonight.
Rene: True love is... so special that we all dream about it. And when I look at Oliver and Felicity, I'm reminded of... how I felt about my wife on our wedding day. We were so in love. And we would do anything for each other, I mean no matter what! And that is the epitome of Oliver and Felicity. Yeah, I mean, you guys have had your struggles, but... you always worked through it. These are two of the most genuine people in the world and they deserve all the happiness. And... I'm so fortunate to call them my friends. So please raise a glass to true love... Oliver and Felicity.
Curtis: Do you... do you ever... feel like life would be easier... if there was never a Team Arrow?
Rene: (pauses) Only all the time.
(A hungover Curtis, disguised as a janitor, pushes a wheeled trashcan over a panel. He pulls the lid off and looks down into the bin.)
Curtis: We're clear! Ohhhh.. .also, leaning over - not a great decision.
(Felicity stands up out of the trash clan and slaps Curtis.)
Felicity: You are not throwing up! I'm already spending my honeymoon in a garbage can! I am not wearing your puke!
Rene: Stop! Dinah, isn't the witness, Oliver.
Oliver: You don't know that.
Rene: Yes, I do. Because it's me. I'm the one that's testifying against you.
Oliver: Thinking about what Rene did... what did he do really? He kept a secret and he put his daughter ahead of the team. And I feel betrayed. How can I feel betrayed by somebody doing the exact same things that I've done?
Thea: Because you've never sold anyone out on the team, Ollie. And if you're convicted, you could wind up spending a really long time in jail. But having said that, you're doing the right thing looking at things through his perspective. And having done that, maybe you can see your way to forgiving him?
Oliver: Seriously?
Thea: Well, Rene is a very desperate guy who just did a very desperate thing. But he's also the same guy who just last night was giving such a heart-felt, sweet speech and was calling you his friend. And I really thing that he meant that! It was a betrayal. No question. But since you've been able to see things from his point of view, you should also be able to see a way of forgiving him.
Cayden James: I am a man of my word. If I wasn't, there wouldn't be much point in my vowing to destroy this city, would there?
Vince: You okay? You don't look good.
Dinah: I don't want to talk about it.
Vince: Then why did you reach out?
Dinah: Because I had no one else to call.
Vince: I'll try not to be insulted by that.
Dinah: I really needed someone who... believed in me. I needed a friend.
Vince: Friends. I can do that.
Dialogue Disasters
The whole scene of Quentin Lance trying to empathize with Black Siren. Katie Cassidy's plastic performance doesn't help.
Oliver: Cayden James knew that we sabotaged the amplifier last night. We need to find out how.
(Cut to: A POV shot from the ceiling of The Bunker. We pull back to reveal that we're looking at a monitor in Cayden James' hideout.)
Black Siren: When you had me raid their bunker and plant that mini-cam two months ago-
Cayden James: - was this the outcome that I had in mind? Quite so, Miss Lance.
(We pull back to see James standing with another man as they watch the monitor and Black Siren comes to his side.)
Cayden James: Although I must confess things have worked out even better than I anticipated.
(A door opens from one side of the room. Anatoly enters and comes to stand with the others.)
Anatoly: Hardly impressive. Left to his own devices, Oliver Queen will always push away those closest to him.
(Vince joins the group as well.)
Vince: So we've got them fighting with each other instead of fighting us.
(Ricardo "The Dragon" Diaz steps up on the side of the unknown man.)
Ricardo Diaz: Please tell me that isn't your whole master plan?
Cayden James: Oh, not at all, Mr. Diaz. In fact, I think it fair to say that this...is only the beginning.
Oliver and Thea were allowed to sip champagne at family gatherings as part of toasts as children.
Lyla Michaels was unable to attend the reception due to an ARGUS mission.
Noah "Calculator" Kuttler is seen for the first time since 422.
Donna Smoak is seen for the first time since 423.
Noah and Donna were married by a Tom Jones impersonating rabbi. Noah said he arranged that because he mistakenly thought Donna was a Tom Jones fan.
Adam and Laura Hoffman - the neighbor couple with whom Oliver and Felicity frequently socialized with when they lived in Ivy Town in 401 - show up for the reception.
Curtis and his husband Paul had custom cocktails made at their wedding - The Holtini and the Peach Paul Sangria. They both also wore matching white tuxes.
Dinah says she doesn't really believe in marriage or life-long commitments but admits that may be due to her having several broken engagements.
Dinah receives a text message at the reception from an unknown caller who asks why she isn't answering their calls. Both Rene and Curtis have noticed her getting mysterious texts and acting strangely lately.
Curtis has been drinking more often since his divorce.
Quentin gives Oliver a watch that his father gave him on the day he got married.
Curtis catches the bouquet when Felicity throws it.
Oliver and Felicity's first dance is held to Etta James' At Last.
Thea makes reference to hoping to see someone at the ceremony. This is a nod to Roy Harper.
Thea makes reference to Chase - the League of Assassins member who posed as a DJ and with whom she had a brief romance before his death in 313.
Thea has a "no DJs" rule regarding men she dates now.
Donna Smoak says that she had made a mistake trying to drive Noah out of her and Felicity's life and admits that she does like Tom Jones.
Quentin tries to say hello to Donna. It is awkward, since she has not seen him since the start of Season 5, when he had fallen off the wagon.
Oliver refers to Evelyn Sharpe a.k.a. Artemis, who betrayed Team Arrow in 509.
Rene keeps fresh-cut sunflowers in his apartment. They are his daughter Zoe's favorite.
Dinah's mysterious texter is Vince "Vigilante" Sobel. She tells him to leave Star City and that if she sees him again, she won't let him get away a second time.
Vigilante is aware of Oliver Queen's secret identity.
Reference is made to the thermobaric bomb Cayden James made in 607.
Rene reveals that he is the one testifying against Oliver. The reason why is because Agent Watson said that she had proof that he was Wild Dog and that the only way she'd back off and let him see his daughter again is if he helped her get The Green Arrow.
Black Siren says that the Quentin Lance of Earth Two died when she was 13, killed by a drunk driven while picking up her birthday cake.
The Laurel Lance of Earth One and Earth Two share the same kind of favorite cake - yellow with chocolate frosting, from a bakery called Carlye's.
Oliver kicks Wild Dog off of Team Arrow.
Black Canary quits the team, saying she doesn't trust Oliver anymore. She calls Vigilante back, saying she'd like to try and be friends again for a start.
Curtis quits the team as well, though he is still part of Felicity's company.
Zoe is allowed to move back in with Rene.
Lackluster and nonsensical in equal measure. "Yellow cake with chocolate frosting" will be the new "Martha" when Marvel Comics fans mock DC Comics properties. At least the wedding scenes are funny and touching.
Posted by Starman at 10:48 PM
Labels: Arrow, Arrow Episode Guide, Arrow Season Six, Black Canary, Black Siren, Calculator, Cayden James, Dinah Drake, Donna Smoak, Felicity Smoak, Mister Terrific, Quentin Lance, Thea Queen, Vigilante, Wild Dog
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Roman Professor, Priest and member of Papal Liturgical Office speaks on Benedict's New Liturgical Movement
Recently, the Italian language Zenit ran an interview with Don Mauro Gagliardi, a Professor of Theology at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome and a recently appointed Consultor for the Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff -- at the same time Fr. Uwe Michael Lang was appointed in point of fact. The interview touched upon a book published by Don Nicola Bux on the topic of the liturgy and the debates surrounding it following the Council: La riforma di Benedetto XVI: La liturgia tra innovazione e tradizione. The interview touches upon some important points about the reform of the reform, the usus antiquior and the importance of the sacred liturgy as a school for the faithful.
Here, in an NLM translation, we provide some of the most pertinent excerpts. (The full length Italian piece is available here and was done by Miriam Díez i Bosch.)
The first point of interest is Don Gagliardi's view of the process of the liturgical reform, in which he raises some very pertinent points, particularly with regard to our approach to the Pauline liturgy and reforming the reform. These considerations are tied to his view that the post-conciliar liturgical reform should by no means be considered now as a process that is concluded.
Naturally, such reform is a long and laborious work - do not forget that it began fourty years ago! – which involves an enormous effort and above all enormous patience as well as an awareness of the need to always be vigilant about its proper application, and also to have the humility to be able to review issues - even if universally approved, or even promoted by the current norms -- if these issues were found to be problematic, or improved upon. For on the other hand, who today who believes that the rite of Paul VI has improved upon that of St. Pius V does not also assert, more or less directly, that the [Tridentine liturgical] norms which were previously established and enforced also had to be improved upon? Why, then, should the current legislation concerning the Novus Ordo be regarded as perfect and untouchable? In a liturgical reform what counts is not to assert one's own ideas at all costs, even against all evidence, but to help the Church to always better adore the Holy Trinity. [NLM emphasis]
There is an important point here, regardless of one's particular view on the question of the Pian liturgical books; namely, pointing out the contradiction in holding on the one hand that the pre-conciliar liturgical books were in need of some revision, but then finding it inconceivable or "outside the pale" to hold the same view with regard to the modern liturgical books -- or in other words, to propose a reform of the reform. It goes without saying that there is a great inconsistency in that way of thinking and it is good to see it raised and spoken of openly within a Roman context.
The interview continues to discuss the nature of Bux's book and also points to the Bux's position that being either radically innovationist or immobilist with regard to the liturgy is untenable -- a point that is shared by many within the usus antiquior movement and the reform of the reform movement it is worth noting.
It is in this context that a further point of interest arises. Namely, his critique of the position taken in one review of Bux's work, which was against any "reform of the reform" and rather for leaving the usus recentior as is, but simply without the liturgical abuses:
Faced with the possibility of revising the [liturgical] reform of Paul VI, Augé [one of the reviewers of Bux's book] concludes by asking: "Such a reform of the reform, where would it take its inspiration, from the Missal of 1962 or the constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium? Instead of expending a lot of energy on this, would not it be better to spend more on intensely investigating the liturgy of the Church celebrated according to the current books and lived above all as matter of the spiritual order?"
Don Gagliardi proposes the following critique of this position:
At the root of the two questions of Augé, there appear to be two presuppositions: first, that the ‘reform of the reform’ can [only] consist either of a return to the Rite of Pius V, or in following the conciliar decisions. But doesn’t this presupposition rest upon the idea of an incurable discontinuity between the liturgical teaching of Vatican II and what preceded it? Is there no space for a ‘both-and’? The second presupposition is seen in the expression “liturgy of the Church” meaning the post-conciliar forms. Expressing himself in this way, doesn’t Augé affirm indirectly that the Missale of 1962, promulgated by Blessed John XXIII was not the “liturgy of the Church”? Or, if the expression “liturgy of the Church” is interpreted from the texts he cites (taken from Vicesimus quintus annus), is there not the risk of thinking that the pre-conciliar liturgy was not a “matter of the spiritual order”?
This too is quite pertinent, for what it ultimately points to is the fact the usus antiquior is a treasure of the Church and an important part of its patrimony -- and, I might add, a part of its living patrimony.
Fr. Gagliardi also gives a consideration of the motu proprio, Summorum Pontificum, and its intent and scope, addressing those that would wish to limit it:
Don Bux believes [the motu proprio, Summorum Pontificum] represents an obvious sign of a plan for liturgical renewal and growth of the sacred liturgy, that without a doubt, is certainly dear to the Pope. The Pope's decision [was reduced by many] to a strictly ecumenical gesture, as a concession "to Lefebvrists"... For the author, [the motu proprio] has a much wider significance and tends in the direction of an “overcoming of the breach which occurred in the process of the liturgical reform, contrasting the new rite with the old” (p.45). It seems to me that Don Bux sees correctly: the Holy Father himself has declared, in the apostolic letter accompanying Summorum Pontificum, that the purpose of his decision was to "reach an internal reconciliation within the Church."
The next point is more controversial; a point to follow:
Therefore the weak point of the post-conciliar reform must be seen, as Don Bux does, not so much in the reform itself (which does show, as every human thing does, aspects which could be bettered, and other things to be revised), but in having presented the Novus Ordo not simply as new, but as opposed to the more ancient.
By his own qualifications, Gagliardi is not suggesting there are no issues to be resolved in the reform itself; this much is clear when he speaks of "other things to be revised". Accordingly, I don't think this should be dwelt upon too much. But it should be noted that how much of an issue the reform itself is, is a matter of reasonable and legitimate debate both amongst scholars as well as amongst proponents of the usus antiquior and reform of the reform. This said, it must also be noted that the principle of reform to the sacred liturgy is not itself outside the pale. Clearly the liturgy is not immobile. It is rather the "how" and "what" of liturgical reform that is an issue, and here the questions of continuity versus rupture enter in as well. In point of fact, this may be all Don Gagliardi intends to suggest, and certainly one can agree that the attitude of rupture and discontinuity is a problem as well.
This friendly caveat aside, Gagliardi continues with these thoughts:
It is this rupture in the continuity of tradition that has caused and continues to cause misunderstandings, polemics and suffering. The post-conciliar reform must be understood as reform in continuity: only this will allow it to be brought to its conclusion. Yes, because - I repeat - it is far from concluded.
But it remains certain that a book like this is destined, in the present moment, to be a sign of contradiction exactly because it tries to favour – in a particular way between experts in this field, but also between the contradictory ‘factions’ of supporters of only one of the two forms of the Roman Rite – humility, understanding, tolerance and intellectual openness (c.f. p.87), objectives which coincided with those of Benedict XVI.
Clearly what is being sought after here then is some spirit of collaboration which intends to promote continuity and tradition.
Also of interest and worthy of mention are Don Gagliardi's thoughts on the place of the liturgy as a teacher of the faithful outside purely academic types of formation. This is pertinent as well, given that this a debate which also rages today:
I want to take a clear stand with the author: I am convinced that the [academic] liturgical formation of the people of God - while necessary and recommended at least by the Council of Trent onwards - is not alone sufficient to foster the true liturgical spirit and proper form of adoration [to be characterized] in Christian worship. The Council of Trent taught that human nature is such that it can not easily rise to the meditation of divine things without external aids, and for this reason the Church as a loving mother has established certain rituals [...] to make more evident the majesty of a sacrifice so great and bring the minds of the faithful, with these visible signs of religion and piety, to the sublime contemplation of reality "(DS 1746). This means that the mind rises to God not only through formation, but also and above all through the sacred and the visible signs of divine worship, which are set by the Church. Don Bux may therefore welcome the fact that "a new liturgical movement is emerging which watches the liturgies of Benedict XVI; the instructions prepared by experts are not enough, exemplary liturgies are that which bring us to God" (p. 123).
At times, the outer aspects of the liturgy and lived liturgical life are treated by some as subjective and unimportant. Even putting them forth as considerations is sometimes a point of suspicion and derision. But to take this view is not see and understand the liturgy in harmony with the mind of the Church, which, by contrast, understands the paramount and central importance of the liturgy in all its aspects as a school for Christian life and formation. On that level, it was particularly refreshing to see this perspective brought forward.
As noted, there might indeed be some areas where nuanced disagreements on various particulars could be found in this interview, but overall, I think it is encouraging, particularly given the placement of this priest and bodes well again for a new liturgical movement. After all, what we see here is an understanding of the broader implications of the motu proprio, Summorum Pontificum, of the place and importance of the liturgy, and an openness to the deeper layers of the reform of the reform.
(The NLM discovered the original Italian Zenit piece through the Italian blog, Rinascimento Sacro)
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The Ponteland Proms
Chris Lakey, a swinging 15 year old, played the alto saxophone in the orchestra.
He also plays in the jazz band and has been playing and practising the alto sax for six years.
Imagine – a hundred-strong orchestra, three hundred voices in the choir and a packed Sage! That was the scene last month when the Ponteland Proms gave their annual performance. Started 14 years ago all the Ponteland schools, the Community High, the Richard Coates Middle, Ponteland Middle, Darras Hall First and Ponteland First, were involved as well as the First Schools of Stamfordham, Belsay, Whalton and Heddon on the Wall.
The logistics of organising the event and the enthusiasm that carried it forward are a testimony to all concerned. Paul Reid, head of music at the High School, conducted the orchestra and Ed Milner of the County music services, conducted the choir in a range of the very popular Beatles’ songs. Feet were tapping and hands clapping to the rhythms of a great performance.
Imagine – when the children’s grandparents were teenagers these songs and their sharp-suited singers were considered to be rebellious and radical and their young fans screamed their approval!
A CD of the whole performance is available from Sarah Herbert, cost £10. Please send cheques payable to Ponteland High School, Callerton Lane, NE20 9EY
By Muriel Sobo
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“INVESTIGATE JOURNALISTS” – PASCALINE EDWARDS TELLS ANAS
By admin , September 16, 2015 5:48 pm September 16, 2015 Off 598
Actress Pascaline Edwards has called on trending Ghanaian international investigative Journalist Anas Aremiyaw Anas to shift his attention to journalists and bloggers in Ghana.
In an exclusive interview with Kwame Adjetia on Neat FM’s “Entertainment Ghana”, the “Ripples” actress said some of the journalists misquote and twist false stories to make them seem true for their own selfish gains.
“In every society there are always some bad nuts. Most of the journalists are good but the new ones that are coming up who want quick fame are the ones giving journalist a bad name. So Anas should also concentrate on the media and investigate journalists”.
Pascaline was commenting on trending issues about Sarkodie and actor John Dumelo who have both denied recent reports about them in the media.
She disclosed on the show that she has also been a victim of false reportage in the media. According to her the recent false story about her was reports that she won’t film in a cemetery again because she is scared.
According to the story she posted a photo of herself, Yvonne and Eddie Nartey at the cemetery on her Instagram and commented that she was not returning to the cemetery again.
“That cemetery …I don’t want to go there again oo”, but she said she never made any comment like that on Instagram.
“They can make the headlines very scary and for me most of my relatives live outside Ghana. My mother lives outside the country and she is aging. She can see some of these headlines and get a heart attack”.
“I WILL NOT FEEL SORRY IF MY PREDICTIONS COME TO PASS”- KUBOLOR
By admin , September 16, 2015 12:11 pm September 16, 2015 Off 603
Rapper Wanluv has disclosed that he would not feel sorry if Bishop Daniel Obinim, Archbishop Duncan Williams, Pastor Chris and Prophet T.B Josuah die as he has predicted in his new single.
After predicting the death of four pastors, Wanlov the Kubolor says he will not feel remorseful should any of his predictions comes to pass.
The rapper who recently released a song titled, Very Soon in which he predicted the death of four pastors (Bishop Daniel Obinim, Archbishop Duncan Williams, Pastor Chris and T.B Josuah) has come under criticisms from a section of the public.
When show host, Abrantepa, asked if someone will be wrong to say that once he recorded the song, he meant the lyrics in there, Wanlov answered;
“No they won’t be wrong; they won’t be right either. Because, at the time I recorded it, I was in total agreement with my perception; but I could become friends with one of those guys tomorrow and I may be sad if something I have predicted comes to pass. At the moment, I wouldn’t have any feeling of remorse if any comes to pass”, he disclosed on Radio Univers.
The member of music duo, FOKN Bois, however stated that the lyrics of the song is only a prediction; not a wish.
“Prediction is different from a wish. I just predicted how they will die and not wished them dead. I’m not wishing for them to die. This is the style for which they will die,” he said.
ATTAH ABRAHAM MAKES HISTORY AT 2015 VENICE FILM FESTIVAL
By admin , September 14, 2015 11:05 am September 14, 2015 Off 553
A 14-year old Ghanaian Attah Abraham has won the Marcello Mastroianni’s ‘Best Young Actor’ Award at the 2015 Venice Film Festival in Italy.
Attah Abraham won the award for his lead performance in a movie alongside Idris Elba.
Attah Abraham who is said to be without any acting background was picked from the streets of Ghana during the shooting of Netflix’s soon to be released movie “Beasts of No Nation.”
According the Director of the movie, Cary Fukunaga, Atta Abraham was randomly selected on the streets.
Abraham Attah plays an 11-year-old child soldier in the film. Abraham’s character joins a militant group from an unnamed West African country that is led by a brutal warlord, played by Idris Elba (“Luther”)”.
BISA KDEI’S LATE MOTHER TO BE BURIED ON OCTOBER 31
Sensational Highlife singer, Bisa Kdei’s late mother Josephine Bruce is scheduled to be laid to rest on Saturday October 31.
A source close to the “Odo Carpenter” hit maker has hinted Nkonkonsa.com the three day final journey begins from Friday October 30 to Sunday November 1 2015 when family, friends and sympathizers will have a Thanksgiving service.
The late Josephine Bruce who passed away on Wednesday August 19 at the Cocoa Clinic at North Kaneshie in Accra at age 57, leaving behind eight children including Bisa Kdei.
Bisa whose mother’s untimely demise happened few days hours after he released his latest single “Mansa” is currently going through hard times and this may affect the release of his upcoming #BreakThrough album.
SAMINI TO GO TO LAW SCHOOL
Afro-dancehall artiste Samini has revealed his intention to make his longtime dream of becoming a lawyer finally become a reality.
The “Sweet Mistake” Singer in an interview with Live FM stated that he planned to study law after secondary school but he had to sacrifice that to pursue his passion which is music.
Samini believe his music career has grown to the level where he needs to study the legal side of his passion. He wants to study intellectual Property Law to obviously to help with the scattered issues of copyright in the music industry in Ghana.
“I had wanted to do Law in school and I will still proceed to do it very soon. I want to study Intellectual Property Law at school”.
“I did business at secondary and planned to study law at the University. I had to make the choice of forgoing Uni to pursue my passion for music. My parents obviously were not happy about it”, he told Jeremie and Jay Foley on the Live Breakfast Club on Live FM.
Samini is set to celebrate the first anniversary of Dancestardom and launch his upcoming “Breaking News” album.
YVONNE NELSON REMEMBERS THE LATE SUZZY WILLIAMS
By admin , September 10, 2015 11:34 am September 10, 2015 Off 1062
Actress Yvonne Nelson unfortunately did not meet late screen goddess Suzzy Williams before her untimely demise but she has shared some kind words about the late “Chin Chin” Lady.
Tuesday September 8, 2015 was exactly 10 years since beautiful actress Suzzy Williams passed away after a brutal car accident on La road in Accra and this is what Yvonne Nelson had to say on Instagram this morning in her memory.
“We never met but I used to admire your works from a distance and I still do.
You were beautiful, glowing and loved. Little did we know you were going to leave us that soon. We loved you but we didn’t have the power to make you stay.
Indeed, if a thousand words and a thousand tears could bring you back, we would have done that by now. I have always imagined how things would have been if you were still here Suzzy, But God knows best,We will forever miss u.
Rest In Peace Suzzy Williams. The industry hardly talks about you, but I promise I’ll do that from today. I know you are in heaven. R.I.P 😇🌷 #10years”
NANA AMA MCBROWN PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE LATE SUZZY WILLIAMS
By admin , September 8, 2015 8:12 pm September 8, 2015 Off 1974
Talented actress Nana Ama McBrown has paid tribute to the late Suzzy Williams.
Today September 8, 2015 is exactly 10 years since beautiful actress Suzzy Williams passed away after a brutal car accident on La road in Accra.
Nana Ama shared her tribute on Instagram with Suzzy’s picture.
“WE MISS YOU🙏🙏🙏#SUZZYWILLIAMS👼👼👼#TENYEARS#TODAY#08-09-05⭐️❤️#RIP#SISTER”
“THE MOVIE INDUSTRY IS DYING SLOWLY” – BEVERLY AFAGLO
By admin , September 8, 2015 3:34 pm September 8, 2015 Off 560
Actress Beverly Afaglo has attributed the rampant increase of actors producing their own movies and playing lead roles to the fact that Ghana’s movie industry is dying.
“I think the movie industry is dying slowly. If not, actors wouldn’t be producing their own movies just to keep being relevant or keep their passion alive. The thing is that, producers are not producing anymore especially those with the English speaking movies,” she said in an interview with ghkwaku.
Beverly also used the platform to debunk rumors making round that she had quit acting.
“That’s crap. Why will I quit acting? For crying out loud my baby is almost 3 years so is she that small that I can’t leave her behind and work?
“My first job after delivery was a job with Shirley Frimpong Manso. It was exactly 6 months after having my baby when I started acting again so childbirth hasn’t stopped me in anyway,” she added.
DKB SHUTS DOWN BELLA ROMA WITH BIRTHDAY BASH
Accra came to a stand Friday night as the Comedy king DKB marked his 30th birthday celebration in a Grand style with hundreds of fans and colleagues at Bella Roma night club in Osu.
The club was packed with his fans, friends in addition to fellow celebrities. Some popular faces spotted include Godfather of comedy KSM, Actor Ekow Smith-Asante, Rapper Trigmatic, VRMG Edem, Foster Romanus, Paulina Oduro, Stacy Amanful among others.
During the cutting of DKB’s face customized cake, KSM said “This is my son. I was the man but he is the man now” , He commended DKB for his great works in comedy and wished him all the Best.
The peak of the birthday bash was when Edem stepped in the House and performed his latest track “Nyedzilo” along side DKB. DJ Kess and Dj Mensah also entreated fans with body moving tracks which kept them regularly on the dance floor.
STONEBWOY’S MOTHER LAID TO REST
By admin , September 7, 2015 11:11 am September 7, 2015 Off 620
Reigning VGMA ‘Artiste of the Year’ Stonebwoy has finally laid his late mother Mrs.Catherine to rest.
A befitting burial for his late mother came off on Saturday, September 5 2015. The funeral continued to the following day Sunday September 6 at Dansoman in Accra. Friends and followers of the BHiM Nation boss were at the event to support him.
The late Mrs. Catherine Satekl died on Wednesday July 29,2015 at the 37 Military Hospital where she was receiving treatment after collapsing the previous Sunday.
Some of the famous faces spotted at the venue of the funeral were Sarkodie, Samini, Kwaw Kese, D.Cryme, Jupitar, Yaa Pono and many others.
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TV Whoredom – Premiere Week Recap: Tuesday
Day Two of Fall TV Premiere Week….and I was all Gleeked out and ready.
As an addendum to Monday, the trades are all reporting that Lone Star will probably get cancelled after next week…toldja! Now here’s your Tuesday cheat sheet…
FOX-
So, Tuesday saw the launch of Fox’s new comedy block, headed by its returning juggernaut GLEE! Now, I have a love-hate relationship with Glee. As a former music theater dork and high school choir cult member, I love the show. I love the music and the singing is great and Jane Lynch is so pitch perfect I could watch her read the phone book. BUT, some of the cast and some of the editing is really bad when it comes to the lip synching! Lea Michele is fantastic, but if she overacted with her face any more, she’d deserve to get slapped. Stop blinking so hard! And she’s already clearly lost about 15 lbs since the first episode, so I’m gonna start to worry pretty soon. But, the show was great, the singing –especially by Lea and guest star Charice (Jesus Christ, this girl is awesome!) – was great. And it premiered HUGE! So, congrats!
RAISING HOPE – The trailer for this new comedy was hilarious and the show didn’t really disappoint. It dropped off by almost half from Glee, but still performed better than shows in the timeslot the last couple years. And…it’s really funny! I think this will stick around for 8 episodes before Fox makes a decision, so tune in – you’ll laugh!
RUNNING WILDE – In the hands of lesser comedic minds than Mitch Hurwitz and Will Arnett (both from Arrested Development), this show would suck. But, Will Arnett is so damn funny and Keri Russell so damn cute that I found myself liking the show. I’m not sure it has enough material to keep going more than one season, but I’ll keep watching to find out. It won’t be for everyone, but I thought it was good enough.
CBS –
The return of NCIS and NCIS LA….umm….who cares? I’ve never seen either of these shows as I don’t live in the Midwest and I’m under 50 years old. But they were both down over 20% from last season. How NCIS became the number 1 show on TV…I don’t know. I like Mark Harmon and all, but…it’s as procedural as procedures get. But they are both here to stay for at least 2 more seasons.
NBC –
Biggest Loser’s latest season started and as someone who is going to a trainer and been eating right, I really wanted to be inspired…but I was left depressed. (You can check out my Losing Weight in LA Blog on Facebook). But these people couldn’t even walk/run a MILE. I’m not talking sprinting a mile – they couldn’t WALK a mile! 3 of them had to be seen by doctors after collapsing! Seriously? And everyone had such a fucking sob story to tell – cancer, dead parents and siblings, anorexic children, botched surgeries – why do fat people need a heartbreaking story to get on the show? Isn’t being morbidly obese heartbreaking enough? Biggest Loser premiered down 7% from last season, but it’s here to stay.
Parenthood…I didn’t watch it last night because I usually watch it On Demand over the weekend. This show has quickly become a total yawn though. That little Autistic kid needs a good smack and Dax Shephard proves how unwatchable he is week after week. I like Lauren Graham and Peter Krause, but I’m not sure I like them enough to keep watching much longer. I tune in for Allison Pill and Mae Whitman, who I’ve had a crush on for years. It premiered down from last year and doesn’t seem to be getting better, but it will stick around for the season (unless it starts totally tanking).
ABC –
Dancing with the Stars had its results show and The Hoff was the first to get the boot…I’m pretty surprised and pissed about this. I thought he’d be around for quite a while actually. I was sure that pudgy black kid or The Situation would be the first to go. Oh well. If casting agents are reading, someone give Hoff’s daughter a show because that girl is f’n gorgeous! I’d watch her dance anyday. Lambada! Anyway, it was still one of the top rated shows of the night, so DWTS is off to a great start.
Detroit 1-8-7 – This is one of the more controversial new shows and it’s all about the murder rate in Detroit (which is higher than the rate of fat people in Wisconsin). In the vein of NYPD Blue – and also starring alum James McDaniel – alongside Sopranos star Michael Imperioli, the show was….good. It had some levity, some real dark stuff, and some nice acting. I DO miss NYPD Blue, so if this show can become that – great. I love that they have real CURSING in the show (bleeped out) which works for me because that’s how people actually talk. It premiered OK, strong enough not for execs to freak out yet, but the second and third week will determine its fate. I’m gonna root for this show, at least for a while. Tune in and check it out if you were a fan of the Blue. I give its chances for a full season at about 50/50.
Okay, that was Tuesday – a slower night than Monday and tonight’s Wednesday night line up is VERY important, so I’ll be back tomorrow walking you through what happened!
Television Ramblings Fall TV Season, TV
FALL TV PREMIERE WEEK: Summer Recap & Monday!
It’s that time again! When all the TV whores of the world stop returning phone calls, decline invitations to weekday gatherings, card games and bowling leagues, and ignore their children’s pleas for help with their homework to sit down, get comfy and enjoy the Fall TV Premiere Week.
And as one of their leaders, I feel it is my responsibility – nay, my God-given duty – to give all the others out there a day-by-day breakdown of the new TV season.
I know this summer has been rough. Even I started going to the gym on Wednesday and Friday nights because of the lack of anything on television. However, I found quite a few bright spots in TV Land this summer that kept me glued. First, there was Big Brother – which became my nightly addiction. Not only did I watch Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesdays at 8pm, but I went to sleep watching Big Brother After Dark on Showtime most nights at 2am. And I was very happy with the outcome of that show!
But the real guilty pleasures of mine this summer were TNT’s awesome Monday night combo of The Closer and new favorite show Rizzoli and Isles. I’m a sucker for a hot chick who can kick my ass, and Angie Harmon has been a crush of mine since her Law and Order days. I think it’s because she’s genuinely a nice person and she has really good comic and dramatic timing. Best new show on TV this summer (and better than pretty much any show that premiered on the networks last year!). Can’t wait until next summer when they are back (though The Closer will have 7 or 8 new episodes starting in December I think). Covert Affairs was OK, and got another season, but was too light for me. Memphis Beat – Sorry, not for me. Ever since Jason Lee became a scientologist, I just don’t find him watchable. But it got renewed for a second season too and will return next summer.
I’ve also been watching the new season of Weeds and The Big C, though usually catching it at odd times or On Demand. Mark my words now – Laura Linney wins the Emmy. It’s not even close. And of course, there was Entourage and True Blood. I was all ready to hate True Blood this season as I kinda thought they jumped the shark, but it was still really good. Even though it’s sad what they did to Stephen Moyer’s vamp-hero character, next season should be pretty cool. If you’re not watching this show, go rent the DVD and give it 4 episodes and you’ll be hooked! Thank me later.
My other summer addiction/guilty pleasure– and this one I’m not so proud of – is anything Bravo. Yes, that’s right – I don’t have a vagina, but I do watch Bravo. And I don’t just mean the okay-for-men-to-watch Top Chef – which is awesome even though this season was its weakest in years. But no – I don’t stop there. I love those damn Housewives! And I have a ridiculous crush on Bethenny Frankel, so you can bet I was watching her solo show. Kathy Griffin? Pure Gold. Rachel Zoe, yup – ba-nanas. Flipping Out? You bet I do. It doesn’t matter what it is, I’ll watch it…that’s what makes one a true TV whore.
Okay, so that was summer…but as the leaves turn, so do the stations…
Monday night saw the official premiere of a bunch of new shows. Was I excited? You betcha! So, here’s the breakdown by show along with my guesses on how long the show will last. And of course, my recommendation for if it’s worth watching…
DANCING WITH THE STARS– Brisol Palin, America’s youngest whore hottie, put on some dancing shoes and shook her stuff. But the night belonged to Dirty Dancing star Jennifer Grey who mentioned Patrick Swayze more times than People Magazine. I’m not saying it was a cheap grab at the emotional vote, but it worked on me. Plus, she was pretty good. Combine that with The Drunken Hoff, Kurt Warner, Vehicular homicide’s own Brandy, Audrina Patridge, and the disgusting excuse for talent known as The Situation, and this season is already ahead of last fall’s season! Obviously this one ain’t going anywhere, so give in and watch it…If you don’t, Sarah Palin will hunt you down and shoot you from her helicopter.
CASTLE – One of my two favorite new shows from last season (along with The Good Wife) is back and better than ever. While I thought the tension between the two stars was solved too quickly and easily and could have been played out over 2 episodes, I just love Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic and together, they are just good fun! If you’re not watching Castle, you’re missing a great show. It premiered very well, so this one’s here to stay for the season. And by the way…if anyone knows the girl who plays Castle’s gorgeous red-headed daughter…I want to marry her.
MIKE AND MOLLY – It’s this decade’s version of Roseanne except it starts when Roseanne meets Dan instead of after they are already married with kids. It’s funny and self-deprecating and Melissa McCarthy is so damn likeable. But the whole goal of the show is for these two people to fall in love as they try to lose weight. Chuck Lorre, the CBS God (who was also behind Roseanne) knows what makes fat people funny. And it premiered well enough, so expect this one to stick around the whole season, but second season will depend on if people tune in to watch 2 fat people make out. Without Jillian Michaels yelling at them.
HAWAII 5-0 – I’ll be honest, I didn’t watch this one (yet) because I find that I have an overwhelming urge to smack Scott Caan in the mouth. But Alex O’Laughlin has had 3 cancelled series in 4 years and he needs one to stick. It premiered VERY nicely in the timeslot and will definitely be around til midseason (too much promotion behind it not to stick for a while), but after that, who knows. Reviews have been great and it seems to be a good show.
FOX –
HOUSE – One of my favorite shows despite coming off a largely lackluster season. After Amber and Kutner died, I’m not sure the show didn’t jump the shark. But House is sober, he’s bangin’ Cutty and all is right with the world…right? Well, not really because Olivia Wilde and Jennifer Morrison both left the show leaving the painfully bland Jesse Spencer and the bored-to-still-be-on-the-show Omar Epps. The only bright spot? Peter Jacobson! Plus Hugh Laurie’s always awesome. So, hopefully this season will pull it out!
LONE STAR – You hear that? That’s the sound of a Fox executive getting fired for thinking this show was a good idea! Not only did it BOMB last night worse than the lowest expectation, but it got the lowest ratings of ANY show on ANY major network. And no, I didn’t watch it, because it looked AWFUL. Here’s an anatomy of a stupid idea for a TV show: A con man (played by a no-name actor) who is two-timing two women – a wife and a girlfriend – and bilking them both out of their family’s money to make his asshole father happy. And all of a sudden, he gets a conscience – and we’re supposed to care!? Did Fox execs REALLY think that in this economic climate, men would want to watch a show about a guy who cheats people out of money in a con man scheme? And that WOMEN would want to watch a show about a guy who is cheating on his wife and girlfriend? And Keith David and Jon Voight are great actors, but neither of them make the top 200 most likeable actors list. This show had NOTHING going for it. I give it ONE more week. Don’t bother tuning in.
CHUCK – I’ll be honest, I never got into this show. It was brought back from death twice now and looks to be around all season, but unless it posts huge gains (unlikely), this will probably be its last season. I know it’s fun, but opposite DWTS and House, it’s just not good enough to make the must-see list for me.
THE EVENT – This was one of the biggest, most hyped, most advertised show of the new season. It’s supposed to be the new big serial like Lost or Flashforward (hopefully more like the former than the cancelled after 1 season latter). It’s Jason Ritter (who is likeable enough and I really enjoyed him on the too-short-lived comedy “The Class”), Laura Innes (love her from ER), Blair Underwood (seriously – does EVERY President on TV have to be Black just to make the point that no one is racist?), and the sublime Zeljko Ivanek (from Damages, but I’ve been a fan since the early 90s when he was on Homicide!). It was good – it made me want to watch another week. It’s got a sci-fi twist (sci-fi like Lost) and lots of interesting plot lines and it debuted BIG for NBC – best ratings in the time slot in years. So, with all the money behind this show, it’s here to stay for a while. Tune in and check it out. I’m not TOTALLY hooked yet, but I’ll keep watching until it unhooks me. Or maybe like Lost, I’ll be crying at its series finale 7 years from now.
CHASE – Seemingly completely procedural action-packed show in the vein of The Fugitive but with a kick ass blond chick doing the hunting and the fighting. Despite the always completely assholic Cole Hauser by her side, Kelli Giddich did a nice job and she’s likeable and easy to watch. I’m not sure it’s got enough steam or originality to last, but I give it 10 episodes until the network pulls it. It did perform better than Trauma and Mercy last season, but not by much and they only got full season pickups because of the Leno debacle. So, now without Leno in the way, NBC has no one to blame but themselves.
OTHER – How I Met Your Mother and Two & A Half Men (which, now that the kid is bigger than Jon Cryer needs to be retitled 3 Friggin Men) came back on…It’s unreal – Charlie Sheen could literally take a shit on a baby and post the video on YouTube and people would still tune in to watch him knock out cheesy one-liners and swarmy looks at the camera. It had HUGE ratings– biggest show of the night. So since he won’t – I’ll thank the fly-over states for Charlie. Thanks!
Ok folks, that was just Monday…I’ll be back tomorrow with Tuesday’s wrap up! Stay tuned!
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Top 10 Books of 2015!
Hello, fellow bookworms! So, the year is almost at an end, which means it's time to reflect on the books I've adored this year. I filmed a countdown video for my YouTube channel a few days ago explaining why I've picked these books, which you can find here, but I've also included my list of favourites below!
10. Ren: The Man Behind The Monster by Sarah Noffke
9. The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands and The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson
(I know this is two books, but I explained my reasons in the video. Shhh, it's not cheating.)
8. The Sin Eater's Daughter by Melinda Salisbury
7. George by Alex Gino
6. The Shadow Cabinet by Maureen Johnson
5. Binge by Tyler Oakley
4. Royal Wedding by Meg Cabot
3. The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson
2. Uprooted by Naomi Novik
And number one, is of course....
I can't even describe the amount of love I have for this book and the fabulous characters within it. Carry On has set the bar high for the books I read in the coming year!
So they're my favourite books from 2015! What have been yours? Let me know in the comments! Thank you for reading my posts over the past year, and I hope you all have a fantastic 2016 - you deserve it. And a huge thank you to the awesome authors who have shared their wonderful stories with the world this year. You all rock!
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REVIEW: The Everest Files by Matt Dickinson
Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing
Buy The Book: Amazon UK
In the deepest Himalaya a story is spreading like wildfire. The story of an Everest expedition unlike any other. An expedition that ended with mysterious disappearances ... and death.
This is the mystery that eighteen-year-old Ryan Hart sets out to solve.
Ryan is on a gap year adventure, working for a medical charity in Nepal. When a local girl begs him to investigate why her sixteen-year-old friend Kami never came back from Everest, Ryan cannot resist the challenge.
A solo journey takes Ryan deep into the mountains where his detective work finally pays off. What emerges is a shocking tale of lies, betrayal and obsession.
All played out on the lethal slopes of the highest mountain in the world.
Little by little Ryan is falling under Everest’s deadly spell.
A young adult novel set on the slopes of Mount Everest, that’s not something I come across every day. And that’s exactly why I wanted to read it. Being an avid reader of everything YA, I do find a lot of books sharing the same themes and cliché moments, and for that reason I am always on the lookout for something to take me by surprise, for something completely different to anything I’ve read before. The Everest Files definitely provided me with something new.
When I started reading, I was under the impression that this first book in the trilogy would follow Ryan, the character we first meet on his plane journey to volunteer in Nepal, but I was wrong. This is very much Kami’s story, the young Sherpa who gets tangled up in a web of deceit on an Everest expedition that aims to get a high-profile American politician to the summit.
Whilst providing medicines to remote locations in Nepal, Ryan meets Shreeya, who tells him about Kami vanishing on the expedition. He promises to search for Kami and return the truth to Shreeya once and for all. When Ryan finally finds who he is looking for after days of difficult journeying, Kami finally gets to tell his story.
I absolutely adored learning all about Kami’s trek to Everest, and he was a thoroughly enjoyable character to read about. As he got to know his new team members, so did we, and not all of them were to be trusted or had the right intentions, and it left me on edge throughout each chapter. I also loved the insight it gave into the lives of Sherpas, especially young ones, and how dangerous their work on expeditions can be.
The setting for this novel was wonderfully epic from start to finish. Not only are we treated to a rich variety of characters, but we get the chance to learn about the terrain that they work on. It was very interesting to see the responsibilities each individual held on the mountain, and how quickly situations can change.
Kami’s journey certainly had a lot of tense and uneasy moments. I loved how the story had the ability to always keep me guessing as to what was going to happen next, and the ending was spectacularly surprising.
Now that I’ve learned Kami’s story, I am definitely interested to learn more about Ryan, especially since the ending of the book hinted at him becoming reeled in by the challenge of Everest. I’m highly anticipating another epic mountain adventure.
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REVIEW: Binge by Tyler Oakley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster UK
Genre: Memoir, Non-Fiction
Release Date: October 20th 2015
Buy The Book: Amazon - Amazon UK
Pop-culture phenomenon, social rights advocate, and the most prominent LGBTQ+ voice on YouTube, Tyler Oakley brings you his first collection of witty, personal, and hilarious essays.
For someone who made a career out of over-sharing on the Internet, Tyler has a shocking number of personal mishaps and shenanigans to reveal in his first book: experiencing a legitimate rage blackout in a Cheesecake Factory; negotiating a tense standoff with a White House official; crashing a car in front of his entire high school, in an Arby’s uniform; projectile vomiting while bartering with a grandmother; and so much more. In Binge, Tyler delivers his best untold, hilariously side-splitting moments with the trademark flair that made him a star.
Tyler has been my YouTube Queen since 2012 and he never fails to make me laugh with his videos, so I was beyond excited to read what he had to say in his first book Binge, and what a delightful, indulgent treat it was.
Binge isn’t a typical biography that chronicles his life from birth to where he is now. It’s more like what the cover suggests, you dip your hand into a bowlful of sweets and you never know what you’re going to pick out next. Tyler shares with us a look into various parts of his life that hold meaning to him, be it good, bad, or completely bizarre.
What I especially loved about this book was the pure honestly within its chapters. Tyler isn’t afraid to talk about anything. Call it an overshare if you will, but he is unapologetic in writing about the details, and I loved every moment of it. There was an entire chapter on poop that I didn’t realise I needed in my life until I read it. I was crying with laughter over how absurdly hilarious it was.
We are taken on an emotional rollercoaster with Tyler through his memories, laughing and cringing at some of his wild tales, but not every chapter is full of funny moments. What was also captivating about Binge was Tyler’s honesty about the darker times in his life, and the struggles he has faced. It made me view the work he does for The Trevor Project with a new admiration.
There are also a few important lessons within the pages of Binge, reminding us on several occasions that it’s okay to indulge ourselves in order to find our own limits, and to never knock something until we try it (see for example chapter ‘Hopeless Toemantic’).
Tyler on the page is exactly how you imagine him to be from watching his videos, he is still as brilliantly entertaining. He speaks to readers as friends, in a casual and fun way, so we’re able to feel as connected with him as we do whilst watching him speak his mind on YouTube.
Binge left a huge smile on my face and I came away from this book feeling energised and positive. I’m so glad Tyler is able to share his story with us in book format because it works perfectly. Even if you’re not already a fan of Tyler through his videos, this book is so very enjoyable.
I’d like to thank the wonderful people at Maximum Pop! for sending me a copy of Binge to review on their website, which you can read here.
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REVIEW: The Libby Garrett Intervention by Kelly Oram
Format: Kindle
Publisher: Bluefields
Genre: Contemporary, Romance
Libby Garrett is addicted to Owen Jackson's hot lovin'. But the sexy, popular college basketball player doesn't appreciate all of Libby's awesomeness. He refuses to be exclusive or even admit to people that they're dating. The relationship is ruining Libby and she's the only one who can't see it.
When Libby's behavior spirals completely out of control, her best friend Avery Shaw and the rest of the Science Squad stage an intervention hoping to cure Libby of her harmful Owen addiction. They put her through her very own Twelve Step program--Owen's Anonymous--and recruit the help of a sexy, broody, hard as nails coffee man to be her official sponsor.
Adam Koepp has watched Libby Garrett for years. How could he not notice the sassy girl with the purple skateboard and helmet plastered with cat stickers? But in all the years he's crushed on her, Libby has failed to take notice of him. Why would she when he was just a nobody high school drop out who served her apple cider several times a week? Especially when she was hooking up with a guy like Owen Jackson--a guy with a college scholarship and more abs than Kyle Hamilton.
Adam finally gets the chance to meet Libby when his co-worker Avery Shaw recruits him to take Libby on the journey of a lifetime. With his ability to play Bad Cop and his experience with the Twelve Step program he's the perfect candidate to be Libby's sponsor. But will he be able to keep his personal feelings out of the matter and really help her the way she needs? And will Libby hate him when he forces her to take an honest look at herself?
We first met the wonderful Libby Garrett in Kelly Oram’s previous novel, The Avery Shaw Experiment. Keeping with the theme of using science to overcome relationship issues, Avery gets to work once more by recruiting her co-worker Adam to help Libby free herself from popular jock Owen Jackson.
Libby’s relationship with Owen has been toxic from the very start. Whilst he enjoys fooling around with her, he isn’t willing to commit to being her boyfriend. He doesn’t want their friends to know they are together, he won’t be seen with her publicly, and Libby is so in over her head with him that she fails to notice. She begins acting differently and letting her friends down.
This is when Adam steps in. Adam Koepp has been secretly in love with Libby for years, serving her cider from the coffee shop he works at on a regular basis, but she’s never really taken the time to get to know him. When Avery asks for his help in the intervention, Adam agrees but is worried about his personal feelings clouding his judgment. He plans to teach Libby that Owen is an addiction, and puts her through a twelve step programme to help her fight it.
I loved that Libby wasn’t a typical YA heroine. The book deals with her lack of confidence and her issues with her weight. She believed that no one would ever find her beautiful and love her for who she is, and that’s what I adored about her relationship with Adam. He was truly in love with the person she is, and he thought she was beautiful inside and out.
I was glad we got to see his narration of the story as well as Libby’s, so we could see just how much he had fallen for her. It’s not often in contemporary YA that we get to read the love story from the guy’s POV and see what he sees, ignoring all of the imperfections Libby thinks she has. There are some fantastically positive messages to be found within the pages of this book.
Adam was my favourite character. He was so well-developed and I loved learning about his past. I was rooting for him so much throughout this book, hoping that he and his sister Kate would get the happy ending they deserved. He is just a genuinely nice guy that promotes healthy relationships, and that’s something we need more of in YA.
Whilst this is a fun and charming read, I don’t think it quite matched up to the personality that The Avery Shaw Experiment had. As much as I enjoyed the characters, I don’t think the intervention worked quite as well as the experiment did. It might have been because the experiment in the previous book was unique and unexpected, so when it came to this book, I was expecting the outcome. Even though the book was less than 250 pages long, it felt like it dragged on a lot longer.
That being said, I really did love the characters. Libby’s wit and Adam’s charm, and the sizzling chemistry between them was what kept me reading. Whilst it lacked the special touch The Avery Shaw Experiment delivered, I still found it enjoyable overall. Fans of contemporary YA will definitely love what this story has to offer.
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Arrow of the Mist Blog Tour: Review
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Christina Mercer's Arrow of the Mist, organized by Xpresso Book Tours! I have a review of this YA fantasy novel for you today, and you can follow the rest of the tour by checking out the schedule.
Arrow of the Mist
By Christina Mercer
* A copy was provided for review for the blog tour.
Terror strikes the Celtic inspired kingdom of Nemetona when barbed roots breach the veil of a forbidden land and poison woodsmen, including 15-year-old Lia’s beloved father. Lia and three others embark on a quest to the forbidden land of Brume to gather ingredients for the cure. But after her elder kinsman is attacked and poisoned, she and her cousin, Wynn, are forced to finish the quest on their own.
Lia relies on her powerful herbal wisdom and the memorized pages of her late grandmother’s Grimoire for guidance through a land of soul-hungry shades, trickster creatures, and uncovered truths about the origin of Brume and her family’s unexpected ties to it. The deeper they trek into the land, the stronger Lia’s untapped gift as a tree mage unfolds. When she discovers the enchanted root’s maker, it forces her to question everything about who she is and what is her destiny. Ultimately she must make a terrible choice: keep fighting to save her father and the people of the lands or join with the power behind the deadly roots to help nature start anew.
Arrow of the Mist is a fast-paced adventure that wastes no time cutting straight to the action. After Lia’s father is attacked by some venomous roots and becomes critically ill, she sets out with her grandfather, her cousin, Wynn, and Wynn’s friend, Kelven, in search of a cure. The group must venture into the dangerous fog of Brume, where the unknown awaits them.
World-building is such a critical element of fantasy, and Christina Mercer brings to life a magical, fully realized world that is teeming with vivid imagery. It drew me in instantly, and the sensory details that were utilized here were stellar. Seriously, reading this book was like being right by Lia’s side as she meets faeries, dwarfs, and even a unicorn (one of my favorite mythical creatures!). The world also boasts a rich lore, in which every tree tells a story, and it’s a lore that Lia knows by heart thanks to her beloved grandmother’s Grimoire. I really liked this use of a book-within-a-book to further enhance the feeling that this realm that Lia called home was a real place, complete with its own legends.
Lia quickly establishes herself as a smart, courageous, and tenacious heroine who’s prepared to do anything for her family. They’re a close-knit group, and Lia’s bond with her grandfather, Luis, was particularly touching. I just wish that I’d felt more of a connection with Lia, or even with any of the characters. It’s not that they lack dimension; it’s more that, in a way, they seemed a bit overshadowed by the amount of depth that was devoted to the world. Now, I loved the world and was immersed in it, but I couldn’t find quite the same investment in the characters. I liked both Lia and Wynn, who’s Lia’s traveling companion for a good stretch of the novel, but this was one of those instances where I couldn’t say much more about them than that.
There’s a lyrical quality to the prose in Arrow of the Mist, and it suits the story and the novel’s genre very well. It’s also an engaging writing style that keeps the book moving at a sprightly pace. What was missing for me here was an emotional attachment to the characters, but overall, this was an enchanting, enjoyable read.
All in All:
This is a solid fantasy with a highly imaginative world that should appeal to fantasy fans and anyone who enjoys quest-centered stories.
About Christina Mercer
Christina Mercer writes fiction in addition to mothering two young adults, a pack of large dogs, and about 100,000 honeybees. Her varied interests prompted her to study creative writing, earn her official degree in Accounting, become a CPA, acquire a certificate in Herbal Studies, and keep honeybees. She took Writer’s Best in Show at the 2012 SCBWI CA North/Central Regional Conference and was a semi-finalist in the 2010 Amazon Breakout Novel Award Contest. You can find her at www.christinamercer.com or working as the Reviews Director at www.indie-visible.com.
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Labels: 3.5 Stars, Arrow of the Mist, Blog Tour, Christina Mercer, Fantasy, Lee's Reviews
Giselle July 9, 2013 at 11:00 PM
Glad you liked it, Lee! It sounds like a magical and unique fantasy! :)
Lee @ Rally the Readers July 10, 2013 at 10:17 AM
The fantasy element is so well done! I really enjoyed reading about this world.
Micheline July 10, 2013 at 8:47 PM
I've been anxious to read your thoughts on this one Lee, because it really does look & sound like a book that I'd enjoy! I'm glad you enjoyed it overall -the would-building sounds especially impressive but I'm sorry you weren't able to connect with the characters more. It's a really tricky thing to find a high-fantasy read with solid world building AND character development...one can easily take a backseat to the other. I'll definitely be checking this one out eventually because if nothing else, I'm even more curious about this world now :) Loved reading your review, insightful & helpful as always.
Lee @ Rally the Readers July 11, 2013 at 8:49 AM
I think you'd enjoy this, Micheline. The world-building is top-notch and really gives you the feeling of being in the book, which is one of the things I most like to see in a high fantasy read.
So glad you like it. I got to spend some time with Christina in Nashville a couple of weeks ago and she is an absolute dollface! Love her and can't wait to get my grubbies on this book. Especially since I now know it has a unicorn! Great review Lee.
Lee @ Rally the Readers July 14, 2013 at 3:54 PM
So cool that you got to meet Christina! I hope you enjoy the book, and hooray for unicorns! I love them!
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SUVA, Fiji Islands (March 4, 2001 - Oceania Flash/SPC)---Newly introduced high definition satellite images now enable South Pacific island countries and territories to have access to much more affordable, yet reliable research and monitoring tools.
The Pacific's huge area and its scattered locales have always been major challenges for island countries and territories.
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"Overall, this is definitely cheaper, because with the satellite you only pay for the cloud-free (photographs). You don't have to wait until the flying crew is in the country, (or pay for) the stand-by costs. And the data, once received, is ready to display on a computer."
"Practically, those digital images are immediately available on a computer screen and can be used for interpretation, according to specific needs. . . Power or water utilities specialists can use them to localize their customers, to plan their new connections, for example."
The first satellite image ordered by SOPAC arrived on January 17. It covers Tonga's capital, Nuku‘alofa, with a four-meter resolution.
"This new data provides a new dimension, compared to previous space-borne data. Before, it was only a maximum resolution (on a scale of 1/50,000). Now we're going into a 1/10,000 scale, something only aerial photography could achieve so far. So now we can compare the situation of a coastline, over a ten to twenty year timeframe, because we still have aerial photographs and now we have (new) similar scale images. So what happens is that we can overlay it and compare those different pictures on the same scale.
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"In the case of Tonga, the image data will primarily be used to compare the current situation with coastline documented years ago on aerial photographs, to follow up coastal erosion.
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Re: US News Rankings
by EastStang » Wed Sep 23, 2020 11:26 am
I think our name believe it or not does scare off some college counselors who do not understand that SMU is a liberal arts school not too much different than Duke or Harvard for that matter. Our admissions people are constantly saying that we have the same background as Duke, just a denominational name.
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by PonyTime » Wed Sep 23, 2020 11:57 am
Mustangs_Maroons wrote: I have always believed that we should target a provost or chancellor that is in place at an aspirational university, not someone that comes from the University of Missouri, Ole Miss, or Kansas, or one of these type of state schools. We need someone that is at an elite institution that will see the benefit of becoming a President at a university such as ours that is greatly positioned and primed to take us to another level. What a legacy that could be for someone. I'm sure we will pay top dollar, but we tend to go after Toyotas and Hyundais where there are top of the line Mercedes out there.
Last time we hired a president from Duke, that worked out well.
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by AfricanMustang » Wed Sep 23, 2020 12:29 pm
Mustangs_Maroons wrote: Pepperdine is certainly not an aspirational school. It’s probably very similar in many regards to SMU - sat scores, student profiles, etc.
I meant aspirational schools those that I would place into three buckets: I) elite private academic institutions that have D1 sports in P5 program: Stanford, ND, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Duke and II) elite private universities that don’t have P5 D1 programs but that we would benefit greatly from academically: Uchicago, WUSTL, Rice, and III) those Ivies that have a smaller school feel (and have the benefit of D1 sports): Brown, Dartmouth.
Pepperdine is like us - those listed about are true aspirational private universities.
SMU officially considers the following as "Aspirational Peers" - Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, Northeastern, Notre Dame, Tufts, Tulane, U. of Rochester, USC, and Wake Forest.
It considers the following "Cohort Peers" - American, Baylor, Fordham, George Washington, Lehigh, Pepperdine, Syracuse, TCU, U. of Denver, U. of Miami, U. of Tulsa, and Villanova.
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by Mustangs_Maroons » Wed Sep 23, 2020 3:10 pm
AfricanMustang wrote:
I think the list of aspirational schools is precisely what is wrong with our leadership.
I question how Boston U. move from cohort to aspirational? Boston university is ranked 42. is that really an aspirational school? I don't have have an issue with Tufts, but Tulane, Northeastern and even Rochester should not be aspirational schools.
We need to reassess really what SMU can be, and to me, an aspirational SMU is more like an Emory, Wake Forest (ND, Rice or Duke ideally) and certainly not have our ceiling be Boston U or Northeastern. We can agree to disagree.
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by AfricanMustang » Wed Sep 23, 2020 3:22 pm
Mustangs_Maroons wrote:
Mustangs_Maroons wrote: when you look at the universities that are ranked from 31 to where SMU is, it really is disappointing that we as a university have not been able to do more with the inherent strengths of the university (higher student profile, location in Dallas, inherently strong UG areas such as business, etc).
It's amazing how Turner has been here for so long. The guy is 74 - what other university has a president that is that old. No offense but we need new blood. We should get a provost from a university such as Duke, Brown, ND, WashU or Northwestern and hire then as president of the university. They will get us focused on the right things to get SMU to where it belongs on the academics rankings. Focus on research, professor recruitment and student scholarships. Forget now about new buildings and those damn fountains.
When you talk about focusing on research, isn't that what the new Moody School of Graduate and Advanced Studies with the accompanying $100 million is supposed to achieve?
That's not nearly enough although it is a step in the right direction. I admit we simply do not have the endowment and financial resources to compete with the large research universities (the leading private research universities and large state-funded programs) but improving our publishing and scholarly research will improve our rankings from a peer assessment perspective as well as draw better professors, and better students. AM - you know how this works in that it is all interrelated.
I also agree with your points on improving the 6-yr graduation rates. The very top universities I believe all have very high graduation rates and one in the 70%s simply does not cut it.
SMU announced the creation of the Moody School in November 2019, made possible by a landmark $100 million gift from the Moody Foundation. The investment in graduate-level education is fueling SMU’s move to join the finest universities in the country in its development of research with impact, delivered by top-notch faculty and graduate students.
Quick, a volcanologist of international stature, joined SMU in 2007 as the University’s first Associate Vice President for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies, with the responsibilities of supporting increases in research activity and the number of students graduating with a Ph.D. Since his arrival, research expenditures has increased from $14 million a year to $42 million a year, and annual graduation of Ph.Ds has increased from 45 to more than 70.
These increases contributed to SMU’s leap in 2011 past 55 sister institutions in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education to earn recognition for “high research activity.” The creation of the Moody School positions SMU to compete for coveted “R1” status, which is reserved for those institutions with the highest research activity.
“The new Moody School of Graduate and Advanced Studies is going to expand research efforts of SMU, the impact of which will benefit the universities, laboratories and businesses that employ our doctoral graduates,” said SMU President R. Gerald Turner. “Dean Quick is a passionate advocate for research and the cultivation of scholars, and is well-placed to deliver on the promise of the Moody School to deliver research with even greater impact.”
https://www.smu.edu/News/2020/Featured- ... ody-School
by DanFreibergerForHeisman » Wed Sep 23, 2020 6:39 pm
PonyTime wrote: Last time we hired a president from Duke, that worked out well.
Yeah the worst time for SMU for so many reasons.
by tristatecoog » Thu Sep 24, 2020 1:25 pm
SMU has an endowment $200M more than Tulane, but Notre Dame's is $14B.
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February 28, 2009 Jim Zellmer
via a kind reader’s email, who wonders if a student posting on this site violates the Madison School District’s “Code of Conduct“:
The Obama administration has pledged to reform the country’s school system and we want to know: Are there problems in the school district where you live? Education Secretary Arne Duncan will appear on Campbell Brown’s “No Bias, No Bull” Friday, and your stories may be part of the interview.
Whether you’re a dedicated teacher or concerned parent, we want to hear about the issues facing your school district. Express your concerns, questions and suggested solutions on video.
Budget/Financing, Curriculum, Elections, Events, Governance/Board Decision Making
Waunakee School District may break off Spanish as a separate class
Gena Kittner:
Heather Lawnicki — Señora Lawnickci to her students — sweeps into her fourth-grade classroom at Heritage Elementary and immediately leads students in singing “Buenas tardes,” a popular Spanish tune that gets the children primed to think and speak in Spanish.
The clock is ticking and there’s no time to waste: Lawnicki has just 30 minutes to cover lessons in both Spanish and social studies — on this day “los indios” of Wisconsin, the Indians.
While Lawnicki, who is fluent in both Spanish and Portuguese, delivers most of the instruction in Spanish, she often needs to repeat her questions in English. The children, who appear to have a general grasp of the language, sometimes answer in kind until Lawnicki prompts them to respond in Spanish.
Budget/Financing, Curriculum, Elections
An Update on the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Superintendent Election
John Nichols:
It was not a very big surprise that Gov. Jim Doyle endorsed Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers for the top job at DPI, although the governor’s endorsement is valuable and important for the teachers-union-backed contender.
Most Democrats will back Evers.
Most Republicans who make endorsements will back virtual schools advocate Rose Fernandez, the conservative with whom Evers is contending in the April 7 election.
But Fernandez has one Democratic — or at least sort of Democratic — backer.
Here’s the release from her campaign:
“Veteran Democratic lawmaker Ziegelbauer backs Fernandez
Bipartisan campaign for school superintendent keeps gaining momentum.
Curriculum, Curriculum - Languages, Parenting, School Climate
Texting: Good for kids after all?
Bill Ray:
study of 88 British kids, aged between 10 and 12, has discovered that those who regularly text have better reading skills despite the use of txt abbreviations.
The increasing use of abbreviations, phonetic spellings and the dropping of vowels is a constant source of irritation to the Daily Mail-reading crowd, who happily quote anecdotal evidence of declining standards. This promoted researchers at Coventry University to take a more scientific approach, and their findings seem to suggest that texting aids literacy rather than damaging it.
The study, published by the British Psychological Society, got 88 children to compose text messages in response to a range of scenarios, then compared the frequency with each child used textisms with tests of their “reading, vocabulary, and phonological awareness”. The results indicated that the increased exposure to print, in any form, led to greater literacy with those using most text’isms being more literate.
College Preparation, Parenting, School Climate
College Acceptance Letters Are Glitzier, but Rejections Are Harsher
Kim Clark:
College admissions officers are jazzing up their acceptance notifications–sending out fancy certificates, T-shirts, tubes of confetti, or Internet links to videos of fireworks–in an effort to inspire loyalty and lock in commitments from today’s fickle and worried high school seniors.
While many students enjoy the new twists on what used to be just fat and thin envelopes, others are criticizing some of the changes to admissions notifications. Some students are less wowed by glitz than by old-fashioned personal letters that show an admissions officer actually read the essays. Some high school officials complain about school disruptions caused by midday fateful E-mails or text messages. And some students say the new electronic rejections–some of which are little more than “Admissions decision: Deny”–feel much harsher than the traditional letters enclosed in ominously thin envelopes.
The controversy over the best way to inform students of their fates is likely to heighten in 2009 as a growing number of colleges experiment with:
Text messages. Baylor University is one of a growing number of schools that blast out congratulatory text messages (though it sends rejections via snail mail).
Budget/Financing, College Preparation, Curriculum, Governance/Board Decision Making, School Climate, Student Support
Will Depth Replace Breadth in Schools?
Jay Matthews:
If our nation’s high school teachers had $20 for every time they had to endure the Depth vs. Breadth debate, they all would have retired to mansions in West Palm Beach.
The debate goes like this: Should they focus on a few topics so students have time to absorb and comprehend the inner workings of the subject? Or should they cover every topic so students get a sense of the whole and can later pursue those parts that interest them most?
The truth, of course, is that students need both. Teachers try to mix the two in ways that make sense to them and their students. But a surprising study — certain to be a hot topic in teacher lounges and education schools — is providing new data that suggest educators should spend much more time on a few issues and let some topics slide. Based on a sample of 8,310 undergraduates, the national study says that students who spend at least a month on just one topic in a high school science course get better grades in a freshman college course in that subject than students whose high school courses were more balanced.
College Preparation, Curriculum, Lifelong Learning, Parenting, School Climate, Student Support
Yale’s Shiller Says Education, Risk Management Overhaul Needed
Patrick Rial:
— Financial education for individuals and stricter risk controls at banks are needed to counter the psychological biases that led to the mortgage crisis, said Yale University’s Robert Shiller, a professor of behavioral economics.
“This crisis was the result of psychological contagion and speculative bubbles and also the result of poor risk management,” Shiller, who is also chief economist at MacroMarkets LLC, told reporters in Tokyo. “The real problem is that we weren’t managing risk.”
A variety of biases in human psychology leads people to make decisions that are against their own self interest, behavioral experts including Shiller say. Behavioral economics combines the findings of psychology with economics and evolved as a challenge to the theory that markets are always efficient.
Parenting, Student Support
Driver’s Ed: When Kids Start Asking for the Keys
Neal Templin:
Driving is the ultimate mixed blessing.
Cars permit us to zip around most American cities in a way no public transit system ever could. We rely on them to go to work. To do our shopping. To see friends.
But owning a car is also expensive. For most of us, a decent chunk of the money we earn goes to pay for our wheels. Once we start driving, we begin to lock ourselves into a more expensive lifestyle that requires us to earn more money.
These same forces are at play when our kids start driving. It’s a big step toward making them into full-fledged adults early — for better and for worse.
Two of my three children have hit the driving age with very different outcomes. Now, my youngest child is 17, and he’s eager to grab the wheel.
My views on driving were shaped growing up in the 1960s and early 1970s in Southern California. Only a handful of kids at my high school had their own cars. The rest of us walked or rode our bikes to school, or maybe we got a lift with someone when we were seniors.
Still, most of my friends got their license when they were 16 years old. Many of them already knew how to drive years before they got a license. Not me.
Budget/Financing, Curriculum, Events, Governance/Board Decision Making, History - Madison Schools, Parenting, School Climate
Madison School District’s Outbound Open Enrollment for 2009/2010
February 27, 2009 Jim Zellmer 4 Comments
648 (2.68% of the District’s enrollment) students open enrolled out for the 2009/2010 school year. 217 high school, 127 middle school and 304 elementary students. [704K PDF: pages 14, 15 and 16]
More on the history of Wisconsin open enrollment, here. Enrollment numbers drive a school district’s tax and spending authority. Wisconsin Open Enrollment website.
Curriculum - Fine Arts, Curriculum - Science, Sports
What’s Memorial Done Lately?
February 27, 2009 Ed Hughes
Madison Memorial has had a pretty good couple of weeks. Last night the boys basketball team won its sixth straight Big Eight conference championship in a rollicking and highly-entertaining showdown with conference runner-up Madison East. Last week, Memorial’s boys swimming team won the state championship. Today’s State Journal reports that Memorial senior Suvai Gunasekaran will be heading off to Washington as one of the 40 finalists in the Intel Science Talent Search. And last week Memorial senior violinist Ben Seeger was the winner of the Steenbock Youth Music Award in the Bolz Young Artist Competition.
It’s also worth pointing out that Suvai will be joined by Gabriela Farfan of West at the Intel Science Talent Search (and so MMSD is supplying 5% of the nation’s finalists), and that Ben was joined in the Bolz Young Artists Competition finals by Alice Huang of West (the overall winner) and Ansel Norris of East (and so MMSD supplied 75% of the finalists in this statewide competition).
Madison schools – a diversity of excellence.
Elections, Governance/Board Decision Making, Nutrition, School Climate
Teachers Are All That, And A Bag Of Chips
NPR:
Some teachers in Oregon want to do as they do, not as they say. The state has banned the sale of junk food in schools in an effort to protect the health of kids. But under prodding from teachers, the Oregon state House approved an exception. If the measure becomes law, unhealthy snacks would be allowed in teachers’ lounges. The teachers say they’re adults and can decide for themselves whether they should eat chips.
Budget/Financing, Community Partners, Events, School Climate, Student Support
In Md. and Va., Signs Of the Tough Times: A 2.8% Reduction in Spending
Nelson Hernandez & Theresa Vargas:
The Prince George’s County Board of Education last night approved a $1.6 billion budget that eliminates almost 800 jobs, while Arlington County’s schools chief unveiled the first budget of his 12-year tenure with a reduction in total spending.
The actions showed anew how the economic recession is hitting home for Washington area school systems.
The Prince George’s board unanimously endorsed a spending plan for the 128,000-student system that omits cost-of-living raises and some seniority-based salary increases for employees. The budget also rolls back several programs begun during the 2 1/2 year tenure of superintendent John E. Deasy, who left in December for another job.
Among other cuts, the budget developed by Interim Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. eliminates 144 positions for parent liaisons, who act as a bridge between parents and school staff. Two programs to bolster academic performance will be reduced. An initiative to split school administration into nine zones will be modified to five zones, and a program to train 10 resident principals will be eliminated.
Arlington does a nice job of keeping their current and historical budgets on one easy to use page. Madison’s budget information page.
Budget/Financing, Community Partners, Curriculum, Events, Governance/Board Decision Making, History - Madison Schools, School Climate
A Summary of the Madison School District’s Strategic Planning Process
This PDF document [1MB] summarizes some of the work to date from the Madison School District’s strategic planning process. TJ Mertz posted some additional links here.
Budget/Financing, College Preparation, Community Partners, Curriculum, Events, Governance/Board Decision Making, School Climate
Charter Schools a Vice?
Mary Wiltenburg:
Obama may love charter schools, Georgia may be on the fence, but St. Louis school leaders see charter schools as a vice. While researching our upcoming story about the International Community School and charter school facilities, I learned that last year, as the leaders of St. Louis public schools prepared to sell a bunch of empty school buildings, the district barred certain unwanted buyers: “liquor stores, landfills, distilleries, as well as shops that sell “so-called ‘sexual toys,’ ” writes St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter David Hunn. “They also blackballed charter schools.”
This despite the city’s 17 public charter schools and 9,500 charter students – and eight new charters expected to open by fall 2010 – writes Bill Schulz of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. “Porn shops and liquor stores and charter schools, oh my!” he quipped.
Huhn reports: ” ‘We tried to buy three,’ said Susan Uchitelle, board member at Confluence Academy, a charter school with three campuses and 2,700 students in St. Louis. ‘We finally just gave up…. It was made very clear they weren’t going to sell to us. They’d show them to us. They’d let us walk through them. But then they’d take them off the market.’ “
Lifelong Learning, Student Support
One Thing You Don’t Need To Be An Entrepreneur: A College Degree
Fred Wilson:
We were in a board meeting today and the founder/CEO made a comment about a deal he’s working on and I said “well you learned that well in school.” He smiled and said, “we didn’t go to school” (meaning college). I didn’t actually know that, but it did not surprise me. I have learned that where someone went to college (or even if they didn’t go to college) has absolutely no correlation to whether they will be a good entrepreneur or not. I don’t pay attention to that part of a resume. I focus on what they’ve done in the work world, what they’ve shown they can do, and most importantly what they’ve done to date on that specific startup.
We chuckled about that exchange and the other VC on the board said “I think twenty percent or more of our portfolio companies are led by entrepreneurs who didn’t graduate from college.
Curriculum, Curriculum - Math, School Climate
A handwaving approach to arithmetic
The Economist:
HUMAN language is the subject of endless scientific investigation, but the gestures that accompany speech are a surprisingly neglected area. It is sometimes jokingly said that the way to render an Italian speechless is to tie his wrists together, but almost everyone moves their hands in meaningful ways when they talk. Susan Goldin-Meadow of the University of Chicago, however, studies gestures carefully–and not out of idle curiosity. Introspection suggests that gesturing not only helps people communicate but also helps them to think. She set out to test this, and specifically to find out whether gestures might be used as an aid to children’s learning. It turns out, as she told the AAAS, that they can.
The experiment she conducted involved balancing equations. Presented with an equation of the form 2 + 3 + 4 = x + 4, written on a blackboard, a child is asked to calculate the value of x. In the equations Dr Goldin-Meadow always made the last number on the left the same as the last on the right; so x was the sum of the first two numbers. Commonly, however, children who are learning arithmetic will add all three of the numbers on the left to arrive at the value of x.
In her previous work Dr Goldin-Meadow had noted that children often use spontaneous gestures when explaining how they solve mathematical puzzles so, to see if these hand-movements actually help a child to think, or are merely descriptive, she divided a group of children into two and asked them to balance equations. One group was asked to gesture while doing so. A second was asked not to. Both groups were then given a lesson in how to solve problems of this sort.
Budget/Financing, Curriculum
Laptop for each pupil West Bend among growing number of school districts testing technology-enhanced learning
Amy Hetzner:
If the effectiveness of giving every student a laptop were measured in enthusiasm, the results so far in the West Bend School District would show success.
Just ask some of the students at Silverbrook Middle School who learned late last year they would participate in a 150-student pilot program of one-to-one computing in the district.
“We were all really excited,” said eighth-grader Jaclyn Utrie, 14. “We would ask like every day, ‘When are we going to get them?’ ”
The enthusiasm hasn’t died four weeks after the computers arrived, but now it’s accompanied by responsibility. They have to prove that giving every student a laptop can improve education, not just in West Bend but also to other schools in the area considering a similar step.
Although several schools in the Milwaukee area, mostly small and private, have given laptops to students or required them to bring their own, West Bend could be the first to experiment with a large, multi-school program.
“What I’m hoping is, if this works, then everyone will have the chance to have one,” said Tom Balestrieri, 14, another Silverbrook eighth-grader.
The weight’s not entirely on the shoulders of the West Bend students. Some other school districts in the state also are starting to experiment with universal laptop programs.
The Pewaukee School District plans to start distributing some sort of portable technology – be it laptop, tablet or hand-held device – to its eighth-graders in fall.
Curriculum, Curriculum - Languages
Mystery & Birds: 5 Ways to Practice Poetry
Ada Limon:
Joshua Marie Wilkinson is putting together a group of micro-essay for teaching poetry to beginning writers. Though I’m not really a teacher, he asked me nonetheless. And since I have so many dear dear friends beginning their semesters this week, this goes out to them. Thanks JMW for inviting me to participate.
Because I work outside of the academic field, I don’t get the opportunity to teach very often, but when I do, I’m surprised by how many people read poems as if they can have only one meaning. In my own experience, I find it nearly impossible to hear the beauty and
meditative joy of a poem’s lines, or the sensual sounds of a syllable, when I’m reading solely for narrative sense. So, I’ve come to think that one of the first things to learn about poetry is to simply relax in its mystery. We need to learn that a poem can have many meanings and that it can be enjoyed without a complete understanding of the
poet’s intent. On a good day a poem might bring you great joy, on a tough day, the same poem might reveal great agony, but the poem hasn’t changed–it’s what you have brought to the poem that has changed. The more you read a poem, the more time you spend with it, read it out loud to yourself or to others, the more it will open to you–start to wink and flirt and let you in. A poem is a complex living thing, its multiple edges and many colors are what makes this singular art form so difficult to define. There is an ancient Chinese Proverb that says, “A bird sings not because he has an answer, but because he has a
song.” That is how I have come to think about poetry–that a poem isn’t a problem to solve, but rather it’s a singular animal call that contains multiple layers of both mystery and joy.
Budget/Financing, Curriculum, Elections, Events, School Climate
Killing DC Vouchers
Wall Street Journal:
President Obama made education a big part of his speech Tuesday night, complete with a stirring call for reform. So we’ll be curious to see how he handles the dismaying attempt by Democrats in Congress to crush education choice for 1,700 poor kids in the District of Columbia.
The omnibus spending bill now moving through the House includes language designed to kill the Opportunity Scholarship Program offering vouchers for poor students to opt out of rotten public schools. The legislation says no federal funds can be used on the program beyond 2010 unless Congress and the D.C. City Council reauthorize it. Given that Democrats control both bodies — and that their union backers hate school choice — this amounts to a death sentence.
Republicans passed the program in 2004, with help from Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, and it has been extremely popular. Families receive up to $7,500 a year to attend the school of their choice. That’s a real bargain, given that D.C. public schools spend $14,400 per pupil on average, among the most in the country.
To qualify, a student’s household income must be at or below 185% of the poverty level. Some 99% of the participants are minority, and the average annual income is $23,000 for a family of four. A 2008 Department of Education evaluation found that participants had higher reading scores than their peers who didn’t receive a scholarship, and there are four applicants for each voucher.
College Preparation, Curriculum, Events, Student Support
Two Madison students in finals of prestigious Intel Science Talent Search
Doug Erickson:
Two Madison teenagers have landed among the 40 finalists in the country’s top science competition for high school students, a rare twofer for a public school district.
West senior Gabriela Farfan and Memorial senior Suvai Gunasekaran will compete next month in Washington, D.C., for hundreds of thousands of dollars in prizes in the Intel Science Talent Search.
“It’s impressive,” said John Kalvin, an Intel manager in Chicago, referring to the double finalists from one district. “It’s a testament to the kind of teaching taking place here — and the talent here.”
Farfan, 18, a mineral and gemstone collector, broke new ground in trying to determine why a type of feldspar known as Oregon sunstone appears red when viewed from one angle and green when viewed from another. Gunasekaran, 18, focused on developing new methods to inhibit bacterial biofilm growth on the surface of implanted medical devices.
Each student already has won $5,000 and a laptop computer as a finalist.
Students Stand When Called Upon, and When Not
Susan Saulny:
From the hallway, Abby Brown’s sixth-grade classroom in a little school here about an hour northeast of Minneapolis has the look of the usual one, with an American flag up front and children’s colorful artwork decorating the walls.
But inside, an experiment is going on that makes it among the more unorthodox public school classrooms in the country, and pupils are being studied as much as they are studying. Unlike children almost everywhere, those in Ms. Brown’s class do not have to sit and be still. Quite the contrary, they may stand and fidget all class long if they want.
And they do.
On one recent morning, while 11-year-old Nick Raboin had his eye on his math problems, Ms. Brown was noticing that he preferred to shift his weight from one foot to the other as he figured out his fractions. She also knew that his classmate Roxy Cotter liked to stand more than sit. And Brett Leick is inclined to lean on a high stool and swing his right foot under a desk that is near chest level. Helps with concentration, he and Ms. Brown say.
Curriculum, School Climate, Staff Support, Student Support, Teacher Support
Teacher Training, Tailor-Made
Katherine Newman:
One May afternoon in Boston, 85 teachers in training arrived at the bayside campus of the University of Massachusetts for a three-hour class called Family Partnerships for Achievement. The instructors had invited several public school parents to come in and offer the future teachers advice. Take advantage of technology, said one parent. Among mobile families in poverty, home addresses and telephone numbers may be incorrect. Cell phones are a better bet. Text messaging really works. Take a walk around the neighborhood. Another suggestion: find out where your students shop and hang out.
Look parents in the eye, added an instructor. Say, “Hi, It’s great to see you.” It’s difficult to discuss academics or ask parents to do anything for you before you get to know them.
Family Partnerships for Achievement is not a course typical of most master’s programs in education. The course was designed with one overriding goal: to prepare teachers to be effective in the Boston Public Schools (BPS). This goal drives every aspect of the Boston Teacher Residency (BTR), a district-based program for teacher training and certification that recruits highly qualified individuals to take on the unique challenges of teaching in a high-need Boston school and then guides them through a specialized course of preparation.
BTR is one of a new breed of teacher training initiatives that resemble neither traditional nor most alternative certification programs. By rethinking the relationship between training and hiring, these programs have found promising new ways to prepare educators.
The classroom menagerie
Nigel Andrews:
How could anyone not love Laurent Cantet’s The Class ( Entre les murs )? Last year’s Golden Palm winner is the best film about schoolteaching I have seen: a wise, funny cry of helplessness before the tsunami of anarchy that can be school-age adolescence. Adapted from a novel based on his own teaching experiences by François Bégaudeau, it was co-written by Bégaudeau and Cantet. Bégaudeau himself stars as the hapless teacher in a mixed-race school of low attention and high combustibility.
This isn’t the high-school hokum messianic with hope that we get from Hollywood. Don’t expect To Monsieur With Love . These are real people – both the grown-ups and the kids – who spar like dedicated enemies. And they are played by real teachers and schoolchildren, who workshopped the script with the star and director.
At the outset a defensive cynicism arms both sides. A new teacher is introduced by an older to the pupils’ names, on a roster sheet: “Nice. Not nice. Not at all nice.” (“Nice” doesn’t quite get the measure of gentil , with its connotations of decency). The students, in turn, use a class on the subjunctive to try to break down Sir’s resistance. “It’s medieval” . . . “Only snobs use the imperfect subjunctive” . . . “It’s bourgeois”. The free-form fracas finally releases the fatally intended non-sequitur: “People say you like men.”
Budget/Financing, College Preparation, Curriculum, Elections, Events, Lifelong Learning, Parenting, School Climate, Staff Support, Student Support, Teacher Support
Experts Wonder How Education Goals Will Be Met
Robert Tomsho, John Hechinger & Laura Meckler:
President Barack Obama laid out new national goals Tuesday aimed at boosting high school and college graduation rates, but left education experts wondering on how he intends to reach his targets, and how much he is prepared to spend on them.
In his address to Congress, the president signaled a shift in federal education policy toward improving the skills of adults and work-force entrants, following an intense focus on boosting younger students’ reading and mathematics attainment under the No Child Left Behind law, the centerpiece of the Bush administration’s schools agenda.
Some observers had believed that education would stay on the back burner early in the Obama administration while the president grappled with the economic crisis. But the subject made it to the top tier of the address to Congress partly because Mr. Obama believes he must send Americans a message about the importance of education.
“Of the many issues, this is one where he feels the bully pulpit needs to be used,” a White House official said Wednesday.
In his speech Tuesday night, Mr. Obama said “dropping out of high school is no longer an option” and set a goal of the U.S. having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020.
According to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which tracks college-going among its 30 member countries, the U.S., at 30%, is tied for sixth place in college graduation among those 25 to 34 years of age, 2006 data show, behind such countries as Norway, South Korea and the Netherlands. OECD data suggest that the U.S. was No. 1 until around 2000, but has lost its edge as other countries have stepped up their efforts to promote higher education.
Kevin Carey, policy director of the Education Sector, a nonprofit Washington, D.C., think tank, said the U.S. hasn’t been slipping but other countries have been improving. Regaining our former top position represents “a pretty reasonable goal,” he says. “It’s not moon-shot level.”
College Preparation, Community Partners, Curriculum, School Climate, Student Support
Student achievement rising in urban Texas schools
Linda Stewart Ball:
Achievement test scores at big-city school districts in Texas still lag far behind their suburban and rural counterparts but they’re making great strides and narrowing the gap, according to a report by an education think tank released Wednesday.
A study [PDF report] of 37 of the nation’s largest urban school systems by The Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., found that city schools are improving more than other school districts in their respective states.
In Texas, six urban school districts were included in the study: Austin, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio.
Three of those — Dallas, Austin and San Antonio — are among the top 10 gainers nationally.
The study examined state test scores and demographic information, including race/ethnicity and the percentage of disadvantaged students (those receiving free or reduced lunch), from 2000 to 2007.
It was designed to determine how big-city school districts fared when compared to their suburban and rural peers. The study was able to standardize scores between states, even those using different tests.
Dallas showed the biggest improvement among the large Texas cities, and was 2nd overall nationally. New Orleans topped the list, while Detroit, one of eight districts whose performance declined during the years studied, was last.
In 2000, Dallas was outscored by 100 percent of the state’s school districts. By 2007, just 90 percent of suburban and rural districts did better than Dallas — a significant improvement given its demographics, the study’s author said.
Dallas school superintendent Michael Hinojosa embraced the latest findings.
Budget/Financing, College Preparation, Community Partners, Elections, Events, Governance/Board Decision Making, School Climate, Staff Support, Student Support, Teacher Support
Straddling the Democratic Divide
Richard Colvin:
Rift in Democratic Party over the nation’s education reform agenda is growing. One side backs strong accountability through reforms, the other looks to augment the current system with social support programs.
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s Senate confirmation hearing in January was thick with encomiums. He was praised by Democrat Tom Harkin of Iowa for the “fresh thinking” he brought to his post as Chicago schools chief for seven years. Republican Lamar Alexander, education secretary under George H. W. Bush, told Duncan he was the best of President Barack Obama’s cabinet appointments. Ailing Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy, in written comments entered into the record, praised Duncan for having “championed pragmatic solutions to persistent problems” and for lasting longer in Chicago than most urban superintendents.
The warm greetings given by both Republicans and Democrats on the committee reflect Duncan’s reputation as a centrist in the ideologically fraught battles over education reform. He has received national attention for moves favored by reformers, such as opening 75 new schools operated by outside groups and staffed by non-union teachers; introducing a pay-for-performance plan that will eventually be in 40 Chicago schools; and working with organizations, including The New Teacher Project, Teach For America, and New Leaders for New Schools, that recruit talented educators through alternatives to the traditional education-school route.
At the same time, Duncan maintained at least a cordial working relationship with the Chicago Teachers Union, and both the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) backed his nomination. He supported the No Child Left Behind law (NCLB), but also called for dramatic increases in spending to help schools meet the law’s targets, and additional flexibility for districts like his own. In nominating Duncan, Obama said, “We share a deep pragmatism about how to go about this. If pay-for-performance works and we can work with teachers so it doesn’t feel like it’s being imposed upon them…then that’s something that we should explore. If charter schools work, try that. You know, let’s not be clouded by ideology when it comes to figuring out what helps our kids.”
Budget/Financing, College Preparation, Community Partners, Curriculum, Elections, Events, School Climate
Charter school opponents, watch out
In his address to Congress last night President Obama promised: “We will expand our commitment to charter schools.” Today, as the blogosphere buzzes over the speech, education watchers and International Community School teachers alike are taking that commitment seriously.
Calling it “one of the most important lines in President Obama’s speech,” Kevin Carey, writing for the Chronicle of Higher Education’s blog Brainstorm, discussed the power presidents have to refocus public education debates. Just as President Bush’s focus on testing and accountability all but killed a debate about vouchers that had raged since the Reagan administration, so, Carey argued, “Obama’s forceful position on charter schools is likely to have the same effect.” Charter school opponents, he wrote: “You’re in for a long eight years.”
At Politico’s blog The Arena, education heavy-hitters weighed in for and against.
“President Obama’s enthusiasm for charter schools is baffling. Doesn’t he realize that they are a deregulation strategy much beloved by Republicans?” wrote NYU education historian Diane Ravitch, “If he thinks that deregulation is the cure for American education, I have some AIG stock I’d like to sell him.”
Steven G. Calabresi, a law professor at Northwestern University, was ready to get down to brass tacks. “[The] key,” he wrote, “is to switch to funding public schools out of statewide collected taxes instead of funding them out of local property taxes and creating many, many more charter school and private schools where students can cash in the education credit or voucher that their stateought to give them.”
College Preparation, Curriculum, School Climate
‘iTunes university’ better than the real thing
Ewen Callaway:
Students have been handed another excuse to skip class from an unusual quarter. New psychological research suggests that university students who download a podcast lecture achieve substantially higher exam results than those who attend the lecture in person.
Podcasted lectures offer students the chance to replay difficult parts of a lecture and therefore take better notes, says Dani McKinney, a psychologist at the State University of New York in Fredonia, who led the study.
“It isn’t so much that you have a podcast, it’s what you do with it,” she says.
Skipping class
Launched less than two years ago, Apple’s iTunes university offers college lectures on everything from Proust to particle physics to students and the public. Some universities make their lectures available to all, while others restrict access to enrolled students. Some professors even limit downloads to encourage class attendance, McKinney says.
To find out how much students really can learn from podcast lectures alone – mimicking a missed class – McKinney’s team presented 64 students with a single lecture on visual perception, from an introductory psychology course.
College Preparation, Lifelong Learning, Parenting, School Climate
A Lesson in Finance After school: debt and default. Who is to blame? What is to be done?
Jacob Sullum:
My wife and I recently made the last payment on her federally backed Stafford loan from graduate school. She had borrowed $21,500, which is slightly more than the average for the two-thirds of four-year college students who take out loans and about half the average for graduate students who borrow. We made modest payments every month for about nine years, and now we’re done. Given the extent to which my wife’s degrees enhanced her earning ability, the loan was a sound investment.
My wife did not feel that her education had done her “far more harm than good,” that it had condemned her to “a lifetime of indentured servitude” or that she was living in “student loan hell.” Neither of us was driven to despair, divorce, suicide or expatriation by the constant pressure of crushing indebtedness and relentless collection agencies. In other words, our experience was very different from the horror stories that Alan Michael Collinge tells in “The Student Loan Scam” to reinforce his argument that student loans are “the most oppressive” type of debt “in our nation’s history.”
Student-loan data suggest that my wife’s case is far more typical than the examples cited by Mr. Collinge, all of which involve people who defaulted on their loans and saw their debt mushroom as a result of penalties, collection fees and compound interest. According to the Education Department, the two-year default rate for federal student loans (both direct government loans and private loans backed by government guarantees and subsidies) is less than 5%. A separate Education Department analysis found that the 10-year default rate for college students who graduated in 1993 was less than 10%.
College Preparation, Curriculum, Curriculum - Math, Events, Lifelong Learning, Parenting, School Climate, Student Support
Moscow Math Festival for 6th and 7th Graders
February 25, 2009 Erik Syring
Here are the problems from this past Sunday’s Moscow Math Festival for Grade 6 [PDF] (1,275 participants) and Grade 7 [PDF] (888 participants), along with a few photos (the competition was held at Moscow State University, using three buildings).
College Preparation, Curriculum, Lifelong Learning, Parenting, School Climate, Staff Support, Student Support, Teacher Support
Letters: ‘A’ Is for Achievement, ‘E’ Is for Effort
February 25, 2009 Richard Askey
Letters to the Editor: NY Times:
“Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes” (news article, Feb. 18) indicates a rather recent phenomenon among college students.
Students from the earliest grades are encouraged to work hard and told that the rewards will follow. Students must realize that a grade is earned for achievement and not for the effort expended.
Yes, some students can achieve at higher levels with far less effort than others.
This mirrors the world beyond college as well.
In my experience as dean, when students complain about a professor’s grading, they seem to focus more on their “creative” justifications (excuses) rather than on remedies. Most faculty members stress the remedy that leads to achievement of instructional goals.
The time-honored mastery of the material should remain paramount. After all, this is what our society expects!
Alfred S. Posamentier
Dean, School of Education
City College of New York, CUNY
New York, Feb. 18, 2009
As someone who recently went through the ordeal of contesting a grade, I was quite impassioned on reading your article. I have done this only once in four years, so not all of us take the matter lightly.
I resent the suggestion that students feel “entitled” to “get/receive” good grades.
What is so irrational about believing that hard work should warrant a high grade? I would argue that the very core of the American dream is the sentiment that one can achieve any greatness that he or she aspires to if he or she works hard enough.
When one puts one’s all into a class, it’s not shameful to hope that grades reflect that. The same applies to professionals and their salaries. Instead of psychoanalyzing their students, perhaps these professors should ask themselves this question: If your students are all really this despicable, why are you teaching?
Aimee La Fountain
The writer is a senior at Marymount Manhattan College.
Budget/Financing, College Preparation, School Climate
Yale Freezes Pay of Faculty Earning > $75k
President Richard C. Levin:
We will reduce 2009‐2010 budgets by an amount equal to 7.5% of the salaries and benefits of all nonfaculty staff, rather than the 5% announced in December. We expect to achieve this reduction largely through attrition in managerial, professional, clerical, technical, service, and maintenance staff, as well as through reduction of casual and temporary employees. To the extent that layoffs are necessary, we will make sure that affected individuals are provided support and guidance.
We will also seek larger reductions in non‐salary expenditures. Instead of a 5% reduction for each of the next two years, we will ask units to budget a 7.5% reduction for 2009‐2010, and continue to plan for an additional 5% reduction the following year.
Faculty, managerial, and professional employees with salaries below $75,000 will continue to be eligible for merit increases of up to 2%. But there will be no increases for those with salaries above $75,000, including all deans, directors, and University officers. Foregoing the increases announced previously will allow us to preserve more staff positions.
Teaching Techno-Writing
February 25, 2009 Will Fitzhugh
Insidehighered.com:
A new report calls on English instructors to design a new curriculum and develop new pedagogies — from kindergarten through graduate school — responding to the reality that students mostly “write to the net.”
“Pencils are good; we won’t be abandoning them,” said Kathleen Blake Yancey, author of “Writing in the 21st Century,” a report from the National Council of Teachers of English.”They’re necessary, as a philosopher would put it, but not sufficient to the purpose.”
Yancey, a professor of English at Florida State University and immediate past president of NCTE, described by way of example the case of Tiffany Monk, a Florida teen who, during a flood caused by Tropical Storm Fay, observed that her neighbors were trapped in their homes. She took photos and sent an e-mail to a radio station; help soon arrived.
“This was composing in the 21st century. She chose the right technology, she wrote to the right audience,” Yancey said, during a panel presentation at the National Press Club Monday.
Where did Monk learn to do this? Not in school, said Yancey, where “we write on a topic we haven’t necessarily chosen. We write to a teacher; we write for a grade.”
Also on Monday, NCTE announced a National Day of Writing (October 20) and plans to develop a National Gallery of Writing intended to expand conventional notions of composition. Starting this spring, NCTE is inviting anyone and everyone to submit a composition of importance to them, in audio, text or video form; acceptable submissions for the gallery include letters, e-mail or text messages, journal entries, reports, electronic presentations, blog posts, documentary clips, poetry readings, how-to directions, short stories and memos.
Amid all the focus on new platforms for writing, a panelist who made his name as a nonfiction writer in pre-digital days, Gay Talese, made a case for old-fashioned research methods. Research, he said, “means leaving the desk; it means going out and spending lots of time with people [or books? Will F.]…The art of hanging out, I call it.”
“Googling your way through life, acquiring information without getting up, I think that’s dangerous,” Talese said.
“The modality isn’t what’s crucial,” said Kent Williamson, executive director of NCTE. What is, he continued, is “a commitment to the process” and deep engagement with a subject.
— Elizabeth Redden
Complete report [436K PDF]
College Preparation, Curriculum, Parenting, School Climate
Lessons in laughter and how to bend the rules at school
Jenny Quinton:
My schooldays were totally great. I went to an all-girls convent and I just remember us all being extremely silly and laughing a lot at the completely stupid things we did.
There were lots of rules so we became extremely creative and were masters at creating totally believable excuses to manoeuvre our way through the system.
Actually, thinking about it I’ve never laughed like we did at school. But it was nice laughter and we never hurt anyone.
My happiest memory was winning a dancing competition.
I’d never won anything in my life before.
My worst memory was sewing the same apron for two years. I had to keep unpicking it and doing it again because it was always so bad. Even today just trying to thread a needle can reduce me to tears.
I went to Lacey Green Primary School in Wilmslow, near Manchester in England.
Well-off children and very poor children were mixed together and I felt very sad for some of them but sometimes made up nasty songs about them with the others.
College Preparation, Curriculum, Parenting, School Climate, Student Support
Yojana Sharma:
It was my son’s decision to board at Eton, even though he already had a scholarship to a prestigious day school,” said Mr Bali, an engineer with his own consultancy firm.
“Our misgivings were emotional rather than academic. We are a close family. We see him every weekend. Pastoral care is an important issue when choosing a boarding school.
“In some schools pastoral care amounts to pampering, which might appeal to mothers but I think it should be balanced. Boys must learn to stand on their own two feet.”
Mr Bali’s son eventually managed to convince him that he should go to Eton but the caring father said parents had to be very careful about which boarding school they picked.
Academic standards had to be on a par with top day schools for boarding to be good value.
He was speaking in the wake of a report that found parents considered boarding schools in Britain to be good value for money despite steep fee rises in recent years.
The first-ever National Parent Survey carried out by Britain’s Boarding Schools Association (BSA) found that almost three quarters of parents who chose boarding education for their children said it was worth it.
But the Good Schools Guide warned that although parents were broadly in favour of boarding, fee levels were now approaching the psychological £10,000 (HK$111,000) a term mark and schools would have to work harder to justify the cost.
Budget/Financing, Curriculum, Events, School Climate
Environmentally focused boarding school faces new challenge
http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/40064302.html:
Dramatic changes to a 7-year-old environmentally focused North Woods boarding school have alumni up in arms and parents frantic about finding new schools for their children.
Administrators for Conserve School in Land O’Lakes announced in January they were laying off about half the school’s 60-member staff as they begin transitioning to a “semester school” model, where students from other high schools attend for half their junior year.
The blame for the drastic alteration was placed on market conditions that have challenged the future of the young school’s $180 million endowment.
But parents, pointing out that the amount of the endowment puts the 145-student school on a per-pupil par with the likes of prestigious Northeast boarding schools Phillips Exeter Academy and Groton School, question the motives of the Chicago steel executives charged with running Conserve.
“My gut tells me, along with a number of other people, is what they are trying to do is they don’t want to run a school,” said Bill Meier, who has a sophomore son enrolled at Conserve. “It’s a pain in the rear to them.”
Meier and other parents have requested Conserve School trustees and administrators meet with them and a mediator to find a way to continue running it as one of only three boarding schools in the state.
Their efforts might be too late.
Conserve Headmaster Stefan Anderson said the school was not likely to stick with the four-year college preparatory academy model. The school already has contacted 80 other schools about the possibility of taking freshmen and sophomores who cannot stay during Conserve’s transition year, he said.
Budget/Financing, Elections, Events, School Climate
State by State Summary of Additional Federal Tax Dollar Education Spending
US Department of Education:
These tables (last updated 02/19/2009), in PDF [40KB] and MS Excel [77KB] show preliminary State allocations for Department of Education programs under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Funds under most of these programs can be used over 2 or more fiscal years. Amounts shown on these tables do not include the funds that will be allocated under the annual FY 2009 appropriation.
There are three additional State formula-allocated programs that received funds in the ARRA and will be added to the tables in the near future.
A table estimating State amounts for Federal Pell Grants follows the “Grand Total” table for State allocations from other programs.
Curriculum, Curriculum - Languages, Lifelong Learning, School Climate
Six Reasons You Should Consider Reading Poetry
Ali Hale:
Unless you’re currently in high school or taking an English class in college, chances are that you don’t read much poetry. Maybe you think poetry isn’t for you – it seems boring, unfathomable, too erudite, or pointless.
However, there are loads of great reasons to read poetry. Before you dislike something without trying it, consider some of these:
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
– Aristotle
College Preparation, Curriculum, Events, Student Support, TAG, What Can I Do?
Joyce Kam:
There is a disconnect between high school and university that often catches out those unprepared for academic rigour. Not any more. Not if you are smart. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology is inviting top high-school students worldwide to spend three weeks on its campus for a crash course interspersed with liberal doses of fun.
Its Talented Youth Summer Program aims to give students a foretaste of university life, cultivating essential university habits such as academic absorption and reflection, as well as insight into what makes the city tick.
“Programs for gifted children are rare in Hong Kong (administrative region, China), so we wanted to launch a pilot scheme since we have the right resources,” said Helen Wong Hom- fong, the program’s associate director. “We welcome students from all disciplines as long as they are willing to be challenged academically.”
The university will, of course, be going all out to make a suitable impression on the bright young minds by relying on its traditional strengths, with Wong saying the program’s main focus will be on the roles of science and technology throughout the history of civilization as they have always been the driving force.
“The curriculum consists of one core course on the main theme and one elective course, in addition to city tours and a talent show,” she said.
Curriculum, Curriculum - Math, Parenting, School Climate, Student Support
The Spiral of Ignorance
Lack of understanding of the credit crunch is magnifying its damage
THE BBC’s “Today” programme is the main current-affairs show on British radio. Last year it recruited a new presenter, Evan Davis, who is also an economist. An amusing pattern has since developed. Quizzed about the credit crunch, a politician delivers some carefully memorised remark about, say, quantitative easing. Then the guest experiences an audible moment of existential horror, as Mr Davis ungallantly presses him for details.
The tide has gone out and, with a very few exceptions, Britain is swimming naked: almost nobody appears to know what he is talking about. The havoc of the financial crisis has stretched and outstripped even most economists. The British political class is befogged. Ordinary people are overwhelmed. And just as the interaction between banking and economic woes is proving poisonous, so the interplay of public and political ignorance is damaging the country’s prospects.
Start with the government, whose ministers are still oscillating between prophesying economic Armageddon and gamely predicting the best of all possible recoveries. Gordon Brown is learned in economic history–indeed, he is at his most animated and endearing when discussing it. But the prime minister’s grip on the history he is living through is less masterful. The government’s implicit strategy is to try something and, when that does not work, try something else: the approach modestly outlined by Barack Obama, but rather less honest.
Budget/Financing, School Climate, Staff Support, Student Support, Teacher Support
Class Size in New York City Schools Rises, but the Impact Is Debated
Jennifer Medina:
In many circles, class size is considered as fundamental to education as the three R’s, with numbers watched so carefully that even a tiny increase can provoke outrage among parents, teachers and political leaders. Alarms went off in New York and California last week, as officials on both coasts warned that yawning budget gaps could soon mean more children in each classroom.
But while state legislatures for decades have passed laws — and provided millions of dollars — to cap the size of classes, some academic researchers and education leaders say that small reductions in the number of students in a room often have little effect on their performance.
At recent legislative hearings on whether to renew mayoral control of the New York City schools, lawmakers and parents alike have asked, again and again, why Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Chancellor Joel I. Klein have not done more to reduce class size. On Tuesday, the Education Department issued a report that found the average number of children per class increased in nearly every grade this school year.
“If you’re going to spend an extra dollar, personally, I would always rather spend it on the people that deliver the service,” Mr. Bloomberg said when asked about the report on Thursday, calling class size “an interesting number.”
The Big Test Before College? The Financial Aid Form
Tamar Lewin:
Most everyone agrees that something is very wrong with the six-page federal form for families seeking help with college costs.
Created in 1992 to simplify applying for financial aid, it has become so intimidating — with more than 100 questions — that critics say it scares off the very families most in need, preventing some teenagers from going to college.
Then, too, some families have begun paying for professional help with the form, known as the Fafsa,a situation that experts say indicates just how far awry the whole process has gone.
“We’re getting thousands of calls a day,” said Craig V. Carroll, chief executive of Student Financial Aid Services Inc., whose fafsa.com charges $80 to $100 to fill out the form. “Our calls for the month of January are up about 35 percent from last year. There’s been a huge increase in the desperation of families.”
School Climate, Sports, Wellness
Kung fu school hopes to boom in tough times
Celine Sun:
A local kung fu school hopes to cash in on the financial crisis, with more people expected to attend courses to tone up their bodies and get rid of negative emotions.
The Hong Kong Shaolin Wushu Culture Centre in Tai O, Lantau Island, has seen a rise in visitor numbers over the past few months, its low season, and has already received bookings for the summer holidays.
Lee Kok-keung, director of the Hong Kong Culture Association, which established the centre in 2006, said the increased interest could have something to do with the economic downturn.
“When the economy is good, people are so busy trading stocks and making money,” he said. “But when the economy is going down, people tend to pay more attention to their health.
“Practising kung fu is not only good for the body, but also an ideal way to cheer you up.”
Budget/Financing, Community Partners, Elections, Governance/Board Decision Making, School Climate
Former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk says Texas should assess school district governance
Gromer Jeffers, Jr.:
Former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk said today that Texas should take an “honest assessment” on how public schools are governed, even if it means dismantling elected school boards that he says lack financial and technical skills needed to oversee problematic urban districts.
The Dallas Morning News reported Sunday that Leppert has talked to a state senator and business leader about giving the mayor some control — or total control — of the school district.
“Good for the mayor,” Kirk said. “I understand his frustration. A mayor spends half his time talking about the state of public schools. … Whether there’s a legal nexus or not, people look toward the mayor for help.”
In 1999, when Kirk was mayor, he asked the entire DISD Board of Trustees to resign.
That didn’t happen, but the Citizens Council began recruiting young leaders like Rafael Anchia, now a state representative, to serve on the board.
Budget/Financing, College Preparation, Parenting, School Climate, Student Support
University of Maryland System Tries to Cut Textbook Costs
Susan Kinzie:
As part of an effort to make college more affordable, higher-education leaders in Maryland are trying to keep textbook prices down.
The Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland unanimously approved guidelines Friday to make it easier for students to search for cheaper books.
“This is a real victory for students,” said Josh Michael, a junior at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and a student regent.
When Michael started college, he said, he spent almost $500 on books for his first four courses. He bought everything his professors suggested, then discovered as the semester went on that he didn’t really need extra Spanish workbooks and study guides.
Textbook prices have risen far more quickly than inflation. One reason, according to a U.S. Government Accountability Office study conducted several years ago, is that they often come with lots of extras, such as CDs. Publishers say such features help students learn, but they often go unused.
Budget/Financing, Community Partners, Curriculum, History - Madison Schools, School Climate, Student Support
Madison School District Middle School Parent Survey
via a kind reader’s email:
You are invited to participate in the Madison Metropolitan School District’s climate survey for middle school parents. Your feedback is important. Please click the link below to begin the survey.
http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=U2BJMFST6Z95
Events, Parenting, School Climate
Madison Kindergarten Registration Begins Monday
The Capital Times:
Parents, it’s time for your pre-schoolers to begin becoming schoolers.
Kindergarten registration is set for Monday, March 2, from 1-6 p.m. at all Madison Metropolitan School District elementary schools.
Parents or guardians should register their child at the school he or she will attend. To be eligible for kindergarten, a child must be five years old by Sept. 1, 2009.
When registering, show proof of age for the child (birth certificate, baptismal record, medical assistance card), proof of residency (utility bill, lease, mortgage) and an immunization record.
Community Partners, Curriculum, Events, Governance/Board Decision Making, History - Madison Schools, Parenting, School Climate, Staff Support, Student Support, Teacher Support, What Can I Do?
Madison School District Elementary Parent Survey
You are invited to participate in the MMSD climate survey for elementary parents. Your feedback is important. Please click the link below to begin the survey.
http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=U2BJLUT3TE6U
Budget/Financing, Community Partners, Curriculum, Events, School Climate, Staff Support, Student Support, Teacher Support
Bethel Lutheran Church looks at opening a downtown school
February 23, 2009 Jim Zellmer 1 Comment
Samara Kalk Derby:
Developer Randy Alexander has been a member of Bethel Lutheran Church [Map] downtown for eight years. He grew up with a strong faith-based culture and says having a moral compass is critical for raising children.
“And where better to do that than in a Christian school?” he asked.
That’s a big part of why Alexander is part of a church committee to study the market feasibility of a kindergarten through fifth-grade school at the downtown church, 312 Wisconsin Ave. [Map] It’s familiar territory for Alexander, whose Alexander Co. specializes in urban infill projects. It recently developed the Capitol West condominiums downtown and is building the Novation Campus business park in Fitchburg.
If Bethel decides to go ahead and start a school, it would become one of about 30 private elementary schools in the Madison area, most of them religiously affiliated.
Matthew Kussow, executive director of the Wisconsin Council of Religious and Independent Schools, said the dismal economy is an obstacle for anyone looking to start a school now. Overall, state private school enrollment for the 2008-09 school year saw a slight decline, he said.
“We are sort of bracing ourselves for a steeper decline for 2009-2010 as the full effects of this economy are being felt,” Kussow said, adding that he won’t know specifically until the spring how many kids are re-enrolling in non-public schools. There are about 900 of them in the state, and they historically enroll about 10 percent of the total student body.
But Kussow also said that in general, private religious schools have a built-in following. So if Bethel identifies a need and believes it can get enough kids to start the school, in the long run, a church school is usually very successful, he said.
More choices are a good thing.
Budget/Financing, Community Partners, Curriculum, Governance/Board Decision Making, School Climate, Student Support
Reforming Primary Education in the UK
IKE buses, not just one but two reviews of primary education in Britain are arriving at the same time. Their titles may be similar but they could hardly differ more.
The Cambridge Primary Review was independently conceived and financed, has been years in the planning and execution, and draws on international evidence and scores of experts. Its final conclusions, due later this year, will synthesise 30 research surveys on all aspects of primary education. The Primary Curriculum Review, by contrast, was commissioned and paid for by the government and is the sole work of a serial government-report writer, Sir Jim Rose. He was asked to look at only the curriculum–not standards, testing or funding–and within that limited remit he was constrained by a tight brief and heavy hints as to the desired conclusions.
On February 20th the Cambridge-led team abandoned their publishing schedule and released the part of their final report that looks at the curriculum. It hopes, somewhat forlornly, to influence government policy. That seems unlikely. The official curriculum agency is already far advanced in creating teaching material along the lines Sir Jim recommends–even though only his interim report has appeared, and that is supposed to be open for consultation until February 28th.
Legal Rights, Parenting, School Climate, Student Support, Wellness
Parents can fight ‘sexting’ stupidity
Laurel Walker:
Is there a difference between a stupid teen trick – passing around a girl’s naked picture she’d earlier provided her now-ex-boyfriend – and child molestation?
Without a doubt.
Is there a difference even between that stupid teen behavior and being a teenager who threatens to use naked pictures obtained under a ruse as ammo for extorting sex?
But under state law, all of them could become convicted felons who land on the state’s registry of sex offenders, leaving little distance between them. They would, most likely, be vilified and haunted by the label for decades, if not life, and increasingly told by communities where they can and cannot live.
Dangerous, devious sex offenders who are a risk to public safety deserve it.
Teens with unbelievably cavalier attitudes about sexual limits, to the point of stupidity, do not.
Parents, educators, communities and – we can only hope – kids have had their eyes opened by recent, revolting revelations.
The earlier case, as described in criminal charges, involved since-expelled New Berlin Eisenhower student Anthony Stancl, 18, who, pretending to be a girl on Facebook, got at least 31 boys to send him pictures of themselves naked. Threatening to circulate the pictures to schoolmates, he coerced at least seven of them into sex acts.
College Preparation, Curriculum, Elections, Events, Governance/Board Decision Making, Lifelong Learning, Parenting, School Climate, Student Support
Banging on the PK-16 Pipeline
Why am I so ill-tempered when I read a sensible report like “Bridging the Gap: How to Strengthen the Pk-16 Pipeline to Improve College Readiness”?
The authors, Ulrich Boser and Stephen Burd, know their stuff. The sponsoring organization, New America Foundation, has a great reputation. (Bias alert: It also employs one of my sons as a senior fellow, but he does California politics and direct democracy, not national education policy.)
My problem is that smart and industrious experts like Boser and Burd often unearth startling facts but don’t follow through. “Bridging the Gap,” available at Newamerica.net, details the large percentage of first-year college students in remedial courses and the duplication in federal college preparation programs. This is interesting information of which few people are aware.
But their recommendations follow the standard line: Let’s have more meetings and spend more money. Example: “We recommend that the federal government provide states with incentives to come together and adopt national college and work-readiness standards in math, science and the language arts.”
Or: “The federal government should work directly with states to foster partnerships between high schools and postsecondary institutions to smooth the transition between high school and college.”
You might think that sounds reasonable. I think it misses an opportunity. Why not harness the energy and ambition of a new president to shake things up?
The Obama administration doesn’t have much money to spend getting more students ready for college. The Education Department’s $100 billion in stimulus funds will mostly go to less sophisticated projects that create jobs fast.
Budget/Financing, College Preparation, Curriculum, Governance/Board Decision Making, School Climate
On Changes in the Washington DC School District’s Governance
Bill Turque:
Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee says the District is no longer exploring the idea of seeking federal legislation declaring the school system in a “state of emergency,” a move that would have freed it from the obligation to bargain with the Washington Teachers’ Union.
In a recent radio interview, Rhee said that the initiative, patterned after a state takeover of schools in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, was never seriously considered.
The proposal appeared in a statement drafted for a Sept. 22 news conference at which Rhee and Mayor Adrian M. Fenty were scheduled to present a series of steps to rid the District of teachers deemed ineffective. The steps, dubbed “Plan B,” were based on existing powers the chancellor possessed and fell outside the legal scope of contract negotiations.
College Preparation, Curriculum, Curriculum - Math, School Climate
Life After Algebra II
Michael Alison Chandler:
As the school year speeds by, rising seniors at Fairfax High are already meeting with their teachers and guidance counselors to decide which classes they should take next year. Up until this point, the math sequence is spelled out — Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II. After this point, there are plenty of options.
Here are the math classes students in a non-honors Algebra II class can choose from:
Trigonometry (Semester Course)
Probability and Statistics (Semester Course)
Discrete Math (Semester Course)
Pre Calculus with Trigonometry
If they are not pursuing an advanced diploma, they can also choose to take no math class their senior year. That’s an option a few students I talked to this week planned to take. Others were aiming for pre-calculus, which will put them on track to take Calculus in college. Others were talking about a combination of the semester-long courses.
Less money, but more student demand, for technical colleges
Deborah Ziff:
State technical college officials say it will be difficult to respond to the heightened needs of laid-off workers given a cut in funding in Gov. Jim Doyle’s proposed budget.
Doyle’s budget would eliminate $4 million from state technical colleges over the next two years and would bump up student financial aid only slightly.
The colleges, a main resource for people seeking new job skills, also likely will need to return at least $1.8 million to the state’s main account this spring under a budget repair bill.
“This is not a pretty picture at a time when the state really needs its technical colleges and we have so much demand,” said Paul Gabriel, executive director of the Wisconsin Technical College District Boards Association.
While University of Wisconsin students would get at least $36 million more in financial aid under Doyle’s budget, the increase in aid to state technical college students would be about $1 million, or less than one percent.
“It’s fair to say we were extremely disappointed that there are significant new financial aid resources in the state budget, but not for the most part targeted at technical college students,” Gabriel said.
Some laid-off workers can get free tuition under federal benefits, and Doyle’s budget includes at least $1 million in grants to help retrain workers.
On the Splurge: Clinton: China Must Continue to Invest in U.S. Bonds
Glenn Kessler:
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday urged China to keep investing its substantial foreign-exchange reserves in U.S. Treasury securities, arguing “we are truly going to rise or fall together.”
China is the biggest foreign holder of U.S. debt, which helped finance the spending binge the United States went on before the current economic crisis. Some experts have expressed concern that China’s substantial holding of U.S. debt gives it increased leverage in dealings with Washington because any halt in Chinese purchases would make it more difficult to finance the government bailout and stimulus packages.
Clinton, in unusually direct comments on an interview with China’s Dragon TV before returning to Washington, said that reality made it an imperative for China to keep purchasing U.S. Treasury bonds, because otherwise the U.S. economy will not recover and China will suffer as well.
“Our economies are so intertwined,” she said. “The Chinese know that in order to start exporting again to its biggest market . . . the United States has to take some drastic measures with the stimulus package. We have to incur more debt.”
It will be interesting to see how splurge/stimulus money is spent by local school districts. Perhaps we should spend more time on Mandarin?
Budget/Financing, Community Partners, Curriculum
Judy Kujoth: Dual-language middle school needs flexibility of a charter
Judy Kujoth, via a kind reader’s email:
In the spring of 2010, nearly 50 children will comprise the first graduating class of the Nuestro Mundo Community School on Madison’s East Side.
I am the proud parent of a daughter who will be among them.
My husband and I have spent the past five years marveling as she has acquired a second language, conquered challenging curricula and embraced friends from a variety of races and ethnicities. We eagerly anticipate the years to come as her love for languages and diversity continue to blossom.
But like many other parents, we are very worried about what the next stage of her academic journey will look like.
Nuestro Mundo is a charter school that has applied innovative teaching practices within a dual-language immersion framework. It is in its fifth year of offering elementary school students a dual-immersion curriculum in Spanish and English.
Kindergartners enter Nuestro Mundo as either native Spanish or native English speakers. By fifth grade, the goal is for all students to be proficient in both languages and at least on par, academically, with their peers at other schools. The skills they have cultivated need to continue being nurtured.
Unfortunately, charter schools and the Madison School District have mostly been “oil & water”. A few years ago, a group of parents & citizens tried to start an arts oriented charter – The Studio School. Read more here.
Every organization has its challenges and charters are certainly not perfect. However, it is more likely that Madison will see K-12 innovation with a diffused governance model, than if we continue the current very top down approach and move toward one size fits all curriculum. It will be interesting to see what the recent open enrollment numbers look like for Madison. Finally, a Chicago teacher on “magnet schools“.
Continue reading Judy Kujoth: Dual-language middle school needs flexibility of a charter →
Lifelong Learning, Parenting, Student Support, Wellness
6,473 Texts a Month, But at What Cost? Constant Cellphone Messaging Keeps Kids Connected, Parents Concerned
Donna St. George:
Julie Zingeser texts at home, at school, in the car while her mother is driving. She texts during homework, after pompon practice and as she walks the family dog. She takes her cellphone with her to bed.
Every so often, the hum of a new message rouses the Rockville teen from sleep. “I would die without it,” Julie, 15, says of her text life.
This does not surprise her mother, Pam, who on one recent afternoon scans the phone bill for the eye-popping number that puts an exclamation point on how growing up has changed in the digital age. In one busy month, Pam finds, her youngest daughter sent and received 6,473 text messages.
For Pam Zingeser, the big issue is not cost — it’s $30 a month for the family’s unlimited texting plan — but the effects of so much messaging. Pam wonders: What will this generation learn and what will they lose in the relentless stream of sentence fragments, abbreviations and emoticons? “Life’s issues are not always settled in sound bites,” Pam says.
College Preparation, Curriculum, Events, Governance/Board Decision Making, School Climate
Does state ask less of schools? Report says Wisconsin has laxer education standards than other states
Alan Borsuk:
Attention, school officials around the country: If your school is having trouble meeting standards for adequate progress, consider moving the whole operation to Wisconsin.
That was the implication of a study released this week comparing the way 28 states treat the same performance results from schools. More of the 36 schools in the study would be rated as making “adequate yearly progress” in Wisconsin than in any other state. Two schools in the study would be regarded as making adequate progress only in Wisconsin, the report says.
“Although schools are being told that they need to improve student achievement in order to make AYP under the law, the truth is that many would fare better if they just moved across state lines,” the report says.
And Wisconsin would be the place to go.
The report, titled “The Accountability Illusion,” was issued by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education think tank generally regarded as right of center. The foundation supports having national standards for accountability that are consistent from state to state and said the results of the study show the wide variation in how demanding states are when it comes to school quality.
Budget/Financing, Curriculum, Elections, Events, Governance/Board Decision Making, School Climate
A New Day for School Reform
New York Times Editorial:
Congress took a potentially transformative step when it devoted $100 billion in the stimulus package to education. Carefully targeted, this money could revive the reform efforts that began promisingly with President Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 — but later languished when his administration buckled under to political pressures from state officials.
Arne Duncan, the new education secretary, will need to resist those pressures. The Bush administration allowed states to phony-up statistics on everything from graduation rates to student achievement to teacher training and state education standards. As a result, the country has yet to reach not only the goals that were clearly laid out in the law but also farsighted education reforms dating to the mid-1990s.
The stimulus package, including a $54 billion “stabilization” fund to protect schools against layoffs and budget cuts, is rightly framed to encourage compliance. States will need to create data collection systems that should ideally show how children perform year to year as well as how teachers affect student performance over time. States will also be required to improve academic standards as well as the notoriously weak tests now used to measure achievement — replacing, for instance, the pervasive fill-in-the-bubble tests with advanced assessments that better measure writing and thinking.
Parenting, School Climate, Student Support, Wellness
Protecting kids from harassment in cyberspace
THE wireless network at Mayhem Manor spreads from the router in the workroom to the living area of the one-storey hillside dwelling, but not as far as the bedrooms. And that’s important.
Your correspondent has often been tempted to upgrade his WiFi router with the latest 802.11n technology–as much for the increased range as for the four-fold boost in speed. Being eight time-zones behind many of his colleagues, he often checks e-mail in the middle of the night. His trusty little Hewlett-Packard palmtop computer, with its Cisco wireless card, would slip easily under the pillow.
But he’s resisted boosting Mayhem Manor’s wireless signal for several reasons. First, while it would quicken transfers between computers in the house, the internet connection would be no faster. Its speed is governed by the pathetic dribble of a broadband connection that’s 15,000 feet from the nearest telephone exchange in the village below.
The other reason for not upgrading is that he would prefer his tweenage daughter to do all her web surfing, e-mailing, online gaming and social networking not from the privacy of a bedroom, but from a common area of the house where an adult is invariably present.
Books, College Preparation, Community Partners, Curriculum, Governance/Board Decision Making, School Climate
Two Teachers, 16,000 Students, One Simple Rule
Richard Kahlenberg:
Jay Mathews is a bit of a journalistic oddball. Most reporters see the education beat as a stepping stone to bigger things, but much to his credit Mathews, who writes for The Washington Post, returned to covering schools after an international reporting career. He is best known for his book on Jaime Escalante, who taught low-income children in East Los Angeles to excel in AP calculus and was featured in the film “Stand and Deliver.” Now Mathews is back to profile two young teachers — Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin — who founded the wildly successful Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), a chain of 66 charter schools now educating 16,000 low-income students in 19 states and the District of Columbia.
While I have some quarrels with the book’s implicit and explicit public-policy conclusions, “Work Hard. Be Nice” provides a fast-paced, engrossing and heartening story of two phenomenally dedicated teachers who demonstrate that low-income students, if given the right environment, can thrive academically. In 52 short and easily digestible chapters, Mathews traces the story of two Ivy League graduates who began teaching in Houston in 1992 as part of the Teach for America program. Both struggle at first but come under the tutelage of an experienced educator, Harriett Ball, who employs chants and songs and tough love to reach students whom lesser teachers might give up on. Levin and Feinberg care deeply: They encourage students to call them in the evening for help with homework, visit student homes to get parents on their side and dig into their own pockets to buy alarm clocks to help students get to school on time. In Mathews’s telling, it’s hard not to love these guys.
Properly Erase Your Physical Media
Jason Fitzpatrick:
A whopping 40% of the used hard drives on eBay contain easily recoverable personal data. Use the following guide to ensure your personal data never makes it out into the wild. Photo by AMagill.
Kessler International, a computer forensics company from New York, conducted a study of used hard drives available on eBay. Almost half of the hundred drives they sampled, purchased in random bulk lots, contained data that was easily recovered. A shocking amount of them required no more recovery effort than plugging them in and powering up. They found personal photos, financial records, emails, personal and corporate correspondence, corporate secrets, and more:
Discipline / Violence, Parenting, School Climate, Staff Support, Student Support, Teacher Support, Wellness
Madison Crime Maps
The Madison Police Department is posting police call data on crimereports.com. Check out these links:
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Budget/Financing, College Preparation, Events, Parenting, Student Support
NYU Students Protest, Seek University Financial Transparency
Sean Hennessey:
Dozens of students who barricaded themselves inside a New York University cafeteria have rejected the possibility of leaving the building as negotiations with school officials continue into Friday morning.
Members of the coalition Take Back NYU! have been occupying the cafeteria of the Helen & Martin Kimmel Center for University Life for more than 24 hours.
A spokeswoman for the students said that NYU told them that they could face expulsion or arrest if they didn’t leave the building by 1 a.m. Friday.
A crowd outside the building scuffled with police officers about a half hour after the deadline.
The students are calling for a series of changes, including increased transparency of the school’s finances. They want full budget and endowment disclosure, affordable education, and increased student participation in the university’s operation.
Frist launches K-12 education initiative
Lucas Johnson II:
Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist today launched a grassroots initiative aimed at reforming K-12 education in Tennessee, saying he hopes to ensure that “every child graduates from high school prepared for college or a career.”
Gov. Phil Bredesen, a Democrat, was among those who joined the Tennessee Republican in announcing the Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education at Fall Hamilton Elementary School in Nashville.
Frist said the “citizen-led” initiative will have three main components, including a steering committee that will hold 10 public meetings and ultimately produce a strategic plan for state education reform.
Frist, who announced last month that he won’t be running for governor in 2010, said the committee will be composed of education, community, political and business leaders from across the state. He said the idea is to find what education practices are effective and build upon them.
Budget/Financing, Community Partners, Curriculum, Governance/Board Decision Making, School Climate
What’s the problem at the Milwaukee Public Schools?
Daniel Slapczynski:
I am not a liberal, but I’m starting to think that decades of tinkering with MPS just may be a smokescreen to ignore the real problems with the system: that in the end, our schools do nothing more than reflect the nature of the city itself.
We’ve spent generations pretending that isn’t the case. I graduated from Pulaski High School just in time to have Howard Fuller present me my diploma. You remember Fuller, right? He was the man who was going to reinvigorate the “troubled” school system and bring hope to Milwaukee.
I walked across that stage in 1992. Exactly what has changed since then? Sure, it’s not all bad. Some schools have high attendance, great parental participation and students who perform well.
But that just bolsters my point. If MPS as an entity was the problem, wouldn’t all schools fail? Wouldn’t all students have to exert an incredible amount of self-determination and willpower just to succeed academically?
Some people, such as School Board member Terry Falk, continue to believe that fiddling is best. Falk’s latest theoretical fix? Potentially scrapping K-8 schools – themselves a recent idea – in favor of grades 6-12 facilities.
Enough already. The fault lines seem clear. MPS is operating in a city with dire problems, where some geographic areas continue to prosper while others operate in a climate of poverty and crime. School performance appears often to follow those socioeconomic trends.
For the record, I’m not excusing the poor performance of students who should realize that education is a path to greater prosperity. And I don’t have any bright solutions either. Except one: If we’re going to keep the questionable practice of throwing money at the problem, quit wasting it on the wrong problem.
Community Partners, Curriculum - Fine Arts, School Climate, What Can I Do?
Get Lit Players bring poetry’s emotions to other L.A. teenagers
Scott Gold:
For as long as he can remember, Dario Serrano’s life was all screeching tires and echoing gunshots, babies’ cries and barking dogs, a symphony, as he puts it, of “hood rats and gangsters,” of “vatos and payasos” — dudes and numskulls, loosely translated.
By high school, he’d pretty much given up on himself. He bounced around between three schools. He started selling pot, though he always seemed to smoke more than he sold. His GPA fell to 0.67, which is about as bad as you can get and still be showing up.
Literature, it is fair to say, was not resonating. “I mean, ‘The Great Gatsby’?” he says incredulously, and when he puts it like that, Lincoln Heights does feel pretty far from Long Island.
When a friend suggested that poetry might be his thing, Serrano scoffed. Grudgingly, he started tagging along to a poetry club, and one day last year he took his lunch break in a classroom where a teen troupe called Get Lit was holding auditions.
Get Lit’s artistic director, an African American artist named Azure Antoinette, performed an original composition called “Box,” a denunciation of anyone who would define her by the color of her skin, who would lump together, thoughtlessly, faces of color:
Curriculum, School Climate
Omega School offers a chance to earn GED
Pamela Cotant:
When her daughter started talking about not going to college, Maria Victoria Natera knew what she needed to do.
Natera, 40, said she realized not only did she need to earn her general education development credential, or GED, but also go on to college.
“That really bothered me,” Natera said. “I want more for my kids than I had … I need to set an example.”
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Natera took the first step when she received the credential — an accomplishment that was acknowledged at the recent winter commencement ceremony held by Omega School. The event recognized the 32 students who earned either a GED or a high school equivalency diploma.
Omega School, 835 W. Badger Road, prepares students for taking the required tests for the two programs. Many students who come to Omega have tried a number of other ways to get a high school diploma. The age of the students at Omega varies and some are high school age but have not earned enough credits to graduate on time.
“Sometimes they have to try things and have them not work for them to have success here,” said Oscar Mireles, Omega executive director. “They have to believe we are in a position to help them.”
Budget/Financing, Community Partners, Curriculum, Events, What Can I Do?
Dane County Transition School Pay it Forward Campaign 2/23/2009
via a Judy Reed email:
On behalf of all of us at Dane County Transition School (DCTS), I would like to take this opportunity to personally invite you to attend the launch of the DCTS Pay It Forward campaign on February 23, 2009 at 10am at the Villager Mall, 2234C South Park Street. Steve Goldberg from CUNA Mutual Group, students from DCTS, VISTA’s Dustin Young and Dean Veneman from the Alexander Foundation will each speak at the Pay If Forward launch.
The Pay It Forward Initiative is a national movement with a very simple concept: do one kind deed for three people and ask each of those people to Pay It Forward by doing another kind deed for three other individuals. Simple. DCTS believes we can make the world a better place one kind deed at a time and the more people who believe, the larger difference we can make.
DCTS would like to celebrate with all of the Partners who believe in the concept of Pay It Forward and in promoting this altruistic effort. (See attached banner for detail listing of over 80 Partners) Imagine all those kind acts and smiles that will begin right here in the Villager Mall.
DCTS has always been a school that believes in the promise of each individual and in the power of good deeds, which is why DCTS is formally launching this Pay It Forward campaign. We truly hope that you can join us for this unique event!
Judy Reed, Principal
Dane County Transition School – 2326 South Park Street – Madison, WI
(608) 698-6321 – www.dcths.org
Curriculum, Governance/Board Decision Making, Parenting, School Climate
Translating eduspeak
IF YOU know what deep learning and functional skills are, then you are already on the way to understanding eduspeak. But there are other terms that must be grasped to attain an A* in the subject.
Satisfactory. One of the four possible judgments of the schools inspectorate (the other three are inadequate, good and outstanding). It means “unsatisfactory”. (“Inadequate” for its part means “dire”.) This explains the chief schools inspector’s pronouncement that satisfactory schools are “not good enough”.
Excellence and enjoyment are mutually exclusive. The first is used for what matters (literacy and numeracy), the second for what does not (everything else). “Enjoying reading” and “excelling in music” are howlers in eduspeak.
Non-statutory depends on context. It can mean “optional”, but in the National Primary Strategy, a set of “guidelines” on teaching literacy and numeracy, it means “obligatory”–unless a school wants to risk being deemed “satisfactory”.
Gifted and talented refer to the top 5-10% in academic and non-academic pursuits respectively, who are to be encouraged in their gifts and talents. The terms are necessary as a sop to middle-class parents concerned that their children are not being stretched enough. To deflect the charge of elitism, levelled by many teachers, the categories have proliferated to include the capacity to “make sound judgments”, to show “great sensitivity or empathy” or to be “fascinated by a particular subject”.
Budget/Financing, Curriculum, Governance/Board Decision Making, School Climate, Student Support, Teacher Support
Education commissioner orders Providence schools to end Teacher seniority bumping
Linda Borg:
Education Commissioner Peter McWalters has ordered the city schools to begin filling teacher vacancies based on qualifications rather than seniority, an order that could fly in the face of the teachers’ contract.
McWalters, in a no-nonsense letter yesterday to Supt. Tom Brady, said the district hasn’t been moving fast enough to improve student achievement and that it was time to intervene in a much more aggressive fashion.
The order should come as no surprise to the district. Over the last two years the commissioner has issued a series of “corrective action” orders that spelled out what the district needed to do to improve student performance.
“This is intervention,” McWalters said yesterday. “Every state gets to the point when it’s time to stop suggesting. The district can’t come back and tell me they can’t get it done.”
McWalters said that seniority can no longer be the way that teachers are assigned and vacancies are filled. Starting this fall, teachers at six Providence schools, including the new career and technical high school and the new East Side middle school, will be assigned based on whether they have the skills needed to serve students at those particular schools.
College Preparation, Community Partners, Curriculum, Events, Governance/Board Decision Making, School Climate
Chamber: Teacher quality key in improving schools
Nashville Business Journal:
The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce released its 16th annual education report card Thursday, saying teacher quality is one of the most important factors in raising student achievement.
The chamber brings together business people and citizens each year to assess the school system.
Metro schools has missed the required No Child Left Behind benchmarks five times in the past six years. That moved the school system into “restructuring” from “corrective action” under the federal act, one year away from a possible state takeover.
The Education Report Card Committee said it was encouraged to see Metro offering a modest incentive pay plan to help recruit teachers in hard-to-staff subjects, as well as Mayor Karl Dean’s recruitment of two national nonprofits, The New Teacher Project and Teach for America, to bring new talent into the classrooms.
While there were some improvements in 2008, the committee said the city cannot have another year of waiting for a common vision for the standards the schools want to reach.
The chambers recommendations include:
Curriculum, Curriculum - Math, School Climate, Student Support
Student Support, Wellness
A Fitness Gap in Austin Schools?
Molly Bloom:
Austin students from poor families tend to be less physically fit than students from wealthier families, an American-Statesman analysis of school district data shows. And Hispanic students tend to be less physically fit than students of other races.
A 2007 state law required all school districts to give students standardized fitness evaluations measuring height-weight proportionality, cardiovascular capacity, strength and flexibility. The first evaluations were given to students in the 2007-08 school year.
Austin’s trend mirrors statewide results and national studies that show higher rates of physical inactivity and obesity among Hispanic and poor adults and children put them at higher risk of developing diabetes, heart disease, joint and bone disease, and other health problems.
Regardless of fitness trends among various demographic groups in Austin, “what’s really striking is the absolute level of poor fitness across the board in general,” said Dr. Aliya Hussaini , a health program grant officer at the Dell Family Foundation, which has invested $85 million in childhood health issues in Texas, including support for health and fitness programs at 97 Travis County public elementary schools.
Budget/Financing, College Preparation, Curriculum, Governance/Board Decision Making, Parenting, School Climate, Student Support, Teacher Support
The Accountability Illusion: No Child Standards Vary Widely From State To State
The Thomas Fordham Institute:
This study examines the No Child Left Behind Act system and Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) rules for 28 states. We selected 36 real schools (half elementary, half middle) that vary by size, achievement, diversity, etc. and determined which of them would or would not make AYP when evaluated under each state’s accountability rules. If a school that made AYP in Washington were relocated to Wisconsin or Ohio, would that same school make AYP there? Based on this analysis, we can see how AYP varies across the country and evaluate the effectiveness of NCLB.
Wisconsin report [259K PDF]:
More schools make AYP in 2008 under Wisconsin’s accountability system than in any other state in our sample. This is likely due to the fact that Wisconsin’s proficiency standards (or cut scores) are relatively easy compared to other states (all of them are below the 30th percentile). Second, Wisconsin’s minimum subgroup size for students with disabilities is 50, which is a bit larger than most other states (the size for their other subgroups is comparable to other states’). This means that Wisconsin schools must have more students with disabilities in order for that group to be held separately accountable. Third, Wisconsin’s 99 percent confidence interval provides schools with greater leniency than the more commonly used 95 percent confidence interval. Last, unlike most states, Wisconsin measures its student performance with a proficiency index, which gives partial credit for students achieving “partial proficiency.” All of these factors work together so that 17 out of 18 elementary schools make AYP in Wisconsin, more than any other state in the study.
AP:
Some schools deemed to be failing in one state would get passing grades in another under the No Child Left Behind law, a national study found.
The study underscores wide variation in academic standards from state to state. It was to be issued today by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, which conducted the study with the Kingsbury Center at the Northwest Evaluation Association.
The study comes as the Obama administration indicates it will encourage states to adopt common standards, an often controversial issue on which previous presidents have trod lightly.
“I know that talking about standards can make people nervous,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan said recently.
“But the notion that we have 50 different goal posts doesn’t make sense,” Duncan said. “A high school diploma needs to mean something, no matter where it’s from.”
Every state, he said, needs standards that make kids college- and career-ready and are benchmarked against international standards.
The Fordham study measured test scores of 36 elementary and middle schools against accountability rules in 28 states.
Lifelong Learning, Parenting, Wellness
You’ve Raised the Children; Time for a Job?
I had a working mom, so I assumed my wife would be one, too. Clarissa Acuña, the woman I married, also planned on having a career of her own.
But we were both wrong. Clarissa hasn’t worked since the summer of 1991, shortly before she had delivered our third child.
At the time, it no longer made sense financially for her to work. After paying taxes on her wages and child care for three children, we wouldn’t have come out ahead.
[Cheapskate] Getty Images
But over the years, that fateful decision has locked us into two different roles. I work and earn. She takes care of the kids.
Having a stay-at-home wife has given me enormous career flexibility. Unlike some of my colleagues, I’ve never missed days because of a sick child. I’ve been able to work late when needed, travel whenever I wanted for stories, and move around the country for better jobs.
That’s the upside. There are also big downsides. There’s good reason to believe that Clarissa, who is bilingual and has a marketing degree, would have been successful in a multitude of careers. She never got the chance.
And as the kids grew older, living on one salary was a squeeze financially. I come from a long line of cheapskates. But I’ve been made cheaper because it was tough supporting three kids — particularly putting the eldest two through college — on one salary.
Periodically, I bring up the subject of Clarissa rejoining the work force. It’s not so much the extra money, though I do worry about our household being completely dependent on one wage earner in a contracting economy. Mostly, I just think she’s ready for something new, and she’s very talented.
Budget/Financing, Curriculum, Elections, Governance/Board Decision Making
Notes on the Evers / Fernandez Wisconsin DPI Superintendent Race
Fernandez cleaned up in traditionally Republican (but trending Democratic) Waukesha County, where she won 52 percent of the vote, to just 23 percent for Evers. It was roughly the same split in Washington County. Fernandez even beat Mobley in the other conservative’s home county of Ozaukee. Even in more Democratic Racine County, Fernandez won 40 percent to just 26 percent for Evers.
Where did Evers do well? Dane County, where the deputy superintendent won more than 50 percent to a mere 20 percent for Fernandez. Of Evers’ 9,905 vote lead statewide, 7,351 votes came from Madison and surrounding communities. Evers won very big in the city of Madison, where Progressive Dane-backed candidate Price actually beat Fernandez (and came close to the frontrunner) in some isthmus wards.
What’s the bottom line: Fernandez has proven herself. She is going to be a serious contender, and if she gets some national conservative money — perhaps shifting from the Supreme Court race — she could beat Evers.
Of course, in a higher-turnout, bigger-spending race, a lot can change. And Evers will have plenty of union backing. But this is going to be a hot contest right up until April 7. And that could have consequences for the court race; if Fernandez turns out conservatives in big numbers, that could help Koschnick.
Readers may find the 2005 DPI race worth revisiting. Audio & video here.
College Preparation, Curriculum, Parenting, School Climate, Staff Support, Student Support, Teacher Support
Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes
Max Roosevelt:
Prof. Marshall Grossman has come to expect complaints whenever he returns graded papers in his English classes at the University of Maryland.
Prof. Ellen Greenberger studied what she found to be an increased sense of entitlement among college students.
“Many students come in with the conviction that they’ve worked hard and deserve a higher mark,” Professor Grossman said. “Some assert that they have never gotten a grade as low as this before.”
He attributes those complaints to his students’ sense of entitlement.
“I tell my classes that if they just do what they are supposed to do and meet the standard requirements, that they will earn a C,” he said. “That is the default grade. They see the default grade as an A.”
A recent study by researchers at the University of California, Irvine, found that a third of students surveyed said that they expected B’s just for attending lectures, and 40 percent said they deserved a B for completing the required reading.
“I noticed an increased sense of entitlement in my students and wanted to discover what was causing it,” said Ellen Greenberger, the lead author of the study, called “Self-Entitled College Students: Contributions of Personality, Parenting, and Motivational Factors,” which appeared last year in The Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
Professor Greenberger said that the sense of entitlement could be related to increased parental pressure, competition among peers and family members and a heightened sense of achievement anxiety.
College Preparation, Parenting, School Climate, Student Support
Unigo.com Gives Everyone a Say About College Picks
Walter Mossberg:
Research on choosing colleges takes many forms, including visiting campuses and studying the schools’ Web sites. But for a lot of high-school students and their parents, finding a centralized resource containing information about numerous schools still means buying one of the thick, costly printed guides to college that have been around for years. The Web versions of these books are surprisingly dry.
But there’s a new, free Web site that, while overseen by paid editors, is built on lively content submitted by current students at the colleges. The information isn’t just words and numbers, but includes numerous photos and videos for most schools. You also can create a small social network of people interested in the same schools or who share other common traits.
In other words, this is a college-information resource built for the age of YouTube and Facebook.
The site, Unigo.com, costs nothing to use and supports itself with ads. Although it’s only a few months old, it already covers about 250 colleges and universities, and claims to average dozens of student-created reviews, photos and videos for each college. Its sophisticated search engine lets applicants comb all this material to find just what applies to them. For example, Unigo would let you see all content relevant to an Asian-American female applicant with conservative political views.
College Preparation, Community Partners, Curriculum, Lifelong Learning, Parenting, Student Support
Don’t Show & Don’t Tell
It is an actual true fact that many if not most educators in our high schools do not allow students in general to see the exemplary academic work of their peers in their own school. (Academic work in this case does not include dance, drama, newspaper, music, band, yearbook, etc.).
The feeling seems to be that if students are exposed to this good work they will be surprised, envious, discouraged, intimidated, and more likely just to give up and stop trying to do good academic work themselves.
For these reasons, it is another actual true fact that many history and social studies teachers at the high school level have taken care not to let their students see the exemplary history research papers published in The Concord Review over the last twenty years, for many of the same reasons, including a general desire to protect their students from the dangerous and damaging effects of academic competition, which are believed to have the same risk of producing those feelings of envy, depression, anxiety, and intimidation mentioned above.
Putting aside for the moment those risks seen to be attendant on having students shown and/or told about the exemplary academic work of their high school peers, isn’t it about time that we turned our attention to another potential source of those same harmful feelings we have described?
In fact, many, if not most, high school basketball players are known not only to be exposed to and to watch games played by other students at their own school, but also they may be found, in season, watching college basketball games, and even professional NBA games, with no educator or counselor even monitoring them while they do.
Surely, the chances of the majority of high school basketball players getting a four-year college athletic scholarship are slim, and their chances are vanishingly small of ever playing for an NBA team. And yet, we carelessly allow them to watch these players, whose skill and performance may far exceed their own, even though the chance of their experiencing envy, anxiety, intimidation, and so on, must be as great as they would feel in being exposed to exemplary academic work, which we carefully guard them from!
While there may be nothing we can practically do at present to prevent them from watching school concerts, plays, dance recitals, and band performances, or reading the school newspaper, we must take a firmer line when it comes to allowing them, especially in their own homes, or visiting with their friends, to watch college and professional sports presentations.
We should try to be consistent. If we truly believe that showing students and/or telling them about fine academic work by people their own age is harmful, we must take a firmer stand in blocking their access to games and matches, particularly on national television, which expose them to superior athletic performances.
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University of California wants the truth on student applications
Larry Gordon:
he gray-and-green warehouse in suburban Concord seems an unlikely headquarters for a statewide detective operation, and the fact checkers at work there insist they are not mercilessly probing the lives of California’s teenagers.
Still, there is an element of hard-boiled sleuthing in the University of California’s unusual attempt to ensure that its 98,000 freshman applicants tell the truth about themselves and their extracurricular activities. The stakes are high; UC enrollments may be canceled if students are found to be evasive or lying.
Each year, a small number of UC applicants — fewer than 1% — are caught fibbing about such claims as performing a lead role in a school play, volunteering as a tutor for poor children or starring on the soccer field.
But UC officials say there is a broader purpose beyond the relatively few “gotchas”: to scare everyone else straight.
“We take the admissions process very seriously and we want to uphold the integrity of the whole process,” explained Han Mi Yoon-Wu, a coordinator in UC’s central admissions operations.
In an era when tough competition for college entrance may lead some insecure or conniving applicants to hype, or invent, parts of their records, experts say many colleges and universities do some informal checking on students’ extracurricular claims, especially if something seems fishy. But the UC effort appears to be the only formal, systematic program in the nation, they say.
For many years, UC has checked the final high school grade transcript of each admitted student in the summer before enrollment. Failing grades in the last semester of high school can get a student’s admission revoked, as can lies about self-reported grades in previous terms.
Curriculum, Curriculum - Fine Arts, School Climate
A More Joyous Approach: “The War of the Roses”
Queenly Cate Blanchet turns her attention to Richard II
Cate Blanchett is known for the pale beauty of her face and her vivid film performances. Her latest work marks a significant change of pace. As the curtain rises at the Sydney Theatre, she sits centre-stage, a still figure in a white blouse and trousers, blond hair, high cheekbones. A storm of golden petals drifts down from the ceiling, and she wears a crown.
It has become fairly commonplace for film actors to star in London’s West End and on Broadway, but this transposition is different. Miss Blanchett is playing the king in Shakespeare’s Richard II, the first part of a rigorously condensed version of the eight history plays. Miss Blanchett and her husband, Andrew Upton, have become artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company, an organisation which already has a fine opinion of itself. “In so far as there is a National Theatre in Australia, the Sydney Theatre Company is it,” says Bob Brookman, the general manager.
Sydney’s “The War of the Roses” ruthlessly cuts the histories down to two evening performances, each lasting a little under four hours, focusing on the death of kings and the hollowness of their crown. If this production, performed as part of the Sydney Festival and now on tour, is a clue to the nature of Miss Blanchetts’ regime, it will be energetic, controversial, ambitious, and, to use one of Miss Blanchett’s favorite adjectives, “noisy.” Casting her as Richard II was the bold idea of the director, the fearless 36-year-old Benedict Andrews. Having an actress play Richard II is not original: Fiona Shaw did it in London in 1995. But casting a woman as Richard III most certainly is. He is played by Pamela Rabe, one of Australia’s most accomplished actors, without a hump and with a heavy sense of irony, which provokes tense laughter in unlikely places.
Miss Rabe is not as self-consciously feminine as Miss Blanchett, who deploys laughter–her own–to dramatise the alienation of the king from his court, and fondly adopts girlish poses during the deposition scene in which Richard passes the crown to Bolingbroke. Shakespearean actors need to drill their vocal cords and Miss Blanchett seemed a little short of training, but she made a likeable, vulnerable, androgynous monarch. Given the extent of the cuts and transpositions, there could be no lingering over the development of character. The playful relationship between Prince Hal (Ewen Leslie) and Falstaff (John Gaden), for example, was speedily established by Hal fellating Falstaff. Sydney was not fazed.
Many of Australia’s best actors have emigrated in search of larger audiences and new writers. Miss Blanchett want to bring in a younger audience to the Sydney Theatre Company’s performances. “We’re hoping to take a more joyous approach,” Mr. Upton said recently. Miss Blanchett and Mr. Upton also want to develop the company’s reputation abroad as well as at home. Later this year their production of A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Liv Ullman with Miss Blanchett as Blanche Dubois, travels to the Kennedy Centre in Washington, DC, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In this case of celebrity culture, the emphasis will be on the culture.
Waukesha parents warned about illicit photos on students’ cell phones
Jacqui Seibe & Erin Richards:
Police and school officials are urging parents to check for naked photos on their children’s cell phones after a 14-year-old girl learned that her nude photo ended up in the hands of hundreds of area high school students.
The Waukesha West High School [Map] student sent the photo to her boyfriend, but when the couple broke up, he forwarded it to other students using his cell phone, Waukesha police Capt. Mark Stigler said Tuesday. Police have talked to the core group responsible and may recommend felony possession of child pornography charges, he said. Police have recovered computers belonging to the teens to investigate whether they also sent the photos over the Internet.
“We know it’s a hard stance, but how else do we deal with this?” Stigler said. “Kids are being immature and doing foolish things.”
An automated phone message from the Waukesha School District went to parents Monday and Tuesday asking them to talk to their children and check the phones for illicit photos.
Police want parents to delete any inappropriate photos because the magnitude of the potential proliferation of photos is too large to investigate, Stigler said.
Related: Textual Misconduct What to do about teens and their dumb naked photos of themselves.
Curriculum, School Climate, Student Support
Equity Issues in Science & Mathematics Education
This colloquium series is designed to start a broader conversation about equity in STEM (science, technology, engineering, & mathematics) disciplines. The four brown-bags will feature a keynote speaker whose expertise in a particular area of equity will be used as a lens to look at issues in science and mathematics education. There will be an informal presentation followed by a facilitated discussion.
Curriculum - Languages, Lifelong Learning, School Climate, Student Support
Commencement Speech Archive
Humanity.org:
The commencement ceremony affirms each student’s search for knowledge. It often includes a graduation speech which seeks to put their recent hard (or not so hard) work into the context of their future. Many of us hear one or two commencement addresses as graduates or listen to a handful as spectators. Yet — as we graduate from one year to another, one relationship to another, one experience to another — we always are learning.
Though these myriad departures and arrivals of everyday existence are seldom met with ceremony, words traditionally reserved for momentous occasions may ring true and inspirational at any hour. That’s why we created this unique archive of commencement addresses, selecting an eclectic menu of twenty nine extraordinary speeches from the thousands that we have reviewed since beginning work on this initiative in 1989.
Though some of these wonderful remarks were given decades ago, we believe they are as relevant and important, perhaps increasingly so, as the more current speeches. Thus we encourage you to read them all, recognizing and celebrating your own constant commencement into tomorrow, finding ways to place it firmly within the context of progress for all humankind.
Budget/Financing, Curriculum, Elections, Governance/Board Decision Making, School Climate, What Can I Do?
Wisconsin DPI Superintendent: It looks like an interesting race
Despite being outspent $96,129 to $10,500 (WisPolitics) by Tony Evers, Rose Fernandez obtained 31% of yesterday’s vote. Tony Evers received 35%. Here’s a roundup of the election and candidates:
On Tuesday, he finished just ahead of Rose Fernandez, a former pediatric trauma nurse and parent advocate, in a five-person field.
Although she finished the night in second place, Fernandez, 51, characterized her performance as “a victory for real people over the special interests.”
In addition to being first to declare his candidacy, Evers also captured endorsements – and contributions – from the Wisconsin Education Association Council as well as other labor and education-based groups. WEAC PAC, the political arm of the state’s largest teachers union, contributed $8,625 to Evers’ campaign, in addition to spending nearly $180,000 on media buys for the candidate, according to campaign filings earlier this month.
By contrast, the Fernandez campaign spent $20,000. She said that her message of calling for merit pay for teachers and choices for parents had resonated with voters.
“Tonight, we have all the momentum,” she said. “This is going to be a real choice. It’s going to be a choice between special interests and the status quo, the bureaucracy that is entrenched at the Department of Public Instruction, vs. a focus on the results we are looking for in our investment in education, a push for higher standards instead of higher taxes.”
Evers, 57, has distanced himself somewhat from the current schools superintendent, Elizabeth Burmaster, saying it’s time to be more aggressive about reforming Milwaukee Public Schools and calling for an increase in the state’s graduation rate.
On Tuesday, he denied Fernandez’s charge of favoring special interests
John Nichols on the history of the DPI Superintendent.
Parenting, School Climate, Student Support
Free book on Free Range kids
Cory Doctorow:
John Mark sez, “Some past Boing Boing posts have talked about how children’s lives in the UK and North America have become more and more stifled by overprotective adults in the last few decades. This 2007 book by Tim Gill, now free in its entirety online, show how many of these efforts are largely misdirected, and even counterproductive. Focusing on the UK, but also touching on other countries, the book includes accounts and data to show how resources are wasted on dubious and costly playground modifications and ‘stranger danger’ paranoia, when we could instead foster safer and more mature kids by focusing more on independence, social support, and traffic safety.”
No Fear joins the increasingly vigorous debate about the role and nature of childhood in the UK. Over the past 30 years activities that previous generations of children enjoyed without a second thought have been relabelled as troubling or dangerous, and the adults who permit them branded as irresponsible. No Fear argues that childhood is being undermined by the growth of risk aversion and its intrusion into every aspect of children’s lives. This restricts children’s play, limits their freedom of movement, corrodes their relationships with adults and constrains their exploration of physical, social and virtual worlds.
Lifelong Learning, Nutrition, Parenting, Student Support, Wellness
Kids’ Cholesterol Study Is Reassuring, Doctors Say
Fewer than 1% of American teens are likely to need cholesterol drugs, says a new study that offers some reassuring news on the childhood obesity front.
Last year, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued eyebrow-raising new guidelines: Doctors were urged to consider cholesterol drugs for more kids, even as young as 8, if they had high levels of “bad cholesterol,” or LDL, along with other health problems like obesity and high blood pressure.
The academy didn’t address how many children might fall into that category. Now, a new study published online Monday in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation helps allay concerns that “many, many” children might need to be on cholesterol drugs, said Stephen Daniels, lead author of the pediatric guidelines.
“The concern was I think, because there’s an increasing level in obesity, that it would lead to higher and higher cholesterol levels. They don’t seem to be going up,” he said.
The new pediatrics guidance was based on growing evidence that damage leading to heart disease begins early in life. At the same time, recent research has shown that cholesterol-fighting drugs are generally safe for children.
Budget/Financing, Community Partners, Curriculum, School Climate, Teacher Support
Broad environment for teacher training is best
South China Morning Post Editorial:
For those outside the region, whether a degree-granting institution has to be called a university would seem of little consequence. There are institutions of learning the world over that have high standing and do not feel the need to change their name. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Dartmouth College in the United States, Imperial College in London and Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology are among them. In the teacher-training sphere, the Hong Kong Institute of Education’s (HKIEd’s) British and Singaporean counterparts, although affiliated to universities, have retained their separate identities.
In East Asia, particularly in countries steeped in the Confucian tradition, however, institutions are well aware of the added cachet that designation as a university brings. If the name of the Institute of Education in Tai Po was firmly entrenched in the minds of Hongkongers, there might have been less of a problem. But its creation in 1994 from the amalgamation of five colleges of education offering subdegree courses post-dated reforms that put in place the present university system. It has offered full degree courses only since 1998. Although about 77 per cent of its students are studying for degrees, HKIEd is perceived as being inferior to those institutions designated as universities. Because it is not called a university, it has also faced difficulties collaborating with universities overseas.
HKIEd’s demand is to be allowed to “rectify” its name as a university. In rejecting its request, the University Grants Committee is not saying that HKIEd has not lived up to the high standards it has set for itself. Rather, the committee has taken the broader view, formed after a review of international trends, that teacher education should take place in a multidisciplinary environment for the benefit of students, staff and the community. The view deserves support; it is intellectually sound and eminently sensible. Single-discipline institutions are the product of a bygone era. All over the world, the trend has been to merge them into bigger entities or allow them to grow by developing new programmes. The aim is to facilitate the cross-fertilisation of ideas and multidisciplinary collaboration.
Curriculum, Curriculum - Languages, School Climate, Student Support, TAG
End the pretense and let schools have real English
Kent Ewing:
The taxi driver spoke mangled English; I responded in mangled Cantonese. In the end, I got where I wanted to go, and he received his fare.
For both parties, then, the journey was a success. Moreover, in an elementary sort of way, it was an educational, even a cultural, experience.
But is this the future of English- language education in Hong Kong?
Happy as I was to arrive at my destination that day, I hope we can do better in Hong Kong’s schools.
Indeed, in a classroom environment, I would rather lose my linguistic way entirely than find it through the development of a mixed-code patois that, in the end, will get me no farther in the real world than the confines of a Hong Kong taxi or wet market.
There is no question that Hong Kong beyond its small, elite class of political, business and educational leaders is a city that communicates with outsiders in a mixed code that ultimately amounts to really bad English with Cantonese thrown in when that bad English inevitably ends in total collapse.
Budget/Financing, School Climate
Suburban districts top Milwaukee-area school salaries
Professional staff in the Nicolet, Muskego-Norway and Port Washington-Saukville school districts earned more on average than their public school counterparts in the metro Milwaukee area for 2007-’08, according to state data.
The pay figures for the three districts were boosted by large percentages of teachers, counselors, librarians and other school specialists perched at the top of the pay scales for their school systems. They were among six school districts in the region – including the Maple Dale-Indian Hill, Mequon-Thiensville and Waukesha districts – that had more than 30% of their professional staff making at least $70,000 in 2007-’08.
Nicolet had more than 40% of its teachers and other professional staff making above that amount.
In contrast, in the school system with the lowest average salaries paid to professional staff – Dover #1 in Racine County – the highest pay was $51,956.
The 2007-’08 compensation data was reported by the individual districts to the state Department of Public Instruction, which made the information public last month.
Jack Bothwell, executive director of human resources for the Waukesha School District, said retirement postponements are likely the reason for the lopsided payouts in some of the districts.
“Right now, the pension’s such a mess and the economy,” he said. “That is inhibiting a lot of people from retiring.”
Budget/Financing, Community Partners, School Climate
Hurdles for a Plan to Turn Catholic Classrooms Into Charter Schools
Javier Hernandez:
To the Roman Catholic bishop of Brooklyn, it seemed like an act of salvation on par with Noah and the ark. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg heralded it as a “win-win situation.”
They had unveiled a plan to convert four Catholic schools scheduled for closing into public charter schools, giving their students and teachers a soft landing and avoiding a crippling infusion of children into crowded neighborhood schools. But despite the celebratory air this month as Mr. Bloomberg and the bishop, Nicholas A. DiMarzio, announced the idea, the plan faces significant legal, political and educational hurdles.
Lawsuits over church-state questions seem inevitable. And with the mayor already locked in a battle to keep control of the city’s public schools, it may be an inopportune time to ask Albany to scrap a law that bars the conversion of private schools into charter schools.
If the proposal is approved, it would allow four charter schools to be created without the perennial problem of finding classroom space. It could also result in a new type of charter school, one led largely by traditional institutions like the Roman Catholic Church, in a movement that has been dominated by out-of-the-box organizations branded as agents of change.
Budget/Financing, Governance/Board Decision Making, School Climate
Panelists Skeptical about Milwaukee School District Governance Change
A group of community leaders who disagree on a lot of other things about education were in general agreement Monday night on one important issue:
They don’t think much of the idea of turning control of Milwaukee Public Schools over to somebody other than the School Board.
From teachers union president Dennis Oulahan to school voucher advocate Howard Fuller, from liberal School Board member Jennifer Morales to business leader Tim Sheehy, it was hard to keep the people involved in a panel at the Marquette University Law School on the topic of whether there should be mayoral control of schools, or something in that vein, as they kept turning to other issues.
None expressed hope that a step of that kind, at least in itself, would change the rate of success in MPS.
“No matter who takes it over . . . if you don’t change anything that’s going on within the body itself that prevents good practice,” it will be an illusion to think things will get better, Fuller said.
“Any kind of governance can work if it has the right support.”
Oulahan said there was a long history of reforms in MPS, such as the Neighborhood Schools Initiative launched in 2000 and the small high school reform in recent years, that really were about buildings or programs and not about kids. Unless the focus is on teaching children using practices that actually work, nothing will change, he said.
Budget/Financing, Curriculum, School Climate, Student Support
Industry Makes Pitch That Smartphones Belong in Classroom
Matt Richtel & Brad Stone:
he cellphone industry has a suggestion for improving the math skills of American students: spend more time on cellphones in the classroom.
Students at Southwest High School in Jacksonville, N.C., were given cellphones with programs to help with algebra studies.
At a conference this week in Washington called Mobile Learning 09, CTIA, a wireless industry trade group, plans to start making its case for the educational value of cellphones. It will present research — paid for by Qualcomm, a maker of chips for cellphones — that shows so-called smartphones can make students smarter.
Some critics already are denouncing the effort as a blatantly self-serving maneuver to break into the big educational market. But proponents of selling cellphones to schools counter that they are simply making the same kind of pitch that the computer industry has been profitably making to educators since the 1980s.
The only difference now between smartphones and laptops, they say, is that cellphones are smaller, cheaper and more coveted by students.
“This is a device kids have, it’s a device they are familiar with and want to take advantage of,” said Shawn Gross, director of Digital Millennial Consulting, which received a $1 million grant from Qualcomm to conduct the research.
Budget/Financing, Elections, School Climate
Wisconsin Governor Doyle Proposes 7.4% Spending Increase & $426M More for K-12
Jason Stein:
Boosted by federal stimulus dollars, Doyle’s budget calls for a 7.4 percent increase in total state and federal spending. But the proposed spending from the state’s main account actually drops by 1.7 percent to $27.9 billion over 2010 and 2011. It would leave the state with $270 million in reserves.
The budget includes a host of major proposed changes:
• Cutting $900 million from existing agency budgets, including a 1 percent across-the-board cut, and rejecting $1.8 billion from the amount those agencies sought in new spending. The cuts include closing three dozen Division of Motor Vehicle offices, two state trooper stations and 25 Department of Natural Resources offices and cutting state staff at welcome centers for tourists.
State employees would avoid large layoffs and furloughs but the amount of state jobs would shrink by 209 to 69,038 by June 2011.
• Levying $1.4 billion in new taxes and fees, including a tax on oil companies of $544 million. That includes increasing the income tax rate on spring 2010 returns by 1 percentage point to 7.75 percent for single filers earning more than $225,000 a year and married filers earning more than $300,000. The proposal would also lower the state’s exemption for capital gains taxes from 60 percent to 40 percent, raising up to $95 million.
• Providing $426 million more in mostly federal money for K-12 schools over two years, a move Doyle said was essential to holding down property taxes. The budget would hold funding for the University of Wisconsin System essentially flat, leaving universities to manage rising costs through tuition increases, new efficiencies or service cuts.
Steven Walters, Patrick Marley & Stacy Forster:
For what may be the first time in state government history, general-fund spending will actually drop for the fiscal year that begins July 1, by about 5%. Total state spending – including tuition, fees, licenses and federal aid – will rise, however.
But, Doyle said, he had no choice but to ask the Legislature to approve $1.4 billion in tax increases – the largest reworking of the tax codes in decades.
The tax increases include: $540 million paid from oil company profits; $318 million by creating a new 7.75% tax rate for the richest 1% of taxpayers; $290 million in higher taxes on cigarette smokers; $215 million in higher corporate income taxes; and $85 million paid on capital gains investments.
Fernandez & Evers Advance in the Wisconsin DPI Superintendent Race
Evers won the endorsement of the 98,000-member state teachers union, the Wisconsin Education Association Council, which paid for TV ads on his behalf. Evers was the only one of the five to pay for his own ads.
“I believe that my message of experience has played well so far,” Evers said. “I won the primary and I anticipate that we’ll just work hard to get the message out. I believe that people do believe experience matters.”
Fernandez, who has often been at odds with the state education department over virtual schools, reveled in the fact that she didn’t get the WEAC endorsement, touting it as another sign of her being outside the state education bureaucracy.
Fernandez was the only one of the five candidates without any professional education experience. A former nurse, she recently stepped down as president of the Wisconsin Coalition of Virtual School Families.
“Some people have dismissed me as just a mom on a mission, but that’s a label I’ll be wearing as a badge of honor,” Fernandez said. She pledged to overcome WEAC’s financial backing of Evers with a broad base of support that taps into teachers, parents and students across the state.
“We’re hearing that there’s a great hunger out there for our message that higher standards without higher taxes is what they want,” she said.
Her campaign called for reforming the state education department, enacting changes to allow for teacher merit pay and protecting alternative education options such as virtual schools, home schooling and Milwaukee’s school choice voucher program.
Evers, the deputy under retiring Superintendent Libby Burmaster for the past eight years, emphasized his 34 years of education experience during the campaign. Opponents criticized him as a status-quo insider candidate, while Evers countered he was the best-grounded to initiate reforms, particularly in the Milwaukee schools.
Curriculum, Curriculum - Languages, Events, School Climate, Staff Support, Student Support, Teacher Support
McFarland High School Recognized by the National Council of Teachers of English
McFarland High School [Map] Principle Jim Hickey, via email:
You might note that McFarland High School’s (a public high school) student anthology, Driftwood received the Superior rating from the National Council of Teachers of English. Congratulations to Edgewood HS on the top of award. We too are proud of being one of three schools receiving this award in the State.
Budget/Financing, Community Partners, Events, Governance/Board Decision Making, History - Madison Schools, School Climate
Wisconsin Open Enrollment for ’09/10 Closes 2/20/2009
Details available in this .xls file from the Wisconsin DPI.
A few links as the open enrollment period draws to a close:
Wisconsin DPI Open Enrollment website.
Amy Hetzner takes a look at Milwaukee area open enrollment data.
Student enrollment data drives school district’s tax and spending authority. The Wisconsin DPI posted a useful page on enrollment changes and state tax dollar redistributions here.
Via a kind reader’s email.
Budget/Financing, College Preparation, Community Partners, Curriculum, Governance/Board Decision Making, School Climate, Staff Support, Student Support, Teacher Support
A Chicago Teacher on Magnet Schools
Victor Harbison:
Given the recent economic news, it seems everyone wants to talk about the long-term impact of short-term thinking. Why not do the same with education and magnet schools? Think of the issues educators faced 30 or 40 years ago: Smart kids not being challenged? Academically under-prepared kids, most of them ethnic minorities, moving in and test scores going down? It’s completely logical that they chose a path to create magnet schools. But it was a short-term solution that has had long-term negative consequences.
I take my students to lots of outside events where they are required to interact with students who come from magnet or high-performing suburban schools. What I see time after time is how my kids rise to the occasion, performing as well (or at least trying to) as those students whose test scores or geographic location landed them in much more demanding academic environments.
On a daily basis, I see the same kids who do amazing things when surrounded by their brightest counterparts from other schools slip into every negative stereotype you can imagine, and worse, when surrounded by their under-performing peers at our “neighborhood” school.
When educational leaders decided to create magnet schools, they didn’t just get it wrong, they got it backwards. They pulled out the best and brightest from our communities and sent them away. The students who are part of the “great middle” now find themselves in an environment where the peers who have the greatest influence in their school are the least positive role models.
Schools adapted, and quickly. We tightened security, installed metal detectors, and adopted ideas like zero-tolerance. And neighborhood schools, without restrictive admission policies based on test scores, quickly spiraled downward — somewhat like an economy. Except in education, we can’t lay off students who have a negative impact on the school culture. That is why adopting such a business model for the educational system has been and always will be a recipe for failure.
What should have been done was to pull out the bottom ten percent. Educational leaders could have greatly expanded the alternative school model and sent struggling students to a place that had been designed to meet their educational needs.
Clusty search: Victor Harbison.
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A More Colorful Dog Show With the HBO Special 'Well Groomed'
December 17, 2019 | By David Hinckley
Every year after the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, my cousin Dianne and I review the results.
We like it more when big old shaggy dogs win, like Josh the Newfoundland, and a little less when the winner is one of those dogs you carry around in your purse.
But no matter what dog takes best in show, we consider it a good year when the winner is not a topiary poodle.
You know the look: shaved to a buzzcut around the middle and at the top of the legs, then so fluffed and teased everywhere else that it looks like it's trying out for a role in Grease.
At a certain point, it just stops looking like, you know, a dog.
Little did we know that's just the tip of the over-decorated dog iceberg.
Well Groomed, an HBO Sports special that premieres Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET, dives in the world of serious dog grooming, meaning not the kind where Rover gets a bath and then gets toweled off.
Grooming in this world means turning your dog into a walking Easter Egg, with teased and sculpted fur dyed with a rainbow of colors so bright you're surprised all the groomers don't wear protective eye gear.
As the three featured groomers here explain, the goal is to use your dog as a canvas on which to create another vision. Some dogs become lions. Some become pandas. Some become dinosaurs. Some just seem to become a grownup's version of unicorns, a rainbow of sparkling colors.
Did we say sparkling? Yep, glitter and rhinestones are involved here as well.
Well Groomed follows its three groomers in the run-up to the annual Grooming show in Hershey, PA, which is the Super Bowl of the field.
These competitors have the same deep commitment as people who raise dogs for Westminster and other shows where the dogs are presented in their natural colors. They do just as much weekend traveling. They do even more conceptualizing.
And in the end, they deliver dogs that, well, put it this way, if you see one on the street, it will stop you cold. A few birds in the Amazon rainforest could compete with these dogs for color brilliance, but otherwise, very little that's found in nature resembles a poodle dyed and groomed to resemble a butterfly.
The documentary includes a brief segment from a television show where serious groomers respond to audience questions that often start with some variation on "How could you do this to a dog?"
They respond that they aren't doing it "to" the dog, that the dog is fine with it. Look, they say, the dog is wagging its tail. It's happy. It seems completely unbothered that it looks like a four-legged supersize box of Crayola crayons.
Absent any verbal input from the dogs themselves, this isn't an unreasonable answer. The most heartening aspect of Well Groomed is that the dogs – mostly, but not all poodles – behave like dogs. They bound around, they jump up and lick people's faces.
In grooming or show mode, of course, they stand still while people work on them or poke at them. They tolerate this patiently. When it's over, and they're home, they leap up onto the furniture.
In this context, that's a good sign.
But then, no one has ever questioned why the dogs do this. While the groomers say some dogs are more amenable than others, humans still drive this bus.
There's a modest rubbernecking undertone to Well Groomed, as there is with documentaries on, say, people who are deep Elvis Presley or Hummel figure collectors. Most of us are fascinated with this level of devotion to something we consider a little, well, unusual.
To be fair, all the groomers here seem like perfectly nice people. They love the animals which is a great start, and if this is how they want to spend their time and money, that's their call.
The most valid point raised by questioners on the TV show is whether the groomers are doing this to showcase the dogs or themselves. The answer is probably some of both, but the viewer comes away from Well Groomed conceding that even if this is slightly troubling, it's also largely harmless.
It's also optional. Those of us who prefer dogs in their native colors don't have to go to Hershey this September for the 2020 grooming show.
I don't think I will. I don't think Dianne will, either. But around 5,000 people will – and they'll get the canine version of the Northern Lights.
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Directory (computing)
Title: Directory (computing)
Subject: Synthetic file system, Root directory, Apple ProDOS, Directory, Fdupes
Collection: Computer File Systems, File System Directories, File System Management
Screenshot of a Windows command prompt window showing a directory listing.
In computing, a directory is a file system cataloging structure which contains references to other computer files, and possibly other directories. On many computers, directories are known as folders, catalogs (catalog was used on the Apple II, the Commodore 128 and some other early home computers as a command for displaying disk contents; the filesystems used by these did not support hierarchal directories), or drawers[1] to provide some relevancy to a workbench or the traditional office file cabinet.
Files are organized by storing related files in the same directory. In a tree), a directory contained inside another directory is called a subdirectory. The terms parent and child are often used to describe the relationship between a subdirectory and the directory in which it is cataloged, the latter being the parent. The top-most directory in such a filesystem, which does not have a parent of its own, is called the root directory.
Folder metaphor 1.1
Lookup cache 2
Diagram of a hierarchal directory tree. The root directory is here called 'MFD', for Master File Directory.
Historically, and even on some modern embedded systems, the file systems either had no support for directories at all or only had a "flat" directory structure, meaning subdirectories were not supported; there were only a group of top-level directories each containing files.
Most modern Unix-like systems, especially Linux, have a standard directory structure defined by the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
In many operating systems, programs have an associated working directory in which they execute. Typically, file names accessed by the program are assumed to reside within this directory if the file names are not specified with an explicit directory name.
Some operating systems restrict a user's access to only their home directory or project directory, thus isolating their activities from all other users. In early versions of Unix the root directory was the home directory of the root user, but modern Unix usually uses another directory such as /root for this purpose.
In keeping with Unix philosophy, Unix systems treat directories as a type of file.[2]
Folder metaphor
Sample folder icon (from KDE).
The name folder, presenting an analogy to the file folder used in offices, and used in a hierarchical file system design for the Electronic Recording Machine, Accounting (ERMA) Mark 1 published in 1958[3] as well as by Xerox Star,[4] is used in almost all modern operating systems' desktop environments. Folders are often depicted with icons which visually resemble physical file folders.
There is a difference between a directory, which is a file system concept, and the graphical user interface metaphor that is used to represent it (a folder). For example, Microsoft Windows uses the concept of special folders to help present the contents of the computer to the user in a fairly consistent way that frees the user from having to deal with absolute directory paths, which can vary between versions of Windows, and between individual installations. Many operating systems also have the concept of "smart folders" that reflect the results of a file system search or other operation. These folders do not represent a directory in the file hierarchy. Many email clients allow the creation of folders to organize email. These folders have no corresponding representation in the filesystem structure.
If one is referring to a container of documents, the term folder is more appropriate. The term directory refers to the way a structured list of document files and folders is stored on the computer. The distinction can be due to the way a directory is accessed; on Unix systems, /usr/bin/ is usually referred to as a directory when viewed in a command line console, but if accessed through a graphical file manager, users may sometimes call it a folder.
Lookup cache
Operating systems that support hierarchical filesystems (practically all modern ones) implement a form of caching to RAM of recent pathnames lookups. In the Unix world, this is usually called Directory Name Lookup Cache (DNLC), although it is called dcache on Linux.[5]
For local filesystems, DNLC entries normally expire only under pressure from other more recent entries. For network file systems a coherence mechanism is necessary to ensure that entries have not been invalidated by other clients.[5]
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^ "Chapter 1: Tutorial". Using The AMIGA Workbench. Commodore-Amiga. July 1991. p. 46. The path specifies the disk name, or location, and all of the drawers that lead to the specified file.
^ Barnard III, G. A.; Fein, L. (1958). "Organization and Retrieval of Records Generated in a Large-Scale Engineering Project". Proceedings of the Eastern Joint Computer Conference: 59–63.
^ ""Xerox Star User Interface (1982)"". YouTube. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
^ a b "Close-To-Open Cache Consistency in the Linux NFS Client". Citi.umich.edu. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
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CONTEST: Win a copy of the new card game Menu Mash-Up from Chronicle Books
By: Short and Sweet NYC
We’re giving away 3 copies of the awesome new card game from Chronicle Books called Menu Mash-Up: The Food Game With all the Ingredients for Fun! If you’re a foodie like we are, you’ll love the premise of the game and find that it gives you plenty of ideas to create a never-ending menu of culinary dishes in real life.
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Power Executive Fired for Faking Story of Hardworking Employee
Beijing Electric Power Corp. had nominated a diligent but fictional female employee for an award bestowed by the national trade unions federation.
Officials at the Beijing unit of China’s state-owned grid operator have been punished for fabricating a story about an employee working around the clock in a failed attempt to win a prize for the company.
Li Tongzhi was replaced as chairman of Beijing Electric Power Corp. on Nov. 27 and has been suspended from work, an anonymous source told Caixin. This came after the company in March released a fabricated story about a female employee — who, it was claimed, worked a 24-hour shift monitoring a transformer substation in central Beijing — in an attempt to win an annual prize for working women handed out by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions.
The company did not win the prize.
On Sept. 19, Beijing Electric Power said it had punished 19 officials in total, without giving any names, and would investigate the fabrication.
A portrait of Li Tongzhi, the former chairman of Beijing Electric Power Corp. From @能源信息网 on WeChat
The company’s fictional account was published in March by the official Xinhua News Agency, accompanied by pictures of the hardworking employee, and has not been removed despite the company’s admission that the story is made-up.
A source told Caixin that the photos were undoubtedly staged, as most Beijing substations have been monitored by machines for nearly two decades. Indeed, state broadcaster China Central Television reported in 2017 that the substation in question had implemented a fully automated monitoring system.
“The official wanted to win the honor, but the story just isn’t true,” a Beijing Electric Power employee told Caixin.
China has plans to make officials across the country more accountable for falsehoods, especially fudged figures. New accountability mechanisms were among the revisions proposed to the country’s Statistics Law in October.
Beijing Electric Power — a unit of State Grid Corp., one of China’s largest companies — made a profit of 1.26 billion yuan ($178 million) in 2017.
This is just one example of falsification, but the problem is actually widespread at State Grid, an electricity sector expert told Caixin.
This is an original article written by Chen Xuewan and Lu Yutong of Caixin Global, and has been republished with permission. The article can be found on Caixin’s website here.
(Header image: Photos from the fabricated account of the hardworking female worker, taken in Beijing, Feb. 28, 2019. Xinhua)
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The Dream Shake
Covering the Rockets
Rockets vs. Suns game preview: Houston welcomes Chris Paul back to Toyota Center
Photo by Barry Gossage/NBAE via Two years ago, the Houston Rockets were coming off a disappointing Western Conference Finals exit. They pushed the eventual champion Golden State Warriors, but a key injury to Chris Paul and a bevy of missed three pointers (and some Scott Foster) conspired to dash Houston’s hopes of a third franchise championship. The Rockets re-signed Chris Paul to a 4-year contract for the maximum and committed to running the team back for another shot. We’ve come a long way in two years. Tonight, the Rockets will look completely different from...
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Oladipo’s Rockets debut spoiled in 125-120 loss to Bulls
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Rockets at Bulls Game Thread
Daniel Dunn-USA TODAY Sports Can the Rockets end their road trip strong? The Houston Rockets play the last game of their three-game road trip tonight against the Chicago Bulls. John Wall and Danuel House Jr. will still be out, but tonight marks the debut of Victor Oladipo for the Rockets. Also joining him will be Eric Gordon and DeMarcus Cousins. It may not be our true first look at the new era of Rockets basketball, but, hey, we get to watch a new player make their debut for Houston for the 746th time in the past three years, and that’s always fun. What do you...
Rockets vs. Bulls game preview: new faces in new places
Photo by Randy Belice/NBAE via The Houston Rockets and Chicago Bulls met twice in the preseason, with the teams splitting a pair of games in Chicago. As the Rockets travel to Chicago for the teams’ first regular season matchup, Houston is quite a different team. James Harden and Christian Wood missed those first two games. Obviously Harden won’t be suiting up tonight, but Wood will. Additionally, the Rockets welcome in Victor Oladipo into the squad from the Harden trade. The Rockets hope to have some combination of DeMarcus Cousins, Eric Gordon, and Sterling Brown...
Rockets Roundtable: Harden-Oladipo Trade Reactions
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The Dream Take Podcast dives deep into loss vs. Spurs
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Weaponized Words
Where are you CBC?
Imagine how CBC would have reacted if an extremely historic Jewish building had been so terribly vandalized, and probably no one will be punished. Just imagine.
But for CBC this news was not even worth publishing, at least, online:
Israeli settlers attack historic Church where Jesus broke bread
The human rights and Palestine solidarity organisation BDS South Africa condemns yesterday's attack by 16 Jewish Israeli settlers on the Church of Multiplication of Loaves and Fish. Any attack on a religious site is unacceptable but this Israeli attack on a historic site of such importance to Palestinian Christians and Christianity more generally is reprehensible.
The Church of Multiplication of Loaves and Fish near the Sea of Galilee in Palestine-Israel is on the site where Christians believe Jesus Christ performed the biblical miracle of feeding 5000 people with five loaves and two fish. The Church stands in the destroyed Palestinian village of al-Tabigha, ethnically cleansed of its indigenous Palestinian inhabitants by Israeli forces in the 1948 Nakba. The village is where Jesus is said to have plied his trade as a carpenter.
According to reports, the church building suffered extensive damage, with the roof partly collapsed and stone walls charred. Several members of the clergy suffered smoke inhalation, and one 80-year-old monk was reportedly hospitalised. Several bibles and prayer books were also destroyed.
Some Israeli officials have criticised the attacks, however, analysts are skeptical suggesting that no action will be taken against the Israeli settlers.
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Is outdoor dining in a tent safe during COVID-19 pandemic?
Here's what experts say to consider when eating out
By James Leggate | Fox News
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Many restaurants have turned to tents as an outdoor dining option as the coronavirus pandemic has forced them to stop offering indoor dining. But is it safe?
The safest option is to eat at home. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study of adults tested for COVID-19 found that those who tested positive were about twice as likely as those who tested negative to have dined at a restaurant in the two weeks before they became ill.
“Masks cannot be effectively worn while eating and drinking,” the researchers wrote.
For diners who do opt to eat out, the CDC recommends wearing masks as much as possible, social distancing and washing hands when entering and exiting the restaurant. (iStock)
OUTDOOR DINING BUBBLES AREN’T AS SAFE AS YOU’D THINK, DOCTORS SAY
And the lowest risk option for restaurants is to limit food service to drive-thru, delivery, takeout and curbside pick-up only, according to the CDC.
The CDC rates outdoor seating with reduced capacity for social distancing as “more risk” of COVID-19 spread, and rates indoor dining with distancing or outdoor dining without six feet between tables as “higher risk.” Indoor dining without spacing as ranked as “highest risk.”
For diners who do opt to eat out, the CDC recommends wearing masks as much as possible, social distancing and washing hands when entering and exiting the restaurant.
If the tents are properly vented, they can be safer than indoor dining. Tents need to have air flow so droplets carrying COVID-19 can’t build up inside, The Wall Street Journal reported. And that doesn’t just mean windows. Lisa Brosseau, an export on respiratory protection and infectious disease, told the Journal that a device needs to be moving air in and out of the space.
Airflow is important for individual tents, too. (REUTERS/Jeenah Moon)
Single-table tents like igloos or bubbles can also help decrease the risk of transmission, if they’re used properly. Brosseau told the Journal that they can protect diners from others seated nearby.
Craig Hedberg, a professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, told the Associated Press that individual tents shouldn’t be shared by people who don’t live together.
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Airflow is important for individual tents, too. In August, a Michelin-starred sushi restaurant in San Francisco had to remove about half the plastic covering from its geodesic domes after local health officials objected to the lack of airflow.
Also, the tents should be cleaned and left for 20 minutes between parties, Aubree Gordon, an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, told the AP.
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The Curse and the Star-Struck Lovers, Mogollon Rim, Northern Arizona
The two college students attended Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. He was Native American, tracing his roots back to the mysterious Anasazi Indians. She was European, from somewhere in Eastern Europe or so it was said.
Arriving at the Mogollon Rim, the Colorado Plateau’s southern escarpment, Martin spread a blanket in front of the giant pine that overlooked Walnut Canyon, a narrow gorge that housed traces of pre-Columbian Sinagua pueblos. Nadya opened their picnic basket and arranged the sandwiches and drinks.
Finishing their light repast, they settled against the pine to watch the afternoon sun over the western mountains. Nadya nestled in the crook of Martin’s arm as they chatted about their studies. During a pause, she lifted her face seeking affection, but Martin put his hand over her lips. “I can’t.” He said. “I’m a member of an Anasazi sect that is cursed. If I kiss you I may lose control and breathe your life force. Unable to stop, I will inhale your soul and you will crumble into ashes.
Nadya stiffened as she absorbed Martin’s tale, and then kissed his neck gently. “I too have a spell.” She said. “I’m Romani, a Gypsy.” And with that she sank her teeth into Martin’s pulsating neck. His blood splattered from the gaping wound as she gorged herself, only pulling back a second to take a breath. In that pause, Martin jerked his head and planted his mouth on hers, inhaling violently. Instantly, Nadya went limp as he sucked away her life force. When he hesitated, she gathered her strength and fought back, biting his lips.
An owl perched above in the pine tree gazed down at the struggle on the blanket and hooted. The sun touched the mountains, reds and gold streaked the evening sky. Night creatures crept forward, watching the lovers clinched in their deadly embrace.
A sheriff’s deputy met the state investigator as he pulled into the trail-head parking lot. The deputy led the way to the fatal picnic scene. “Possibly a homicide, but hard to tell what happened. Might be an animal attack, but I have no idea what animal did this.”
The two law officers arrived at the scene and the state investigator paused considering the young man dead against the pine tree overlooking the canyon. Sandwiches and drinks were laid out for two on the blanket. The lawman went forward and bent carefully, studying the dead student with the jagged neck gash and chewed lips. Taking his pen, he poked at something on Martin’s clothes
“What‘s that?” The deputy asked.
“Ash,” the investigator answered, pointing to the debris on the student’s lap and on the blanket. Gazing around the quiet pines, he wondered aloud.
“Where’d all these ashes come from?”
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Pro Football April 28, 2018
Browns select Florida WR Antonio Callaway with 105th pick in 2018 NFL Draft
The Browns have selected Florida wide receiver with the 105th pick in the NFL Draft Saturday.
Callaway caught 89 passes for 1,399 yards and seven touchdowns in two seasons.
Considered a first-round talent by some draft analysts, Callaway fell due to off-field concerns and did not play the 2017 season with the Gators.
“I feel very comfortable with where we are as an organization.
“We actually have had people go down to Gainesville.
We have actually had people go down to certain areas just to find out all about the specifics of the situation.
We feel very good about where we are and where he is, and where those things you were talking about, where those are at.
I feel very comfortable with where we are to make a move like this.” Callaway is the sixth player to be drafted by the Browns, joining Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield (No.
They go every week and they sit there and they begin to work through all these programs,” Dorsey said.
“I think it’s helpful and I think it’s refreshing for these guys to get an understanding of those development aspects of the engagement programs.”
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Callaway caught 89 passes for 1,399 yards and seven touchdowns in two seasons. Considered a first-round talent by some draft analysts, Callaway fell due to off-field concerns and did not play the 2017 season with the Gators.
“I feel very comfortable with where we are as an organization. We have done extensive, I mean extensive, background work here,” general manager John Dorsey said in a news conference after the pick.
“We actually have had people go down to Gainesville. We have actually had people go down to certain areas just to find out all about the specifics of the situation. We feel very good about where…
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Pro Football September 9, 2018
Shawn Williams ejected for hit to Andrew Luck’s head
The NFL wants to take hits to the head out of the game of football, and Bengals strong safety Shawn Williams learned that the hard way in the first quarter of today’s game.
Williams was ejected from the game for hitting Colts quarterback Andrew Luck in the head.
It was a hard hit and unnecessary because Luck was already going down when Williams nailed him.
But it was also the kind of hit that in the recent past wouldn’t have drawn an ejection, and a decade ago wouldn’t have drawn any penalty at all.
The officials took their time discussing it, and former NFL referee Gene Steratore said on the CBS broadcast that he believes the league’s officiating command center in New York may have contacted the officials on the field to urge them to eject Williams.
The league has warned that ejections for hits to the head may increase this year, and Williams was the first to get tossed.
Luck appeared to be OK.
He popped right back up, went to the huddle and stayed on the field for the next play.
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It was a hard hit and unnecessary because Luck was already going down when Williams nailed him. But it was also the kind of hit that in the recent past wouldn’t have drawn an ejection, and a decade ago wouldn’t have drawn any penalty at all.
The officials took their time discussing it, and former NFL referee Gene Steratore said on the…
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Eco Entrepreneurs’ Next Steps in Leveling Up Production Capacity
The Challenge of Volume.
September / October 2020 • By Emily Walzer
Innovation is rampant within the sustainability sector as new ideas for climate positive product and responsible production processes continue to define today’s textile industry. Now the challenge becomes the ability to bring these novel ideas to scale. It’s one thing to develop a promising green textile solution; the hitch is creating volume.
Jane Palmer, a self-described “serial entrepreneur” for 20 years, has run into this problem head on. After her previous business, a dye house specializing in plant-based products attained success but struggled in areas related to supply, Palmer developed her own bio-based pigment that could scale, and “make an impact in the industry,” said Palmer in a presentation during the virtual Catalyst Transformers denim event.
Her new venture, Nature Coatings, Inc., in Los Angeles, transforms wood waste, sourced from sustainable FSC certified forests, into high performance black pigment that Palmer says is a direct replacement for petroleum carbon black commonly used in a wide variety of applications.
Palmer and other textile entrepreneurs are increasingly seizing on scale-ability as a key attribute in ushering in a new era of environmentally responsible textiles. Figuring out how to ramp production to introduce quality, affordable eco products to a wider audience is an important next step for small companies on the cusp of larger success.
Circularity Brings Positive Change
Re:newcell, out of Sweden, has launched a technology that looks to fill a link in the recycling chain of cotton and viscose with satisfactory quality on a large enough scale. The company’s process creates a branded product, Circulose pulp that can be turned into fiber and fed into existing textile production, essentially creating a closed loop system.
“The industry needs technology that can scale up,” stated Jenny Fredicsdotter, of re:newcell, in a virtual presentation to the denim community this summer. “Our process is circular, not linear, and is currently up and running at our Kristinehamn plant.”
The re:newcell process is similar to recycling paper. Incoming waste fabrics are broken down using water; color is stripped from these materials using eco-friendly bleach. After synthetic fibers are removed from the mix, a slurry-like mixture is dried and excess water is extracted. What remains is a Circulose sheet. This sheet is then made into viscose fiber that gets combined with cotton and woven into a new fabric. The company’s plant has capacity to recycle 30 million garments annually, according to Fredicsdotter, who adds that a second plant is currently being built.
Company execs realize that its current capacity of approximately 7000 tons of biodegradable Circulose pulp per year “is a drop in the ocean of the textile industry production of millions of tons of dissolving pulp every year.” However, the technology is designed for volume, and “our method makes better fibers at scale,” concluded Fredicsdotter.
Indeed, in July re:newcell formed a collaboration with Levi’s. The organic cotton/ Circulose jeans will be available as part of the Levi’s Wellthread line in the 502 for men and High Loose style for women. This partnership comes on heels of a re:newcell partnership with H&M announced earlier in 2020. H&M’s Spring/Summer Conscious Exclusive collection features a jacquard weave day dress made of 50 percent Circulose recycled from used cotton jeans, and 50 percent FSC-certified wood; and was the first-of-a-kind material available at retail for consumers.
Nature Coatings, founded by Palmer in 2017, also advocates a closed loop circular system for manufacturing that accommodates scale. “We have refined the pigment manufacturing process and our new facility can supply substantial volume with high quality color,” said Palmer, who explained that she did a thousand formulations to get multiple formulas that could work across different applications. With regulatory standards increasing worldwide seemingly every day, Palmer stressed that Nature Coatings pigment is a head of regulations bound to come in the future.
The first product launch out of the gate to market was screen printing ink, but garments using Nature Coatings ink are now commercialized. New partners include Boyish Jeans and AGI mills, with pigments currently being tested with major mills located globally, according to Palmer.
“The goal is to make it easy for mills to adopt,” said Palmer, who added that new products in today’s market must be cost competitive, and perform as well or better than what is currently available. Palmer’s products are designed for industry, and are compatible with existing equipment and water-based processes in established supply chains.
“So far there have been unsuccessful attempts at scale. There is a challenge of the mechanical and chemical processing, and the challenge of growth in the domestic yield. The Chinese would love to find a U.S. partner, but so far there is not enough planted.”
— Guy Carpenter, founder, Bear Fiber
Hemp Growth
When Guy Carpenter was asked recently why hemp is taking so long to catch on if everyone is so keen on the fiber’s performance and sustainability properties, his initial response was, “I honestly don’t know.” However, Carpenter, founder of NC-based Bear Fiber and well-regarded in the industry as a hemp expert, quickly amended his comment to say, “So far there have been unsuccessful attempts at scale. There is a challenge of the mechanical and chemical processing, and the challenge of growth in the domestic yield. The Chinese would love to find a U.S. partner, but so far there is not enough planted.”
Bear Fiber is currently the only producer of a cotton-like hemp fiber, based on the firm’s proprietary methods, and is leading development of an American hemp farm-to-finished good supply chain.
But hemp is gaining interest from new investments. TX-based Panda BioTech looks to open a large industrial hemp processing facility. Despite a recent set-back when it’s initial site in Shallowater, TX failed to pass inspection, Panda BioTech now has eyes on other locations in the state including Wichita Falls. European ventures also have plans to open two facilities in the U.S., according to Carpenter, who said he is optimistic about the future of the domestic hemp market. “People are really interested to grow hemp.”
Upping Upcycling
Evrnu CEO and founding partner, Stacy Flynn, admitted that bringing her product, NuCycl, to scale is difficult. “You’re dealing with the waste industry, the pulp industry and the fiber industry – all very conservative industries – and you’re trying to get them onboard,” stated Flynn in the question and answer session of her presentation during the Southern Textiles Association (STA) Summer Marketing (virtual) Lunch & Learn Series last month.
Evrnu’s NuCycl technology debuted in 2019. Evrnu recycles cotton garment waste to create fiber formulations with unique performance and eco advantages. These engineered NuCycl fibers, made with significantly less water and chemicals than conventional production, can be regenerated multiple times for reuse.
Progress is being made with testing and pilot programs in place, according to Flynn whose expertise is in sustainable systems and textiles. “We’ve had to train and show that suppliers can take this on. It’s not easy to influence change!” Flynn added, “But when you get partners comfortable with the technology they get inspired. Once we bring this to retail and consumers try it and recycle it, then they will support something new.”
Evrnu currently has four early adopters of NuCycl. Partners include Stella McCartney, adidas, Levi’s and Target. “We’ll likely go luxury first with Stella, then the mid-market with adidas and Levi’s and then the masses with Target,” explained Flynn, whose expertise is in sustainable systems and textiles.
According to Flynn another plus is that Evrnu is licensing the tech. She stated, “If you consider that paper pulp mills have idle capacity, our tech could take off.”
Suppliers Embrace Holistic Approach to Marketing Sustainability
With consumer eco-awareness at an all time high, and the entire world focused on health and safety, industry is doubling down on eco efficiencies and seizing this moment to tell their sustainability story in new and compelling ways.
Investment in digital tech to launch and/or enhance marketing initiatives has accelerated in the absence of in-person trade shows and other conventional avenues of promotion. Along with a virtual pivot, suppliers are creating online messaging that highlight individual benefits of living a healthier, eco-aware lifestyle, rather than leading with the science of sustainability and environmental impacts.
This holistic approach also applies to corporate responsibility. “The pandemic was a time to re-focus,” says Sagee Aran, Nilit’s head of global marketing. “It’s not the same world, the consumer wants to get more responsible product. We evaluated R&D and what was in the pipeline with that in mind.”
Planet Positive Progress
As Aran suggests, Nilit made good use of the “pandemic pause” hiatus to work on its corporate sustainability commitment with new products, production and promotion.
The Israeli company completed its conversion to cleaner energy from a new, on-site cogeneration power plant using natural gas at its main manufacturing facility. The move will reduce the company’s CO2 emissions by 40 percent, and emissions of toxic gases such as sulfur dioxide to zero. Notable, too, is that the new on-site cogeneration plant will also serve other businesses in the area, too.
The company, supplier of premium Nylon 6.6, has launched a new dope-dyed nylon product called WaterCare, another step in advancing its Total Product Sustainability (TPS) program designed to provide the apparel market with more eco-friendly products. According to Aran, the company also looks to bring a Wellbeing product to market that features bio-active attributes. There is progress on a biodegradable product and a new traceability platform is also in the works.
Making Sustainability Tangible
“Everybody hears about sustainability, recycling, and lowering water consumption, but we want to make it real, and in a way that customers and consumers can understand,” explains Unifi’s marketing director Cheryl Czukowski. “Even with lifecycle data, we try to translate the raw numbers and to speak in terms that people understand.”
To put Unifi’s recent recycling milestone of 20 billion plastic bottles into context, the achievement was portrayed in way that clearly illustrated scale. For example that 20 billion single-serve plastic bottles can “physically circle the earth approximately 100 times or fill the Empire State building more than 13 times.”
Hallmarking Repreve’s relevancy has been the marketing strategy from the get go. “Repreve started with two brand (partners) in 2008 and is now upwards of 900 globally,” Czukowski shares. “Mills understand that Repreve resonates with consumers and that adds value to brands’ product.”
The pandemic, however, threw a curveball in Unifi’s 2020 marketing campaign. “The Repreve mobile tour bus was all spiffed up for a maiden voyage in March, heading to Nevada for a basketball tournament, when we had to call it back from Oklahoma,” recalls Czukowski. Repreve sponsors TeamGreen, a Pac-12 collegiate program, and the Repreve bus served as an ideal marketing vehicle, literally, built around in-person physical contact with Repreve fabric.
How to tell the Repreve story virtually intensified. Czukowski points out two examples of current marketing efforts: a video on the Repreve website that offers a step-by-step visual explanation of the entire Unifi process; and the Repreve Our Ocean, a premium collection of fiber and resin sourced from bottles at high risk of entering the ocean. “Everybody is talking about the increasing problem of ocean plastics; it is a problem we all can relate to, and Unifi offers a solution.”
“You’re dealing with the waste industry, the pulp industry and the fiber industry–all very conservative industries– and you’re trying to get them onboard.” — Stacy Flynn, CEO and founding partner, Evrnu
Visualizing Eco-Friendly
The pandemic has absolutely heightened consumer awareness and interest in more sustainable textile treatments, according to Lisa Owen with Life Materials Technologies’ brand Life Natural. This was confirmed in a recent study conducted by the firm in which 65 percent of U.S. consumers (who do the shopping at big box retailers) responded that they would prefer an odor control treatment based on peppermint oil like Life Natural to either silver or synthetic organic odor control chemistries.
This “golden nugget” of insight, along with more insights gleaned from the proprietary survey about aspects of antimicrobials consumers value, will help shape Life Naturals consumer messaging and differentiate the company’s peppermint oil technology in today’s odor control market space, according to Owen.
A new Life Naturals video posted on the brands LinkedIn page reinforces the company’s message of peppermint oil chemistry as a “do no harm” technology. Without using words the video visually tells the Power of Peppermint.
A new Life Natural website is slated to launch soon with marketing directed at both consumers and customers. “We emphasize that our product comes from plants, is grown and harvested naturally, and is durably used in textiles,” states Owen, who adds, “We want to convert people from conventional tech, to tech of the future.”
Moving the Eco Needle
At DuPont Biomaterials, supplier of Sorona brand products, marketing acceleration during the months of Covid has run the course from introducing a new streamlined brand architecture to leveling up webinar participation to dipping a corporate toe into the virtual trade show scene. In addition, Sorona is now onboard with SynZenBe, an online virtual showroom, where Sorona sponsors 10 fabric mills. SynZenBe is described as the first end-to-end, transactional marketplace for textile sourcing, based in the U.S., the e-commerce business offers premium fabric from around the globe.
But from an engagement point of view with brands and mills, Sorona is just as busy as pre-pandemic, according to Renee Henze, global marketing & commercial development director, DuPont Biomaterials. “There’s no slow down in that. Brands are reaching out as they re-assess their sustainability business and that is translating into inquiries. Now we’ll see if this translates to consumers.”
The challenge going forward for suppliers is making sustainability accessible to all, both in terms messaging and manufacturing. Henze believes that the pandemic experience will likely result in more and better digital tools used by industry suppliers. But right now the jury is still out on the true value of virtual.
“Making quantities large enough so products are affordable has a big impact,” says Henze. But it takes big time investment, in the tens of million of dollars range, to bring a new fiber to the world of materials. “To go from zero to new means research, lab scale, pilot facility, etc.,” explains Henze, who is well aware of the money and time required to launch a successful product like Sorona. “You do all the tech, and then go to the next step and scale it, you might need to build a plant, which could be upwards of $300 million.”
Henze adds, “It’s about making 10 million garments not 10 garments to move the needle from a sustainability standpoint.”
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Colonel_Temp
Outbreak Survivor
Observe your doom...
I guess this is the right place for this. It may not seem like fan fiction but it shoud make more sense later on. It is set on another continent and quite a bit earlier than TZH though. Maybe fanfiction is the wrong word? Anyway, this is the very opening. Updates will come. Critisism is of course welcome. I haven't written anything in a long time.
Rain?
Civilisations would rise and fall but it would always rain. And now it was raining as though the heavens themselves were trying to wash the spilt blood from the streets. Sean looked up towards the clouds, his brown T-shirt and jeans already soaked through. He ran his hands through the long brown hair which was one of the few things he had pride in, his hands rested behind his head for a moment.
"We have to find her.." he pleaded, the words almost drowned out by the storm. His brother, stood a few metres away looked over to him. A blood slick axe was gripped in his right hand and a Browning High Power pistol was in the left. A black wool skull cap was clenched over his head and a loose leather jacket hung from his shoulders. He was definitely the better prepared of the two.
"You know that's suicide. These damn zombies are everywhere and what do you have? A fucking longbow.. Why do you even have that thing?"
"I never knew this would happen. It's all I have.. It's better than nothing." He turned and pointed at a lifeless corpse further down the road. Two arrow shafts protruded from the front of it's chest. The thing wasn't human any more, it's teeth were stained with blood and the open eyelids revealed cloudy orbs. It's kind would be the death of them, Sean knew it. Sam wouldn't admit it but he felt it somewhere deep inside too. A virus was the cause, or so they were told by the media. The very media that played it off as little more than a new strain of the flu. They were wrong, oh so wrong. Humanity had paid the price.
"I won't even ask about the guitar... But we need to get away from the city, if we head in deeper we'll get surrounded by more of these.. These zombies. You'd risk your life for her?" asked Sam somewhat stupidly.
"I'd risk everything for her! And you know that. You just don't understand what this is like. I'm not leaving without her."
"And what if she's dead? Could you stand finding her as one of these!"
"She isn't dead! I know she isn't. If you won't come then I'll go alone, you can run off to the country by yourself," the desperation was growing within him. He couldn't stand being away from her. She'd pulled him from the brink of despair and mental ruin when no one else could.
"Fine, but we're going to the pharmacy first. We should get a car too," he let out half of a laugh and took a step backwards. In the road before them lay an old ford flipped on it's roof with half a dozen zombies crushed beneath it, "There's nothing left for us here, let's get moving."
The clouds began to fade for now, the setting sun showing itself at least. It'd be night in a few hours and they'd be near the heart of over 2 million zombies. It was no fun being a pessimist when things turned out worse than you predicted. The streets were clogged with bodies. Most were human, unsuspecting members of the public who'd walked blindly towards a grisly end.
It didn't take them long to reach the pharmacy, a twenty minute walk would be nothing under normal circumstances. As it was they had to take numerous 'scenic' routes to avoid the thicker pockets of undead, they'd managed to make it this far without any major confrontation. It wasn't a large building, the windows were smashed but at least there weren't any zombies around.
"You should check the cars," said Sean as they crossed a small car-park in front of the drug store, "I'll be OK in there." Sam nodded and got to work examining the vehicles. A speedy red roadster caught his attention but it didn't seem very practical.
The door opened easily enough, it wasn't locked or secured at all. Sean lifted the guitar off of his back by the strap before gripping it in both of his hands. He tried to move quietly through the store, carefully avoiding collapsed displays and the odd body. A familiar package caught his eye, painkillers. He grabbed a half dozen cartons and stuffed them into pockets. Something move in the distance. His grip on the improvised weapon tightened. A few tense moment passed, although is felt like an eternity. Sean felt his heart beat so hard he was sure even the dead would be able to hear it. Something moved again and he spun around. The source of the noise was clear before him now. A machete gripped in one hand with the other stretched out.
"Gimme the damn drugs kid," the words were desperate and fast, it's clear that their owner was an addict.
His heart skipped a beat as the stranger spoke, "I.. I don't know what you're talking about."
"I saw you take them man.. I need those. Give them to me."
"I don't have your bloody drugs god-damnit!" Of course he was scared, Sean wasn't a fighter like the others. Sam had been in the army, he had no problems with putting someone down. He couldn't even stand to kill the zombies, a part of him thought maybe they had a cure. It still felt like murder.
The dark skinned man approached him now, his limited patience had clearly run out. He patted the machete against his hand before bringing it forward and swinging it through the air. Instinct took over and the neck of his guitar met the blade. The polished wood fractured and split. Another attack and the blade bit another chunk out of the black strat. One more strike came and the neck was cleaved in two. Sean dodged to the side and lashed out with his foot, hitting the back of the madman's knee. The man buckled and fell to the floor. Sean wasted no time bringing the broken neck over his head. It'd be no use as a blunt weapon but the strings.. Well they were still potentially deadly. He pulled on the neck and body with each hand. Metal wires dug into the assailants neck. Sean held it and held it until the addict stopped convulsing. The guitar fell to the ground with a thud and he took a step back. Sean's hand quickly buried his face as he closed his eyes. He stood there for what seemed like an eternity. Trying to find out what had just happened.. This wasn't 'him'. This new world had turned him into something horrible..
Only killers will survive
"Where did you get the machete?" quizzed Sam from the bonnet of an old, faded blue hatchback.
"I found it, along with painkillers" he replied coldly, "Is this it?"
"Well it wasn't locked, so no alarm. Of course if you want to alert the whole neighbour.."
He was cut off rudely by the almost deafening roar of a motorcycle. It flew past them heading in the direction they could just come. The rider's head was concealed with a helmet and even if they could see, it'd just be a blur.
"We should get moving," he continued after scratching his head for a moment. Sean just nodded and found his way to the passenger seat.
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Cheez
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Rawra?
Re: Blood and Water
Quote from: Colonel_Temp on August 01, 2010, 11:44:07 am
A Two arrow shafts
It didn't take them long to reach the pharmaxy,
Other than these two mistakes, 'tis a good read. I like it.
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Cheez is also a raptor...pirate. A raptor pirate. Playing chess.
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Liking it so far Eager to see the next installment.
We may fail alone, but that is better than dying with them, only to be forgotten. I for one, would rather suffer now, than leave this life without passion.
"What do you think the army are doing?" Sean asked idly as Sam turned another corner, a dozen or so undead were in the street ahead of them.
"Probably holed up.. Or trying to evacuate what they have left."
"What about the airbase? They could be evacuating from there," he jumped a little as a zombie skull was crushed beneath the car's wheels. The rest of the small horde were closing in now, they were too slow to catch them up but the ones ahead. Well they were blocking the exit.
"We'll have to get out. Kill these so we can drive through," explained Daniel. It seemed a better prospect than damaging the car by ploughing through them.
"Are you sure there's no way around?"
"Stop being such a pussy! Do you want to find Ashley or not?" he retorted, the words sounded more harsh than he had meant. But his brother's reluctance to fight was beginning to annoy him.
"Fine... Fine." He opened the door and nocked an arrow whilst Sam exited and readied his pistol, "3..2.." a loud bang interrupted him. Followed by a few more. Sam had already dropped three of the zombies before Sean had even fired a single arrow. He pulled back on the bowstring and targeted one of the wounded zombies and released his grip. The arrow flew through the air with a *swish* and hit the rotting creature in the chest. It didn't even slow down, it took 3 more shots before the thing finally relented and fell to the ground.
"Heh, one to me!"
"I just killed five you tard. Nothing beats British engineering."
"That gun isn't British..."
"Go fuck yourself! ... Behind you!"
Sean froze for a moment. His hand slowly reached the machete he'd secured by sticking it between his belt and jeans. The longbow fell to the ground and a deathly groaning grew ever louder. Spinning around, he brought the machete in high. Face to face with one of the undead now, he'd never been this close. He could smell it. He could see the exposed skeleton and torn organs. The weapon collided with it's neck, sending a gout of blood through the air and some of it splattered against his face. A solid kick freed the weapon from it's spinal cord and sent the beast to the ground with a thud. It was dead. Another one approached now. It had a single arm and wore the torn black and white uniform of a police officer. Complete with hat and stab-proof vest. Sean gripped the machete tighter now, the blade was wet with blood. He readied himself, as soon as the undead officer was close enough he lashed out with an overhead swing. Hitting the thing through the top of it's skull. Its groaning stopped and the vacant, dead expression encouraged him to remove the bladed weapon from its diseased brains. The thing was truly jammed in there, he pulled and pulled on it even standing on the corpse to try and get some leverage.
He didn't notice the final zombie that was now running towards him. Its blood-slick hands clawed out as the thing swiped at him from the side. His arm was grazed by the attack, some blood being drawn. Sean turned to face the thing only to take a step back when he saw the gruesome twisted face. There was only one eye left in it's socket, the other hung from its nerves. A splayed ribcage was on full display. The survivor took one step too far and tripped on the zombie he'd just killed.
"Oh shit.." The words escaped from his mouth as he scrambled backwards, the thing was reaching down to him now. It gripped his T-shit like an inhuman vice and use its second hand to lift him up. He hung in the air before it now, a futile swing only seemed to make the thing angrier and it threw him to the ground. He hit the pavement hard and coughed painfully as he gripped his chest.
Is killing me quickly too good for you?
The zombie approached as he lay on the floor, it was quicker than the others. And for some reason unknown to him it wasn't intent with killing him with a bite to the jugular. The Berserker stood over him, pinning him in place by sitting on his chest before unleashing a torrent of fast, hard punches. The first hit his nose, then his eye, he was sure one knocked a tooth out. It wasn't stopping.. The thing was enraged. Sean was utterly helpless as the thing tried to cave his skull in. The attack only ended when another gunshot rung out and blood sprayed from the Berserker head, landing all over Sean. Sam approached and pushed the twitching thing off of him, unloading an extra round into its head for good measure.
"What the hell was that?" Sam asked as the older brother lifted up his sibling. Sean simply spat out blood and limped towards the car, his face cut and surely going to be bruised.
"I don't know.. It was Berserk." he replied painfully as he slumped into a seat and shut the car door. The road ahead was clear for now, Sam had taken out the rest while he was busy fighting for his life. Sam lingered for a moment, he searched the dead policeman and took a baton, can of CS-spray and even the stab-proof vest. He passed the baton to Sean, noticing his machete still embedded in a skull.
B-Chan
'Cuz they rapin' errbody out here.
I suggest always re-reading your entire post before you actually post it. I find that no matter how good a writer is, you'll be surprised at the errors found just by giving it a once over. It makes for a much better read. Other than that, thank you for taking the time to write up a little something for us to pass the time with.
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Oh B-Chan, you're so dreamy.
BrainBlow
Not really a green haired teenage girl
Dreaming of green hair
Quite the good read.
I'd also advise to spell-check before posting.
Quote from: Stan on January 23, 2011, 11:40:21 pm
Ive gained an all-new respect for BB this day. LET IT BE KNOWN!
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Thanks. I did forget to spellcheck. Editing it now with fixes.
His hand slowly reached the machete he'd secured by sticking it between his belt and jeans.
Of course he doesn't know it, but that is a rather bad idea...
blood sprayed from the Berserker head, landing all over Sean.
Berserker's.
Also, you don't need to capitalise berserk.
No more of the fic?
I've just been a bit busy with getting ready for uni. I'll work on more eventually.
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Jeff Healey Park
April 22, 2011 by 3songsbonn
photo courtesy of RUF Records
ETOBICOKE’S WOODFORD PARK TO BE RENAMED AFTER MUSIC ICON JEFF HEALEY
The late and great Jeff Healey has been honoured in his native Canada recently as the info below shows.
Great that places aren’t just named after politicians!
(April 21)Toronto, ON – After a unanimous vote, late Canadian musician Jeff Healey will be remembered in his home town of Etobicoke, Ontario with a park named in his honour. Woodford Park, located in the Park Lawn and Queensway area of Etobicoke, will be officially renamed Jeff Healey Park in June 2011.
Ward 5 Councillor Peter Milczyn championed the park renaming, along with the Friends of Woodford Park and the Queensway Residents Association. More than 500 friends, fans and organizations including the Hospital for Sick Children and the CNIB wrote in to Council to show support.
Healey, who passed away from cancer in 2008, played in Woodford Park as a child and later brought his own children there to play.
“Jeff Healey Park will be a powerful reminder for parents of children with disabilities that their kids can grow up to accomplish great things,” said Rob Quail, a longtime friend who initiated the campaign. “This park will help people remember the inspiring story of Jeff’s life and his achievements.”
A fundraising concert will be held in the near future to raise money to make the park accessible for children with disabilities.
Sarah French Publicity
416-566-4188 | sarah@sarahfrenchpublicity.com
From ‘Toronto Sun’ 5/6/2011
“Hundreds of Etobicoke residents turned up to honour one of their own
as a local park was renamed after late guitar legend Jeff Healey.
More than 300 Healey family members, friends and supporters applauded and
cheered as a banner was lifted to unveil Jeff Healey Park, on Delroy Dr., in
The Queensway-Royal York Rd. area.
Healey, who died in 2008 after a long battle with cancer, spent countless hours in the park with his family and friends. It was formerly called Woodford Park.
Former bandmates and other musician friends entertained the crowd with
Healey tunes during the event.
“Jeff loved this place and it helped nurture him,” said his wife, Cristie.
“This was the first place he showed me when we were dating.”
She said even though the musician, who would be 42 this year, was blind he
knew every inch of the park.”
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Backstage Update on Rush & Dragon Lee, WWE Had Interest in Both Wrestlers
December 19, 2020 | Posted by Jeffrey Harris
– At Friday’s ROH Final Battle 2020 event, ROH World champion Rush and TV champion Dragon Lee finally made their ROH in-ring returns. They both defended respective titles on Friday’s pay-per-view card. On today’s F4WOnline.com, Dave Meltzer discussed their current ROH status.
According to Meltzer, there was interest in Rush and Dragon Lee from WWE both this year and last year. Meltzer added that he hasn’t heard anything from AEW’s side with regards to interest in either wrestler, but WWE reportedly wanted both of them.
As previously reported by PWInsider, Rush’s ROH contract was expected to be over at the end of the year. Additionally, ROH CEO Joe Koff commented that “conversations are ongoing” with both Rush and Dragon Lee on their future in the promotion.
The recent return with a title defense over Brody King, along with the debut of Rush’s father La Bestia Del Ring in ROH, would suggest Rush is staying in ROH for a while. The same goes for Dragon Lee, who successfully defended his TV title on Friday against Tony Deppen. It’s still not confirmed if they’ve signed new contracts with ROH.
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Tesla Woos Model 3 Hopefuls to Purchase Model S 60
June 20th, 2016 by Shane McGlaun
Tesla seems to be aware that it might not be able to meet the insane demand for its Model 3 EV for several years. The company racked up nearly 400,000 reservations for the car, and most in the industry think Tesla will be hard pressed to build that many rides any time soon. In an effort to keep long waits from sending Model 3 hopefuls to purchase another brand, Tesla is hoping to woo them with a cheaper Model S.
The Model S 60 – which had been gone from the line for a while now is returning. The car packs a 60kWh battery pack, and a 210 mile driving range, and will sell for $66,000 to start – about $7,000 less than it used to be. When you roll in the federal tax credit, that brings the price down to about $59,000 before state credits. That is still considerably more than the Model 3 expecting to start at $35,000.
Still, that puts the base Model S within striking distance of a fully loaded Model 3, which is expected to fetch around $50,000. Tesla says that it has heard from customers that they might buy a Model S at a lower price point, which is why they brought the 60kWh model back. Emails are going out to some reservation holders from Tesla inviting them in to see the cheaper Model S at local showrooms.
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Apple announces iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus
Jordan Kahn
- Sep. 9th 2014 10:11 am PT
@JordanKahn
Live on stage, Apple has just kicked things off during its event by officially announcing the new iPhone lineup: the much rumored 4.7-inch device is called iPhone 6, while the larger 5.5-inch model is dubbed “iPhone 6 Plus”. Here’s what we know so far:
Both of the new iPhone models include new “Retina HD” displays with cover glass that Apple says is ion-strengthened. Apple says the displays feature a full sRGB wide color gamut and that “dual-domain pixels on the photo-aligned IPS display give you a wider angle of view.” The display on the iPhone 6 comes in at 1334 by 750 with 326 pixels per inch (over one million pixels), while the iPhone 6 Plus includes full 1080p HD with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 at 401 pixels per inch (over 2 million pixels).
There are no distinct edges. The cover glass curves around the sides to meet the anodized aluminum enclosure.
Other upgraded internals include a new second generation 64-bit A8 chip that Apple noted is 13% smaller with up to 25% faster CPU performance and up to 50% faster graphics than the previous generation. Apple said today that the new iPhones beat the iPhone 5s in every battery life metric.
When it comes to camera specs, Apple says the iPhones include an 8MP iSight camera, 1.5µ pixels, ƒ/2.2 aperture, as well as an all new sensor and number of enhancements to things like focus, face detection, image stabilization and more thanks to the A8 chip. The iPhone 6 Plus also includes an “optical image stabilization” feature that isn’t present on the iPhone 6. Both devices are capable of shooting 1080p at 60fps or 30 and slo-mo video at 120 fps or 240 fps. The front-facing camera also includes a new sensor and a larger ƒ/2.2 aperture, according to Apple.
Both new iPhones feature 3x faster 802.11ac WiFi as well as the much rumored Voice over LTE feature through a number of supported carriers including Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and others abroad. Apple also announced a new WiFi calling mode when a data connection isn’t available that will initially only be available through T-Mobile in the US.
Also a big new feature in the iPhone 6 is a barometer that Apple says senses air pressure to measure relative elevation. Apple said Nike is working on a new version of its fitness app that takes advantage of the new sensor. It appears the devices feature NFC as well that goes along with the new Apple Pay service unveiled today.
The iPhone 6 measures in at 6.9mm thin, while iPhone 6 Plus comes in a 7.1mm. Compare that to the previous generation iPhone 5S at 7.5mm.
As reported leading up to the event, the iPhone 6 Plus also features a landscape mode with a more iPad-like UI that also includes a new landscape Home screen layout:
More shots of the new iPhones below:
Apple Announces iPhone 6 & iPhone 6 Plus—The Biggest Advancements in iPhone History
Dramatically Thin Design Features Stunning Retina HD Displays, Powerful A8 Chip, Advanced Cameras & Apple Pay
CUPERTINO, California—September 9, 2014—Apple® today announced iPhone® 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, the biggest advancements in iPhone history, featuring two new models with stunning 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch Retina HD displays, and packed with innovative technologies in an all-new dramatically thin and seamless design. The new iPhones feature a precision unibody enclosure of anodized aluminum that conforms seamlessly with the shaped glass of the display, resulting in a completely smooth and continuous surface. iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are engineered to be the thinnest ever, delivering a bigger display in a design that is still comfortable to hold and easy to use.
Packed with innovative new technologies, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus include: the Apple-designed A8 chip with second generation 64-bit desktop-class architecture for blazing fast performance and power efficiency; advanced iSight® and FaceTime® HD cameras; ultrafast wireless technologies; and Apple Pay™, an easier way to simply and securely make payments with just the touch of a finger.¹ Both models include iOS 8, the latest version of the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, featuring a simpler, faster and more intuitive user experience with new Messages and Photos features, QuickType™ keyboard, a new Health app, Family Sharing and iCloud Drive℠.
“iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are the biggest advancements in iPhone history,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “The iPhone is the most loved smartphone in the world with the highest customer satisfaction in the industry and we are making it much better in every way. Only Apple can combine the best hardware, software and services at this unprecedented level and we think customers are going to love it.”
For the first time iPhone is available in two new sizes: iPhone 6 features a stunning 4.7-inch Retina® HD display with 1334 x 750 resolution, providing 38 percent more viewing area than iPhone 5s, while iPhone 6 Plus features an even bigger 5.5-inch Retina HD display with 1920 x 1080 resolution, providing 88 percent more viewing area and nearly three times the pixels than iPhone 5s. The Retina HD displays offer advanced technologies including higher contrast for deeper blacks and dual-domain pixels for more accurate colors at wider viewing angles.
With second generation 64-bit desktop-class architecture, the all-new A8 chip offers faster performance and is more energy efficient, delivering higher sustained performance with great battery life. With Metal™, a new graphics technology in iOS 8, developers can take performance of the A8 chip even further to bring console-class 3D games to iPhone. The A8 chip also includes a new, powerful Apple-designed image signal processor that enables advanced camera and video features.
Both models include the M8 motion coprocessor that gathers motion data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, compass and the new barometer, which senses air pressure to provide relative elevation. The M8 motion coprocessor can continuously measure your motion data, even when the device is asleep, saving battery life for fitness apps that use the sensors all day. With iOS 8, motion data from M8 appears in the Health app so you can see how many flights of stairs you’ve climbed, or how far you’ve walked or run. Developers can use CoreMotion APIs that take advantage of M8 and HealthKit to create apps that help you take better care of your health and fitness.
iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus introduce Apple Pay, an easy way to securely pay for physical goods and services in stores or apps with just the touch of a finger. Users can pay securely and conveniently in stores by simply holding the phone near the contactless reader while keeping a finger on Touch ID™; there is no need to unlock your iPhone or launch an app. With Apple Pay, you can also make one-touch purchases within apps, without having to enter credit card or shipping information. All payment information is kept private, encrypted and stored securely in the Secure Element, a chip inside the new iPhones.
The iSight camera gets even better with a new sensor featuring Focus Pixels for faster autofocus, making it easier to quickly capture any moment. iPhone 6 Plus users will also benefit from optical image stabilization technology that compensates for hand shake in low light and works with iOS 8 to reduce subject motion. High-definition video on iPhone improves with faster frame rates up to 60fps for 1080p video and 240fps for slo-mo, as well as continuous autofocus, cinematic video stabilization and time-lapse video. The FaceTime HD camera now captures over 80 percent more light with a new sensor, larger f/2.2 aperture and advanced new features including burst mode and HDR video.
With faster LTE download speeds of up to 150 Mbps, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus users can browse, download and stream content faster. The new iPhones also support high-quality voice calls over LTE (VoLTE) as well as Wi-Fi calling.² With support for up to 20 LTE wireless bands—more than any other smartphone in the world—the new models make it easier to experience high-speed networks around the world. Both iPhones also include 802.11ac Wi-Fi with speeds up to 433 Mbps and Bluetooth 4.0.³
The new iPhones come with iOS 8, the biggest release since the launch of the App Store℠, delivering a simpler, faster and more intuitive user experience and new features including QuickType keyboard, a new Health app, Family Sharing and iCloud Drive. With more than 4,000 new APIs, iOS 8 allows developers to further customize the user experience with major extensibility features and robust frameworks such as HealthKit and HomeKit. iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus users also have access to the revolutionary App Store, which offers more than 1.3 million apps to iPhone, iPad® and iPod touch® users in 155 countries around the world.
Pricing & Availability iPhone 6 comes in gold, silver or space gray, and will be available in the US for a suggested retail price of $199 (US) for the 16GB model, $299 (US) for the 64GB model and, for the first time, a new 128GB model for $399 (US) with a two-year contract.⁴ iPhone 6 Plus comes in gold, silver or space gray, and will be available in the US for a suggested retail price of $299 (US) for the 16GB model, $399 (US) for the 64GB model and $499 (US) for the new 128GB model with a two-year contract.⁴ Both models will be available from the Apple Online Store(www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores, and through AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, additional carriers and select Apple Authorized Resellers. iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus will be available in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore and the UK beginning on Friday, September 19, and customers can pre-order both models beginning on Friday, September 12.
Apple-designed leather cases will be available in black, soft pink, olive brown, midnight blue and (RED) for $45 (US) for iPhone 6 and $49 (US) for iPhone 6 Plus and silicone cases in black, blue, pink, green, white and (RED) for a suggested retail price of $35 (US) for iPhone 6 and $39 (US) for iPhone 6 Plus through the Apple Online Store (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers.
iPhone 5s will be available in the US for a suggested retail price of $99 (US) for the 16GB model and $149 (US) for the 32GB model, and an iPhone 5c 8GB model will be available for free.⁴ iOS 8 will be available as a free software update starting on Wednesday, September 17. Some features may not be available on all products. Apple Pay will be available to US customers as a free software update to iOS 8 this October.
¹ Apple Pay will be available to iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus customers in the US as a free update to iOS 8 this October. ² LTE, VoLTE and Wi-Fi calling are available through select carriers. Network speeds are dependent on carrier networks, check with your carrier for details. ³ Based on theoretical speeds, actual speeds may vary. ⁴ For qualified customers only. Check with your carrier for details.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.
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Do I dare to get hopeful?
I sent out several manuscripts for a writing competition back at the end of April.
I haven't been rejected yet.
I also sent out a submission to an open submission window in May and people have been getting rejected for that over the last week or so.
Not me though.
Dare I get hopeful that I've maybe made it through to the next round❓ That the open submission one will request a full manuscript and that the writing competition will consider me for the anthology❓ That maybe, just maybe, my writing and editing is good enough for serious consideration now, rather than be immediately rejected❓
I've come a loooong way... so do I dare to allow myself to dream of at least getting to the full request again❓❓
Please keep those fingers crossed 🤞 for me that things finally work in my favour. I'm not gonna publish the names of either the writing competition or the publisher with the open submission window until they are finalised and the sucessful authors have been announced.
Book Review: Bea's Thanksgiving by A. White
⭐ out of 5
OK, before I even open the book I'm confused about two things - firstly why the editor is credited and secondly why there's such a huuuuge age range... 10-18 years old covers at least two age ranges of book - Middle Grade for the 10-12 year olds and Young Adult for the 13-18 year olds. I'm also guessing that the book is either written in or set in America as British kids would barely have a clue Thanksgiving even existed, let alone why it is a holiday in America!
In under 10 pages I'm thinking it should be Young Adult because of several word choices that a 10 year old would never understand but the main character seems to be a lot younger than a teen, so maybe that's why the author gave such a huge age range for the target audience? IMO it should either have easier words and be aimed at the younger end of the target audience or keep the words but significantly mature the main character.
The main character is 8-10 years old, so it's younger even than middle grade 'cos children prefer their characters to be a couple of years older than them, so it should be an early chapter book for 8-10 year olds, maximum... there's no way an 18 year old would read a book with a main character who is a decade *younger* than them!!
The end of page 11 and not a single word of speech so far... a child would definitely have stopped reading the book and closed it up, never to pick it up again by now, so the combination of all these things means the book already loses a star.
Sixteen pages into the book and there have been three thoughts but still no actual speech. It would be so easy to do with a bit of minor editing, but the author obviously decided against it, unfortunately.
A huge knocking off of a star because of the swearing! Do you really want a 10 year old to ask how you pronounce and what a b***ard (my own stars in place of the full swear word in the book) is?
Finally! Page 17 and we've finally got a small amount of speech!
Another swear word... f**k this time. That's another star gone and we're not even through the first chapter yet! If it was aimed at Young Adults then I would maybe have let them slip through, but there could be 10 year olds reading it and there's no way I would want them reading swearing like that in a book!
F**k has just been repeated in less than a paragraph. If there's one more swear word then I'm stopping reading the book.
Three times in a paragraph. That's it, the book is losing the final star and I'm not reading any more... I haven't got a clue how the book was published for such a huge age range and without even lesser swear words used. The rest of the book may be better, but I'm stopping reading now and giving it a single star because I can't publish a review without a star rating.
Book review: "Kat and Juju" by Kataneh Vahdani
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ out of 5
Immediate thoughts on the cover, really cute and deserves the five stars that every book I review starts off with, so far... I wonder if the author is also the illustrator though?
Lets get the book opened ;-)
Oooh! It *is* illustrated by the author, which is even better!
This is a great book... still a very well-deserved 5 stars and I'm already tempted to buy the hardcover version for one of my nephews!
The author has really got inside the head of young children who feel left outside of the popular crowd at playgroup/nursery/primary school and this is still a five star book, half way through... I've usually found something negative in a book by now, but this book is proving me wrong this time!
What a perfect ending, nothing negative or critical to say at all! A very well deserved five stars and I'm gonna go and buy it for my nephew now... a must buy for any parent or carer or even childcare place with a child (or even several children) who feels very lost and alone and seems to be a lonely outsider!
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HomeReviewsLive ReviewsJosh Ritter + Ida Mae, Union Chapel, London, 23rd July 2019
Josh Ritter + Ida Mae, Union Chapel, London, 23rd July 2019
August 5, 2019 Jonathan Aird Live Reviews 0
It was another warm evening for this second night of a two-night stand at London’s famed Union Chapel – the record-breaking temperatures of the day trailing off with a long tail. Under the stage lights, Josh Ritter, with his full band backing him, was showing the effect of the heat but held nothing back on a set which revisited some of his back catalogue but was also a great opportunity to hear the really strong new songs from his latest album ‘Fever Breaks’ live. It was a setlist with two themes – respecting the venue, there seemed to be many of Ritter’s songs which make use of religious, and specifically Christian, imagery with a second strand of concern for American democracy.
And if it was a set that favoured more recent albums that’s hardly surprising – Josh Ritter’s writing has been so good for so long and shows no signs of diminishing in quality that it would be a crime to continually go back to the early “hits“. So it was that from the outset, the reflective ‘Monster Ballads’, both Ritter and his longtime bandmates showed complete commitment to delivering the pick of the songs at the peak of their collective powers.
New song ‘On the Water’ is a fine Ritter love ballad but ‘Old Black Magic’ lets the band dig into some less frequently heard deep and dirty blues-influenced rock. It sounds, for want of a better description, like latter-day Dylan, but with Ritter’s clear diction and sweet-toned vocals. This is a real band though, with every instrument important, be it the echoing of the drums or the interjection of a sudden sharp sly guitar solo. So when the optimism levels go through the roof on ‘Lantern’ it’s hardly the surprise it should be to see the glee on faces and even open bursts of laughter as the band egg each other on to another cathartic crescendo.
‘Homecoming’ hits the same levels of joy on which is perhaps Ritter’s poppiest song, but he retains the ability to dig deep into the thoughtful such as on ‘Another New World’ which manages to bring a little Arctic chill to the room as he contemplates through a Poe inspired metaphor of exploration, the artistic urge which pushes an artist to go further at the risk of destroying that which he loves. It’s a beautiful story that unfolds at a funereal pace and ends with a typical half-hopeful flourish. It’s one of those pin-drop quiet moments that makes a gig like this so memorable.
There’s a darker side to the set list though. ‘The Torch Committee’ was mesmerising with its rolling Gileadean interrogation, which should be a paranoid fantasy but now feels like only a few steps from reality. Alternatively sympathetic, “We see your feet and legs are tied in clearest breach of by-law five, and left here in this little room in clearest breach of by-law two / and though you know that we take pains the process of the law remains all technicalities aside you see our hands are also tied,” and threatening,”We know the monsters know their names, by which they go and which they change/ … / how we wish that we could say that each of them will walk away / but sadly it’s the awful truth it’s them or us – it’s them or you.” The combination of music and casually threatening lyrics generated real shivers. New song ‘The Gospel of Mary’ was sung solo, with Ritter a brightly lit silhouette, for a song that dug deep into the wrongs being done to those who cross the southern borders into the USA – those with little but each other torn apart, families dispersed and children lost in an uncaring system. There’s no disguising who’s being held to blame for this and how Ritter feels about this behaviour in a land that was built on the back of waves of immigrants.
After an hour or so it seemed almost as if the band had rushed away for a break before a quick encore – but that was not the way it was as the spotlight finally found them huddled together in the pulpit with Ritter quipping that, “I hear some people play here and don’t play in the pulpit” – and jammed in as they were, all acoustic now with keyboards replaced by accordion and an upright bass booming out the beat and huddled around a single microphone, it does seem odd that anyone would not take advantage of this unique opportunity. It was a moment of pure joy. The toe-tapping ‘Long Shadows’, then a poignant nod to Scott Hutchinson with a cover of Frightened Rabbit’s ‘Old, Old Fashioned’ which gleefully embraces the past with a plea to “get old fashioned like things used to be / if I get old old fashioned will you get old fashioned with me”. It jounced along like a hayride wagon, steered expertly by this skiffle band before this mini-set come sermon came to a conclusion with an achingly lovely ‘Kathleen’.
Back out front the band kicked into a couple more from ‘Fever Breaks’, with Ritter bouncing across the stage as fresh and enthusiastic for the gig as he was at the start. ‘Losing Battles’ is a growling rock song of the struggles between doing what one wants and what one should, which linked nicely into ‘Getting Ready To Get Down’ which rejects Bible College restrictions and misogyny, a teenage girl’s tongue-twisting flip of the finger to a controlling patriarchy. “Your soul needed saving so they sent you off to Bible school, you learnt a little more than they’d heard was in the golden rule / …/ give your love freely to whomever that you please don’t let nobody tell you ’bout the who you ought to be / and when you get damned in the popular opinion it’s just another damn of the damn’s you’re not giving.”
After all that energy there can be few songs in Ritter’s songbook more moving as a set closer than ‘The Curse’. It embodies everything that marks Ritter out as one of the finest of songwriting talents – a gentle minor key nostalgic waltz of a song, making for an RKO kind of mood, an unlikely romance from the golden age of cinema. And yet it’s also painfully cruel, the protagonist well aware of what he is doing – lying, evasive and manipulative in love “she asked “are you cursed?” he said “I think that I’m cured” then he kissed her and hoped that she’d forget that question.” With Ritter dancing with little shuffling steps there’s an honest ownership of these emotions as he embodies the re-animated figure. In the darkened Union Chapel it was an intimate moment of conflicted tenderness.
Alone again for the encore Ritter nailed the night closed with the deceptively simple-sounding ‘All Some Kind of Dream’ which tapped in, once more, to that theme of American Democracy and equal treatment for all – it’s Josh Ritter at his protest folksinger best. And with band bows and a final admonishment to be good to each other an evening in the company of a huge talent came to a close.
Opening support had come from the up and coming and already much-lauded on these pages, Ida Mae. They’d made the sensible decision to pull the audience into their short set with a guaranteed pleaser in the form of a slow and steamy ‘I shall be Released’.
The duo are Norwich via Nashville – and Bath and Holloway and a whole lot of other places no doubt – and their bluesy blend of folk and country has something of a Smoke Fairies feel to it. With the twist of male and female vocals and Christopher Turpin’s penchant for changing guitars – ending up on a vintage 12 string resonator for another of their songs of relationships on the verge of collapse, ‘Your love is a long road’, they blasted out on their one “let it rip” song of the night – a classic blues stomper. They’re making a lot of waves at the moment – and are clearly destined for bigger things, so better catch them now in small venues before the moment passes.
Ida Mae
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Sure, I could climb high in a tree, or go to Skye on my holiday. I could be happy. All I really want is the excitement of first hearing The Byrds, the amazement of decades of Dylan's music, or the thrill of seeing a band like The Long Ryders live. That's not much to ask, is it?
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American football terminology
Rugby union terminology
Rugby league terminology
Association football terminology
Australian rules football terminology
Laws of Australian rules football
Australian rules football tactics and skills
Tackle (football move)
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A Rugby League tackle during a National Rugby League Match Between the Manly Sea Eagles and the Cronulla Sharks
Most forms of football have a move known as a tackle. The primary purposes of tackling is to disposses an opponent of the ball, to stop the player from gaining ground towards goal or to stop them from carrying out what they intend.
The word is used in some contact variations of football to describe the act of physically holding or wrestling a player to the ground. In others, it simply describes one or more methods of contesting for possession of the ball. It can therefore be used as both a defensive or attacking move.
1 Name origin
2 Australian rules football
2.1 Types of tackles in Australian rules
2.2 Other tackling methods
3 Gaelic football
4 American and Canadian football
5 International rules football
6 Rugby football
6.1 Rugby league
6.2 Rugby union
7 Association football
8 Other uses
9 Allowable tackle types
10 Controversial techniques
Name origin[edit | edit source]
In Middle Dutch, the verb tacken meant to grab or to handle. By the 14th century, this had come to be used for the equipment used for fishing, referring to the rod and reel, etc., and also for that used in sailing, referring to rigging, equipment, or gear used on ships. By the 18th century, a similar use was applied to harnesses or equipment used with horses. Modern use in football comes from the earlier sport of rugby, where the word was used in the 19th century.
Australian rules football[edit | edit source]
A British Bulldog player is chased down and tackled by a Nauru Chief opponent as he tries to get a kick away.
As there is no offside rule in Australian rules football, players can be tackled from any direction, and often blindsided. For this reason, the sport allows shepherding methods for teammates to be able to protect the ball carrier.
The variety of different ways to contest possession in Australian rules has led to first time observers of the game regarding it as having "no rules" or as some Australians unfamiliar with the game colloquially term it "Rafferty's Rules". Despite these stereotypes, however, there are actually quite strict rules governing tackling.
In Australian rules football, the move commonly described as a "tackle" is similar to in rugby and involves wrapping, holding or wrestling a player who has possession of the ball to the ground.
Tackling in Australian Rules is unique in that if tackled player does not dispose of the ball having had opportunity to do so (called the holding the ball rule), or concedes a penalty in the tackle (i.e. tries to throw the ball when he was only allowed to "handball" or kick it) the tackler is rewarded with a free kick. This is only paid if the player tackling does not either deliberately or unintentionally hold the ball to their opponents body.
A tackle must make contact below the shoulders and above the knees, and a player is able to be thrown to the ground, so long as the tackle is not reckless. There are also rules outlawing pushing in the back making tackling more difficult.
Players wear little to no padding to cushion the impact of tackles, however mouthguards are essential for keeping teeth. As there is no offside rule in Australian rules, tackling is more often when chasing a player down rather than frequent on head on contact.
Types of tackles in Australian rules[edit | edit source]
There are many types of tackles in Australian rules football:
perfect tackle – when a player lays a tackle on an opponent that has had prior opportunity to dispose of the ball and in the process makes it impossible for their opponent to dispose of the ball. For example if a tackler pins an opponent's arm, then the opponent cannot possibly handball, and if they pin both arms, then it is nearly impossible to legally execute a kick. A player is almost always rewarded for a perfect tackle (except in the case of a slam tackle – see below).
gang tackle – when the player in possession is tackled by more than one opponent at the same time.
high tackle – any tackle which infringes on the opponent's neck or head. This includes any tackle which slips above the A/C joint. This is illegal and the penalty is a free kick.
grass cutter tackle - When a defending player tackles an attacking player around the ankles, making movement impossible for the attacker.
coathanger – slang for high contact to the head, usually by a stiff arm, which causes a player to land flat on their back. It is often accidental due to the high pace of the game. The penalty may be a free kick if deemed accidental or a reportable offence which may result in suspension.
diving tackle – when a player leaves the ground in attempting to tackle
slinging – a player slung to the ground in a tackle (although in the AFL these days, if a player loses possession of the ball while they are being thrown, the tackler will often get penalised for "holding the man".)
broken tackle – when a player is able to break free of a tackle
spear tackle – also known as a dangerous throw, it is a reportable offence and may result in suspension.
push in the back – Any tackle which forces the player forward, into the ground, or both, from behind. This is an illegal tackle and the penalty is a free kick.
bump or hip and shoulder tackle is a legal Aussie rules tactic for both dispossession of the player with the ball and also impeding players involved in a contest but not in possession of the ball. The difference between a bump and a tackle is that arms are not used in a bump, which must be made side-on using the hip and or shoulder. Not all bumping is legal, however. Aggressive head on bumping or "charging" of a player with the ball is often described as "rough play" and is a reportable offence, this is particularly so if a player is deemed to have their head down over the ball in an attempt to picking it up off the ground when the bump is applied or contact is made above the shoulders. Standing ground against an oncoming player, however, is legal.
slam tackle – relatively new term for a tackle which results in an opponent's head being deliberately slammed to the ground. It is often associated with the pinning of the arms of an opponent so that they cannot cushion the impact of their head on the ground. Although tolerated in days gone by in recent years, in 2009, the AFL branded this a dangerous type of tackle. Incidents in the professional AFL involving Byron Pickett and Darren Milburn have come under particular scrutiny.[1]
wing tackle or chicken wing tackle – when one arm is pinned in a tackle. After sustaining severe damage from this type of tackle during the 2009 AFL season, Brent Harvey called for this type of tackle to be banned.[2]
Other tackling methods[edit | edit source]
Although the term "tackle" is used in Australian Rules to exclusively describe wrapping, holding or wrestling a player in possession, there are also several other ways of contesting possession in Australian rules that other sports would describe as a "tackle" and that also involve a degree of contact.
Other defensive actions are generally categorised as one percenters. Colliding with other players whilst trying to catch or mark the ball is part of the game, however tackling a player jumping in the air to catch a ball is strictly not allowed. Bumping a player who is jumping to catch the ball is not allowed unless the player is deemed to have intentions to contest for possession or have "eyes for the ball". The defensive tactic of punching away (commonly known as spoiling) from a player is allowed. Smothering, which involves using the arms or body to get in the way of an opponent's kick as it leaves their boot, and is similar to a charge down in rugby football.
Gaelic football[edit | edit source]
Gaelic football defines tackling as wresting the ball from an opponent's hands. Bumping is allowed on the player with the ball, but a player cannot be grabbed.
American and Canadian football[edit | edit source]
College football game: Navy quarterback Kaipo-Noa Kaheaku-Enhada is tackled by Massachusetts defensive back James Ihedigbo, No. 7, and linebacker Charles Walker, No. 11.
In American football and Canadian football, to tackle is to physically interfere with the forward progress of a player in possession of the ball, such that his forward progress ceases and is not resumed, or such that he is caused to touch some part of his body to the ground other than his feet or hands, or such that he is forced to go out of bounds. In any such case, the ball becomes dead, the down is over, and play ceases until the beginning of the next play. A tackle is known as a quarterback sack when the quarterback is tackled behind the line of scrimmage while attempting to throw a pass. A tackle for loss indicates a tackle that causes a loss of yardage for the opposing running back or wide receiver. When a player who does not have the ball is taken down it is generally referred to as a block.
Tacklers are not required to wrap their arms around the ball carrier before bringing him to the ground; in fact, the ball carrier is often "tackled" by the defender taking a running start and hitting the ball carrier to knock them to the ground. Tackles can also be made by grabbing the ball carrier's jersey and pulling him to the ground. As mentioned above, the referee can declare that a play is dead if the ballcarrier's forward progress has been stopped, even if no actual "tackle" has occurred.
There are some restrictions on tackles and blocks. At no time may a defensive player tackle an offensive player by grabbing the facemask of a football helmet; doing so incurs a 15-yard penalty and the victimized team is awarded a new set of downs. Although spear tackles are allowed in gridiron football, a player may not use his helmet to tackle an opponent as the technique can cause serious injury to both players (more often the tackler, due to the force of reaction on the tackler, which is apt to be beyond the limit that the neck can handle) and also warrants a 15-yard penalty as well as a fresh set of downs if committed by the defending team; this is known as "spearing the player." A similar penalty is assessed to any player attempting to make contact with his helmet against another opponent's helmet, which is known as a helmet-to-helmet collision. Grabbing a ball carrier by the pads behind his neck and pulling him down is known as a "horse collar," a method which has been made illegal at all levels of American football.
It is also illegal to tackle a player who has thrown a forward pass (generally a quarterback) after he has released the ball; doing so is called "roughing the passer" and incurs a 15-yard penalty and a fresh set of downs for the team with the ball. However, in the NFL a player can continue forward for one step, which means that often a player who is committed to attacking the quarterback will still make a tackle. Place kickers and punters are afforded an even greater protection from being tackled. Once the play is ruled complete no contact is permitted; a player who makes contact with an opponent after the play is charged with "unnecessary roughness" and his team is assessed a 15-yard penalty. Blocks that occur in the back of the legs and below the knees, initiated below the waist, or clotheslines are also generally prohibited and players who use them are subject to much more severe penalties than other illegal tackles. However a player who plays on the line can block below the knees (cut block) as long the block is within five yards of the line and the player they block is in front of them and not engaged by another blocker (chop block).
Tackle is also the name of player positions of interior linemen on both the offensive and defensive teams. Usually there is a left and right tackle on each team, though sometimes on defense there is only a single "nose tackle."
International rules football[edit | edit source]
International rules football is a hybrid game between Australian rules football and Gaelic football. Tackling in International Rules is subject to similar rules as Australian rules football, but with some subtle differences. Tackling is only allowed as low as the waist, whereas it is allowed down to the knees in Aussie Rules. One handed tackling has been banned in IR since the 2008 International Rules Series.
Rugby football[edit | edit source]
Rugby league[edit | edit source]
See also: One on one tackle
A tackle in rugby league
In rugby league the ball-carrier only may be tackled by any number of defenders from any direction. The initial contact in the tackle must be made below the ball carrier's neck or it will be deemed a high tackle and penalised. A tackle in rugby league is completed when any of the following occurs:
The attacking player's ball-carrying arm comes into contact with the ground while still held by a defender.
Although still on his feet, the attacking player's forward momentum has ceased while still held by a defender.
The referee calls "Held".
Once the tackle is completed the ball-carrier must be allowed to get to his feet to 'play-the-ball'. Spear tackles are illegal in rugby league, with most tackles in which the defender is lifted 'above the horizontal' bringing about penalties in the modern game. A 2012 New Zealand study found that over 659 tackles are made per game in professional rugby league.[3] Of all the rugby league positions, second-row forward averages the most tackles.[4]
Rugby union[edit | edit source]
A diving tackle in rugby union
In rugby union, a player must be brought to ground for a tackle to be completed. The tackled player must release the ball, but the ball is not dead and a ruck forms to contest possession of it. If the ball carrier is not brought to the ground a maul will usually form.
Association football[edit | edit source]
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A tackle in Association football
See also: Sliding tackle
In association football, a player tackles an opponent by taking control of the ball from them. This is achieved by using either leg to wrest possession from the opponent, or sliding in on the grass to knock the ball away. The target of the tackle must always be the ball, otherwise it may be deemed as illegal by the referee, especially if the player makes contact with his opponent before the ball, or makes unfair contact with the player after playing the ball. If the tackle comes from the front or the side and succeeds in touching the ball first a player may still be penalised if the tackle endangers an opponent.[5] Tackling with both legs is illegal. Although tackles from behind were formerly illegal, tackles can now be legally made from any direction, so long as contact with the ball is made and the tackle is not excessively dangerous.[6] This explicitly includes "scissoring" (tackling with legs apart, so as to trap the opponent's leg or legs in between), which is likely to be punished with a straight ejection (red card), as it poses a high risk of severe knee injury to the player being tackled. If a tackle is deemed legal, then play continues.
Tackling with studs up is considered dangerous, although it is not always punished.
Other uses[edit | edit source]
Other non-football games that feature tackling or similar concepts include British bulldogs and hurling, while hockey and shinty feature similar bumping or shoulder barging moves.
Allowable tackle types[edit | edit source]
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sliding tackle
spear tackle
dump tackle
body tackle
ankle tap
diving tackle
bumping/blocking
shoulder charge
steal/intercept ball
Association football[7] Yes No No No No No No Restricted[8] Restricted[9] No
Australian rules football No[10] Reportable Yes Restricted[11] No[12] Yes Yes[13] Reportable Yes No Spoil, Shepherd, Smother
Gaelic football[14] No No No No No No Restricted[15] No No Restricted[16]
Gridiron football Classified as a trip Illegal if Leading with Head Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Rugby League Reportable Reportable Yes Yes[17] Yes Yes Penalty Yes Restricted[18] Reportable Charge down
Rugby union Reportable Reportable Yes Yes Yes Yes Penalty No Restricted[19] Penalty Charge down
Controversial techniques[edit | edit source]
spear tackle (dangerous throw) – (illegal in both rugby codes and Australian rules)
high tackle (illegal head-high tackle) – rugby league and Australian rules (see also coathanger)
grapple tackle – a controversial rugby league tackling technique similar to a chokehold[1].
chicken wing tackle – banned in rugby league
horse-collar tackle – banned in gridiron football by the NFL, the NCAA, and the CFL. This tackle involves the defender reaching his hand inside the ball carrier's collar, grabbing the collar (and usually, the collar of the shoulder pads), and pulling player straight down or backwards and down. The tackle has the potential to cause severe injuries to the tackled player's neck, legs and ankles. It is considered an "equipment tackle", meaning the protective equipment used by the players is what is used to make the tackle (similarly, a face-mask tackle is considered an "equipment tackle"). The horse-collar was made infamous by former Dallas Cowboys free safety Roy Williams (now with the Cincinnati Bengals) when he performed it on former Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Terrell Owens.
↑ AFL not so tackle happy after Darren Milburn's tackle last season by Bruce Matthews. February 12, 2009
↑ http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,25402009-19742,00.html
↑ King D, Hume PA, Clark T.. "Nature of tackles that result in injury in professional rugby league". PubMed. Hutt Valley District Health Board. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22458826. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
↑ Tim Rogers and Richard Beesley (2006). Fitness for Rugby League. Australia: coachrugbyleague.com.au. http://coachrugbyleague.com.au/Documents/International/Fitness%20for%20Rugby%20League.pdf.
↑ FIFA Laws of the Game
↑ http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/affederation/federation/lotg_en_55753.pdf (Law 12)
↑ Tackling with the hands strictly not allowed
↑ minor charge or push, shoulder-to-shoulder only, if both players are in direct battle for possession
↑ foot only
↑ Classified as a trip
↑ between knees and shoulders, no pushing in the back
↑ within 5 metres of ball
↑ Tackling with the hands not allowed
↑ only on player with the ball
↑ no interference allowed
↑ No grappling around the neck
↑ no knock ons allowed
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Mizoram was placed under Union Territory from 1972 and it attained Statehood in 1986. Prior to these, it was one of the Districts under Assam. The Agriculture Department was headed by a District Agricultural Officer who was stationed at Aizawl. Lunglei was the Sub-Divisional Headquarter. The existing staff was a mere handful. With the declaration of Mizoram as Union Territory and on to Statehood 14 years later, the situation of the Department improved with many posts created. However, technically trained persons were lacking to fill in the technical posts such as Agril. Extension Officer (AEO), Gram Sevak etc. Candidates to undergo training for B.Sc (Agriculture) were called for, and many fresh candidates were sent to study B.Sc (Agriculture) in various Agriculture Universities in different States and these candidates were absorbed by the Department. At the same time vacant posts of Gram Sevak were filled up by untrained matric passed candidates due to lack technically trained man-power. With this background the Agriculture Department Established itself into a new Directorate in the year 1972. However, lack of technical training on the part of the fields staff on subject such as uses of Plant Protection Chemicals, fertilizers, agronomic practices etc. created a very big problem in the implementation of Agriculture programmes. To overcome these problems, the Department took a giant step and set up a training Centre for the VLWs known as the Integrated Training Centre at Hnahthial which was formally inaugurated in 1981. The Centre trained the in-service as well as pre-service trainers in the field of Basic Agricultural Science such as Agronomy. Plant Protection, Soil Science, Horticulture, Extension Science. The training programme is of two year duration. One academic year is divided into 4 Semester. Practical in a form of Field Demonstration is an important activity of the trainees. Handling of farm machineries such as Tractor with attachments, Power Tiller were also included in the training activities. A stipend of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand) per trainee per month and a book grant of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand) per year was sanctioned by the Government of Mizoram for Pre-service trainees. At present most of the admitted in the centre are rural youths desiring to be trained in agriculture and allied subject for self employment and to apply the knowledge in their own farms.
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'The Walking Dead' Director Promises 'The Walking Dead' Will Still Be "Great" After Andrew Lincoln Leaves
By Daniel Falconer in Movies / TV / Theatre on 04 June 2018
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'The Walking Dead' will lose its leading star Andrew Lincoln in season 9.
'The Walking Dead' has been going through some major changes as of late, both in front of the camera and behind-the-scenes. The latest news however came as a shock to all viewers, as it was revealed Andrew Lincoln would only be appearing in half of season 9, before bowing out of the series altogether and retiring from the role of Rick Grimes.
Andrew Lincoln's time on 'The Walking Dead' is coming to an end
Rick has for eight seasons to-date led 'The Walking Dead', bringing together a group of survivors in the zombie apocalypse and doing his all to keep them aligned. Going up against a number of different threats and villains, his most recent exchange came with Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), who he finally brought to his knees in the show's eighth season finale.
Now though, it would seem Lincoln's ready to say goodbye to the show that has made him a household name in America. Many wonder just what shape the series will take when he's gone, but one of the regular directors on the show, Michael Satrazemis, doesn't think we should be too alarmed.
Taking to his Instagram account, the director said (via Reddit): ""Many of us have spent the last 8 yrs of our lives living, working, creating, high giving, hugging and sometimes even bleeding real blood with Andy. All to make something special. He is one of the greatest men I've ever met. And a friend. The show will miss him as much as you. It will be different but it will still be great. All of us who love making TWD keep creating our asses off and sometimes even bleed for you.""
It's great to see the respect Satrazemis has for Lincoln, and whilst he acknowledges the loss of him from the series will be one that stuns audiences, he also hints at the fact 'The Walking Dead' is a true ensemble show, with many different actors picking up the slack at one time or another.
It would be unfair on the cast to say the series would come tumbling down following Lincoln's exit, and in fact, that refreshing type of move may be one necessary to see recently dwindling ratings be brought back up.
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Organ-on-e-chip: Three-dimensional self-rolled biosensor array for electrical interrogations of human electrogenic spheroids
View ORCID ProfileAnna Kalmykov1,
View ORCID ProfileChangjin Huang2,3,
View ORCID ProfileJacqueline Bliley1,
View ORCID ProfileDaniel Shiwarski1,
View ORCID ProfileJoshua Tashman1,
Arif Abdullah4,
View ORCID ProfileSahil K. Rastogi1,
View ORCID ProfileShivani Shukla1,5,
View ORCID ProfileElnatan Mataev1,
View ORCID ProfileAdam W. Feinberg1,5,
View ORCID ProfileK. Jimmy Hsia2,3 and
View ORCID ProfileTzahi Cohen-Karni1,5,*
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
2School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798 Singapore, Republic of Singapore.
3School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798 Singapore, Republic of Singapore.
4Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801, USA.
5Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
↵*Corresponding author. Email: tzahi{at}andrew.cmu.edu
Science Advances 23 Aug 2019:
Vol. 5, no. 8, eaax0729
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax0729
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Cell-cell communication plays a pivotal role in coordination and function of biological systems. Three-dimensional (3D) spheroids provide venues to explore cellular communication for tissue development and drug discovery, as their 3D architecture mimics native in vivo microenvironments. Cellular electrophysiology is a prevalent signaling paradigm for studying electroactive cells. Currently, electrophysiological studies do not provide direct, multisite, simultaneous investigation of tissues in 3D. In this study, 3D self-rolled biosensor arrays (3D-SR-BAs) of either active field-effect transistors or passive microelectrodes were implemented to interface human cardiac spheroids in 3D. The arrays provided continuous and stable multiplexed recordings of field potentials with high sensitivity and spatiotemporal resolution, supported with simultaneous calcium imaging. Our approach enables electrophysiological investigation and monitoring of the complex signal transduction in 3D cellular assemblies toward an organ-on-an-electronic-chip (organ-on-e-chip) platform for tissue maturation investigations and development of drugs for disease treatment, such as arrhythmias.
Cell-cell communication is fundamental to multicellular life and to the emergence of higher-order functions in a wide variety of tissues and organs. In their native three-dimensional (3D) environment, cells are intimately connected to each other and the surrounding matrix to form a complex and highly dynamic system (1). Culturing cells on two-dimensional (2D) surfaces has been the foundation of in vitro cell culture for decades. However, 2D culturing environment and native 3D tissue environment are not only different quantitatively (e.g., in dimensions) but, more importantly, also different qualitatively in many key characteristics of cellular behaviors (2). Specifically, 2D-cultured cells show distinctly different cellular morphology (2), proliferation rates (3), cell–extracellular matrix interactions (4), migration (5), gene expression (6), differentiation (7), signaling (8), physiological function (9), and electrophysiological properties (1).
Cellular electrophysiology is a prevalent paradigm used to study cellular communication across a wide range of cells, from electroactive cells such as cardiomyocytes (CMs), neurons, or α/β cells in pancreatic islets, to non-electroactive cells, such as hepatocytes, and immune cells. 3D organoid-based systems, such as organ-on-a-chip platforms, are new venues for tissue development exploration and drug discovery (10). Properly characterizing the physiological properties of such systems would pave the way for improved understanding of the mechanisms underlying cell-cell communication and potential applications in tissue engineering. Currently, electrophysiological studies of cells and tissues are carried out using a variety of techniques, including glass micropipette patch-clamp electrodes (11), voltage- and Ca2+-sensitive dyes (12), multielectrode arrays (MEAs) (13), and planar field-effect transistors (FETs) (14). However, direct, multisite, simultaneous, and native-like topology (3D) electrophysiological investigation has not been demonstrated in spheroid-based tissues. Specifically, the voltage- and ion-sensitive dyes may be toxic to the cells and are currently limited in volumetric (3D) measurements (12). The patch-clamp technique is limited by its recording sites (11), and its use in multiplexed recording from spheroids has not been demonstrated. While the microfabricated planar (2D) FETs (14) and MEAs (15) allow multiplexed detection on a scale not possible with micropipette technology (16), both MEAs and FETs are confined to 2D substrates that renders 3D electrical recording immensely challenging (Fig. 1) (17). Recently, 3D bioelectrical interfaces were reported. For example, a porous conductive polymer, poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(sodium 4-styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS), acted both as a transistor channel and as a scaffold monitored cell attachment in 3D (18). 3D MEAs were demonstrated to wrap around individual cell’s surface and obtain electrophysiological recordings with subcellular resolution (17). However, multicellular tissue-scale, 3D multisite, and simultaneous recordings have not been previously demonstrated.
Fig. 1 3D-SR-BAs for electrical interrogation of human electrogenic spheroids.
(A) 3D-SR-BAs are fabricated using conventional lithography techniques on a sacrificial layer (red arrow). Inset, expanded view of the marked black dashed box of either passive (microelectrode) or active [graphene field-effect transistor (GFET)] biosensors. S and D denote source and drain of the GFET, respectively. (B) Leveraging the prestress in the metal interconnects (gold colored traces), the arrays self-roll upon removal of the sacrificial layer. Inset, expanded view of the marked red dashed box. (C) Cardiac spheroids encapsulated in the 3D-SR-BAs, allowing electrical measurements in 3D. (D) The interface between the cardiac spheroid and array in 2D provides a limited interface for electrical measurement only from the apex of the spheroids.
Here, we present a novel approach, an organ-on-electronic-chip (organ-on-e-chip), a 3D self-rolled biosensor array (3D-SR-BA), for electrophysiological measurements of spheroids that enables the study of cell-cell communications of 3D multicellular systems (Fig. 1). Self-rolled polymeric structures have been obtained in recent years (17, 19). Main actuation mechanisms include light, pH, temperature, and electrical or magnetic triggering. Our idea of controlled assembly of electrical biosensors in 3D is presented in Fig. 1. We choose to use a prestressed metal/polymer support multilayer structure as our working system. The self-rolling platform is fabricated on a planar surface (Fig. 1A), and once released off the surface, it achieves a controlled 3D geometry (Fig. 1B). We applied the approach to study the propagation of electrical signals within stem cell–derived engineered cardiac spheroids, an ideal system to test the approach performance due to the unmet need in understanding the cell-cell communication processes in this 3D cellular spheroid system (Fig. 1C) (20). The presented 3D-SR-BAs provide a novel tool to record electrophysiological signals of native 3D tissue organization to aid the understanding of signal transduction in complex cellular assemblies. Knowing how electrical information propagates in a spheroid will greatly affect our basic understanding of signal transduction in complex cellular assemblies. This will shed light on the relationship between electrical signals and disease, such as arrhythmias, and will enable an organ-on-e-chip platform for tissue maturation investigations as well as further development and assessment of the efficacy of drugs for disease treatment, such as arrhythmias.
Highly controlled 3D-SR-BAs
The power of our 3D sensing device lies in its tunable characteristics, controlled not only by the arrangements of the electrodes but also by the curvature of the device. The self-rolled device allows 3D measurements of tissue-scale electrophysiology (Fig. 1C) that are not accessible with conventional electronics, fabricated on 2D chip surfaces. An interface of a 3D native tissue with a 2D measurement platform is limited, as a tight tissue-sensor interface can only be achieved on the apex of the tissue, as shown in Fig. 1D. Measuring the electrical activity of the entire 3D construct from all sides provides a unique opportunity to gain understanding of signal propagation in the total construct. To achieve this mode of electrophysiological study, this work develops the 3D-SR-BA. By strategically placing the electrodes and adjusting the rolled-up curvature, the 3D-SR-BA devices have the potential to provide substantially richer information about electrophysiological behavior of cell clusters and tissues. To trigger such self-rolling, we fabricated the 3D-SR-BAs (see Materials and Methods) on a sacrificial layer and polymeric support with metallic electrode lines that provide source and drain interconnects to the FETs, as illustrated by Fig. 2A. The arrays obtained a 3D conformation upon etching off the sacrificial layer as they spontaneously self-rolled (Fig. 2, B and C, and movie S1). To achieve a desired curvature, mechanics and mechanical properties of the materials used to construct these devices play a central role (21). Similar to the devices with semiconductor thin films demonstrated by Li and co-workers (22), the shape transformation of 3D-SR-BAs is driven by the residual mismatch stress between different constituent layers. While the residual stress in SU-8 layers is negligible (14), substantial tensile stresses can be generated in the Pd and Cr layers (23, 24). The residual stress level in metal thin films at the nanoscale largely depends on both the film thickness and the fabrication process. Such residual stress can be controlled by varying deposition pressure, deposition rate, and final film thickness (23, 24). Varying the SU-8 layer thickness in these structures further modulates the radius of curvature. The exact amount of the residual stress is not easy to measure experimentally (25), but the effects of the residual stresses can be studied by numerical mechanics analysis. A systematic 3D finite element analysis (FEA) was performed to understand the self-rolling behavior of the 3D-SR-BAs. The thickness and mechanical properties of different constituent layers are summarized in table S1. In all the simulations, a thicker bottom SU-8 layer and a relatively thinner top SU-8 layer were adopted to achieve a directional rolling. This residual stress-induced self-rolling behavior was modeled as a differential thermal expansion-driven shape transformation problem, with further details of the simulations listed in Materials and Methods.
Fig. 2 Highly controlled 3D-SR-BAs.
(A to C) Bright-field optical microscopy images of photolithographically fabricated 3D-SR-BAs. (A) As fabricated 3D-SR-BA before being released. (B) 3D-SR-BA released with a single turn. (C) 3D-SR-BA released with ~1.7 turns. Scale bars, 100 μm. (D and E) 3D-SR-BAs with varying radii of curvature — simulation and experimental results. (D) 3D-SR-BA with a single turn. (I) A finite element analysis (FEA) simulation result for a 3D-SR-BA with a single turn (inner diameter of ~160 μm). Color bar represents the magnitude of the displacement of the 3D-SR-BA upon removal of the sacrificial layer; SU-8 layers are not shown for visual purpose. (II) A 3D confocal microscopy image of a representative 3D-SR-BA with a single turn (n = 9). (E) 3D-SR-BA with multiple turns. (I) FEA simulation result for a 3D-SR-BA with ~1.7 turns (inner diameter, ~100 μm). Color bar represents the magnitude of the displacement of the 3D-SR-BA upon removal of the sacrificial layer; SU-8 layers are not shown for visual purpose. (II) 3D confocal microscopy image of a representative 3D-SR-BAs with ~1.7 turns (n = 15). Scale bars, 50 μm.
The simulations allow the prediction of the final configurations of the 3D-SR-BAs after dissolving the sacrificial layer (Fig. 2). Representative images of the experimental results for 3D-SR-BAs self-rolled in a single turn with an inner diameter of ~160 μm (Fig. 2, B and D, II) and ~1.7 turns with an inner diameter of ~100 μm (Fig. 2, C and E, II) illustrate the highly controlled arrays’ geometry. The degree of rolling of the 3D-SR-BAs, characterized by their radius of curvature (fig. S2A), is simultaneously regulated by the geometric design and the residual stress level in metal films, as shown in fig. S2, B and C. For a specific design, a higher residual stress in the top Cr layer promotes rolling behavior, leading to a reduced radius of curvature (fig. S2B). Matching the radius of curvature observed in experiments with that in the simulations allows the estimation of an average residual stress in the top Cr layer at 1.1 GPa. Upon determination of the residual stress, the desired rolled configurations were achieved by manipulating the thicknesses of the top and bottom SU-8 layers. As demonstrated in fig. S2C, increasing the thickness of either the top or bottom SU-8 layer suppresses the rolling capability, leading to a rolled configuration with an increased radius of curvature. The specific geometric designs to obtain a single turn and ~1.7 turns were identified from simulations and successfully verified in the experiments, as shown in Fig. 2 (D and E, respectively). The high correlation between the simulated radius of curvature (Fig. 2, D, I, and E, I) and the experimental results (Fig. 2, D, II, and E, II) demonstrates how variation of the experimental parameters can precisely control the 3D-SR-BAs’ curvature. This allows direct monitoring of electrical activity of 50- to 200-μm-diameter spheroids, thus improving the biosensor-cell interface while maintaining the spheroids’ integrity (16).
Biosensors on 3D-SR-BA
The 3D-SR-BA platform is flexible and can accommodate a variety of sensor types to be used in either electrophysiological investigation of tissue state or detection of biomolecules released by the tissue. The main categories of sensors are active sensors, such as FETs, that provide the benefit of high sensitivity with potential use in biosensing, and passive sensors, such as MEAs, which allow a two-way interaction with the cells with potential applications in both recording and stimulating cell responses (16). The focus of this study is the 3D assembly of microelectrodes. To illustrate the flexibility of the 3D-SR-BA, we also demonstrate the fabrication of graphene FETs (GFETs) on 3D-SR-BA.
3D-SR-BAs with passive biosensors: Microelectrodes. MEA, a technology used to study the electrophysiology of cellular networks, enables not only multisite recording but also precise electrical stimulation (17). MEAs were fabricated on 3D-SR-BAs (see Materials and Methods) and assembled in 3D to interrogate the electrical activities of the spheroids with cellular resolution, as illustrated by the 3D confocal image (Fig. 3A). Briefly, an array of 25 μm × 25 μm Au electrodes was fabricated on the 3D-SR-BA (fig. S1B), followed by metallization with Cr/Pd/Cr/Au and electrode passivation. The radius of curvature of 3D-SR-BA with microelectrodes was highly controlled by changing the fabrication parameters (Fig. 3A and fig. S3, A to C). To characterize the electrochemical properties of the microelectrodes, cyclic voltammetry (CV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) were performed in a three-electrode electrochemical cell (Fig. 3, B and C) (15). The microelectrodes can weakly resolve the oxidation and reduction peaks of the potassium hexacyanoferrate(III), K3[Fe(CN)6], which is a typical observation for electrodes at that size (fig. S3D, blue trace) (15). Sweeping the potential across the working electrode (i.e., the microelectrode) in KCl leads to a featureless capacitive current curve due to the electrical double-layer formation (Fig. 3B, blue trace). The microelectrodes were further modified with PEDOT:PSS to reduce their impedance and thus improve the recording (26). PEDOT:PSS-modified electrodes exhibited improved capacitance due to electrical double-layer formation at the interconnected PEDOT- and PSS-rich grains (Fig. 3B, red trace) (27). The modified microelectrodes were able to resolve the oxidation and reduction peaks of K3[Fe(CN)6] (fig. S3D, red trace), indicating that the biosensors are electrochemically active. To further characterize the impedance of the electrodes before and after PEDOT:PSS electrodeposition, we performed EIS. The Au microelectrodes pre-electrodeposition show an average impedance of 0.56 ± 0.25 megaohm, measured at 1 kilohertz (kHz) (Fig. 3C, blue trace). The PEDOT:PSS-modified microelectrodes demonstrated a statistically significant decrease in impedance values down to 14 ± 7.6 kiloohms, measured at 1 kHz (Fig. 3C, red trace), which is in agreement with previously reported values (26). Lower impedance due to PEDOT:PSS coating was consistent before (fig. S3E, pink trace) and after (fig. S3E, green trace) self-rolling of 3D-SR-BAs (no statistically significant difference in impedance, n = 15, fig. S3F). These results demonstrate no effect of self-rolling on the performance of sensors. Such low impedance previously resulted in higher signal amplitudes in electrophysiology recordings (26).
Fig. 3 3D-SR-BA with functional passive biosensors (microelectrodes).
(A) 3D confocal microscopy image of 3D-SR-BA with microelectrodes. Color bar represents the depth in micrometers. Scale bar, 50 μm. (B) Representative cyclic voltammograms (CV) acquired with 1 M KCl at 600 mV/s before (blue trace) and after (red trace) PEDOT:PSS electrodeposition (n = 10). (C) Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) plots for the electrodes before (blue trace) and after (red trace) PEDOT: PSS electrodeposition (n = 23).
3D-SR-BAs with active biosensors: GFETs. Graphene, a one-atom-thick 2D honeycomb arrangement of sp2-hybridized carbon, is a promising building block for bioelectronics due to its exceptional electrical conductivity, superior robustness, mechanical strength and flexibility, high surface area, chemical stability, and ease of tunability (16). As a proof of concept of our platform flexibility, GFETs were fabricated on the flexible polymeric surface of the 3D-SR-BAs, as illustrated by the 3D confocal image (fig. S4; see additional information regarding GFET fabrication and characterization in the Supplementary Materials) (28–30).
Interfaces of 3D-SR-BA with 3D CM spheroids
The 3D-SR-BA is designed to allow recording of electrical activity of tissues in 3D. This type of electrophysiology study assays the electrical activity from all sides of the construct, which allows a more accurate evaluation of electrical signal propagation that cannot be captured with available optical techniques, such as Ca2+ imaging. To ensure that the encapsulation of the tissue by 3D-SR-BA does not adversely affect the top layers of cells in the spheroid and the tissue health, the biocompatibility of the platform was evaluated.
Biocompatibility analysis. Biocompatibility of 3D-SR-BAs was tested through cell viability using Live/Dead assay (see Materials and Methods). Five-day-old CM spheroids treated with blebbistatin to decouple excitation and contraction exhibited inhibition of spontaneous cell beating (31). The fluorescent staining using the Live/Dead assay and the nuclei stain is illustrated in Fig. 4A, indicating calcein acetoxymethyl (calcein-AM) (green), ethidium homodimer (red), and Hoechst (blue) fluorescent dye staining of the live cells, dead cells, and cell nuclei, respectively. The green fluorescence was used to verify the live cells. Because of the high cell density and cell overlap in a 3D spheroid, we used the blue fluorescently stained nuclei to estimate the total number of live cells (for details, see Materials and Methods). The results indicate that 3D-SR-BA does not negatively affect the encapsulated spheroid. Nonsignificant difference in the % viability between the encapsulated spheroids and the non-encapsulated control spheroids confirms that 3D-SR-BA does not affect cell viability (Fig. 4). Two hours after encapsulation, the % viability shows a statistically significant decline for both the encapsulated spheroids and the non-encapsulated controls compared to viability immediately after encapsulation. This could be attributed to the absence of O2 and CO2 gasses in the setup and continuous raster scanning for live-cell imaging. These data lead to the conclusion that the 3D-SR-BAs do not negatively affect the encapsulated spheroids’ health.
Fig. 4 Effect of 3D-SR-BA on viability of CMs in an encapsulated spheroid.
(A) Live/Dead assay performed on CM spheroids: a spheroid encapsulated by 3D-SR-BA (top), a spheroid non-encapsulated in 3D-SR-BA (bottom), imaged at (i) 0 hours (immediately after encapsulation), (ii) 1 hour, (iii) 2 hours, and (iv) 3 hours. Green, red, and blue denote live cells, dead cells, and cell nuclei, respectively. Scale bars, 100 μm. (B) Viability analysis of spheroids encapsulated by 3D-SR-BA (blue) and not encapsulated spheroid controls (red) that were imaged every 30 min for 3 hours. Results are reported as mean ± SD (n = 3). There was no significant difference in the % viability between the encapsulated spheroids and the non-encapsulated control spheroids.
3D recording from human embryonic stem cell–derived CM spheroids. Embryonic stem cell-derived CM (ES-CM) spheroids compacted in agarose microwells and exhibited spontaneous contraction on day 3 after seeding. Seven-day-old rod-shaped ES-CM spheroids were transferred to a 3D-SR-BA chip with a temperature-controlled Tyrode’s solution-filled chamber (see Materials and Methods). Using an x-y-z micromanipulator, the arrays were unrolled (movie S2) and each spheroid was successfully encapsulated by a 3D-SR-BA, as illustrated by confocal microscopy image in Fig. 5A. Confocal microscopy imaging indicated that the spheroid was placed in direct contact with the biosensors, which improved the biosensor-cell interface (16). Twelve microelectrode biosensors arranged in 3D (Fig. 5B) simultaneously recorded the field potentials (FPs) from the encapsulated CM spheroid (see Materials and Methods). Addition of blebbistatin, a chemomechanical decoupler (31), ensured that the motion artifacts, characteristic to CMs, are absent in the FP recording (fig. S5). The low impedance of the microelectrodes led to a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) as high as ca. 9. The spheroid had a beating rate of ca. 19 beats per minute, which is in good agreement with literature (Fig. 5C) (32). Labeling the CMs with a Ca2+ indicator, Fluor-4 (Fig. 5A, green fluorescence), allowed simultaneous monitoring of Ca2+ transients, as illustrated in Fig. 5A (movie S3). Ca2+ transients from the selected marked areas in fig. S6A were analyzed and correspond to the FP recorded from channels 4 and 5 (fig. S6). The Ca+2 transient properties, i.e., transient shape and pace, inside and outside of the 3D-SR-BA are similar (fig. S6), thus indicating that the sensor arrays do not negatively affect the encapsulated spheroid functionality. The Ca2+ transient spike frequency agreed with the FP spike frequency (Fig. 5C and fig. S6B) and is within the range of previously reported values (15, 32). Using electrical biosensors allowed in-depth electrophysiological investigation at a single sensor level (Fig. 5D). The temporal resolution of the electrical recordings using 3D-SR-BA allowed the detection of the individual ionic currents across the cell membrane: Na+ current (upstroke), K+ current (repolarization), and Ca2+ current (plateau phase), labeled in purple on the recorded traces (Fig. 5D) (15). A few details can be gleaned from these data, such as the average recorded FP amplitude (FPA) for representative channel 4 of 1314 ± 25 μV and FP duration (FPD) of 279 ± 29 ms (n = 100 peaks), which agreed with published values (15, 32). Furthermore, the platform was used to obtain stable recordings from the same spheroid for up to 3 hours after spheroid encapsulation (fig. S7).
Fig. 5 Electrical recordings in 3D of cardiac spheroids.
(A) A 3D confocal microscopy image of 3D cardiac spheroid labeled with Ca2+ indicator dye (Fluo-4, green fluorescence) encapsulated by the 3D-SR-BA. Scale bar, 50 μm. (B) 2D map of the microelectrodes labeled in (A). (C) Representative field potential (FP) traces recorded from the channels labeled in (A) and (B). A.U., arbitrary units. Simultaneously recorded Ca2+ fluorescence intensity as a function of time of the ROI marked by pink box in (A). (D) Averaged FP peak (red trace) and raw data (gray traces, n = 100 peaks recorded by channel 4).
Although the optical imaging of Ca2+ transients was able to provide the beat frequency information, the confocal imaging is limited to an individual x-y plane, not allowing to obtain 3D information with high temporal resolution. 3D-SR-BAs were able to record from CM spheroids with high spatial and temporal resolution in 3D. The time latency between FPs recorded from the spheroid was evident, as illustrated in Fig. 6A. The time latency analysis (see the “Full-field 2D representation of signal delays” section in Materials and Methods) indicates that the FPs recorded by the sixth microelectrode preceded the FPs of the other channels. The time latencies calculated with respect to channel 6 remained consistent throughout the recording (fig. S8A). The fast transient propagation was further examined across all recording channels simultaneously by visualizing relative positive and negative phases of the FP’s fast transient, as represented by the 2D map of the sensor with time versus voltage data (Fig. 6B and movie S4). Most evidently, at t = 27.5 ms (Fig. 6B), it is possible to see that while the left-hand side sensors are at their negative phase (blue color), the right-hand side sensors are still at the positive phase (red color). The signal propagation direction in the 3D-rendered representation (Fig. 6C) is indicated by a white arrow. Electrical recordings with 3D-SR-BA exhibit high spatiotemporal resolution, which allows construction of 3D isochronal map of the spheroid’s surface (Fig. 6D, a 2D isochronal map representation of the spheroid’s 3D surface). Such analysis is impossible using Ca2+ transient imaging. The conduction velocity calculated as the gradient from the extrapolated time latency isochronal map (Fig. 6D, white arrow) averaged at 12.45 ± 1.88 cm/s. The conduction velocities of additionally measured spheroids are 6.09 ± 0.65 cm/s (fig. S8D) and 14.55 ± 1.79 cm/s (fig. S8G) for the second and third spheroids, respectively. The signal propagation direction is indicated by the white arrows in fig. S8. The time latencies remained consistent throughout the independent recording of each spheroid, as illustrated by the calculated SD of the time latencies depicted in fig. S8 (B, E, and H) for spheroids 1, 2, and 3, respectively. Conduction velocity values are in good agreement with the values reported previously (33).
Fig. 6 Mapping electrical signal propagation in 3D using 3D-SR-BA.
(A) Representative recorded single FP fast transients across 12 channels. Red and blue arrows represent the positive and negative phases of the recorded transients, respectively. (B) 2D representation of the fast transient signal phases across all 12 channels. Resting state is presented at t = 14.9 ms, and depolarizing wave propagation is presented at t = 22.0 ms and t = 27.5 ms. (C) 3D rendered signal propagation at t = 22.7 ms. Scale bar, 50 μm. (D) 2D representation of the isochronal map of time latencies. Scale bar, 35 μm. White arrow in (C) and (D) represents average conduction velocity direction.
Conclusions and future directions
In conclusion, this work demonstrates the first 3D multisite and simultaneous measurements from a 3D multicellular system using 3D-SR-BAs. The highly controlled 3D-SR-BA’s geometry allows sensor customization to interface spheroids of varied size. The high spatial resolution of the arrays provided information from individual cells of the spheroid in 3D, while exceptional temporal resolution of the recordings identified ionic currents (Na+, K+, Ca2+) in the high SNR FP recordings. Functional assays indicate that the 3D-SR-BAs do not affect the spheroid’s functionality. In addition, 3D-SR-BAs show no detectable adverse effect on the viability of the cells. The biocompatibility assay highlights the potential of 3D-SR-BA to be used for stable interfaces with electrogenic spheroids for electrophysiology studies that can last for several hours. High spatiotemporal resolution of the electrical recordings allows following signal propagation in 3D, which is impossible using Ca2+ transient imaging.
The proposed 3D-SR-BAs introduce an approach for organ-on-e-chip bioelectronics. A future direction for the 3D-SR-BAs includes incorporation of porosity into the polymeric structures of the platform. This porosity will allow more efficient nutrient diffusion, ensuring long-term viability of spheroids. The 3D-SR-BAs are highly scalable, and the subsequent potential increase in recording density will allow investigation of larger cellular networks. This work shows tailored device diameters to accommodate a range of spheroid sizes that are governed by the limits of diffusion. For larger tissue sizes, a future direction for the 3D-SR-BAs involves scaling up of both the width and the length dimensions, which can be easily attained by addition of force generating metal lines. The use of 3D-SR-BAs for long-term electrophysiological studies of multicellular 3D systems will enable following tissue development and maturation. In addition, it will allow testing of the drug effects on spheroids with diseased and healthy phenotypes. Further capabilities of 3D-SR-BA extend beyond electrophysiology and may combine concurrent electrical measurement and stimulation (enabled by 3D-SR-BAs with passive devices) with biosensing (using highly sensitive active devices, such as GFETs, which will require additional integrated circuit amplification added to the platform) to gain insight into more complex 3D electrogenic tissue constructs.
3D-SR-BA fabrication
The 3D-SR-BAs were fabricated using well-established microfabrication techniques (15). Si substrate with a 600-nm wet thermal oxide (p-type, ≤0.005 ohm·cm, NOVA Electronic Materials Ltd., catalog no. CP02 11208-OX) was cleaned with acetone and isopropyl alcohol (IPA) in an ultrasonic bath for 5 min each, N2 blow-dried, and treated with O2 plasma at 100-W power for 1 min (International Plasma Corporation Barrel Asher). The substrate was coated with 300-nm lift-off resist (LOR3A, MicroChem) and 500-nm positive photoresist (Shipley S1805, MicroChem). Outer electrode interconnects were defined by ultraviolet (UV) exposure using a mask aligner (MA6, Karl Suss) followed by development for 1 min in CD26 developer (MicroChem). Cr (10 nm) (99.99%, R.D. Mathis Co.) and Au (75 nm) (99.999%, Praxair) were deposited using a thermal evaporator (Angstrom Engineering Covap II). The LOR3A/Shipley 1805/metal stack was lifted off using Remover PG (MicroChem). The wafer was washed with acetone and IPA, N2 blow-dried, and treated with O2 plasma at 50-W power for 1 min. A 200-nm Ge (99.999%, Kurt J. Lesker) sacrificial layer was patterned and deposited similarly. The mechanical support with varied thicknesses (170 to 240 nm) was patterned using negative photoresist (SU-8 2000.5, MicroChem). Using a thinner (SU-8 2000 thinner, MicroChem), the SU-8 was adjusted to 10.7, 9.5, 7.1, and 4.7% solids to achieve a thickness range of 390 to 100 nm. The biosensor array interconnects (sources and drains and microelectrodes for GFETs and MEAs, respectively) were patterned using similar methods as the outer interconnects. Cr (1 nm) (99.998%, Kurt J. Lesker), Pd (50 nm) (99.99%, Kurt J. Lesker), and Cr (25 nm) (99.998%, Kurt J. Lesker) were deposited using an electron beam evaporator (Pro Line PVD Evaporator, Kurt J. Lesker). In the case of MEAs, an additional layer of 10 nm Au (99.999%, Kurt J. Lesker) was deposited. Last, the interconnects and the nonrecording leads of the biosensors were passivated with 100 to 180 nm of diluted SU-8 2000.5. In the case of GFETs, an additional step for graphene transfer and patterning was implemented before the biosensor interconnect patterning and metallization. Low-pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD)–synthesized graphene (see method below) was transferred to device chips and patterned using photolithography and reactive ion etching (RIE), as previously described (15). Briefly, LOR3A (300 nm) and Shipley S1805 (500 nm) were coated on substrates with graphene, patterned by UV exposure using a mask aligner, and developed for 1 min in CD26 developer. Excess graphene was etched off by RIE (Plasma-Therm 790) using 14 standard cubic centimeters per minute (sccm) O2 and 6 sccm Ar at 20-W power and 10-mtorr pressure for 10 s. After etching, the LOR3A/Shipley 1805 stack was stripped off using Remover PG.
Graphene synthesis and transfer
A single layer of graphene was synthesized by a Cu-catalyzed LPCVD process, as previously described (15, 34). Briefly, a 2 cm × 6 cm Cu foil (99.8%, Alfa Aesar, uncoated, catalog no. 46365) was cleaned with acetone and IPA in an ultrasonic bath for 5 min each and then N2 blow-dried. Before being introduced into a custom-built CVD setup, the foil was treated with a 5.4% (w/w) HNO3 solution (CMOS grade, J.T. Baker, catalog no. JT9606-3) for 30 s, rinsed three times with deionized (DI) water, and N2 blow-dried. The synthesis process was carried out at 1050°C and a total pressure of 0.5 torr. The temperature was ramped up to 1050°C in 20 min, followed by stabilization at 1050°C for 5 min under a flow of 100 sccm Ar. The foil was annealed for 60 min under the flow of 100 sccm H2, followed by a synthesis step of 8 min under the flow of 50 sccm CH4 (5% in Ar, Airgas) and 100 sccm H2 (Matheson Gas). The sample was rapidly cooled from growth temperature down to 100°C in 30 min while flowing 100 sccm Ar. The Cu foil with graphene on both sides was cut to the required dimensions. Before Cu etching, one side of the foil was coated with 200 nm of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA 950 A4, MicroChem) to mechanically support and protect graphene. The graphene on the uncoated side of the foil was etched in a UV-ozone cleaner (PSD Pro Series Digital UV-Ozone, Novascan) for 15 min at 100°C. The Cu foil was wet-etched in a solution containing 25% (w/w) FeCl3.6H2O (Sigma-Aldrich, catalog no. 31232), 4% (w/w) HCl acid (CMOS grade, J.T. Baker, catalog no. BDH3028), and 71% (w/w) DI water. After the Cu etching, the PMMA-supported graphene film was transferred to DI water two times, then to 70% ethanol-water mixture, and finally onto a final substrate (device chip, previously cleaned with acetone, IPA, and N2 blow-dried). The transferred samples were air-dried overnight. The substrates were then baked at 150°C for 30 min. After the bake, PMMA was dissolved in an acetone bath at 60°C for 30 min. Last, the device chips were rinsed with acetone and IPA and N2 blow-dried.
Graphene characterization
Raman spectroscopy of graphene was performed with NT-MDT NTEGRA Spectra (100× objective) under 532-nm excitation. For the Raman spectra, a laser power of 2.3 mW was used; the spectra were recorded with an acquisition time of 15 to 30 s. Raman spectra were obtained from within 10 independent GFET channel ribbons as well as directly outside of each ribbon, as illustrated in fig. S4D. Analysis of the acquired spectra was performed using a custom MATLAB (MathWorks Inc.) code to identify characteristics of graphene Raman peaks: Their position, full width at half maximum, and relative peak ratios (table S2).
3D-SR-BA structure release
After fabrication, the 3D-SR-BA chips were cleaned with acetone and IPA and N2 blow-dried. A rectangular chamber was prepared by using 10:1 base:curing agent polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) (Sylgard 184 Silicone Elastomer, Dow Corning), cured overnight at 65°C, cut to the needed dimensions, and positioned on a device chip such that the well surrounds the 3D-SR-BA region. A 1% H2O2 (Sigma-Aldrich, catalog no. 216763) solution in DI water was added to the well for 1 hour up to overnight to dissolve the Ge sacrificial layer and trigger self-rolling. After 3D-SR-BAs conformed in 3D, the solution in the well was exchanged for DI water.
3D-SR-BA radius of curvature measurements
The radius of curvature was estimated using the 3D reconstruction of confocal images in Nikon NIS Elements software. Briefly, the y-z plane slices of the z-stack were obtained to visualize the circumference of each 3D-SR-BA. The radii were measured by using a three-point circular fit to the 3D-SR-BA circumference slice in NIS Elements software, as illustrated in fig. S2A.
Mechanical simulations
3D FEA with geometric nonlinearities was performed using the commercially available package Abaqus (Dassault Systèmes). The residual stress-induced self-rolling behavior of the 3D-SR-BAs was modeled as a differential thermal expansion–driven shape transformation problem, where hypothetical thermal expansion coefficients were assigned to the constituent layers (35). The temperature was gradually raised to such a level that the resultant thermal stresses were equivalent to the residual stresses. A combination of homogeneous (for regions occupied by only SU-8) and composite (for regions patterned with Pd and Cr) shell sections was used in the computations. The thicknesses and material properties of SU-8, Pd, and Cr layers were summarized in table S1. For meshing, the four-node shell element S4R with reduced integration, hourglass control, and finite membrane strains was used. To replicate the experimental design where one end of our 3D-SR-BA was free to roll along the longitudinal axis while the other was physically anchored to the substrate, we applied an unconstrained boundary condition along the edge at one end, and a fully fixed boundary condition was applied at the opposite end.
Electrical characterization of GFETs
GFETs (n = 20) were characterized to ensure ohmic contacts of metal to graphene by recording source-to-drain current (ISD) with varied source-to-drain voltage (VSD) using a source meter unit (2604, Keithley). Three-terminal water-gate measurements were obtained in Tyrode’s solution, composed of calcium chloride (0.2 g/liter; anhydrous), magnesium chloride (0.1 g/liter; anhydrous), potassium chloride (0.2 g/liter), sodium chloride (8 g/liter), sodium phosphate monobasic (0.05 g/liter; anhydrous), d-glucose (1 g/liter), and sodium bicarbonate (1 g/liter; Sigma-Aldrich, catalog no. T2145), supplying a linearly increasing gate potential from −0.3 to 0.7 V via Ag/AgCl electrode using a function generator (DG1032, Rigol). The charge neutrality voltage (Dirac point) was determined as the voltage at which the recorded ISD was at minimum. Device sensitivity was determined by taking the first derivative of ISD. The maximum p- and n-type regime sensitivity was determined by the minima and maxima of the sensitivity curve, respectively (fig. S4J).
PEDOT:PSS electrodeposition
Electrodeposition was performed in a three-electrode cell setup using a potentiostat (PalmSens 3, PalmSens). Pt wire, Ag/AgCl electrode, and Au microelectrode were used as counter, reference, and working electrode, respectively. A solution of 0.01 M EDOT (97%, Sigma-Aldrich, catalog no. 483028) (26) and 0.02 M PSS (Sigma-Aldrich, catalog no. 243051) was prepared in DI water. Briefly, 53 μl of EDOT was vigorously stirred with 206 mg of PSS in 50 ml of DI water and used as an electrolyte solution. PEDOT:PSS electrodeposition was performed by using a constant current density of 0.5 mA/cm2 applied for 10 min per electrode.
Electrochemical characterization of microelectrodes
CV experiments were performed in a three-electrode cell setup using a potentiostat, as previously described (15). Electrolyte solution of 1 M KCl (≥99%, Sigma-Aldrich, catalog no. P5405) was prepared in DI water. Analyte solution of 5 mM K3[Fe(CN)6] (Sigma-Aldrich, catalog no. 244023) was prepared in 1 M KCl solution. Before conducting CV experiments, a PDMS well was sealed to the sample using 10:1 base:curing agent PDMS. Pt and Ag/AgCl electrodes were used for counter and reference electrodes, respectively. To determine the faradaic peaks, we recorded the CV measurements within a potential range from −0.2 to 0.6 V versus Ag/AgCl at 500 mV/s scan rate in the presence of 5 mM K3[Fe(CN)6] in 1 M KCl solution. For capacitive currents, CV was conducted with 1 M KCl electrolyte solution within a potential range from −0.2 to 0.3 V versus Ag/AgCl at 600 mV/s scan rate.
EIS was performed in a three-electrode cell setup using a potentiostat (CHI660C, CH Instruments). Phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) (1×) (Thermo Fisher, catalog no. 10010023) was used as an electrolyte solution. Pt wire and Ag/AgCl electrodes were used for counter and reference electrodes, respectively. The frequency was scanned from 0.01 to 100,000 Hz with VDC of 0 V and VAC of 10 mV.
Both CV (n = 10) and EIS experiments (n = 23) were performed before and after PEDOT:PSS electrodeposition. EIS experiments (n = 15) were performed before and after 3D-SR-BA self-rolling on the same electrodes. All measurements were performed in a grounded aluminum box.
Cell culture and CM spheroid formation
Cell culture. Human CMs were differentiated from HUES9 and HES3 human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) using established protocols (36). The hESCs were expanded in Essential 8 (E8) medium (Life Technologies, catalog no. A1517001) (37) on Geltrex-coated six-well plates (12 μg/cm2; Life Technologies, catalog no. A1413301) with an initial seeding density of 125,000 cells per well for HUES9 and 100,000 cells per well for HES3 cells. The cells were passaged every 4 days to prevent over-confluence. For CM differentiation, hESCs were seeded at a density of 16,000 cells/cm2 for HUES9 and 12,000 cells/cm2 for HES3 cells in E8 medium with 2 μM ROCK inhibitor, thiazovivin (Selleck Chemicals, catalog no. S1459); the medium was changed daily. On the third day after seeding, hESCs were differentiated into CMs. Cells were washed with 1× PBS and incubated with RPMI 1640 medium (Thermo Fisher, catalog no. 21870076) supplemented with B27 minus insulin (Thermo Fisher, catalog no. A1895601) and 1% (v/v) l-glutamine (Thermo Fisher, catalog no. 25030081) plus 6 μM CHIR99021 (LC Laboratories, catalog no. C-6556), a glycogen synthase kinase-3 inhibitor (LC Laboratories, catalog no. S1459), for 2 days. On day 2 of differentiation, cells were washed with 1× PBS and incubated with RPMI/B27 medium and 2 μM Wnt-C59, a Wnt pathway inhibitor (Selleck Chemicals, catalog no. S7037). On days 4 and 6 of differentiation, the medium was changed to RPMI/B27. On days 8 and 10, the medium was changed to CDM3 medium (37) consisting of RPMI 1640 medium supplemented with 1% (v/v) l-glutamine, human albumin (500 μg/ml) (Sigma, catalog no. A9731), and l-ascorbic acid 2-phosphate sesquimagnesium salt hydrate >95% (213 μg/ml) (Sigma, catalog no. A8960). On day 12, spontaneously beating cells were passaged for CM purification. CMs were purified using lactate-supplemented medium, which achieves 95 to 98% purification of CMs, as previously demonstrated (38). Briefly, beating CMs were washed with 1× PBS and detached from the surface with TrypLE express (Thermo Fisher, catalog no. 12604013) for 15 min at 37°C. Detached cells were pipetted into Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM)/F12 (Thermo Fisher, catalog no. 11320033) and centrifuged at 200g for 7 min to pellet the cells. CMs were seeded on Matrigel-coated plates (12 μg/cm2) (Corning, catalog no. 356231) with RPMI 1640 lacking glucose (Thermo Fisher, catalog no. 11879020) and supplemented with human albumin (500 μg/ml), l-ascorbic acid-2-phosphate (213 μg/ml), and sodium lactate (7.1 mM) (Sigma, catalog no. L4263). CMs were purified for 5 days and then switched back to CDM3 for at least 2 days before passaging.
Spheroid formation. The spheroids were formed following a previously established protocol (39). Briefly, sterile solution (10 g/liter) of agarose (Invitrogen, catalog no. 16500) was prepared in 0.9% (w/v) NaCl (Sigma, catalog no. S5886) in DI water. The agarose spherical microwells were obtained by casting the agarose into a mold (3D Petri Dish, Microtissues Inc.). The agarose microwells were equilibrated twice in CDM3 medium for 30 min at 37°C. After purification, adherent CM cultures were lifted with TrypLE for 15 min at 37°C. Cells were pipetted into DMEM/F12 and centrifuged at 200g for 7 min. CMs were then seeded at a density of 1.2 × 106 cells/mold for trough-shaped spheroids and 0.65 × 106 cells/mold for round spheroids in 190 μl of CDM3 medium with 2 μM ROCK inhibitor, thiazovivin. The CM spheroids were formed in microwells while incubating at 37°C and 5% CO2 for 1 day, after which the medium was exchanged to CDM3. The cell medium was changed every other day with a fresh CDM3 medium. After 3 to 5 days, when spheroids compacted and began to spontaneously beat, they were harvested by inverting the micromolds and centrifuging for 5 min at 500 rpm. Spheroids 1 and 2 were formed from HUES9 hESCs, while spheroid 3 and spheroids used for biocompatibility studies were formed from HES3 hESCs.
Encapsulation of spheroids in 3D-SR-BAs
The harvested spheroids were placed in a Tyrode buffer solution–filled recording chamber attached to the 3D-SR-BA chip. Each 3D-SR-BA was unrolled using a micromanipulator (SMX, Sensapex), as illustrated in movie S2, followed by the spheroid encapsulation inside the arrays. After encapsulation, the recording chamber was perfused continuously with fresh Tyrode’s solution at 37°C.
Biocompatibility analysis
Cell viability was tested using the Live/Dead Assay Kit (Thermo Fisher, catalog no. L3224) containing calcein-AM and ethidium homodimer dyes for staining live and dead cells, respectively, as previously described (34). Spheroids were formed from HES3 CMs and incubated at 37°C and 5% CO2 for 5 days with CDM3 medium changed every other day. Hoechst 33342 (Thermo Fisher, catalog no. 62249), calcein-AM, and ethidium homodimer dyes were added with a final concentration of 1 μg/ml, 2 μM, and 4 μM, respectively, to each sample and incubated for 30 min at 37°C and 5% CO2. The spheroids were then treated with 20 μM blebbistatin (Sigma-Aldrich, catalog no. B0560) to decouple excitation and contraction, leading to inhibition of spontaneous cell beating (31). The spheroids were washed with Tyrode’s solution, and one spheroid was encapsulated by 3D-SR-BA. The live-cell imaging was performed at 37°C using upright confocal microscope (Nikon A1R) under 20×/0.50 numerical aperture (NA) water immersion objective, with perfusion of Tyrode’s solution with 4 μM ethidium homodimer dye at 37°C. The spheroid encapsulated by 3D-SR-BA alongside with the non-encapsulated control was imaged immediately after encapsulation and every 30 min after the encapsulation up to 3 hours. The procedure was repeated three times for different sets of spheroids.
% Viability quantification was evaluated as previously described (34) using the following formula%Viability=Total cells (blue)−Dead cells (red)Total cells (blue)×100where blue refers to the cells stained by Hoechst and red refers to the dead cells stained by ethidium homodimer. Total cell count and dead cell counts were determined by counting the Hoechst- and ethidium homodimer–stained nuclei across the spheroid images for each of the encapsulated spheroid and non-encapsulated control spheroid separately (n = 3 each), using the spot tracking algorithm in Imaris software (Imaris 8.2 Image Visualization and Analysis, Bitplane, Oxford Instruments).
Electrical and optical recordings
Before recording, CM spheroids were stained with the Ca2+ indicator Fluo-4 AM. Fluo-4 AM (10 μM) (Thermo Fisher, catalog no. F14217) was prepared in 1× PBS and incubated at 37°C for 30 min. After incubation, the spheroids were washed three times with Tyrode’s solution prewarmed at 37°C. Each chip was glued to a printed circuit board (PCB) with soldered 36-pin connector (Omnetics, catalog no. A79024-001). The electrodes on the chip were wire-bonded to the Cu pads on the PCB using a manual wedge wire bonder (7476D Wire Bonder, West Bond). The chip was loaded onto the microscope stage, and the temperature inside the culture chamber was maintained by constant perfusion of Tyrode’s solution maintained at 37°C using an inline heater (ThermoClamp, Automate Scientific). The spheroids were encapsulated by 3D-SR-BAs. After initial set of recordings, the spheroids were treated with 20 μM blebbistatin and additional recording sets were obtained.
For electrical recordings, the Omnetics connector on the PCB was connected to a 32-channel amplifier (Intan Technologies, RHD2132), and the electrical signals were recorded using the Intan acquisition system (Intan Technologies, RHD2000) at an acquisition rate of 20 kHz. The optical recordings were performed using an upright microscope equipped with a resonant confocal scanner (Nikon A1R) under 20×/0.50 NA water immersion objective. All the recordings were performed in a grounded Faraday cage.
Electrical and optical data analysis
The raw data acquired using Intan acquisition software were analyzed using custom-made MATLAB scripts. The beat frequency was calculated using the fast Fourier transform function. The findpeaks function was used to detect the Na+ peaks, and the FPA was calculated by adding the heights of positive and negative peaks. To measure FPD, we detected Na+ and K+ peaks using findpeaks function, and calculated the distance between the peaks. Before using findpeaks function, the voltage versus time curves were smoothened using Savitzky-Golay filtering to avoid interference of the baseline noise while detecting K+ peaks. To measure the SNR, we divided FPA by the peak-to-peak amplitude of the baseline noise. The peak-to-peak amplitude of the baseline noise was calculated as 6.6 times the SD of the baseline signal acquired for 5 min.
For Ca2+ signal analysis, the time-lapse image sequences were imported to a custom MATLAB script. The script provided a maximum intensity projection of the Ca2+ image stack, on which the regions of interest (ROIs) were selected. The data from each ROI were averaged for each frame and stored as a time versus intensity series, with time points determined using the frame rate of the image acquisition. The series were then smoothed using a third-order Savitzky-Golay numerical smoothing algorithm with a user-selected window length. The smoothed fluorescence intensity versus time traces were plotted for each ROI.
Wave propagation analysis
2D representation of signal propagation. Using the image measurement tools in ImageJ (National Institutes of Health), the boundaries of each sensor pad were determined using a CAD layout of a 3D-SR-BA (fig. S1B), i.e., x, y location and the width and height were stored for each pad. A custom MATLAB script used the sensor image as a template for each frame of movie S7. To generate each frame, the voltage data for each recording channel at each time point were placed at all pixel locations identified as being contained by the sensor pad (from ImageJ measurements). The 2D time versus voltage data for each sensor pad were thus expanded into a sequence of x, y voltage images constructed through time. The images were generated in the real valued 32-bit .tiff format. The sequence of images was saved individually with a sequential file name. These files were then imported as an image sequence into ImageJ for colorization. The phase lookup table was used to allow for visualization of positive and negative voltages. Time and color-bar overlays were added using ImageJ. The image stack was finally exported as an .avi movie.
3D rendered signal propagation. To generate a 3D representation of the signal propagation at a given time point, we extracted the 2D image of the sensor activity at that time point from the image stack obtained, as described above. The image was then adjusted using Photoshop (Adobe) to remove the background and replace it with transparency and saved as a .png file. The edited image was transferred into Inventor (Autodesk) and applied as a decal wrapped around a cylinder with the dimensions matching a single-turn 3D-SR-BA. A 2D representation of the 3D signal propagation was then exported as a .jpg file.
Full-field 2D representation of signal delays. A custom MATLAB script was used for the following analysis. The recording data for all sensors were split into individual FPs by finding the peak maxima at each FP and extracting a 25-ms window of time before and after each peak. These extracted data segments were used to identify the time delay between each sensor for a given FP. To determine the signal origin and time latencies across the spheroid, the time points of the maxima of FPs for each sensor were compared, and the earliest time point was set as time 0. For each FP, an approximation of the time delays for the entire sensor was constructed by interpolating and extrapolating the time latency using the physical coordinates of the sensor pads and the previously calculated delay values. The approximated surface of time latency calculated for each FP was averaged over all FPs recorded in 1 min of data. A contour map of isochrones was generated using the average time latency surface and the gradient of the delays across the entire measured area. Using this gradient and the average time latency surface, the conduction velocity along the gradient was calculated. Furthermore, the SD of the time latencies at each point within the isochron image was calculated using all FPs recorded in 1 min of data.
Data were represented as the mean ± SD. Statistical analysis was performed using Student’s t test (two-tailed) to determine significant difference between two independent groups with one variable, i.e., impedance before and after PEDOT:PSS deposition, or impedance of the 3D-SR-BAs before and after rolling (fig. S3F). NS denotes no statistically significant difference between two sample populations. A two-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s post hoc test was performed for more than two groups with two independent variables, i.e., encapsulated versus non-encapsulated spheroids, and varied time after encapsulation, i.e., 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, and 3 hours (Fig. 4).
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Fig. S1. Schematics of the 3D-SR-BA geometry.
Fig. S2. Simulation and experimental results for 3D-SR-BA used to estimate the radius of curvature.
Fig. S3. 3D-SR-BA with microelectrodes: Fabrication and electrochemical characterization.
Fig. S4. 3D-SR-BA with GFETs: Fabrication and electrical characterization.
Fig. S5. Electrical recordings with and without addition of chemomechanical decoupler, blebbistatin.
Fig. S6. Simultaneous Ca2+ and electrical recording.
Fig. S7. Several hours (3 hours) 3D recording.
Fig. S8. 3D electrical signal propagation in spheroids.
Table S1. Thickness and mechanical parameters of SU-8, Cr, and Pd used in FEM simulations.
Table S2. Data summary for the Raman analysis of LPCVD synthesized graphene before and after patterning.
Movie S1. Release of the 3D-SR-BA upon sacrificial layer etch.
Movie S2. Unrolling the 3D-SR-BA using a micromanipulator.
Movie S3. Beating CM spheroid stained with Ca2+ (Fluo-4) encapsulated in the 3D-SR-BA (associated Ca2+ imaging analysis is presented in fig. S6).
Movie S4. Electrical signal propagation in CM spheroid presented in Figs. 4 and 5.
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N2bn Fraud: Maina’s Not Trustworthy, I Can No longer Be His Surety— Ndume
The Chairman, Senate Committee on the Army, Senator Ali Ndume, says he can no longer stand as a guarantor for the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Force Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, who is presently facing prosecution.
He said he would direct his legal representatives to start the procedure of terminating the surety bond he contracted for Maina because, according to him, the former pension boss could not be trusted.
This is just as the Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday ordered that Maina should be remanded in custody till the end of his trial.
Justice Okon Abang made the order following an application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s prosecuting counsel, Mr Mohammed Abubakar.
Maina, who is being prosecuted by the EFCC on N2bn money laundering charges, had jumped bail and fled to the Republic of Niger.
But he was returned to court for the first time on Friday following his extradition to Nigeria earlier on Thursday.
Ndume, who is representing Borno South Senatorial District in the Senate, has stood surety for Maina, his constituent, as the judge had, as part of the bail conditions, demanded among others, that Maina should produce a serving senator as his surety.
Ndume agreed to stand surety for Maina, but the latter jumped bail and escaped from Nigeria.
The judge subsequently remanded Ndume in the Kuje Correctional Centre following his inability to produce Maina when the case came up for hearing.
A legal battle ensued, and Ndume was left off the hook while Maina, the fugitive, was arrested in the Niger Republic and extradited to Nigeria on Thursday.
Reacting to the development in an interview with journalists in Abuja on Friday, Ndume commended the Inspector-General of Police (Mohammed Adamu) and other security personnel that were involved in the arrest and extradition of Maina.
He said, “I commend the Nigeria Police Force for executing the bench warrant issued on Maina by the Federal High Court in Abuja.
“With the successful arrest, extradition and subsequent remand of Maina at the Kuje Correctional Centre, I will proceed to direct my legal team to begin the process of withdrawing my suretyship for Maina with immediate effect because his action has shown that he is not trustworthy.”
Ndume said in an interview with Punch, “Considering the circumstances I found myself at that time, I have no regrets standing surety for him, but it is not fair to always ask a serving senator to stand surety for every high profile personality accused of a crime, who hails from his constituency.
“I stood surety for Maina because the bail condition stated that only a serving senator could bail him. Because his offence was bailable and he is constitutionally considered innocent until convicted by the court and as a politically exposed person, my hands were tied, but now that he jumped bail, my hand is now free.”
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Keith Akers runs the Compassionate Spirit blog, and has written three books: Disciples (Apocryphile Press, 2013), The Lost Religion of Jesus (Lantern Books, 2000), and A Vegetarian Sourcebook (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1983). He's also been published in VegNews, Vegetarian Times, and other vegetarian and vegan publications. Click to see author's profile.
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Corporal in the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 32nd Regiment (3rd reserve), Company D. Letters from Corporal Lewis F. Henderson to an unidentified friend in Philadelphia contain accounts of the Battle of Gettysburg; the Battle of Cedar Creek; and the Battle of Lynchburg. Other topics include Union hospitals; the burning of Virginia Military Institute and Governor John Letcher's home; Union and Confederate desertions; and "copperheads" in Philadelphia. Letters provide description of Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 and the last days of the Civil War.
Letters from Corporal Lewis F. Henderson to an unidentified friend in Philadelphia contain accounts of the Battle of Gettysburg; the Battle of Cedar Creek; and the Battle of Lynchburg. Other topics include Union hospitals; the burning of Virginia Military Institute and Governor John Letcher's home; Union and Confederate desertions; and "copperheads" in Philadelphia. Letters provide description of Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 and the last days of the Civil War.
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The 47th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces was trained in the 104th Westminster Fusiliers Regiment in New Westminster. The battalion served overseas during World War I and took part in battles of Amiens, Ypres, Vimy, Hill 60, Valenciennes, Canal du Nord, Passchendaele and many other major engagements.
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Tech’s ‘Four Horsemen’ Tackle AR, Part I: Apple
This is the first in a series of articles that examines how the so called Four Horsemen of Tech — Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon — are positioned for augmented reality. Microsoft, the dark horse whose work with AR/MR brings it back into the race, will represent the final stretch of the series.The first installment examines Apple.
Evidence continues to stack up that Apple’s next iPhone will be built around augmented reality. The rumored iPhone 8 — or “iPhone X to commemorate the device’s 10th year — will likely launch at Apple’s Fall hardware event with an $800 – $1,000 price tag.
The first signs of AR orientation came from hints dropped by Tim Cook last year. Then we heard Robert Scoble’s prediction that AR will rule the next iPhone, followed by lots of supply chain rumors that point to AR-centric components in the works.
Famed Apple-watcher Gene Munster recently got in on the action, telling Forbes, “Apple’s focus in the near-term is on nailing augmented reality on the iPhone over the next five years.” Altogether, an AR outcome is looking increasingly likely.
Perhaps more important than the if is the why. Answering that question can indicate where Apple will take AR. And knowing that can inform startups and investors which way the technological winds will blow — as Apple has proved to influence.
This question of why goes back to why tech giants ever really enter emerging areas: to protect, boost or diversify a core product. And Apple’s core product is selling iThings. The iPhone is where it makes most of its (quite healthy) margins.
And Apple knows — as we’ve covered several times — that the short term opportunity for AR will be smartphones, rather than smart glasses. The global installed base now stands at 2.6 billion units, giving it the nearer-term addressable market scale.
That’s great news for Apple because not only is the smartphone slab format where it hangs its hat, but the company is seeing iPhone sales growth mature. An AR-centric iPhone 8 or iPhone X will boost that, as will a premium price point.
This plan also lets apple fill the gap during the period before AR glasses become accessible. By accessible, we mean the 1-2 cycles of Moore’s law that need to turn before components come down in price and size to make them tenable for mass consumption.
This brings Apple closer to the question of what comes after the iPhone, as its next cash cow. Meanwhile it will do what it does best: sexy hardware through industrial design, while optimizing margins through scale and supply chain management.
As for what the prospective iPhone will be and do, that’s the fun part of the discussion. There’s the likely Scoble angle that it will be a thin layer of transparent glass to house an AR interface. And content/apps will follow the iOS developer network playbook.
Gene Munster meanwhile predicts more powerful chips and 3D sensors, as well as a curved OLED screen. Following the supply chain, there’s evidence that Taiwan Semiconductor is in mass production of the next iteration (A11) Apple chips.
And of course there’s the pastime of tracking acquisitions to paint a picture of functionality we may see in an AR-packing iPhone X. That includes Metaio, Primesense, Flyby Media, and more recently RealFace, which does computer-vision driven facial recognition.
As we know, computer vision is at the heart of AR, in terms of mapping a point cloud on which to array images that interact with the world in dimensionally accurate ways. And the Optics in the iPhone 7+ hint at the stereoscopic capabilities for AR depth of field.
As for the types of AR content and use cases, those will vary and be determined by the third party developer network. But they’ll likely be seeded by Apple’s own batch of apps, just like the iPhone 1 was (think: maps, photos, weather, messaging, etc.).
One thing is for sure: the use cases will be consumer-oriented to stay true to Apple’s DNA. That compares to Microsoft — likewise staying true to its DNA — already showing signs of positioning Hololens as an enterprise play (yes, we’ll look at MSFT in this series).
In addition to graphically oriented AR — the modality in which it’s mostly discussed and visualized — we have a longstanding prediction that Apple could be already pioneering an under-discussed form of AR: Audible.
This looks at AR in a different context, involving informational overlays that are sound waves instead of photons. In other words, getting informed about your surroundings through an ambient whisper in your ear instead of a graphics in front of your eyes.
The seeds for this vision have already been planted with the AirPods, as well as other players like Here One. But before apple gets there, it has to condition the use case of an all-day wearable, which is precisely what it’s now doing.
Then it has to seed the content marketplace with enough “stuff” to make the experience worthwhile. Right now that means Siri, which isn’t going to cut it. But a third party developer network a la iOS, could populate the audio app marketplace.
That could be everything from local information (think: audio tours and Yelp reviews), or background information about the person you’re about to meet with. Essentially we all become secret service agents with persistent whispers of new intel.
Or at least that’s what we know now, and the speculation and triangulation we can draw from it. One thing is certain: there will be a lot to watch and it will happen quickly.
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“The Queen’s Gambit” is setting viewership records at Netflix, the streaming service said today.
Like all the viewership data that Netflix has released this year, these new numbers reflect how many people “chose to watch” — in other words, how many people watched at least two minutes of a given show or movie. In the case of “The Queen’s Gambit,” the number is 62 million households for the first 28 days of release, making it Netflix’s most popular scripted limited series ever.
You may have noticed some qualifiers there. “The Queen’s Gambit” beat out other limited series, like co-creator Scott Frank’s previous show “Godless,” but not Netflix’s biggest ongoing hits, such as “The Witcher” (76 million households watching season one). It also fell just a bit short of the limited-but-unscripted documentary series “Tiger King,” which reached 64 million households during its first four weeks.
The numbers are still pretty impressive for a series with what seems like a decidedly uncommercial premise — following a troubled young woman as she rises through the ranks of competitive chess, eventually challenging the Soviet Union’s world champion. But the series has benefited from excellent reviews (100% on Rotten Tomatoes) and the fact that it’s very, very good.
Indeed, its impact can be seen outside Netflix’s viewing numbers. The 37-year-old Walter Tevis novel on which it’s based has become a New York Times bestseller, while sales of chess sets have increased dramatically.
“Three years ago when Scott Frank … first approached us about adapting ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ — Walter Tevis’ 1983 book about a young chess prodigy — we felt it was a compelling tale,” Netflix’s vice president for original series Peter Friedlander wrote in a blog post. “Beth is an underdog who faces addiction, loss and abandonment. Her success — against the odds — speaks to the importance of perseverance, family, and finding, and staying true to yourself.”
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December 19, 2020 /in Current Events, News, Sci-News /by Buckwheat
Electric automobiles are popping up everywhere now. Even the big three (Gm, Ford, Chrysler) are back in the game. And how about an all-electric Hummer from GM! Things have changed from the time when they were killing off the electric car. Remember the 2006 documentary, ‘Who Killed the Electric Car’.
Canada is leading in this area as well. A team from Carlton University’s Industrial Design, in Ottawa, has won a zero-emission design competition. They named their vehicle ‘Project Arrow’; a nod to the famous Avro Arrow supersonic jet.
To make these EV practical, they need great battery technology. Here again, Canada is leading. One of the leaders in this field is Professor Jeff Dahn of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Dahn is a lithium-ion battery pioneer. According to Professor Jeffrey Dahn, Canada’s reputation for turning out top talent, innovation, and products in battery technology is polling worldwide at an all-time high. Dahn holds the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada/Tesla Canada Industrial Research Chair.
While there is natural competition in the race to the best battery, Canadian researchers and developers champion each other’s successes. And they have been significant. The world’s first alkaline and lithium batteries were invented by Canadian Lewis Urry, in 1954. In 1977, the world’s first rechargeable lithium-metal battery was commercialized, in British Columbia, by Moli Energy Ltd. — the company of Dahn’s early mentor, Rudi Haering – from: https://electricautonomy.ca/2020/07/10/jeff-dahn-interview/
The tradition continues with Professor Dahn and several post-graduate students working with Dahn. Two of these post-grad students who have worked on lithium-ion battery technology at Dalhousie are Leah Ellis and Christopher White. Both Leah and Christopher received $10,000 grants from the Tyler Lewis Clean Energy Research Foundation.
Read more about Professor Dahn’s work here.
Leah was a PhD student, studying lithium-ion batteries under the supervision of Dr. Jeff Dahn, at Dalhousie University. This work is done in partnership with Tesla’s cell development lab. The purpose of her research is to improve the lifetime and energy density of lithium-ion cells, for use in green technologies. Leah is now at MIT.
More about Leah’s research here.
Chris’s current PhD work aims to develop sustainable-energy storage technologies to support the clean-energy transition, through smart control systems, for repurposed electric vehicle batteries.
More about Chris’s research here.
And that’s how we get to cycling. The above-mentioned foundation has a yearly fundraiser called ‘The Ride for Clean Energy’.
The Tyler Lewis Clean Energy Research Foundation has been established by his parents, in memory of Tyler G. P. Lewis, to fund alternative energy and applied sustainability research initiatives. Tyler grew up in rural British Columbia and was taught the importance of environmental awareness from a young age. Tyler recognized the world’s impending energy crisis and had a strong “desire to leave this planet in a better position for future generations”. Tyler believed that, as an engineer, “it is our duty to address global issues, such as climate change, in a manner that is environmentally and socially sound.” – Tyler G. P. Lewis
My wife, our daughters, our son-in-law, and I participate in this annual ride. The ride is held in Maple Ridge with a route snaking through the Fort Langley area. Due to COIVD-19, this year’s ride was done remotely; the riders chose their own route, on the day of the ride.
So, our cycling efforts are helping to power those EVs, which we are seeing more frequently on our highways, to go farther.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s independent vaccine advisory committee is scheduled to vote Tuesday to determine who should get a coronavirus vaccine first.
There was more promising news on a COVID-19 vaccine today. The vaccine made by Moderna is 94% effective in preventing the disease. And as the good news about vaccines accumulates, a CDC committee is holding an emergency meeting tomorrow to lay down guidelines on who should get the first shots. NPR’s Pien Huang is here with a preview.
Hi, Pien.
PIEN HUANG, BYLINE: Hey, Ari.
SHAPIRO: What exactly is the committee expected to vote on at tomorrow’s meeting?
HUANG: Well, this is a group that’s been holding monthly public meetings to talk about COVID vaccine progress – things like which ones look the most promising and who needs it the most. And tomorrow, for the first time, they’ve scheduled a vote on COVID vaccines, specifically on who should get the vaccine first. They’ve been considering it for months now, and tomorrow they’ll make a decision.
SHAPIRO: That seems like an enormous responsibility. Who is this committee made of? Who’s on it?
HUANG: Yeah. So this is a federal advisory group to the CDC, and it’s made up of 15 voting members, mostly medical and public health experts outside of CDC, so it’s independent. The committee had previously said that they would wait for a vaccine to be authorized before making recommendations, but recently they’ve been feeling pressure from the government to move faster. By voting tomorrow, states will have a chance to use their guidance as they place vaccine orders, which are due to the federal government by Friday.
SHAPIRO: I know there’s been a lot of public conversation about who should be first in line – any sense of what the committee is likely to recommend?
HUANG: Yeah. Well, we’ve long heard that health care workers are expected to be the very first in line, and that’s doctors, nurses, hospital workers, nursing home staff that get exposed to COVID. But last week the group proposed also including nursing home residents and other adults in long-term care facilities in this very first group. That’s because 40% of COVID deaths have been linked to long-term care facilities, so the hope is that vaccinating residents could save a lot of lives. But the vaccine has mostly been tested in healthy people, so it’s not completely clear that it’s a hundred percent safe and effective in frail, older people.
SHAPIRO: And will there be enough in the early days to cover all of these priority groups?
HUANG: I mean, vaccine doses are supposed to be very limited in the beginning. The government has told states to expect a first batch of around 6.4 million vaccines and more coming every week after that. But the CDC estimates that there are 21 million health care workers and around 2 million people in long-term care facilities. So even within that health care worker group, decisions are going to have to be made about which ones get vaccinated first. You know, is it acute care staff? Is it health workers who don’t have enough protective gear? These are things the group will consider. And don’t forget everyone that gets one will need two doses.
SHAPIRO: And once those people have been vaccinated, there is an entire population of the U.S. where many millions of people are going to be waiting in line – any sense of how long it might be until a vaccine is widely available to the general public?
HUANG: Well, I think that’s a question that a lot of people have right now. And Operation Warp Speed, the government’s project to fast-track a COVID vaccine, says they could be available to most Americans as early as April. Other estimates suggest that the general public would not get it until summer or maybe later next year.
SHAPIRO: That’s NPR’s Pien Huang.
HUANG: Thanks so much for having me.
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How would water-ammonia oceans behave?
Scientists strongly suspect that several moons in our solar system have frozen-over oceans of water-ammonia mixture. I've also read speculations on the possibility of surface water-ammonia oceans on exoplanets and exomoons. What I haven't seen a lot of is a discussion on how those oceans might behave differently than the water oceans of Earth.
More specifically, how would the surface water-ammonia ocean behavior differ from our water ocean behavior in terms of:
Ice(s) formation
Surface and underwater currents
Varying ratios of water-ammonia based on temperature or other factors
I'd like to know if this has been studied and if these behaviors have been described in papers, books, or in-depth articles on this topic. Especially anyting that goes into the specifics of the water/ammonia ratios.
I'll add some personal speculation here. While it is not part of the primary question stated above, it helps to explain the type of problem I'm trying to understand, so may be helpful to narrow down which resources may be most useful.
When subject to increasing levels of heat would the ammonia molecules in the ocean evaporate before the water molecules, causing warmer areas of the ocean to have an increased amount of H2O relative to NH3? (And the cooler areas like the poles having an increasing ratio of NH3 to H2O).
If the above was true, might the equatorial waters that have less NH3 facilitate the formation of water-ice? If so I could imagine exoplanets having water-ice-covered equators because they were warmer, and the cooler poles might be ice-free thanks to the greater amount of NH3 in the ocean.
Would the ice formed on the ocean be composed of a molecular mix matching that of the ocean (with H2O and NH3 in the same ratio as the ocean), or would some molecules freeze-out first, possibly causing different layers or areas of varying types of ices?
Might the poles of some water-ammonia planets have "continents" of water-ammonia ices that are frozen from ocean bed up to the surface (thanks to the fact that frozen ammonia is more dense than liquid, allowing for entire sections of ocean to freeze solid)?
If my speculation is correct (and I could be wildly wrong since I don't yet understand how a mix of water-ammonia actually behaves) then an exoplanet with an equatorial band of water-ice, mid-latitudes of liquid ocean, and solid polar-caps/continents of water/ammonia ices could be possible. The ammonia in the ocean would evaporate more quickly near the warmer equator, causing that area of a global ocean to have a greater ratio of H2O, and the ammonia precipitation and ocean might freeze at the poles, causing the build up of vast polar continents of ammonia/water ices. I would imagine the currents would function very differently than on earth, with surface and deep-level currents of varying ammonia-water ratios and temperatures. I I also see the possibility of frozen ocean beds in the more ammonia-heavy parts of an ocean, with the surface unfrozen.
Of course the ratio of ammonia to water will be very important. I'd love to see specific information on that!
Any informed clarification appreciated!
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$\begingroup$ Have you researched the basic physical and chemical properties of water-ammonia mixtures? Things like viscosity, specific heat, melting & vaporization temperatures would be important. $\endgroup$ – Carl Witthoft Jul 16 '19 at 18:32
$\begingroup$ Looking at the 1 atm water-ammonia phase diagram in the -80 to -100 C range changes in concentration may indeed cause melting/freezing. But I suspect the vapour pressure at these temperatures will be low. Warmer planets near 0 C may have interesting dynamics as pure water ice may become unstable in ammonia-water mixtures if the ammonia content goes up. $\endgroup$ – Anders Sandberg Jul 16 '19 at 20:24
$\begingroup$ I think is too broad. Not only it requires knowledge of ammonia in water solutions / mixtures under various condition, but even modelling at planet size. $\endgroup$ – Alchimista Jul 17 '19 at 10:41
$\begingroup$ @Alchimista I've lightly edited the question so that it clearly asks for information in existing research and publications, rather than for "specific individual knowledge" from users. Does this look better? $\endgroup$ – uhoh Jul 18 '19 at 2:41
$\begingroup$ Nasty Question: duckduckgo.com/… I doubt there's a lot of grant money tied up in studies, but plenty of complicated graphs and equations: shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/37842/16/… We'll probably have to migrate to such a world be fore we get serious about understanding it. -Not a friendly environment. $\endgroup$ – Wayfaring Stranger Jul 19 '19 at 1:13
It's a big question, but kind of a favorite subject of mine, thinking about exoplanets, so I can give a ballpark answer, and I invite anyone to give correction or give a more technical answer if they like.
An ammonia-water ocean wouldn't be friendly towards ice formation because water ice would sink in the ammonia-water solution and Ammonia ice would sink in liquid ammonia. There's no range where the ice floats unless you remove nearly all of the ammonia and had it a high percentage of water.
That said, oceans are likely to have dissolved salts in them, especially on rocky worlds that have a very high rock to water ratio. A water world might have much less salty oceans, but, lets not get too sidetracked.
If there's enough dissolved salts or iron in the water-ammonia mix, then the density might be sufficient that water-ice could remain on top. Ice tends to form out of nearly pure water, with very little ocean salt, which increases it's buoyancy. It's possible, with enough saltiness, that ice could form in an ammonia-water ocean. It's also possible that ice would sink.
I want to point this out now, because it's important. Using our oceans as a model, higher salt concentration sinks.
Salt concentration by density
That's kind of common sense and is likely to happen with a water-ammonia ocean as well. Higher ammonia concentration near the surface, higher water (and higher salt) concentration as you go lower. That's speculation on my part, but it seems reasonable.
Higher water concentrations would sink and higher ammonia concentrations would rise and flow towards the lower. That's simple physics. Like on Earth, the variation of salinity of surface water isn't all that much. The same thing would likely happen with an ammonia-water ocean, the surface currents would try to equalize the different ratios. There would be some variation, but likely not as pronounced as the variation with depth. You're not likely to get a 90% water ocean in one region and a 40-60 ratio in another region because gravity abhors an imbalance like that. The 90% water region would be heavier and as a result, lower. You can have that kind of density imbalance with a solid crust, but not a flowing ocean.
The varying density of the ocean is important for another reason. On Earth, the salinity being relatively consistent across the ocean surface, the cold polar ocean is more dense and it sinks, and this is what's thought to drive the oceanic conveyer.
There's a range of uncertainty on whether an ammonia-water ocean would conveyer or not. You'd need a sufficient temperature and/or density variation, keeping in mind that if you begin with a ratio imbalance the ocean would work to correct it, so the planet needs an engine to maintain the conveyer. On Earth, that engine is the warm equator and cold poles. Different planets would have different temperature variations. Venus, for example, has practically no temperature variation at it's surface.
I looked, but couldn't find a table on ammonia-water solution by temperature. That would be a factor if anyone can find it.
Ammonia in water has a saturation point, based on temperature and pressure. If the ammonia-water solution exceeds that saturation point, say, on a hot day, then ammonia would bubble out of the ocean fairly quickly. Perhaps quickly enough to generate a weather system and trigger a density change, and in this case, warmer water sinking and a kind of reverse conveyer, driven by sinking water at the planet's warmest regions.
The phase transition, liquid to gas would remove heat from the water as well.
A planet with an ammonia-water ocean and a surface temperature that exceeds the saturation point could be quite dynamic.
If the planet is slightly colder and/or the ammonia percentage stays below the saturation point, then it's more of an equilibrium system. Water is a good solvent and it takes in many gases, such as CO2, in small amounts. Ammonia and Water, unlike CO2 and Water, mix very happily, so evaporation of an ammonia-water ocean below saturation wouldn't be that different to water on Earth, where evaporation is driven primarily by wind and sunlight. (contrary to logic temperature isn't as big factor in evaporation as direct sunlight). Wind is also a big player and on Earth, running water from rain or snow melt and transpiration from plants all return water to the atmosphere, which quickly rains or snows back to the surface. At any given time, Earth's percentage of water vapor in the atmosphere is about 1%, but it varies locally based on air temperature and relative humidity.
Ammonia would enter the atmosphere similar to water, but how long it would stay in the atmosphere is a factor. Air temperature and 100% relative humidity are the upper limits for how much water vapor can exist in the atmosphere. There are no such upper limits for Ammonia at Earthlike temperature and pressure because Ammonia, unlike water, is a gas at standard temperature and pressure.
As a result, a theoretical Earth-like planet with an ammonia-water ocean is also, very likely, going to have a lot of ammonia in the atmosphere, not the trace 1% of water that's in our atmosphere, but a lot more. You can't have an ammonia ocean without ammonia in the atmosphere at well, in high concentrations.
For example, to have ammonia raindrops at 1 ATM, the air temperature needs to be colder than -33 C because that's ammonia's boiling/liquification temperature. Unless the planet was really cold, a lot of the ammonia would just stay in the atmosphere, though, presumably the planet would have water-rain and that water rain would pull some of the ammonia back out and return it to the oceans. That's the equilibrium, and it's a complicated thing to try to calculate, but the question isn't just how fast would it evaporate, but also, how fast would it return and the return rate would depend on the method of return. Ammonia, being a gas at what we think of as normal planetary temperatures, means it would likely remain in the atmosphere as well, it wouldn't all go into the ocean. It would be some of both.
Perhaps over time, the ocean ratio and the rain-water/ammonia ratio would equalize, but again, that's just speculation.
If the planet has very cold poles, where the ammonia could rain out of the atmosphere, or perhaps tidal locking, and a colder night-side of the planet, then the ammonia could return from the atmosphere more quickly.
I'd like to know if this has been studied and if these behaviors have been described in papers, books, or in-depth articles on this topic.
I don't know of any papers. Theoretical planetary formation is fun to think about, but to do it right, requires some pretty serious computer modeling. What I've read on the subject is much less ambitious than your question. Models are done on water worlds and on tidally locked worlds and on plate tectonics for different mass planets. I've never seen a study on ammonia-water oceans, but I think it's a fun subject.
Earth had to have fairly abundant ammonia at some point because it's one of the primary "ices" in comets. Comets are mostly ammonia, water, CO2 and CH4, with smaller amounts of other elements. It's worth asking where Earth's ammonia went. It may be more chemically reactive than the other elements. If Earth lost it's ammonia, other planets may lose their ammonia as well in the process of planet formation and the chemistry that goes with it. It's also possible that ammonia-water oceans are common, perhaps more common than the pure water oceans like the ones we have on Earth.
Perhaps time and better telescopes will tell us more about this subject.
Take my answer with a grain of salt as I'm a hobbyist.
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$\begingroup$ This is great! I think I'll have some follow-up questions for you if you're game. I've been doing my own research on the matter, and I have a few new insights I may be able to contribute. Also, FYI my interest in ammonia-water worlds skew a little more towards those that are cold(ish) (0C,-10C,-30C,-40C) than warmer, in part b/c it seems that NH3 oceans are more likely on worlds farther from their sun(s). At that distance "super-earth" hydrogen-dominated atmospheres are highly plausible, which means a "cold haber" bio-chemical process could generate ammonia from N2 and H2. Maybe a lot of it. $\endgroup$ – n_bandit Jul 21 '19 at 22:29
$\begingroup$ @n_bandit Thanks. I do my best, though, my answer is more of an outline than a scientific answer. Try to follow the stack rules, such as, one question at a time and not too broad, or we can always move to chat for more of a back and forth discussion. $\endgroup$ – userLTK Jul 21 '19 at 23:32
$\begingroup$ Are there not "mixed" ices. Crystals containing one or two water molecules for each ammonia molecule? They might form ices that could float. $\endgroup$ – Steve Linton Jul 22 '19 at 7:43
$\begingroup$ @SteveLinton You're right that ammonia and water will freeze together (if it gets cold enough). I think I overlooked that completely. Water doesn't freeze out of a water-ammonia solution the way it freezes out of a salt-water solution or some (all?) water-alcohol solutions. That's why ammonia makes a good antifreeze. But - my chemistry should probably be checked. $\endgroup$ – userLTK Jul 23 '19 at 4:27
$\begingroup$ @userLTK I found a diagram in a paper recently going over ice formation at various ammonia concentrations, temperatures, and pressures. If I recall correctly as temperature is lowered water will gradually freeze out of the ammonia as pure water-ice until, reaching ammonia's freezing-point, only ammonia is left. Then ammonia starts to freeze, reacting with the water-ice to form some new type of ice. The ices and temperatures were different when you increased the pressure. I'll need to dredge up the diagram and share it here. $\endgroup$ – n_bandit Jul 24 '19 at 16:02
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Luminaries V -— Shaykh Aḥmad Ibn Idrīs
By Kamran Shaheen
Bismiʾllahi ʾr-Raḥmāni ʾr-Raḥīm wa ʾṣ-ṣalātu wa salām ʿalā Rasūlihi ʾl-Karīm
When we decided to create this series titled Luminaries, I was undecided as to whom I would write about. So I thought, what does Luminary actually mean? For me, a luminary is someone that has reached the status of sainthood and then gone that one step further. The word luminary is derived from one of two Latin words; lumen meaning “light”, or lucere meaning “to shine”. Interestingly, lumen is also a unit of measurement of; yes you guessed correctly, light (more specifically visible light). My teacher Dr ‘Umar Fārūq ‘Abd-Allāh says that a person’s heart is a receptacle of light, every time you do good, your heart fills with light. Hence, a luminary’s heart is full of light, to be specific: epiphanic light. This light is so strong that it radiates and illuminates all those that come into contact with it.
No one typifies this more for me than Shaykh Aḥmad Ibn Idrīs al-ʻArā’ishī al-ʻAlamī al-Idrīsī al-Ḥasanī.
One of Shaykh Aḥmad Ibn Idrīs’s students Imām Muḥammad ʻUthmān al-Mīrghanī wrote, “One time, toward the end of his stay in Mecca, I looked at him while he was sitting next to one of the doors of the Masjid al-Ḥarām. I looked at the greatness of his spiritual state and the lights that surrounded him. I saw that such light was coming out of his noble beard, that if the light from a single hair of his beard traveled across the world it would turn all of its inhabitants into awliyāʾ.”
Ibn Idrīs was born into a pious family in the suburb of Maysūr in the district of al-ʻArā’ish near Fez in Morocco in 1750. He was a direct descendant of Sayyidīna Ḥasan b. ʿAlī, the grandson of the Prophet (ﷺ). He was often referred to (by modern academics) as the “enigmatic saint” as very little was known about him (in comparison to the great influence he had on the Muslim world), and he did not leave behind a compendium of written work. It said he was also bestowed with another name, this time by the Prophet (ﷺ) himself, the name was al-Shifā’ meaning the healing. Most of the information available on Aḥmad Ibn Idrīs is through works compiled by his students.
Even before he had reached adulthood, Ibn Idrīs would seclude himself and devote most of his time to worship and contemplation. He memorized the Qurʾān and several other important Islamic texts before moving to Fez and attending al-Qarawiyyīn at the age of twenty. He excelled at Fez, and went on to become a teacher at al-Qarawiyyīn within 10 years. He became very close to a Mauritanian scholar called Muḥammad Limjaydrī b. Ḥabībullāh, he would go on to play an important role in the spiritual development of Ibn Idrīs. Shaykh Limjaydrī was impressed with Ibn Idrīs that he introduced him to his own teacher, Shaykh ‘Abd al-Wahhāb al-Tazī. Shaykh al-Tazī was struck by the eloquence of Ibn Idrīs and the tremendous power he had in his voice. Ibn Idrīs took three paths from al-Tazī: the ancient Sufi paths, the Shādhiliyya and Nasqshbandiyya, as well as a new spiritual path called the Khaḍiriyya which was initiated by the great Shaykh ‘Abd al-Azīz Dabbāgh. Both al-Dabbāgh and al-Tazī were saints in their own right, and had seen the Prophet (ﷺ) in many dreams, they themselves had taken knowledge, and paths directly from the Prophet (ﷺ); al-Tazī now wished to bring Ibn Idrīs to this level.
Ibn Idrīs recounts seeing the Prophet (ﷺ) in a vision and received his own litanies, three to be exact: a formula for remembrance, one for ṣalawāt, and the other to seek forgiveness from God. The Prophet (ﷺ) then said to him, “O Aḥmad, I have given you the keys of the heavens and the Earth; saying them once is equal to the greatness of everything that is in this world and the next, many times over.”
At the age of forty nine, Ibn Idrīs moved to Mecca, stopping on his way in Algeria, Tunisia and also Libya, he lectured whenever he could, the talks often centred on ‘ilm (knowledge) and Sufism. His intention was to spend the rest of his life in the two holy mosques; he taught extensively in Mecca, but also in Madīnah and Ṭā’if. A common criticism of some Sufi orders is that people believe they leave behind the Qur’ān and the Sunnah or deviate away from it altogether, however Ibn Idrīs was a staunch advocate of the Qurʾān and Sunnah. One time his student Muḥammad b.ʿAlī al-Sanūsī said to him, “Dictate to me your lineage so that I may record it.” He replied, “My lineage is the Book and the Sunnah. Look, and if you find me upon the Book and the Sunnah, then say: ‘Aḥmad Ibn Idrīs is upon the Book and the Sunnah.’ That is my lineage.”
He lamented the deterioration of Islam and Muslims in general; he wanted to revive forgotten practices and teachings of the Prophet (ﷺ) no matter how small. He would often send his best students as missionaries to Muslim lands to revive them and their societies; they were in essence healers, this would be his lasting legacy. Later in his life he moved to Yemen. He was aging and felt obliged to pass on as much knowledge as possible. Some scholars have said that the revival of Sufi thinking in Yemen was brought about by the arrival of Shaykh Aḥmad Ibn Idrīs.
Ibn Idrīs was an independent Mujtahid, this is a term that we rarely come across now, but basically his understanding of the Qurʾān and ḥadīth was so succinct that he could extract his own opinions. His aptitude in ḥadīth was tested several times by Meccan scholars, much like Imām al-Bukhārī, they attempted to throw him by mixing the chains of narrators and Prophetic statements, but he answered each and every one of them with the correct chains all the way back to the Prophet (ﷺ). He had proved himself to be a master in the Islamic sciences.
Ibn Idrīs wanted people to receive everything directly from the Prophet (ﷺ), this is why he called his path al-Ṭarīqa al- Muḥammadiyya – in this path the Prophet (ﷺ) himself is the Shaykh. It is important to note that for all the orders, the leader is always inevitably the Prophet (ﷺ), but this path was ground breaking in the sense that Ibn Idrīs did away with intermediaries.
Shaykh Aḥmad Ibn Idrīs’s originality lay in his humility, in his conscious effort in wanting to follow the Prophet (ﷺ) in every action with the utmost sincerity. He was a luminary that was intent on giving and reviving the Prophet (ﷺ) in people’s lives and homes. He wanted God and the Messenger (ﷺ) to be the centre of everyone’s lives. I can’t help but feel this is precisely what we are lacking now: the presence of God and His Messenger (ﷺ) in our daily lives.
Ibn Idrīs left behind four core principles that encapsulate his teachings and most importantly, his way, clearly.
To remember, before every word or action, that God will question one concerning that action.
To perform every word and action for God alone.
To make one’s heart a home for mercy toward all Muslims, great or small, and to give them honour and respect, which is their right.
Good character, to treat one’s family and household and all of creation kindly and gently.
“The greatest portion of our aim is in following the Prophet (ﷺ) footstep after footstep.”
“Sufism is to empty the heart of anything but God.”
“Leave aside rest and sleep, and stand up for God, may He be praised and glorified, on the foot of sincerity.”
“May your tongue habituate itself to the remembrance of God Most High, so that it overwhelms your heart…”
“Indeed there is nothing more harmful to a true faqīr than his hope in people, for hope in people is a sword which cuts man off from God.”
“We are slaves of God, journeying towards God, fearing nothing save God, hoping in nothing save God, clinging to nothing save God, and placing trust in nothing save God.”
Ibn Idrīs is a true luminary and the light he had can still be seen penetrating the hearts and minds of many to this day. This transcendent light today is carried through his students who went on to form their own paths, such as Muḥammad b.ʿAlī al-Sanūsī (d. 1859), Ibrāhīm al-Rashīd (d. 1874), Muḥammad ʻUthmān al-Mīrghanī (d. 1852), ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Maḥmūd (d. 1874), and among later figures, Ṣāliḥ al-Jaʾfarī (d. 1979).
One Harvard study said,
“The Idrīsī tradition gave birth to leaders of holy wars, men who established religious states, and a number of important centralised ṭarīqahs…. Its success was such that observers at the end of the nineteenth century felt that it was the source of much of the Islamic dynamism of the time.”
In my opinion, the greatest gift that Ibn Idrīs left was given to him in a vision by the Prophet (ﷺ)
“There is none worthy of being worshiped save God and Muḥammad is the Messenger of God, with every glance and every breath, as many times as all that is contained in the knowledge of God.”
In one of his letters to his student Muḥammad al-Madjdhūb, Ibn Idrīs said,
“May God let you reach His Light, where there is no more darkness.”
May this light penetrate our hearts and allow us to follow the way of Shaykh Aḥmad Ibn Idrīs, the Muḥammadan way. (ﷺ)
Reassurance for the Seeker
The Letters of ʾAḥmad Ibn Idrīs
[Note: I have made slight edits to the original post. Clarifications were added with the use of round brackets. I have also changed one of the links embedded in the article to a more direct source for the quotation used.]
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Black Wolves Acquire Powless
UNCASVILLE, Conn. (February 20, 2018) – The New England Black Wolves acquired forward Johnny Powless from the Georgia Swarm on Tuesday.
In exchange, New England sent two picks to the Swarm – a second round selection in the 2018 NLL Entry Draft and a third round pick in the 2020 NLL Entry Draft.
“Johnny is a proven winner and a proven scorer,” Black Wolves general manager Rich Lisk said. “He’s won four Champions Cups and we are excited to welcome him to the Pack.”
A 5-foot-11 left hander, Powless has 14 points in seven games so far this season. In seven NLL seasons, he has scored 332 points on 151 goals and 181 assists with 244 loose balls. Powless won three Champions Cups as a member of the Rochester Knighthawks (2012, 2013 and 2014) and one as a member of the Swarm in 2017.
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The folding door made its debut in the 50s, inspired by the ideas of various architects on modern housing: it is a furnishing accessory that can be used to open up, divide or screen off an indoor area according to the desired layout.
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The character of an interior is determined by the cut of the spaces, by the psychology of light, by the intuitions of the designer who transforms a volume of full and empty spaces into a versatile habitat. What allows the space to be divided without sacrificing the sense of the whole are the thresholds. Curtains, doors, windows and sliding walls are thresholds. A synthesis of these elements is the bellowed door, a bizarre twentieth-century idea used by architects and designers from all backgrounds and backgrounds. The reducibility of space, the separation of environments, the declaration of a function, the break between what is public and what is private are the results that a folding door offers. There are many memories of mythological interiors where these doors have played a significant role. With clutter due to suggestions, here’s a selection. Eileen Gray, from the mid-twenties of the last century, designed two residences with Jean Badovici. In Roquebrune, Cap Martin and Paris, she used devices to create hybrid surfaces. They were not doors, they were not tents, they were limits, spatial divisions that expanded or reduced the space according to the pulling that could be imposed. These separations that borrowed intelligent ideas from the mechanics and culture of outdoor became an element of absolute novelty for the typological innovation that represented, for the ease of construction, for the simplicity of the materials. But it was not only the French modernists who asked themselves these questions, in fact at the beginning of the 1930s Franco Albini in Milan for the furnishing of his home Peiti separated the sleeping area with a black waxed canvas curtain armed in a chrome-plated steel structure.
Apartments in Milan designed by Gianfranco Frattini, 1957-61 Courtesy Gianfranco Frattini Archive
However, the Italian champion, also in this matter, was Gio Ponti, who already in 1954 at the tenth International Exhibition of the Triennale in Milan presented a stay of a “uniambiental home” with a folding door. The project was signed with Gianfranco Frattini, Alberto Rosselli and Antonio Fornaroli. What Ponti called “great space to live” was achieved through a creative and unprecedented use of sliding doors with bellows. He did so starting from the design of his house in Via Dezza 49 in Milan. The project conceived between 1955 and 1957 has almost no doors, Ponti replaced them with sliding doors with bellows. They were perfect for composition and decomposition in space, they had sound absorbing properties. With Joe Colombo, between 1969 and 1972, bellows doors became the symbol of a futuristic domesticity where modular devices could become fluid, compact, promiscuous and individual at times. This was the case with “Visona 1” for Bayer AG, which first at the Interzum Exhibition in Cologne and then at the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan defeated the public and critics with an idea of a house that could be packaged, transported, revolutionary and without a hierarchy between inside and outside. A sleeping and eating machine with rails, joints, mirrors and transformable furnishings where the walls were made of laminated plastic, the slatted curtains, the yellow hood of the bed. A hyperbole that also at the MoMA in New York during the exhibition “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape” generated amazement and debate. This time it was the “Total Furnishing Unit” that pushed the dynamism of the interiors towards a continuous state of transformation.
Interior of Visiona 1 designed by Joe Colombo, 1969 Credits Ignazia Favata – Studio Joe Colombo
No less important were Gianantonio Mari, always on the occasion of the same exhibition, with the “Modular Equipment for new domestic enviroments”, Alberto Rosselli with Isao Hosoe and the “Mobile house” extendable thanks to sophisticated macro bellows. An explosion that then seemed to fade even if the use of the folding door appeared in the interior designs of some key figures of the eighties delivered to the literature of the sector. These included Toni Cordero, Paolo Deganello, Massimo Carmassi and Gabriella Ioli. From that moment on, the bellows door seemed to become a sophisticated habit or a quotation from the past or, in the worst case scenario, an obligatory choice for rooms with results or dental surgeries. Yet the themes of the economy of space, of functionality and discretion of decoration have no time, on the contrary, they are overwhelmingly affirmed in the contemporary practice of interior design. This is precisely where the modernity of a design idea lies, which returns to the public’s attention with its hybrid and intelligent form.
Gio Ponti’s apartment in via Dezza, Milan 1956-57 Courtesy Gio Ponti Archive
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Alex Scarrow Time Riders 9 Book Collection
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This is book one in Alex Scarrow's exciting science fiction TimeRiders series.
Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912.
Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.
Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029
Yet moments before death, someone mysteriously appeared and said, 'Take my hand . . .'
But Liam, Maddy and Sal aren't rescued. They are recruited by an agency that no one knows exists, with only one purpose - to fix broken history. Because time travel is here, and there are those who would go back in time and change the past.
Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029.
But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no-one knows exists. Its purpose - to prevent time travel destroying history . . .
When Maddy mistakenly opens a time window where and when she shouldn't have, Liam is marooned sixty-five million years ago in the hunting ground of a deadly - and until now - undiscovered species of predator.
But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no one knows exists.
Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history . . .
In 1993 British computer hacker Adam Lewis finds his name in a coded manuscript that is almost one thousand years old. How did Adam's name get in there . . . and why?
A time wave has struck that alters the entire history of the American Civil War. Abraham Lincoln has followed Liam into the present from 1831 - and now the world is in a dangerous state of limbo . . .
If the TimeRiders can't return Lincoln to the past, the Civil War will never end. Can Maddy persuade two colonels on either side of no man's land to cease fire long enough to save the future?
Project Exodus - a mission to transport 300 Americans from 2070 to 54AD to overthrow the Roman Empire - has gone catastrophically wrong. Half have arrived seventeen years earlier, during the reign of Caligula.
Liam goes to investigate, but when Maddy and Sal attempt to flee a kill-squad sent to hunt down their field office, all of the TimeRiders become trapped in the Roman past.
Armed with knowledge of the future, Caligula is now more powerful than ever. But with the office unmanned - and under thrthreat - how will the TimeRiders make it back to 2001 and put history right?
But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history . . .
Hunted by cyborg assassins from the future, the TimeRiders must abandon New York and go on the run. They escape to Victorian London and the streets where Jack the Ripper roams. But, before they can establish their new base, they make their most shattering discovery yet - and it will change everything .
Relocated to Victorian London, the TimeRiders joy-ride back to 1666 to witness the Great Fire of London. In the ensuing chaos, Liam and their newest recruit, Rashim, find themselves trapped between the fire and the Thames. They escape onboard a river boat, only to be confronted by an unscrupulous captain with his heart set on treasures of the high seas . . .
When Maddy finally unlocks fragments of the secret that Becks has been holding on to, the TimeRiders start to piece together their true purpose. Racing through time to connect the clues, the team discover a Mayan tribe and an ancient relic provides a vital link to the past . . . and future.
But not all the TimeRiders can cope with the discovery, and one threatens to bring them all down if they can act out their revenge . . .
The end is approaching for the TimeRiders. In a final effort to prevent time travel destroying history, Liam and Maddy jump forward to 2070 to confront the enigmatic Waldstein and prove once and for all if he is friend or foe. What they discover is more shocking than anyone couhave imagined and soon the TimeRiders are on one final mission - back to Biblical times to save the whole of humanity . . .
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“Rockstar”… Angst in the Pants
We’re lucky if we get one grand, eccentric, moody, what-were-they-thinking love story that raises a middle finger to audience attention spans and the whispered wisdom that this is what this star’s fans will pay to see him in – and we thought that Pankaj Kapur’s Mausam, this year, filled that slightly suicidal slot. But here’s Imtiaz Ali’s Rockstar, which is so similar in tone and temperament that a time-pressed reviewer need do nothing more than yoke the two in the same sentence. “If you liked Mausam, you will love Rockstar. If you hated Mausam, then stay far, far away.” When we see or read about other people’s love stories, we seek only the highlights: jab they met, how he proposed, when they first did it. “Give us the good parts,” we say. “Leave out the boring bits, where nothing happens.” But from our own love stories, we know that the boring bits are what it’s all about – the restlessness, the annihilating uncertainty, the clock on the wall whose hands refuse to budge as we pace the room and pray to the spirits, awaiting an answer. These boring bits (which may be unendurable for others) are the hellish fires in which a certain kind of love is forged, and Pankaj Kapur and Imtiaz Ali, in their respective films, document this process, this slow process, through which men and women prove themselves transcendentally worthy of love. These films say that you may fall in love easily, but you have to work very hard to earn the happily-ever-after. They are fairy tales with a core of cold steel, as much the stuff of dreams as our worst nightmares.
Like Mausam, Rockstar enshrines the notion of romance as a slow-burning flame that sears the soul, and like Shahid Kapoor, Ranbir Kapoor loses his heart to a somewhat remote beauty and trawls through time and space (across continents, actually) in pursuit of a horribly idealised, often self-destructive love. Both men are slowly stripped of their innocence, their vigour and good humour, and both films feature a malady that is healed not through medicine but by the magic of love. Both films feature a scene where lovers reunite in a European city, and this reunion isn’t marked by squeals of elation but with a near-existential shrug of acceptance, as if this meeting were inevitable, ordained by destiny. They could be ordering soup. And both films are narrated elliptically, as if flipping through a scrapbook of emotions; because the scenes are cut short and we aren’t shown everything, we feel, sometimes, a little disoriented about the chronology. (Perhaps that’s what makes them timeless love stories.) Both Mausam and Rockstar are operatic films that play out in a remarkably non-hysterical fashion (save for a few outbursts), and the experience is like listening to La Bohème as performed by Bob Dylan in his folk-guitar phase. Thunder-and-lightning material, the fodder of florid arias, is rendered casually, like a troubadour’s ballad. This apparent disconnect between form and content (which, of course, exists only in the mind, for there’s nothing that says movies have to be made only one way) is perhaps what’s causing the audience to tune out. In both films, I was surrounded by viewers who, after a point, could take it no more, and began to hoot and jeer. But I left both films on a near-spiritual high, as if cleansed of the grime that sticks to us after a few too many bubblegummy love stories. Like Mausam, Rockstar is some kind of crazy-great movie.
The no-pain-no-gain philosophy of attaining love, in Rockstar, extends to Ranbir Kapoor’s music. (He plays an amateur musician named Janardhan who evolves into the snarling titular creature, answering to Jordan.) Janardhan is advised early on, that a real artist makes his art through angst, and it is this pain he seeks when he playfully proclaims his love to the Kashmiri played by newcomer Nargis Fakhri, whose character is named Heer. (As soon as we alight on this name, we realise that the director isn’t after just any love story, but something monumental and mythic. Heer, like her legendary counterpart, comes from a wealthy family, and Janardhan, like Ranjha, plays a musical instrument and falls afoul of his brothers and takes solace, at some point, in spirituality.) Janardhan reasons that Heer will reject him, and, as a result, his ridiculously happy life – whose highlights he enumerates in an amusing monologue – will wince with its first pinch of pain. She rejects him all right, but he doesn’t feel anything because he wasn’t all that invested in her approval in the first place. She was simply a means to an end, and that end was pain. And then, she becomes the end. They gradually drift into love, almost without realising it, and their early happiness recedes into a distant memory. Ali likes to complicate the relationships in his films by having one half of the couple engaged or wedded elsewhere, and here too, Heer is all set to marry someone so smooth-jawed he might be a shaving-cream model. That’s when Janardhan begins to skate on razorblades, really transforming into a lovesick Ranjha.
Rockstar is a sprawling ode to the cliché that we should be careful what we ask the gods for, for they may actually grant us our wish. (In other words, the only thing worse than not getting what you want is getting what you want.) Jordan wants pain in order to create music, and he ends up with so much pain that even when he’s mobbed by fans – which is every musician’s dream, and it certainly was his – all he can think about, talk about is this pain. He is in thrall to this pain; there’s nothing in his life but this pain. And Heer is the ethereal balm. When her mother asks him to step away from her daughter’s side, he doesn’t say “Main nahin jaaoonga” but “Main nahin jaa paaoonga.” This isn’t sullen defiance but abject helplessness, for when she’s not around to alleviate his pain, he goes mad, like an addict denied his fix. He beats up cops. He throws up on the red carpet. He barks at the media. He tears up a contract and showers the pieces of paper like confetti on a music-label executive, chanting wedding incantations. He cancels concerts, preferring to sing along with prostitutes in the midst of a whorehouse. He is unable to function without her, and she is literally unable to survive without him.
Rockstar is perhaps the worst title Imtiaz Ali could have given his film, for it makes us anticipate a blistering saga of a musician and his music, while in actuality, this is the fanciful chronicle of a lover – a morbidly obsessed romantic who just happens to be a musician. When that music-label executive sacks Jordan because he is unable to pour himself into someone else’s composition, a shehnai maestro (Shammi Kapoor) explains that Jordan is destined for great things, that he is a bada jaanwar who cannot be caged in this chhota pinjra. We think, of course, that he’s talking about Jordan’s music, but this metaphor is equally true about Jordan’s love, which is too big to be bound to this prosaic world, with its frustratingly logical rules. That is why Jordan and Heer need their own world, which springs up around them when they lie in bed, under snow-white covers, oblivious to everything else. (Ali’s ugliest touch in the film is where he labels this sentiment, with a Rumi quote floating across a representation of their togetherness in an Elysian eternity; this visual instantly congeals into calendar-art kitsch.)
When Jordan is with Heer, it’s magic, and when they embrace, he calls it a “magic touch.” (That is why it’s a mistake that, after Jordan visits a bedridden Heer, her mother exults that her blood count is better. Such mundaneness has no business in this realm of magic. Heer has become better simply because Jordan is near her.) Heer, too, is some sort of bada jaanwar – her love for Jordan is so oversized that it transcends the chhota pinjra of her marriage to her shaving-cream-model husband. We don’t judge her when she cheats on this man; we just wonder why she doesn’t drop him, and why she is so invested in keeping up appearances in that clearly broken marriage. In Ali’s eyes, Jordan and Heer appear to be as pure and as single-minded in their desire (and as unconcerned about man-made social norms) as animals, and I think he puts these words in Jordan’s mouth during a concert, where Jordan says that the city came about because a jungle was felled, and he’s still searching for a displaced flock of pigeons, those nadaan parindey, whose shadow falls on both the name of his concert tour (“Wings on Fire”) as well as an early song (Phir se ud chala) where he dreams of flight.
But even if Jordan needn’t have been a musician for this movie to work, his story is undoubtedly charted through AR Rahman’s music, which fits the narrative far better than it serves as a standalone listening experience. (Every time I heard the songs, I had that close-but-no-cigar feeling.) In Imtiaz Ali’s ingenious conceit, the film moves from lightheartedness to heavy-duty angst, and the music correspondingly progresses from the playful Katiya karoon to the questing Kun faaya kun (which leads to the “miracle” of Jordan being signed by a recording label) to the exuberant Hawa hawa to the first stirrings of the much-sought-after pain in Meri bebasi ka bayaan hai to the primal howls of Sadda haq. (And somewhere in between Ali references his own song, Thoda thoda pyaar from Love Aaj Kal, now transformed into a disco-bhajan.) Early on, after being slapped around by cops for playing his soft, gentle music in a public space, Jordan complains to his friends that Jim Morrison raised a middle finger at the audience and was hailed a visionary, while he’s being hauled up for nothing. By the end, as this angry rock star is being led away by cops, he raises a middle finger to the crowds. He has his pain; he’s become his idol.
It is intriguing – and inevitably a comment on our Westernised times – that angst is equated with rock, as if the only accompaniment to a soul in torment is a wailing electric guitar. I kept thinking of homegrown expressions of a turbulent inner life, in songs like Waqt ne kiya and Beshaq mandir masjid todo – but as soon as the thought slipped into my head I realised that that kind of angst has few takers today. You ain’t a broken human being unless you emulate Jim Morrison – and Ranbir Kapoor is exceptionally good as this shattered songster. He probably overdoes the googly-eyed innocence in the early scenes, but his depiction of a singer is one of the truest in the movies. When he strives for a high note, his eyes scrunch up and the cords in his neck jut out like jumper cables. At other times, he delivers a line and then steps back, eyes closed, mimicking an artist who is in the zone, possessed by the music, and sometimes he nods appreciatively, knowing that he’s pulled off something great. He shows us the strain of creating music and then he shows us that he savours it.
His story is narrated in an overlapping structure that goes back and forth in time, with signpost scenes that are repeated in order to guide us, and this looks like a stunt. At first, it appears that this splintered timeline is a function of the journalist named Sheena (Aditi Rao Hydari). After Heer gets married and leaves, Jordan too disappears from the picture, and we see Sheena interviewing his friends and business associates about his whereabouts. At this point, I thought Ali was after something like Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine, whose fractured narrative follows from a journalist’s investigation into a rock star’s disappearance (and that structure, of course, harks back to Citizen Kane, the granddaddy of piecing-together-a-life movies). But soon, Sheena drops her investigation – rather, we return to Jordan’s point of view. We no longer need to piece together information about him, and the purpose of this slightly taxing structure is unclear. We are already kept guessing by the short length of the scenes and their truncation before they play out to the point of conventional dramatic satisfaction, and this additional layer of looping-back complexity is not organic. It doesn’t seem to rise from any real narrative need.
But then, what does? Practically nothing in Rockstar is done the way its story synopsis would appear to demand, and this blithe abandonment of convention is what makes this love story sing. The only sustained note of discord is the heroine, who was no doubt chosen because she looks like the Kashmiri that Heer is. She is passable in the early scenes, where she drags Jordan to the decrepit Amar Talkies to watch Jungli Jawani – later, when he remarks that she could have been raped, she jokes that that would have been Jungli Jawani Part 2. And in one of the film’s finest love scenes (and there are many fine, talky love scenes to choose from), she comes close to declaring her feelings for Jordan while dressed up in blood-red bridal finery – he wonders aloud, laughing, if she hasn’t fallen for him, and her eyes mist up as she deflects the question. But as the film becomes mired in its madness, her inadequacies become increasingly apparent. (Though, to be fair, I tried to imagine who else could have played this part, and I couldn’t come up with a name.) She’s fine as a creamy physical object of desire, but we don’t see her as a woman possessed. As her condition worsens, she keeps fainting daintily, as if auditioning for a remake of The Princess and the Pea. Had her performance matched Ranbir’s, their film might have been as out-of-this-world as their love.
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Forget the film but I’ll just read this again for the writing and return at a later time.
I think all Heer Ranjha films are doomed to have bad actresses of varying degrees.
Although, this might be just another addition in the list of films over last few years were a good story and a non-conventional treatment was marred because of its protagonists.
Akshay Ahuja
I will say, I was waiting for your review of this movie and I think its one of your best. As in your previous reviews, you have again linked up and connected some parts of the movie which I failed to do while watching and its great to read them now, which makes me think to revisit this movie once more.
Nice review! I love the fact that you nailed the very specific word choice in Janardhan’s exchange with Heer’s mother.
I wonder if Heer is meant to be viewed as a quasi-mythical creature who was fleshed out in greater detail in the hero’s mind than in reality. The whole list-making business, for instance, is replete with items that are a lot sleazier than the characters themselves appear capable of. A bullet-point embodiment of the Madonna-Whore dichotomy, if you will. It’s as if Imtiaz wanted to create not so much a real character as a bespoke heart-breaker for Janardhan.
tejas: Reg. “I think all Heer Ranjha films are doomed to have bad actresses of varying degrees.” Hahahahahaha! I swear! But there was one with Sridevi, no? I haven’t seen it though 🙂
Ramsu: I didn’t think of her as mythical — their love was treated as mythical, i thought. Incidentally, I was telling someone yesterday, that Indian audiences can accept 100% reality and 100% fantasy, but this in-between “magical realism”-type thing (for lack of a better word), they simply have no patience for.
About the list-making appearing sleazier, I think it wouldn’t have been all that inappropriate had a good actress played the part. Out of her mouth, everything sounded weird. Do you know if she was dubbed?
bigbala
“angst in the pants” ? Nice !
Yep, she was dubbed I believe.
Though it may not have made a huge difference in terms of performance, I could only think of Sonam Kapoor as alternate choice for this role.
Apart from the magic realism part so as to say, I think the montage based filmmaking too threw a lot of people away.
sidgee
agree on the inappropriateness of the title. also i didnt quite walk away with the impression that the pain made him a better artist and maybe that wasnt the point at all but then the title leads you in that direction. instead of albums flying off shelves due to negative publicity, a link between the pain and its expression through music perhaps? a wanna be rockstar becoming a great in love-artist?
surprised you didnt mention kumud mishra at all
Arif Attar
Did you realise that Kun Faaya Kun is embedded in a flashback within a flashback. And if you consider the whole film as a flashback, it makes Kun Faaya Kun embedded in a triple-nested flashback. As you say “It doesn’t seem to rise from any real narrative need”, but just wondering if there’s some Sufi concept significance to embed Kun Faaya Kun so deep in the narration.
Wow! That’s one review which I never wanted to end. A bit disappointed with that “Close-but -no-cigar-feeling” comment about the music but I cannot see another contemporary Bollywood music director coming up with a ‘Phir Se Ud Chala’ in the next 10 years at least. Btw where is Amit Trivedi?
maxdavinci
Somewhere only you wentoff saar, even if one horse is taking a dump you will make it seem like a celestial unicorn descended from teh skies!
Lakshman: Oh “Phir se ud chala” is a phenomenal song. What I meant was the album as a whole. About one-half of it worked beautifully, and there was a second set of songs that were too generic. And yes, where is Amit Trivedi?
msrikantt
You seem to like flawed masterpieces a lot more than movies that are seemingly blemish less! Maybe that allows to focus on the pluses more? But frankly, I was the only one out of a bunch of seven people who liked this movie; the others as you mentioned were hooting and jeering sometime into the second half. This was an experiential movie for me more than anything I have seen recently. The typical Imtiaz Ali flourishes and effortless staging of the love story kept me hooked in the first half but it is really when the story descends into that reckless second half that I started rooting for the movie. I can’t put my finger on one standout moment that led to this transformation but it in a way came in that infinitesimal, inexorable manner. By the end of it was such a churning that I had to see it again and believe it or not it was wonderful. There was no disrespectful howling this time as the theater audience seemed magically more attuned to the film’s sensibilities than the earlier show’s one. I was never a believer in the it-will-grow-on-you mantra even for songs, so giving that kind of treatment to a movie was out of question. Strangely, I did and Ali is one of the few directors possibly who deserves that kind of respect. And I’m happy to have done so.
rajen
Your review does full justice to the film and practically agree with almost everything said here. Needless to say, I enjoyed the film tremendously. And, apparently you did too.
Re: he doesn’t say “Main nahin jaaoonga” but “Main nahin jaa paaoonga.” – a great example of several moments like this which makes one overlook some of the weaknesses of the film.
Sanjay Sunku (@sunku)
Brilliantly written..Its very rare that people understand movies so well, everyone sees what they see and fail to understand the underlying feelings and emotions…Glad that someone has done that and been able to express it so well in his writing..Hats off sir..
This is what every artist makes movies for..
Scarlet O'Hara
I didn’t like the movie (posted my version of the review on my blog), but I loved the way you wrote. Every single point that I felt was flawed or dissed , you have supported, and in a very convincing way. 🙂
But yes, one place we both agree – It sure is about angst in the pants :).
I haven’t seen the film yet, but I wonder if it will stand up to this review of yours! Bookmarking it to read it again. Thanks.
Hmm… Thinking of going to the cinemas for this one. Been long since I went to a theater to watch a Hindi film. Found the soundtrack mostly ho-hum but the film’s reviews have, by and large, been favourable. And I did like Imtiaz Ali’s earlier two offerings(well, perhaps not LAK so much but definitely JWM).
And people who frowned at Vikram’s “performance” in DTM and Vishal’s in Avan Ivan are now speculating that Ranbir Kapoor may win the National Award for his role in Rockstar, so that should count for something.
I think I will watch it soon. If only to come back and bash you thoroughly on your review. 😉
Indraneel Majumdar
Rangan, I have absolutely the same opinion about the film, the angst, the pain, the loneliness, the music, the dialogue and the heroine. My only thing was Aditi Rao was probably a late add when Ali saw that the second half was going nowhere with Fakhri in charge as the heroine. If only she had been a great actress, I completely agree with you that this would have been an out of the world film!
Note the following??
1. Parindey having an Eagle’s shadow – the state of his mind and music!
2. The complete non – understanding of his responsibility as a superstar – the invitation to recklessness/pain
3. The raising the head towards divinity being done at his final concert too, he’s still enjoying his music, but wants to keep the pain beside him, so the public act!!
4. The fast and purposeful walk as he gets better as a superstar – the determination to succeed and invite more pain.
5. The continuous addition of motifs on his body and guitar, remembrances that he wishes to carry around like Nostradamus..
6. The impatience with friends – keeping up his act that he had momentarily forgotten and was being good again..
You have applied too much of your brain while watching the film. Its a hyperbolic review which simply forgets to talk about the artistic side of the movie and covers every other aspect of the world.
bigbala: Thanks for noticing. It’s probably the thing about the review I’m happiest with! 🙂
msrikantt: I wouldn’t call this a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination. But yes, as I grow older I find myself getting more impatient with films with a “story” and I seem to enjoy films that deliver — as you call it — something experiential.
Bravo Brangan. This is exactly the patented style you are known for- I am glad u are in your form in this review. Ur best reviews like this one always gives the viewer he thought that ‘i know that even for a moment thought about it’ but then u capture it in words which is a phenomenal description of that particular thought even if the scene lasted only a second or so. U bring out the audience’s subconscious on paper.
Dishit D
amazing review…only realized the destructive side of passion when viewing …now when i look back, feel like I need to watch it again…however, that said, think if movie could not convey what it intended to then probably it has missed its mark…again that is subjective as most of us including self may not be that enlightened 🙂
Prasanth Menon (@pra_santh)
I haven’t seen the movie yet, but have to say that this is one of the best movie reviews that I’ve read. I’m bookmarking this ASAP 🙂
@baradwaj : how did exchange bala for bigbala ? Sheesh
“But as the film becomes mired in its madness, her inadequacies become increasingly apparent. (Though, to be fair, I tried to imagine who else could have played this part, and I couldn’t come up with a name.) ” – thats bang-on!
Siddhartha Srivastava
I just watched it again and loved it even more (I was able to look past Nargis’s acting skills this time!)… your review is brilliant, btw, among your best. I wish more film writing was this insightful!
As always, very enjoyable review. Although I agree with a lot of the points you made, it seems you enjoyed the movie far more than I could.
The biggest mistake was, as you put it, naming the movie Rockstar. I could see the artist’s traits in his nature, not being able to articulate himself well with words – like his initial attempts at wooing the girl, imbibing very easily the music in his surroundings – like the folk music scene in Prague or at Hazrat ali, being driven more by instincts than by thought – like barging into her house to say goodbye. But none of that was pursued to effectively show us how it turned him into the guy whose face is sold on T-shirts and for whom the girls tear their clothes and scream. I mean seriously, what part of his angst transformed him into screaming “O eco-friendly nature ke rakshak… sadda haq aitthe rakh”?
I think it was certainly a good attempt to give the movie a surrealist feel, with the whole non-linear storytelling and cutting short of scenes. But it splashed cold water on a lot of scenes by suddenly falling down to the level of filmy. What was the need for explaining the blood count? Or giving the hero an additional source of pain by having his family accuse him of stealing and kicking him out?
And for a fire of passion so all-consuming, don’t you think it grew pretty slowly? I mean the first half of the movie was so disconnected from the second half, what with him helping out in her wedding like Raj Malhotra’s little brother, and their casual goodbye. And some time later suddenly he hears Prague and goes “shit, I totally forgot about that crazy chick who is now burning a hole in my heart… I must have her!”
I guess it was a case of pretty good parts coming together to make not a that great movie. Thanks for highlighting those parts.
Amitesh
i think this film deals with the pain and anger within a character. once jj wants to become a rockstar but after becoming it..he tried to escapes this image. and break it in front of media. boundries and contracts is meaningless to him so he dare to sing in front of a child and a badnam basti…nice review.!..
Enjoyed reading the review.
Tamannaah Bhatia could have pulled it off
Your best review in a while. Fabulous observation about the movie’s music getting more edgy and angsty along the way. Really really liked Rockstar. So that means I can bravely give Mausam a try, no? 🙂
Flutterby
Mr. Rangan,
1. Your review has done justice to the film – thank you.
2. Reg. angst related only to rock music – I thought Mr. Ali alluded to that in Kun Faya Kun when JJ plays with the dargah musicians and also at the Devi jagran – that that is also music that moves, and all these people are also undergoing their own pains and trials…just that they don’t bring attention to it.
3. I perceived Heer as more willful than passionate…a very conflicted character, more than the previous female characters in Mr. Ali’s films. But such is life.
4. I thought Sadda Haq was meant to be more about Jordan than the world…but the world takes it to be as theirs…like a lot in celebrity life is misunderstood or misappropriated. He does say ‘O Eco friendly, nature ke rakshak, main bhi nature hoon…’
5. You are absolutely right that the music has more impact within the film than by itself.
6. I thought the ‘story’ in this film is in the by-products of the original goal – love happened, stardom happened, messy life happened.
7. No comments on the open-ended ending?
brangan…. very nicely written review, as usual – although my take will have to be a blemish on any data used to test your prediction that opinions on Mausam and Rockstar are positively correlated 🙂 . I saw Mausam in large part due to your review and I liked it (with some reservations), but I felt much less positive about Rockstar—- or at least the second half which did not work for me at all. After a promising, enjoyable first half, it seemed like Imtiaz Ali was torn between telling two different stories – a updated version of Heer-Ranjha and the biopic of a sufi rockstar. I don’t agree that his being a musician was incidental to the story. He could have been any kind of artist- a painter, writer or sculptor, but I don’t think he could’ve been say a fighter pilot for this story to work! The notion that thwarted passion and great anguish fuel great creativity (which was dealt with in a light vein in the first half) was definitely a central theme in the movie and soundtrack supported that notion. In the end both stories – epic romance and tortured artist – felt half-baked.
As for your question on if not Nargis who, my answer is almost anyone — she was astonishingly bad. I do think Anushka Sharma would have been a credible choice. In fact my other big quibble with Imtiaz Ali is on some extremely dodgy casting decisions – Nargis being the most significant. Notably, the Brazilian Model who played the Stepford husband, his entire Stepford family, the women who seemed to have stepped out of an OTT Bhansali melodrama – Shernaz Patel, Heer’s sister dragged down the second half considerably. Imitiaz Ali’s supporting characters are usually excellent in the way they’re written and cast, so this was surprising.
“These boring bits are the hellish fires in which a certain kind of love is forged”. Beautifully said sir. Awesome…..
Milind
@brangan – ‘As you grow older’? what are you, like 105?? :p
Abhirup
“But yes, as I grow older I find myself getting more impatient with films with a “story” ”
Uh oh! Does this mean we can can no longer look forward to you appreciating films that do not profess lofty ambitions, but just tell a good story in a good, engaging way? Surely those films do not deserve ‘impatience’ just because they are not “experimental”?
Chhote saab
If the movie is half as good as this write-up, I think it will be paisa vasool !
AJ: Actually, after the first few scenes, I kinda knew that this wasn’t going to be a rockstar story at all, so I wasn’t as bothered by the rock bits being somewhat vague. The love portions worked for me and that was enough. About “giving the hero an additional source of pain by having his family accuse him of stealing and kicking him out, ” I think that was to mirror Ranjha’s story, the quarrel with his brothers and all. And it’s not like he hears Prague and remembers her — it was always there, I guess, in a corner of his mind and he thought there’s nothing he can do about it. But when the Prague offer came up, he kinda jumped at it. The problem (or benefit, depending on how you look at it) with this kind of elliptical storytelling is that not everything is told in a way the builds on previous scenes. Sometimes we just have to take fragments as a given — or not.
jussomebody/Maru: I don’t know why everybody thinks I’m saying Mausam is as good/bad as Rockstar. That’s an imaginary time-pressed critic I’m talking about in the first para, and those are his words in quotes, not mine — and you could have very different reactions to the films 🙂 But yes, there’s a truckload of similarities in plot points and mood and structure, which I’ve tried to point out in the second para. Another one I missed — both films have a heroine who’s shown in just one scene as a dancer. Spooky!
Flutterby: Uh, perhaps I was too traumatised by the Rumi quote to have an opinion on the open-endedness? 🙂
Abhirup: I hope not. But these crazy-great movies have a special appeal for me, whether Hindi or Tamil (Aalavandhan, Aayirathil Oruvan) or English or Foreign. Perhaps because they don’t happen all that often.
Maru: Yes, I meant some kind of artist — not fighter pilot.
Milind: No da, 87. But you know that right? You did come to the party :-p
At the cost of repeating what others have already pointed out – this is one of the best (not just your best) film reviews.
The standard has been set high, now waiting for it be raised higher!
Great review BR..had the exact same feelings about the movie ..I swear 🙂
Could have been called “Accountant” and it would still been the love story of an idiot with anger management issues.
As much as I loved the “parallel love stories separated by an era” concept in Love Aaj Kal, this one with the story jumping back and forth was just wonderful. Ali got that right
That girl was the weakest link, making Deepika Padukone look like Shabana Azmi.
Ranbir was phenomenal…just too good.
Maybe Janardhan-Heer anagrams to Heer and Ranjha?
Mani: “Janardhan Heer” = “Heer and Ranjha”. Effing awesome find, man. Just don’t tell anyone though. They’ll think you’re reading too much into the movie 😉
Haven’t seen Mausam, I was actually harked back to Dil Se, which worked on a similar premise of all consuming love, set of course to some of Rahman’s greatest tunes. (“Aur Ho” channelising “Tu Hi Tu” !)
While the love story worked for me very well and the whole non linear back and forth being mildly interesting, a little more detail on the evolution of his music. As in how does a guy go from “Jo bhi main” to “Hawaa hawaa” to “Sadda haq” would have made this a master piece.
Guess Ranbir is the new Shivaji Ganesan, guy looked bloody real as a singer
sara2sarabc
Aint we missing a point – Janardhan is no Ranjha he refuses to commit when Heer asks to run away as a bride and when he just wants to say bye instead of come with me while leaving Prague and again when she is not able to respond to his touch in coma he leaves knowing very well that he has reached the ultimate state of pain he can ever be in. In this context youe Nadan Parinda para just fits in perfect.
@rangan
Watched it. Beautiful film. Especially loved the “splintered” narrative structure, as you put it.
It felt more like free-flowing to me. It gelled with the movie very well. Never felt gimmicky at any stage.
Imtiaz’s best yet. Ranbir Kapoor…what to say? Simply blown away by his performance. Except in a couple of scenes where, as you correctly point out, he “over-does the google-eyed” Janardhan, his acting is PHENOMENAL.
And you’re right in saying that Rahman’s music sounds better as a part of the film rather than a stand-alone experience. Though when exiting the cinema hall, only two songs Nadaan Parindey and Tum Ho really stood out. And I really don’t feel Nargis is so bad. She was certainly a good deal better than the Kareenas and Katrinas of our industry.
Talking about cliches, did you notice that Imtiaz Ali’s female leads are always feisty tomboyish carefree souls(or atleast start out that way)?
And Rangan, if you ever interview Rahman again, could you ask him why he has a habit of using the opening riffs of his songs as BGM instead of composing separate background scores? Tum Ho, Phir Se Ud Chala and Aur Ho all figured in that list. Not that I minded that much. They were pleasant enough and more importantly, fairly suited to the situations. But SURELY, an artist of ARR’s caliber shouldn’t have stopped composing bgm’s.
His BG score in Rhythm was superb. I miss the ARR of those days. I used to instantly like his music during those times. Now, like a potted plant, I have to water it, allow it lots of air and sunshine and wait for it to grow, and get disappointed in the end when only some songs grow and others don’t despite MY best efforts. 😉
Anyways, will be watching this movie again.
And, Rangan, do try not to equate movies. It is frequently insulting to either one or the other movie and is the hallmark of a B-grade critic, which you surely aren’t.
Comparisons on one or two points is fine, but saying things like “If you hated that, stay far away from this” is killing the very essence of criticism, which should be as much as possible based on the individual films’s merits/demerits.
From the title of your review to its tone and contents, I gathered you have written it in your “condescending” mood, which is unfortunate, since this movie certainly doesn’t deserve that.
Nimmi Rangswamy
Right, Dil Se, though here the love was metaphoric of mainstream vs. marginal political violence. Mani Ratnam possibly our first modern great to use the obsessive love metaphor to represent something larger more closer to the Marquez variety of politico magical-realism even if this is a stretch.
Ali is more pure romantic love guru and Rockstar is his most ambitious effort. His trajectory of on-screen love stories get more complex with each passing film. Much to rejoice
BR, you are right about our ‘purist’ rejection of reality-fantasy combo. The wonderful Dil Se too bombed. So true about Nargis as the possible best fit. She’s ethe-real! Ms Bhatia, really !!!
What a stupendous review! I hope the movie is given a chance. Where I saw peeps were squirming!
I remember you referring to Abhay Deol as a lazy actor. In that respect, I would say that Imitiaz Ali in Rockstar comes across as lazy director, one who takes no extra effort to ensure that the audience has the all the information needed to get it.
‘Condescending mood’, tsk tsk, unfortunate use of the term for this review.
And comparisons are delicious… they connect metaphors otherwise so elusive! This review does it that way… not the school teacher way!
@brangan:
“jussomebody/Maru: I don’t know why everybody thinks I’m saying Mausam is as good/bad as Rockstar. That’s an imaginary time-pressed critic I’m talking about in the first para, and those are his words in quotes, not mine — and you could have very different reactions to the films”
…. and we can be forgiven for seeing you as the time-pressed critic, no? After all you made a very credible case for the similarities in both movies (nice catch with the dancer in 1 scene, btw) and ultimately taste. Netflix and ilk focus so heavily on developing models to accurately predict user tastes and here you are backing away from the exercise altogether 😉
Rajesh Krishnan
Loved the movie and loved reading the review even more .
The movie wonderfully brings out how an artiste’s creation is inspired by personal angst and how the audience starts interpreting the same in their own way. Sadda Haq becomes a clarion call for Tibetans, Sikhs, teenagers etc while it was a personal cry for freedom.
The non-linearity of the screenplay worked very well. Both the movie and the protagonist seem to be directionless ,flawed & don’t pander to the audience, while in their minds , they know exactly where they are headed and what they are doing .
taking the right to question you as granted (from your previous article :D), i would like to know why you chose to explain the premise of the film this time around. Your approach has mostly been into speaking about the intricacies & nuances and not reporting the content right? is it because you wanted to provide the readers a little more clarity on the content thanks to the intentionally taxing format of the film, so that you can move forward in analysing the film with that as the base?
As about the structuring of the film – i think it was done to point the middle finger at people who wants explanations to satiate their movie experience 😉 why should i explain things when i can go about linking only the emotions – after all emotions are concocted rite
Neways, am glad you questioned the intention to use rock as the form of expressing pain – is it the western influence? will they make JKB a pop/rock musician if they ever were to remake sindhu bhairavi? :-O
@Mani – Great work. Also, dunno if anyone else noticed the bird metaphor for Jordan running throughout the movie which is explicitly stated in the climactic song as Ranbir sings “Nadaan Parinde” . As in, ” Naa Daan Parinde” ie ‘I am the Bird Indeed’.
I guess this is one of those reviews I’ll come back to read again after I get around to watching the film
“But I left both films on a near-spiritual high, as if cleansed of the grime that sticks to us after a few too many bubblegummy love stories”… wow, I cant think of any other film critic who can write like this…great piece as usual..I havent seen the film but I keep coming back to most of your reviews..
maybe because your writing is a literary equivalent of those unique and experimental films that you are partial to- for me..
“…he playfully proclaims his love to the Kashmiri played by newcomer Nargis Fakhri, whose character is named Heer.”
The problem (likely only for me) though is that no Kashmiri girl would be named Heer! As silly and petty as it sounds, this sort of..cultural tone-deafness is one of the reasons I haven’t bothered to see the movie. I guess I’m just tired of Kashmir and Kashmiris being used as exotic props in Hindi films without even an attempt at truly engaging or reflecting the culture. 😦
My rockstar review : Starts off being a deep ache in the heart and ends up being a big pain in the butt.
@BR: Enjoyed the review and thoroughly enjoyed the movie too (which I saw before the review). Don’t know about the comparisons with Mausam, since I haven’t seen that film, but loved Rockstar for Ranbir’s raw performance and the amazing Sufiyana rock rendered by the trio of Irshad Kamil – Mohit Chauhan – AR Rahman! Nargis worked as the otherworldly beauty but she’s no actor and that is obvious from the first scene she appears in. However, that didn’t prove a dampener for me since I have stopped expecting any acting from Bollywood heroines – at least Nargis did better than donning 1/2 inch skirts. Your take on the shaving-cream model will surely hurt the bloke – after all, he was doing what women in our films are supposed to be: lovely statues. Kudos to Imtiaz Ali for queering that pitch!
I don’t particularly agree with your take on angst equated with rock. The rock in this film is very Sufiyana (Rumi being an obvious influence) and Jordan does with his music what Rabbi Shergill did with the wildly popular Bullah ki jaana – except, of course, Jordan is a film hero and way more angsty. I have no problems with this version of rock – who does angst better than Mirza Ghalib or for that matter, the Punjabi poets? So, if someone can find a way to make them contemporary and therefore connect with people, great!
And if Jim Morrison raised a middle finger, Baba Bulleh Shah in 17th century dressed a s a woman and danced at dargahs – there is more than one way to be a rebel 🙂
Off-topic: Did you by any chance watch Ram Gopal Varma’s latest flick “Not a Love Story”? Would love your thoughts on the movie if you have watched it. Certainly worth a Bullet Point Review on your blog, imho.
vinjk
@mani
that’s a great observation!
Harish S Ram: Why do some films make you write one way, while other films make you write another way? An unanswerable question. Like I said earlier — I think in a comment in an earlier post — the architecture of the piece is what’s conscious. The para links, how to begin/end, and so on. What I feel like writing about the film is unconscious, and not premeditated — as in, I don’t say “this is what I’m going to talk about.” Pretty much everything that strikes me while writing the film (thanks to the little guy inside who sits inside my subconscious) ends up here, which is why these are sometimes long pieces.
Mambazha Manidhan: OMG! I’m sitting at my desk at work and trying to stifle my uncontrollable laughter. Dude, you and I should begin work pronto on “Arre O Sambar Part 2: The Return of the Indhiya Kadi-magan.”
Shalini: I see your point — and I wish that Tamil characters, for instance, were not instantly reduced to Subramaniams. (I mean, there are so many other names, even if you want to get stereotypical). But in this particular case, I don’t know if it should be taken realistically. Anyway, that’s a bigger debate.
Incidentally, I met this Tamil kid the other day who was named Aashirwad — and you have to be from these parts to know how unusual that is 🙂
Manreet Sodhi Someshwar: Oh I agree that this is the kind of music that connects with people. I even said so.
Siglo: yes, I did, and the link to the review is in the sidebar.
see brannigan? twitter reviews can be made to count. you dont have to go all “bak Bak Bak”
(youre welcome for the pakistani rock part of your review, 😉 ).
This, from this article here, is as nice a way of looking at a critic’s function as any I’ve read:
– It has ever fallen to critics and journalists to create new ways of looking at new things, to relate the message of art to audience. The artist (or the scientist, or the politician) is necessarily absorbed in his own craft. The critic’s concern by contrast is the audience, which includes himself… He fashions his own experiences into a kind of bridge to new places we might not otherwise have cared (or maybe even dared) to visit. He creates or extends the shared experience that is the real purpose of culture…
– What we really need is a critic who has got something interesting to say. Who is writing something that we would like to read. Whose aliveness just comes out and grabs you by the throat and makes you think, or go pop-eyed with amazement, or throw your monitor across the room in a fit of rage…
– Any critic should respect the reader enough to encourage him to make up his own mind, just as if that reader were standing right in front of him.
And I really liked this comment below: “I think part of the problem Maria’s so beautifully describing here is that people now read criticism (or what passes for it) for different reasons. They don’t want to know if it’s good, or “important,” or what it says about the world; they want to know what it says about THEM, and if they’re going to like it. Whenever I see the word “relatable” in any incarnation I want to scream, because if people only engage with art they can “relate to,” nobody is ever going to learn a goddamn thing.”
Arun Kumar Mohan (@mokkai_mak)
the passion you have for your job (craft) is amazing!.. in almost every post of yours, you are searching for your identity in relation to your craft, and constantly amused by your own thought process and finally you extend the movie in relation to universe/how world works .. what happens as a result is people who follow this blog, very much want to think like you (and more people want to analyse movies and not just watch it saying 1st half is fast, 2nd half is slow, ranbhir kapoor overacted in 2 scenes machan types)!
Wonder if corporate people who work on excel sheets and make endless power points, be as curious about their jobs/indsutry andcan introspect as much 🙂
having said that this is a very sugarcoated review! the movie tried to be too cute for a mad love story with rock music as a premise, It was more superficial than mythical. Maybe because of Nargis’s shallow acting or the last 15-20 mins.. esp That magic touch blood count made it look like some feel good Rajkumar Hirani movie (from nowhere it came!)
VTV or Dil se made me more restless despite their flaws and in both these movies directors seemed to be more focussed on what they wanted to say!
BR, I often wonder how the ‘perisu’s at Hindu, the older reviewers, look at you and the new brigade of film reviewers whose sensibilities are forged partly by more exposure to world cinema and whose writing styles are more personal.
Do you share these links(on critic’s role etc.) with them BTW ? I wonder what they think of all this.
I can understand your fondness for what you call “crazy-great” movies, Mr. Rangan, but I do hope that these are not the only films you end up championing, for I would hate to lose the only critic in India who judges every film objectively and on the basis of what it is, be it a thoroughly mainstream commercial potboiler or a offbeat film meant for niche audiences or a film with mainstream trappings that is actually for niche audiences. Cinema, after all, has always had to do a great deal with storytelling. As much as I like the ‘experimental’ films, I would hate to lose out the ones that tell a good story. I am guessing that’s how it is with you as well.
As for ‘rockstar’, well, all I will say is that your review is way more enjoyable than the film itself.
Does it matter when I say the truth
This review echoes a comment from the “7am Arivu” review – “The talent that Baradwaj Rangan type reviewers have is that they can trash or praise any movie regardless of the actual merits of the movie.” Sugar-coated sh**.
” It has ever fallen to critics and journalists ”
Should I stop reading now because the piece clubs the two? I think they are differrent functions and the fact they are look at as if they are the same gives me reason to think the author is looking at criticism as a paying job, not a consuming passion.
but still,
” to create new ways of looking at new things, to relate the message of art to audience.”
What if I don’t WANT the critic to create new ways of seeing a film? what if I only want the critic to give me context and depth? or not even? what if I want the truth (the Truth) about the work of art? not alliterative obfuscation? why does this piece arrogate on behalf of ME the member of the audience the right to speak for why I want the critic to get between me and a piece of art?
” The artist (or the scientist, or the politician) is necessarily absorbed in his own craft. ” Aha! art is a profession too huh. for such “artists” the critic IS someone that provides imagination where it is lacking in the artist, I guess, Im more concerned with the Genuine article. I am talking about (for example) mona lisa when I say “art” not today’s edition of the newspaper. If we were to pretend that the print edition of a newspaper is “art” since I as the audience(the paying subscriber) would be at a loss to understand why it is so, would need a critic to “create a new way of looking at” the rag as art and “understand the message ” related by this “art. So if this is what a critic is doing, then sure! feel free! I just think that criticism has a higher calling.
“He fashions his own experiences into a kind of bridge to new places we might not otherwise have cared (or maybe even dared) to visit. He creates or extends the shared experience that is the real purpose of culture…”
or not. not every piece of dishrag thrown at you deserves all the contextual analytic richness. THE FIRST DUTY OF THE CRITIC IS TO DETERMINE AND DISCRIMINATE WHETHER THE PIECE OF “ART” DESERVES THE ATTENTION AT ALL, IN THE FIRST PLACE. I AM NOT SAYING THAT THIS IS NESCESARILY BEING USED DISCRIMINATINGLY BY CRITICS, BUT A GOOD CRITIC IS THE ONE THAT KNOWS WHY HE IS DOING THIS AND DOES IT EFFECTIVELY. writing sixty four pages of flights of delirious imagination about every piece of junk that comes your way is , in some ways a graver failure to your faithful readership than NOT writing a review at all. (the former , of course gets you paid boatloads if you are paid by the word…
” What we really need is a critic who has got something interesting to say. Who is writing something that we would like to read…..etc”
No, what we really need is a ORIGINAL FICTION WRITER who does all this. in a critic we need much more. we need relevence to Art, to the art(or the genre of art being criticised) and to this particular piece of art. (I can’t believe this has to be explained. did noone ever teach you criticism formally? Maybe a Literary crit 101 class is in order…
” people now read criticism (or what passes for it) for different reasons.”
in a time where corporate advertising passes for “free speech” I guess shilling for the production company is also considered a valid “different ” reason for “criticism”. I am not accusing brannigan of this, I am just saying that the uncritical acceptance of this comment as a “good” one leads me to believe that the bar for tolerance in this regard is set very low.
“Whenever I see the word “relatable” in any incarnation I want to scream, because if people only engage with art they can “relate to,” nobody is ever going to learn a goddamn thing.””..
and this, is the cry for help. when people look askance at WHY your piece exists (ie it is not obvious to them that it relates to the work of art or the raison d’itre of its creation,) they then say “at least give me something. tell me one relevant line about it that makes me go “Yeah! Im going to like that in the film!” In other words the commenter is railing against precisely the kind of tangential nonsense that the author advocated in the fist passage above when she wanted a critic to “create new ways of looking at new things, to relate the message of art to audience.” The commenter seems to me, to say ” Stop trying to sidle with me(the paying customer of the rag Im reading) and trying to “make nice” with me. tell me about the piece of art already! maybe if you did I would be able to find reasons for liking/ not liking it.
Not writing a piece is sometimes the highest form of criticism, and not just because you didn’t like a piece of art either.
(and you’re welcome for when you quote this)
vijay: I just plug my reviews on FB and Twitter, nothing more 🙂
In Kun Faya Kun, the camera lingers for quite long over the tomb covered with flowers…can someone explain the significance/symbolism of that with regard to JJ’s situation or generally within the song, aside from the fact that the tomb is redecorated regularly? Thank you.
Its funny how nearly everyone who has taken offense has read “experiential” as “experimental”! Was just wondering about the connotations of the word crazy-great. Is it the sheer ambition and megalomania involved and a partial fulfillment of the promise that propels a film to that title? I’m assuming that you allude to the scale of the movie also when you use that term. Also if it is not a tough ask, could you give me some more films that you would call crazy great?
PS: Raavan seems to fit the bill,no?
I don’t know if someone’s pointed this our earlier, but is it just me or do you habitually quote dialogues from Hindi movies when you’re reviewing them as opposed to not so frequently with Tamil movies? Do you feel like you have to ‘prove’ you get it or something like that? Just asking,
That should’ve been a period. ‘Just asking’.
mssrikantt: People will read what they want they to. Simple fact, no? 🙂 About crazy-great, I was thinking of a film with ambitions of being great that’s definitely all kinds of crazy as well. Like I said earlier, Aalavandhan, Aayirathil Oruvan, even Dil Se at times.
Arun: Clearly, my reviews have become conspiracy-theory fodder 🙂 See here, here and here – and earlier too, if you have time and patience.
As for “habitually” versus “not so often,” You do realise I review far more Hindi films than Tamil films, right?
eruve
Please watch any mainstream Kannada movie (Jogiah is definitely in the same class as Rockstar) and write a review like the one you have written for this movie.
have not seen the movie yet…………..but what the heck, I got more than enough thrill reading your review again and again and again and again………….just lovely dude!
Thanks much……….
When I look at Anjadhe or Aalavandhan I can sense an intent to be different(in only certain parts or aspects of the movie), thats all. I would’nt know if that equates to wanting to be great. HeyRam was probably a more ambitious effort, far less crazier than say, an Inglorious Basterds, but nevertheless trying to fictionalize history a bit, attempting some other things not frequently done in Tamil cinema at that time(in-sync sound, working off a bound screenplay, choice of music and how it was added later on, casting of Hindi actors for more authenticity etc.). And flawed as well.
I liked this review
http://unboxedwriters.com/2011/11/imtiaz-alithe-rockstar-auteur/
Several nice allusions: reference to walk the line, the winter scapes in the film, Shammi Kapoor and finally the ‘moment’ in the film…
Srividhya Mahesh
“what happens as a result is people who follow this blog, very much want to think like you”: that’s exactly how I’d sum up my movie-watching experience after i started reading Mr. Rangan’s reviews (right from the days when he wrote in Madras Plus – the friday/ saturday supplement with ET, then Indian Express and now his blog).
While watching Engeyum Eppodhum, I was precisely thinking the way HE’D think (given his really wonderful analysis of Imran’s girlfriend in Jaane Tu….).
Rangan Sir, I’d really love to have your word on Anjali’s character in the film.
You also wonderfully wrote about the female taking over the male in Avan Ivan.
A few words in the comments space would be appreciated.
Srividhya
I didn’t realise a link for a review of Subramaniyapuram was available here till you posted it. Thank you, loved it! I remember sifting through the reviews and wanting to read it, but somehow couldn’t find it. I watched the movie for the second time recently and was stunned. As for the allegation, I just thought you quoted from Hindi movies in every other review, in comparison with Tamil reviews. The numbers angle makes a fair bit of sense, but the comment wasn’t totally about that either….
smriti suman
Thank you sir for such a sharp observation.I just want to add one more thing ,Sir I dont know if Imitiyaj has these thing in his mind or not but it seems to me that in the song sadda haq Imitiyaz experimented with the form brilliantly where he connected the character’s anger with the public anger.And suddenly people from kashmir to tibbat were shown during the song.For me imitiyaz has started a new form of cinema where narrative of the lead character coneects with the characters outside the cinema and thus the scene seems to me highly deliberative, it uses a politics of anger to connect with real life situation of the million of people. The boundary between the cinematic narrative and real life narrative of the people watching this movie have become blurred,and for this dialogue between cinematic form and narrative with public give this movie an extreme kind of unoiqness.sir pls respond
Heer Ranjha indeed…
http://moifightclub.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/an-evening-with-rockstar/
With the complicated narrative structure, I think Ali was just trying to skip all the boring family ‘social drama’ bits without detailing those scenes too much. Flashback allowed him that liberty. I cannot, however, defend his use of flashback in a flashback for Jordan’s enlightenment at the dargah. That bit was unnecessary.
Vidhya
for me the movie was a so so , could not figure out untill much later ….
the movie for all its greatness fails in its characters when they seem like paper floating around in the air, going in the direction, the wind takes them .. Jordan even after reaching the heights of success , seems like the powerless college kid … if she needed him when he is sick, what stops him from taking a break … his mentor who seemed like a well wisher was behaving like an agent , worried about cancelled concerts … some love stories are doomed, this one was the case of not trying even ….
Mohammed Noushad (@nidsutd)
I am a regular reader of your blog and i appreciate you slightly off the center point of view .
As far is this movie is concerned , I walked in with huge expectations and left with a feeling that it is better than the regular fare being served in Bollywood ,(Ra.one,Bodyguard,Ready,). Suffice to say i was mighty disappointed & Not because i didn’t like the movie . I was disappointed because
1) Rahman gave him more than a dozen songs worthy of an epic and which covers about an hour of the movie and which had epic stuff like Sadda Haq and Nadaan parindey and yet he couldn’t come up with a story or a narration to hold the story or couldn’t come up with the scenes required to make songs like Sadda Haq work.If only he had got that right ,
2) Naming the movie Rockstar was a bad move ,The title especially combined with songs &lyrics and trailers gave the impression ,The movie being about a rock musician rather than another love story.
3)His characterization of Heer was very confusing ,She is shown to be a strong independent women who has spirit ,But her choices show her to be otherwise.Generally in Imtiaz Ali movies the female character would be a special fare but in this it sadly fizzes out.
4).And he got the casting wrong big time with Nargis.Not that she wasn’t good to look at on the big screen.Sadly there is only one female who has the acting prowess to pull off a role like this ,But she is over 30 (Vidya Balan) .
5)The movie had the potential to be an EPIC love story of our times but sadly doesn’t rise beyond the average Bollywood fare
Also Ranbir was immense ,He carried the movie on his shoulders and as you said if only the the female lead was half as good as him.
Ironically , The notion of “one needs to know the pain of love to be a true musician ” came for the first time in the movie “Baiju Bawra” and in that movie the pain of the love gave birth to the song “O Duniyake Rakhwale” immortalized by the legendary Rafi and in this to “Sadda Haq” and ” Nadaan Parindey” ,Funny how things work out .
The movie goes onto prove the notion that there are few directors making quality movies that justify the score Rahman has to offer.(Rockstar,Delhi-6,A spurt of a Tamil movies) .If only the movie had matched its music ,what a treat we would have had on our hands.
this is so amazingly well written i fear watching the movie shall spoil the story for me.
thank you for writing this
Zico Ghosh
This is something that struck me like an epiphany during my second viewing of the film- Doesn’t everything around Jordan look so caricature-ish? The ridiculously stereotyped record label owner Dhingra Sahab, who is shown to possess all the possible cliches we associate an Indian pop-music mogul with. Even his fans for that matter. He is mobbed by teenyboppers chanting his name, the exact, perfect “Rockstar-fan-frenzy” kind. Also the media- all appear like card board cut outs. No depth, no empathy. Bad, fake people.They don’t affect us, nor do they affect Jordan anymore. Only few genuine characters float, who apart from the lead are Khatara bhai, Ustaad Jamil Khan and probably, Jordan’s sister. Imtiaz plays with these cut-outs almost like a master Puppeteer does with his string puppets. And probably this line in “Phir se udd chala” completes the circle –
“Sheher ek se gaaon ek se, Log ek se Naam ek ..”
As if the bird has taken flight to some unknown distant neverland into the sky, and the more he flies, the more meaningless and bland the world he left behind looks like.
Love your review!
It looks like everyone seems to have missed the irony in the fact that their love affair started out as a list-making exercise of socially tabooed things, and eventually when their love matured, they ended up breaking one of the biggest social customs: disregarding the institution of marriage. The ‘Be-careful-what-you-ask-for’ irony was pretty apparent in this story, but this other one was subtle.
*Loved.
There should be an option to edit a comment to correct typos! 🙂
Parikshit
amazingly bang on…. hvnt seen Mausam and have heard a lot of flak about it.. so was a bit sceptical weather you are canning this when you started off drawing parallels! But then I dint want the piece to end… just what it was… except perhaps I felt you cannot write about this movie without mentioning Mohit Chauhan 🙂
Nice review.
Don’t you think, Rockstar compares the best with flawed-n-brillliant Dil se? Both depict protagonist yearning for selfless unhindered (and destructive) Love.
Mausam was any time-traveller’s (movie’s decade long-story) worst nightmarish journey!
dil se was an awesome film because of the camera work. most of the text in dil se came from it’s very expressive camera. this film was sort of a dumbed down taal.
Kedar Sastry
sadda haq,wtf?
and that rape joke is very not funny.
Good review Baddy! Just saw the file after all the hype and I hated the film.. Too silly and simplistic but great music though! I googled to see your review..:( Nice to see so many fans of your review – Chota 🙂
Vishakha
Hi, very nicely written review..I must say 🙂 but you have wasted your precius words and time on reviewing as I think ‘Rockstar’ was the most hyped and overrated film of the years 2011. Fortunately I never went to see this movie in theatre and yesterday saw it on cable tv. I love bollywood movies and can see any brainless movie, but then when I start to see so much appreciated movie, it gave me nothing except the immature feeling. I actually noted down some points, but after some time I stopped that too because the foolishness reached heights. Only 2 things have saved this film- A.R.Rehman Music, Ranbir Kapoor’s Acting skill . I am so disappointed after watching ‘Rockstar’, instantly I felt like to tell someone my opinion and here I found your website. Thank you very much 🙂 Regards
Amazing review of an amazing movie. Janardhan promises Heer that he is going to help her exhaust all her forbidden “keedas” very early on in the movie, not realizing that he himself will become her most desired forbidden fruit as it were.exhausting this desire/keeda would cost her ,her marriage and ultimately her life and lead him on a roller coaster of pain. That he can not live outside their make believe world of love,in the shadow of pristine white sheets (“jee nahin paoonga main”)is the cause if his angst and his great music.
Rachna: Thanks. And no offense, but it was a little amusing to see your response below Vishakha’s, who seems to have had the completely opposite reaction 🙂
I finally got around to reading vikram seth’s An equal music and got weirdly reminded of this movie.. Probably something to do with all that love lost and regained (if only briefly) in european cities. 🙂
That’s the thing with this movie, people either absolutely HATE it or absolutely LOVE it! There is no middle ground here….that we are still talking about it just shows that Rockstar truly grabbed every one’s attention and how!!
its from another realm..the songs are prayers.. the message sublime.. God is watching and how.. blessed are imtiaz, irshad and rahman
Naveen Y
Though very late, I found someone who also thinks that ‘Rockstar’ was not the name this movie deserved. My expectations on this was entirely different from what was dished. Amazing review.
both films feature a malady that is healed not through medicine but by the magic of love
she is literally unable to survive without him
That is why it’s a mistake that, after Jordan visits a bedridden Heer, her mother exults that her blood count is better. Such mundaneness has no business in this realm of magic. Heer has become better simply because Jordan is near her
When I saw Rock Star (I was not following this blog then) one of the things that bothered me most was that Heer’s Aplastic Anemia / Blood count becomes better not by a blood transfusion but by the prescence of Jordan. It then seemed to me as laughably silly as some of those old movies where in the climax, at the highest note of a shrill devotional song in front of a temple, a light comes out of the deity’s eyes and magically cures the loved one’s disease. Now I saw it explained under the Tamasha review as Imthiaz Ali’s “romantic conceit” and so came here ( to find out more ) where it is explained as magical realism. Well its so confusing sometimes to know when something is magical realism and when its just plain ludicrous : I don’t suppose there is an answer. Ive had the same problem with books. For instance, I found the mild magical realism in 1Q84 enjoyable but ‘Kafka on the Shore’ was too much to digest.
Though I did not like Rock Star much, this is a lovely review. Some of the best writing in this blog is for the Imthiaz Ali movies.
That’s an interesting comment, Tonks. May jot in more on Rockstar later maybe, I loved it…
It’s not to be viewed with a scientific prism but more as a musicians journey (it helps if one is a rahmaniac like me…)
As for the ‘magical realism’ bit, not supporting it, but as science evolves, the limitations of conventional science are exposed more. Eg Whilst most of modern physics works with the bigger particle, it doesn’t work for the smaller particle eg even the hydrogen particle can’t be explained ….
& talking of ‘Kafka on the shore’, can’t resist this one — somethin like, Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
crusader33
How could you say the Rumi quote was the ugliest thing in the movie??When its an impossible love ..you do desire a world far away from the “Sahi” and “Galath”!You are entitled to your opinion though…horrified nevertheless!
I re-read your review everytime I watch the movie BR. and I must say something has been bothering me. your comparision of heer and jordan to animals. animals aren’t discerning. But Jordan literally can’t do it with anyone else even the hottie that is Aditi Hydari’s character.
Both of them are the purest, most distilled form of human love. Their love transcends petty human annoyances. It is everyone else who (forgive the profanity) bangs anything with legs that are animals.
abhinavrajput
she comes close to declaring her feelings for Jordan while dressed up in blood-red bridal finery – he wonders aloud, laughing, if she hasn’t fallen for him, and her eyes mist up as she deflects the question.
Amazing Ranjan sahab 🙏
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Sounds Familiar — Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic remembers those old tech sounds.
Of all the noises that my children will not understand, the one that is nearest to my heart is not from a song or a television show or a jingle. It’s the sound of a modem connecting with another modem across the repurposed telephone infrastructure. It was the noise of being part of the beginning of the Internet.
I heard that sound again this week on Brendan Chillcut’s simple and wondrous site: The Museum of Endangered Sounds. It takes technological objects and lets you relive the noises they made: Tetris, the Windows 95 startup chime, that Nokia ringtone, television static. The site archives not just the intentional sounds — ringtones, etc — but the incidental ones, like the mechanical noise a VHS tape made when it entered the VCR or the way a portable CD player sounded when it skipped. If you grew up at a certain time, these sounds are like technoaural nostalgia whippets. One minute, you’re browsing the Internet in 2012, the next you’re on a bus headed up I-5 to an 8th grade football game against Castle Rock in 1995.
The noises our technologies make, as much as any music, are the soundtrack to an era. Soundscapes are not static; completely new sets of frequencies arrive, old things go. Locomotives rumbled their way through the landscapes of 19th century New England, interrupting Nathaniel Hawthorne-types’ reveries in Sleepy Hollows. A city used to be synonymous with the sound of horse hooves and the clatter of carriages on the stone streets. Imagine the people who first heard the clicks of a bike wheel or the vroom of a car engine. It’s no accident that early films featuring industrial work often include shots of steam whistles, even though in many (say, Metropolis) we can’t hear that whistle.You could feel two things trying to come into sync: Were those things computers or were they actually me and my version of the world? Everyone knew what it sounded like and how big the changes it signaled were.
When I think of 2012, I will think of the overworked fan of my laptop and the ding of getting a text message on my iPhone. I will think of the beep of the FastTrak in my car as it debits my credit card so I can pass through a toll onto the Golden Gate Bridge. I will think of Siri’s uncanny valley voice.
But to me, all of those sounds — as symbols of the era in which I’ve come up — remain secondary to the hissing and crackling of the modem handshake. I first heard that sound as a nine-year-old. To this day, I can’t remember how I figured out how to dial the modem of our old Zenith. Even more mysterious is how I found the BBS number to call or even knew what a BBS was. But I did. BBS were dial-in communities, kind of like a local AOL. You could post messages and play games, even chat with people on the bigger BBSs. It was personal: sometimes, you’d be the only person connected to that community. Other times, there’d be one other person, who was almost definitely within your local prefix.
Click on the link to take a stroll down sounds’ memory lane.
Green and Gay — An iconic comic book star comes out.
Green Lantern, one of DC Comics’ oldest and most enduring heroes, is serving as a beacon for the publisher again, this time as a proud, mighty and openly gay hero.
The change is revealed in the pages of the second issue of “Earth 2” out next week, and comes on the heels of what has been an expansive year for gay and lesbian characters in the pages of comic books from Archie to Marvel and others.
But purists and fans note: This Green Lantern is not the emerald galactic space cop Hal Jordan who was, and is, part of the Justice League and has had a history rich in triumph and tragedy.
Instead, he’s a parallel earth Green Lantern. James Robinson, who writes the new series, said Alan Scott is the retooled version of the classic Lantern whose first appearance came in the pages of “All-American Comics” No. 16 in July 1940.
And his being gay is not part of some wider story line meant to be exploited or undone down the road, either.
“This was my idea,” Robinson explained this week, noting that before DC relaunched all its titles last summer, Alan Scott had a son who was gay.
But given “Earth 2” features retooled and rebooted characters, Scott is not old enough to have a grown son.
“By making him younger, that son was not going to exist anymore,” Robinson said.
“He doesn’t come out. He’s gay when we see him in issue two,” which is due out Wednesday. “He’s fearless and he’s honest to the point where he realized he was gay and he said ‘I’m gay.’”
It’s another example of gay and lesbian characters taking more prominent roles in the medium.
In May, Marvel Entertainment said super speedster Northstar will marry his longtime boyfriend in the pages of “Astonishing X-Men.” DC comics has other gay characters, too, including Kate Kane, the current Batwoman, The Question, and married characters Apollo and the Midnighter.
And in the pages of Archie Comics, Kevin Keller is one of the gang at Riverdale High School and gay, too.
Must Be Miami — Carl Hiaasen takes a look at the face-eating zombie.
All of us who live in Florida struggle to explain this bizarre place to distant friends and family.
The task got somewhat easier after the 2000 presidential election, which showcased the state’s unique style of dysfunction to a vast international audience. Since then, people who live elsewhere seem not so easily mortified by anything that happens here.
Take the dreadful case of the naked cannibal.
I’d be willing to bet that in no other city but Miami would the following quote appear matter-of-factly in a crime story: “Rudy was not a face-eating zombie monster.”
Those words come from a high school friend of Rudy Eugene, who chewed the flesh off a homeless man’s face on Memorial Day weekend. Eugene first removed his own clothes and then tore off the trousers of his victim, 65-year-old Ronald Poppo.
The gruesome biting attack, reported by passers-by, took about 18 minutes. It didn’t end until Eugene was shot dead by a policeman and physically separated from the gravely injured Poppo.
All this occurred on a Saturday morning on a ramp of the MacArthur Causeway, practically within fast-break distance of the American Airlines Arena where the Miami Heat plays.
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Mel Brooks on Blazing Saddles
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Cool interview Mel Brooks on one of the funniest movies ever made. Unfortunately it has an unnecessarily "click-baitesque" title -
its crazy that the Studio Execs wanted to replace Cleavon Little with a white actor - that would've changed the entire storyline of the film
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...azing-saddles-could-never-get-made-today.html
In a world gone mad, Mel Brooks, now 90, is determined to get people back on his laugh track. Earlier this year, members of the Writers’ Guild of America voted for the 101 funniest screenplays of all time. Brooks was the only writer to have three scripts he wrote or co-wrote in the top 12: his Oscar-winning original screenplay for The Producers, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein.
On September 1st at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, after a screening of Blazing Saddles, Brooks will discuss why the classic western sendup is still a riot 42 years after its theatrical debut. If that weren’t enough, a coffee table book of Young Frankenstein will debut this fall.
Brooks is one of precious few to capture the EGOT, taking home Emmy, Tony Grammy, and Academy Awards. Like Don Rickles, Tony Bennett, and his close friend Carl Reiner, who co- created the 2000 Year Old Man bits, Brooks represents an era of show business that will pass when they do. But until that day comes, this old man river of laughs just keeps rollin’ on.
What did Warner Bros. executives think when they first saw Blazing Saddles?
Mel Brooks: They wanted to bury me and the film. The head of distribution told the owners not to release the picture but they only did because it was already booked in theaters and they didn’t have a picture they could replace it with. Only John Calley, an extremely filmmaker-friendly executive at the studio, championed it. The rest of the executives wouldn’t acknowledge me on the lot even when Blazing Saddles became a huge money maker.”
Why did they hate the film so much?
I actually got notes from the studio head in vivid detail who said, “Lose the fart scene, cut out any racial and ethnic jokes, edit scenes where a horse and an old lady get punched,” and my favorite note: “Can you reshoot Black Bart with a white actor?” If I had made their changes the film would have been just 14 minutes long! I stupidly threw all their notes in the trash. Imagine the book I could have written on them today. Then I had a screening on the lot for anyone who worked there, so the executives couldn’t think I was faking the results. The screening proved everything the big shots hated was funny beyond belief, and yet the big shots didn’t believe the comic tastes of their own employees. I only got my first royalty check recently, which meant it took all these years to show a profit. Hopefully my next check will be in three figures!
And Richard Pryor, of course, was your first choice for Black Bart.
The studio didn’t want him because they said he was unreliable due to his personal problems. I fought hard for Richard and was going to quit the film but he told me not to because he needed his screenwriter fees to pay his mortgage. Then we had a long and expensive search to find the right actor for his part. When Cleavon Little auditioned, Richard was in the room and gave me a signal that he was our man!
What other help did Pryor give you on Blazing Saddles?
When I was getting so much pressure to change the script due to it being offensive to blacks, Pryor stuck behind the work. He said the script, which three other people wrote besides us, was hilarious and if it was compromised in any way then we weren’t going to make the movie we all believed in.
But didn’t you cut one big line from the final edit?
Yes. For some weird reason, and I still can’t explain why… well, there’s a scene in Madeline Kahn’s dark dressing room where she’s below frame making Cleavon very happy. She tells him with satisfaction how big he is, and his initial response, which I cut, was: “You’re sucking on my arm!”
What’s the biggest misconception about Blazing Saddles?
That we shot it in black and white, then we later colored each frame with big crayons.
Do you think Blazing Saddles would ever get made in politically correct 2016?
How do you feel about Hillary and Trump running for president in 2016?
I don’t do political humor. It’s too passé.
Who makes you laugh today?
Dave Chappelle, Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman, Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Maya Rudolph, Zach Galifianakis, Louis C.K., Melissa McCarthy, and Harpo Marx.
What have you learned about pitching projects in today’s Hollywood?
Never go to a studio executive’s office. If you go there, you have a big NO awaiting you. If they come to your office, you’ve got a 50/50 chance for a green-light for your project.
What was your most unusual pitch meeting?
I went to Alan Ladd, Jr., who was running Fox at the time, and pitched him Silent Movie. Even though Young Frankenstein had made him a lot of money, Laddie was very reluctant to do the picture. He said between the slapstick in that film and a non-talkie, it seemed like I really wanted to return to vaudeville, so he said no. I quickly told him I could get Anne Bancroft, Liza Minnelli, Dom DeLuise, Marty Feldman, Marcel Marceau, Paul Newman, and Burt Reynolds, who was the hottest star in Hollywood at the time. I was lying of course, like I’m doing to you now, but Laddie said he’d make the picture if I got all of them. Newman loved the idea of driving a go-kart and not having any dialogue to memorize. I paid Reynolds $25,000 for a day’s work and then told him I need him for three more days. Burt was having fun taking a shower with Dom, me, and Marty in the film, of course, I think—so he stuck around.
Didn’t you have a strange meeting when you tried to pitch Young Frankenstein to Columbia Pictures?
The short version is they wanted to make it but wanted to make it for two million dollars less than its small budget—money Fox made just on the 40th anniversary DVD. My last words at the meeting were, “And we’re going to make it in black and white.” As I’m walking down the hall I realized I was being chased by thirty executives telling me I had no green-light if I wanted to make it in black and white. And this was when Blazing Saddles was making millions of dollars daily, money that somehow disappeared immediately when I asked Warner Brothers when I would receive a royalty check.
With truly unlimited source material, why didn’t you ever make a sequel to History of the World: Part I?
Nobody asked me to. The film made good money. I’d enjoy doing a sequel to that and Spaceballs. There’s still so much you can satirize in both movies.
Do you feel any of your pictures are underrated?
The Twelve Chairs. It was a nice, sweet film with a funny performance by Dom DeLuise—his best, I believe, other than when my wife Anne Bancroft directed him in Fatso. My favorite film nobody saw is Life Stinks. I play a multimillionaire who makes a bet with a peer that he can survive on the streets as a homeless person. You root for this guy and you laugh with him, not at him. You know, basically all my films are about greed versus humanity. I never want people to leave one of my productions feeling depressed. If you come out of the play The Producers humming “Springtime for Hitler” and having a smile on your face, then I’m a happy man. Do you realize the last time I was at Radio City Music Hall was when The Producers won more Tonys than any play in history?! That place is bigger than some New England states. I’m going to be there with Blazing Saddles September 1st. I may be a 2,000-year-old man but I can still see empty seats. Since I’m not getting paid for this fantastic interview I’m giving you, then do your best to help me fill those seats. Is that too subtle?!
OK, but only if you answer one final question: Is it true that Dustin Hoffman was going to receive his first starring role in The Producers?
YES! Dustin came to my house late one night and threw pebbles at the windows of my upstairs apartment. Even then I knew better not to eat with an actor or give them my phone number. Dustin told me he had to drop out of my film, a movie I had spent years trying to get financing for, because he was going to Los Angeles to star in The Graduate. I yelled at him so loud it woke up my fellow renters. I screamed, “You mean you’re deserting me to spend the summer in Hollywood making love to the love of my life [Bancroft]?” Then I gave him my blessing by adding, “Good choice!”
for those who've never seen this classic film
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#1 DFWRocket, Aug 22, 2016
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Spent the night at my buddy Travis's place in 4th grade, that's when I watched it the first time. Next day, mom asked me what we did, I said we watched Blazing Saddles, she rolled her eyes and said "oh hell". I quoted that movie for weeks.
#2 Buck Turgidson, Aug 22, 2016
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Buck Turgidson said: ↑
The Sheriff is near
#3 TMac'n, Aug 22, 2016
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When we were kids, we snuck into the theater (Myerland) to see it instead of the movie we bought tickets to. All I remember is laughing so hard during the campfire scene that I literally couldn't breath.
40 years later and I still laugh at farts. Not sure what that says about me...
#4 ima_drummer2k, Aug 22, 2016
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Idris Elba as James Bond? I kid, I kid....
#5 cwebbster, Aug 22, 2016
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Tipper Gore ruined America
#6 ipaman, Aug 22, 2016
DFWRocket said: ↑
Oh, man. A potential CLASSIC line that never was.
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My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of invention.
#8 the futants, Aug 22, 2016
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Some ballsy race relations...
Never get it through today.
#9 Rashmon, Aug 22, 2016
#10 Buck Turgidson, Aug 22, 2016
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My Dad loved this movie, touted the fart scene as the greatest thing ever to us kids, and we watched it with him only to get to the big fart scene and they edited out all of the farts for our protection. We looked at our dad like whatever. I should probably rent and watch again to see if funny.
#11 PhiSlammaJamma, Aug 22, 2016
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PhiSlammaJamma said: ↑
I remember channel hoping and seeing it on tv yeArs back and the fart scene was edited so that it was just silence. What shame and utterly ridiculous that a someone felt a fart was inappropriate on tv.
Dog gone nearly lost a four hundred dollar handcar
#12 DonkeyMagic, Aug 22, 2016
rocketsjudoka Contributing Member
Where the white women at?
#13 rocketsjudoka, Aug 23, 2016
Nero Member
Young Frankenstein is a Top Five of All Time movie for me. Blazing Saddles is funny, but it's more like a sort of gigantic improv sketch to me than a full-fledged movie. High Anxiety is one of my favorites as well. Madeline Kahn was just so perfect in everything she did.
Brooks has made a ton of great movies, but by the time he started making Spaceballs and Men in Tights, and of course Dracula: Dead & Loving It, he had really lost the 'funny' ability.
Maybe he has something left for one final effort.. I hope so. There will never be another like Brooks.
#14 Nero, Aug 23, 2016
Nero said: ↑
High Anxiety is one of my favorites as well.
Repped. High Anxiety is an absolute classic. And sadly, pretty underrated.
I love Star Wars and I love Mel Brooks....but oddly enough, Spaceballs didn't do much for me.
#15 ima_drummer2k, Aug 23, 2016
ima_drummer2k said: ↑
Yeah, I never found Spaceballs to be funny. I think it was because it was a spoof made by people who never really 'got' Star Wars, and were just poking at easy, surface-level targets. Kind of like people who make fun of a movie when they haven't even seen it. I am not saying I *hated* Spaceballs, just that I felt the same as you - it just never really did anything for me either.
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#17 hotballa, Aug 23, 2016
LonghornFan Contributing Member
Watched Blazing Saddles once, quit 3/4 way through it. Did not even laugh once and I love stupid comedies. Completely over rated imo.
#18 LonghornFan, Aug 23, 2016
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Wolverine has been a staple of superhero films for nearly 2 decades, and Hugh Jackman has carried that legacy from its cinematic birth all the way to its sobering conclusion. If a swan song this is, then a swan song it should be. It is a near-perfect end for Jackman’s character while doing beautiful, if somber justice to Stewart’s Charles Xavier, who has been in the game just as long as Jackman has. It’s a western-influenced, violent, and bloody film that offers up far more intelligent character drama than is typical for its genre. If I had to criticize one aspect of the film, it would be the antagonistic forces across the board. While Boyd Holbrook’s villain is at first charismatic, his character recedes to service a somewhat disappointing payoff. While that may be, I was left emotional and satisfied at its conclusion.
Logan is a blessing unto its genre, trading big effects for intense focused character drama. Hugh Jackman gives his all to a performance that feels tortured, raw, and decisive. Not only is this the best X-Men film… it is one of the most refined superhero films of all time.
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MiMedx Group Inc (MDXG) Soars 10.43% on December 10
MiMedx Group Inc (MDXG) had a good day on the market for Monday December 10 as shares jumped 10.43% to close at $1.27. About 1.73 million shares traded hands on 995 trades for the day, compared with an average daily volume of 4.29 million shares out of a total float of 111.03 million. After opening the trading day at $1.17, shares of MiMedx Group Inc stayed within a range of $1.30 to $1.07.
With today’s gains, MiMedx Group Inc now has a market cap of $141.01 million.
The stock has a P/E Ratio of 3.7. Shares of MiMedx Group Inc have been trading within a range of $18.25 and $0.95 over the last year, and it had a 50-day SMA of $4.50 and a 200-day SMA of $5.72.
MiMedx Group Inc develops and markets regenerative biomaterial products and bioimplants made from human amniotic membrane and birth tissues and human skin and bone. Its products are primarily targeted toward the wound-care, surgical, sports medicine, and orthopedics markets. MiMedx’s key products are allografts processed from amniotic tissue, which include EpiFix for external use and AmnioFix for internal use. It also sells OrthoFlo, an allograft derived from amniotic fluid. In addition, MiMedx sells allografts for ophthalmic surgery and dental applications through licenses to third parties.
MiMedx Group Inc is based out of Marietta, GA and has some 690 employees. Its CEO is David Coles.
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Doctor Faustus is a play that was written by Christopher Marlowe in the 17th century. The play is based on a story of a man who sold his soul to the devil in exchange of power, wealth and knowledge. Marlowe’s play was published ten years after the death of Marlowe and at least twelve years after its first performance. The play was later played twenty five times by the admiral’s men between 1594 and 1597. It is recorded that actual devils used to appear on stage during the performances and some people were driven mad. This is believed to have made Edward Alleyn who was the main actor of admiral’s men to spend the rest of his life in charitable activities.
In the play Faustus is a popular, respected man who is fed up with the knowledge of science, mathematics and religion. His plan is to learn some magic and use it in healing people and his other personal interests. Cornelius and Valdes are his friends who advice him to seek magic power in the black art. Mephastophilis is one of the servants of the devil who helps Faustus to contact the Lucifer who is the king of the devils. Faustus asks Mephastophilis to tell Lucifer that he wants to sell his soul to him for twenty four years in exchange of knowledge and power. Afterwards Faustus thinks of repenting in order to save his soul from the devil but Mephastophilis blinds him with numerous gifts convincing Faustus to continue serving the devil (Shepherd-Barr 97). Meanwhile, Faustus’s servant named Wagner picks some of Faustus magic presses a clown himself and name it robin. When Faustus agrees to sign the contract between him and Lucifer with blood, immediately homo fuge a Latin name appears on his arm which mean o man fly. Again he is showered with gifts by Mephastophilis until he accepts to serve Lucifer who is the devil as his master for twenty four years. Even though devil is the root of this play God is also mentioned severally in many occasions within the play by Faustus, Mephastophilis the devil’s servant and other people as well.
God is mentioned at first by Faustus when he is not sure of working for the devil and he want to repent in order to save his soul from Lucifer and seek forgiveness from God. Faustus regrets of having sent Mephastophilis to the devil to ask for the contract. He is afraid that he will not only sell his soul to the devil but live in hell forever. He was warned by Mephastophilis of the horror and pain in hell but he didn’t listen, all he wanted was to satisfy his dream by acquiring knowledge and power from Lucifer at any price. He regrets the idea of consulting his friends Valdes and Cornelius who directed him to the black art which led to all his problems. Faustus was wrong to think that he was looking for an answer and acquired life imprisonment instead (Marlowe 67).
Mephastophilis also mentions the idea God when he tries to blind Faustus with plenty of gifts to prevent him from rejecting God after he has signed the contract with Lucifer. Mephastophilis gives Faustus a book with the magic and spells that he has ever wanted to learn. He also answers all the questions asked by Faustus concerning the nature of the universe but refuses to answer when he is asked the creator of the universe. This creates doubts in Faustus mind and understands that God is the only creator of the earth has power over everything in the whole world. This time Mephastophilis refuses to soothe Faustus with rich gifts and instead he warns him of the plagues that would follow him when he tries to break the covenant they created with Lucifer. Faustus has no otherwise rather than to serve the devil for twenty four year as agreed in their covenant.
God presence is also seen when Faustus decides to use his magic powers to go to Rome to disturb the court’s pope. He distracts the pope in court by making himself invisible and goes ahead stealing the food kept in a banquet and continues by boxing pope’s ear when there are proceedings in court. Faustus becomes famous all over Europe and at one time he is invited in court of the German empire to defend pope against Charles V. when Charles V says he want to see Alexander Faustus conjure a picture that impresses him very much. Faustus uses his power to punish knight for scoffing at him by making his head sprout antlers. Faustus is bored by the magic power he has because it didn’t change his life as he thought it would. In the other hand, Wagner who was his servant uses the magic power he got from him to make people laugh. He is later warned by Mephastophilis to stop or else he is transformed to an animal. Faustus also uses his powers again in the court of duke vanholt and later casts spell on them (Lee 64).
God’s presence is again seen when two angels appear to Faustus and begs him to quit working with the devil and repent, he all over sudden becomes and drives them away. Faustus is scared to break the covenant the made with Lucifer because he is afraid of the consequences that might follow him as described by Mephastophilis. He even admits that collaborating with the devil was the worst mistake he has ever done in his whole life. The two angels that appeared to him signified the kingdom of God and it was ready to take Faustus back if he was ready to repent and stop working with magic powers. This shows how the kingdom of God gives a person many chances unlike the devil’s that only takes advantage of weak mind. Faustus realizes that the devil was there to use him and not the vice versa.
When the twenty four years were almost over it was time to close the deal or renew it. Faustus’s powers were gone and he starting becoming weak to a point that people saw that he was dying. People begun disserting him and he asked Mephastophilis to bring him Helen who was the most beautiful lady from the ancient world and uses her to bring people back to him. Amongst the crowd an old man comes and begs Faustus to repent but he refuses and sends him away. This shows how persistent God is when he is trying to get back his lost sheep. One night before the deal expired Faustus accepted to repent and asked some scholar to pray for him. Later in the night the devil came and carried his soul to hell. The next day the scholar found the dead body of Faustus and begun organizing his funeral (Häuser 25).
In this play God’s presences is indirectly seen in several scenes trying to acknowledge Faustus through people. Faustus is very stubborn although he at last decides to repent. The play has brought the involvement of the bad and the good, the magic and supernatural, and also the dividing nature of human being. This is used to bring out clear difference between the kingdom of God and that of the devil.
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Autonomous vehicles will do nothing to tackle today’s transport issues, say campaigners
Responding to the launch of a Government consultation into the use of ‘self-driving’ technologies in cars on British roads, James MacColl, Head of Campaigns at Campaign for Better Transport, said:
“The Government is pumping millions of pounds into this future technology, whilst everyday transport that people rely on today, like buses, is being starved of investment. Autonomous vehicles could make the roads safer in the future, but they will do nothing to tackle congestion and could even result in more cars clogging up our streets.
“New technology certainly has its place, but investment is needed now in public transport, cycling and walking to deal with the real transport problems we're facing today.”
For further information please contact Alice Ridley on 020 7566 6495 / 07984 773 468 or alice.ridley@bettertransport.org.uk
The Department for Transport has today (11 July) launched a public consultation into the use of advanced driver assistance systems and ‘self-driving’ technologies in vehicles on British roads.
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Messaging mania has shocked tech leaders twice – in 1994 and again now
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By Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero
One of the most unanticipated developments surrounding mobile phones is the fact that people don’t really want to use them to talk to each other. They want to use them to send messages. This phenomenon was so counterintuitive that it has now disrupted the entire tech industry twice — first in 1994 and later in 2012. It was messaging that turned Nokia into king of the mobile phone market in 1990s and then WhatsApp into one of the most successful startups in the history as Facebook was forced to pay $19 billion for a tiny company that was just five years old.
The astonishing popularity of text-messaging on phones has now blindsided two generations of tech leaders. It goes to show how difficult reading consumer behavior can be for even the most accomplished companies.
The first text-message was sent in December 1992, but it was in 1994 when text-messaging turned into a major mass-market trend. That was the year the Nokia 2100 debuted with expectations for 400,000 unit sales. It went on to sell 20 million units, buoyed by the weird new core design feature. Unlike Motorola or Ericsson models of the time, the 2100 had a big display that could show five lines of text and even scroll up and down a message chain. The phone was designed to be a vehicle for consuming 160 character snippets of text.
Who on Earth would want to send or read 160 character messages?
This was not clear to even Nokia engineers, but they were willing to follow a hunch that this “text-messaging” thing might help differentiate Nokia models from massively popular Ericsson phones that showed only one line of text. As every new Nokia phone generation focused on making consumer use of text messaging easier after 1994, the popularity of texting exploded, first in Europe and then in South-East Asia.
By 2003, consumers across the globe were sending 16 billion messages each month — an astronomically high number. Or so it seemed.
Even though new smartphones started offering all kinds of visually complex and impressive features on high-definition screens, the need for sending text messages did not die — quite the opposite. In 2009, a start-up called WhatsApp brought basic texting to smartphones with small but crucial twists, making group messaging and photo messaging easier than ever.
By the spring of 2014, WhatsApp was handling 10 billion messages a day, nearly as high as the total monthly global text message volume had been a decade earlier.
What is astonishing here is that the disruptive power of text messaging essentially destroyed mobile handset empires belonging to Motorola and Ericsson when Nokia gained a huge lead in creating texting-friendly phones in 1994. Yet 15 years later, global giants like Google, Twitter and Apple missed the texting trend yet again, leaving the massive emerging messaging app market for WhatsApp, LINE, WeChat and Kakao to battle over.
Now companies are forced to pay nearly a billion dollars for even third-tier messaging apps like Viber.
One major reason for this was the inability of California big cap tech geniuses to appreciate the mobile behavior lessons from the 1990s. The brand new mobile software era that started in 2007 was supposed to be an entirely new and different epoch. But consumers had not changed that much — and text messaging has turned out to be as much of a killer feature in 2014 as it was in 1994.
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After launching mobile game company SpringToys tragically early in 2000, Tero Kuittinen spent eight years doing equity research at firms including Alliance Capital and Opstock. He is currently a Managing Director at Magid Associates, an Advisor for Next Games and a Strategist for Primesmith, a Finnish 3D imaging and printing app pioneer. He has contributed to TheStreet.com, Forbes and Business 2.0 Magazine in addition to BGR.
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Big Bash League Teams Players List 2020-21 | BBL10 Teams Squad
BBL Teams Squad Details: The Big Bash League is one of the most awaited tournaments in cricket because of its popularity and its players. The Big Bash League has produced some world-class players in the cricket world for many International teams. The 10th edition of the tournament will be very amazing and exciting with 8 teams participating. The format of the league will be similar to that of the previous years.
For the International players, this year’s tournament is very important as the T20 World Cup is very near and each and every player will be looking forward to attaining his form in the shortest format of the game. Check out the BBL live streaming details on bigbashlivestream.com
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Having a look at the bbl teams squads of each and every team in the Big Bash League, we should remember the most successful big bash league team of the league so far which is Perth Scorchers with 3 titles out of 8 seasons.
There is a total of 8 bbl teams in the league:
Travis Head (c), Wes Agar, David Grant, Michael Cormack, Alex Carey, Colin Ingram (South Africa), Rashid Khan (Afghanistan), Michael Neser, Jake Lehmann, Ben Laughin, Liam O’Connor, Matt Short, Peter Siddle, Nick Winter, Cameron Valente, Jake Weatherald, Jonathan Wells, Billy Stanlake.
Chris Lynn, Max Bryant, Ben Cutting, Joe Burns, Brendan Doggett, Sam Heazlett, Matt Kuhnemann, Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Lalor, James Pattinson, Jimmy Peirson, Jack Prestwidge, Mujeeb Ur Rahman (Afghanistan), Matt Renshaw, Mitchell Swepson, Mark Steketee, Alex ross.
Matthew Wade (c), Jofra Archer (England), George Bailey, Johan Botha, James Faulkner, Caleb Jewell, Ben McDermott, Riley Meredith, Simon Milenko, Tymal Mills (England), David Moody, Tom rogers, Tim Paine, Clive Rose, D’Arcy Short, Aaron Summers.
Aaron Finch (c), Cameron Boyce, Dan Christian, Jak Evans, Tom Cooper, Harry Gurney (England)*, Marcus Harris, Mackenzie Harvey, Jon Holland, Tim Ludeman, Joe Mennie, Mohammad Nabi (Afghanistan), Kane Richardson, Usman Khan Shinwari (Pakistan)*, Will Sutherland, Chris Tremain, Beau Webster, Cameron White, Jack Wildermuth.
Michael Beer, Jackson Bird, Liam Bowe, Scott Boland, Dwayne Bravo (West Indies), Jackson Coleman, Travis Dean, Ben Dunk, Seb Gotch, Evan Gulbis, Peter Handscomb, Sandeep Lamichhane (Nepal), Nic Maddinson, Glenn Maxwell, Jonathan Merlo, Matt Parkinson (England)*, Adam Zampa, Daniel Worrall, Marcus Stoinis.
Ashton Agar, Cameron Bancroft*, Jason Behrendorff, Hilton Cartwright, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Cameron Green, Josh Inglis, Matthew Kelly, Michael Klinger, Mitch Marsh, Shaun Marsh, Ashton Turner, Usman Qadir (Pakistan), Jhye Richardson, Joel Paris, Andrew Tye, Sam Whiteman, David Willey (England).
Moises Henriques (c), Sean Abbott, Juston Avendano, Tom Curran (England), Joe Denly (England), Ben Dwarshuis, Jack Edwards, Mickey Edwards, Dan Fallins, Daniel Hughes, Nathan Lyon, Peter Nevill, Stephen O’Keefe, Josh Philippe, Lloyd Pope, Jordan Silk, Henry Thornton, Greg West.
Shane Watson (c), Fawad Ahmed, Jos Buttler (England) Pat Cummins, Anton Devcich (New Zealand) Callum Ferguson, Ryan Gibson, Chris Green, Liam Hatcher, Chris Jordan (England), Usman Khawaja, Jay Lenton, Nathan McAndrew, Arjun Nair, Kurtis Patterson, Sam Rainbird, Joe Root (England), Daniel Sams, Gurinder Sandhu, Jason Sangha.
In the Big Bash League, all the team’s captains are from Australia and all are international players due to which the Australian supporters have a separate fan base for the league as an Australian league has all Australian captains. All the squads are good and it is unpredictable that who can be the winner of the league this season.
There is a combination of players from around the world who will take part in the league. The players are from different countries like Afghanistan, England, South Africa, Nepal, and Pakistan. Big Bash League squads consist of 18 players along with 2 overseas players. Each club has a deadline of 1 December 2020 to call up extra players for the injured players, or loss of availability of other players due to international selection.
Many underrated players get a chance in the league to show their capabilities to their national teams and to tell everyone that they are also capable of winning matches single-handedly.
The fans will be eager to see some of the greatest players in action again in the league like Jofra Archer, Rashid Khan, Sandeep Lamichane, Josh Buttler, Joe Root, Aaron Finch, David Warner, Ben Stokes, AB Devillers, Brandon Maccallum, etc. For all the players who are not in a good form, the Big Bash League is a great opportunity to make a comeback in a good form and all the players will also be looking towards the ICC World Twenty20.
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21 January 2015 / cooperativity
Do we ally or do we alienate with each other?
We live in times in which humanity seems to be moving to the tune of “every man for himself”, and where selfishness as an anti-value often prevails over camaraderie, solidarity and love for the neighbor. The hope of living in a world much more inclusive and multipolar is non-isolated and it should be strengthen with actions and words, doing what it is right according our own belief system and bear the consequences of our actions, from the individual to the collective. We must follow this direction in our daily actions, i.e., we keep a permanent service attitude towards our jobs, families, or any other area in our lives.
Ideologies can shape the characteristics of entire civilizations or, at least, of a social or cultural segment composed of intellectuals, executives, workers and students. By accepting it, the ideology becomes the banner to build a new lifestyle. Although Karl Marx claimed that the main type of alienation was the economic alienation, since the rest derive from it, currently it is accepted as a phenomenon in which the individual personality is suppressed, then the free will is controlled and later removed, to turn the person into a being dependent on the interests of those alienating it, whether an individual, an organization or a government.
History has shown that when alienation occurs in a society, the consequences can be devastating. It all depends on the values shaping the ideologies used. Much more can be said about this topic, but I just wanted to mention it to bring up the situation many Latin American countries are going through.
Venezuela, for example, is a country that has lived many deep political, social and economical changes in the past 15 years. It could be said that part of the population has been alienated in order to impose a model that has failed before and is failing now. Yet, I don’t mean to talk about the causes and consequences of a politic and economic process that has led to a deep division, polarization and discord of its society.
This deep fragmentation of society is incompatible with any development model. It is necessary that families, communities, organizations and companies unite to create harmony. I believe it is very hard to follow an ideology that is against progress and to join forces with those we hate to solve problems, though it comes a time when conditions become so unbearable that the only thing left is to give in and put aside the prejudices blinding us. But in addition to this, it is necessary to cultivate values in the family environment. Especially in those deprived families that have been poverty victims during the last decades due to many reasons. It is even more important to spread the importance of education in the population. Without education we are susceptible to be manipulated and alienated by anyone who wants to. Simón Bolivar once said that ignorant people is a blind instrument for its own destruction.
Ultimately, human beings are destined to coexist with their peers creating interpersonal relationships that lead to success. We would be stubborn if we thought that we could accomplish great achievements without anybody’s help. It is necessary to put aside the prejudices, the discrimination, the racism, the nationalism and the pride. The human beings are sociable by nature, thus those who isolate themselves will seek their own selfish desire and will go against practical wisdom. The matter lies in finding the right company, since they have a profound influence. It is necessary to cultivate generosity, forgive without limits, live according the rules of our belief system and express altruistic love. History shows that in the most desperate moments mankind has united to face them. Undoubtedly there are many thing that must change in our world, but the changes should start from the inside out, in ourselves. These are the most auspicious times to move further towards integration, progress, sustainable developments, and to positively impact society with our actions.
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Travel Trade Gazette using Google Docs to engage readers in debate
As part of its coverage of the strike action threatened by British Airways’ cabin crew, industry magazine Travel Trade Gazette is using Google’s document tools in an innovative way.
Using a spreadsheet from Google Docs, the Gazette is asking readers for their views on British Airways’ terms and conditions with travel agents in a follow-up to BA’s appeal to the trade not to switch customers to competitors, because of potential action. The survey is being promoted in relevant stories on the TTG site.
There have been plenty of lengthy responses so far and its the first time that TTG has approached readers with Google Docs, chief sub-editor for the TTG Group Matt Parsons told Journalism.co.uk.
“What’s also interesting is that it’s causing people to phone the news desk with ideas. The next step may be for us to hold a round-table – we may invite travel agents to come in and speak with British Airways,” says Parsons.
“It’s touched a nerve with agents, but we’re trying to turn around the negativity most people think the web is for, and be constructive. A lot of people are still venting their anger, but there’s some good suggestions coming in after tweaking the Google Doc form wording.”
This entry was posted in Magazines and tagged British Airways, Google Docs, mass media, Matt Parsons, travel agents, travel trade gazette on February 12, 2010 by Laura Oliver.
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Tanzania elephant slump blamed on poaching
Poaching is likely to be the cause of the rapid decline in the Tanzanian elephant population, officials have said, pledging action on “slaughterhouse”.
Tanzanian authorities promised action on Monday against poachers who are slaughtering elephants in their thousands for illegal ivory.
Figures released by the East African nation’s department for natural resources and tourism found that 43,330 elephants were living in in seven of the Tanzania’s national parks, compared with 109,000 in 2009.
The figures are released after a census was carried out on elephant populations between May and November 2014 – a survey which also found 1,177 elephant carcasses. This high number is unusual, suggesting that the elephants did not die from natural causes.
Nazaro Nyalandu, Tanzania’s minister for natural resources and tourism said, “It is highly likely that poaching is responsible for such high levels of deaths.”
“The probable reason could be an increased demand for ivory, particularly in the Far East countries.”
He added that Rungwa Game Reserve, one of the largest ecosystems in Tanzania, has become a “slaughterhouse” for elephants being poached for their ivory tusks.
Speaking at a news conference, he pledged new measures to combat poaching in the country. These include increasing the number of rangers in poaching hotspots, new funding for anti-poaching efforts and strengthening the strategy to bring prosecutions against offenders.
China has been accused of fuelling the problems in African countries as a result of demand in the Far East for ivory, but the Chinese government also pledged to help in the efforts to crack down on environmental crime.
Chinese Ambassador Liu Xinsheng donated all-terrain vehicles, night vision equipment and enhanced communications devices in order to help in the efforts.
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Epidemiological characteristics, clinical outcomes and management patterns of metastatic breast cancer patients in routine clinical care settings of Greece: Results from the EMERGE multicenter retrospective chart review study
Athanasios Kotsakis1,
Alexandros Ardavanis2,
Georgios Koumakis3,
Epameinondas Samantas4,
Amanta Psyrri5 &
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The “EMERGE” study, aimed to capture real-life management patterns and outcomes in metastatic breast cancer (MBC) in Greece, also accounting for hormone (HR) and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) status.
“EMERGE” was a multicenter, retrospective cohort study of adult MBC patients diagnosed between 01-Janaury-2010 and 30-June-2012, either de novo or having progressed from a non-metastatic state. Patient data, including treatment patterns and outcomes, were mainly abstracted through medical chart review.
386 patients were enrolled by 16 hospital-based oncologists between 12-March-2013 and 31-March-2015. The median look-back period was 29.1 months. At MBC diagnosis, 56.1% of the patients were HR+/HER2−, 16.6% HR+/HER2+, 14.5% HR−/HER2−, and 12.8% HR−/HER2+. In the first line setting, chemotherapy, targeted therapy and endocrine therapy were received by 76.7, 52.4, and 28.3% of the overall population, and by 66.5/36.2/42.0%, 80.4/80.4/28.6%, 88.4/90.7/0.0, and 95.6%/56.5/6.5% of the HR+/HER2−, HR+/HER2+, HR−/HER2+, HR−/HER2− subpopulations, respectively. In the overall population, the disease progression incidence rate was 0.57 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.48–0.67] per person-year; median progression-free survival (PFS) was 22.4 (95% CI: 20.4–24.7) and overall survival (OS) was 45.0 (95% CI: 40.9–55.0) months. Median PFS was 24.6 (95% CI: 21.3–27.9) in HR+/HER2−, 19.7 (95% CI: 12.9–25.9) in HR+/HER2+, 23.0 (95% CI: 16.6–29.7) in HR−/HER2+ and 18.3 (95% CI: 10.0–24.7) months in HR−/HER2− subpopulations. A multivariable Cox proportional hazards model, adjusted among other factors for age and duration of diagnosis, HR and HER2 status, demonstrated that in the overall population PFS was better among those receiving first line endocrine therapy (hazard ratio: 0.70; 95%CI: 0.51–0.95; p = 0.024).
“EMERGE” demonstrates differences between HR/HER2 subtypes in clinical outcomes and divergence from evidence-based guideline recommendations for MBC management, especially as it pertains to the HR+/HER2− patients in which chemotherapy was favored over endocrine therapy in the first line setting.
The study has been registered on the electronic Registry of Non-Interventional Studies (RNIS) posted on the website of the Hellenic Association of Pharmaceutical Companies (SFEE): https://www.dilon.sfee.gr/studiesp_d.php?meleti_id=NIS-OGR-XXX-2012/1
Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer worldwide, conferring 523,000 deaths and 15.1 million disability-adjusted life-years in women in 2015 [1]. The estimated age-standardized incidence and mortality rate of breast cancer among females in Greece for 2012, was 58.6 and 21.0 per 100,000, respectively, thus, being the leading cause of death from cancer among Greek women [2].
The past two decades have witnessed significant advances in awareness, screening and molecular understanding of breast cancer. Nevertheless, 6–10% of all women still present with distant and 30% with regional lymph node metastases [3]. Additionally, an estimated 20–50% of women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer will eventually develop metastatic disease (MBC) [4, 5]. While the 5-year survival rate for patients diagnosed with localized disease is 98.8%, the rate drops to 85.2% among women diagnosed with regional and to 26.3% for those diagnosed with distant metastases [3]. Median overall survival (OS) in the MBC setting is 2 to 3 years [6,7,8]. Age at diagnosis is considered one of the main prognostic factors of survival from MBC [9]. Additionally, patient comorbidities and menopausal status, tumor histology and pathology, hormone receptor (HR) and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) status, sites of metastatic involvement, number of involved axillary lymph nodes and de novo metastatic disease presentation are also considered prognostic factors of survival and treatment response [9,10,11]. HR and HER2 are key elements guiding selection of an individualized treatment strategy. Additional factors, taken into consideration when deciding on the optimal treatment, include the length of disease-free interval since primary diagnosis, presence of visceral crisis, menopausal status, patient preference and prior treatments with special challenges posed by the development of endocrine or anti-HER2 resistance [9, 10, 12, 13].
Evidence regarding the clinical management and outcomes of MBC in Greece largely stems from registries including patients participating in clinical trials, and to a lesser extent from studies conducted in the routine care [7, 14, 15]. This retrospective cohort study aimed to provide a snapshot of MBC disease burden, clinical course and healthcare resource utilization as well as to depict the management patterns in relation to HR and HER2 status in a representative population of MBC patients treated under real life clinical conditions in Greece.
Study design and setting
“EMERGE” was a multicenter, national, retrospective cohort study. Patient data abstraction was mainly carried out through medical chart review, but also from databases developed and maintained by co-operative groups for their research activities. As a prerequisite, the selected databases contained an adequate number of potential candidates that met the inclusion/exclusion criteria, and captured only non-identifiable patient information including the study variables. All required information for the purposes of the study was collected using paper case report forms. Chemotherapy and endocrine therapy (ET) for MBC management have been grouped using the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Drug Classification dictionary by the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology ‘chemical subgroup’, while targeted therapies (TT) have been presented as ‘anti-HER2 agents’, ‘antiangiogenic agents’ and ‘mTOR inhibitor’. Supportive therapies (other than radiotherapy), such as bisphosphonates have not been captured in the context of this study.
Site selection was carried out through a documented and constructed feasibility assessment process that accounted, among others, for the expertise of the investigators in clinical study conduct, their intent to comply with the study procedures and their ability to enroll the pre-specified number of patients, as well as for the availability of patients’ complete medical records. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and all applicable local requirements.
According to the final study protocol eligible patients were comprised of females aged ≥18 years, diagnosed with MBC between 01-Janaury-2010 and 30-June-2012, either de novo or having progressed from a non-metastatic state. Patients with a history of concurrent or other primary malignancies (except curatively resected non-melanoma skin cancer or in situ cervical cancer) were excluded from the study.
Study objectives and endpoints
The primary endpoint of the study was the estimation of disease progression incidence rate (IR) per patient-year, for MBC patients on first line treatment. The secondary objectives of the study were to estimate the overall survival (OS), the progression-free survival (PFS) and the time to progression (TTP) and to estimate the overall all-cause mortality and MBC-related mortality rate. Furthermore, the study aimed to record clinical and pathological characteristics of newly diagnosed MBC patients and to describe the management patterns of MBC, as well as the healthcare utilization associated with the disease, in Greece.
The disease progression IR for patients receiving first line treatment, expressed in patient-years has been calculated by dividing the number of patients with progression in the first line setting by the overall time of follow-up (i.e. the sum of first line treatment duration of each patient). The Kaplan-Meier method has been used, in order to assess the OS, PFS and TTP [16]. PFS time has been defined as the time from first line treatment onset to the first documented disease progression or death due to any cause during the patients’ overall look-back period. Differences in the OS and PFS between subgroups have been examined by the log-rank test. Hazard ratios (95% confidence interval) between subgroups of interest have been derived by univariate Cox regression analysis. Likewise, a multivariable Cox proportional hazard model has been used to examine the association of PFS time with diagnosis of MBC de novo, presence of liver and bone metastases, receipt of endocrine therapy in the first line setting, HR and HER2 status, age at MBC diagnosis and MBC duration at first line treatment onset. Mortality rate, hospitalization as well as the emergency room and hospital outpatient visit rates (per patient-year) have been calculated by dividing the number of events by the sum of person-time (in years) of patient observation since MBC diagnosis. No imputation of missing data has been performed with the exception of partial dates.
Sample size evaluation was based on the maximum acceptable margin error that has been set at less than 5%. Under this consideration, a sample size of 400 patients, with a significance level a = 0.05 and power 80%, provided a margin of error of no more than 0.049. All statistical tests were two-sided and were performed at a 0.05 significance level. Statistical analysis has been conducted using SAS® v9.3 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC).
Patient characteristics
A total of 386 patients diagnosed with MBC between 8-January-2010 and 27-June-2012 were enrolled in the study from 12-March-2013 to 31-March-2015, by oncologists practicing in 16 hospital-based sites distributed in 4 regions of Greece. The 12 sites located in Attica enrolled 77.5% of the patients. Of the enrolled patients, 7 did not meet all inclusion criteria. The median study look-back period of the eligible population was 29.1 [interquartile range (IQR): 19.2–37.7] months.
Eligible patients (N = 379) had been diagnosed with MBC at a mean ± SD age of 60.4 ± 12.8 years. At MBC diagnosis, 77.6% (256/330) were postmenopausal, 81.4% (206/253) had at least one term pregnancy and 54.8% (119/217) had a positive nursing history, while 92.0% (344/374) had an ECOG PS of 0 or 1. The primary tumor was histologically classified as invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) in 76.0% of patients, as invasive lobular carcinoma in 7.9%, and for the remaining patients the tumor had characteristics of IDC with other histological features. The primary tumor differentiation was grade I or I/II in 3.4%, grade II or III or II/III in 81.5%, while for 15.0% the grade was unknown. Τhe most common metastatic sites were the bones (207/369; 56.1%), lungs (138/369; 37.4%;) and liver (28.7%; 106/369) (Table 1).
Table 1 Clinical and primary tumor characteristics of the overall population at MBC diagnosis (N = 379)
Patient disposition based on HR/HER2 status and on de novo diagnosis or progression from an earlier stage
At the time of MBC diagnosis, nearly half of the patients (49.9%; 189/379) were HR+/HER2−, while 14.8% (56/379) were HR+/HER2+, 12.9% (49/379) triple negative, and 11.3% (43/379) HR−/HER2+. Classification could not be performed in the remaining patients (11.1%; 42/379). Additionally, 59.9% (227/379) of the eligible population had been first diagnosed at an earlier breast cancer stage (a mean ± SD of 5.2 ± 5.3 years prior to MBC diagnosis), while the remaining 40.1% (152/379) presented with de novo metastatic disease.
MBC management patterns
Of the eligible patients (n = 379), 99.5% had been exposed to systemic therapy, 32.2% had received radiotherapy and 13.2% had undergone surgery for MBC management. Of the patients exposed to systemic treatment (n = 377), 374 had received first line therapy [median exposure 5.5 (IQR: 3.7–11.0) months], 254 proceeded to second line [median 4.4 (IQR: 2.7–7.9) months], 175 to third line [median 3.5 (IQR: 1.9–5.7) months] and 105 to fourth line treatment. Information for patients of each subpopulation per HR/HER2 status that received first line treatment and those that advanced to the second, third and beyond the third line is indicated in Table 2.
Table 2 Systemic treatment management patterns per HR/HER2 status
The median time elapsed from MBC diagnosis to first line treatment onset was 0.6 (IQR: 0.2–1.4) months (373 patients with available data). Chemotherapy was administered in 76.7% (287/374) of the overall population in the first line setting; TT (i.e. anti-HER2 agents, antiangiogenic agents and mTOR inhibitor) in 52.4% (196/374) and ET in 28.3% (106/374); additionally, chemotherapy, TT and ET were administered in 65.0% (165/254), 46.5% (118/254) and 36.6% (93/254) of patients in the second line; in 73.1% (128/175), 42.3% (74/175) and 28.6% (50/175) of patients in the third line setting; and in 87.6% (92/105), 42.9% (45/105), 36.2% (38/105) of patients receiving systemic fourth line treatment and beyond.
Systemic treatment patterns in terms of therapeutic drug classes administered in the first, second and third line setting of the overall population and subpopulations per HR/HER2 status are displayed in Fig. 1. Similarly, first, second, third and beyond the third line treatment patterns per therapeutic agent(s) subgroup administered in at least 10% of any of the subpopulations per HR/HER2 status are displayed in Table 2.
Treatment patterns of systemic therapy in the overall population and subpopulations per HR/HER2 status. Treatment patterns of chemotherapy (CT), endocrine therapy (ET) and targeted therapy (TT) utilized in the (a) first (b) second and (c) third line setting among patients of the overall population and in the subpopulations per HR/HER2 status
In regards to the treatment patterns (as displayed in Fig. 1) utilized from the first to the second and third line of therapy in the overall population, no single dominant pattern emerged. It shall be noted that a total of 30.2% (57/189), 25.0% (14/56), 58.1% (25/43) and 34.7% (17/49) of the HR+/HER2−, HR+/HER2+, HR−/HER2+ and HR−/HER2− patients had received radiotherapy in the MBC setting.
Clinical outcomes: Disease progression incidence rate, progression-free survival, overall survival and mortality rate
The disease progression IR in the overall population over a cumulative 256.7 years of follow-up in the first line setting, was 0.57 (95% CI: 0.48–0.67) per person-year. The IR was the lowest among HR+/HER2− (0.47; 95% CI: 0.37–0.58) patients. Additionally, the IR was higher among patients primarily diagnosed at an earlier stage (0.85; 95% CI: 0.69–1.01) rather than de novo metastatic (0.29; 95% CI: 0.20–0.38) (Table 3).
Table 3 Disease progression incidence rate, PFS time and OS time
The Kaplan-Meier estimated median PFS of the overall population over the study observation period was 22.4 months (95% CI: 20.4–24.7) while the median TTP was 22.8 months (95% CI: 20.8–25.2). The estimated median PFS in the subpopulation primarily diagnosed at an earlier stage was shorter than that of patients diagnosed with de novo MBC (log-rank p-value: 0.004) (Fig. 2A and Table 3). A statistically significant difference was also detected in the median PFS of the subpopulations per HR/HER2 status (log-rank: p-value = 0.040) (Fig. 2B). Specifically, the median PFS of the HR+/HER2+ subpopulation was 19.7 months (95% CI: 12.9–25.9) and that of the HR−/HER2− 18.3 months (95% CI: 10.0–24.7), both shorter than that of the HR+/HER2− subpopulation (24.6 months, 95% CI: 21.3–27.9).
Kaplan-Meier progression-free survival (PFS) plots. PFS plots and the relevant log-rank test p-value is shown for MBC patients (a) diagnosed de novo versus at an earlier stage and (b) per HR/HER2 status
Among the factors (Table 4) examined by a multivariable Cox proportional hazards model in regards to their association with disease progression, median PFS was estimated to be higher among patients receiving ET as part of the first line treatment [HR: 0.70 (95% CI: 0.51–0.95; p = 0.024)], and lower in patients first diagnosed at an earlier breast cancer stage [HR: 1.42 (95% CI: 1.09–1.85; p = 0.009)] as well as among those with liver metastases [HR: 1.45 (95% CI: 1.10–1.93); p = 0.009].
Table 4 Multivariable Cox proportional hazard model to identify factors associated with PFS in the overall population
In regards, to the all-cause mortality rate, 143 deaths (37.7% of the overall population) due to any cause were recorded over a cumulative study observation period of 905.0 years, yielding a rate of 0.16 per person-year. The respective MBC-related mortality rate was 0.15 per person-year. The Kaplan-Meier estimated median OS was 45.0 months (95% CI: 40.9–55.0) (Table 3). The relative risk of death did not significantly differ between patients first diagnosed at an earlier breast cancer stage vs. those with a diagnosis of de novo MBC (Fig. 3A and Table 3). The relative risk of death was significantly higher for HR−/HER2+ vs. HR+/HER2− and for triple negatives vs. HR+/HER2− [HR: 1.71 (95% CI: 1.05–2.78; p = 0.032); and HR: 1.79 (95% CI: 1.12–2.87; p = 0.015), respectively] (Fig. 3B and Table 3).
Kaplan-Meier overall survival (OS) plots. OS plots and the relevant log-rank test p-value is shown for MBC patients (a) diagnosed de novo versus at an earlier stage and (b) per HR/HER2 status
Healthcare resource utilization
Over a cumulative observation period of 660.5 years, the all-cause hospitalization incidence rate was 0.74 per person-year. The hospitalization incidence rate due to treatment-related toxicity and due to other reasons was 0.21 (cumulative observation period: 724.0 years) and 0.51 (cumulative observation period: 652.6 years) per person-year, respectively.
Similarly, the all-cause emergency room and hospital outpatient visit rate over a cumulative follow-up of 605.4 years was 2.67 per person-year. The emergency room and hospital outpatient visit rate for treatment-related toxicity was 0.58 (cumulative observation period: 638.1 years), while the respective rate due to other reasons was 2.02 (cumulative observation period: 618.3 years).
This study has yielded evidence on the clinicopathological characteristics, management patterns and treatment outcomes in the real-life clinical practice of Greece of 379 MBC patients. In addition to the overall population, treatments and clinical outcomes have been presented in the subpopulations diagnosed de novo and having progressed from a non-metastatic state and in the four subpopulations by joint HR and HER2 status. Although microarray gene-expression profiling constitutes a promising tool for prognostication and disease management, HR and HER2 status remains widely used for guiding treatment decision in the routine care [9, 10, 17, 18]. Overall, of the 337 MBC patients with known HR/HER2 status enrolled in the study, 56% were HR+/HER2−, while a nearly equal percentage were HR+/HER2+ (17%) and triple negative (15%), matching the distribution reported elsewhere [18, 19].
The disease progression IR in the overall population was 0.57 (95% CI: 0.48–0.67) per person-year; the median OS was 45.0 months, i.e. higher than the general estimates of about 2 years reported elsewhere [6,7,8], but similar (44 months) to that reported in a study of similar design conducted in a single institution in Germany [20]. The lowest disease progression IR and the longest median PFS and OS were observed in HR+/HER2− patients, in alignment with other studies demonstrating a better prognosis for this breast cancer entity [5]. Despite the fact that the guideline-recommended treatment of choice for HR+/HER2− disease is sequential ET, only 42% of the subpopulation in the present study had received ET-containing first line therapy and the remaining 58% had received chemotherapy-based regimens (with or without TT). Of further concern is the fact that herein only 54% received ET in the second line setting. Suboptimal rates of ET in HR+/HER2− patients have also been reported from data from US databases covering the decade of 2002–2012, with 60% receiving ET in the first line, and about three quarters not receiving a second ET [21]. Collectively, these observations suggest that in the real-world practice of Greece, chemotherapy is favored over ET in HR+/HER2− patients, despite the fact that as demonstrated in this and other studies [10, 22], ET was shown to be associated with longer PFS. The factors contributing to the administration of chemotherapy over ET cannot be inferred, since the characteristics of this subpopulation have not been examined separately, and the presence of visceral crisis, the only condition under which the guidelines recommend administration of chemotherapy [9, 10], was not collected. Clarification of the reasons for this divergence from the guidelines in the routine care of Greece would be an interesting topic for further study.
In regards to triple negative cancer, the present study also supports reports that this subpopulation exhibits the worst clinical outcomes [23, 24]. Treatment for nearly all triple negative patients was comprised of chemotherapeutic regimens (96% in the first line setting), while paradoxically about 4% in the first line setting and 6% in the second line setting were exclusively treated with ET.
Furthermore, even though most studies indicate that among patients overexpressing HER2, survival and disease-free interval is better among those with a positive versus a negative HR status [25, 26], in the present study no statistical significance in the clinical outcomes of the two groups could be established, likely due to the relatively small number of patients in these two groups. In line with the evidence-based management guidelines [10], TT was used in the majority of patients overexpressing HER2; specifically, 80% of the triple positive and 93% of the HR−/HER2+ subpopulation had received TT as part of their first line therapy.
In addition, the present study adds to the observations that patients diagnosed de novo compared to those that progressed from an earlier disease state have better clinical outcomes (PFS and OS). Importantly, the survival advantage of de novo MBC patients compared to those with recurrence from an earlier stage has been linked to a short disease-free interval (≤24 months in one study [8], and < 5 years in another [11]). Furthermore, in the present study, the most common sites of metastasis were the bones, followed by the lungs, liver and brain, in line with other reports [27, 28]. Herein, the presence of liver metastasis, but not bone metastases, was shown to be associated with a shorter PFS confirming once again the perception that liver involvement in MBC signals the end of the natural course of the disease, while, on the other hand, bone involvement points out a more indolent disease course [28].
Apart from the study limitations inherent in its retrospective design, the following limitations should be acknowledged. First, for about 11% of the patients the HR/HER2 status was unclassified, due mainly to unknown HER2 status; as a result a bias of unknown magnitude and direction may have been introduced in the patient distribution per HR/HER2 status. Second, healthcare utilization was unknown for a relatively large number of patients (approximately 21% in regards to hospitalizations and 37% for emergency room and outpatient visits). Third, recording of management patterns did not extend to the utilization of supportive therapies, such as bisphosphonates, but are restricted to radiotherapy, chemotherapy, endocrine and targeted therapies in the MBC setting. In addition, regarding PFS and TTP, it should further be noted that due to the observational retrospective nature of the study, no specific response criteria or schedule of response assessments were dictated by the protocol; therefore, tumor progression assessment may have been performed less frequently than it would be in a clinical trial setting, delaying identification of disease progression, which could have led to an upward bias of these outcomes. Notably, this inherent limitation of real-world PFS hinders comparability with data generated in other studies. Furthermore, due to the large number of censored data in the OS analysis should be taken into consideration when appraising the robustness of the estimated median OS of the overall population. In contrast, the strengths of the present study lie in its medical chart review design which aided the depiction of normal clinical practice settings under real-life conditions, and in enrollment of the study population by 16 study sites geographically distributed across four regions of Greece, which allows for variations in local standards of care to be reflected.
In conclusion, “EMERGE” has yielded clinically-relevant real-world data for a diverse patient population with a disease of complex and heterogeneous biology, such as MBC. The findings clearly demonstrate differences between the subtypes per HR/HER2 status in clinical outcomes and mortality and identify areas of divergence from evidence-based guideline recommendations for MBC management, especially as it pertains to the HR+/HER2− subpopulation. In order to achieve the maximum benefit from existing, but also from promising novel treatment options for breast cancer management, further studies that specifically examine the factors guiding the physician’s treatment decision-making in routine care, should be considered.
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The authors wish to thank Andriana Papaconstantinou and Agoritsa Bismpiroula from the Clinical Research Organization Qualitis Ltd. for medical writing support and statistical analysis of the study data.
The study was sponsored by AstraZeneca Greece. The study Sponsor was involved in the study design, but not in the collection, analysis or interpretation of the data included in this publication. AstraZeneca also funded the medical writing support for this publication.
The full clinical study report supporting the data and conclusions of this article is available on the Hellenic electronic Registry of Non-Interventional Studies and can be downloaded from: https://www.dilon.sfee.gr/studiesp_d.php?meleti_id=NIS-OGR-XXX-2012/1. Row Datasets are available from the authors upon reasonable request and with permission of the sponsor.
Department of Medical Oncology, University General Hospital of Heraklion Crete Voutes, 711 10, Iraklio, Greece
Athanasios Kotsakis
1st Department of Medical Oncology, Agios Savvas Anticancer Hospital, 171 Alexandras Av, 115 22, Athens, Greece
Alexandros Ardavanis
2nd Department of Medical Oncology, Agios Savvas Anticancer Hospital, 171 Alexandras Av, 115 22, Athens, Greece
Georgios Koumakis
3rd Department of Medical Oncology, Agii Anargiri Cancer Hospital, Kaliftaki 145, 14564 N. Kifissia, Athens, Greece
Epameinondas Samantas
Medical Oncology Unit, ATTIKON University Hospital, 1 Rimini St, 124 62, Athens, Greece
Amanta Psyrri
Oncology Unit, 2nd Department of Surgery, Aretaieion Hospital, 76 Vas. Sofias Av, 115 28, Athens, Greece
Christos Papadimitriou
AK, AA, GK, ES, and AP have made substantial contributions to acquisition and interpretation of the data and were involved in revising the manuscript critically for important intellectual content. Furthermore, AK, AA, GK, ES, and AP have given final approval of the version to be published, take public responsibility for the content, agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work and vouch for its accuracy and integrity. CP drafted the original manuscript, made substantial contributions to acquisition and interpretation of the data, has given final approval of the version to be published, takes public responsibility for the content, agrees to be accountable for all aspects of the work and vouches for the accuracy and integrity of the data. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Correspondence to Christos Papadimitriou.
The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and all applicable local requirements. The original study protocol was reviewed and approved by the competent institutional review boards of the participating hospital sites before the enrollment of any patient into the study and the performance of any study-related procedure. The IRBs which approved the conduct of this study were those of the: General Hospital of Athens “Alexandra”, Athens, Greece; Prefecture General Hospital for Cancer Treatment “Agioi Anargyri”, Athens, Greece (two principal investigators); University General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece; General University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece; Regional Hospital for Cancer Treatment “Agios Savvas”, Athens, Greece (two principal investigators); 251 Air Force Hospital, Athens, Greece; “Mitera” Maternity Hospital, Athens, Greece; “IASO” General Hospital, Athens, Greece; General Hospital of Chania “Agios Georgios”, Crete, Greece; Piraeus Regional General Hospital for Cancer Treatment “Metaxa”, Piraeus, Greece; General Hospital of Patras “Ag. Andreas”, Patras, Greece; “Metropolitan” Hospital, Piraeus, Greece; Diagnostic Centre of Athens “Hygeia”, Athens, Greece; and “Attikon” University Hospital, Athens, Greece. All subsequent amendments of the study protocol were also approved by the competent institutional review boards. Due to the retrospective chart review design that included the collection of secondary data only and in order to minimize the risk of biasing the clinical outcomes by exclusion from study participation of deceased subjects or patients not able to provide consent, informed consent requirement was not applied.
AK has nothing to disclose. AA has received honoraria for consultancy in advisory boards from Pfizer, Novartis and Roche. ES has received speaker honoraria from Novartis, BMS, AstraZeneca, Genesis, MSD, Amgen, Merck and Roche. GK has received honoraria for consultancy in advisory boards from Novartis, BMS, AstraZeneca, Genesis, MSD and Roche. AP has received honoraria for consultancy in advisory boards from AstraZeneca, Novartis and Roche and research grants from BMS. CP has received speaker honoraria and honoraria for consultancy in advisory boards from Novartis, AstraZeneca, Genesis, MSD, Amgen, Merck and Roche and research grants from BMS and Roche.
Kotsakis, A., Ardavanis, A., Koumakis, G. et al. Epidemiological characteristics, clinical outcomes and management patterns of metastatic breast cancer patients in routine clinical care settings of Greece: Results from the EMERGE multicenter retrospective chart review study. BMC Cancer 19, 88 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-019-5301-5
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The most relevant diagnostic criteria for developmental dysplasia of the hip: a study of British specialists
Daniel Williams1,
Evangelia Protopapa2,
Kuldeep Stohr3,
James B. Hunter4 &
Andreas Roposch1,2
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders volume 17, Article number: 38 (2016) Cite this article
Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) is the most common orthopaedic disorder in newborns. Despite this considerable variation in practice exists. The aim of this study was to determine the clinical relevance and a ranking order for the diagnostic criteria in DDH amongst paediatric orthopaedic surgeons practicing in the UK.
One hundred members of the British Society of Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery (BSCOS) were asked to rate the importance of 37 criteria useful in the diagnosis of DDH in newborns, using a 10 cm visual analogue scale. We determined the consistency among specialists in rating the criteria with the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) and compared the results to a group of international peers.
Ortolani/Barlow tests, asymmetry in abduction ≥20° and a first-degree relative treated for DDH ranked among the top ten. Participants demonstrated poor consistency in rating the 37 criteria (ICC 0.39; 95 % CI 0.29, 0.52), but for clinical examination criteria alone their consistency improved (ICC 0.52; 0.35, 0.75). The importance ratings of members of BSCOS and members of the European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society differed for 15/37 (41 %) criteria (p <0.05).
Members of BSCOS had a preference for criteria relating to clinical examination and ultrasound.
Early recognition of developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) associated with better outcomes [1]. Clearly defined, well formulated diagnostic criteria are vital to identify infants needing observation or treatment. This is particularly important during the first 8 weeks of life when there is perhaps greatest uncertainty as to the capacity for spontaneous resolution of abnormal findings of the hip [2–4]. In an attempt to elicit clearly defined, well-formulated diagnostic criteria for DDH in this age group, a Delphi consensus study of paediatric orthopaedic surgeons from 34 countries was conducted [5]. It identified 37 standardized diagnostic criteria for DDH in this age group. Details of criteria are shown in Additional file 1. In the present study we sought to discern the opinions of British paediatric orthopaedic surgeons on these 37 criteria. Specifically, we wanted to determine (1) a ranking order of clinical relevance of these criteria reflecting the opinions of surgeons practicing in the UK, (2) the consistency with which British paediatric orthopaedic surgeons agree about the importance of these criteria and (3) how their opinions compare to a group of international paediatric orthopaedic surgeons [6].
The study was approved by the institutional review board for Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Institute of Child Health, British Society of Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery (BSCOS) and European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society (EPOS). We surveyed members of BSCOS and presented them with a set of 37 criteria grouped in 4 domains; patient history, clinical examination, ultrasonography, radiography. These had been compiled in an international consensus study [5]. We asked survey participants to rate each criterion on a 10-cm visual analogue scale (VAS) for its relative importance in making the diagnosis of DDH in infants not older than 8 weeks. We defined DDH as a condition requiring either treatment or follow-up with an orthopaedic surgeon. We employed Dillman’s tailored design method for survey design and conduct [7]; it entails making up to 4 contacts with participants by first-class mail or e-mail, personalized correspondence and additional contacts by telephone or fax.
We surveyed 148 eligible members of BSCOS. All surgeons in this study were specialists who examine and treat infants for DDH as part of their routine practice. We were solely interested in the surgeons’ opinion on each criterion in isolation, rather than in determining how surgeons establish the diagnosis of DDH using combinations of these criteria. As such, we asked the participants to rate each of the 37 criteria irrespective of any other abnormalities. We recognize that this may not reflect how clinicians arrive at a diagnosis; however, because each criterion was rated in isolation we assumed that the relative importance rating would be stable [8]. We compiled the VAS means (a ratio scale measurement of the perceived value on the VAS provided a continuous outcome) for all criteria based on the responses of all members of BSCOS. Based on these VAS means we generated a ranking list and defined the top ten criteria. We compared VAS means to those of members of EPOS using the signed rank test at the 5 % significance level.
We determined the consistency of members of BSCOS in assigning the importance rating to each criterion with the ICC. The concept of consistency is defined as the agreement of two quantitative measurements in settings where neither one is assumed correct [9]. Multiple raters evaluated all of the criteria and the case 2 model according to Shrout and Fleiss [10] was employed. ICC is interpreted as follows: ≤0.40, poor consistency or large variation in opinion; 0.41 to 0.74, acceptable consistency; and ≥0.75 good consistency [11]. A sample size of 37 items with 148 raters for each criterion achieves 80 % power to detect an ICC of 0.80 under the alternative hypothesis when the ICC under the null hypothesis is 0.69, using an F-test and a 5 % significance level [12].
68 % (100/148) members of BSCOS responded to the survey. BSCOS members expressed a preference for clinical examination criteria, which constituted 6 of the top ten raking criteria (Table 1). They included Ortolani and Barlow tests, asymmetry in abduction ≥20° and leg length discrepancy. Among the top ten ranked 3 ultrasonographic criteria: sonographically dislocatable hip, α angle <45°, and femoral head displacement >2 mm from the medial aspect of the acetabulum. A first degree relative treated for DDH was the only risk factor ranking in the top ten. The details for the ranking of each criteria by BSCOS members are shown in Table 2.
Table 1 Top ten ranking criteria based on group means of BSCOS and EPOS
Table 2 Ranking of criteria based on group means of the BSCOS members. Shown are means with standard deviations in parentheses
VAS mean values assigned to individual criteria were largely similar between members of BSCOS and EPOS (Fig. 1). Of the 15 criteria that differed significantly, the largest differences were seen (p <0.001) for the criteria postural foot deformity, torticollis and abduction ≤70°, with members of BSCOS assigning higher mean ratings (Table 3).
Comparison of mean ratings of EPOS and BSCOS. Details of criteria are shown in Additional file 1
Table 3 15 criteria based on VAS ratings with a statistically significant difference between BSCOS and EPOS respondents. Shown are means and standard deviations
Members of BSCOS demonstrated poor consistency in rating the 37 criteria, with an ICC of 0.39 (95 % CI = 0.29, 0.52). Better consistency was found for criteria relating to the clinical examination – the ICC was 0.52 (0.35, 0.75). Members of BSCOS were least consistent in their opinions about the importance of criteria relating to hip ultrasound, with an ICC of 0.25 (0.14, 0.52). Poor consistency was noted also for criteria of patient history (ICC 0.39; 0.23, 0.69) and radiography (ICC 0.31; 0.10, 0.95).
This study determined the opinions of British paediatric orthopaedic surgeons about a set of 37 criteria which have been identified as the most relevant features for diagnosing DDH in the first 8 weeks of life [5]. Because all 37 criteria cannot be equally important, we wanted to delineate those identified as most and least important by British specialist surgeons and determine to what degree their opinions differ compared to specialists from other countries.
We note the potential limitations of this study. As clinical experience and exposure accumulate the symptoms and signs associated with a diagnosis are “chunked” together and not taken in isolation. By asking experts to rank individual criteria we have established the opinions of surgeons and this may not reflect their normal practice. However, individual criteria are important as they can act as a trigger to activate the relevant knowledge.
Surveys are an effective means of evaluating physicians’ attitudes [13] and evidence suggests that physicians act as they indicate in surveys [14]. The response rate of this survey was 68 %, however, this is reasonable considering that the mean response rate of surveys involving physicians is 54 % [15].
Members of BSCOS rated historically well-established diagnostic criteria such as the Ortolani test highest and controversial ones such as hip click lowest despite this being a common reason for referral. The opinions of British surgeons were consistent with an international group of paediatric orthopaedic surgeons – the top ten ranking criteria were identical with the exception that breech presentation was not included in the top-ten of the BSCOS panellists. The pattern of importance ratings was almost identical between BSCOS and EPOS (Fig. 1).
The fact that criteria related to the clinical examination were among the highest ranking in this study reflects other studies from the UK about the diagnosis of DDH in early infancy. Clarke et al. [16] based triage decisions of infants not older than 3 days on Ortolani, Barlow and Galeazzi tests. Talbot et al. [17] and Price et al. [18], examining the same age group, used Ortolani and Barlow tests but placed no emphasis on the Galeazzi test. Limited hip abduction was not reported as a diagnostic criterion in either of these 3 large studies. However, limited abduction ≥20° ranked third amongst BSCOS members. In fact, 3 criteria relating to hip abduction ranked top ten in our study; asymmetry in abduction ≥20°, abduction limited to 45° and any asymmetry in abduction. In contrast, a study of infants aged 3 to 10 months highlights the lack of reliability when relying on clinical examination alone, with 46 % of infants without DDH exhibiting a limit to hip abduction [19]. Of note, members of EPOS placed less value on the criterion hip abduction.
In terms of risk factors, members of BSCOS ranked highest family history and breech presentation (Table 2). This is in keeping with current practice: 3 recent studies on screening in DDH [16–18] utilized these 2 criteria to select at-risk patients prompting specialist referrals. In a study of 64 670 births, Talbot et al. [17] evaluated the incidence of DDH in patients with these 2 risk factors; the incidence was 3.2 % with a family history of DDH and 2.5 % with a breech presentation. Price et al. [20] examined, amongst others, the risk factors oligohydramnios and foot deformity but did not comment on their associations with DDH, suggesting that they had little value in predicting DDH. This is consistent with our survey these 2 criteria are among the lowest ranking.
While our study showed that members of BSCOS regarded ultrasound criteria as important in general, it also confirmed the ongoing controversy [2, 21] about the nature of ultrasound criteria. Three recent studies about hip screening showed that the ultrasound criteria by which surgeons defined DDH varied in the UK. While one study [16] utilized criteria based on dynamic ultrasound, another study [17] relied on the α angle in combination with dynamic criteria, and a third study [18] relied solely on the α angle. Our survey reflected this controversy – a dislocatable hip seen on dynamic ultrasound and an α angle <45° ranked among the top ten criteria, similar to the opinions of members of EPOS, but also the femoral head coverage as measured by ultrasound was rated highly (Table 2).
In quantifying how consistent members of BSCOS were in rating the 37 criteria we used the ICC. It provides a measure of the extent to which any single member identified at random would compare to any other randomly selected member. Coefficients for judgments on individual patients should reach values of 0.70 to 0.80 [22]. The best value that members of BSCOS reached was 0.52, indicating acceptable agreement about clinical examination criteria. Similar patterns were seen in an international study where paediatric orthopaedic surgeons were most consistent about clinical examination criteria [6]. In contrast, for criteria relating to patient history, ultrasound and radiography, large variations in the opinions of UK surgeons were seen. Members of BSCOS were least consistent about the ultrasonographic criteria; this may be related to the inconsistent evidence in terms of the use of this diagnostic modality. It also reflects current practice in the UK: 3 recent studies about hip screening employed different ultrasonographic criteria in defining DDH [16–18].
The ranking order of criteria generated in this survey offers information for clinicians in primary and secondary care about the opinions of expert diagnosticians. Clinicians can determine how their personal preferences for diagnostic criteria differ from those experts. Such a comparison may reassure clinicians that their practice is mirrored by others, or, if not, can provide a basis for reconsidering their practice.
DDH:
Developmental dysplasia of the hip
BSCOS:
British society of children’s orthopaedic surgery
ICC:
Intraclass correlation coefficient
EPOS:
European paediatric orthopaedic society
VAS:
Visual analogue scale
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All phases of this study were supported by grants from BUPA foundation and Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity. We would like to thank all of the BSCOS surgeons who contributed to this study.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Great Ormond Street, London, WC1N 3JH, UK
Daniel Williams & Andreas Roposch
Institute of Child Health, University College, London, UK
Evangelia Protopapa & Andreas Roposch
Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Kuldeep Stohr
Nottingham University Hospital, Nottingham, UK
James B. Hunter
Evangelia Protopapa
Andreas Roposch
Correspondence to Daniel Williams.
DW: data analysis, interpretation of data, drafting and revisions of the manuscript. KS: data collection, critical appraisal and interpretation of data and manuscript. EP: data collection and statistical analysis, drafting and critical revision of the manuscript. JH: interpretation of data, critical review of manuscript. AR: conception and design of study, supervision of statistical analysis & drafting of manuscript; critical revisions of manuscript. All authors read and approved the manuscript.
37 diagnostic criteria for developmental dysplasia of the hip in children less than 8 weeks old. (DOCX 106 kb)
Williams, D., Protopapa, E., Stohr, K. et al. The most relevant diagnostic criteria for developmental dysplasia of the hip: a study of British specialists. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 17, 38 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-016-0867-4
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‘You are not immune’: White House gives COVID-19 warning to rural America
by: Mike Sullivan
INDIANAPOLIS — The White House coronavirus response team is making it clear to rural Hoosiers that no one is impervious to the virus.
“It is extraordinarily widespread. It’s into the rural, as equal urban areas. And, to everybody who lives in a rural area, you are not immune or protected from this virus. And, that’s why we keep saying no matter where you live in America, you need to wear a mask and socially distance, do the personal hygiene pieces,” detailed White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx.
The Indiana Rural Health Associating (IRHA) says rural counties have pros and cons when it comes to battling the coronavirus. They say rural spots tend to have older and sicker residence utilizing medicare. They also say the lack of internet strength can cause problems during the pandemic.
“It may limit the ability for individuals to work from home, which can increase the risk for them to return to work,” explained IRHA CEO Cara Veale. “Telehealth specifically, a lot of those options are limited in rural communities. A lot of metropolitan areas have unlimited high-speed internet to provide telehealth to their patients, and lot of our rural communities have that, but the patient’s ability to log in may be difficult as well.”
Rural county health departments can also have a wealth of knowledge on their websites, or in some instances, have a direct link to state health guidelines and advice. Places like the Brown County Health Department direct Hoosiers to their Facebook pages, where they routinely post information about advice or free test locations.
“A lot of times that’s where people get their information from is from the internet, if you have the capacity to do so,” said Veale.
Should an outbreak occur near a rural home with a multi-generational family inside, Dr. Birx suggested members wearing a mask in their house to protect older loved ones.
“If the individual may work in a healthcare facility, or has been in contact with someone with coronavirus, or an organization or institution that is heavily populated with close proximity with other individuals, I wouldn’t be surprised with more individuals returning home wearing masks,” added Veale.
Being in a less populated area has its perks as well. It can allow for increased social distancing and fewer public encounters.
“Because of the lower population density, I think, I’m hopeful I should say, that contact tracing is a little more feasible,” says Veale.
IRHA says hospitals in rural counties had to get creative when the virus first struck, but they believe experiences in hospitals over the last few months will have any rural healthcare system prepared for an outbreak.
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When you are only recognized for one thing, you might get annoyed if you are trying to differentiate yourself with other projects. Daniel Radcliffe will always be known as Harry Potter, for instance, and fans will not let Christopher Walken live down that “more cowbell” SNL sketch. But “Telephone” is far from Lady Gaga’s only hit — so why does she hate the song so much?
As it turns out, it has nothing to do with the song itself (or with Beyoncé, her partner on the track). Instead, it is about the process Mother Monster went through when recording the track. “I hate ‘Telephone.’ Is that terrible to say? It’s the song I have the most difficult time listening to,” Gaga told Pop Justice in May 2011. “Ultimately, the mix and the process of getting the production finished was very stressful for me. So when I say it’s my worst song, it has nothing to do with the song, just my emotional connection to it.”
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The Fame shot the 11-time Grammy award-winner and Oscar winner to stardom back in 2008. And, while Lady Gaga has come a long way since her “Just Dance” days, pretty much every song on that album is beloved by fans. But there is one track on The Fame that Gaga would not mind erasing from her discography.
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Sir Bobby Robson, Dead At 76
Published on 7/31/2009 by GC
Longtime England manager Bobby Robson (shown above in 1987, with Gary Linekar on his right and Bryan Robson to his left) passed away earlier today following a long battle with cancer. Though best known for a tumultuous spell managing the England team, Robson achieved considerable success at Ipswich during a club career that included tenures at Fulham, Newcastle, Sporting Lisbon, PSV Eindhoven, Porto and Barcelona. The following excerpt from the Telegraph’s Friday morning obit picks up around the time of England’s 1990 World Cup campaign, 4 years after Robson’s side was victimized by Diego Maradona in Mexico.
Robson again found himself pilloried by the newspapers. Not only had England performed wretchedly in the 1988 European Championships, but details of an alleged love affair had also surfaced, and the FA had crassly announced that whatever happened in the World Cup, Robson would be replaced at its end. Normally a genial man, for much of the tournament Robson wore the air of a man under siege.
The side was once more handicapped by the absence of Bryan Robson, and by the inexperience of some players caused by the ban on English clubs entering European competition after the Heysel disaster; but the emergence of David Platt, and Robson’s acceptance of the players’ wish to employ a sweeper system, brought the team through to a semi-final meeting with Germany in Turin. It was the first time that England had reached this stage since 1966.
Yet again, in a match that was always bound to be close, luck went against Robson. The Germans scored with a freak deflection off Paul Parker, and though Lineker equalised magnificently, the outcome fell to be determined by penalties. Waddle ballooned his over the bar, and England were out. They subsequently lost the third-place match to Italy.
There were many observers who felt that, had the result in Turin gone the other way, Robson’s side might well have prevailed in the Final against Argentina. Instead, the nature of his defeat haunted Robson for years afterwards, and he could never speak about it in a manner that implied he had come to terms with it.
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danielbest says:
I just want to concluded everything:
– A great man with passion to world soccer especially in England.
– A great manager with some bad luck in his career.
Missed him. Big lost in English Soccer.
Rest in peace Sir.
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Anastasia gave up my life for the next twine
The ballerina was photographed in his favorite pose at high altitude. Anastasia Volochkova, resting in Arab Emirates and invariably shared with fans candid shots. Another one of her shots nearly cost the star.
Anastasia has never been shy about their figure. Star gladly puts pictures in a tiny bikini and skimpy outfits, and twines has already become her trademark. Ballerina makes them everywhere, stressing in this way that is in impeccable physical shape. The other day she posted a photo on a luxury yacht. And to frame is to be maximally effective, it risk.
“Do not try this trick. You can fall in water from 50 meters height, directly from the deck of a large yacht,” said Volochkova in Instagram.
The photo really was spectacular, but fans came to the conclusion that none of the not worth such risk. “Strange frame. If this huge boat in the sand is. Smacks montage”, “what sacrifices Nastia is not for the sake of corporate flexibility. Well done, what can I say, Very thin. We immediately see that love,” wrote the fans of the ballerina.
Itself Volochkova never ceases to brag chic hotel. The actress has already posted several photos from the aircraft where flying in business class. The star also boasted the same boat, on the deck which is later fulfilled brand split. In the United Arab Emirates Anastasia resting in the company of a new lover Michael.
Volochkova never ceases to admit new choice in love, often puts pictures together, stating that they had finally found the man of dreams. While Anastasia hurries to tell about how she met Michael and what he now does for a living.
“It’s great to be in the arms of a loved one. We are all so good! We are always open to share the joy and sincerity, which for many can be an example of relations” – has told the artist.
For fans, that Michael pays for the luxury star hotels in Dubai. The man had previously stopped Volochkova flowers and don’t skimp on the compliments. In his Instagram often appear touching photos with a ballerina.
Apparently, the chosen one, Anastasia has nothing against her skimpy swimwear and twines. She, the ballerina admitted that the beloved accepts her for who she is. Michael has managed to make friends with the daughter of Volochkova, and it is possible that the pair will soon announce the wedding.
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We educate Australians to critically reflect upon the past and present story of colonisation.
We bring people and communities together for healing through Makarratta.
Makarratta
"Colonisation is not a relic from from the past; the loss of land, language and culture remains an open wound."
Simon Jovanovic
Founder of Byamee Institute
"Stolen Aboriginal wealth has not been restored."
"You took our children, our sisters, our brothers, our mothers, our fathers, our grandfathers, our grandmothers, uncles and aunties, but we kept our stories"
Melissa Lukashenko
Bundjalung, European Australian woman and author
"Researchers must study problematisations rather than problems"
Carol Bacchi
"Systems meant to help often cause more harm as they reduce Aboriginal people to a problem."
"Aboriginal Law must sit on top of white man's law, because our Law is the Law of this land."
Murray George
Pitantjatjara Elder
"If you don't do it now, your kids will be in the same position as you are when they grow up"
Charles Perkins
Arrernte man, Aboriginal activist and leader
"We have survived, but with our healing and cultural strength, we will thrive."
"Our most important objective now is to restore to Aboriginals the power to make their own decisions about their way of life"
Gough Whitlam
"They crossed the ocean with their traditional way of life shattered, clinging to meaningful communal identity only in memory"
Roots Deeper than Whiteness
"Concocted by the early settlers, Terra Nullius was used, systematically, cynically and effectively to deprive the indigenous people of their own land."
"Sovereignty has never been ceded or extinguished, and co-exists with the sovereignty of the crown"
Quote from the Uluru Statement from the Heart 2017
Byamee Institute seeks to restore wealth, sovereignty and quality of life for Australia’s First Peoples, for the benefit of all Australians.
A post-colonial Australia where First Peoples have sovereignty, wealth and quality of life. All Australians have learnt from the past and from one another, see ourselves clearly — our strengths, challenges, differences and commonalities — and pull together for the future.
Empowered economic development is vital to the quality of life of Australia’s First Peoples. Stolen wealth and sovereignty must be restored.
Decolonising the truth of the past and present realities for First Peoples of Australia is necessary for real and lasting change. We must elevate indigenous science and knowledge to challenge the colonial worldview and the imposed structures, systems and deficit labels that come with it.
Indigenous healing means healing intergenerational trauma through restoring a deep relationship with kin, land, language and culture, not the imposition of a setter-capitalist image of success. All Australians can benefit from healing the wounds of colonisation and living a more indigenous-centred life connected to the land.
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Dogs bring owners joy and a reason to be out at night during Quebec's curfew
MONTREAL — When the Quebec government announced it was imposing an 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew to limit the spread of COVID-19, Ita Skoblinski posted a tongue-in-cheek message to her local community Facebook group, offering to let people borrow her dog for late-night walks.
The Montreal woman saw the message as an excuse to post a cute picture of her husky, Waylon, and poke a little fun at the curfew, which includes an exception for people walking dogs within a kilometre of their homes. But to Skoblinki's surprise, she received serious responses.
"People sent me kind of long messages about themselves, saying they would love to take the dog out," she said in a phone interview.
While she found the messages "very sweet," Skoblinski was quick to clarify that she'd been joking.
"Even if we wanted to, it doesn't make any sense . . . . How would they go home after they drop him?" she said.
Some rescue organizations report COVID-19 led to a surge in demand for pets, as people moved to working from home and found they had more time and energy for a new companion. Animatch, a Montreal-based dog adoption service, wrote on its website that it received 7,500 applications last year compared to 3,500 in 2019, leading to its first-ever dog shortage.
But the curfew that took effect Saturday night in Quebec and its exception for dog walkers has added a new twist. Several ads for dog rentals — presumably jokes or hoaxes — have sprung up on sites such as Kijiji and have been widely shared on social media, as have posts like Skoblinski's.
And in Sherbrooke, Que., a woman who was walking her husband on a leash was fined for violating curfew rules — despite protesting they deserved to fall under the dog-walking exemption, according to media outlet La Tribune.
Elise Desaulniers, the executive director of the SPCA, says the idea of people adopting dogs just to go walking makes for "lots of funny memes on the web," but she hasn't heard of it happening in real life.
But while it's hard to measure if there was an increased demand for pets last year because of changes to how the process happens, she says it certainly seemed like "a lot of people" were looking to adopt in 2020 due to decreased travel and more time at home.
Skoblinski completely understands why people would want to spend time with animals during the pandemic. She says Waylon, who has his own TikTok account and has been featured on singer Waylon Jennings' Instagram, has been a great addition to the family.
However, she doesn't believe getting to walk him after 8 p.m. is such a treat. She said it feels "creepy" to walk after curfew when the streets are deserted, so she usually gets her dog's exercise done earlier.
On Tuesday afternoon at a dog park in Montreal's Pointe-St-Charles neighbourhood, several dog owners said they were relieved the rules contain an exception for their pets.
Walking his dog at night with nobody around is "special," said Simon Vadeboncoeur, as he watched his dog Norton wrestle with another dog in the snow. "You walk and you see no one, and no sound, it's very calm," he said. But he said he wouldn't walk more often just to get outside after curfew.
Pavlina Aubin, there with her one-year old dog Blaki, said she didn't feel as safe without other people around.
"It's a little stressful," she said. "There aren't a lot of people outside, and even though I love my neighbourhood, there are some areas that are less reassuring."
Aubin said that while she didn't adopt her dog because of COVID-19, the joy he's brought her has helped her to get through the difficult last year — a sentiment echoed by several other owners.
But she worries some people who want to adopt dogs during the pandemic don't understand how much work is involved.
Desaulniers, the head of the SPCA, says some people who bought puppies online may not have done their full research, and she fears the animals may later end up in shelters. She suggests that people looking for a new pet should be patient, go through reputable rescue organizations and be open to adopting older animals.
"Adopting during COVID is not a bad thing, but you have to realize the animal will be with you for a long time," she said.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 13, 2021
Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press
Les enjeux de la rentrée pour les syndicats des enseignants du primaire
Depuis la rentrée pour les écoles primaires, c’est une majorité d’enfants et de parents qui se sont montrés soulagés de la tournure des événements. Des petits bouts de chou masqués se rendent dans les rangs d’école à la hâte, envoyant la main à des parents qui reprennent le télétravail dans la quiétude qui leur a manqué. Ils sont confiés à des professeurs du primaire qui se disent, pour certains, enthousiastes et prêts à transmettre leurs « savoirs essentiels ». C’est le cas de Nathalie Déry, de l’école De Bourgogne à Chambly. « Je suis très heureuse de retrouver mes petits loups! Tout se passe très bien et je croise les doigts pour que l’on reste ouverts jusqu’à la fin de l’année! » Le maintien de la semaine de relâche Récemment, le ministre de l’Éducation et député de Chambly, Jean-François Roberge, a confirmé au journal que le calendrier scolaire serait maintenu tel quel et que, par conséquent, la semaine de relâche également. Malgré la fermeture temporaire de plusieurs classes pendant l’automne, ce sont 98 % des classes qui étaient restées ouvertes de manière régulière. Mais au printemps, les écoles ont été fermées sur une période de deux mois et demi, forçant un recul scolaire important. Afin de permettre aux enseignants de concentrer leurs efforts sur le rattrapage de la matière manquée et de faire baisser la pression, on a retiré les examens ministériels de fin d’année pour miser sur le savoir dit « essentiel », que l’équipe du Ministère sera chargée d’identifier. Le maintien de la semaine de relâche viserait ainsi à assurer un congé salutaire aux travailleurs de l’éducation, aux élèves et à leurs familles. Pour les syndicats des enseignants, jusqu’ici tout va bien, la semaine de relâche est un congé nécessaire. Au sujet de la ventilation, par contre, ils ne se montrent pas rassurés. La qualité de l’air, sujet sensible Rappelons que l’enjeu déterminant, qui est présentement débattu quant à la rentrée scolaire, est la qualité de l’air dans les écoles du Québec. En entretien avec le journal, le président du Syndicat de Champlain, Éric Gingras, s’est dit « perplexe », émettant des doutes quant aux déclarations du Ministère à ce sujet. « On a pété la balloune avec la ventilation. Depuis septembre, nous faisons valoir que l’aération est essentielle mais difficile dans les écoles. La majorité d’entre elles sont remplies à pleine capacité. Ce que l’on nous propose de faire n’est pas adapté à la réalité. Pour le Centre de services scolaire des Patriotes, où l’on est en construction pour l’agrandissement de l’école, il y a quelque chose qui ne marche pas et que l’on dénonce depuis septembre. L’anxiété du retour à l’école repose sur l’aération. Malheureusement, on ne nous a rien annoncé de nouveau à ce sujet. » Se voulant rassurant, le ministre a expliqué qu’à la suite des tests mesurant le taux de CO2, effectués sur l’échantillon de 330 classes, « la moyenne, c’est de 804 ppm, la cible est de 1000, mais on peut en tolérer jusqu’à 5000 en milieu de travail. Vous comprenez que si l’on peut en tolérer 5000, quand l’éducation a une cible très exigeante de 1000 et que la moyenne est à 804, et moins il y en a, mieux c’est, je pense que ça, c’est rassurant (...) Ce (que le Dr Massé) est venu nous dire essentiellement, c’est qu’il faut bien ventiler nos classes, mais qu’installer des purificateurs d’air, c’est une mauvaise bonne idée ». Du côté du Centre de services scolaire des Patriotes (CSSP), on promet d’annoncer au personnel des écoles les détails concernant les tests de la qualité de l’air « qui devront être effectués dans les établissements scolaires, tel qu’annoncé par le ministre de l’Éducation ». M. Roberge indique que des informations propres aux services de tutorat mis en place seront communiquées au cours des prochaines semaines également. Une mise en garde de la CSQ Du côté de la Centrale des Syndicats du Québec (CSQ), on a fait part, dans un communiqué du 10 janvier, de l’intention d’adopter des mandats de grève dans l’ensemble des syndicats d’ici la fin du mois de janvier. « Le ras-le-bol et la colère sont généralisés chez nos 125 000 membres du secteur public, et cela se traduit par d’importants appuis à la grève (...) Le ministre semble dire que leur présence dans les classes et le bruit que ces appareils produisent seraient dérangeants pour la concentration des élèves. Je pense qu’il saute un peu trop vite aux conclusions et qu’il met en doute trop facilement le bon jugement du personnel pour ce qui est de choisir le meilleur emplacement pour ces purificateurs. Rappelons-nous qu’il n’y a pas si longtemps, le ministre doutait de la nécessité de porter des masques en classe, alors que son point de vue a changé depuis. La question des purificateurs d’air mérite sans nul doute d’être plus réfléchie également », amène Sonia Ethier, présidente de la CSQ.Chloé-Anne Touma, Initiative de journalisme local, Le Journal de Chambly
Former Canada Soccer coach Rhian Wilkinson joins England women's coaching staff
Former Canadian assistant coach Rhian Wilkinson has joined the England women's team coaching staff. Wilkinson quit Canada Soccer last week, saying she was stepping aside to challenge herself and to add to her coaching skills — with an eye to coaching Canada in the future. The 38-year-old, who won 181 caps for Canada as a player, had been serving as assistant coach of the senior women's team and head coach of the under-17 and under-20 sides. England's Football Association said Wilkinson will support former Norway midfielder Hege Riise. Kay Cossington, the FA's head of women's technical development, will also help at a February camp. Sarina Wiegman is slated to take over the sixth-ranked English women as head coach after guiding the Netherlands at the Tokyo Olympics. The FA said both Riise and Wilkinson had agreed to short-term contracts. "They bring significant international experience and will help guide our players before the arrival of Sarina Wiegman as our new head coach to lead us into the home Euro (Euroean championship) in 2022," Sue Campbell, the FA's director of women’s football, said in a statement. "Once February is complete, we will sit down and assess the Lionesses situation and consider next steps for Team GB in consultation with the home nations and the British Olympic Association." The English women's coaching staff has been in a state of flux recently. Head coach Phil Neville has joined Major League Soccer's Inter Miami while Bev Priestman, his former assistant, took over the Canadian women's team in November. Wilkinson had succeeded Priestman as Canada youth coach when she returned to her native England in 2018. Another opening came up on the England staff when Rehanne Skinner went to Tottenham last November. The FA said both Riise and Wilkinson applied for Skinner's job. Neville, a former teammate of Inter Miami co-owner David Beckham at Manchester United, had been tabbed to coach Great Britain at the Olympic soccer tournament before taking the MLS job. Wilkinson also applied for the top Canadian job but was told it was too early in her coaching career. Priestman asked her to stay on but Wilkinson wanted to challenge herself elsewhere. The 51-year-old Riise, named the 1995 world player of the year, won the Olympic, World Cup and European Championship as a player. Most recently she has coached Norway powerhouse LSK Kvinner. Wilkinson, a native of Baie-D'Urfe, Que., who now calls North Vancouver home, played for Canada between 2003 and 2017, finishing with seven goals and 23 assists. Follow @NeilMDavidson on Twitter This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 19, 2021 Neil Davidson, The Canadian Press
Prior to 2021, recruiting firm Randstad's annual list of the upcoming year's most in-demand jobs would typically feature roles such as truck drivers, heavy duty mechanics and welders. However, the COVID-19 pandemic’s sweeping effect on the economy has upended those trends, and roles such as customer service representatives, essential retail workers, security analysts and architects are expected to be some of the most sought after positions in 2021, according to industry experts. Carolyn Levy, president of Randstad Technologies, said the boom in e-commerce has created demand for a variety of jobs to ensure goods can get from business to consumer, such as warehouse workers, delivery drivers and procurement specialists. Meanwhile, the rush for corporations to digitize their workspaces has bolstered an already strong demand for IT workers in the country. “In Canada in general the IT sector was a hot area, and now it’s going to be even more prevalent,” said Levy, who said the field may shift away from previous practices of hiring for short-term contracts. “There are going to be more permanent opportunities just to support the way of living and our new reality as we work more remotely in general.” Koula Vasilopoulos, a district president with the recruiting agency Robert Half, said intense growth around the IT sector is driven by organizations that have realized they have to pick up the pace as the corporate world and consumer interactions move online. “While some companies might have been thinking about digital transformation and doing it in bits and pieces before, the pandemic has forced them to have to act quickly,” said Vasilopoulos “(Organizations) are ramping up technology initiatives to modernize their IT infrastructure to both support remote teams, but also to position the business to thrive in how they interact with their customers.” She pointed out that roles in artificial intelligence, cloud computing and development operations will also be in high demand in the long-term. A report by Robert Half pointed out that certain sectors had unemployment rates that are much lower than the national unemployment rate of 12.3 per cent. In the second quarter of 2020, those sectors included business, finance and administrative (8.2 per cent), natural and applied sciences (4.9 per cent) and social science, education and government service (7.3 per cent) Both recruiting firms said the prevalence of remote working will have long-term effects on hiring and work life, with Robert Half estimating that 79 per cent of all employees are currently working from home. Randstad pointed out that people looking to find remote work can expect high demand for jobs around administrative work, human resources, digital marketing, accounting and data analysis among others. Levy said internal workplace surveys from some companies show that between 70 per cent to 90 per cent of employees say they’d like to work from home at least three days a week once the pandemic subsides and companies will have to repurpose offices as a result. Businesses have to ask, “If we no longer need all of this space, how can we repurpose it to make it more meaningful?” said Levy, who added that managers also have to change their leadership strategies to work best with remote staff. “Thinking that leaders understand how to drive culture without four walls is a really big assumption. There’s a lot of development that people need to create meaningful connections and to learn how to completely run a remote office.” This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 19, 2021. Salmaan Farooqui, The Canadian Press
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Luxury B&B Accommodation Warburton
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2 Wellington Rd, Warburton
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Things to do in Warburton
Charnwood Cottages in Warburton are only 70 kilometres east of Melbourne, reached via a beautiful drive through the villages of the Upper Yarra Valley. Warburton is an historic gold-mining town which experienced its gold rush from the 1860s to the turn of the century. In the early 1900s, Warburton became a much loved mountain retreat for Melburnians at the weekend. Many of its buildings date back to that era and the town’s Visitor Information Centre is housed next to the replica water wheel on the banks of the pristine Yarra River.
Warburton Golf Club is just 500 metres from Charnwood Cottages.
This 18 hole all weather private golf course is possibly Victoria’s best kept golfing secret! Visitors always welcome. The course boasts magnificent views, carts can be hired and bookings are recommended. You can’t beat a round of golf with excellent greens, deceptive length holes and such picturesque surroundings. The first 9 holes of the current course were literally chiselled out of the foothills of Mt Donna Buang and Mt Victoria.
There’s nothing quite like an afternoon’s fishing to help you switch off and relax into holiday mode. Whether you’re a novice or a pro, cast your line and try your hand at trout fishing in the clear mountain waters of the Yarra River at the end of the garden in front of Charnwood Cottages. You may even see a platypus at dusk on a summer’s evening, or some locals and holidaymakers paddling and floating by!
Fishing licences are available from the nearby Post Office or Newsagency.
River and Bush Walks
There are numerous walking trails in Warburton, some are a short drive away but many start right outside your cottage. The Yarra River Walk, in front of Charnwood Cottages is three kilometres of meandering pathway along the pristine river, through the town centre and over six bridges including the iconic Swing Bridge which you overlook from your deck.
Longer walks take you into the forests of mountain ash, hike to La La Falls or through myrtle beech rain-forest to the 300 year old Ada Tree, an immense flowering mountain ash.
Walking track details are available in your Cottage and detailed maps can be purchased at the Waterwheel Information Centre in Warburton.
Bicycle Trails
Warburton is perfect for a cycling holiday, famed for it’s iconic Warburton Trail, a 38 kilometre rail trail following the old 1901 Warburton Lilydale Railway line. The cycling and walking track takes you through the floor of the valley with staggering views up to the mountains, through tunnels and over wooden trestles bridges. You can hire a bike from Cog Bike Café in Warburton and we can arrange a picnic to take with you. Join the trail just across the highway from Charnwood Cottages.
The O’Shannessy Aqueduct Trail takes you through 30 kilometres of ridge-line, ferns, tall mountain ash, plantations and rainforests, affording you great views over the Yarra Valley and the flora and fauna of the region.
For the fit mountain road cyclists among you, Mt Donna Buang is the ultimate bike challenge.
Cafes and restaurants galore await you during your stay in Warburton, and how nice to be able to leave the car at home and enjoy the short stroll from your cottage. Have dinner in one of Warburton’s restaurants, or order a platter from the Warburton Pantry to share back at your cottage. We have provided literature on a variety of dining options for you in your cottage and are happy to assist you with bookings prior to your arrival.
If you’re a theatregoer you’ll love the Upper Yarra Arts Centre with its diverse program of stage productions, art exhibitions, movies, recitals, workshops and festivals.
From Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow performances to Jazz quartets, a full school holiday program for kids to the latest blockbuster movies, the Upper Yarra Arts Centre has a full and varied program, just a short walk from your cottage.
Rainforest Warburton
Length: 350 metres
Grade: Easy Track Excellent
Start: Mt Donna Buang Road
Finish: Mt Donna Buang Road
Nearby: Warburton
This beautiful site features a 40 metre long observation platform which takes you into the rainforest canopy 15 metres above the ground in the Yarra Ranges National Park near Warburton. A 350 metre long elevated walkway takes you through the Rainforest Gallery where you will see magnificent 65 metre tall old growth Mountain Ash trees, ancient Myrtle Beech trees (many of which could be up to 300 to 400 years old), ferns, mosses and other plants that make up this damp and diverse rainforest environment.
There are several viewing spots along the walkway where you can pause and enjoy the sounds of Cement Creek flowing past on its journey to the Yarra River.
The observation platform is 40 metres long and has no steps. It has a level floor surface consisting of steel grating suitable for wheelchairs and strollers. Handrails and safety fencing are on the sides of the platform. Below the observation platform is a 350metre long elevated walkway that meanders down into a rainforest gully. This section has many steps and is not suitable for strollers, walking frames or wheelchairs.
Mount Donna Buang
Mt Donna Buang summit (1,245m) is located in the Yarra Valley, overlooking Warburton in Victoria.
There is a 21 metre high lookout tower on the summit providing panoramic views of the Yarra Valley, Dandenong Ranges, Melbourne, and the Alps.
Picnic facilities are available.
Many walks start from the Summit. Some are listed below.
During Snow Season in Victoria, Mt Donna Buang Summit does receive some snowfall periods during Winter. Check the snow reports for updated information. When there is snow, it is a popular destination for Melbourne Families to do some snow play and enjoy the toboggan runs.
Car parking is available at the summit through the day, however the summit gate is locked in the evening and when there is snow. At these times car parking is available at the gate and the summit can be accessed by a 300 metre walk along the road.
Keep an eye out for the elusive Superb Lyrebird during your visit.
Walks: For all information on walks available, visit http://parkweb.vic.gov.au
Mt Donna Buang to 10 Mile Picnic Area
Distance: 1.2km
Time: approx 30 minutes
Mt Donna Buang to the Rainforest Gallery
Time: approx 1.5 hours
Grade: Moderate/Hard
Mt Donna Buang to Mt Boobyalla
Mt Donna Buang return via Mt Victoria and 10 Mile
Time: approx 3 hours
Big Peninsula Tunnel
The Little Peninsula and Big Peninsula Tunnels are located on the Yarra River, about 14 km east of Warburton, 70 km from Melbourne, on the Upper Yarra Reservoir Rd there is a signposted turnoff to the Little Peninsula Tunnel Picnic Ground.
There are picnic facilities at the car park. From there it’s a short walk to the Little Peninsula Tunnel, which was created to alter the course of the river in the goldmining era so that the prospectors could scour the river bed.
The Tunnel can also be reached from the upper car park, which is linked by a short track to the picnic ground.
Another tunnel is at the Big Peninsula, about 1 km further east along the highway, and tracks lead down from the small car park, to either side of the Tunnel. A small picnic area is at the bottom of the stairway. The Goldfields Walking Trail starts nearby.
A new Information board has been constructed at the Big Peninsula Tunnel viewing point. New wooden stairways and rails have also been built. They are popular destinations within the Yarra Ranges National Park.
Please note some areas of the walking track are undergoing restoration. Please follow the signs and safety instructions.
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Brief Title
Phase II Study of GW786034 in Patients With Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
This phase II trial is studying the side effects and how well pazopanib works in treating
patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma. Pazopanib may stop the growth of tumor cells by
blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth and by blocking blood flow to the tumor.
I. Determine the effect of pazopanib hydrochloride on the proportion of patients with
malignant pleural mesothelioma who are progression-free at 6 months based on the RECIST
II. Determine the clinical toxicities of this drug in this patient population.
I. Determine the objective tumor response status in these patients as measured by the RECIST
criteria or the modified RECIST criteria.
II. Determine the response rate in patients treated with this drug. III. Determine the effect
of this drug on overall survival and time to progression in these patients.
IV. Assess predictive markers of activity of this drug in these patients. V. Assess serologic
markers of target inhibition by this drug in these patients.
VI. Determine the clinical toxicities of this drug in this patient population.
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study.
Patients receive oral pazopanib hydrochloride once daily on days 1-21. Treatment repeats
every 21 days for 2 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Blood is collected at baseline and prior to each course of therapy and analyzed for markers
of angiogenesis.
After completion of study therapy, patients are followed every 3 months.
Primary Outcome
Proportion of Evaluable Participants Who Are Progression-free at 6 Months Based on the Response Evaluation Criteria for Solid Tumors (RECIST)
Secondary Outcome
Advanced Malignant Mesothelioma
laboratory biomarker analysis
Study Arms / Comparison Groups
Arm I
Description: Patients receive 800 mg oral pazopanib hydrochloride once daily on days 1-21. Treatment repeats every 21 days for 2 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
* Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by National Clinical Trials Identifier (NCT ID) in Medline.
Estimated Enrollment
Primary Completion Date
- Histologically or cytologically confirmed malignant pleural mesothelioma:
- Measurable disease
- No progressive disease inside or outside of any prior radiation field
- No symptomatic, untreated, or uncontrolled CNS metastases
- Patients with CNS metastases treated with whole brain radiation (WBRT) may be
enrolled after completion of WBRT
- Patients may begin study therapy as early as the next day after completion
of WBRT
- ECOG performance status 0-2
- Life expectancy >= 12 weeks
- ANC >=1,500/mm^3
- Platelet count >= 100,000/mm^3
- WBC >= 3,000/mm^3
- Bilirubin =< 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- AST and ALT =< 2.5 times ULN
- Alkaline phosphatase =< 2.5 times ULN
- Creatinine =< 1.5 times ULN or creatinine clearance >= 50 mL/min
- Proteinuria =< 1+ on 2 consecutive dipsticks taken >= 1 week apart
- No condition that impairs ability to swallow and retain study drug tablets including,
but not limited to, any of the following:
- Gastrointestinal tract disease resulting in an inability to take oral medication
- Requirement for IV alimentation
- Prior surgical procedures affecting absorption
- Active peptic ulcer disease
- No other primary malignancy except for carcinoma in situ of the cervix or
nonmelanomatous skin cancer, unless that prior malignancy was diagnosed and
definitively treated ≥ 5 years ago with no subsequent evidence of recurrence
- Patients with a history of low-grade (Gleason score =< 6) localized prostate cancer
are eligible even if diagnosed within the past 5 years
- No history of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or
biological composition to pazopanib hydrochloride or other agents used in the study
- None of the following concurrent severe and/or uncontrolled medical conditions:
- Serious or nonhealing wound, ulcer, or bone fracture
- Abdominal fistula, diverticulosis, gastrointestinal perforation, or
intra-abdominal abscess within the past 28 days
- Poorly controlled diabetes
- Interstitial pneumonia
- Extensive and symptomatic interstitial fibrosis of the lung
- No cardiovascular illness or complication, including any of the following:
- Any history of cerebrovascular accident within the past 6 months
- History of myocardial infarction (prior electrocardiographic evidence of
myocardial injury)
- History of cardiac arrhythmia (prior electrocardiographic evidence of abnormal
heart rhythm)
- Admission for unstable angina
- Cardiac angioplasty or stenting within the past 12 months
- NYHA class III-IV heart failure
- Asymptomatic NYHA class II heart failure allowed
- QTc prolongation (defined as a QTc interval ≥ 500 msecs) or other significant
electrocardiogram abnormalities
- Venous thrombosis within the past 12 weeks
- No ancillary therapy considered investigational within the past 4 weeks
- No symptomatic, untreated, or uncontrolled seizure disorder
- No uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active
infection or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit study compliance
- No significant traumatic injury within the past 4 weeks
- No more than 1 prior systemic therapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma
- No major surgery (i.e., laparotomy) or open biopsy within the past 4 weeks
- Insertion of a vascular access device is not considered major or minor surgery
- No minor surgery within the past 2 weeks
- Prior palliative radiotherapy allowed
- No prior palliative radiotherapy to the chest except for a maximum of 3 fractions
of radiotherapy for superior vena cava syndrome
- No concurrent therapeutic warfarin
- Low molecular-weight heparin or prophylactic low-dose warfarin allowed
- No other concurrent chemotherapy, immunotherapy, hormonal therapy, or radiotherapy
- No concurrent medications that act through the CYP450 system
- No concurrent combination antiretroviral therapy for HIV-positive patients
- PT/INR/PTT =< 1.2 times ULN
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective nonhormonal contraception
- No uncontrolled infection
- No uncontrolled blood pressure (BP) (defined as systolic BP > 140 mm Hg and/or
diastolic BP > 90 mm Hg in spite of adequate anti-hypertensive therapy)
- No other severe underlying disease that, in the judgment of the investigator, would
limit study compliance
18 Years - N/A
Julian Molina, ,
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Administrative Informations
NCT ID
Organization ID
Secondary IDs
Study Sponsor
Julian Molina, Principal Investigator, North Central Cancer Treatment Group
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Opinion: Fairfax reduces redundancies, but photographers still hurting
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Cindy Nguyen / June 03, 2014 04:09 PM
Guardian photographer and videographer Dan Chung has said: “Photojournalism as a profession is pretty much dead.
"And I still believe that. If you think that you can leave college, go into a career as a photojournalist and live till you’re 65 and retire – that’s just not going to happen.”
The sad reality is that this trend is catching up to Australia. Chung believes that although it’s a shrinking industry, it still has its worth. “The bottom line is you really can’t do it now with the tool that everybody has, you really shouldn’t really be pursuing it any further!”
Photographers on strike at The Age last month.
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With the recent slashing of Fairfax’s photojournalism department, Australian news photographers are now having to consider whether their profession can stay afloat.
Fairfax has reduced the number of recently-announced redundancies from 68 to 52. This is part of a renewed management proposal for redundancies to its editorial divisions and a move to outsource its photographic work to Getty Images. As well as sparking industrial action from Fairfax employees, this once again raises questions about the future of journalism in Australia.
The decline in print journalism has allowed the other forms of journalism to dominate. With a click or a tap, accessible online news is vastly outrunning print journalism. But with the threat of so many job cuts, will journalists stay in the industry? Is digital news pushing qualified journalists out of their field own field?
Photojournalists are the ones hit hardest by the recent job cuts at Fairfax. Social media and mobile phones with cameras are making it harder for photojournalists to justify their work and salaries. But these photojournalists have skills and understanding far beyond citizen journalists.
A survey conducted in 2011 by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) shows “access to online media brings with it greater choice, personalisation and convenience, but also challenges for some users who do not feel confident about using the technology or feel safe from the risks of being online.” Although the public are welcoming of digital news, they are aware of the inaccuracies and the lack of regulation that exists online.
Michael Gawenda, former editor of The Age, has written in The Australian about the loss of appreciation journalists have received in the digital age. He says, “In the digital age, everyone is a journalist and everyone wants to be an entertainer.” He continues on with “the so-called mainstream media is in such dire straits that increasingly, only journalism that is inexpensive- that can be produced quickly- is actually practiced.”
Continually churning news, online news organisations often have little time to regulate content. Photos can be shared instantly online, potentially generating a large audience and huge impact. And when these photographs can even be taken on a smartphone, news organisations may be hard-pressed to see the worth of hiring a photojournalist to do what a citizen journalist (or a reporter with an iPhone) already can.
But by firing photojournalists, Fairfax newsrooms will be losing out. A photo encompassing a story emphasises emotion and human touch. It is a difficult task to try and capture a moment to make an impact. The skill and knowledge photojournalists possess cannot possibly be made redundant. Their job is absolutely essential to the way we consume news, in both digital and print forms.
Even though a person can take a picture and document events on a social media site and call themselves a journalist, these citizen journalists don’t have the degree of expertise in journalism as those who have studied, and mastered, it for years. The ethics and regulations behind journalism are not being considered, nor are these people being regulated on the content they’re critically hindering the future of journalism.
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The Dutch Do It Better: Lowlands Festival 2019 Review
A festival full of the unexpected provides the complete experiential weekend
Lowlands Festival, photo by Ben Kaye
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Beyond the Gates: After over a decade traveling the US and Canada for music festivals, Lowlands 2019 was meant to be my first in Europe. Chance changed that plan, and in retrospect, having Mad Cool as a warmup was probably the best thing that could have happened. With no comparison point, Lowlands may not have stood out as the completely insane event that it is.
Comparing an astroturfed parking lot festival in Spain to a 60,000-capacity camping festival in the Netherlands may be no more fair than comparing Made in America to Coachella. But Mad Cool brought bumper cars and wandering beer sellers to the table, so there was at least a base level of expectations. Which the 27th edition of Lowlands promptly surpassed with intelligent design, an astounding use of space, and an abundance of variety at all levels. The organizers put every thought into every inch, controlling the flow of both entertainment and foot traffic. There was never not something to do, nary a queue waiting to do it, and a seemingly endless supply of surprises.
This was a festival for people who love festivals — not the hashtag-fueling “place to be” sort, nor necessarily the music-central bliss-out. If Bonnaroo has been growing more toward the experiential, Lowlands would be a fine paragon for which to aspire. We already knew the lineup rivaled any music festival, European or otherwise. What Lowlands delivered in broader terms set it in a class all its own.
Tame Impala, photo by Ben Kaye
ASAP Rocky, photo by Ben Kaye
A$AP Forever: Just a week prior to Lowlands, there was a legitimate worry that ASAP Rocky wouldn’t be free to make his scheduled appearance. Thankfully, ASAP avoided serious penalties and was able to deliver a mosh-inducing party that included his “Smells Like Teen Spirit” cover. He even stuck around to join headliner Tame Impala for “Sundress” and “L$D”. The Aussie psych-rockers have clearly settled into their fest set over the last few years, which at this point if you’ve seen more than once you’ve seen a dozen times. That said, this performance had a particular pep in it, no doubt bolstered by what was easily the largest crowd of the weekend.
Mind Mischief: Activations can be a mild distraction at most festivals, but at Lowlands, the weirdness of it all was as appealing as anything on the stages. You could mold clay into the shape of your soul, shop at vintage retailers, play a game of life-sized Pacman, swing on the rustic playground, or rent 30 minutes of time in the secluded “shag pads” (bedded domes that… well, what else would they be for?). In place of a regular Silent Disco, Lowlands provided 30,000 wireless headphones that turned the entire site into pockets of random dancing.
Most unique was surely the sauna, where fully nude attendees could sweat it out in huts or dip in hot tubs, all heated via wood burning. Once relaxed, you could lounge by Lake Lowlands or go for a brief swim with a landscape view of the Alpha stage. With so many completely bonkers things to keep you occupied, you’d think the Dutch had outlawed downtime.
Americans Abroad: Although timing issues meant I didn’t catch as many local bands as intended, the lineup featured plenty of internationally acclaimed acts. Billie Eilish has, perhaps unsurprisingly, as ravenous a foreign fanbase as a local one. While the crowd was packed, the rainy early Saturday set wasn’t doing the pop megastar any favors. Her rehearsed but not phoned-in show was fine, though it made me wonder if we were there more for a performer or the phenomenon surrounding the performer.
The National, meanwhile, handed the Lowlands audience a prime setlist on the Bravo stage. Matt Berninger was in top form, lawlessly messing with the stage lights or jumping into the crowd. During “Day I Die”, he left the tent entirely, weaving between people in the surrounding grounds who were mostly oblivious to the rockstar in their midsts. He too, noticed Lowlands’ impressive design, pointing to the square-frame screen above the audience’s head. “Did you guys notice that the jumbotron is above you?” he said. “That’s expensive. We didn’t bring that.” They did, however, bring one hell of a performance to display on it. (That screen, by the way, lowered and became kinetic when late-night descended.)
The National, photo by Ben Kaye
Billie Eilish, photo by Ben Kaye
Devil in the Details: If the devil is in the details, Lowlands was a demon’s paradise. Abundant seating — netting over the lake, picnic tables aplenty, inflatable chairs — and cover from the elements made comfort easy to find, even in rainy conditions. Some sloped structures even had LL-branded climbing holds on which attendees could rest without sliding down. Every stage was covered, most fully, with tent walls that dropped down on the sides when night came and dance music took over. The seemingly erratic layout of the activations and concessions actually alleviated crowd congestion (save for the one path in and out of the Alpha stage). So much was happening at all times, yet it was arranged with such subtle precision that it never felt overwhelming.
The Goodbye, The Bad, and the Queen: It’s still not entirely clear if this was The Good, The Bad, & The Queen’s last show ever, or just the end of the tour. If it was their true finale, though, it was a charming sendoff, replete with Victorian vibes and Damon Albarn at his most playful. black midi, on the other hand, proved to be one of the most tedious buzz bands in recent memory. Sure, their math-y genre blending sounds intriguing, but it sucks all the interest right out when half the band seems too bored to give it any gusto. (Shout out to drummer Morgan Simpson for being the exception.) For someone at the complete top of their game, Helena Hauff handily gave the most impressive display. Her mastery of build-and-drop made her the Queen of Lowlands’ party scene.
black midi, photo by Ben Kaye
The Good, The Bad & The Queen, photo by Ben Kaye
Have You Been There, Have You Seen It: Lowlands catered well to Europe’s prominent club culture with a handful of venues located throughout the site. There was the ever-random Sexyland, where one could witness a magic show, a pop-up performance, or spoken-word poetry about slavery at any given hour. Popular LGBTQ+ nightspot Adonis went from discussions on sexuality to raves, while there was always someone spinning in the Barcadi-sponsored Hacienda. More evidence of Lowlands’ magnificent heterogeneity.
Heart-Shaped Box: A handful of planned sing-along events were sprinkled throughout the weekend, none more enjoyable than Sunday’s Club 27. What could be a pretty dark concept actually was a great way to kick off the fest’s final day. Fans who had auditioned pre-festival hopped on the main Alpha stage to sing Jimi Hendrix (“Hey Joe”), Nirvana (“Lithium”), and Janis Joplin (“Me and Bobby McGee”) classics with a full band. There was even an Amy Winehouse impersonator for “Rehab”. Although the extended focus on The Doors was a bit of a misstep, the whole thing was a much more fun tribute than a hologram.
Tribute Starter: Speaking of tributes, Dutch alternative heavyweights De Staat were tapped to replace The Prodigy following the death of Keith Flint. They opened with a droning rendition of “Firestarter”, a song they covered as a lounge-y single back in 2012. Heavy though it was, it was also a fittingly powerful ode to a late great artist who was sorely missed at Lowlands.
Best Bites: Food options representing a range of cuisines were astonishingly varied. There were your festival-standard burgers and kebabs, and then ridiculous upgrades like pho and sushi and meat pies with mashed potatoes. Does freakin’ fondue need to be at a festival? Of course not! But how cool that it was? There wasn’t an area on site where some sort of eclectic, relatively well-priced grub wasn’t readily available, making staying well fed far less of a survival game than festivals sometimes make it.
Munten, photo by Ben Kaye
Munten, It’s a Gas: To be fair, “well-priced” may be a bit of a ruse. Lowlands doesn’t accept currency beyond “munten,” small plastic coins that can be purchased in sheets and strips at specialized ATMs or vending booths. Each coin was valued at about €2.90, a number that became meaningless when spending two-and-a-half munten for a large beer or four for dinner. That probably works in the festival’s favor, though the tradeoff was an almost complete elimination of queues. Plus, the festival bought back unused munten at the end, so it’s not like they were scamming you out of cash.
The Best Around: Top acts went to the British contingent, with New Order and IDLES both putting on memorable sets. Seeing Bernard Sumner heartfelt response to the audience’s reaction to tracks like “Blue Monday” and Joy Division’s “Transmission” was touching. Hearing icons sing such classics like they’re still in peak condition is always incredible, as is witnessing a band on the rise tear apart a stage like IDLES did. Dressed in ponchos, frequently launching into fans’ faces, and spot-covering everything from “Girl You Know It’s True” to “Linger” to “My Heart Will Go On”, the Bristol punks were far and away the most engaging act of the weekend. Frontman Joe Talbot sincerely called Holland “the best country to play live music in in the world,” and the band played like he meant it.
IDLES, photo by Ben Kaye
New Order, photo by Ben Kaye
Rock Me Armadillo: At the center of everything was the towering Armadillo, a 24-hour dance and food hall that somehow blended respite, refreshment, and recreation all in one place. Folks were raving it up well into Monday, egged on by Lowlands Radio DJs. Any other festival might have had something like this as the centerpiece activation; here, it was just a microcosm of everything Lowlands had to offer.
Why Can’t We Be Friends?: Allow me a personal aside. As amazing as Lowlands was, my experience wouldn’t have reached the heights it did if not for the UK and Irish press group I was lucky enough to fraternize with over that weird, wonderful weekend. To Niamh, Mary, Ali, Char, Jordan, Other Jordan, Tegan, Sarah, Cai, Milos, and Nikki for bringing us all together — that was one for the ages. Thank you for welcoming this lone American traveler into your absolutely cracked fold.
Lowlands Festival 2019 Press Crew, photo by Ben Kaye
Coming Home: Not that I’m totally jaded by music festivals, but I’ve seen the experiential-focused gatherings, events designed for Instagram, and paradises of music. Sameness has plagued American festivals for years now, so it’s refreshing to be truly surprised. I’ve been lucky this year where I’ve had that reaction a number of times, and Lowlands easily edges out the competition.
There are surprises within surprises here, a wonderland of the unexpected. It’s all the more impressive in its execution, operating like a luxury experience hidden underneath the glorious chaos of a large scale camping festival. On top of all that was a lineup built with top-tier talent that would be enough to cause envy for any booker.
Frankly, I didn’t even know this 27-year-old event even existed before I was invited. Lord knows how it’s stayed a secret so long, because the Dutch are doing something extremely right at Lowlands.
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How fast is 433 kilometers per hour in miles per hour?
433 kilometers per hour equals 269.054 miles per hour
The conversion factor from kilometers per hour to miles per hour is 0.62137119223783, which means that 1 kilometer per hour is equal to 0.62137119223783 miles per hour:
1 km/h = 0.62137119223783 mph
To convert 433 kilometers per hour into miles per hour we have to multiply 433 by the conversion factor in order to get the velocity amount from kilometers per hour to miles per hour. We can also form a simple proportion to calculate the result:
1 km/h → 0.62137119223783 mph
433 km/h → V(mph)
V(mph) = 433 km/h × 0.62137119223783 mph
433 km/h → 269.05372623898 mph
We conclude that 433 kilometers per hour is equivalent to 269.05372623898 miles per hour:
433 kilometers per hour = 269.05372623898 miles per hour
We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 mile per hour is equal to 0.0037167297921448 × 433 kilometers per hour.
Another way is saying that 433 kilometers per hour is equal to 1 ÷ 0.0037167297921448 miles per hour.
For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that four hundred thirty-three kilometers per hour is approximately two hundred sixty-nine point zero five four miles per hour:
433 km/h ≅ 269.054 mph
An alternative is also that one mile per hour is approximately zero point zero zero four times four hundred thirty-three kilometers per hour.
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For quick reference purposes, below is the conversion table you can use to convert from kilometers per hour to miles per hour
434 kilometers per hour 269.675 miles per hour
The units involved in this conversion are kilometers per hour and miles per hour. This is how they are defined:
Kilometer per hour
The kilometre per hour (American English: kilometer per hour) is a unit of speed, expressing the number of kilometres travelled in one hour. The unit symbol is km/h. Worldwide, it is the most commonly used unit of speed on road signs and car speedometers. Although the metre was formally defined in 1799, the term "kilometres per hour" did not come into immediate use – the myriametre (10,000 metres) and myriametre per hour were preferred to kilometres and kilometres per hour.
Source: Wikipedia Topic: kilometer per hour
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The Lord went to the banquet of sinners that he might have an opportunity to teach and to offer spiritual food to his hosts. In effect, when he is mentioned as frequently going out to attend feasts, nothing is said other than what he did there and taught there. Thus, we see both the Lord’s humility in reaching out to sinners and the force of his teaching in converting penitents. What follows: “I desire mercy, and not sacrifice” and “I came not to call the righteous but sinners” (as he cites testimony from the prophet) challenged the scribes and Pharisees, who considered themselves righteous and shunned both publicans and sinners. . ... Read More
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See how He turned their reasoning to the opposite conclusion. That is, while they made it a charge against Him that He was in company with these men: He on the contrary says, that His not being with them would be unworthy of Him, and of His love of man; and that to amend such persons is not only blameless, but excellent, and necessary, and deserving of all sorts of praise. ... Read More
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Hallmark Channel sees below-average audience for homosexual Christmas movie
The Hallmark Channel released its first-ever LGBTQ themed Christmas movie to well below average ratings.
The entertainment industry is continuing its campaign to normalize men having sex with each other.
The Hallmark Channel, in fact, is now making it a treasured part of your Christmas holiday.
This season, gay actor Jonathan Bennett is starring in the Hallmark Channel’s first homosexual Christmas movie, The Christmas House.
Announced in September, the movie was to have premiered on Nov. 22 but appears to still need boosting from the media, like CBS This Morning.
In fact, The Christmas House has drawn 2.33 million viewers, well below average for Hallmark, while its release of A Timeless Christmas “drew a same-day audience of 3.4 million viewers, making it the most-watched cable entertainment broadcast of the night and the entire week.”
Hallmark and Lifetime are pushing out a combined 74 holiday movies this season. At least five feature non-heterosexual couples.
It’s a big step for Hallmark, which has built its mega-million-dollar empire on wholesome romance between males and females. Last year, after criticism from conservative groups, the network pulled a commercial that showed two “brides” kissing. The network apologized after backlash on social media, but seems ready to get back to redefining marriage for everyone.
Hallmark calls its effort to change marriage “diversity and inclusion.”
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Teacher’s decades-old find on a Northern Ireland beach turns out to be the island’s first-ever dinosaur discovery
People often come across coins, shells and trash, but a teacher in Northern Ireland made a discovery that will go down in history.
In the 1980s, the late Roger Byrne, a schoolteacher and fossil collector, found several unidentified fossils on the east coast of County Antrim. He held onto them for several years before donating them to the Ulster Museum in Belfast.
Mystery swirled around what the fossils could be until a team of researchers with the University of Portsmouth and Queen’s University Belfast confirmed they are fossilized dinosaur bones.
The 200-million-year-old fossils are the “first dinosaur remains reported from anywhere in Ireland,” according to the article by the research team, published this month in the Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association.
“This is a hugely significant discovery,” Mike Simms, a paleontologist at National Museums NI who led the team of researchers, said in a news release Tuesday. “The great rarity of such fossils here is because most of Ireland’s rocks are the wrong age for dinosaurs, either too old or too young, making it nearly impossible to confirm dinosaurs existed on these shores.”
The researchers wrote in their article that folklore attributes the apparent absence of dinosaur remains from Ireland to the activities of St. Patrick, who is credited with having driven the snakes out of Ireland. But the lack of fossilized dinosaur bones is simply due to geology, they said. The rocks around the country are either the wrong age or type.
“Finding an Irish dinosaur might seem a hopeless task but, nonetheless, several potential candidates have been identified and are described for the first time here,” the article says.
Researcher Robert Smyth and Professor David Martill of the University of Portsmouth analyzed the bone fragments with high-resolution 3D digital models of the fossils, produced by Dr. Patrick Collins of Queens University Belfast.
Originally researchers believed the bones were from the same animal but then determined they were from two different dinosaurs.
“Analyzing the shape and internal structure of the bones, we realized that they belonged to two very different animals,” said Smyth in the news release.
“One is very dense and robust, typical of an armored plant-eater. The other is slender, with thin bone walls and characteristics found only in fast-moving two-legged predatory dinosaurs called theropods.”
Both fossils were pieces of the animal’s leg bones, according to the researchers. One was part of a femur of a four-legged plant-eater called Scelidosaurus. The other was part of the tibia belonging to a two-legged meat-eater similar to Sarcosaurus.
The beach where the fossils were found is covered in rounded fragments of basalt and white limestone, according the journal article. It noted that fossils in that area are usually sparse and heavily abraded.
“The two dinosaur fossils that Roger Byrne found were perhaps swept out to sea, alive or dead, sinking to the Jurassic seabed where they were buried and fossilized,” said Simms.
This discovery helps shine light onto the life of dinosaurs that roamed millions of years ago.
“Scelidosaurus keeps on turning up in marine strata, and I am beginning to think that it may have been a coastal animal, perhaps even eating seaweed like marine iguanas do today,” said Martill.
The Ulster Museum, which is closed because of coronavirus restrictions, plans to display the bones when those restrictions are lifted, the news release said.
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"The Beast" is a young, extremely well muscled soon-to-be bodybuilder who makes a living posing and flexing for her fans on webcam. Larry is jealous of Beast spending all her time on webcam while they are supposed to be enjoying their vacation. Finally, Larry has enough, and says that Beast's body "isn't all that" and doesn't understand why people pay to see her on webcam. She challenges him to an armwrestling match, and then proceeds to kick his ass after he still will not ackowledge her superior power and strength. Larry made a HUGE mistake. We can honestly say, this girl's strength is BEASTLY and off the charts. Her strong quads are capable of 1000 lb leg presses. Imagine what that does to a belly or skull. She BRUTALIZES this poor dude with every scissorhold imaginable, including devastating reverse headscissors and ass wedges.... check out this super hot, sexy CRUSHIN' match today!
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Larry gives Beast grief about spending so much time on webcam, Beast shows him why she does (0:58)
Beast kills in arm wrestling, Larry makes excuses & says the rest of her isn't that strong! (1:14)
Beast loses her patience with Larry, and proceeds to headscissor, choke, and grapevine him out! (1:33)
A BRUTAL reverse headscissor, CRUSHING bodyscissor, and rear-naked choke/bodyscissor combo (1:44)
Beast brutally crushes Larry in a figure 4, then a neckscissor! (1:26)
Beast uses her massive biceps and forearms to crush Larry's larynx (0:35)
Beast's rock hard legs and ass execute one of the most painful ass wedges we've ever seen (1:13)
As she engages her glute muscles in this reverse headscissor, it causes him to tap, tap, tap! (0:54)
She schoolgirl pins him, then taunts and flexes over his head (0:48)
No give in those glutes! One of the tightest, most brutal headscissors ever filmed! (1:12)
Beast mauls Larry's guts in a crushing bodyscissor (1:11)
Beast locks in a TIGHT figure 4 over Larry's throat - OUCH! (1:17)
An absolutely torturous clip! Headscissors, then rear-naked choke! (1:53)
Larry's head has no chance against these powerful pillars of doom! (0:50)
Beast says "These legs press 1000 lbs... wanna see what that feels like?" (1:33)
Absolutely MURDEROUS headscissors off the side of the bed - she is brutal! (1:05)
Larry begs for mercy as Beast says "you WILL take more.... FEEL IT" (1:57)
OMG - her powerful legs and ass engulf his head as he moans in pain and begs her to stop (1:18)
Beast absolutely MASHES Larry's head with terrifying strength! (1:05)
Beast goes for an EVIL hands-to-the-throat choke! (0:47)
I'm so much stronger than you, you wimp! Look at this Beast chest of mine! (1:27)
Beast resumes Larry's torture and punishes him in an excruciating FULL POWER 1000 lb headscissor (0:41)
Beast crushes Lawrence in a debilitating frontal figure 4 (1:13)
Beast and her long legs have a DEVASTATING bodyscissor squeeze! (1:08)
A figure 4 head & neck scissor sure isn't what Larry needed at this point (0:49)
His head is literally about to pop, her legs are so strong! (1:37)
How much torture can this guy take? The Beast is KILLING HIM! (1:31)
Wow, those muscles are CRAZY impressive! And they put a hurtin' on poor Larry! (1:26)
She uses her ultra muscular ass to completely KO him unconscious to end the video! (1:18)
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Cryptotrader's Guide - Cryptocurrency, Quantum Computing
Quantum Computing: A Guide
Quantum Computing | Bitcoin’s Doomsday Maker
Government intervention, poor usability, high network fees – which one of these poses the most significant threat to Bitcoin? The answer may be none of them.
Although the Bitcoin network is incredibly secure under the current condition of computers, there’s an even greater threat looming overhead. Quantum computers have the potential to make Bitcoin’s security measures obsolete, effectively destroying the once dominant cryptocurrency.
What is Quantum Computing?
Simply put, a quantum computer is a supercomputer held at near absolute zero temperatures (-459.67°F). At this temperature, the subatomic particles in the computer’s processor act in ways that aren’t possible under normal conditions.
Contrary to popular belief, quantum computers aren’t necessarily faster than traditional ones. So, unfortunately, they won’t improve the speed of your Netflix stream.
But the quantum anomalies that occur at freezing temperatures do enable them to perform calculations that are theoretically impossible for ordinary computers to execute in an acceptable time frame. Some use-cases of these calculations include the simulation of molecules, protein folding, and logistics optimization.
But how exactly does a quantum computer accomplish this?
Superpositioning and Entanglement
Quantum computers have two properties that give them the ability to perform complex calculations at an efficient rate. The first is superpositioning.
Traditional computers store information as a series of 0’s and 1’s. Quantum computers, on the other hand, store their data using a set of qubits – superpositions of 0 and 1. The qubits effectively exist in two states at once.
When you connect these qubits in a system, the number of states grows exponentially. One qubit has two states, two have four states, four have eight, and so on. The number of states directly follows the equation:
# of states = 2n where “n” is the number of qubits.
The second property of quantum computers is entanglement. When two qubits are entangled with each other, measuring the value of one qubit will automatically tell you the value of the other qubit as well. Entangling all the superpositioned qubits of a quantum computer will give you every possible state involved.
How Does Quantum Computing Affect Bitcoin?
Quantum computers are exceptionally skilled at solving cryptographic calculations. To fully understand the threat that this poses to Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies), we should first rehash public keys, private keys, and how Bitcoin links the two together.
A Quick Bitcoin Refresher
Every Bitcoin wallet has a private key and a public key. Your public key is the wallet address to which you receive funds, and it’s created from your private key. Your private key is effectively the “password” you need to send funds.
To send funds, specifically bitcoin, you sign each transaction using an elliptic curve signature scheme. This scheme proves to others that you own the private key without having to broadcast what it is. The math behind this scheme also makes creating a public key from a private one easy while doing the reverse is nearly impossible.
That may change soon, though, with quantum computers.
Quantum Calculations
A common misconception: One quantum computer could provide enough hashing power to perform a 51% attack on the Bitcoin network.
The reality: ASIC miners are, and will be for at least ten years, much more efficient at mining than quantum computers. There’s little to no risk of a quantum computer sabotaging the Bitcoin network through a 51% attack. The real threat lies in a quantum computers ability to deride private keys from the network’s public keys.
The inefficiencies of today’s computers keep the private keys that elliptic curve signatures generate relatively safe. It wouldn’t be worth the time or resources to guess private keys through brute force.
A traditional computer would need to perform 2128 or 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 basic operations to derive a Bitcoin private key from a public address.
However, using Shor’s algorithm, a significantly large quantum computer needs just 1283 or 2,097,152 operations to figure out a private key. That’s multiple orders of magnitude less, making the task of figuring out key relationships a possibility.
How Screwed is Bitcoin?
The good news: Bitcoin should be fine. Quantum computers that are efficient enough to calculate Bitcoin’s key relationships are still many years out. And solutions aren’t as complicated as they may seem.
One-time Addresses
The simplest, but not so feasible, solution is to only use each Bitcoin address once. When following this practice, your public address is only visible between the time you initiate your transaction to when it enters a block. People rarely change their address with each transaction, though.
Signature Algorithm Change
The recommended solution is to change Bitcoin’s public key algorithm from elliptic curve signatures to an algorithm that’s quantum resistant.
Lamport signatures are a common suggestion for the replacement. These signatures are much larger than their elliptic curve counterparts, though (about 169 times larger). This size difference hinders scalability, even with the implementation of the Lightning Network.
Additionally, Lamport signature keys still have a limited amount of use before you’d need to create a new key pair. This number may even be as low as one use.
With any change to the public key algorithm, you would also need to soft fork Bitcoin and have all users transfer their funds to the new address type. Any funds left behind would be at risk for theft.
New Cryptocurrency
Some teams are building out their cryptocurrency with quantum resistance in mind.
IOTA, for example, uses one-time Winternitz signatures to create key pairs. This strategy renders addresses useless almost instantaneously after sending funds, leaving your address susceptible to quantum attack for a few seconds at most.
The Nexus team advertises their 3D-blockchain as the “first truly quantum-resistant blockchain.” It updates and obscures your keys after every transaction with a scheme the team calls “signature chains.”
Another project, Hcash applies BLISS signatures to prevent quantum computing.
The Future of Quantum Computing & Resistance
These projects aren’t alone in their fight against quantum computing, though. Even though you don’t hear much about quantum resistance in association with other projects, they’re still working on it. Ethereum, for one, has proposals that would enable different types of signature algorithms for each user.
With high-powered quantum computers still years away, most projects should have plenty of time to build up their defenses. So you can rest easy at night knowing that Bitcoin should be here to stay.
This article was originally published at https://coincentral.com/quantum-computing-bitcoin/ by STEVEN BUCHKO
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An ecohydrological approach to predicting hillslope-scale vegetation patterns in dryland ecosystems
Trenton E. Franz, Kelly K. Caylor, Elizabeth G. King, Jan M. Nordbotten, Michael Anthony Celia, Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe
Drylands are an important ecosystem, as they cover over 40% of the Earth's land surface and are believed to be sensitive to climate change. Where dryland vegetation supports pastoralist livestock production, catastrophic ecological shifts present a grave concern because of the direct coupling between the quality of available forage and human livelihoods. In this research we investigate the organization of vegetation on hillslopes by developing a relatively simple spatially explicit daily stochastic ecohydrological model. Using a 2 year observational study in central Kenya, we present an empirical patch water balance of three representative patch types, bare soil, grass, and tree. Given the recent expansion of bare areas, the system is dominated by Hortonian runoff and overland flow. By incorporating concepts of simple local interactions from complex systems we are able to simulate a range of surface flowpath convergence states across the hillslope during a rain event. The model also allows the root to canopy radius of the tree patches to vary affecting the length scale of water competition. By changing the length scales of facilitation and competition, the model demonstrates a range of most efficient hillslope water-use patterns from random to highly organized static vegetation patterns. The findings of this work support the mechanism of symmetry-breaking instabilities for pattern formation in drylands.
Water Resources Research
https://doi.org/10.1029/2011WR010524
10.1029/2011WR010524
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Franz, T. E., Caylor, K. K., King, E. G., Nordbotten, J. M., Celia, M. A., & Rodríguez-Iturbe, I. (2012). An ecohydrological approach to predicting hillslope-scale vegetation patterns in dryland ecosystems. Water Resources Research, 48(1), [W01515]. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011WR010524
Franz, Trenton E. ; Caylor, Kelly K. ; King, Elizabeth G. ; Nordbotten, Jan M. ; Celia, Michael Anthony ; Rodríguez-Iturbe, Ignacio. / An ecohydrological approach to predicting hillslope-scale vegetation patterns in dryland ecosystems. In: Water Resources Research. 2012 ; Vol. 48, No. 1.
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Musician David Sanborn Lists NYC Townhouse for $12 Million
HGTV Front Door // Jun 24, 2013
Musician David Sanborn is selling his Upper West Side townhouse for $12 million, and it comes with a bona fide soundproof room that passed a firecracker test. (More on that below.)
Sanborn, a Grammy-winning saxophonist who’s worked with everyone from David Bowie to Paul Simon, has lived in the house since 1989. He converted the building, originally a multi-unit residence, back to a single-family home and restored many of the original details you can see in the photos. The five-bedroom, four-bathroom townhouse has a clean, modern vibe but also retains an authentic classic charm — thanks to the coffered ceilings, beautiful wood carpentry, four wood-burning fireplaces and distinct hardwood inlaid floors throughout.
The home comes with a private garden and terrace off the master bedroom, but our favorite amenity is the recording studio on the top floor. The fully-equipped studio was soundproofed with Sheetrock, according to CORE agent Mickey Conlon, who shares the listing with Shaun Osher and Tom Postilio. “To confirm that there would be no disturbances to the neighboring houses, firecrackers were set off in the space to test its noise-insulating capabilities,” Conlon tells us. “Nobody heard a thing.” You could have some fun with a tried-and-true soundproof room. State-of-the-art home theater? Ultimate man cave? Sensory deprivation tank? The possibilities are endless.
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