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Presidential Pinstripes
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"For a White Sox fan like me, its painful to watch Mariano's cutter.... Although, I do remember 2005, so don't get too comfortable," said Obama, referring to the White Sox World Series title five years ago.
Oh hahahaha-fucking-ha. The President has jokes now. Seriously, dude, shut the hell up and stand there with the jersey and then get back to work. Just be thankful the Yankees were gracious enough to take time out of their busy schedule to show up at your place and bestow these priceless gifts upon you. Holding the World Series trophy today was probably the closest you've been to feeling like a winner since November '08 so enjoy the moment, show a little humility and respect, and thank the Yankees for coming by to honor you with their presence.
P.S.- Does John Sterling even have facial muscles? Look at the guy. He looks exactly the same in every photo I ever see of him. Creepy.
How's That Pitching And Defense Going?
(Yeah, I know it's old but that image pretty much sums up how Boston is playing right now)
It's good to know that even when the Yanks have a bit of a hiccup yesterday, we can always turn back to the good old Red Sox to put things in perspective. Here are some of the high(low)lights of Peter Abraham's article in the Globe today (courtesy of Boston.com).
The Red Sox finally admitted what everybody has known for several days, that Tim Wakefield is headed to the bullpen. Daisuke Matsuzaka will start in Baltimore Saturday.
And that's supposed to be an improvement?
Terry Francona tried to spin the move, saying the Red Sox weren't turning Wakefield into a reliever, they were just sending him to the bullpen until he makes his next start.
First off, if Francona is going to use that lame logic, he needs to cite his source. Cash and Joe already used the "starter coming out of the bullpen" gig for Joba at the end of Spring Training. Secondly, saying it that way is almost more insulting to Wakefield than just telling him he's getting demoted because he sucks. "Until his next start" is obviously code for "which hopefully isn't until somebody else in rotation gets hurt and we need him." If Wakefield was pitching well enough to make his next SCHEDULED start, he wouldn't have Dice-Gay taking his spot in the first place.
It's pretty grim when you allow 16 runs on 39 hits over three games to a team like the Orioles. They arrived in town hitting .225 with a .285 on-base percentage.
Wrong. Grim would be allowing 16 runs on 39 hits over 3 games against ANY opponent. Allowing that to the worst team in baseball who came in with team batting numbers like that is practically cause to sound the death knell.
The concern is that the Red Sox are not pitching well and have a roster full of mismatched pieces. There are two DHs...
Assuming his pathetic OPS still qualifies Big Sloppi to be called a DH.
...a catcher who can't throw...
2 catchers who can't throw, actually, if you count Varitek.
...and outfielders who hit at the bottom of the order more often than not...
But god-DAMN can they play some defense, huh? I mean 14 errors and a 20th-place ranking in team fielding percentage?? THAT'S impressive!
In Wakefield, David Ortiz, Mike Lowell, and Jason Varitek, Francona also has four older players on the downside of their careers who believe they should be playing every day and aren't. Having two such players on the roster would be a lot to handle. He has four.
Just for the sake of comparison, the Yankees' 4 "old" guys currently have a .316 BA w/ 3 HRs and 12 RBIs (Jeter), .315 BA w/ 4 HRs and 11 RBIs (Posada), a 3-0 record w/ a 1.29 ERA and 1.07 WHIP (Pettitte), and 6 saves in 6 chances without allowing a run (Mo). Oh, and the Yankees are ranked 2nd in MLB in team fielding percentage and have only committed 6 errors so far. No big deal.
is If a team is winning, nobody can complain. But if 8-11 turns into 16-22, disgruntled players will find a forum in the clubhouse and Francona will have fires to put out.
And this is what happens when you commit to pitching and defense instead of winning. But hey, at least Boston doesn't have a shortage of options to use, right?. I'll take Javy Vazquez shitting his pants every 4-5 days over having to sift through the scrap heap that is Boston's bench for answers any day of the fucking week. BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Joe Still Can't Make Up His Mind
Early reports from the team hotel this morning indicate Joe Girardi couldn't decide what he wanted for breakfast this morning. He first told the waitress he wanted bacon and eggs, but then thought about it and switched to sausage and eggs.
He walked over to her 10 minutes later and thought about changing back to bacon and eggs, but stopped before he could get there and decided to stick with the sausage. 10 minutes later, after he finally decided to take 3 creamers in his coffee instead of 2, Joe got his breakfast delivered to his table only to have Kendry Morales come over and smack the whole plate out the window before Joe could pick up his fork.
Thank God Morales won't be at The White House today to cut the line and be the first to shake hands with Barry O. Although I wouldn't be shocked to find out Joe invited Morales anyway since he spent the whole weekend trying to make Kendry as comfortable and successful as possible.
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The Wild World Of Eduardo Nunez
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Whether you love him or hate him, there's no denying that Eduardo Nunez is one of the most intriguing players on the Yankee roster. Personally, I wouldn't put myself into either of the extreme categories, but I would definitely say I lean more towards the "hate" side. I fully recognize the importance in keeping him on the roster as a viable utility infielder, and yet I can't help but cringe every time I see his name on the lineup card, hide my eyes every time a grounder is hit to him, and facepalm every time he swings way too hard at a pitch.
Through no intentional fault of his own, Eduardo has conditioned me to expect the worst when he's on the field, and yet somehow he always manages to contribute. As we live and breathe right now, Nunez is tied for 3rd on the team in fWAR despite having less than half the plate appearances of most of the regulars in the lineup. Let that sink in for a second. Eduardo Nunez has been more valuable so far in terms of WAR than Mark Teixeira. He's been more valuable than Curtis Granderson and Nick Swisher COMBINED.
I know full well it's a statistical byproduct of him working in a smaller sample size than everybody else in what is a still very young season, but I can't for the life of me logically figure out how Nunez does it. He doesn't work counts or draw a lot of walks and seems to swing at more bad pitches than good, and yet he's got 10 hits already in his 30 PA and only 1 strikeout. He bobbles more routine grounders in the field and throws more routine balls away than anybody I can remember, he's already got 2 errors on the season in limited time on the field, and yet he currently sports a positive defensive rating. He gets picked off 1st base late in a game because he clumsily tripped over his own feet, and yet he's a perfect 3-for-3 in SB attempts on the year.
Joe is so enamored with Nunez that he's willingly penciling Eduardo's name into the DH spot on lineup cards despite the fact that his ISO is lower than that of Brett Gardner and Chris Stewart. And Joe's practically falling all over himself to make excuses for "Nuney's" errors while discussing plans to use him more in the outfield. I watch the guy play and I can't help but think of bumbling fools like Mr. Bean or Frank Drebin from the "Naked Gun" movies who fall ass backwards into their success, and yet here he is being talked about and utilized like he's the greatest bench player in the history of baseball.
In fairness to Nunez, I will say that I consider him a better utility IF option than guys like Ramiro Pena, Doug Bernier, and Brandon Laird, but I still don't see him being the answer as the next everyday Yankee shortstop after Jeter retires. He's erratic, inconsistent, and downright unreliable at times. But he's generating positive results early on, and small sample size or not, you can't argue with the results. He's doing things to help his team win baseball games, and he's earning the right to be on the field. In the slightly altered words of the great Wes Mantooth, I pure, straight don't like you, Eduardo Nunez. But goddamn it, do I respect you.
Labels: Eduardo Nunez, Player Analysis, Random Musings, Stranger Than Fiction
Bumming On Pineda
There was a lot to be excited about after the Yankees traded for Michael Pineda in January. Sure, it cost them their best hitting prospect since Derek Jeter and a useful arm for the bullpen or rotation, but the return that Pineda represented was worth it. He was a big, power pitcher still years before his physical prime with a year of success at the Major League level already under his belt and many years of team control at minimal cost. Pineda was exactly what the Yankees were looking for to solidify their rotation for the present and the future, and the idea of him and CC anchoring the top of that rotation for the next handful of years was certainly worth salivating over. After the latest setback in his Extended ST rehab start on Saturday, however, it's starting to look more and more like 2012 is going to be a lost season for Pineda.
The dye contrast MRI that was scheduled for yesterday was pushed back to today, so we still don't know the extent of the damage to Pineda's right shoulder. But it's a safe bet that given the amount of time he rested before starting to work his way back from the initial injury and the results of his Ext. ST outing, we won't be seeing him back in May or any time soon. Naturally, the comparisons to Phil Hughes' 2011 season are going to be made, and it wouldn't be completely unfair to make them. Like Hughes last year, Pineda came into camp this year not in the best shape, experienced a decrease in fastball velocity that he never regained, and ended up on the DL with shoulder problems.
Labels: Injuries, Michael Pineda, Random Musings
Game 16 Wrap-Up: NYY 7 TEX 4
(Courtesy of The AP)
After yesterday's rainout, the Yankees headed to Texas to meet the AL's best team. They had reason to be confident coming into the game because of the way they finished Saturday's dramatic comeback win at Fenway and because they had their ace on the mound. In their first big test of the year to find out how good they are, the Yankees passed.
Game Notes:
- The Yankee offense is a code that Rangers' starter Derek Holland hasn't been able to crack in his previous 4 starts against New York, and that continued tonight. The Yankees jumped on him early in the 1st inning thanks to a 2-out, 2-RBI single by C-Grand (the type of hit that gets you to heaven) and never let up.
- The crushing blow was a 3-run HR off the bat of Alex Rodriguez in the top of the 5th inning to make it a 6-1 Yankee lead. He had seen a lot of pitches in his first 2 at-bats against Holland, both of them walks, and was looking fastball all the way on a 1-0 pitch. Holland's fastball command was his enemy all night and the Yankees were all over it, no more than on that A-Rod swing.
- Whereas Holland's fastball command eluded him, CC Sabathia's continued its emergence from winter hibernation. He allowed a cheap run in the 1st but was lights out through the 6th inning, the only blemish a HR by Josh Hamilton on a slider that stayed up in the 6th.
- The wheels looked like they were falling off in the 7th, when a walk and 2 straight doubles got the lead down to 7-4, but CC regrouped, got out of the inning, and then pitched a 1-2-3 8th on 3 groundball outs to get it to Mo. The big guy was efficient, aggressive, and got a lot of bad swings on his fastball and slider. The weather is starting to warm up and so is CC.
- Lot of contributors on offense tonight. Derek Jeter with 4 hits, Cano with 2 and 2 RBI, A-Rod with the 3-R HR, Curtis with 2 RBI, and THE Chris Stewart with a double and 2 runs scored.
Labels: Game Analysis, Game Recap
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Quiz online game
Unity - C#, PHP
Project Epic Quiz
Project Epic Quiz is a quiz online game, fun, accessible and competitive.
Playable directly via a joystick, keyboard, or via a smartphone as game controller, the players are candidates for a TV Quiz. The goal is to make the best score by correctly answering the question series by choosing from a multiple answer choice.
This is a personal project, currently under development, that I started during my free time when I was employed at Caléa Solutions as a developer for the Mood Messenger application.
So I created the game entirely, the code, the graphics, the sounds... Based on my experience of online development with the Eden Project game, the goal was to make a technologically similar game in client-server connection, but with a simpler, more fun, and more user-friendly gameplay.
Professional project
SMS/ MMS application
Mood Messenger
Mood Messenger is an SMS/ MMS Android application developed by Caléa Solutions from 2014 to 2018, the application has since been owned by another company.
Mood Messenger is an alternative SMS/ MMS application for Android. Simple and effective, the application is fully customizable. Themes, colors, bubble shapes, backgrounds, fonts, etc..
It also provides many practical services and fun features, like gifs, animated emojis, drawings, stickers, and more, or security options, like encryption, backups of messages, private conversations, etc..
4,6 / 5★
5 000 000+ installations
(Nov. 2018)
The application was developed from 2014 to 2018 by Caléa Solutions. I was hired into the team as a developer in 2015, right after my studies, until the end of 2018, when the company was unfortunately closed for economic reasons.
I was the 4th member to join the team, already composed of 2 programmers and 1 artists:
_ Louis Le Brun
_ Grégory Dassibat
_ France Mansiaux
The team has evolved and grown over the years to over 20 employees in 2018.
I worked on the application on many different and varied tasks. From simple bug fixes to full development of new features.
One of my jobs has been the development of animated themes, allowing users to customize the appearance of the application, from the themes creation tool, dedicated to our artists, to their on-screen display.
I also worked on many other features, such as creating and sending animated hand drawing and gifs bursts, encrypting conversations, purchase of the premium mode through the Google Play Store, gifs compression, server-side notification management, etc..
Mood Messenger video
Management/ Strategy online game
Eden Project is a management/ strategy game playable online.
The player is a new recruit who was assigned the commander function of a planet in another galaxy.
To complete his mission, which is to develop and extend his civilization in the universe, he will have to manage the economy, the military, trades, and relations with other civilizations and other players...
Eden Project Trailer
Winner of the gameplay prize and the community prize - Hits Playtime 2015 Game contest
Winner of the jury prize - Haute Ecole Albert Jacquard 2015
The game was developed during our final year at the Haute Ecole Albert Jacquard.
We were three on this project. I worked with Johan Lambot and Julien Hemmerlé.
I created the original concept and I programmed the game with Johan Lambot. More precisely I mainly worked on the online connection, the procedural generation of planets and the creation of shaders. I also participated in the development of the gameplay and navigation interface.
During the year, and thanks to the Hits Playtime game contest, we had the chance to present our project to the Geekopolis event and at the cultural center La Gaîté Lyrique and to receive many tips and opinions from players and professionals present at these events.
And finally we have won the gameplay and the community prizes on the Hits Playtime game contest, and the jury prize of end of study from our school.
A link to an article from our devblog detailing our procedural generation method.
Gamejam project
Multiplayer fighting game
Unity - C#
Fruight Club
Fruight Club is a fighting game in local multiplayer, 8 players controlling fruits are fighting against each other to dominate the arena cake!
The game was developed during a gamejam in April 2014 with:
_ Felix Millon
_ Guillaume Maix-Bertin
_ Johan Lambot
_ Marie Lorent
_ Julien Hemmerlé
Web, mobile
PiX.RuN
The player controls a square that can not stop his forward movement. He uses the space key or touch screen to jump and avoid the obstacles and the traps to do the best score.
The map consists of a series of 4 types of environments / patterns generated procedurally. At the end of each environment the player wins an additional "follower", corresponding to an extra jump or a score bonus, the scrolling is faster, and the game is harder.
The best score of each player can be shared on an online leaderboard at the end of the game.
This is a personal project developed during the summer of 2014. So I created the game entirely, the code, the graphics and the sounds.
The goal was to make the game as simple as possible, whether for the graphics or the gameplay, allowing me to focus on the game experience, and try new things, like the creation of an online leaderboard and procedural generation of a level.
Infection game
Fresh3D - C++, Lua
Sepsis is an infection game, developed with the Fresh Engine and running at 60fps / 1080p on PS3.
In a tomb, the player controls a disease that takes control over a human mutating him into a monster. The goal is to control and spread the infection by killing all humans through this monster, creating a monster army increasingly imposing.
The game was developed during the school year 2013 - 2014 at the Haute Ecole Albert Jacquard.
We were 7 on this project, 2 programmers and 5 artists:
_ Thibaud Gayraud
_ Sébastien Van Elverdinghe
_ Etienne Lechevallier
_ Thomas Meurisse
My main work was to create the collider and pathfinding system, from their creation in Maya to their interpretation in C++, and which supports the highest number of characters possible.
I also worked with Johan Lambot on the infection logic, the movement of the characters on the map, the AI characters, optimization, and some Fresh integration of artists assets, like the HUD, the main Menu or the sound.
Sepsis Gameplay video
Internship / Personal project
Puzzle/ Platform game
PSP & PS3 minis
City 7 is a Puzzle/ Platform game for the PSP.
The player controls a small character who must escape from City 7.
He will have to use his power to go back in time and make clones of himself to avoid traps and enemies, solve puzzles and go through the 32 levels and the 3 different environments from City 7.
City 7 Trailer
The game was originally a project of end of school year 2013.
I had the opportunity to finish it during my internship 2013 - 2014 at the Fresh 3D studio, with the help of professionals, to try to publish it on the PSP minis store.
So I finished the game, I made it marketable and ready for the first publication tests.
I created the project entirely with the advice of my internship supervisors and my teachers, the code, the modelings, the textures, the sounds, the musics, the level design, etc ...
Unfortunately, a few weeks after sending the game to Sony for the first publication tests, the production shutdown of the PSP and its online store have been announced.
So that was the end of this project, it will never be available for players.
However the game is fully finished and runs on PSP and PS3 as minis.
The development of a complete game for consoles like this was a very interesting and rewarding experience.
City 7 Soundtrack
Alexandre Meunier
Video game developer
Graduate from specialization year in video games
"88% success - Great distinction"
Haute Ecole Albert Jacquard
Development of the game Eden Project
"Winner of the gameplay,
the community and the jury prizes"
Bachelor in computer graphics
Video games programming section
Development of the game Sepsis
Internship at the Fresh 3D studio
Download my resume (.pdf)
Address: Lille, France
Willing to relocate internationally
Passionate about video games, computer graphics, cinema and music, I followed the video games cursus at the Haute Ecole Albert Jacquard for 3 years, in programming section.
I graduated with a bachelor in computer graphics in June 2014 and graduated from the year of specialization in video game development in June 2015, with respectively 81% and 88% success and a great distinction for both.
Our video game developed during the year 2014 - 2015, Eden Project, received the jury prize of our school and the gameplay prize and the community prize on the Hits Playtime game contest.
Since 2013, I regularly work with the Unity engine. I have acquired knowledge and skills like programming in C# and Javascript, shaders programming in CG / HLSL, assets integration and development of online features.
I was hired by Caléa Solutions as a developer for the Mood Messenger application from 2015 to 2018, where I learned about mobile development, Android application development and Java language.
If your company is looking for video game development talents, please send me a message through the form below or directly to my email address.
Programming languages: C#, C++, Java, PHP, Javascript, Lua, Mel
Shading language: CG/HLSL
Others: HTML, CSS, XML
Softwares: Unity, Visual Studio, Android Studio, Perforce, SVN, Maya, Blender, Photoshop
Languages:_French, mother tongue
_English, good listening and reading level, average speaking and writing level
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Rondam Ramblings
Preaching the gospel of evidence, experiment and reason since 2003.
Newt Gingrich wants to fix poverty by making poor kids scrub toilets
I gotta give Newt Gingrich credit for one thing. He's certainly not afraid to stand up for a controversial position:
"Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and nobody around them who works," Gingrich replied. "So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash,' unless it's illegal."
"I believe the kids could mop the floor and clean up the bathroom and get paid for it, and it would be OK," he said to applause.
Newt is actually right about this, but here's the thing: rich kids don't have habits of working either. I never worked when I was a kid. I've never been paid for mopping a floor or cleaning a bathroom. But I turned out OK. Why? Because I was fortunate enough to grow up where there were some really good public schools where I got a really good education. And then I went to a public college on a scholarship. And then I went to grad school on a fellowship grant from the Office of Naval Research. And then I went to work for NASA. Until I went to work for Google at age 37 every dollar that paid for my education and my salary came from the government.
So Newt, how about instead of making them scrub toilets we give the inner city kids the same high-quality publicly funded educational opportunities that I had as a white middle-class child of the 'burbs? I turned out OK. Maybe they will too.
Don Geddis said...
Your suggestion seems reasonable, based on simple fairness to kids. After all, being poor isn't their fault!
But I'm glad you acknowledge that Newt has a point too.
I think the problem with your suggestion (high-quality public schools in the inner city) is that it is not sufficient. That approach has been tried many times (lots of money and quality into inner-city schools), and failed.
The problem is, that the home culture (which Newt is alluding to) has enormous (negative) influence on the kids' outcomes. The most successful programs (for the hardest cases) seem to be ones like KIPP, where they basically take over your entire life, and essentially attempt to remove you from the influences of your family and friends.
I think this gets at the conservative vs. liberal responses to this problem. The stereotype of liberals is: "It's an issue of fairness! Just throw money at the problem!" But that approach simply doesn't work.
(To be equal opportunity: the conservative stereotype is: "We have no empathy for these losers, and thus don't care about them.")
> The problem is, that the home culture (which Newt is alluding to) has enormous (negative) influence on the kids' outcomes.
Yes, I absolutely agree with that, though I can hardly think of a more inartful way of putting it than Newt came up with. And when you put it like that, it becomes clear why simply throwing money at the problem doesn't help (and, BTW, why making those kids scrub toilets is probably not going to help either).
MaysonicWrites said...
Take a look at what Harlem Children's Zone is doing. Start with prenatal care and parental education, continue with intensive pre-school and kindergarten, then high-quality charter schooling.
At least as successful as KIPP [IMHO], and not as disruptive of the family.
Mayson.
In Japan, kids clean the school and help prepare and serve lunch -- even at fancy private schools. I don't know if this accounts for Tokyo being so clean and New York being so filthy, but it'd be an interesting experiment to try.
I would have no problem at all with making kids clean the toilets if they all had to do it. But singling out the poor kids to clean toilets on the premise that they are poor because they have poor work habits, and that making them clean toilets will help to fix that, seems to me like a Really Bad Idea.
I agree, there may be situations where it would become advantageous to the schools but when you go to a huge high school like mine, it would put a good amount of janitors out of work, putting more stress on things like the job market and unemployment benefits. A few schools doing this would be okay, but if Gingrich wants to change all U.S. schools to this policy then it would just be too much.
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#ScreenOpps #ScreenOppsJan20
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Manhattan Short Film Festival
During one week of the year over 100,000 film-lovers gather in over 400 Cinemas across 6 Continents to view and vote on the Finalists Films' in the 23rd Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival - MANHATTAN SHORT is more than just one of the largest short film festivals in the world....it's the World's First Global Film Festival.
When/Where: Sept 24 - October 4th, 2020
Deadline: July 31st, 2020
Application Fee: $35-$75
Eligibility: Films Must Be 20 Minutes and Under in Length. For pre screening selection purposes we ask for either
Online Screeners
DVDs or Blu Ray sent to our mailing address
If film is successful we ask for Apple Prores QT files at (23.98)
Categories: Shorts
Contact: info@manhattanshort.com
Coney Island Film Festival
Our festival by the sea has gained a reputation for fostering a relaxed atmosphere where filmmakers and industry veterans alike gather to enjoy a jam-packed weekend of great films, parties and amusement park rides. MovieMaker Magazine named us one of the and "25 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee" and "25 Coolest Film Festivals"!
Coney Island's independent spirit and irreverent attitude have helped the fest quickly thrive as something distinct from other NYC events. The opening night celebrations pay tribute to Coney Island's renown carnival history with live performances by sideshow freaks, sword swallowers, fire eaters and stars of the New York City burlesque scene!
When/Where:Sept 11-13, 2020
Deadline: March 6th (Regular deadline)
Eligibility:Entries must be submitted via FilmFreeway's online screener option. Foreign language work must be dubbed or subtitled in English. Entry fees are non-refundable. We have no film premiere requirements or date of completion requirements.)
Categories: Shorts, Features
Contact: info@coneyislandfilmfestival.com
Boston International Film Festival
The Boston International Film Festival was created to celebrate the art of filmmaking and to honor the filmmakers who make it all possible. This is a festival dedicated to rewarding artists for their individual talents and for their creative expression through the medium of film. The festival strives to bring together in Boston local, national and international filmmakers by promoting the world’s most artistic and creative independent and experimental films.
When/Where: April 16-21, 2019, Boston, MA
Deadline: January 10, 2019 (Extended for Feature)
Submission Fee: $45-$90
Eligibility: Feature Narrative and Documentary (45 minutes or longer) Short Narrative and Documentary (Less than 45 minutes)
All genres are welcome. The festival programming staff will place your film in the appropriate category.
Categories: New Work
Address: AMC Loews Boston Common 19
175 Tremont Street
Contact: info@bifilmfestival.com
The Women’s Film Festival
The Women's Film Festival is an annual festival during Women's History Month in March that showcases work made by and/or about women. The Women's Film Festival is the only event of its kind in Philadelphia that celebrates and elevates women in film and television.
When/Where: March 20-29, 2020, Philadelphia, PA
Deadline: October 5, 2019 (Regular), November 5, 2019 (Late), December 5, 2019 (Extended)
Eligibility: Please submit your work (documentary, short, feature, animation, or music video) featuring a strong female role in the category of director, writer, producer, editor, director of photography, or lead actress. Work cannot be screened in Philadelphia area prior to this film festival and must not be open to the public to view. No submission waivers.
Contact: mail@thewomensfilmfestival.org
The Bush Films
The Bush Films is a monthly intersectional film series based in New York dedicated to showcasing work about and for queer women, feminists, trans and non-binary people. We provide a platform for filmmakers and connect them with audiences that want to see themselves reflected and represented in cinema.
When/Where: Jaurary- March 5, 2020
Deadline: October 12, 2019 (Earlybird); December 31, 2019 (Extended)
Submission Fee: $3-$5
Eligibility: Short films no longer than 35 minutes.
This is a free/donation based event. We are a monthly film series, we are not a film festival. Every film that is not in English language needs to have English subtitles.
Contact: info@thebushfilms.com
The Valley Film Festival
Now in its 20th year, VFF supports local and international voices that advance storytelling, while furthering the education, production, and exhibition of film. In 2010, the City of Los Angeles recognized our cultural contributions with the city seal, and in 2018 the California State Senate stood with us #UnitedByFilm in our efforts to practice conscious programming to unite the international film community.
When/Where: September 5-13, 2020, North Hollywood, CA
Deadline: January 31 (Regular) April 5 (Last Chance)
Submission Fee: Yes, see submission
The Valley Film Festival (VFF) screens on DCP (Digital Cinema Package). Our venue, Laemmle NoHo7, uses Christie 4K projectors. Please do not submit to VFF20 if you cannot provide the Festival with a DCP.
While we consider all genres, if you’re unsure if your film fits our programming, please review our archives.
Studios and Sales Agents: Please do not submit to VFF20 if you require a fee for screening at VFF. As a non-profit arts organization, it is not in our budget.
Categories: Narritive Feature and Shorts, Documentary Feature and Shorts, Music Videos, Trailer, Web Series
Contact:info@valleyfilmfest.com
Big Apple Film Festival
Big Apple Film Festival (Winter Edition), takes place in the heart of the greatest city in the world. BAFF, named one of MovieMaker Magazine's top "25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee,” top "25 Coolest Film Festivals,”, CBS New York's "Best Film Festivals in New York...,” and FilmFreeway's "Top 100 Best Reviewed Festivals", is dedicated to showcasing, highlighting and promoting the highest quality films from the New York City independent film community, as well as additional specially selected films from across the country and around the world. Our goal is to celebrate the great city of New York through the exhibition of innovative and purposeful filmmaking.
The festival offers a variety of film screenings and special New York City film premieres, a film and screenwriting conference, and a screenplay competition with live script readings of screenplay competition winner scripts
When/Where: 2020
Submission Fee: Membership Fee $53
Big Apple Film Festival accepts submissions for feature films, short films, feature documentaries, short documentaries, animation, web series, music videos, student films, feature length screenplays, short screenplays, scripts for television/web series pilots and virtual reality.
All films submitted must have been completed on or after September 1, 2018
All films must be submitted with an online screener
All feature narrative and feature documentary submissions must be over 60 minutes in length.
All short film narrative and short documentary submissions must be under 60 minutes in length.
Animation, web series, and student film submissions of all lengths will be considered.
Music Videos must be under 10 minutes
360 Virtual Reality films of all genres and content will be considered. VR entries do not have any time restriction requirements. At the time of exhibition, selected VR projects must available for viewing with a VR headset. VR creators selected for the festival are responsible for exhibition setup, as well as providing all necessary equipment including, but not limited to: Computer, VR headset, headphones, VR Controllers (if required), charging station, required software, etc
Categories: Shorts, Features, Webseries, Music Videos, Animation
Contact: info@bigapplefilmfestival.com
Harlem International Film festival
oin scores of filmmakers and screenwriters from all over the world and have your work showcased in Harlem, Manhattan in the heart of New York City!
As always, we do not shy away from passionate or even controversial work. In fact we encourage it.
When/Where: May 14-17, 2020
Deadline: Jan 17 (Extended Deadline)
Eligibility: Works can be submitted regardless of when they were completed.
Screenplays may be submitted online.
Submissions do not have to be premieres to be selected for exhibition.
Shorts are considered Documentary works 44 minutes and under and Narrative Fiction pieces are 59 minutes and under.
Works in progress may be submitted, but only during the Late or Extended deadlines and only if the film will be completed for final review at least seven weeks before the Festival opening.
Films that have had a limited commercial theatrical run or other distribution are allowed to submit.
There is no limit on number of works submitted, but each entry must be separate, appropriately labeled and accompanied by the required fee.
Submit works online (preferable)
In rare cases the filmmaker may have to provide another format version to be exhibited if the film cannot be programmed into a slot where the original format can be projected.
Submitted screeners, screenplays and press materials will not be returned.
The Harlem International Film Festival is not responsible for lost or damaged materials.
Contact: info@harlemfilmfestival.org
Lower East Side Film Festival
The Lower East Side Film Festival aims to create a special experience for both filmmaker and audience through amazing events, neighborhood engagement, free industry panels, awesome screenings, and the best and brightest up and coming filmmaking talent
When/Where: June 11-15, 2020
Deadline: Feburary 1, 2020 (Extended Deadline)
Eligibility: See Submission Information for Details in Eligibility
Categories: Feature, Shorts, Music Videos,
Contact: info@lesfilmfestival.com
ONSCREEN
Himpathy- Feature Film
A personal assistant to a famous actor goes to extreme lengths to preserve his legacy after accusations of impropriety ruin his career.
Roles: Tabitha (Female;18-32;Lead)
Audition:Online Submissions
Shoot Dates/Location:Spring-Summer 2020
Union: SAG-AFTRA
Pay:Yes; Rate TBD
How It Starts- Short Film
After an attempted mugging, Jerry returns home to his girlfriend, Catherine who is on her way to work. The ensuing 20 minutes cements the end of their relationship, but catalyzes the rest of their lives.
Roles: Catherine (Female;22-28;Lead)
Shoot Dates/Location:Feb. 2020 in Brooklyn, NY
Memoir Of The Girls Who Cries Wolves- Short Film
While voice recording for a memoir, Cassy has to confront herself when the content becomes too personal.
Roles: Cassy (Female;30-55;Lead)
Shoot Dates/Location:Jan 2020 in NYC
For more OnScreen opportunities, visit Backstage.com; ActorsAccess.com; or Playbill.com.
RDM is seeking a full-time Video Editor to join our team in midtown Manhattan.
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On-Air Producer - Washington Journal
Produces – and delivers on-air – brief news and information inserts for C-SPAN’s Washington Journal program. Duties include identifying new and contextual information being reported about Washington policies, politics and its key players in social media and online news sources. Responsible for organizing how this information is presented during the program, Monday-Friday.
Minimum four years relevant work experience including television or radio public affairs reporting or production.
On-air, television or radio, experience preferred.
Strong social media skills and extensive knowledge of news and information sources.
Strong understanding of how Washington & Capitol Hill work and its key players.
Strong familiarity of C-SPAN mission and programming.
Excellent communication skills necessary.
Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Political Science or Radio/TV.
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Production Assistant, E! News & Pop Of The Morning
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Associate And Assistant Professors of Film
Created over fifty years ago, the Film Conservatory at Purchase College is an intensive BFA program requiring a high level of commitment from students. After a rigorous interview process, less than 1 in 6 applicants are selected, beginning a four-year program in which students work closely with professors in small workshops; an intense immersion in production, screenwriting, editing, cinematography, and cinema studies. Each spring semester ends with each student presenting their work before the faculty, at which time it is determined if they will advance to the next year. The conservatory prides itself in fostering uniquely creative voices and graduates have been recognized with Emmys, Oscars, and awards at major film festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, Cannes and Toronto.
Eligibility: Candidates should demonstrate a commitment to student learning, success, and liberal education, with a record of teaching excellence in higher education, an MFA or other terminal degree in a media-related discipline, and/or equivalent professional experience. Responsibilities include teaching 6 classes and service obligations, which includes the following: advising, admissions consultation, and end of year student reviews.
2020 Vision Maker Media Short Film Production Fellowship
Vision Maker Media (VMM) invites proposals for fiction and non-fiction shorts by and about American Indians and Alaska Natives for production funding award of $25,000. Selected Fellows will have access to tools, training, mentorship and communal support for becoming a successful filmmaker. Topics include tribal cultures and values, Indigenous histories and modern experiences, environmental and social justice, youth and elders and empowerment. The call is open to short documentaries, narratives, non-fiction, experimental and animation.
Deadline:March 1, 2020
Application Fee: N/A
Independent and Public Television producers, film and video makers. Applicants must hold artistic, budgetary and editorial control and own the copyright of the proposed Project.
Applicants must be 21 years of age and a U.S. citizen or legal resident of the United States or its territories.
Contact: visionmaker@unl.edu
Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant
The Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant funds first-time documentary directors for travel and accommodations to attend the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, April 2-5, 2020. For four days, grant recipients will be given access to films, discussions, and mentorship by experienced filmmakers. Recipients will also present short excerpts from their works-in-progress at the festival. Two filmmakers will be chosen for the grant in its fourteenth year.
Deadline: Monday, February 3, 2020. Applications must be RECEIVED before 11pm PST
Eligibility: Applicants must be American, first-time filmmakers, living in the United States, who are 18 or older. By “first-time filmmakers,” we mean directors who are in the early stage of their documentary careers and have not yet received significant recognition (such as major festival or broadcast play). All applicants should anticipate finishing their project by March 2021. Filmmakers still qualify as “first-time” if they’ve made shorts or student projects, worked professionally as a crewmember on other films, or recently completed a documentary that has not yet been released. The grant is open to students and non-students alike.
Contact: submissions@fullframefest.org
The Film Independent Camera Grant
The Film Independent Camera Grant is a program for Film Independent Fellows and alumni. Film Independent will select a qualified filmmaker, on a rolling basis, who will be loaned a digital camera body (based on availability) to use for their narrative or documentary short, feature film production or web series. The grant includes an ARRI Alexa SXT Plus camera body OR a Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 4.6K.
Deadline:Rolling
Applicants must be the director, producer or cinematographer of a narrative or documentary short, feature film production or web series.
Applicants must be either: A) alumni of Film Independent’s Artist Development programs; B) alumni of the LA Film Festival; C) a past Film Independent Spirit Award Nominee; or D) solicited by Film Independent. Grant recipients must show proof of production insurance.
Camera body will be awarded for prep and principle photography. Dates must be provided in the application.
Project must be at least 75% financed when applying.
If the applicant is not the cinematographer, a cinematographer must be attached.
If awarded, grant winner(s) must be, or become, Film Independent Members.
Contact:info@cinereach.org
Sloan Distribution Grant
The Sloan Distribution Grant is a $50,000 grant awarded by Film Independent to a film that is entering its distribution phase. Eligible films must depict themes, stories and characters grounded in real science, technology or economics.
Deadline: Rollling
Applicants must be the producer of a narrative fiction feature film.
The film should prominently feature science, mathematics and/or technology in the story and/or have a leading character that is a scientist, engineer or mathematician.
Films with innovative marketing and distribution plans are encouraged to apply.
All submitted films must be at least 70 minutes in length.
Applicants must be legal residents of the United States.
Film must be entering its distribution phase.
Contact: jkushner@filmindependent.org
Panavision New Filmmaker Program
Panavision believes in helping students and beginning filmmakers achieve their dreams. More than 25 years ago, Panavision launched the New Filmmaker Program, an ongoing grant program that loans camera packages to film schools, training programs, and independent filmmakers – at little or no charge. Panavision’s commitment to the industry's future provides student and beginning filmmakers the opportunity to work with professional grade equipment early in their careers.
Application Fee: Free
Submit your proposals at least two months before you plan to shoot. Due to the high demand for Panavision cameras and equipment, it is essential that you plan ahead and contact us early.
Proposal materials will not be returned.
The New Filmmaker Program does not discriminate as to the nature of the project that can receive equipment grants. Any form, from experimental to documentary to musical to traditional narrative, is welcome.
Camera grants are available only for productions in the United States. Customs laws make transportation of cameras out of the US prohibitive. No exceptions.
The New Filmmaker Program will not allow cameras to be used on projects that perpetuate racial or sexual stereotypes and prejudices. Pornography is absolutely unacceptable.
Grant recipients must obtain insurance must from an outside insurance agent. Students can generally have the school issue the necessary policies. Plan ahead! This can take several weeks to implement. The process varies from school to school, so check with your film department. Productions that are not attached to a school must obtain the necessary insurance from an independent broker. Panavision must receive proof of insurance two weeks prior to prep dates. EQUIPMENT WILL NOT LEAVE THE BUILDING WITHOUT PROPER INSURANCE. NO EXCEPTIONS!
Approved proposals are subject to a service fee for equipment.
Anamorphic lenses are not available via the New Filmmaker Program
All gear is requests are subject to availability
Contact: nfp@panavision.com
Cinereach develops, produces, finances, and supports feature-length fiction, nonfiction and hybrid films crafted for the big screen. We look for projects (at any stage) that create deep and lasting impressions through story, character, or cinematic approach. We seek to work with both unknown and established filmmakers who may face creative, financial or systemic obstacles to realizing ambitious visions. Our films range widely in content and style. Please visit our Films page to review our recent work.
Eligibility: Projects eligible for consideration must be feature-length (over 60 minutes), and intended for theatrical exhibition.We do not currently consider short films (under 60 minutes), serialized or episodic work, web series, virtual or augmented reality, or other immersive/interactive work.
Contact: info@cinereach.org
Catapult Film Fund
Catapult Film Fund provides development funding to documentary filmmakers who have a compelling story to tell, have secured access to their story, and are ready to shoot and edit a piece for production fundraising purposes. Our mission is to enable filmmakers to develop their films to the next level at a moment where funding is hard to find.
Applicants must be 18 years of age or older. Catapult does not fund student films.
Documentaries must be 28 minutes or longer in length. We do not fund series.
Animation is okay. Documentary/narrative hybrids will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Development funds must specifically be used for the process of completing a fundraising piece, which may include writing, shooting and editing once story and characters are in place.
Applicants must own the copyright of their production, and have artistic, budgetary and editorial control over their project.
Applicants should preferably have previous film or television production experience in a principal role (director, co-director, producer, co-producer) as demonstrated by submitting previously completed work sample. -Applicants who have not yet produced or directed their own feature length documentary should demonstrate that they will be working with an experienced filmmaker in a principal role.
Catapult only makes grants to 501(c)(3) organizations. In most cases, this will mean getting a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor for the project. A film production company or individual, including applicants from outside the US, may submit an application without a fiscal sponsor in place. Please see the FAQ section for more details.
Contact: info@catapultfilmfund.org
The Fiore Center
The Joseph A. Fiore Art Center at Rolling Acres Farm is a program of Maine Farmland Trust (MFT) that actively connects the creative worlds of farming, conservation and the arts.
The purpose of the Fiore Art Center is to stimulate and advance the dialogue between human and environment within the context of agriculture and today’s culture at large. We hope to instill passion for preservation through the arts, create awareness and build community.
We do this through exhibitions and public educational events, through research and application of ecologically sustainable farming practices and by hosting residencies for artists on a historic farm.
Application Fee: $15 if not from Maine
Eligibility: All residency positions are open to emerging, mid-career and established artists/writers.
Maine Farmland Trust, attn. Anna Witholt Abaldo
Belfast, Maine 04915
18th Street Arts Center
18th Street Arts Center values art making as an essential component of a vibrant, just, and healthy society. Its mission is “to provoke public dialogue through contemporary art making.” Founded in 1988, 18th Street Arts Center has fostered and supported the work of many of Los Angeles’ most engaging artists, and has built bridges to artist communities around the globe.
Application Fee: Yes
Eligibility: The Visiting Artist Residency Program accepts applications from working, professional artists who demonstrate a deep commitment to their practices. The program is open to artists of all generations, nationalities, and disciplines. Applicants are required to cover studio rental costs themselves. Although we primarily support visual artists, 18th Street Arts Center will consider applications from performing artists, writers, and filmmakers as well.
Address: 1639 18th Street
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The Bloody Crossroads
... where politics & culture meet
Two books on memory
in Literature, Science, Society / by Richard K / on July 7, 2020 at 2:33 am /
This review was published in The Weekend Australian in October 2019.
The featured picture is of Kate Eichhorn (by Max Middle, Flickr)
Kate Eichhorn
The End of Forgetting: Growing up with Social Media
Harvard University Press; $49.99; 173pp
Lynne Kelly
Memory Craft: Improve Your Memory Using the Most Powerful Methods from around the World
Allen and Unwin; $32.99; 306pp
If this year’s federal election proved one thing, other than the fact that polling firms are hilariously overpaid, it’s that social media is now an invaluable resource for journalists seeking a juicy story or political operatives looking to embarrass their opponents. Time and again in the course of the campaign candidates were confronted with old Facebook posts expressing homophobia, anti-Muslim prejudice, conspiracy theories and misogyny. Some pleaded youthful stupidity; others maintained that their accounts had been hacked and the offending comments made under their names. Neither explanation passed the smell-test. Even where disendorsement didn’t follow, most candidates felt compelled to step aside, not wanting the controversy to become ‘a distraction’.
Given the brutal nature of politics, and the nature of the comments made, I doubt there’ll be much sympathy for those caught with their moral pants down: even potential politicians need to take responsibility for ugly things they’ve said in the past. But as Kate Eichhorn shows in The End of Forgetting, the emergence of a ‘data subject’ whose past is accessible to everyone has consequences for, well, everyone. Every time we post on social media, we leave traces that are almost impossible to erase, and this is having a profound effect, not only on our future prospects, but also on our subjectivities. For Eichhorn it represents a momentous shift in the way human beings are socialised.
Set out in clear and unassuming prose, Eichhorn’s thesis is that social media platforms turn their users into hostages to fortune and saboteurs of their own development. Contra the usual moral panics that accompany new forms of media, she argues that the danger of the internet is not that it destroys childhood ‘innocence’ by throwing open the developing brain to the seedy and chaotic world of adults, but that it makes our childhoods ‘perpetually present’. As she puts it: ‘The real crisis of the digital age is not the disappearance of childhood, but the spectre of a childhood that can never be forgotten.’
The relationship between human development and technology is a central concern in media studies, with some arguing that the spread of print culture served over time to create a division between literate adulthood and pre-literate childhood. But while media theorists such as Neil Postman have stressed the ways in which new technologies have eroded the adult-child distinction, Eichhorn suggests that such technologies increase and deepen childhood autonomy. In this sense the forerunners of social media are the Polaroid camera and the video camcorder: devices that enlarge the scope for people to create and record their own life-worlds – to represent themselves to themselves in relatively independent fashion.
In one sense this is liberating; but for Eichhorn it is also potentially damaging. Drawing on Freud, she argues that forgetting plays an important role in identity-creation, and indeed in the formation of memories themselves. Freud wrote that childhood reminiscences have more in common with ‘the legends and myths of nations’ than with the memories of one’s later years, the brain having discarded or ‘edited’ much that would be harmful to one’s sense of self. Since this is one of the ways we come to assert control over a time in our lives when we had little agency, the undermining of this capacity is no small matter. It some circumstances if could be catastrophic. What happens, for example, to a young refugee whose experiences of dislocation and danger remain ever present in the form of photographs, videos and other media?
What privacy activists increasingly refer to as the ‘right to be forgotten’ is pertinent here. Since adolescence is conventionally regarded as a partial moratorium on consequences – a period when mistakes are made and, ideally, learned from – social media could have a calamitous effect on the prospects and emotional health of its users. The story of the so-called Star Wars Kid, whose light-sabre antics became a YouTube phenomenon, is, for Eichhorn, paradigmatic – a harrowing precursor to the running sewer of cyberbullying, trolling and ‘revenge porn’ now stinking up the social media space. Anyone using social media regularly could experience a similar fate. We’re all Star Wars Kid now.
Eichhorn writes of the ‘end of forgetting’; but there is one sense in which modern information technology is conducive to forgetfulness. Put crudely, the internet appears to have removed the necessity of remembering stuff, the World Wide Web having been charged with the task of remembering stuff on our behalf. Time was when many commentators welcomed this apparent outsourcing of function, believing that it would free up valuable brain space that could be put to more illustrious uses. The evidence, however, is all to the contrary: an overreliance on digital technologies is not just bad for the memory but for cognitive function more generally.
Anyone wanting to improve that function is advised to read Lynne Kelly’s Memory Craft, a fascinating and amiable romp through the history of memorisation methods, from Aboriginal songlines to ‘visual alphabets’ to bestiaries and ‘memory palaces’. Replete with beautiful illustrations and tips on how to utilise the various methods outlined in its pages, the book is clearly a labour of love – as much the record of an enthusiasm as a work of scholarly exposition. (Certainly Kelly knows her stuff. In 2018 she took part in the International Association of Memory’s Australian Memory Championships and was crowned Australia’s senior champion.)
If there is a single principle connecting the methods illuminated in Memory Craft it’s that the retention of large amounts of knowledge depends on what Kelly calls ‘modality shifts’ – i.e. the moving of information from one cognitive jurisdiction to another. Thus a series of events becomes a song, a history a movement through imagined space, a taxonomy a set of stories, and so on. Regular repetition, vivid imagery and emotion are key facets of such techniques, and Kelly takes her own adventures in ‘mnemonic gymnastics’ as illustrative. I particularly liked her explanation of how to build a memory palace – an imagined space such as a house or garden into which information has been ‘encoded’ in the form of figures, situations etc. She even inspired me to build my own: a shopping mall populated by all the known species of Homo.
Forgetful and yet unable to be forgotten – the future of the only Homo left seems more than ever fraught with uncertainty. What on earth are we doing to ourselves? And what might we be capable of if we decided to stop doing it? In their different ways, these two excellent books afford new approaches to these urgent questions.
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The Woman Who’s Rescued Thousands of Guinea Pigs
By Hannah Stevens @Hannahshewans
A WOMAN has dedicated her life to caring for hundreds of adorable guinea pigs
Videographer / director: Bart Vandever
Editor: Sonia Estal
Saskia Chiesa, 49, set up Los Angeles Guinea Pig Rescue 20 years ago in Chatsworth, California.
After discovering that there was no place for rescued guinea pigs to go in LA, Saskia knew she had to set up her own to save her spirit animal.
The guinea pig lover expected to start slowly but she found herself with 20 guinea pigs with health problems within the first month.
Saskia told Barcroft TV: “I decided to rescue guinea bigs because it’s my spiritual animal! The memory of my first guinea pig, I picked it up and I was just so taken.
“I was just totally mesmerised, it was just this beautiful creature. Ever since then, y’know, my whole life’s gone to the pigs!”
Los Angeles Guinea Pig Rescue is now home to up to 350 guinea pigs at a time and they are always taking in more rescues and surrendered pigs.
She said: “Life here at the sanctuary is hectic, it is very hectic. There’s never a moment where there’s nothing to do, it’s an ongoing thing!
“You know, I decided to rescue guinea pigs because I started looking for the guinea pig rescue because it’s my spirit animal, and there wasn’t any.
“I was expecting one or two to start with but there were 20 of them! They all had skin diseases so I was thrown in the deep right away.”
Volunteer Melissa Brown calls the sanctuary her ‘pig paradise’ and says the pigs have changed her life.
She said: “I just love this place. I call this pig paradise, this is my home away from home.
“I love when kids come in and families come in here, and they’re just so excited and overwhelmed because there’s a lot of guinea pigs in here!
“They’re life changing - I have suffered with anxiety, depression, just a lot of emotional problems growing up, and I feel now that the therapy that they give me, I definitely could have benefited in my earlier years and I wish I could’ve known that.”
The sanctuary also provides health checks for the guinea pigs, including manicures and a dash of hair styling.
Chiesa said: “We do health checks, where we just do a little scan, a nail clip and, of course, we do adult match making services.
“So, if we have a guinea pig that’s lonely then you can bring the guinea pig and we’ll just have a few playdates.
“Same sex of course because we don’t breed here!”
The sanctuary puts all the guinea pigs up for adoption and Saskia is passionate about educating people on how to give guinea pigs the best care possible.
She said: “The pigs require a lot of space, so the small guinea pigs cages that the pet stores sell, that they say is the perfect set up or a starter kit for the guinea pigs, they’re not.
“It’s cruel, actually, to have them in the smaller cages because they do want to walk around.”
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Author: Deborah Cadbury
Publisher: Hachette UK
Category : Business & Economics
Book Description: With a cast of characters that wouldn't be out of place in a Victorian novel, Chocolate Wars tells the story of the great chocolatier dynasties, through the prism of the Cadburys. Chocolate was consumed unrefined and unprocessed as a rather bitter, fatty drink for the wealthy elite until the late 19th century, when the Swiss discovered a way to blend it with milk and unleashed a product that would conquer every market in the world. Thereafter, one of the great global business rivalries unfolded as each chocolate maker attempted to dominate its domestic market and innovate new recipes for chocolate that would set it apart from its rivals. The contest was full of dramatic contradictions: The Cadburys were austere Quakers who found themselves making millions from an indulgent product; Kitty Hershey could hardly have been more flamboyant yet her husband was moved by the Cadburys tradition of philanthropy. Each was a product of their unique time and place yet they shared one thing: they want to make the best chocolate in the world.
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Book Description: Ignite II is a series of books written specifically for struggling readers. A world without chocolate? What! Sweet toothed Chaz is devastated when he discovers cocoa plants are dying out worldwide. Chocolate stock is falling rapidly and people want their sugar highs! Luckily for Chaz, his friend has a stash of chocolate, which he mistakenly tells the whole school about! When the chocolate stash goes missing and the crowds are swarming for sweet treats, will Chaz and his friend be able to escape the chocoholics? Or will they face a sticky end?
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S. Amdt. 2370 - To Encourage the Purchase of Pulse Crop Products for School Meals Programs.
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This is an amendment to S. 3240 - Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012
Senate Vote: On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2370 to S. 3240 (Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012)
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H.R. 1275 (112th) : Maple Tapping Access Program Act
H.R. 2492 (112th) : Animal Fighting Spectator Prohibition Act of 2011
H.R. 4948 (112th) : Livestock Disaster Protection Act
H.R. 5879 (112th) : Protect Our Prairies Act
H.R. 5962 (112th) : Organic Standards Protection Act
H.R. 6233 (112th) : Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2012
S. 691 (112th) : Maple Tapping Access Program Act
S. 1053 (112th) : Veterinary Services Investment Act
S. 1905 (112th) : Specialty Crop Insurance Act of 2011
S. 1947 (112th) : Animal Fighting Spectator Prohibition Act of 2011
S. 2155 (112th) : A Bill to Amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to Promote Biobased Manufacturing.
S. 2216 (112th) : Rural Energy Savings Program Act
S. 2274 (112th) : A Bill to Require the Secretary of Agriculture to Establish a Nonprofit Corporation to Be Known As the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research.
S. 3541 (112th) : A Bill to Amend Section 520 of the Housing Act of 1949 to Revise the Census Data and Population Requirements for Areas to Be Considered As Rural Areas for Purposes of Such Act.
Major Actions
Introduced 5/24/2012
Amendments (304 proposed)
Passed Senate 6/21/2012
All Votes
Chamber/Committee
select this vote Senate On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed S. 3240 6/07/2012 This motion PASSED the Senate
90 voted YES 8 voted NO 2 voted present/not voting
select this vote Senate On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 2393 to S.Amdt. 2392 to S.Amdt. 2391 to S. 3240 6/13/2012 This amendment PASSED the Senate
50 voted YES 46 voted NO 4 voted present/not voting
select this vote Senate On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 2392 to S.Amdt. 2391 to S. 3240 (Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012) 6/13/2012 This amendment PASSED the Senate
select this vote Senate Amendment SA 2187 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. 6/19/2012 PASSED by voice vote
select this vote Senate Amendment SA 2389 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent. 6/19/2012 PASSED by voice vote
select this vote Senate On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2192 to S. 3240 (Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012) 6/19/2012 This amendment DID NOT PASS the Senate
select this vote Senate On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2190 to S. 3240 (Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012) 6/19/2012 This amendment PASSED the Senate
currently selected Senate On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2370 to S. 3240 (Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012) 6/19/2012 This amendment PASSED the Senate
select this vote Senate Amendment SA 2363 as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent. 6/20/2012 PASSED by voice vote
select this vote Senate Amendment SA 2432 not agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. 6/20/2012 DID NOT PASS by voice vote
select this vote Senate Amendment SA 2442 agreed to in Senate by Division Vote. 6/20/2012 PASSED by voice vote
select this vote Senate Amendment SA 2457 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. 6/20/2012 PASSED by voice vote
select this vote Senate On the Motion to Recommit S. 3240 6/20/2012 This motion DID NOT PASS the Senate
select this vote Senate On the Motion (Johnson (WI) Motion to Recommit with Instructions) 6/20/2012 This motion DID NOT PASS the Senate
select this vote Senate S. 3240 (112th): Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012 6/21/2012 This bill PASSED the Senate
5/24/2012 Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Stabenow. Without written report.
Put on a legislative calendar 5/24/2012 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 415.
Put on a legislative calendar 5/24/2012 Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Ordered to be reported favorably.
6/05/2012 Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate.
6/05/2012 Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate.
select this vote Vote 6/07/2012 On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed S. 3240
6/12/2012 Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate.
6/12/2012 Motion to proceed to consideration of measure agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
6/12/2012 Measure laid before Senate by motion.
6/12/2012 Motion by Senator Reid to recommit to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry with instructions to report back forthwith with amendment SA 2391 made in Senate.
6/12/2012 Amendment SA 2389 proposed by Senator Reid for Senator Stabenow.
6/12/2012 Amendment SA 2390 proposed by Senator Reid to Amendment SA 2389.
6/12/2012 Amendment SA 2391 (the instructions of the motion to recommit) proposed by Senator Reid.
6/12/2012 Amendment SA 2392 proposed by Senator Reid to Amendment SA 2391 (the instructions of the motion to recommit).
6/13/2012 Considered by Senate.
select this vote Vote 6/13/2012 On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 2393 to S.Amdt. 2392 to S.Amdt. 2391 to S. 3240
select this vote Vote 6/13/2012 On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 2392 to S.Amdt. 2391 to S. 3240 (Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012)
6/19/2012 Motion by Senator Reid to recommit to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry with instructions to report back forthwith with amendment SA 2391 withdrawn in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
6/19/2012 Amendment SA 2156 proposed by Senator Gillibrand.
6/19/2012 Amendment SA 2167 proposed by Senator Grassley.
6/19/2012 Amendment SA 2172 proposed by Senator Sessions.
6/19/2012 Amendment SA 2181 proposed by Senator Paul.
6/19/2012 Amendment SA 2187 proposed by Senator Kerry.
select this vote Vote 6/19/2012 Amendment SA 2187 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
6/19/2012 Amendment SA 2190 proposed by Senator Snowe.
6/19/2012 Amendment SA 2191 proposed by Senator Alexander.
6/19/2012 Amendment SA 2192 proposed by Senator Ayotte.
6/19/2012 Amendment SA 2199 proposed by Senator Kerry for Senator McCain.
6/19/2012 Amendment SA 2217 proposed by Senator Toomey.
6/19/2012 Amendment SA 2238 proposed by Senator Casey.
6/19/2012 Amendment SA 2243 proposed by Senator Nelson NE.
6/19/2012 Amendment SA 2262 proposed by Senator DeMint.
6/19/2012 Amendment SA 2309 proposed by Senator Feinstein.
6/19/2012 Amendment SA 2321 proposed by Senator Landrieu.
6/19/2012 Amendment SA 2366 proposed by Senator Hagan.
6/19/2012 Amendment SA 2370 proposed by Senator Cantwell.
select this vote Vote 6/19/2012 Amendment SA 2389 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
6/19/2012 Proposed amendment SA 2390 by consent withdrawn in Senate.
6/19/2012 SA 2391 fell when the motion to recommit was withdrawn.
6/19/2012 Amendment SA 2396 proposed by Senator Akaka.
6/19/2012 SA 2406 fell when SA 2391 withdrawn.
6/19/2012 SA 2407 fell when SA 2406 fell.
6/19/2012 Amendment SA 2426 proposed by Senator Coons.
6/19/2012 Amendment SA 2429 proposed by Senator Tester for Senator Baucus.
6/19/2012 Amendment SA 2445 proposed by Senator Brown OH.
select this vote Vote 6/19/2012 On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2192 to S. 3240 (Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012)
currently selected Vote 6/19/2012 On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2370 to S. 3240 (Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012)
6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2195 proposed by Senator Stabenow for Senator Ayotte.
6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2202 proposed by Senator Stabenow for Senator Bennet.
6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2204 proposed by Senator Leahy.
6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2246 proposed by Senator Stabenow for Senator Blunt.
6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2254 proposed by Senator Sanders.
6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2287 proposed by Senator Carper.
6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2289 proposed by Senator Coburn.
6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2295 proposed by Senator Udall CO.
6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2299 proposed by Senator Klobuchar.
6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2313 proposed by Senator Lee.
6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2340 proposed by Senator Chambliss.
6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2345 proposed by Senator Manchin.
6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2354 proposed by Senator Kyl.
6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2355 proposed by Senator Boozman.
6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2363 proposed by Senator Stabenow for Senator Vitter.
select this vote Vote 6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2363 as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
6/20/2012 Senate vitiated previous adoption of amendment SA 2363.
6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2382 proposed by Senator Merkley.
6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2388 proposed by Senator Wyden.
6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2403 proposed by Senator Stabenow for Senator Moran.
6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2427 proposed by Senator Stabenow for Senator Schumer.
select this vote Vote 6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2432 not agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2437 proposed by Senator Thune.
6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2439 proposed by Senator Coburn for Senator Durbin.
select this vote Vote 6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2442 agreed to in Senate by Division Vote.
6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2453 proposed by Senator Stabenow.
6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2457 proposed by Senator Warner.
select this vote Vote 6/20/2012 Amendment SA 2457 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
select this vote Vote 6/20/2012 On the Motion to Recommit S. 3240
select this vote Vote 6/20/2012 On the Motion (Johnson (WI) Motion to Recommit with Instructions)
6/21/2012 Amendment SA 2166 proposed by Senator Rubio.
6/21/2012 Amendment SA 2372 proposed by Senator Johanns.
6/21/2012 Amendment SA 2455 proposed by Senator Murray.
6/21/2012 Amendment SA 2456 proposed by Senator Boxer.
select this vote Senate Vote on Passage 6/21/2012 S. 3240 (112th): Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012
6/25/2012 Message on Senate action sent to the House.
6/26/2012 Received in the House.
6/26/2012 Held at the desk.
7/10/2012 Senate ordered measure printed as passed.
8/28/2012 By Senator Stabenow from Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry filed written report under authority of the order of the Senate of 08/02/2012. Report No. 112-203. Additional views filed.
Date Offered
select this vote S. Amdt. 2156 Gillibrand, Kirsten [D-NY] June 6, 2012 Failed by roll call vote on June 18, 2012.
To strike a reduction in the supplemental nutrition assistance program and increase funding for the fresh fruit and vegetable program, with an offset that limits crop insurance reimbursements to providers.
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S. Amdt. 2157 Schumer, Charles [D-NY] June 6, 2012 Offered on June 5, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2159 Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] June 6, 2012 Offered on June 5, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2161 Gillibrand, Kirsten [D-NY] June 6, 2012 Offered on June 5, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2162 McCain, John [R-AZ] June 6, 2012 Offered on June 5, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2164 Leahy, Patrick [D-VT] June 6, 2012 Offered on June 5, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2165 Barrasso, John [R-WY] June 6, 2012 Offered on June 5, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2166 Rubio, Marco [R-FL] June 6, 2012 Failed by roll call vote on June 20, 2012.
To amend the National Labor Relations Act to permit employers to pay higher wages to their employees.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2167 Grassley, Charles [R-IA] June 6, 2012 Passed by roll call vote on June 18, 2012.
To provide payment limitations for marketing loan gains and loan deficiency payments.
S. Amdt. 2168 Grassley, Charles [R-IA] June 6, 2012 Offered on June 5, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2171 Sessions, Jefferson [R-AL] June 6, 2012 Offered on June 5, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2172 Sessions, Jefferson [R-AL] June 6, 2012 Failed by roll call vote on June 18, 2012.
To end the State bonus payments for administering the supplemental nutrition assistance programs.
To limit categorical eligibility for the supplemental nutrition assistance program to those who receive cash assistance.
S. Amdt. 2177 Paul, Rand [R-KY] June 6, 2012 Offered on June 5, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2181 Paul, Rand [R-KY] June 6, 2012 Failed by roll call vote on June 18, 2012.
To establish an average adjusted gross income limitation of $250,000 for all payments and benefits under the Farm Bill.
S. Amdt. 2184 Wyden, Ron [D-OR] June 6, 2012 Offered on June 5, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2185 Graham, Lindsey [R-SC] June 6, 2012 Offered on June 5, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2186 Coburn, Thomas [R-OK] June 6, 2012 Offered on June 5, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2187 Kerry, John [D-MA] June 6, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 18, 2012.
To extend eligibility for certain emergency loans to commercial fishermen.
S. Amdt. 2188 Kerry, John [D-MA] June 6, 2012 Offered on June 5, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2189 Johnson, Ron [R-WI] June 6, 2012 Offered on June 5, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2190 Snowe, Olympia [R-ME] June 7, 2012 Passed by roll call vote on June 18, 2012.
To require Federal milk marketing order reform.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2191 Alexander, Lamar [R-TN] June 7, 2012 Failed by roll call vote on June 18, 2012.
To provide that any cooperative organization or other entity that receives a business and industry direct or guaranteed loan for a wind energy project is ineligible for any other Federal benefit, assistance, or incentive for the project.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2192 Ayotte, Kelly [R-NH] June 7, 2012 Failed by roll call vote on June 18, 2012.
To improve the program of value-added agricultural producer grants.
S. Amdt. 2193 Ayotte, Kelly [R-NH] June 7, 2012 Offered on June 6, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2195 Ayotte, Kelly [R-NH] June 7, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 19, 2012.
To require a GAO report on crop insurance fraud.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2199 McCain, John [R-AZ] June 7, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 18, 2012.
To repeal a duplicative program relating to inspection and grading of catfish.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2202 Bennet, Michael [D-CO] June 7, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 19, 2012.
To improve agricultural land easements.
S. Amdt. 2203 Bennet, Michael [D-CO] June 7, 2012 Offered on June 6, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2204 Leahy, Patrick [D-VT] June 7, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 19, 2012.
To support the State Rural Development Partnership.
S. Amdt. 2205 Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK] June 7, 2012 Offered on June 6, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2210 Johanns, Mike [R-NE] June 7, 2012 Offered on June 6, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2213 Heller, Dean [R-NV] June 7, 2012 Offered on June 6, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2214 Coburn, Thomas [R-OK] June 7, 2012 Passed by roll call vote on June 20, 2012.
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit the use of public funds for political party conventions, and to provide for the return of previously distributed funds for deficit reduction.
S. Amdt. 2215 Toomey, Patrick [R-PA] June 7, 2012 Offered on June 6, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2217 Toomey, Patrick [R-PA] June 7, 2012 Failed by roll call vote on June 18, 2012.
To eliminate the organic certification cost share assistance program.
S. Amdt. 2219 Cardin, Benjamin [D-MD] June 7, 2012 Offered on June 6, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2222 McCaskill, Claire [D-MO] June 7, 2012 Offered on June 6, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2224 Thune, John [R-SD] June 7, 2012 Offered on June 6, 2012.
To eliminate biorefinery, renewable chemical, and biobased product manufacturing assistance.
S. Amdt. 2227 Lautenberg, Frank [D-NJ] June 7, 2012 Offered on June 6, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2228 Cantwell, Maria [D-WA] June 7, 2012 Offered on June 6, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2229 Begich, Mark [D-AK] June 7, 2012 Offered on June 6, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2231 Warner, Mark [D-VA] June 7, 2012 Offered on June 6, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2232 Tester, Jon [D-MT] June 7, 2012 Offered on June 6, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2233 Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] June 7, 2012 Offered on June 6, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2237 Casey, Robert [D-PA] June 7, 2012 Offered on June 6, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2238 Casey, Robert [D-PA] June 7, 2012 Passed by roll call vote on June 18, 2012.
To require more frequent dairy reporting.
S. Amdt. 2239 Harkin, Thomas [D-IA] June 7, 2012 Offered on June 6, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2241 Nelson, Ben [D-NE] June 7, 2012 Offered on June 6, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2242 Nelson, Ben [D-NE] June 7, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 19, 2012.
To amend section 520 of the Housing Act of 1949 to revise the census data and population requirements for areas to be considered as rural areas for purposes of such Act.
To ensure that performance bonus payments are used by State agencies only to carry out the supplemental nutrition assistance programs.
S. Amdt. 2244 Franken, Alan [D-MN] June 7, 2012 Offered on June 6, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2246 Blunt, Roy [R-MO] June 11, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 19, 2012.
To assist military veterans in agricultural occupations.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2247 Toomey, Patrick [R-PA] June 11, 2012 Failed by roll call vote on June 20, 2012.
To reduce unnecessary paperwork burdens on community water systems.
S. Amdt. 2248 Leahy, Patrick [D-VT] June 11, 2012 Offered on June 10, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2249 Inhofe, James [R-OK] June 11, 2012 Offered on June 10, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2252 Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] June 11, 2012 Offered on June 10, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2253 Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] June 11, 2012 Offered on June 10, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2254 Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] June 11, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 19, 2012.
To improve the community wood energy programs.
S. Amdt. 2259 Enzi, Michael [R-WY] June 11, 2012 Offered on June 10, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2261 Rubio, Marco [R-FL] June 11, 2012 Offered on June 10, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2262 DeMint, Jim [R-SC] June 11, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 18, 2012.
To express the sense of the Senate that nothing in this Act or an amendment made by this Act should manipulate prices or interfere with the free market.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2263 DeMint, Jim [R-SC] June 11, 2012 Failed by roll call vote on June 18, 2012.
To maintain funding at current levels for programs providing access to broadband telecommunications services in rural areas.
S. Amdt. 2264 DeMint, Jim [R-SC] June 11, 2012 Offered on June 10, 2012.
To prohibit the Secretary from making loan guarantees.
To eliminate the authority of the Secretary to increase the amount of grants provided to eligible entities relating to providing access to broadband telecommunications services in rural areas.
To prohibit mandatory or compulsory check off programs.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2287 Carper, Thomas [D-DE] June 11, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 19, 2012.
To modify a provision relating to a high-priority research and extension initiatives.
S. Amdt. 2288 Coburn, Thomas [R-OK] June 11, 2012 Offered on June 10, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2289 Coburn, Thomas [R-OK] June 11, 2012 Failed by roll call vote on June 19, 2012.
To reduce funding for the market access program and to prohibit the use of funds for reality television shows, wine tastings, animal spa products, and cat or dog food.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2293 Coburn, Thomas [R-OK] June 11, 2012 Passed by roll call vote on June 19, 2012.
To limit subsidies for millionaires.
S. Amdt. 2294 Udall, Mark [D-CO] June 11, 2012 Offered on June 10, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2295 Udall, Mark [D-CO] June 11, 2012 Passed by roll call vote on June 19, 2012.
To increase the amounts authorized to be appropriated for the designation of treatment areas.
S. Amdt. 2296 Wyden, Ron [D-OR] June 11, 2012 Offered on June 10, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2299 Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] June 11, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 19, 2012.
To require the Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of Transportation to conduct a study on rural transportation issues.
S. Amdt. 2300 Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] June 11, 2012 Offered on June 10, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2301 Risch, James [R-ID] June 11, 2012 Offered on June 10, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2303 Cochran, Thad [R-MS] June 11, 2012 Offered on June 10, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2305 Crapo, Michael [R-ID] June 11, 2012 Offered on June 10, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2306 Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK] June 11, 2012 Offered on June 10, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2308 McCaskill, Claire [D-MO] June 11, 2012 Offered on June 10, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2309 Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] June 11, 2012 Passed by roll call vote on June 18, 2012.
To require a study into the feasibility of an insurance product that covers food safety recalls.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2310 Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] June 11, 2012 Failed by roll call vote on June 20, 2012.
To permit States to require that any food, beverage, or other edible product offered for sale have a label on indicating that the food, beverage, or other edible product contains a genetically engineered ingredient.
S. Amdt. 2311 Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] June 11, 2012 Offered on June 10, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2312 Tester, Jon [D-MT] June 11, 2012 Offered on June 10, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2313 Lee, Mike [R-UT] June 11, 2012 Failed by roll call vote on June 19, 2012.
To repeal the forest legacy program.
To repeal the conservation stewardship program and the conservation reserve program.
S. Amdt. 2315 Lee, Mike [R-UT] June 11, 2012 Offered on June 10, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2318 Landrieu, Mary [D-LA] June 11, 2012 Offered on June 10, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2321 Landrieu, Mary [D-LA] June 11, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 18, 2012.
To move a section from the rural development title to the credit title.
S. Amdt. 2325 Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA] June 11, 2012 Offered on June 10, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2340 Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA] June 11, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 19, 2012.
To move the sugar import quota adjustment date forward in the crop year.
S. Amdt. 2344 Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] June 12, 2012 Offered on June 11, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2345 Manchin, Joe [D-WV] June 12, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 19, 2012.
To require national dietary guidelines for pregnant women and children from birth until the age of 2.
S. Amdt. 2346 Graham, Lindsey [R-SC] June 12, 2012 Offered on June 11, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2347 Nelson, Ben [D-NE] June 12, 2012 Offered on June 11, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2349 Grassley, Charles [R-IA] June 12, 2012 Offered on June 11, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2354 Kyl, Jon [R-AZ] June 12, 2012 Failed by roll call vote on June 19, 2012.
To prohibit assistance to North Korea under title II of the Food for Peace Act.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2355 Boozman, John [R-AR] June 12, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 19, 2012.
To support the dissemination of objective and scholarly agricultural and food law research and information.
S. Amdt. 2356 Boozman, John [R-AR] June 12, 2012 Offered on June 11, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2360 Boozman, John [R-AR] June 12, 2012 Failed by roll call vote on June 19, 2012.
To provide for emergency food assistance, and for other purposes.
S. Amdt. 2362 Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] June 12, 2012 Offered on June 11, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2363 Vitter, David [R-LA] June 12, 2012 Passed by roll call vote on June 19, 2012.
To ensure that extras in film and television who bring personal, common domesticated household pets do not face unnecessary regulations and to prohibit attendance at an animal fighting venture.
S. Amdt. 2364 Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM] June 12, 2012 Offered on June 11, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2365 Begich, Mark [D-AK] June 12, 2012 Offered on June 11, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2366 Hagan, Kay [D-NC] June 12, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 18, 2012.
To require the Risk Management Agency and the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to use plain language and a website to make crop insurance more accessible.
S. Amdt. 2367 Hagan, Kay [D-NC] June 12, 2012 Offered on June 11, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2368 Gillibrand, Kirsten [D-NY] June 12, 2012 Offered on June 11, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2369 Cantwell, Maria [D-WA] June 12, 2012 Offered on June 11, 2012.
currently selected S. Amdt. 2370 Cantwell, Maria [D-WA] June 12, 2012 Passed by roll call vote on June 18, 2012.
To encourage the purchase of pulse crop products for school meals programs.
June 18, 2012, 8:00 pm ET - Amendment SA 2370 proposed by Senator Cantwell.
June 19, 2012, 12:12 pm ET - On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2370 to S. 3240 (Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012)
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S. Amdt. 2371 Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] June 12, 2012 Offered on June 11, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2372 Johanns, Mike [R-NE] June 12, 2012 Failed by roll call vote on June 20, 2012.
To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from conducting aerial surveillance to inspect agricultural operations or to record images of agricultural operations.
S. Amdt. 2373 Wicker, Roger [R-MS] June 12, 2012 Offered on June 11, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2376 Toomey, Patrick [R-PA] June 12, 2012 Offered on June 11, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2382 Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] June 12, 2012 Passed by roll call vote on June 19, 2012.
To require the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to provide crop insurance for organic crops under similar terms and conditions to crop insurance provided for other crops.
S. Amdt. 2384 Cardin, Benjamin [D-MD] June 12, 2012 Offered on June 11, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2388 Wyden, Ron [D-OR] June 12, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 19, 2012.
To modify a provision relating to purchases of locally produced foods.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2389 Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI] June 12, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 18, 2012.
Of a perfecting nature.
S. Amdt. 2390 Reid, Harry [D-NV] June 12, 2012 Offered on June 11, 2012.
To change the enactment date.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2392 Reid, Harry [D-NV] June 12, 2012 Offered on June 11, 2012.
To empower States with programmatic flexibility and predictability to administer a supplemental nutrition assistance block grant program under which, at the request of a State agency, eligible households within the State may receive an adequate, or more nutritious, diet.
To phase out the Federal sugar program.
S. Amdt. 2395 Akaka, Daniel [D-HI] June 12, 2012 Offered on June 11, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2396 Akaka, Daniel [D-HI] June 12, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 18, 2012.
To establish the Office of Tribal Relations in the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture.
S. Amdt. 2402 Moran, Jerry [R-KS] June 12, 2012 Offered on June 11, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2403 Moran, Jerry [R-KS] June 12, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 19, 2012.
To increase the minimum level of nonemergency food assistance.
S. Amdt. 2404 Vitter, David [R-LA] June 13, 2012 Offered on June 12, 2012.
To eliminate certain working lands conservation programs.
To convert all mandatory spending to discretionary spending subject to annual appropriations.
S. Amdt. 2409 Kohl, Herbert [D-WI] June 13, 2012 Offered on June 12, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2410 Thune, John [R-SD] June 13, 2012 Offered on June 12, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2411 Udall, Tom [D-NM] June 13, 2012 Offered on June 12, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2414 Pryor, Mark [D-AR] June 13, 2012 Offered on June 12, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2418 Lieberman, Joseph [I-CT] June 13, 2012 Offered on June 12, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2420 Inouye, Daniel [D-HI] June 13, 2012 Offered on June 12, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2421 Paul, Rand [R-KY] June 13, 2012 Offered on June 12, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2422 Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] June 13, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 18, 2012.
To modify a provision relating to conservation innovation grants and payments.
S. Amdt. 2425 Conrad, Kent [D-ND] June 14, 2012 Offered on June 13, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2426 Coons, Chris [D-DE] June 14, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 18, 2012.
To provide for studies on the feasibility of establishing a business disruption insurance policy for poultry producers and a catastrophic event insurance policy for poultry producers.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2427 Schumer, Charles [D-NY] June 14, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 19, 2012.
To support State and tribal government efforts to promote research and education related to maple syrup production, natural resource sustainability in the maple syrup industry, market promotion of maple products, and greater access to lands containing maple trees for maple-sugaring activities, and for other purposes.
S. Amdt. 2428 Baucus, Max [D-MT] June 14, 2012 Offered on June 13, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2429 Baucus, Max [D-MT] June 14, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 18, 2012.
To improve the livestock forage disaster program.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2432 Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA] June 14, 2012 Failed by voice vote on June 19, 2012.
To repeal mandatory funding for the farmers market and local food promotion program.
To reform the sugar program.
S. Amdt. 2434 Blunt, Roy [R-MO] June 14, 2012 Offered on June 13, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2435 Warner, Mark [D-VA] June 14, 2012 Offered on June 13, 2012.
S. Amdt. 2436 Nelson, Bill [D-FL] June 14, 2012 Offered on June 13, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2437 Thune, John [R-SD] June 14, 2012 Failed by roll call vote on June 19, 2012.
To limit the amount of premium subsidy provided by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation on behalf of any person or legal entity with an average adjusted gross income in excess of $750,000, with a delayed application of the limitation until completion of a study on the effects of the limitation.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2438 Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA] June 14, 2012 Passed by roll call vote on June 19, 2012.
To establish highly erodible land and wetland conservation compliance requirements for the Federal crop insurance program.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2439 Durbin, Richard [D-IL] June 18, 2012 Passed by roll call vote on June 19, 2012.
To limit the amount of premium subsidy provided by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation on behalf of any person or legal entity with an average adjusted gross income in excess of $750,000 with a delayed application of the limitation until completion of a study on the effects of the limitation.
To improve a provision relating to loans to purchasers of highly fractionated land.
To establish a pilot loan program to support healthy foods for the hungry.
To improve farm safety at the local level.
S. Amdt. 2444 Collins, Susan [R-ME] June 18, 2012 Offered on June 17, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2445 Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] June 18, 2012 Passed by roll call vote on June 18, 2012.
To strengthen rural communities and foster the next generation of farmers and ranchers.
S. Amdt. 2448 Barrasso, John [R-WY] June 18, 2012 Offered on June 17, 2012.
To provide assistance for certain losses.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2454 Kerry, John [D-MA] June 18, 2012 Passed by roll call vote on June 19, 2012.
To prohibit assistance to North Korea under title II of the Food for Peace Act unless the President issues a national interest waiver.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2455 Murray, Patty [D-WA] June 18, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 20, 2012.
To require the Office of Management and Budget, the President, and the Department of Defense to submit detailed reports to Congress on effects of defense and nondefesne budget sequestration for fiscal year 2013.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2456 Boxer, Barbara [D-CA] June 18, 2012 Failed by roll call vote on June 20, 2012.
select this vote S. Amdt. 2457 Warner, Mark [D-VA] June 18, 2012 Passed by voice vote on June 19, 2012.
To improve access to broadband telecommunication services in rural areas.
S. Amdt. 2459 Casey, Robert [D-PA] June 19, 2012 Offered on June 18, 2012.
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Roman Catholic Womenpriests : Cincinnati archbisop stops nun from teaching because she supports women priests
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/09/02/cincy_nun.html?sid=101
Cincinnati archbishop stops nun from teaching because she supports female ordination
"Sister Louise Akers has taught in the archdiocese for 40 years. She says she refused to renounce her support of women priests as a matter of conscience."
Archbishop Pilarczyk's removal of Sr. Louise Akers from teaching in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati is yet another example of the use of deplorable, bullying tactics by church officials. This modern day inquisition is a desperate attempt to silence women from speaking out for justice for women in the Roman Catholic Church. Sister Louise Akers is a faithful woman of faith and a courageous witness to Gospel equality. It is my hope that her prophetic actions will ignite the energies of women religious worldwide to work for justice for women in the church and that religious orders will find a way to support nuns who are called to priestly ministry. The full equality of women in the church is the call of God in our time.
The good news is that women are being ordained in the Roman Catholic Church. The mission of the Roman Catholic Womenpriests' initiative, a movement for the full equality of women in a renewed priestly ministry is to spiritually prepare, ordain and support women and men from all states of life, who are theologically qualified, who are committed to an inclusive model of Church and who are called by the Holy Spirit and their communities to minister to the People of God. It is my hope that many women religious with the support of their communities, and in the spirit of their gutsy foundresses, will come forward for ordination as womenpriests. Sister Louise, you are an inspiration to all of us.
Bridget Mary Meehan, RCWP
sofiabmm@aol.com
Posted by Bridget Mary Meehan at 10:43 PM No comments:
Roman Catholic Womenpriests: Excommunicated priest supports women’s ordination, Maryknoll Order Supports Fr. Roy
http://www.thefloridacatholic.org/cns/2009_articles/20090901_cns_priest_excom.php
Fr. Roy Bourgeois participated in the ordination liturgy of Roman Catholic Womanpriest, Janice Sevre-Duszynska on Aug. 9, 2008. In response, the Vatican excommunicated Father Roy on Nov. 24, 2008 "latae sententiae" automatically for refusing to recant his public support of women's ordination. Adhering to his conscience, Fr. Roy now calls on his brother priests to break the silence and asks Catholics in his coast to coast lectures to support the full equality of women in the church including ordination to the priesthood. Fr. Roy challenges church officials to turn away from the sin of sexism.
Excommunicated priest supports women’s ordination
"In June, Maryknoll Father Edward M. Dougherty, the order’s superior general, said in a statement that Father Bourgeois remains a member of the society despite the excommunication. To no longer be considered a priest, Father Bourgeois would have to be laicized."
“The Maryknoll Society continues its pastoral support of our brother Roy and hopes that the day of reconciliation is not far away,” Father Dougherty said. “The church in its leadership and members has been promised by Christ that the Holy Spirit informs the decisions that carry our church into the future. May that same Holy Spirit enlighten Roy and those interested in his case as well as those charged with authority in our church.”
Roman Catholic Womenpriests : Sr. Louise Akers is a courageous witness to Gospel Equality
"The Vatican's investigation of women religious in the United States and Archbishop Pilarczyk's removal of Sr. Louise Akers from teaching in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati will backfire against the hierarchy. These deplorable, bullying tactics, a modern day Inquisition, by church officials will fail to stop women religious from speaking out for justice for women in the Roman Catholic Church, and will promote the Roman Catholic Womenpriests' initiative, a movement for the full equality for women in a renewed priestly ministry in an inclusive Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Church cannot continue to discriminate against women and blame God for it.
Sr. Louise Akers' courageous witness to gospel equality is an inspiration to all.
Sister of Charity Louise Akers has been informed by Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk that she must "publicly disassociate herself from the issue of women’s ordination if she wishes to continue making any presentations or teaching for credit in any archdiocesan-related institutions."
“For four decades I have devoted my ministry to advocating on behalf of the marginalized through religious congregations, justice organizations, ecumenical and interfaith groups” Akers told NCR. “Women’s ordination is a justice issue. Its basis is the value, dignity and equality of women. I believe this to my very core. To publicly state otherwise would be a lie and a violation of my conscience. I love, support and cherish the part of Church that upholds the gospel mission and vision of Jesus.”
http://ncronline.org/news/cincinnati-nun-given-ultimatum-over-ordination-views
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Roman Catholic Womenpriests : Cincinnati Nun May Be Forced Out For Ordination Views
http://ncronline.org/news/cincinnati-nun-may-be-forced-out-ordination-views
Cincinnati nun may be forced out for ordination views
“We are losing the voice of justice,” said one member of her religious community.
By Judy Ball
Roman Catholic Womenpriests : "A Day of Sorrow for Area Catholics"
A day of sorrow for area Catholics
The Republican - MassLive.com - Springfield,MA,USA
Still others will cite the need for women priests. ... It's also important to remember that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield is not alone in this ...
http://www.masslive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/08/a_day_of_sorrow_for_area_catho.html
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DIVISION B COMMISSION 25: ASTRONOMICAL PHOTOMETRY AND POLARIMETRY
Alistair Walker, Saul Adelman, Eugene Milone, Barbara Anthony-Twarog, Pierre Bastien, Wen Ping Chen, Steve Howell, Jens Knude, Donald Kurtz, Antonio Mario Magalhães, John Menzies, Allyn Smith, Kevin Volk
Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 11 / Issue T29A / August 2015
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 April 2016, pp. 159-170
Commission 25 (C25) deals with the techniques and issues involved with the measurement of optical and infrared radiation intensities and polarization from astronomical sources. As such, in recent years attention has focused on photometric standard stars, atmospheric extinction, photometric passbands, transformation between systems, nomenclature, and observing and reduction techniques. At the start of the trimester C25 changed its name from Stellar Photometry and Polarization to Astronomical Photometry and Polarization so as to explicitly include in its mandate particular issues arising from the measurement of resolved sources, given the importance of photometric redshifts of distant galaxies for many of the large photometric surveys now underway. We begin by summarizing commission activities over the 2012-2014 period, follow with a report on Polarimetry, continue with Photometry topics that have been of interest to C25 members, and conclude with a Vision for the Future.
Carbon Star Dust Features: the 21 and 30μm Features
Kevin Volk
Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 10 / Issue H16 / August 2012
Some characteristics of the 21 and 30 μm features observed in carbon star dust shells are briefly discussed.
Acute effects of ingestion of a novel whey-derived extract on vascular endothelial function in overweight, middle-aged men and women
Kevin D. Ballard, Brian R. Kupchak, Brittanie M. Volk, Eunice Mah, Aida Shkreta, Cary Liptak, Adam S. Ptolemy, Mark S. Kellogg, Richard S. Bruno, Richard L. Seip, Carl M. Maresh, William J. Kraemer, Jeff S. Volek
Journal: British Journal of Nutrition / Volume 109 / Issue 5 / 14 March 2013
Print publication: 14 March 2013
Whey protein intake reduces CVD risk, but little is known whether whey-derived bioactive peptides regulate vascular endothelial function (VEF). We determined the impact of a whey-derived extract (NOP-47) on VEF in individuals with an increased cardiovascular risk profile. Men and women with impaired brachial artery flow-mediated dilation (FMD) (n 21, age 55 (sem 1·3) years, BMI 27·8 (sem 0·6) kg/m2, FMD 3·7 (sem 0·4) %) completed a randomised, cross-over study to examine whether ingestion of NOP-47 (5 g) improves postprandial VEF. Brachial artery FMD, plasma amino acids, insulin, and endothelium-derived vasodilators and vasoconstrictors were measured for 2 h after ingestion of NOP-47 or placebo. Acute NOP-47 ingestion increased FMD at 30 min (4·6 (sem 0·5) %) and 120 min (5·1 (sem 0·5) %) post-ingestion (P< 0·05, time × trial interaction), and FMD responses at 120 min were significantly greater in the NOP-47 trial compared with placebo (4·3 (sem 0·5) %). Plasma amino acids increased at 30 min following NOP-47 ingestion (P< 0·05). Serum insulin increased at 15, 30 and 60 min (P< 0·001) following NOP-47 ingestion. No changes were observed between the trials for plasma NO∙ and prostacyclin metabolites or endothelin-1. Ingestion of a rapidly absorbed extract derived from whey protein improved endothelium-dependent dilation in older adults by a mechanism independent of changes in circulating vasoactive compounds. Future investigation is warranted in individuals at an increased CVD risk to further elucidate potential health benefits and the underlying mechanisms of extracts derived from whey.
DIVISION IX / COMMISSION 25 / WORKING GROUP INFRARED ASTRONOMY
Eugene F. Milone, Andrew T. Young, Roger A. Bell, Michael Bessell, Richard P. Boyl, Brian Carter, T. Alan Clark, Martin Cohen, David J.I. Fry, Robert Garrison, Ian S. Glass, John Graham, Anahi Granada, Lynn Hillenbrand, Robert L. Kurucz, Ian McLean, Matthew Mountain, George Riecke, Rogerio Riffel, Ronald G. Samec, Stephen J. Schiller, Douglas Simons, Michael Skrutskie, C. Russell Stagg, Christiaan L. Sterken, Roger I. Thompson, Alan Tokunaga, Kevin Volk, Robert Wing
The formal commissioning of the IRWG occurred at the 1991 Buenos Aires General Assembly, following a Joint Commission meeting at the IAU GA in Baltimore in 1988 that identified the problems with ground-based infrared photometry. The meeting justification, papers, and conclusions, can be found in Milone (1989). In summary, the challenges involved how to explain the failure to achieve the milli-magnitude precision expected of infrared photometry and an apparent 3% limit on system transformability. The proposed solution was to redefine the broadband Johnson system, the passbands of which had proven so unsatisfactory that over time effectively different systems proliferated, although bearing the same “JHKLMNQ” designations; the new system needed to be better positioned and centered in the spectral windows of the Earth's atmosphere, and the variable water vapour content of the atmosphere needed to be measured in real time to better correct for atmospheric extinction.
DIVISION IX / COMMISSION 25 / WORKING GROUP: INFRARED ASTRONOMY
Eugene F. Milone, Andrew T. Young, Roger A. Bell, Michael Bessell, Richard P. Boyl, Martin Cohen, David J.I. Fry, Robert Garrison, Robert Garrison, Ian S. Glass, John Graham, Anahi Granada, Lynn Hillenbrand, Robert L. Kurucz, Ian McLean, Matthew Mountain, George Riecke, Rogerio Riffel, Ronald G. Samec, Stephen J. Schiller, Douglas Simons, Michael Skrutskie, C. Russell Stagg, Christiaan L. Sterken, Roger I. Thompson, Alan Tokunaga, Kevin Volk, Robert Wing
Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 6 / Issue T27B / December 2010
The formal origin of the IRWG occured at the Buenos Aires General Assembly, following a Joint Commission meeting at the IAU GA in Baltimore in 1988 that identified the problems with ground-based infrared photometry. The situation is summarized in Milone (1989). In short, the challenges involved how to explain the failure to achieve the milli-magnitude precision expected of infrared photometry and an apparent 3% limit on system transformability. The proposed solution was to redefine the broadband Johnson system, the passbands of which had proven so unsatisfactory that over time effectively different systems proliferated, although bearing the same JHKLMNQ designations; the new system needed to be better positioned and centered in the atmospheric windows of the Earth's atmosphere, and the variable water vapour content of the atmosphere needed to be measured in real time to better correct for atmospheric extinction.
Eugene F. Milone, Andrew T. Young, Eva Bauwens, Roger A. Bell, Michael S. Bessell, Martin Cohen, Robert Garrison, Ian S. Glass, John A. Graham, Arne A. Henden, Herman Hensberge, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Steve B. Howell, Mark R. Kidger, Robert L. Kurucz, Arlo U. Landolt, Ian S. McLean, Matthew Mountain, George H. Rieke, Stephen J. Schiller, Douglas A. Simons, Michael F. Skrutskie, C. Russell Stagg, Christiaan L. Sterken, Roger I. Thompson, Alan T. Tokunaga, Kevin Volk
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 2008, pp. 313-315
As we have noted before, the WG-IR was created following a Joint Commission Meeting at the IAU General Assembly in Baltimore in 1988, a meeting that provided both diagnosis and prescription for the perceived ailments of infrared photometry at the time. The results were summarized in Milone (1989). The challenges involve how to explain the failure to systematically achieve the milli-magnitude precision expected of infrared photometry and an apparent 3% limit on system transformability. The proposed solution was to re-define the broadband Johnson system, the passbands of which had proven so unsatisfactory that over time effectively different systems proliferated although bearing the same JHKLMNQ designations; the new system needed to be better positioned and centered in the atmospheric windows of the Earth's atmosphere, and the variable water vapour content of the atmosphere needed to be measured in real time to better correct for atmospheric extinction.
Unidentified infrared bands and the formation of PAHs around carbon stars
Angela Speck, Mike Barlow, Roger Wesson, Geoff Clayton, Kevin Volk
Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 4 / Issue S251 / February 2008
Print publication: February 2008
Although unidentified infrared bands (UIBs) have been observed in many astrophysical environments, there is one notable exception: carbon (C) stars. Only a handful of C stars have been shown to emit UIBs and most have hot companions. This makes C stars with hot companions an ideal location to investigate the emitters of the UIBs. PAHs are excited by absorption of single photons whose energy is then distributed over the whole molecule. These molecules then emit the energy at the characteristic wavelengths, but the precise wavelengths and strength ratios depend on the size, composition and charge state of the individual PAHs. Furthermore, the wavelength of photons needed to excite PAHs depends on their size and charge state. While small PAHs undoubtedly need higher energy (UV) photons, it has been suggested that large or ionized PAHS (>100 C atoms) can be excited by visible or even near-IR photons. The lack of PAH emission from single carbon stars suggests that either PAHs do not form around C stars or that only small neutral grains form, which cannot be excited by a C star's radiation field.
There are two competing formation mechanisms for PAHs around C stars: (1) “bottom-up” where acetylene molecules react to form aromatic rings, building up to PAHs; or (2) “top-down”, where small carbon grains react with H atoms and desorb PAHs
Using spatially resolved spectroscopic observations from Gemini/Michelle, of five carbon stars with hot companions, we investigate the circumstance under which PAH emission occurs and try to discriminate between formation mechanisms.
Aromatic, aliphatic, and the unidentified 21 micron emission features in proto-planetary nebulae
Bruce J. Hrivnak, Kevin Volk, T. R. Geballe, Sun Kwok
Aromatic features at 3.3, 6.2, 7.7, 8.6, 11.3 μm are observed in proto-planetary nebulae (PPNe) as well as in PNe and H ii regions. Aliphatic features at 3.4 and 6.9 μm are also observed; however, these features are often stronger in PPNe than in PNe. These observations suggest an evolution in the features from simple molecules (C2H2) in AGB stars to aliphatics in PPNe to aromatics in PNe. In the same carbon-rich PPNe, a strong, broad, unidentified 21 μm emission feature has been found. We will present recent observations of the aromatic, aliphatic, and 21 μm emission features, along with C2H2 (13.7 μm) and a new feature at 15.8 μm, and discuss correlations among them and other properties of these PPNe.
Eugene F. Milone, Andrew T. Young, Roger A. Bell, Michael S. Bessell, Martin Cohen, Robert F. Garrison, Ian S. Glass, John A. Graham, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Robert L. Kurucz, Matthew Mountain, George H. Rieke, Stephen J. Schiller, Douglas A. Simons, Michael F. Skrutskie, C. Russell Stagg, Christiaan L. Sterken, Roger I. Thompson, Alan T. Tokunaga, Kevin Volk
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2008, pp. 195-196
The WG-IR was created following a Joint Commission Meeting at the IAU General Assembly in Baltimore in 1988, a meeting that provided both diagnosis and prescription for the perceived ailments of infrared photometry at the time. The results were summarized in Milone (1989). The challenges involve how to explain the failure to systematically achieve the milli-magnitude precision expected of infrared photometry and an apparent 3% limit on system transformability. The proposed solution was to redefine the broadband Johnson system, the passbands of which had proven so unsatisfactory that over time effectively different systems proliferated although bearing the same JHKLMNQ designations; the new system needed to be better positioned and centered in the atmospheric windows of the Earth's atmosphere, and the variable water vapour content of the atmosphere needed to be measured in real time to better correct for atmospheric extinction.
Mid-Infrared Observations of Planetary Nebulae
Kevin Volk, B. J. Hrivnak, Sun Kwok
Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 2 / Issue S234 / April 2006
We present the results of a small mid-infrared imaging survey of planetary nebulae. Of 21 objects observed 19 were resolved. Only in NGC 6210 was there a marked contrast between the dust morphology and the emission line morphology. For all the other objects the dust and the gas must be well mixed even in the faint lobes of bipolar objects such as Fg3, Pe1-7, and NGC 6881.
Sub-arcsec mid-IR imaging of OH 231.8+4.2
C. Muthumariappan, Sun Kwok, Kevin Volk
We present 0.18$^{\prime\prime}$ resolution mid-infrared images of OH231.8+4.2 using the Gemini South telescope. The images show a bright central core of $\sim$1$^{\prime\prime}$ in size, with extended emissions in the lobes. We find evidence for different chemical composition of the dust in the core and the lobes from the narrow-band images.
2-D Radiation Transfer Model of Non-Spherically Symmetric Dust Shell in Proto-Planetary Nebulae
Kate Y. L. Su, Kevin Volk, Sun Kwok
Journal: Symposium - International Astronomical Union / Volume 209 / 2003
Resent high-resolution optical imaging has directly revealed reflection nebulosity around proto-planetary nebulae (PPNs), the transition objects between asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars and planetary nebulae (Sahai et al. 1998, Su et al. 1998, Ueta et al. 2000, Su et al. 2001). The existence of bipolar nebulae observed in the PPN phase suggests the presence of asymmetry in the AGB circumstellar dust shell. In order to model these objects, a self-consistent radiation transfer model is necessary. As a first attempt, we construct an approximate two-dimensional dust radiative transfer model to simultaneously fit the spectral energy distribution (SED) and images of a centrally-heated dust envelope.
Dust Features in the Infrared Spectra of Planetary Nebulae
I review some aspects of the infrared continuum emission of planetary nebulae, with particular emphasis on the various dust features. The original presentation with colour figures can be found at http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/iau209.html.
ISO Spectra of Planetary Nebulae
Kevin Volk, Sun Kwok
It has been well known since the IRAS mission that dust emission represents a significant fraction of the energy output from PNe (Zhang & Kwok 1991). Although the dust component in PNe was long thought to be due to the remnants of the envelopes of AGB stars (Kwok 1982), we now know that dust in PNe has a much richer chemical composition. In addition to amorphous silicates and SiC features commonly seen in AGB stars, PNe have been found to have strong aromatic infrared features (Russell et al. 1977), crystalline silicate features (Waters et al. 1997), and an unidentified emission feature at 30 μm (Forrest et al. 1981). In this paper, we show the ISO spectra of a number of PNe illustrating the diverse dust chemistry in PNe.
ISO–SWS spectra of [WR] planetary nebulae
Ryszard Szczerba, Kevin Volk, Sławomir K. Górny
We have analyzed Infrared Space Observatory Short Wavelength Spectrometer (ISO–SWS) observations for 16 Wolf–Rayet ([WR]) planetary nebulae (PNe) with the aim of identifying the dust features present in this group of objects. We have found that Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) molecular bands (which are present in most of the observed [WR] PNe) are more frequent than crystalline silicate features.
Sub-arcsecond Mid-infrared Images of NGC 7027 and BD+30°3639
Many carbon-rich PNe show strong emission features due to various stretching and bending modes of aromatic hydrocarbon bonds (AHB). Comparisons between ISO spectra of evolved carbon stars, proto-planetary nebulae (PPNe), and PNe have shown that the AHB features develop late in the PPN phase (Kwok et al. 1999). In order to test the formation history of this carbonaceous component, it would be desirable to image the spatial distributions of the dust components. The Gemini Telescopes, optimized for infrared observations with adaptive optics capabilities, offer the unique opportunity for such observations. In this paper, we present the preliminary results of imaging of NGC 7027 and BD+30°3639 with the OSCIR mid-infrared camera at Gemini North.
Dust Features in Carbon-rich Planetary Nebulae
Albertina Pei, Kevin Volk
Carbon-rich AGB stars, protoplanetary nebulae (PPNe), and PNe show a variety of dust features attributed to carbon-based compounds. Of particular interest are the three dust features peaking near 21, 26 and 33 μm. The 26 and 33 μm features (collectively the “30 μm feature”; see Volk et al. 2002) are always observed together. The 21 μm feature is weak in the AGB phase and becomes more prominent in the PPN phase, which implies carrier evolution. We wish to see how this evolution continues into the PN phase from detailed modelling of the infrared spectra of PNe.
Working Group on Infrared Astronomy: (Groupe De Travail Pour Astronomie Infrarouge)
Eugene F. Milone, Ronald Angione, Roger A. Bell, Michael Bessell, T. Alan Clark, Robert Garrison, Martin Cohen, Ian S. Glass, Robert L. Kurucz, Arlo Landolt, Matthew Mountain, George Riecke, Stephen J. Schiller, Douglas A. Simons, Michael Skrutskie, Christopher R. Stagg, Christiaan Sterken, Roger I. Thompson, Alan Tokunaga, Andrew T. Young, Kevin Volk
Journal: Transactions of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 25 / Issue 1 / 2002
On Carbon Star Evolution in the IRAS Two-Color Diagram
Ryszard Szczerba, Matthias Steffen, Kevin Volk
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2016, p. 581
On the Origin of the 21 Micron Feature in Post-AGB Stars
Sun Kwok, Kevin Volk, Bruce J. Hrivnak
The unidentified emission feature at 21 μm is now observed in 12 sources, all being objects in transition between the asymptotic giant branch and planetary nebulae phases. The relations between the 21 μm and other emission features, such as the PAH features and the broad 30 μm feature, and the possible origins of the 21 μm feature are discussed.
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Joe-Paddy Festival Exceeds Expectations
David White, Msgr. Bosso, Bishop Felipe Estevez, Archdiocese of Miami,
Msgr. Brennan, and Msgr. Anderson. Photo by: Dan McKeal
Boynton Beach, Florida � The gates of St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary opened to more than 500 people clad in red and green, as the 2nd Annual Joe-Paddy Festival kicked off . Although the weather forecast was bleak, it didn�t prevent the crowds from coming to celebrate the feasts of St. Joseph and St. Patrick on seminary grounds. The festival began with Vespers led by Deacon Chris LeBlanc, from the Diocese of Pensacola/Tallahasse. The evening continued with Carlos M. Santana and Rosemary Stone performing Italian favorites while Jim and Laura Farrell, accompanied by Irish Step dancers, entertained the crowd with Irish folk music. Guests enjoyed traditional Italian and Irish foods and drinks as well as a silent and live auction with door prizes given out throughout the night. Master of Ceremonies, Msgr. Stephen Bosso, gave a stellar performance as the live auctioneer and his dance to The Unicorn Song, an old Celtic Folk Song, left the crowd wanting more.
The Student Council, headed by President, Deacon Luis Rivero, was largely responsible for Parish ticket sales and all aspects of service during the festival. A portion of event proceeds goes directly to the Student Council to use to benefit student life on campus.
When asked about the success of the event, Msgr. Keith R. Brennan, President and Rector of St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary said, �The leadership of Co-Chairs, Denis Mullane and Msgr. Stephen Bosso was pivotal to this year�s program. The tireless efforts of committee members, Don Bosak, Dennis and Mary Sullivan, Dr. Joe and Kathy Olivella made a significant impact on the event�s success.�
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Interview | 30. Sep, 2020 - 12 min read
Alina Drozdova
“I strongly believe you will reach your stars, and so should you.”
Russian artist Alina Drozdova joined Lake in the beginning of 2019 with an inspirational coloring book titled “Girls Can Do Anything”. It was an homage to all the potential and possibilities women of the world carry within, and her message still resonates strongly with our users. She is now adding a new chapter to her story with another woman-centered coloring book titled “Ad Astra", but this time she found her inspiration in constellations and mythology and created her own kind of stellar goddess.
Alina was kind enough to (virtually) let us into her colorful world and talk about how she almost missed her true calling in life, about the city she loves, the things that inspire her, and much more.
Enjoy your read!
Hello gurl! How are you?
Hi! On this warm and sunny day Iʼm better than ever, I hope you are too!
You live in Moscow. Tell us a bit about that vibrant city of yours. What is your favorite or most inspirational place to go to?
Moscow is my hometown and maybe thatʼs why I love it so much. It is very energetic and crowded, but at the same time, you can always find a quiet place in parks and boulevards all over the city. It can be so different depending on the time of the year! So vibrant and cheerful during the sunny days of spring, summer or early autumn, and yet so surly, gray and kinda melancholic during the cold season.
“Moscow definitely has its own personality — as for me, if it was a person, it would be a beautiful young woman, strong and smart, sometimes frivolous, and with a contagious laugh."
Moscow definitely has its own personality — as for me, if it was a person, it would be a beautiful young woman, strong and smart, sometimes frivolous, and with a contagious laugh. I love walking across the city center, especially around Tverskaya, Lubyanka, Kitay-Gorod. This year I even moved closer to the city center, so I can visit all of my favorite places by foot, and feel this energizing vibe of the big city.
This year has truly been difficult and challenging for a lot of us. How are you coping with these strange times? Has the lockdown severely affected the way you work and live?
Quarantine made me really anxious and depressed at first. It was emotionally hard: I felt scared, lonely and blue. Looking through social media was overwhelming, because there was so much information and activity, that my anxiety got worse and worse.But some time passed and it started to be a new normal. The strange thing is that I became even more introvert during that time. I wanted to spend more time with myself and take care of myself too. Reading books, journaling, meditating, yoga — these simple things were of great help to me in finding my inner peace.
I work from home as an illustrator, so it didnʼt affect this part of my life so much. My daily routine was pretty much the same as before quarantine. But the fact that it was impossible to go outside made me crave just that, haha.
Could you tell us a little bit about your background and how you got into art? Is it something you have always done?
I love this story, thanks so much for the question!I was a creative one since childhood — always drawing, writing poems and prose, creating stories and characters. But I never actually took it seriously — I didn’t go to any art school, and it was just a hobby. I prioritized studying, and never thought of art as a profession! Seems like I just never realized it was even possible. Thatʼs why I went to medical university after school (a serious one!) and stopped drawing altogether. After a couple of years, I realized that I couldn’t live like this. I started creating art again and it felt awesome, but was hard at first because, of course, I had lost my skills during all that time. I graduated from university but I haven’t worked a day as a doctor.Establishing myself as an artist was challenging too — I underestimated my work, but the support of my friends and family helped me a lot in building my confidence and finally becoming a freelance illustrator!
“I was a creative one since childhood — always drawing, writing poems and prose, creating stories and characters."
What is your daily routine when working?
First thing I do after I wake up, is to drink a glass of water! After that, I have my morning routine: some exercises to awaken the body, journaling or meditating a bit, feeding my cats and cleaning my place. After that, I start working, while I watch a TV series or a YouTube show. I often work from bed, which is definitely a bad habit haha, I just canʼt resist the comfort.
How would you define art in a tweet?
Art for me feels like creating magic with a pencil instead of a wand.
Are you more into digital, or do you like to create in the good old analogue way as well?
To be honest, I love both. Digital art gives me more sense of control, it has limitless possibilities and it is handy on the go. I also do all the commercial work in digital.
Analogue art is often more messy and personal. I like to draw sketches about my daily life and things that simply come to mind without any pressure. My favorite mediums are pencils, markers, watercolor and fountain pens. I also love mixed media techniques: watercolor + colored pencils are my fave!
I know this is not a simple question, but can you name the 3 biggest influences on your art?
Saskia Keultjes who made me feel more confident, free and valid as an artist. Check her out, she is totally the best. Barbara Canepa, whose charming comics and characters shaped my sense of style a lot. I love the Witch comics, but my favorite work of her is Skydoll. Asinastra, who was one of the first Russian-speaking illustrators I saw online. The coolest thing is that I started to follow her pretty early and saw her growing and becoming more and more successful, which was really inspiring!
Your latest coloring book is called “Ad Astra,” and it’s all about starry girls, constellations, night skies, and magical vibes. What’s the story behind it?
The magical and mysterious world of stars and constellations has attracted me since I was a child. I remember learning planetary symbols and the Greek alphabet in junior school just for fun. I also loved Greek mythology a lot and had tons of books on this subject. I grew up, but the charming power of the unknown vastness on the universe intertwined with mythological motifs still resonates with me a lot. It makes me feel whole and, at the same time, a part of an endless world.
Do you have a favorite constellation?
I love all the characters of the “Perseus and Andromeda” myth but if I had to pick only one, it would be Cassiopeia! I love the story behind it: Cassiopeia is sitting upside down on her throne in the sky holding a mirror as a symbol of her vanity. Her arrogance and vanity led to her downfall, and in some way, this story makes me more aware of such feelings in myself.
I even have an old self-portrait where I compare myself to Cassiopeia.Btw, there is a Russian band The Retuses, who have a song called Cassiopeia which is also meaningful for me. Its melancholic vibe resonates with me a lot. So many coincidences!
Your first coloring book is titled “Girls Can Do Anything,” and carries the strong message that girls are no different than boys - they can achieve anything and be good at anything they set their mind on, which by the way, totally resonates with us. Women are a central character in your new coloring book as well. Is that your way of empowering women?
It definitely is! Women inspire me a lot, not only esthetically but with their aspiration to be powerful, strong, equal and independent. I had hard times accepting my femininity as a teenager, mostly because of all of the cliches and preconceptions around women in our society. I was trying to make friends with boys mostly, positioning myself as “not like the other girls”.Thatʼs why I am even more proud of being a woman now. I want our society to become a society where no girl feels the need to deny her femininity as something shameful and unworthy.
“Women inspire me a lot, not only esthetically but with their aspiration to be powerful, strong, equal and independent."
One of the first women who made me think that there was something wrong with what I was doing was Rosalind Franklin — I got acquainted with her biography at university and it changed something inside me. Sheʼs kind of a superhero for me, and the chemist in “Girls can do anything” was created with her in mind, as the most inspiring woman in science for me.
What superpower would you want to have and why?
Thatʼs a tough question! I wish I could see the magic and beauty in everyday life and let other people see it too — kind of like x-ray vision, unleashing the beauty of the simplest things in the world. Most of us are struggling with this, and it often isn’t easy to recall this feeling of awareness even if you already experienced it. Rays of sunshine on the wall, the smell of fallen leaves, and spending some time in silence are like small keys to happiness and serenity which are missing from our daily lives. Thatʼs why I want this so badly that I wish I could have it as a superpower even it is quite a simple thing. Or maybe Iʼd like to be able to talk to cats, haha.
Social media has become an essential marketing platform and gallery for many artists. How have Instagram and other social channels affected your business?
Well, this canʼt be underestimated — social media made it possible for me to become a professional artist. I love that nowadays, thanks to social media, people can share their work and find clients.
But itʼs not easy for sure — I personally have some issues with social media from time to time, cause it takes a lot of resources, I easily get tired and demotivated and I still don’t feel confident enough to share my personal life.
As already mentioned, “Ad Astra” is your second coloring book with Lake, which of course, makes us super happy. What made you go with us?
I saw that beautiful coloring book by Tonia Tkach and I was delighted by the whole idea of coloring books made by different artists. Then I had this “what if…” thought. I was working with linearts so much — well, maybe it would be suitable for coloring books too? With that idea in mind, I contacted you and — voila! — this is now my second book on the Lake app.
How has working with us helped you?
It raised my confidence a lot, especially in working with foreign clients - I was really uncertain about my English skills. To be honest, Lake is the best partnership Iʼve had since I became an illustrator — the team is so great and friendly, it kinda feels like family to me, so it’s totally worth it! After the update, my confidence grew way more - my artwork is now on an AppStore, whoa! That’s something to be proud of.
“To be honest, Lake is the best partnership Iʼve had since I became an illustrator — the team is so great and friendly, it kinda feels like family to me, so it’s totally worth it!”
Why do you think people should try mindful coloring?
Any type of mindfulness is essential to keep a healthy mind. While coloring, you are not only mindful — you are also creative. What could be better?
“While coloring, you are not only mindful — you are also creative. What could be better?”
Itʼs a relaxing, soothing way to spend some time with yourself and treat your inner creative self. Coloring is simple and accessible, which prevents you from creating too much tension and putting too much pressure on yourself and allows you to have a couple of quiet minutes anytime and anywhere.
Just curious, can you tell us more about your recent projects and what have you been up to recently?
Speaking of commercial projects, at the time I am working on a tarot deck with a US client, and on the illustrations for a Russian hair dye brand. As for personal ones, I enrolled in a watercolor course last week, inspired by the artworks I saw on the Artlife Fest gallery I visited here in Moscow. I want to spend more time on personal relaxed drawings to allow myself to feel more freedom and learn some new techniques which I think will enrich my digital works as well.
Where can we see your art and follow you?
I am most active on Instagram , Twitter and Tumblr.
And one last thing. What is your message for all the young and aspiring artists who are just starting on their path?
«Ad Astra» - is part of the Latin phrase «Per Aspera ad Astra» meaning «through hardships to the stars». And this is probably the best description of every artist’s path, as the biggest hardships are in our own minds.
So I want you to believe in yourself and in your abilities, even if it seems impossible. Creating art is the greatest magic in the whole world and the most accessible too — if you just give yourself permission to create no matter what. Surround yourself with inspiring things, read encouraging books, express yourself. Treat yourself by buying artsy stuff — that «fake it till you make it» thing really works. And please remember — it’s never too late to start! I love Julia Cameron’s quote on this topic:“— But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?"— Yes. the same age you will be if you don’t.”
Katja Šircelj
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Rahim Noor should crawl back into the woodwork
by P. Ramakrishnan
A man who infamously trampled upon the rights of others has no right to speak on human rights. He is the least qualified to speak on this subject.
Yet, the former Inspector–General of Police, Abdul Rahim Mohd Noor, emerging as it were from the dead, expressed some startling views on human rights.
He is quoted as having said that the coming of a “human rights wave” would threaten the principles on which this country was founded.
In what way would the “human rights wave” threaten the principles on which this country was founded?
The principles on which this country was founded is embodied in the Federal Constitution, which was agreed upon mutually by all the communities that aspired for a free and independent Malaya.
The Federal Constitution specifically guarantees the human rights of all the citizens. Indeed, it protects the rights of all Malaysians. If these rights were not guaranteed and protected, there would be no Federal Constitution to begin with and we wouldn’t have attained our independence on 31 August 1957.
The human rights wave, reflected in the Bersih 2.0 ‘Walk for Democracy’ that demanded clean and fair elections, cannot by any stretch of the imagination be termed as a “communist wave”. It is a democratic wave giving expression to the innate desire of the human spirit to be free and treated fairly and with justice.
The present wave – demanding accountability, transparency, good governance, rule oflaw, the right to information, the right to assemble peacefully, the right to publish and disseminate views – represents the universal rights that are upheld by the United Nations, As Malaysia is a member of the UN Human Rights Council, we are duty-bound to respect and protect these universal values.
Calling upon the Malays to unite against this “human rights wave” is acting foolishly and ignoring today’s political reality. The vast majority of thinking Malaysians are not narrow-minded bigots and will not fall for this call to respond along ethnic lines.
This was clearly established when the “Himpunan Sejuta” was organised to inflame the sentiments of the Malays against the Christians. The fact that only about 5000 turned up – which prompted Ibrahim Ali to confess that he was embarrassed by the turnout – is proof enough that racial politics will be spurned by citizens of goodwill who only wish to live together in peace and harmony for the betterment of the nation.
Though it was touted as having the backing of 3000 Malay NGOs, the fact was they failed even to send two representatives each, which would have boosted the attendance to 6000. The number that turned up was a far cry from the one million that was expected. The ultras and the extremists can claim anything but gutter politics will not hoodwink the majority of peace-loving Malaysians.
Rahim Noor should crawl back into the woodwork and remain there for a long time tocome.
P Ramakrishnan is president of Aliran
This entry was posted on Thursday, 3 November 2011, 11:31 am and is filed under Bersih, Elections, Human Rights, Police. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0.
#1 by monsterball on Thursday, 3 November 2011 - 2:30 pm
It needs convicts…braggarts…idiots…gangsters…to speak and protect the Govt.
And it the Govt. itself….whenever the UMNO b Ministers speaks…hordes of commentators do not mince any words to expose and insult their intelligence…uttering nonsensical stuffs and weird logics.
Rahim Noor…the handpicked IGP by Mahathir…a street gangster from Alor Gajah?
Only a smart cunning crook like Mahathir’s knows how to handpick all sorts of cronies…to do the dirty work for him.
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#2 by tak tahan on Thursday, 3 November 2011 - 3:18 pm
Every authoritarian ruler will use this papa canine to do his dirty job.What a joke to have former IGP to utter such undemocratic statements.Come GE13 let’s send all these rouges to the dogs.Confine them in kennel.
#3 by jus legitimum on Thursday, 3 November 2011 - 4:07 pm
Until today,the most evil power shamelessly and relentlessly ransacking the nation for decades still resort to racial and religious tainted lies and allegations just to retain power.Now they make use of ex top hooligan and the faked melayu ex dictator to bullshit about human rights to pull wool over the eyes of the poor rural folks just to win their support.
#4 by shahrulazmiahmad on Thursday, 3 November 2011 - 5:05 pm
“Rahim Noor should crawl back into the woodwork and remain there for a long time to come” – no other words better to describe about this x-IGP!
#5 by tak tahan on Thursday, 3 November 2011 - 11:26 pm
Got better word-m##her F^&ker of the best nation destroyer.Banzai papa dog.
#6 by Jeffrey on Friday, 4 November 2011 - 1:51 pm
When Rahim Noor said that “human rights wave” would threaten the principles on which this country was founded, he must be taken to imply (i) human rights are Western notions and values and (ii) the country was founded on indigenous values whether they mean “Eastern” (as Dr Mahathir described them) or Islamic as others do or “Confucian” as SM Lee Kuan did. On the argument that the country was founded on basis of Federal Constitution guaranteeing civil liberties constructed upon human rights, one would expect Rahim Noor to argue that the Constitution itself plus its human rights bias were foisted and imposed by Colonial Masters (British) unto us without our forefathers having much power, knowledge or experience to oppose this imposition. And as to the argument that Universal Declaration of Human Rights is main banner of the United Nations of which Malaysia is member, again he and his ilk would counter that the UN is mere intrument controlled through majority of big powers led by Americans in its Security Council to impose Pax Americana/Anglo Saxon version of peace morality and world order on the rest of the world beneficial to American/Anglo-Saxon interests!
#7 by monsterball on Friday, 4 November 2011 - 9:24 pm
Rahim was a jail bird.
Rahim Noor too.
Both have titles.
Both are talking morals and principles in life.
These are the people who shame Islam religion.
#8 by rockdaboat on Saturday, 5 November 2011 - 3:15 pm
Rahim Noor talking about human rights?
Ha ha ha ha ha, don’t tickle me!!!!!!!!
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Golden Age Gets Brassy with Heroes at Large
So many comic book superheroes passed into the public domain that they have become golden again -- golden for independent publishers that is, who are free to use these characters to tell their stories. They're at the heart of Dynamite Comics PROJECT: SUPERPOWERS series, and have shown up in other various series.
Cyberfrog is Officially Late. Or Is It?
To date, there's only one comic book hero who, at the mere utterance of his name, has the ability to evoke either dreamlike awe or cold fury from the comics fan who hears it. His name is CyberFrog, and he's the creation of comic book artist Ethan Van Sciver.
Originally created in the 90s, CyberFrog is finding new life through an Indiegogo project which has drawn acclaim for its detailed preview artwork, and criticism for it being behind its self-imposed schedule. To date, CYBERFROG: BLOODHONEY is eight months behind. If this were a car, it would be repossessed by now.
Matthew Rosenberg is Tearing the X-Men Apart and That's a Good Thing
Submitted by S.J. Mitchell on Thu, 05/16/2019 - 14:55
Marvel scribe Matthew Rosenberg has warned readers that no X-Man (or woman) is safe during his run. And with Jonathan Hickman poised to reboot the X-Universe, Rosenberg is playing with old toys that are about to be replaced.
He is a bull in a china shop right now. And it's astonishing.
***Caution: MAJOR Spoilers Ahead***
The House of El is Re-United in Superman #11
Brian Michael Bendis is uniting a family that has been divided for so many years.
***CAUTION: SPOILERS AHEAD***
While Batman has enjoyed spending time with his "family" for many years, Superman has typically run solo. It something that's always seemed to separate the two. As Batman leans heavily on his ensemble cast of characters, Superman isolated himself by dealing with his problems alone.
Which is completely opposite of what you'd expect. Batman is the brooding vigilante and Superman is the family loving boy scout. Now, under the guidance of Bendis, Superman is in a fight for the future of his family alongside his father, son, and now his cousin!
Dangerous Opinions: Facebook Disconnects 250K Fans from Bounding Into Comics
Submitted by RJ Carter on Wed, 05/08/2019 - 12:53
The landscape of opinion is a shifting mass of quicksand these days. The Internet, once a bastion of free speech -- and all the ugliness that comes with that -- has undergone a transformation to rein in opinions, protecting the eyes and ears of the many from anything that might be deemed offensive by the few.
It began with politics. When the deplatforming of Alex Jones and his InfoWars site occurred, the 1st Amendment let out an "oof" of having been punched in the stomach. No one heard it over all the cheering, however, and the social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter were emboldened to continue their pogrom against information and opinion.
The idea was to stifle politics with which the social media overseers disagreed. The inherent problem with that is this: everything is political. And so we find ourselves at a point where a comic book review website (not this one, yet) loses its presence on Facebook.
Tales to Astonish No One: Parody of Comicsgate Figures Fails to Create an Audience
If you are a comics fan who goes to your local shop, checks the shelves for new items, spends a few minutes in the back issue boxes, and goes home to enjoy your purchase, you live in the best of all possible worlds.
If you have a social media account, you've shattered that utopia, and have likely been told to pick a side in the ongoing culture wars -- or been forced into a side whether you chose or not. It's called ComicsGate,
In much the same way an irritant in an oyster causes the generation of a pearl, the mainstream comic industry and the creators who have aligned with ComicsGate have worked together -- reluctantly, unwittingly, unknowingly, anything but admittedly -- to create some gems (and some malformations) through the crowdfunding platforms that have financed their own comics, several of them to the tune of six-figures.
Who Watches Peter Cannon? Peter Cannon Does, in Thunderbolt #2
When I first reviewed PETER CANNON: THUNDERBOLT #1, I went over the relationship the character has to WATCHMEN, and how the premiere of this series not only paid homage to that series but also absorbed it into its own story. Too brazen and in-your-face to be called a rip-off, Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard gleefully took the keys from Alan Moore, jumped in, and peeled out for a joyride in his jet-black Magickmobile.
Triple Crown: Best Comic Book, Comics Writer, and Comics Artist All Awarded to Single Indy Title!
Some say that fandom is fickle. But fans are also a fiercely loyal bunch, and there's no better example than in the Critical Blast awards for 2018's Best in the comics industry. Last year, we saw DC Comics sweep all three categories, with DARK NIGHTS: METAL taking Best Story, with TOM KING taking Best Writer for BATMAN and ETHAN VAN SCIVER taking Best Artist for his work on HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS.
But this is truly a first, because we have another sweep -- this time going to an independent publisher, and all for the same title!
Van Helsing Finds the Sword of Heaven, Guarded by a New Breed of Monster
Liesel Van Helsing and Lilitha Dara have both infiltrated the castle of Prince Sawar, a creature known as a baital that can animate -- and astrally inhabit -- the bodies of the dead. Sawar is the keeper of the Sword of Heaven, an artifact that can eliminate all vampires from the face of the Earth.
However, things have taken a turn for the worse, as Liesel's partner is fell during the battle, allowing Sawar to turn his full attention on Liesel, attacking her psychically by sending her mentally on a never-ending downward fall through a hellish landscape. Sawar's ultimate plan is to kill Liesel and inhabit her body as his own. But first he would have her experiences. He, too, sees the vampire population as a plague. But where Liesel wants to exterminate them, Sawar simply wants to control them and keep them in check. And the vampires, well, they're aware of this as well.
How Much is That Child Porn in My Comic Book?
We've seen it happen before in comics and animation. Some artist gets bored, slips in a sly little reference to this or that, just to see how many people it will slip past before it gets caught, if ever. In UNIVERSE X SPIDEY #1, artist Al Milgrom famously hid a secret message telling off his old boss, Bob Harras. NEW MUTANTS had some spicy conversations in it, if one bothered to translate the demon-language substitution cipher of lettering. And don't even get us started on all the rumors about what people think they see in Disney animated films.
But there's no real guessing at what's involved in Image Comics' SAVAGE DRAGON #236, which features the four offspring of the titular character. The storyline, called "Savage Little Dragons" finds they tykes doing various kid activities -- crawling out of the crib, fighting with each other, watching underage rape porn on the television.
Zenescope's Archer Becomes Most Wanted in Robyn Hood: Outlaw
Zenescope's ROBYN HOOD has gone through a few iterations with the books she's appeared in. With this latest miniseries, ROBYN HOOD: OUTLAW, she finds herself framed for the attempted murder of the police commissioner, found shot and dying in Robyn's trashed apartment late at night. On cue, police officers bust into her home, and they're not interested in making an arrest.
With dirty cops on her tail and an unknown person who is also a near-expert archer directing the players, Robyn makes a run for it, uncertain as to whom she can trust and unwilling to fight back against the police because she can't tell which ones are the bad cops and which ones are the ones only doing their duty but acting on misinformation. Along the way, she ends up rescuing a nameless smartass girl, leaving us with a breathless cliffhanger while we await the second issue.
A Tale of Two Cities: Destiny NY Volumes 1 and 2
What if you had a destiny you had to fulfill in your life? Something specific, if vaguely worded, prophecy that defines your life? What if you went to a special school that prepared you to meet this destiny, and gave you direction on how to succeed beyond it?
That's the world of DESTINY, NY, which follows the messed-up life of Logan, a young lady who fulfilled her destiny while still a tween, and who now looks for direction in her life. Along the way, her life crosses paths with Lilith, who has a destiny of her own to fulfill -- and a psychopathic sister out to destroy her.
With two volumes under his belt, Pat Shand had built an intriguing graphic novel series, but it's not without certain issues. We put the books under the microscope and give them a good critical blasting. Check it out.
Wonder Twins Debut Less Than Wonderful
The latest in the Wonder Comics imprint from DC Comics is WONDER TWINS #1, taking the memorable teen sidekicks from the SUPER FRIENDS television show and bringing them into...well, not the mainstream DC continuity, at least as far as we can tell so far. If anyone can correct us on that count, we'd be happy to hear it. But for now, it seems that, at least WONDER TWINS, exists in its own little side-continuity of a parodic DCU.
Let's dig into the book by Mark Russell and Stephen Byrne and see what's behind those covers--and determine if it's anything more than the controversial Pon Farr scene that we were treated to in the previews.
The ComicsGate Culture Battle Shifts from Cold War to Hot
Fans of Alterna Comics got more than they bargained for with their nightly livestream. Some time around 10pm on February 12, Publisher Peter Simeti was discussing what was new with the comics from Alterna, when the livestream was interrupted.
By the police.
I just had two guns pointed at me tonight because someone made a call to the police and gave them my address along with a falsified report.
I'm shook up, but everything is OK now.
I'm going to talk to the police tomorrow and see if I can find out more.
— Peter Simeti (@petersimeti) February 13, 2019
A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Ashin' in Dynamite's Army of Darkness / Bubba Ho-Tep
Scott Duvall's title for this comic issue's story was so perfect, I had to steal it for the headline on this review.
ARMY OF DARKNESS / BUBBA HO-TEP is a Bruce Campbell fan's dream come true. Ash, upon reading of sightings and events about Elvis fighting some mummy, decides to head for East Texas and a retirement home where he expects to find The King. Of course nobody there is quite obliging to help him, except for an old fellow named Dillinger who escorts him to a somewhat rundown home occupied by none other than Elvis Aron Presley himself.
But as much as Ash wanted to find Elvis, even he is sceptical, and ends up getting into a fight with the karate-chopping singer while they engage in a trivia-competition about Elvis history -- which, of course, Elvis wins.
Vampirella Valentine's Day Special Goes Overboard in Cajun Country
The Ergun Gunduz cover to Dynamite's VAMPIRELLA VALENTINE'S DAY SPECIAL almost justifies the $4.99 price sticker. Heck, it justifies at least seventy-five percent of it, so that's close enough. It's completely evocative of the cover artwork that used to grace Vampi's original series, back in the day when she was published in glorious black-and-white in magazine-size format.
The interiors by Maria Sanapo are a different style altogether. Not a bad style -- quite good, in fact -- but a different one that doesn't quite have Vampirella being as tall as one would expect. Of course, that's a matter of scale, so it could just be everyone else was pretty tall as well. Regardless, the pencils and inks were done in a quality comic-book style, with the colors by Ceci de la Cruz adding depth and dimension to everything.
Closing in on 19 Years of Broadsword Comics with Jim Balent and Holly Golightly
Over two decades ago, Jim Balent had a comfortable gig with a big time publisher, bringing his own inimitable style to CATWOMAN for DC Comics.
Then, in 2000, he walked away from that to go independent with his own imprint, Broadsword Comics, and his own creation, TAROT, WITCH OF THE BLACK ROSE. And he did this without the benefit of the existence of Kickstarter, Indiegogo, or any other crowdfunding assistance.
It was a huge leap of faith, and now, 19 years later with nary an issue missed of the 114-book run, Broadsword Comics is still going strong with Jim and Holly Golightly doing everything from writing, drawing, lettering, coloring -- the whole shebang.
We were privileged to get this livestream interview with The Busiest (and Most Fun) Couple in Comics, to talk about Tarot, comic books, and... STAR WARS? We hope you'll have as much fun watching this as we had doing it!
Will Tragedy Break Raven Hex for Good? We Review Tarot Witch of the Black Rose #114
Raven Hex has turned down the proposal of marriage from Gala-Pen-Lot, the Dragon Prince, and now she is having second thought, recriminations, and engages in some serious soul-searching about what she really wants versus what she has always struggled for. When she finally opens her heart and allows herself to express her true feelings, a burden is lifted from her. Delighted and enlightened, she prepares to change her life and go onto a new path -- just as tragedy is revealed to her.
Holly Golightly gives this issue a very muted color treatment this issue over Jim Balent's pencils, which adds to the whole reminescent mood of Raven Hex's ruminations. The book is the lead in to the 19th anniversary issue of TAROT, WITCH OF THE BLACK ROSE #115, appearing March 2019.
For a full review on this issue, check out our livestream video below.
Heroes in Crisis, Readers in Remorse
We've reached the exact midway point of Tom King and Clay Mann's murder mystery series, HEROES IN CRISIS, and things are adding up less and less.
We start with the cover, which shows the case file for the murder of Jason Todd. Except he's alive as the Red Hood. We've gone over that whole thing before when Batman gave his confession at Sanctuary about so many of his partners dying when they're all alive and kicking.
Add to this the polluting of past heroes during their Sanctuary confessions, some unbelievable confrontations, a major revelation that's actually more of a plot hole than anything else, and HEROES IN CRISIS begins to shape up into one beautiful mess.
Key points in this issue include:
Batgirl lying to Batman (unconvincingly) and getting away with it.
Booster Gold getting the drop on The Flash.
Superman giving a longer speech than the one that got cut from SUPERMAN IV.
Here, take a look for yourselves:
NCBD Pull or No Pull? January 30, 2019
Actual Roger #1 (Alterna)
Alterna continues to impress with its wide variety of titles and genres. With Hank Tucker (THE TICK animated series) helming this title about a kid forced into becoming a sidekick to a hero who doesn't want him around, we're definitely on board to see how ACTUAL ROGER plays out.
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SPEED: NASCAR RaceDay at Daytona
Before the Duels at Daytona, SPEED used a special edition of RaceDay to preview the two races. The comfort of John Roberts in directing traffic and controlling the cast of characters surrounding him continues to get better and better. Last season, this series really came to the forefront in midseason, and ended in Homestead on a very high note for the network. Now, as SPEED begins its biggest challenge of dealing with ESPN at every race, NASCAR RaceDay becomes their biggest weapon.
Certainly, the key to this program, aside from the announcers on set, is the talented Wendy Venturini. A program like RaceDay allows her to use the knowledge built up from her racing roots to relate to drivers and other racing personalities perhaps better than any other TV reporter at the present time. The odd man out is Bob Dilner, who has never fully recovered from his problems at Daytona last season. He seems strangely disconnected from the sport, and speaks in absolute terms about many topics that are perhaps not as urgent as he tries to make them.
As the Daytona 500 approaches, SPEED will unveil the Sunday edition of NASCAR RaceDay in all its glory. Let's hope that these early editions will remind the network that the show is doing just fine, and does not need the kind of major changes that have sunk so many other NASCAR-related SPEED series over the last five years. Does anyone remember Ms. Tweeden and NASCAR Nation? Enough said.
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Chronology of Related Events –Kerala Local Self Government
1920 – Madras Village Panchayat Act
1950- Travancore-Cochin Panchayat Act – Based on the Act the Panchayat Delimitation Committee was formed. The Committee recommended the formation of 542 panchayats.
1958- Kerala Panchayat Bill and The two bills on decentralisation were introduced in the State the District Councils Bill Legislative Assembly. However, they could not be enacted and implemented as the Government was dismissed and the Legislative Assembly dissolved in 1959.
1960 The Kerala Panchayat Raj – The first Administrative Reforms Committee suggested decentralisation of a far-reaching nature as early as in 1958. The Act was passed codifying the Panchayat laws that were in force in Malabar- Travancore-Cochin regions.First Panchayat election Based on 1960 Act, the first panchayat election in the state was held.
1964 Kerala Panchayat Union and Zilla Parishad Bill The Government introduced the Bill but the
government before the Bill could become Act.
1967 Kerala Panchayat Raj Bill The government that succeeded introduced the Bill but it could not be passed due to the fall of the government.
1971 Kerala District Administration Bill The Government of Kerala introduced the Bill but this too did not become a law.
1978-1980 Kerala District Administration Bill Again the government introduced this Bill in the
Legislative Assembly in 1978 and it became an Act in 1980.
1991 District Councils After one decade, the government implemented the Act and the District Councils came into being. However, they could survive only for a short period.
1994 Kerala Panchayat Raj Act and Kerala Municipality Act
The Kerala Assembly passed the new Panchayat Raj Act and the Kerala Municipal Act.
1995 Elections The first elections based on the constitutional amendments and the new Acts.
1996-2002 People’s Plan Campaign Local government level participatory planning process for
preparation of the development plans under the Ninth Five Year Plan.
Committee on Decentralisation (Sen Committee)
The committee was appointed to suggest the measures to be taken for institutionalisation of Powers (Sen Committee) of the decentralisation process.
1999-2003 Amendments to the Acts Based on the recommendations of the Sen Committee, various Acts were restructured and restructuring to suit the decentralisation process.
2002-2007 Kerala Development Programme The Tenth Five Year Plan was named as Kerala
Development Programme.
2007 People’s Plan Campaign People’s Plan Campaign was re-launched as part of the preparation of the Eleventh Five Year Plan.
In the beginning of 12th Five-Year Plan some changes were made in the Plan guidelines, mainly in sectoral ceilings and project appraisal.
The 13th Five-Year Plan period, the State envisages revitalisation of the system of decentralised democratic governance by learning from the experiences of the past.
Principles of Decentralisation of Powers in Kerala
1 Autonomy: The local self-governments are to be autonomous, functionally, financially, and administratively. The different tiers of local self-governments should be seen as complementary units rather than hierarchically organised.
2 Subsidiarity: It means that what can be done best at a particular level should be done at that level and not athigher levels. That entire can optimally done at the lowest level should be reserved to that level. Only the residual should be passed on to the higher levels.
3 Role Clarity: There should be clarity regarding the roles of each tier in the development process and clear division of functions between the tiers.
4 Complementarity: The functions of different tiers should not be overlapping, but should be complementary to each other.
5 Uniformity: There should be uniformity of norms and rules.
6 People’s Participation: The functioning of the localself-governmentshould be such that it facilitates maximum direct participation of people in the development process.
7 Accountability: The elected representative accountability is not to be confined to the periodic electoral verdicts. There should be continuous social auditing of the performance.
8 Transparency: People should have the right to information regarding every detail of the administration.
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A First Order Coalgebraic Model of pi-Calculus Early Observational Equivalence
Buscemi, Maria Grazia and Montanari, Ugo A First Order Coalgebraic Model of pi-Calculus Early Observational Equivalence. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR ’02). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2421 . Springer, pp. 449-465. ISBN 3-540-44043-7 (2002)
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45694-5_30
In this paper, we propose a compositional coalgebraic semantics of the π-calculus based on a novel approach for lifting calculi with structural axioms to coalgebraic models. We equip the transition system of the calculus with permutations, parallel composition and restriction operations, thus obtaining a bialgebra. No prefix operation is introduced, relying instead on a clause format defining the transitions of recursively defined processes. The unique morphism to the final bialgebra induces a bisimilarity relation which coincides with observational equivalence and which is a congruence with respect to the operations. The permutation algebra is enriched with a name extrusion operator δ à la De Brujin, that shifts any name to the successor and generates a new name in the first variable x 0. As a consequence, in the axioms and in the SOS rules there is no need to refer to the support, i.e., the set of significant names, and, thus, the model turns out to be first order.
Extended version available as Technical Report TR-02-14, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa (http://compass2.di.unipi.it/TR/default.aspx?year=2002). The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com
Research supported in part by FET Global project PROFUNDIS and by MIUR project COMETA.
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WLG Facts
The western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) belongs to the family 'hominidae' which includes four extant genera: gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutangs and humans.
The western lowland gorilla has been recognised within the tropical rainforests of six west central African countries: Angola, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Republic of Congo, Cameroon and Central African Republic. Their only (reported) predators are leopards, although rare, and humans.
Scientific name: Gorilla gorilla gorilla
Distinguishing characteristic (from Eastern Gorillas): brown reddish head, smaller body size
Diet: vegetarian with some insects
Locomotion: quadrupedal knuckle-walking and bipedalism (on short distances)
Average lifespan (in the wild): 35 years
Standing height: Adult male (average of 1.7 m), Adult female (average of 1.3 m)
Weight: Adult male (average of 180 Kg), Adult female (average of 90 Kg)
Weight at birth: approximately 2 Kg
Social Structure: 1 male - multifemale groups (harems)
Protection status: Critically Endangered
The western lowland gorilla is the largest living primate. They have broad shoulders, a muscular neck, as well as strong hands and feet. Their considerable size enables defense against most potentiel predators and allows them to live in relative safety on the ground. The western lowland gorilla's body is covered by short, thin grey-black or brown-black hair. A gorilla's face has no hair and has a thick supra-orbital bony ridge above the eyes.
Western lowland gorillas can walk for short distances on two legs (bipedalism), however, they generally walk quadrupedally using their knuckles (known as 'knuckle-walking).
Western lowland gorillas form small, non-territorial harems usually lead by a single, mature male commonly known as the "dominant" silverback. They live in a structured group of between 6-22 individuals usually consisting of one adult male silverback, 3-4 unrelated adult female gorillas and several juvenile / infant youngsters. The silverback is the dominant figure in the family and regulates the group's schedule. Western lowland gorillas spend several hours eating in the morning, rest during late-morning and early-afternoon (although young gorillas play with each other while adults sleep) and continue eating in the afternoon until nesting at night starting around 17:00. While western lowland gorillas are social creatures, the strongest bond ussually takes form between the silverback and his female mates.
Western lowland gorillas are quiet, shy, and non-agressive. There is very little conflict between groups with overlapping territories.
Adult males can, however, perform elaborate displays, including chest beats, sideway runs, and tearing up vegetation, which all serve to deter an intruding male (and other threats) or express their dominance within a group. Adult females can become agressive while defending their infants, or while helping each other drive off rowdy, young adult male gorillas. The silverback is the peace keeper and intervenes between occasional squabbles between female gorillas.
A mature male Western Lowland Gorilla has silver fur on its back, called as 'Silverback Gorilla' - image by Michael Viljoen
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B 17F 42-30206 ditched in the North Sea on 25/7-1943.
The aircraft belonged to USAAF, 8 Air Force, 94 Bomb Group, 410 Bomb Squadron and was christened “Happy daze”
T/O Rougham OP: Warnemünde.
When ”Happy Daze” had crossed the Danish coast line on the return flight it was attacked by three FW 190 who damaged the B 17F. At 17:55 hours it was necessary to ditch it in the sea approx. 77 miles northwest of Borkum. The aircraft came apart just behind the radio cabin and sank in 15 seconds. The whole crew apart from Right Waist Gunner Sgt Thomas M. Brown managed to get out of the aircraft. He went down with the aircraft and has no known grave. Two dinghies were inflated and the nine survivors entered them.
The survivors were Pilot 1.Lt John P. Keelan, Co-Pilot 2.Lt Loren Hubbell, Navigator 2.Lt William Greulich, Bombardier 2.Lt Thomas Nelson, Top Turret Gunner T/Sgt Edgar I. Cannon, Radio Operator T/Sgt Eugene Deyoe, Ball Turret Gunner S/Sgt John H. Kornick, Left Waist Gunner S/Sgt Herbert H. Simes and Tail Gunner Sgt Robert V. Hodge.
For the next 19 hours they drifted around. During the night they could watch as well as hear the sounds of an attack on Hamburg. The sent up a balloon and automatically radio signals was sent to England.
On 26/7 at 08:00 hours they started to paddle on a course set to 270 degrees.
At 12:45 they were found by two Lancaster’s that dropped a Lindholme dinghy. One hour later the flyers received one more and at 18:00 another one which was tied them together by the flyers. When the Lancaster’s disappeared a JU 88 showed up and circled the dinghies and then left without further.
At 20:10 three Hudson’s arrived one of then carrying a Life boat which was dropped to the flyers who managed to get hold of it. The dinghies were then sunk by machine gun fire from the Hudson’s. The flyers got the engines started ad headed 270 degrees.
On 27/7 at 07:30 the Danish fishing boat FN 41 “Betty” was observed by the lifeboat and it was agreed to make contact. The reception was friendly and “Betty” took both the flyers and the life boat onboard. The course was then set for England. During the day another rescue plane arrived overhead and signals were exchanged. At 17:30 “Betty” was meet by HSL 2551 and 184.
A bottle of rum was shared and “Betty” then followed the launches to Yarmouth which was reached at 22:45 hours.
Sources: AIR 20/4710 , FB, ABMC.
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The Anatomy of Zelda II: X. The seaward
After completing the Labyrinth Palace — by which I mean accomplishing its more difficult goal of acquiring the treasure inside rather than simply besting Carock — the player acquires the latest in Zelda II‘s series of funny-shaped keys. The Boots from the fourth Palace allow you to walk on water… but only a little bit of water. You can’t roam across Hyrule’s rivers and oceans with impunity simply because you’ve acquired a treasure designed for that explicit purpose. Oh, no. The only place the Boots work is in the eastern ocean to the south of the dungeon you’ve just completed.
This actually is one of Zelda II‘s more sensible design choices in guiding the player to his next goal, though. You may well chafe at the limitations imposed on the Boots; their strict range reduces them from a valuable supplement that increases the efficiency with which you putter about previously conquered grounds the way the Hammer does. Nevertheless, at this point in the game the secrets have grown increasingly abstruse, with fewer clues to your next destination appearing in towns and more potential ways and areas in which they can be hidden from your sight. By making the boots work only in the area where Link needs to find the next Palace, the designers mercifully reduce the amount of real estate you’ll end up wandering through when you inevitably find yourself stumped by another oblique puzzle.
And even then, the map designer managed to throw in a little “screw you” moment: Hidden a few spaces north of the Palace — a spot accessible only by finding an invisible single-tile path on the water — one of the final Heart Containers lurks. And, again, you can’t access the Great Palace without it. Have fun pinpointing the exact title in the vast overworld in which the one last item you need to complete the adventure has been hidden.
Invisible tile shenanigans aside, the Ocean Palace is actually the game’s most easily accessed dungeon. You can walk immediately from the Maze Palace to the Ocean Palace without stopping in a town, collecting a clue, or completing a side quest. But then, the Palace sits on a small island just off a piece of coast line that can be explored immediately once you reach the eastern continent. Most likely by this point the player will have been wondering how to get over to that island for quite some time; being able to go immediately from gathering the boots to the nearby Palace that’s been taunting you for so long feels quite satisfying.
Inside the Ocean Palace, it’s business as usual. By now the Overworld encounters should be growing less grueling as you level up Link’s skills; Fire spells cost fewer MP, enemies do less damage, and you can take down foes in fewer strikes. Nevertheless, the Palace interior is considerably less of a chore than navigating the land above.
The main objective in this Palace is the Flute, which unsurprisingly turns out to be yet another funny-shaped key that you’ll use all of twice. On the plus side, this Palace allows you to make use of one of your other funny-shaped keys, the Fairy spell, and not just for sneaking through keyholes and dodging blue Ironknuckles as above.
Granted, the mandatory Fairy spells can be a little annoying, as its magic cost is very high and you’ll want as much magic juice as possible saved up for Shield and Life, but so it goes.
At this point you’ll have seen most of the tricks present in the Ocean Palace. Like this vanishing bridge guarded by the swooping horse heads, and the fact that a bag full of EXP sits in the middle of the bridge to tempt you into doing something stupid.
Honestly, you don’t really need EXP bags in this dungeon; the new enemy type, called Mago, surrenders as much EXP per kill as you find in the bags that foes occasionally drop. Magos greatly resemble Wizzrobes; in fact, if Wizzrobes hadn’t been all over the previous dungeon, you’d be forgiven for thinking theseare Wizzrobes. Like Wizzrobes, they materialize in a random spot, cast a spell, and quickly vanish again. The main difference is that they fling fire that slowly travels forward about three spaces and lingers momentarily before flickering out as opposed to the spell beams the Wizzrobes cast. They can catch an unwary adventurer off guard and hit pretty hard, and they soak up a fair amount of damage; at full strength, Link will have to land two blows to take them down.
It’s nearly impossible to hit them straight on without being toasted by their fire, so the best technique for victory here is using the downward thrust attack. But then, that’s pretty much always true.
Case in point, the boss. Gooma barely represents a step over the “stand in one place and hammer the attack button” design of the original Zelda‘s bosses. He spends almost all of his time swinging a mace on a chain that blocks Link from hitting his vulnerable torso and inflicts considerable knockback damage. There’s no real timing possible for this fight given the fact that the boss’ attack features almost zero downtime, so the best approach is to cheese the nature of the downward thrust — while Gooma’s head is invulnerable, if you come in from above at an angle you can slide past his head and hit his torso instead.
This leaves one last Palace before the big one, though unfortunately the road beyond here ranges from “maddeningly difficult” to “soul-crushingly hard.” Not to mention enough vague goals and secrets to inspire true existential despair….
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Current students | Staff intranet
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I am a human geographer with research intersts in education, work, and gender. I am Director of the Exeter Education Incubator. My work investigates how Higher Education can better create transformative learning, both for its students and within it own structures and relationships.
If you are interested in the things I am currently working on I discuss some ideas in the following blogs:
Dyer and Harris (16/Oct/2020) Let’s take the remote out of online learning Wonkhe blog
Dyer, Walkington and Hill (5/Sept/2020) Six months on: What does compassionate and courageous pedagogy look like now? THE GEES network 'What works' blog
Dyer and Harris (18/June/2020) Developing Inclusive Learning Environments Online – Dartington Online Writing Retreat Blogs #1 Education Incubator blog
Broad research specialisms
Social studies of knowledge and learning, higher education, research ethics, ethics and care, work and employment, gender
I am a member of the Graduate School of Education's Centre for Research in Professional Learning (CRPL).
Philosophy BA (KCL London)
Geography MA (KCL London)
PhD (KCL London)
Postgraduate diploma in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (Oxford)
Centre for Research in Professional Learning
RGS Higher Education Research Group
QAA Subject Benchmark Statement: Geography
THE GEES network page
Research group links
Spatial Responsibilities
My current research investigates contemporary higher education as a site of individual and collective becoming. I am interested in how social processes, values, and identities shape and are shaped by education and how this is differentially experienced by those involved. Focusing on four interrelated topics, the research I undertake extends understanding of the impact of contemporary restructuring of higher education institutions on those who learn and work in these institutions.
I am interested in the relationship between higher education and work in various ways. First, my work investigates the re-configuration of academic labour. I have written and spoken about increasing casualisation and segmentation in academic labour markets, identifying mechanisms which re-inscribe disadvantage for women and black and minority ethnic academics. A key focus of this work has been with the construction of professional identity and culture and the values enshrined in them. This interest picks up threads of earlier research projects. My research on migration to work used ‘intersectionality’ to explore disadvantage in post-industrial labour markets and normative framing in policy. The research I did on the regulation of ethics in medical research explored socio-political questions about expertise and professions. The second interplay between work and HE I am interested in is that of student employment, both as imagined futures and a lived experience. Future employment and earnings serves to justify particular framings of HE. I have published on how we can go beyond these to create ethical education, using the work of Nussbaum and Sen to argue for a capabilities approach. I am currently supervising a PhD student who is researching Chinese-born students’ experiences and constructions of their ‘employability’ as students in the UK. I am also interested in students’ paid work during their studies, some of which is understood as problematic and some of which is seen as valuable. I argue that we should see such distinctions as part of the ‘hidden curriculum’ in universities.
The second area of scholarship I have contributed to is that of geography pedagogy. My award of national teaching fellowship (NTF) in 2016 evidenced the substantial and successful leadership roles I had taken nationally and internationally within the discipline of geography. I have continued to be recognised as a major presence nationally and internationally in my discipline. I led the Royal Geographical Society’s (RGS) Higher Education Research Group until 2018. I lead a teaching-focused network of academics in Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences and contributed to an International Network for Learning and Teaching in HE Geography project, with an output published in 2018. I serve on the editorial board of The Journal of Geography in Higher Education and of Geoverse, an undergraduate journal. I am a co-editor on a major new international Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Geography, which will be launched at the Association of American Geographers and the RGS in 2020.
Thirdly, I work beyond the discipline of geography, in higher education pedagogy. In 2016 I was awarded an HEA strategic development grant to research students as partners. The resources that I created, Appreciate, are used across the UK and North America. Most recently they featured in an academic development online advent calendar; supporting student interns at Trinity University, Texas; supporting students as partners Fulbright scholarship at Elon, North Carolina; supporting a workshop at the 2019 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference in Atlanta, Georgia; and by the Taylor Institute for Learning and Teaching, Calgary, to support education enhancement. We use and champion a ‘students as partners’ model in the Incubator. I identified evidence to address a gap in the literature on students as partners during the evaluation of student involvement in Incubator projects and so, as well as informing our own practice, this work has been written up and submitted to a ‘students as partners’ journal.
Also within this area of interest in higher education pedagogy, a second strand of my scholarly activity concerns the pedagogy of high impact research-led education practices, with a particular focus on inclusivity. I am undertaking research as part of a competitively awarded research seminar programme supported by Elon’s ‘Center for Engaged Learning’. I am a member of an international research team (Calgary, Canada; Deakin, Australia; Portland State and Atlanta, USA) investigating exclusion and inclusion in student capstone or culminating experiences. (In a UK context this is likely to be a dissertation.) This project has reported to The International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement and I will lead a workshop at Elon’s Conference on Engaged Learning in summer 2020. I have been in discussions with the BA programme director to use the universal design principals we are developing to inform revisions to the BA dissertation. I am also PI on an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships for HE grant focusing on best practice in community engaged learning. This project team includes universities of Malaga, Spain; Palma, Italy; Turku, Finland; Ghent, Belgium; and Otto von Guericke Magdeburg, Germany. This project will build understanding of the factors which promote inclusivity, success, and sustainability in learning in which students work alongside community partners. It supports the development of the University’s ‘research-education ecosystem’ through connecting education, research, and impact. It will make an important contribution to inclusive learning agendas.
The final area of scholarly engagement is that of academic/education development. This work builds on my geographic research investigating professions and expertise, learning, and work. Through this strand of work I am presenting and refining the model that informs the Education Incubator. I have written (Winks, Green and Dyer 2019; Winks and Dyer resubmitted) about the model used to support staff, and have presented work at the SRHE (2018, 2019) and in an invited presentation at Newcastle University. I will be running a workshop in 2020 at the 12th International Networked Learning conference. In addition, I have written about the role education teams play in student learning in team taught courses. This is a novel focus and discusses both pedagogy and the framing of academic labour. I have also been invited to present at prestigious SRHE research group workshops.
Communities and Students Together (CaST)
Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union
University of Exeter (lead partner), University of Ghent, University of Magdeburg, University of Parma, University of Malaga, University of Turku
Globally, there are growing calls for Higher Education Institutions to become more civically engaged and socially relevant and there is increased public interest in the impact of universities on their localities and regions. Engaged learning facilitates students to apply theory to real-world contexts outside of the University and to co-produce knowledge with and for the community. Engaged learning provides students with the skills which increase their employability, and improve their personal and professional development, while communities gain access to skills to help develop, evaluate or communicate their work.
The central aim of Communities and Students Together (CaST) will be to advance our knowledge and understanding of what constitutes a successful and sustainable engaged learning programme. We will explore existing initiatives and aim to incorporate successful elements in a series of new sustainable programmes in each partner university which enable community-based engaged learning for students to co-produce knowledge with and for the community.
Diversity and Inclusion in Capstone experiences
Supported by Elon University Center for Engaged Learning
Sarah Dyer, University of Exeter, Trina Jorre de St Jorre, Deakin University, Moriah McSharry McGrath, Portland State University, Andrew Pearl, University of Alabama, Joanna Rankin, University of Calgary
Over the last 30 years, many undergraduate institutions have placed a greater emphasis on the development of the capstone experience as a high-impact practice. Although these experiences existed much earlier (Atchinson, 1993; Levine, 1975; Gardner, J., & Van der Veer, G. 1998; Wagenaar, 1993), a call by the Boyer Commission (1998) to reinforce the capstone experience as an integral component of a “new model of educating at the undergraduate research universities” was instrumental in clarifying the value and purpose of the capstone (p.16). Since then, universities have committed to this culminating concept and developed unique opportunities for their students to demonstrate learning. The capstone experience has taken on many forms, including internships, senior-level courses, service learning projects, undergraduate research, and portfolios. The capstone has also grown beyond discipline-specific majors (usually in the form of a senior-level course or experience within the major), to university supported, multi-discipline experiences used as the final piece of the general education requirement (NSSE, 2014). The successful implementation of these experiencesled the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) to label the capstone as one of several “high impactpractices” that encourage transformative learning (Kuh, 2008). With the increase in the integration of various types of capstone experiences, a broad range of research has developed. The emphasis of much of this research has concentrated on the role of the capstone in curriculum (Brooks, Benton-Kupper, Slayton, 2004; Brown & Benson, 2005); the unique characteristics of the capstoneexperience (Dunlap, 2005; Henscheid, 2000; Kerrigan & Jhaj, 2007; Rhodes & Agre-Kippenhan, 2004); and the impact of the capstone experience on student learning (Bronwell, J. & Swaner, L., 2010; NSSE, 2007; Kuh, 2008). Although there is an ever-growing body of literature on the many successful strategies and outcomes of the capstone experience, valid concerns still remain (Kinzie, 2013). Concerns about the capstone experience have focused on the ability to execute a high-impact design and to provide this experience to all students(NSSE, 2014). Capstone experiences tend to be criticized when they are poorly planned or reflect low academic standards. In addition, concerns have been raised regarding the support faculty are receiving from the institution to provide the necessary mentoring for high quality experiences (Kuh, 2008). Finally, challenges exist on assessing the experiences, in particular an in-depth evaluation of the capstone across institutions (Padgett & Kilgo, 2012; Tinsley McGill, 2012).Appreciating that there are numerous facets to achieving a successful capstone experience, the CEL Research Seminar promotes multi-institutional collaborations to facilitate research approaches across institutions to address these ongoing concerns. The Center will support rigorous multi-institutional, multi-method investigations with the goals of enhancing the body of literature on, and providing best practices for the development of capstone experience.
A multi-site international study which investigates how power, positionality, and pedagogy play out for faculty and students in research, service, and professional practice capstones.
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Winks L, Green N, Dyer S (2020). Nurturing innovation and creativity in educational practice: Principles for supporting faculty peer-learning through campus design. Higher Education Full text.
Dyer S (2019). Co-pedagogy: Teaching together for successful student learning. In Walkington H, Hill J, Dyer S (Eds.) Handbook on Teaching and Learning in Geography, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar.
Walkington H, Hill J, Dyer S (eds)(2019). Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Geography. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, Edward Edgar.
Walkington H, Dyer S, Solem M, Haigh M, Waddington S (2018). A capabilities approach to higher education: geocapabilities and implications for geography curricula. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 42(1), 7-24.
A capabilities approach to higher education: geocapabilities and implications for geography curricula
© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor. &. Francis Group. A geographical education offers more than skills, subject knowledge and generic attributes. It also develops a set of discipline-specific capabilities that contribute to a graduate’s future learning and experience, granting them special ways of thinking for lifelong development and for contributing to the welfare of themselves, their community and their world. This paper considers the broader purposes and values of disciplinary teaching in contributing to individual human development. Set in the context of recent debates concerning the role of the university and the neo-liberalisation of higher education this paper explores approaches to developing the geography curriculum in ways that re-assert the educational value of geographical thinking for students. Using international examples of teaching and learning practice in geography, we recognise five geocapabilities: use of the geographical imagination; ethical subject-hood with respect to the impacts of geographical processes; integrative thinking about society–environment relationships; spatial thinking; and the structured exploration of places. A capabilities approach offers a productive and resilient response to the threats of pedagogic frailty and increasingly generic learning in higher education. Finally, a framework to stimulate dialogue about curriculum development and the role of geocapabilities in the higher education curriculum is suggested.
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Dyer S (2016). Appreciate: Cards to support appreciative partnership learning – a guide. York, Higher Education Academy.
Dyer S, Walkington H, Williams R, Morton K, Wyse S (2016). Shifting landscapes: from coalface to quick sand? Teaching Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences in Higher Education. Area, 48(3), 308-316.
Shifting landscapes: from coalface to quick sand? Teaching Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences in Higher Education
© 2016 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) in this paper we examine contemporary academic working lives, with particular reference to teaching-only and teaching-focused academics. We argue that intensification in the neoliberal university has significantly shifted the structure of academic careers, while cultural stories about those careers have not changed. We call for academics to re-examine our collective stories about standard academic career paths. Challenging the stories and making visible the ways that they create and multiply disadvantage is a crucial step in expanding the possibilities for academic identities and careers. The paper begins by describing teaching-focused academics within the context of the wider workforce. We then draw on narratives of those in these roles to illustrate the processes that (re)inscribe their marginalisation. We uncover the gendering of the teaching-focused academic labour market. We end the paper by suggesting interventions that all academics can take and support to address the issues we highlight.
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Batnitzky A, McDowell L, Dyer S (2012). Remittances and the Maintenance of Dual Social Worlds: the Transnational Working Lives of Migrants in Greater London. International Migration, 4(50), 140-156.
Dyer S, McDowell L, Batnitzky A (2011). Migrant work, precarious work-life balance: What the experiences of migrant workers in the service sector in greater London tell us about the adult worker model. Gender, Place and Culture, 18(5), 685-700. Author URL.
Dyer S, McDowell L, Batnitzky A (2010). The Impact of Migration on the Gendering of Service Work: the Case of a West London Hotel. Gender, Work and Organization, 17(6), 635-657. Author URL.
Batnitzky A, McDowell L, Dyer S (2009). Flexible and strategic masculinities: the working lives and gendered identities of male migrants in London. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 35(8), 1275-1293. Author URL.
Mcdowell L, Batnitzky A, Dyer S (2009). Precarious work and economic migration: Emerging immigrant divisions of labour in Greater London's service sector. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 33(1), 3-25. Author URL.
Dyer S, Demeritt D (2009). Un-ethical review? Why it is wrong to apply the medical model of research governance to human geography. Progress in Human Geography, 33(1), 46-64. Author URL.
Batnitzky A, McDowell L, Dyer S (2008). A middle-class global mobility? the working lives of Indian men in a west London hotel. Global Networks, 8(1), 51-70. Author URL.
Dyer S, McDowell L, Batnitzky A (2008). Emotional labour/body work: the caring labours of migrants in the UK's National Health Service. Geoforum, 39(6), 2030-2038. Author URL.
McDowell L, Batnitzky A, Dyer S (2008). Internationalization and the spaces of temporary labour: the global assembly of a local workforce. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 46(4), 750-770. Author URL.
McDowell L, Batnitzky A, Dyer S (2007). Division, segmentation, and interpellation: the embodied labors of migrant workers in a Greater London hotel. Economic Geography, 83(1), 1-25. Author URL.
Dyer S (2004). Rationalising public participation in the health service: the case of research ethics committees. Health and Place, 10(4), 339-348. Author URL.
Demeritt D, Dyer S (2002). Dialogue, metaphors of dialogue and understandings of geography. Area, 34(3), 229-241. Author URL.
Dyer S, Lubicz-Nawrocka T (2019). Sketch: Using Play to Facilitate Faculty–Student Partnership—How can you Co-design a Module?. In James A, Nerantzi C (Eds.) The Power of Play in Higher Education, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 299-302.
Sketch: Using Play to Facilitate Faculty–Student Partnership—How can you Co-design a Module?
Dyer S, Weiner K (2015). Surviving and Progressing as a Research Fellow. In Dingwall R, Bryne McDonnell M (Eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Research Management, London: SAGE, 348-357.
McDowell L, Batnitzky A, Dyer S (2012). Global flows and local labour markets: precarious employment and migrant workers in the UK. In Scott S, Dex S, Plagnol A (Eds.) Gendered Lives, London: Edward Arnold, 123-151.
Dyer S (2008). Hybrid Geographies (2002): Sarah Whatmore. In Hubbard P, Kitchin R, Valentine G (Eds.) Key texts in human geography, Sage Publications Ltd, 207-213.
Hybrid Geographies (2002): Sarah Whatmore
McDowell L, Batnitzky A, Dyer S (2008). Migration, employment and gender divisions of labour. In Scott JL (Ed) Women and employment, Edward Elgar Publishing, 329-346.
Migration, employment and gender divisions of labour
Dyer S (2016). Appreciative Inquiry. Building and enhancing appreciative partnership communities., Higher Education Academy.
Bearman N, Dyer S, Walkington H, Wyse S (2015). The power of collective tactics: response to Peters and Turner. Environment and Planning A: international journal of urban and regional research, 47(4), 1015-1016. Author URL.
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I was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2016. I won a Students' Guild Teaching Award in 2013 for my work supporting student engagment and was awarded a University of Exeter Teaching Fellowship Award in 2014.
I am a Principal Fellow of Adavance HE (Higher Education Academy).
I am on the editorial board member of the Journal of Geography in Higher Education and editor of the 'What works for teaching in HE GEES' blog.
I coordinate an education-focused network for Geography, Environmental and Earth Sciences academics. I am a member of the International Network for Learning and Teaching in Geography HE.
I was a member of the review panel for the QAA's most recent review of the Geography Subject Benchmark Statement (QAA 2014) and was chair of the Royal Geographical Society's Higher Education Research Group between 2015 and 2018.
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Cardi B Puts Her Man On Blast On New Single, ‘Be Careful’!
It’s not a threat, it’s a warnin’!
Following her hit singles “Bodak Yellow” and “Bartier Cardi,” Cardi B is putting her man on blast with the release of her third single “Be Careful,” which seems to be inspired by her real life romance with Offset.
The breakout Bronx rapper, who is rumored to be pregnant with fiancé Offset‘s child, calls out her man over his infidelity. “I wanna get married, like the Curries, Steph and Ayesha shit,” she raps. “But we more like Belly, Tommy and Keisha shit / Gave you TLC, you wanna creep and shit / Poured out my whole heart to a piece of shit.”
Over the minimalist Vinylz, Boi-1da, and Frank Dukes production, Cardi warns him not to mess with her heart. “It’s not a threat, it’s a warning / Be careful with me,” she raps, while throwing nods to Lauryn Hill‘s “Ex-Factor.”
I certainly didn’t see this coming, but I am very happy it’s here. Cardi lets the music do the talking!
Cardi‘s highly-anticipated debut album Invasion of Privacy arrives April 6. The following day, she will perform on SNL and Coachella later in the month.
Cardi B’s new single “Be Careful” is also available on Apple Music and Spotify now!
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Strong wind warning in effect. High Temp: 80 °F. Marine / ocean climate data updated daily, surface sea temperatures and recorded in degrees centigrade and farenheit. Compare two years using the chart below. Photos will be available to all users after verification by the moderator. This data display average monthly climate indicators in Sarnia in January based on our historical weather readings over a period of ten years. Average water temperature in Sarnia in January is 35.4°F/1.9°C and therefore is not suitable for comfortable swimming. *These tide times are estimates based on the nearest port (Chain Bridge, D.C.) and may differ by up to half and hour depending on distance. Meter reading, billing and payment collection of the City’s water and sewer charge is managed by Bluewater Power Distribution. These average ocean temperatures for Sarnia are calculated from several years of archived data. Current conditions and forecasts including 7 day outlook, daily high/low temperature, warnings, chance of precipitation, pressure, humidity/wind chill (when applicable) historical data, normals, record values and sunrise/sunset times Information on Great Lakes water levels is available from several agencies in the United States and Canada. The measurements for the water temperature in Sarnia, Ontario are provided by the daily satellite readings provided by the NOAA. ºC ºF Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 0ºC 5ºC 10ºC 15ºC 20ºC 25ºC Monthly average max / min water temperatures Average water temperature in Sarnia in September is 20°C/68°F. Sarnia Weather Forecasts. The temperatures given are the sea surface temperature (SST) which is most relevant to recreational users. Average high air temperature in Sarnia in June is 24°C/75°F, and average low air temperature is 13°C/55°F. Sarnia, Canada July average sea temperature. ºC ºF Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 0ºC 5ºC 10ºC 15ºC 20ºC 25ºC Monthly average max / min water temperatures Sarnia Temperature Yesterday. Averages are for Sarnia Airport, which is 4 miles from Sarnia. Average water temperature in Sarnia in October is 14.6°C/58.3°F and therefore is not suitable for comfortable swimming. Bluewater Power issues invoices for both water and hydro usage on the same bill. During those months, Sarnia water temperature does not drop below 20°C/68°F and therefore suitable for comfortable swimming. Graph explanation. Today Tonight and Friday. Sarnia A. weather station: 181 m.a.s.l., 8.0 km away from Sarnia. Sarnia is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, with a 2016 population of 71,594. Daytime maximum temperatures average around a cool 16°C (60°F), whilst at night 6°C (44°F) is normal. Sarnia, Canada April average sea temperature. water temperature of 32.2°F / 0.1°C. Monthly Sarnia water temperature chart. The bar chart below shows the average monthly sea temperatures at Sarnia over the year. Wind southwest 25 knots veering to west 20 Friday afternoon then diminishing to northwest 15 Friday evening. The coolest month is March with an avg. Sarnia could be paying about $370,000 more next year into the shared distribution system that provides drinking water to about 100,000 people in Lambton County.The Lambton Area Water Supply System&… To get an accurate forecast for the water temperature in Sarnia for any chosen month, compare two years within a 10 year range using the chart below. There is significant rainfall throughout the year in Sarnia. As a result, you will be able to get a fairly accurate idea about the average water temperature in January. Weather climate statistics include monthly averages, maximum and minimum average mean temperatures, mean rainfall, mean snowfall & daily high and low extremes for temperature. What is the water temperature in January in Lion's Head. The graph below shows the range of monthly water temperatures over several years. The measurements for the water temperature in Sarnia, Ontario are provided by the daily satellite readings provided by the NOAA. In addition to temperature, we include data on the number of rainy and sunny days so you can have all the information about your destination before your trip, You can also view information about water temperature for other months. Please note, the tide times given are not suitable for navigational purposes. The temperatures given are the sea surface temperature (SST) which is most relevant to recreational users. The graph below shows the range of monthly water temperatures over several years. Based on weather reports collected during 1985–2015. The Köppen-Geiger climate classification is Dfb. Annual Weather Averages Near Sarnia. Whilst sea temperatures for Sarnia are as accurate as current data allows, there may be slight local and regional variations depending on conditions. Is the water warm in Rouge Beach in January?Can you swim in January in Wasaga Beach?What is the water temperature in January in Lion's Head? Even the driest month still has a lot of rainfall. Average monthly sea temperatures in Sarnia Jan Feb Mar Apr ... 72.3: 73.8: 69.4: 59.7: 49.1: 39.7: Monthly average max / min water temperatures. To get an accurate forecast for the water temperature in Sarnia for any chosen month, compare two years within a 10 year range using the chart below. If you have interesting photos of this place, you can upload them here. Marine / ocean climate data updated daily, surface sea temperatures and recorded in degrees centigrade and farenheit. Sarnia-Lambton’s MP would like to see a program exploring reduced quarantine periods implemented at the Blue Water Bridge. Be prepared for the day. The average temperature in Sarnia is 8.3 °C | 46.9 °F. Find the most current and reliable 7 day weather forecasts, storm alerts, reports and information for [city] with The Weather Network. Average high air temperature in Sarnia in January is -1°C/30°F, and average low air temperature is -8°C/17°F. Average high air temperature in Sarnia in July is 26°C/80°F, and average low air temperature is 16°C/60°F. The warmest water temperature in Sarnia in July is 24.5°C/76.1°F, and the coldest water temperature in July is 14.9°C/58.8°F. The bar chart below shows the average monthly sea temperatures at Sarnia … Other Inquiries or Assistance For Water & Sewer Rates call 519-332-0330 For Water & Sewer Infrastructure call 519-344-1932 The warmest water temperature in Sarnia in May is 14.7°C/58.5°F, and the coldest water temperature in May is 3°C/37.4°F. The graph below shows the range of monthly water temperatures over several years. Current weather in Sarnia and forecast for today, tomorrow, and next 14 days Hi/Low, RealFeel®, precip, radar, & everything you need to be ready for the day, commute, and weekend! So instead, you can use our extensive historic data to check the water temperature in Sarnia in January over a period of the last ten years. Check the current conditions for Sarnia, Ontario, Canada for the day ahead, with radar, hourly, and up to the minute forecasts. Marilyn Gladu told Sue … Issued 10:30 AM EST 19 November 2020 . The day of the year with the warmest water is August 7 , with an average temperature of 71°F . The warmest sea in Sarnia in March is 5°C/41°F, and the coldest sea temperature in March is 0°C/32°F. Get the monthly weather forecast for Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, including daily high/low, historical averages, to help you plan ahead. The graph below shows the range of monthly Sarnia water temperature derived from many years of historical sea surface temperature data. Lake Huron is a city close to Great Lakes,lake. Weather Underground provides local & long-range weather forecasts, weatherreports, maps & tropical weather conditions for the Sarnia area. For more information about, or to contact Bluewater Power please call 519-337-8201 or visit their website at www.bluewaterpower.com. Current water temperature Sarnia Changes water temperature in … The warmest water temperature in Sarnia in January is 5.9°C/42.6°F, and the coldest water temperature in January is -1.1°C/30°F. You can choose the units of measurement for displaying data - in Celsius or Fahrenheit. The climate in Sarnia during October can be summarized as mild and reasonably dry. High & Low Weather Summary for the Past Weeks Average water temperature in Sarnia in May is 7.5°C/45.5°F and therefore is not suitable for comfortable swimming. Average high air temperature in Sarnia in January is 30°F/-1°C, and average low air temperature is 17°F/-8°C. The warmest water temperature in Sarnia in January is 42.6°F/5.9°C, and the coldest water temperature in January is 30°F/-1.1°C. Showing: All Year Climate & Weather Averages in Sarnia. Water temperature forecasts for the long term tend to be misleading. Is the water warm in Rouge Beach in January? Average water temperature in Sarnia … Our report for Sarnia is compiled using satellite data together with in-situ observations to get the most reliable daily data of water temperatures, current temperatures and weather forecasts. The time of year with warmer water lasts for 2.9 months, from June 29 to September 26, with an average temperature above 63°F. Hide explanation. Maximum temperature yesterday: 48 °F (at 1:00 pm) Minimum temperature yesterday: 34 °F (at 5:00 am) Average temperature yesterday: 40 °F. Time of day and wind direction may have a temporary local effect as can water flows from neraby rivers. Map showing location of Sarnia (42.978660, -82.404070). : 91.0 km fra Sarnia; Average temperature per month. The warmest water temperature in Sarnia in October is 19°C/66.2°F, and the coldest water temperature in October is 9.9°C/49.8°F. Description The above climate weather data chart for Sarnia Airport, Ontario Canada shows average monthly weather statistics with historic daily extremes. Sarnia, Canada March average sea temperature. Find the most current and reliable 36 hour weather forecasts, storm alerts, reports and information for Sarnia, ON, CA with The Weather Network. The warmest sea in Sarnia in September is 23°C/73°F, and the coldest sea temperature in September is 17°C/63°F. The average water temperature in Sarnia in winter reaches 3°C/37.4°F, in spring 4°C/39.2°F, in summer the average temperature rises to 19°C/66.2°F, and in autumn it is 15°C/59°F. Marine Forecast. Marine / ocean climate data updated daily, surface sea temperatures and recorded in degrees centigrade and farenheit. Explaination to the graph: Max temperature: Average max daily (24h) temperature … Mount Clemens Ang BaSE (MI): 53.0 km fra Sarnia; Windsor Ont. Monthly Sarnia water temperature chart The bar chart below shows the average monthly sea temperatures at Sarnia over the year. Get the forecast for today, tonight & tomorrow's weather for Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. Monthly Sarnia water temperature chart The bar chart below shows the average monthly sea temperatures at Sarnia over the year. This Web page contains links to a number of official Web sites containing Great Lakes water level and related data. The warmest water temperature in Sarnia in June is 20.4°C/68.7°F, and the coldest water temperature in June is 9.2°C/48.6°F. August is the month with the warmest water temperature at 73.9°F / 23.3°C. 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250 Ugandans repatriated from UAE
According to the statement, they left Dubai International Airport aboard Emirates Airlines on Monday morning and they were expected to arrive at Entebbe International Airport this afternoon at 2pm.
250 Ugandans and legal residents who were stranded in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E) are returning today, the ministry of foreign affairs said in a statement.
This group was seen off by the Immigration Attaché Amil Kabwijamu, who was accompanied by other members of Staff of the Uganda Embassy in UAE.
Uganda started repatriating her citizens in June and close to 4000 have since returned from different parts of the world.
654 Ugandans repatriated from India, Saudi Arabia
- By Nicholas Asingwire / September 07, 2020
360 Ugandans repatriated from Oman
- By Nicholas Asingwire / August 31, 2020
87 Ugandans repatriated from Europe, US
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Museveni: Africa needs a center of gravity for a secure and prosperous future
Museveni also noted that Ugandan needs to look into expanding its market by rooting for regional and continental integration.
posted onNovember 3, 2020
President Yoweri Museveni has said Africa needs a central force to drive the next-level growth that is needed for the prosperity of its people.
According to Museveni, most African leaders, instead of building an Africa that focuses on unity and integration, are pursuing interests that lead to a divided continent.
“It is now 63 years since Ghana’s Independence in 1957. The Post-Independence African leaders, except for Mwalimu Nyerere and Mzee Karume, have succeeded in building a Latin America in Africa instead of building a United States of Africa in Africa as the wishes of the Wazee – Nkrumah, Nyerere, Modibo Keita, Sekou Toure, Nasser and Gadaffi – were,” the president said Monday while launching the NRM Manifesto after being nominated for the 2021 elections.
“We have failed to build a centre of gravity, a guaranteeing force for the African Race, to guarantee a secure and prosperous future for that much-traumatized race.”
The president said that for a country like Uganda to move from where it is now there are three questions that need to be answered, with the first being “how shall we ensure the prosperity of Ugandans by removing all the barriers – conceptual and physical – to the rapid and free flow of goods and services within Uganda as one market?”
According to the president, this can be answered by making everyone think along the lines of a one Uganda instead of practicing sectarianism which has eroded the country of the much need cooperation.
“To make it clear to all and sundry that Uganda is more useful to the Ugandan producers of goods and services than the individual tribal areas – Ankole, Buganda, Acholi etc. To ensure that it is clear to all that mwoyo gwa Uganda will ensure our prosperity better than the mwoyo gwa gwanga of the tribes,” he said.
“Is the Uganda Market enough to guarantee our prosperity once all the Ugandans wake up from kulambaala (sleeping) and from okukolera ekida kyoonka and produce big volumes of maize, milk, beef, bananas, cassava, sugar, industrial products etc.?” he asked.
“The answer is: ‘No, the Ugandan market is not enough; we also need the East African market; the African market and the World market’. We shall get access to the East African and African markets through the economic integration of those areas as we have done under EAC and CFTA. We shall more easily access the global markets if we negotiate as East Africa or as Africa. Uganda alone, does not have the clout to negotiate credibly with the big markets of the USA, China, India, Russia, EU.”
After getting solutions to the two questions above, the third will be: “How can we guarantee the strategic security, the long-term security, the eternal security, of the Ugandan people and the other African peoples against all possible threats of whatever capacity?”
“Can economic development alone, through economic integration, guarantee this strategic security?” the president went on to ask.
And to him, the answer is “No.”
Museveni says continental security can be achieved through organizing regional Federations such as the East African Federation “because of the factors of similarity in cultures and languages or, at least, linkages in culture and language.”
“These similarities assist cohesion among these political units,” he said.
President Museveni says that prosperity will not come until the continent undergoes a social-economic transformation as alluded to earlier. And this, according to him, will come about as a consequence of everybody going to school, having good health and entering the money economy by the masses invading the enclave economy and entering the four sectors for wealth and for jobs.
“The four sectors are: commercial agriculture with ekibaro, away from the ancient culture of a non-money economy of okukolera ekida kyoonka, tic me ic keken; Industries, big and small – based on agro processing, minerals beneficiation, marine resources Industries, Forest products Industries and the new capacity of knowledge-based Industries of medicine, vaccines, motor vehicles fabrication etc.; services sector; and ICT,” he said.
- By Kp Reporter / January 19, 2021
- By Nicholas Asingwire / January 12, 2021
Kisoro gets water supply boost
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INSTYTUT FIZYKI TEORETYCZNEJ
WYDZIAŁ FIZYKI UNIWERSYTETU WARSZAWSKIEGO
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Phone: (+48 22) 5532245
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List of the conferences organized or coorganized by our Chair:
Virtual conference of the Polish Society of Relativity 2020 [online]
September 24-26, 2020, Zoom.
Quantum field theory meets gravity - DESY theory workshop
September 24-27, 2019, Hamburg, Germany
Conference on the occasion of Jerzy Lewandowski's 60th birthday
September 16-20, 2019, Warsaw, Poland
8th Tux Workshop on Quantum Gravity
February 10-14, 2019, Tux, Austria
Quantum Knot Invariants and Supersymmetric Gauge Theories
November 5 - December 14, 2018, Santa Barbara, USA
Quantum fields, knots, and strings
September 24-28, 2018, University of Warsaw, Poland
The 5th Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity
September 24-27, 2018, Wojanów Palace, Poland
The Fifteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories (MG15)
July 1-7, 2018, Rome, Italy
IX International Meeting on Lorentzian Geometry
June 18-23, 2018, Warsaw, Poland
Categorification in mathematical physics
April 9-13, 2018, Stony Brook, USA
2018 Winter Conference Quantum Knot Homology and Supersymmetric Gauge Theories
March 4-10, 2018, Aspen, USA
September 24-28, 2017, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland
9th Mathematical Physics Meeting: School and Conference on Modern Mathematical Physics
September 18-23, 2017, Belgrade, Serbia
44 Zjazd Fizyków Polskich
September 10-15, 2017, Wrocław, Poland
The international worshop on Noncommutative geometry, Duality and Quantum Gravity
September 4-6, 2017, Kyoto, Japan
Loops'17
July 3-7, 2017, Warszawa
stringtheory.pl
April 21-23, 2017, Warszawa
Advanced School on Integrability
March 6-8, 2017, Warszawa
Fifth Tux workshop on Quantum gravity
Quantum Spacetime'17
January 30-February 3, 2017, Porto, Portugal
Gravitational waves. Mathematical, computational, astrophysical and quantum approaches
December 9-11, 2016, Warszawa
The 3rd International Summer School on Quantum Gravity
Beijing, China, August 15-20, 2016
from school site:
The series of BNU International Summer School is intended to provide a pedagogical introduction for graduate students and young post-docs to certain fundamental topics of quantum gravity. (The lecture course entitled Loop Quantum Gravity was led by Professor Jerzy Lewandowski).
Carlo Fest
Luminy and Jardin du Pharo, Marseille, May 23-27, 2016
from conference site:
Celebrating Carlo Rovelli's 60 birthday, A Journey from Quantum Gravity to Philosophy.
Fourth Tux Workshop on Quantum Gravity
Tux, Austria, February 15-19, 2016
The workshop brings together experts on canonical and covariant loop quantum gravity and related topics, in the scenic village of Tux, in the Austrian Alps.
Quantum Spacetime ’16
Zakopane, February 6-12, 2016
This workshop will address various aspects of noncommutative geometry (NCG) as covered by the COST Action MP1405 Quantum Structure of Spacetime (QSpace): Connection of NCG with realistic phenomenological models, including the Standard Models of Particle Physics and Cosmology New constructions of fields, matter and quantum spacetimes in NCG Connections between NCG and other models of gravity.
Second LeCosPA Symposium Everything About Gravity
Taipei, December 14-18, 2015
To celebrate the centenary of Einstein’s General Relativity, we organize the 2nd LeCosPA International Symposium “Everything about Gravity” on December 14-18, 2015 in Taipei under the auspices of the Division of Astrophysics-Cosmology-Gravity (DACG), Association of Asia-Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS).
Advanced School on Topological Quantum Field Theory
December 7-9, 2015, Warsaw, Poland
ESI Program on Higher Structures in String Theory and Quantum Field Theory
November 16 - December 19, 2015, Vienna, Austria
The focus of the programme is in using recent developing ideas from string theory and quantum field theory, in particular T-duality, non-geometry and M-brane models, with the aim of understanding their constructions in terms of higher geometric structures, topological field theories, and Kasparov theory.
THE 2ND CONFERENCE OF THE POLISH SOCIETY ON RELATIVITY: 100 YEARS OF GENERAL RELATIVITY
23-28 November 2015, Warsaw, Poland
The scientific program covers broad range of topics from the mathematical structure of General Relativity (GR) and fundamental issues of the classical gravity, through the mathematical models of quantum gravity, to gravitational waves and their detection.
Geometric Aspects of General Relativity
September 28 - October 1, 2015, University of Montpellier (France)
The goal of the school is to introduce a broad audience of mathematicians and young researchers to a selection of currently very active fields of research. It will be centered on themes of high current interest in mathematical relativity, with a strong emphasis on the differential geometric side of the theory. Ph. D students are especially invited to attend.
Quantum Gravity Meeting
July 20 - 23, 2015, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
This year the Marcel Grossmann meeting will be held in Rome July 12-18 and, since several colleagues would already be here for that meeting of broader scopes, we thought it would be a good idea to host a meeting more focused on quantum gravity just after the Marcel Grossmann.
Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting - MG14
July 12-18, 2015, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
The scientific objective of these meetings is to bring together scientists from diverse backgrounds in order to deepen our understanding of spacetime structures and review the status of experiments testing Einsteins theory of gravitation. The range of topics is broad: from more abstract classical gravitational theories, quantum gravity, and string theories all the way to relativistic astrophysics and an outlook towards future observational missions.
July 6-10, 2015, Erlangen, Germany
The conference LOOPS 15, the eighth conference with focus on Loop Quantum Gravity, will take place in Erlangen, Germany from July 6th to July 10th in 2015.
stringtheory.pl/2015
April 10-12, 2015, Wrocław, Poland
Third EFI winter conference on quantum gravity
The conference aims to bring together experts on canonical and covariant loop quantum gravity and related topics, in the scenic village of Tux, in the Austrian Alps.
Conceptual and Technical Challenges for Quantum Gravity 2014
September 8 - 12 2014, Sapienza University of Rome
This conference will provide an opportunity for an encounter between different approaches and different perspectives on the quantum-gravity problem. Its main goal is to contribute to a higher level of shared knowledge among the quantum-gravity communities pursuing each specific research program.
The 1st Conference of Polish Society on Relativity
June 29 - July 4, 2014, Spała near Łódź, Poland
Contact via this link
XXXIII Max Born Symposium
Noncommutative geometry, quantum symmetries and quantum gravity
July 6 - 10, 2014, Wroclaw, Poland
The aim of the Symposium is to provide recent results related with noncommutative geometries and quantum groups as well as present some applications in quantum gravity models.
Frontiers of Fundamental Physics 14
XIV international symposium
July 15 - 18, 2014, Marseille, France
FFP Symposium began in India in 1997 and it became itinerant in 2004, through Europe, Canada and Australia. It covers topics in fundamental physics with the objective to enable scholars working in related areas to meet on a single platform and exchange ideas. In addition to highlighting the progress in these areas, the symposium invites the top researchers to reflect on the educational aspects of our discipline. Moreover, the scientific concepts are also discussed through philosophical and epistemological viewpoints. Several eminent scientists, such as the laureates of prestigious awards (Nobel, Fields Medal,…), have already participated in these meetings.
99 years of General Relativity
ESI-EMS-IAMP Summer school on Mathematical Relativity
July 28 - August 1, 2014, Vien, Austria
Mathematical General Relativity is a timely topic, with outstanding recent progress in the field by many authors, with growing interest both in the physics and mathematical community. The aim of the school is to provide an introduction to the topics which are currently being studied. The target audience is graduate students and postdocs, both physicists and mathematicians, interested in mathematical general relativity.
Second EFI winter conference on canonical and covariant LQG
February 10 - 14, 2014, Tux, Austria
The aim of this conference is to bring together experts on canonical and covariant loop quantum gravity and related topics. Focal topics will be the quantum theory of black holes, and dynamics in quantum gravity.
20th International Conference of General Relativity and Gravitation
10th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves
7-13 July 2013, Warszawa, Poland
GR20 is the latest in the series of triennial international conferences held under the auspices of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation. This conference series constitutes the principal international meetings for scientists working in all the areas of relativity and gravitation. The Amaldi conferences are held under the auspices of the Gravitational Wave International Committee. Since 1997, they have been held every two years and are regarded as the most important international conferences for the gravitational wave detection community. This time, in Warsaw, GR20 and Amaldi10 are organized as a joint event.
22-26 July 2013, Waterloo, Canada
This conference, which is part of the series of Loops conferences, will present and review recent progress and highlights in loop quantum gravity and other quantum gravity approaches. We will focus mainly on background independent approaches which are approaches that do not depend on perturbation theory formulated in a classical background.
EFI winter conference on canonical and covariant LQG
25.02-01.03.2013, Tux, Austria
The conference aims to bring together experts on canonical and covariant loop quantum gravity and related topics, in the scenic village of Tux, in the Austrian Alps. The schedule of the conference will give ample time for discussion and collaboration.
The Third Quantum Gravity & Quantum Geometry School
28.02-13.03.2011, Zakopane, Poland
The purpose of the school is to provide current PhD students, potdocs and other researchers with an up-to-date introduction to the main research topics of the network: loop quantum gravity, spin foam models, matrix models, and the application of non-commutative geometry and quantum groups to quantum gravity as well as more recent developments like group field theory. The emphasize will be on progress made during the four years of the ESF network program Quantum geometry and Quantum Gravity.
Open Problems in Loop Quantum Gravity
A workshop on the following topics:
The dynamics of quantum space (the status of the quantum Hamiltonian constraint in LQG and the covariant implementation of the dynamics in spin foam models and group field theories).
The semiclassical limit and the continuum approximation in loop quantum gravity and the recovering of classical General Relativity and of matter quantum field theory in such approximation.
Quantum gravitational observables.
The role of diffeomorphisms in quantum gravity, their nature and possible breaking at the Planck scale or in discrete contexts.
Loops and Foams
3-9.3.2008, Zakopane, Poland
QG dynamics: Master constraint programme, status of Hamiltonian constraint, volume operator, relational observables, Loop Quantum Cosmology
Spin foam models: The new models, effective non-commutative field theory, graviton propagator, Group Field Theory, continuum/semiclassical limit
Relation between LQG and Spin-foam models: Kinematics, dynamics, covariant LQG, Group Field Theory, 2+1 gravity
The First Quantum Geometry & Quantum Gravity School
23.3-03.4.2007, Zakopane, Poland
The aim of the school was to provide an up-to-date introduction to the main research topics of the network, namely: loop quantum gravity, spin foam models, dynamical triangulations, matrix models, and the application of non-commutative geometry and quantum groups to quantum gravity.
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Kukla's Korner Hockey
Blues Trade Jamal Mayers to the Leafs
by Alanah McGinley on 06/20/08 at 01:04 AM ET
From the St. Louis Blues,
St. Louis Blues President John Davidson announced today the club has acquired a 2008 3rd round draft pick, 70th overall, from the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for forward Jamal Mayers.
“I want to thank Jamal for everything he has done for the Blues and the city of St. Louis,” said Davidson. “We wish Jamal and his family nothing but the best in his hometown of Toronto.”
added 7:18am (Paul), from Jeremy Rutherford of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
Blues President John Davidson said the trade of Jamal Mayers late Thursday night is a precursor of something else that could happen today.
“It’s all part of us trying to put stuff together and we’re not done yet,” Davidson said. “This is the start of something ... that’s the best way of saying it. We’ve got other stuff going on, but can’t say anything because it’s not finalized. We’ll try and get that done (today).’‘
Davidson added: “I don’t want people to think we just traded Jamal Mayers for a draft pick and that’s the end of us. The more we work toward putting something else together, the more the draft pick position could become a part of (tonight’s) action. We’re working it here and we feel we’re getting close.”
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Moco McCaulay July 26, 2015 OpinionsViewpoints
On January 3, 1848, when Joseph J. Roberts delivered his inaugural address before the Legislature as president of the newly independent African nation of Liberia, his audience were most certainly bubbling with euphoria, and rightly so, for only some 20 years before, many of them were wallowing under the bondage of slavery and other forms of racial oppression in the United States of America.
That they would be witnessing the inauguration of a leader, chosen by the free exercise of their suffrage to lead a nation where they would enjoy their inalienable rights and dignity as human beings without any forms of constrictions placed along their paths because of their color, must have stirred a rapture in the deepest recesses of their souls. But, even though President Roberts too may have shared such elation, his speech was tapered by the “peculiar solemnity” and “weight and magnitude” of the task to lead this new nation on the western shores of Africa.
“We have just entered upon a new and important career. To give effect to all the measures and powers of the government, we have found it necessary to remodel our Constitution and to erect ourselves into an independent State; which, in its infancy, is exposed to numberless hazards and perils, and which can never attain to maturity, or ripen into firmness, unless it is managed with affectionate assiduity, and guarded by great abilities…” President Roberts said, as he implored his listeners to do their utmost “to hand down unimpaired to future generations, the freedom and independence we this day enjoy.” (Source of President Roberts’ speech: ‘Calumny Refuted, by Facts from Liberia‘ by Wilson Armistead)
Today, 168 years later, it still feels like the Liberian nation hasn’t “ripen into firmness” because Africa’s first republic still teeters on the precipice of failed states, as it wallows at the top of the list of the world’s poorest nations. And, it is not hard to see that it is because the nation has not been “managed with affectionate assiduity” or “guarded by great abilities” as President Roberts admonished.
So, on this singular day in the annals of Africa when her first republic was birth out of the love of liberty, President Roberts words resonate with even greater cogency and urgency for Liberia to be “managed with affectionate assiduity” and “guarded by great abilities” that it may indeed “ripen into firmness!”
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Charles Taylor’s Crimes Have Come Home To Roost With A Resounding 50-yr Jail Smackdown…And Deservedly So
Moco McCaulay October 2, 2013
Can Liberia Achieve Lasting Peace Without Retributive Justice?
Moco McCaulay April 6, 2012
A Sandwich Brimming Over with Nepotism, and Served With A Sprinkling of ‘Nobel-ity’
To Revise or Not To Revise: Are Liberia’s National Symbols Reflections of Our Shared Patrimony?
Moco McCaulay August 23, 2012
D-Day Beckons As the Sand in the Hourglass Empties for Charles Taylor
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Visual System Homeobox 1 (VSX1) Gene Analysis in Keratoconus: Design of Specific Primers and DNA Amplification Protocols for Accurate Molecular Characterization
Ng JB, Poh RY, Lee KR, Subrayan V, Deva JP, Lau AY, et al.
Clin. Lab., 2016 Sep 01;62(9):1731-1737.
PMID: 28164597 DOI: 10.7754/Clin.Lab.2016.160144
BACKGROUND: Keratoconus is an ocular degeneration characterized by the thinning of corneal stroma that may lead to varying degrees of myopia and visual impairment. Genetic factors have been reported in the pathology of keratoconus where Asians have a higher incidence, earlier onset, and undergo earlier corneal grafts compared to Caucasians. The visual system homeobox 1 (VSX1) gene forms part of a paired-like homeodomain transcription factor which is responsible for ocular development. The gene was marked as a candidate in genetic studies of keratoconus in various populations. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the VSX1 gene have been reported to be associated with keratoconus. The detection of the SNPs involves DNA amplification of the VSX1 gene followed by genomic sequencing. Thus, the objective of this study aims to establish sensitive and accurate screening protocols for the molecular characterization of VSX1 polymorphisms.
METHODS: Keratoconic (n = 74) and control subjects (n = 96) were recruited based on clinical diagnostic tests and selection criteria. DNA extracted from the blood samples was used to genotype VSX1 polymorphisms. In-house designed primers and optimization of PCR conditions were carried out to amplify exons 1 and 3 of the VSX1 gene. PCR conditions including percentage GC content, melting temperatures, and differences in melting temperatures of primers were evaluated to produce sensitive and specific DNA amplifications.
RESULTS: Genotyping was successfully carried out in 4 exons of the VSX1 gene. Primer annealing temperatures were observed to be crucial in enhancing PCR sensitivity and specificity. Annealing temperatures were carefully evaluated to produce increased specificity, yet not allowing sensitivity to be compromised. In addition, exon 1 of the VSX1 gene was amplified using 2 different sets of primers to produce 2 smaller amplified products with absence of non-specific bands. DNA amplification of exons 1 and 3 consistently showed single band products which were successfully sequenced to yield reproducible data.
CONCLUSIONS: The use of in-house designed primers and optimized PCR conditions allowed sensitive and specific DNA amplifications that produced distinct single bands. The in-house designed primers and DNA amplification protocols established in this study provide an addition to the current repertoire of primers for accurate molecular characterization of VSX1 gene polymorphisms in keratoconus research.
Matched MeSH terms: Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques/methods*
Fulltext Rapid Detection of Plasmodium knowlesi by Isothermal Recombinase Polymerase Amplification Assay
Lai MY, Ooi CH, Lau YL
Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2017 Nov;97(5):1597-1599.
PMID: 28820700 DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.17-0427
In this study, we developed a recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) assay for specific diagnosis of Plasmodium knowlesi. Genomic DNA was extracted from whole blood samples using a commercial kit. With incubation at 37°C, the samples were successfully amplified within 20 minutes. The end product of RPA was further examined by loading onto agarose gel and a specific band was observed with a size of 128 bp. The RPA assay exhibited high sensitivity with limits of detection down to one copy of the plasmid. From the specificity experiments, it was demonstrated that all P. knowlesi samples (N = 45) were positive while other Plasmodium spp. (N = 42) and negative samples (N = 6) were negative. Therefore, the RPA assay is a highly promising approach with the potential to be used in resource-limited settings. This assay can be further optimized for bedside and on field application.
Matched MeSH terms: Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques*
Fulltext Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP): a versatile technique for detection of micro-organisms
Wong YP, Othman S, Lau YL, Radu S, Chee HY
J Appl Microbiol, 2018 Mar;124(3):626-643.
PMID: 29165905 DOI: 10.1111/jam.13647
Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) amplifies DNA with high specificity, efficiency and rapidity under isothermal conditions by using a DNA polymerase with high displacement strand activity and a set of specifically designed primers to amplify targeted DNA strands. Following its first discovery by Notomi et al. ( Nucleic Acids Res 28: E63), LAMP was further developed over the years which involved the combination of this technique with other molecular approaches, such as reverse transcription and multiplex amplification for the detection of infectious diseases caused by micro-organisms in humans, livestock and plants. In this review, available types of LAMP techniques will be discussed together with their applications in detection of various micro-organisms. Up to date, there are varieties of LAMP detection methods available including colorimetric and fluorescent detection, real-time monitoring using turbidity metre and detection using lateral flow device which will also be highlighted in this review. Apart from that, commercialization of LAMP technique had also been reported such as lyophilized form of LAMP reagents kit and LAMP primer sets for detection of pathogenic micro-organisms. On top of that, advantages and limitations of this molecular detection method are also described together with its future potential as a diagnostic method for infectious disease.
An ambient temperature stable and ready-to-use loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay for detection of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae in outbreak settings
Engku Nur Syafirah EAR, Nurul Najian AB, Foo PC, Mohd Ali MR, Mohamed M, Yean CY
Acta Trop, 2018 Jun;182:223-231.
PMID: 29545156 DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2018.03.004
Cholera, caused by Vibrio cholerae is a foodborne disease that frequently reported in food and water related outbreak. Rapid diagnosis of cholera infection is important to avoid potential spread of disease. Among available diagnostic platforms, loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) is regarded as a potential diagnostic tool due to its rapidity, high sensitivity and specificity and independent of sophisticated thermalcycler. However, the current LAMP often requires multiple pipetting steps, hence is susceptible to cross contamination. Besides, the strict requirement of cold-chain during transportation and storage make its application in low resource settings to be inconvenient. To overcome these problems, the present study is aimed to develop an ambient-temperature-stable and ready-to-use LAMP assay for the detection of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae in low resource settings. A set of specific LAMP primers were designed and tested against 155 V. cholerae and non-V. cholerae strains. Analytical specifity showed that the developed LAMP assay detected 100% of pathogenic V. cholerae and did not amplified other tested bacterial strains. Upon testing against stool samples spiked with toxigenic V. cholerae outbreak isolates, the LAMP assay detected all of the spiked samples (n = 76/76, 100%), in contrast to the conventional PCR which amplified 77.6% (n = 59/76) of the tested specimens. In term of sensitivity, the LAMP assay was 100-fold more sensitive as compared to the conventional PCR method, with LOD of 10 fg per μL and 10 CFU per mL. Following lyophilisation with addition of lyoprotectants, the dry-reagent LAMP mix has an estimated shelf-life of 90.75 days at room temperature.
Fulltext Diagnostic accuracy of genetic markers and nucleic acid techniques for the detection of Leptospira in clinical samples: A meta-analysis
Lam JY, Low GK, Chee HY
PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2020 02;14(2):e0008074.
PMID: 32049960 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008074
BACKGROUND: Leptospirosis is often difficult to diagnose because of its nonspecific symptoms. The drawbacks of direct isolation and serological tests have led to the increased development of nucleic acid-based assays, which are more rapid and accurate. A meta-analysis was performed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of genetic markers for the detection of Leptospira in clinical samples.
METHODOLOGY AND PRINCIPLE FINDINGS: A literature search was performed in Scopus, PubMed, MEDLINE and non-indexed citations (via Ovid) by using suitable keyword combinations. Studies evaluating the performance of nucleic acid assays targeting leptospire genes in human or animal clinical samples against a reference test were included. Of the 1645 articles identified, 42 eligible studies involving 7414 samples were included in the analysis. The diagnostic performance of nucleic acid assays targeting the rrs, lipL32, secY and flaB genes was pooled and analyzed. Among the genetic markers analyzed, the secY gene showed the highest diagnostic accuracy measures, with a pooled sensitivity of 0.56 (95% CI: 0.50-0.63), a specificity of 0.98 (95% CI: 0.97-0.98), a diagnostic odds ratio of 46.16 (95% CI: 6.20-343.49), and an area under the curve of summary receiver operating characteristics curves of 0.94. Nevertheless, a high degree of heterogeneity was observed in this meta-analysis. Therefore, the present findings here should be interpreted with caution.
CONCLUSION: The diagnostic accuracies of the studies examined for each genetic marker showed a significant heterogeneity. The secY gene exhibited higher diagnostic accuracy measures compared with other genetic markers, such as lipL32, flaB, and rrs, but the difference was not significant. Thus, these genetic markers had no significant difference in diagnostic accuracy for leptospirosis. Further research into these genetic markers is warranted.
Probe-specific loop-mediated isothermal amplification magnetogenosensor assay for rapid and specific detection of pathogenic Leptospira
Nurul Najian AB, Foo PC, Ismail N, Kim-Fatt L, Yean CY
Mol Cell Probes, 2019 04;44:63-68.
PMID: 30876924 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2019.03.001
This study highlighted the performance of the developed integrated loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) coupled with a colorimetric DNA-based magnetogenosensor. The biosensor operates through a DNA hybridization system in which a specific designed probe captures the target LAMP amplicons. We demonstrated the magnetogenosensor assay by detecting pathogenic Leptospira, which causes leptospirosis. The color change of the assay from brown to blue indicated a positive result, whereas a negative result was indicated by the assay maintaining its brown color. The DNA biosensor was able to detect DNA at a concentration as low as 200 fg/μl, which is equivalent to 80 genomes/reaction. The specificity of the biosensor assay was 100% when it was evaluated with 172 bacterial strains. An integrated LAMP and probe-specific magnetogenosensor was successfully developed, promising simple and rapid visual detection in clinical diagnostics and service as a point-of-care device.
Evaluation of WarmStart Colorimetric Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Assay for Diagnosis of Malaria
Lai MY, Ooi CH, Jaimin JJ, Lau YL
Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2020 06;102(6):1370-1372.
The incidence of zoonotic malaria, Plasmodium knowlesi, infection is increasing and now is the major cause of malaria in Malaysia. Here, we describe a WarmStart colorimetric loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for the detection of Plasmodium spp. The detection limit for this assay was 10 copies/µL for P knowlesi and Plasmodium ovale and 1 copy/µL for Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, and Plasmodium malariae. To test clinical sensitivity and specificity, 100 microscopy-positive and 20 malaria-negative samples were used. The WarmStart colorimetric LAMP was 98% sensitive and 100% specific. Amplification products were visible for direct observation, thereby eliminating the need for post-amplification processing steps. Therefore, WarmStart colorimetric LAMP is suitable for use in resource-limited settings.
Fulltext Development of a reverse transcription recombinase polymerase amplification assay for rapid and direct visual detection of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Lau YL, Ismail IB, Mustapa NIB, Lai MY, Tuan Soh TS, Haji Hassan A, et al.
PLoS One, 2021;16(1):e0245164.
PMID: 33406112 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0245164
Rapid diagnosis is an important intervention in managing the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak. Real time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) remains the primary means for diagnosing the new virus strain but it is time consuming and costly. Recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) is an isothermal amplification assay that does not require a PCR machine. It is an affordable, rapid, and simple assay. In this study, we developed and optimized a sensitive reverse transcription (RT)-RPA assay for the rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 using SYBR Green I and/or lateral flow (LF) strip. The analytical sensitivity and specificity of the RT-RPA assay were tested by using 10-fold serial diluted synthetic RNA and genomic RNA of similar viruses, respectively. Clinical sensitivity and specificity of the RT-RPA assay were carried out using 78 positive and 35 negative nasopharyngeal samples. The detection limit of both RPA and RT-qPCR assays was 7.659 and 5 copies/μL RNA, respectively with no cross reactivity with other viruses. The clinical sensitivity and specificity of RT-RPA were 98% and 100%, respectively. Our study showed that RT-RPA represents a viable alternative to RT-qPCR for the detection of SARS-CoV-2, especially in areas with limited infrastructure.
Matched MeSH terms: Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques/methods
Detection of Coconut cadang-cadang viroid (CCCVd) in oil palm by reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP)
Thanarajoo SS, Kong LL, Kadir J, Lau WH, Vadamalai G
J Virol Methods, 2014 Jun;202:19-23.
PMID: 24631346 DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2014.02.024
A reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) detected Coconut cadang-cadang viroid (CCCVd) within 60 min at 60 °C in total nucleic acid extracted from oil palm leaves infected with CCCVd. Positive reactions showed colour change from orange to green in the reaction mix after the addition of fluorescent reagent, and a laddering pattern band on 2% agarose gel electrophoresis. Conventional RT-PCR with LAMP primers produced amplicons with a sequence identical to the 297-nt CCCVd oil palm variant with the primers being specific for CCCVd and not for other viroids such as PSTVd and CEVd. RT-LAMP was found to be rapid and specific for detecting oil palm CCCVd.
STR data for the AmpFlSTR Profiler loci from the three main ethnic population groups (Malay, Chinese and Indian) in Malaysia
Lim KB, Jeevan NH, Jaya P, Othman MI, Lee YH
Forensic Sci Int, 2001 Jun 01;119(1):109-12.
Allele frequencies for the nine STRs genetic loci included in the AmpFlSTR Profiler kit were obtained from samples of unrelated individuals comprising 139-156 Malays, 149-153 Chinese and 132-135 Indians, residing in Malaysia.
Matched MeSH terms: Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques/instrumentation; Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques/methods
A microdevice for rapid, monoplex and colorimetric detection of foodborne pathogens using a centrifugal microfluidic platform
Sayad A, Ibrahim F, Mukim Uddin S, Cho J, Madou M, Thong KL
Biosens Bioelectron, 2018 Feb 15;100:96-104.
PMID: 28869845 DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2017.08.060
Outbreaks of foodborne diseases have become a global health concern; hence, many improvements and developments have been made to reduce the risk of food contamination. We developed a centrifugal microfluidic automatic wireless endpoint detection system integrated with loop mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) for monoplex pathogen detection. Six identical sets were designed on the microfluidic compact disc (CD) to perform 30 genetic analyses of three different species of foodborne pathogens. The consecutive loading, mixing, and aliquoting of the LAMP primers/reagents and DNA sample solutions were accomplished using an optimized square-wave microchannel, metering chambers and revulsion per minute (RPM) control. We tested 24 strains of pathogenic bacteria (Escherichia coli, Salmonella spp and Vibrio cholerae), with 8 strains of each bacterium, and performed DNA amplification on the microfluidic CD for 60min. Then, the amplicons of the LAMP reaction were detected using the calcein colorimetric method and further analysed via the developed electronic system interfaced with Bluetooth wireless technology to transmit the results to a smartphone. The system showed a limit of detection (LOD) of 3 × 10-5ngμL-1 DNA by analysing the colour change when tested with chicken meat spiked with the three pathogenic bacteria. Since the entire process was performed in a fully automated way and was easy to use, our microdevice is suitable for point-of-care (POC) testing with high simplicity, providing affordability and accessibility even to poor, resource-limited settings.
Matched MeSH terms: Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques/economics; Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques/instrumentation*
Development of multiplex loop mediated isothermal amplification (m-LAMP) label-based gold nanoparticles lateral flow dipstick biosensor for detection of pathogenic Leptospira
Nurul Najian AB, Engku Nur Syafirah EA, Ismail N, Mohamed M, Yean CY
Anal Chim Acta, 2016 Jan 15;903:142-8.
PMID: 26709307 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2015.11.015
In recent years extensive numbers of molecular diagnostic methods have been developed to meet the need of point-of-care devices. Efforts have been made towards producing rapid, simple and inexpensive DNA tests, especially in the diagnostics field. We report on the development of a label-based lateral flow dipstick for the rapid and simple detection of multiplex loop-mediated isothermal amplification (m-LAMP) amplicons. A label-based m-LAMP lateral flow dipstick assay was developed for the simultaneous detection of target DNA template and a LAMP internal control. This biosensor operates through a label based system, in which probe-hybridization and the additional incubation step are eliminated. We demonstrated this m-LAMP assay by detecting pathogenic Leptospira, which causes the re-emerging disease Leptospirosis. The lateral flow dipstick was developed to detect of three targets, the LAMP target amplicon, the LAMP internal control amplicon and a chromatography control. Three lines appeared on the dipstick, indicating positive results for all representative pathogenic Leptospira species, whereas two lines appeared, indicating negative results, for other bacterial species. The specificity of this biosensor assay was 100% when it was tested with 13 representative pathogenic Leptospira species, 2 intermediate Leptospira species, 1 non-pathogenic Leptospira species and 28 other bacteria species. This study found that this DNA biosensor was able to detect DNA at concentrations as low as 3.95 × 10(-1) genomic equivalent ml(-1). An integrated m-LAMP and label-based lateral flow dipstick was successfully developed, promising simple and rapid visual detection in clinical diagnostics and serving as a point-of-care device.
Matched MeSH terms: Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques
Fulltext Optimization of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) gene in two Bornean fanged frogs
Ramlah Zainudin, Augustine Gawin, Dency Flenny
Pertanika Journal of Science & Technology, 2011;19(1):57-66.
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Limnonectes kuhlii and Limnonectes leporinus are two of the Bornean fanged frogs (without advertisement call) which are widely distributed, thus thought to exhibit different evolutionary lineages and the existence of genetically cryptic species. Yet, the two species are still under study especially at the molecular level. Hence, cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) of mitochondrial gene was used to investigate suitable parameters for DNA amplification using the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) method. Three PCR programmes (varied in the temperatures and period of each PCR step) were employed to identify the most efficient parameters in amplifying PCR products for both species. From the three programmes, Programme B (Initial denaturation: 96°C for 5 min; denaturation: 95°C for 45 sec; annealing: 48-53°C for 1 min 30 sec; extension: 72°C for 1 min 30 sec; final extension: 72°C for 10 min, 30 cycles) showed the highest percentage (53%) of optimal PCR products. The other two programmes showed non-specific products or “primer-dimers”. The results also suggest that the annealing temperature of 52°C, 0.025-0.05 units/µl of 1.5mM Taq polymerase, 0.04 mM of
dNTPs mix and optimal concentrations of magnesium in 50 µl of reaction mixture were sufficient enough to amplify high quality PCR products for both species. However, using Programme B, the re-amplification of the PCR products yielded “primer-dimer”. In addition, a ‘Hot-Start’ PCR method was also applied and mostly yielded in an optimal PCR amplification. Nevertheless, further research on the second amplification of the two species should be conducted to determine the causes of the primer-dimer production.
Fulltext Advanced DNA-Based Point-of-Care Diagnostic Methods for Plant Diseases Detection
Lau HY, Botella JR
Frontiers in plant science, 2017;8:2016.
PMID: 29375588 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.02016
Diagnostic technologies for the detection of plant pathogens with point-of-care capability and high multiplexing ability are an essential tool in the fight to reduce the large agricultural production losses caused by plant diseases. The main desirable characteristics for such diagnostic assays are high specificity, sensitivity, reproducibility, quickness, cost efficiency and high-throughput multiplex detection capability. This article describes and discusses various DNA-based point-of care diagnostic methods for applications in plant disease detection. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is the most common DNA amplification technology used for detecting various plant and animal pathogens. However, subsequent to PCR based assays, several types of nucleic acid amplification technologies have been developed to achieve higher sensitivity, rapid detection as well as suitable for field applications such as loop-mediated isothermal amplification, helicase-dependent amplification, rolling circle amplification, recombinase polymerase amplification, and molecular inversion probe. The principle behind these technologies has been thoroughly discussed in several review papers; herein we emphasize the application of these technologies to detect plant pathogens by outlining the advantages and disadvantages of each technology in detail.
Fulltext Real-time reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification for rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2
Lau YL, Ismail I, Mustapa NI, Lai MY, Tuan Soh TS, Hassan A, et al.
PeerJ, 2020;8:e9278.
PMID: 32547882 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9278
Background: Highly sensitive real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) methods have been developed for the detection of SARS-CoV-2. However, they are costly. Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay has emerged as a novel alternative isothermal amplification method for the detection of nucleic acid.
Methods: A rapid, sensitive and specific real-time reverse transcription LAMP (RT-LAMP) assay was developed for SARS-CoV-2 detection.
Results: This assay detected one copy/reaction of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in 30 min. Both the clinical sensitivity and specificity of this assay were 100%. The RT-LAMP showed comparable performance with RT-qPCR. Combining simplicity and cost-effectiveness, this assay is therefore recommended for use in resource resource-limited settings.
Fulltext Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific DNA marker using MAMA-PCR
Chin Kai Ling, Jaeyres Jani, Zainal Arifin Mustapha
Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences, 2019;15(106):36-36.
Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB), commonly caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), is one of the ten leading causes of death worldwide. The gold standard, microbiological culture for detection and differentiation of mycobac-teria are time-consuming and laborious. The use of fast, easy and sensitive nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) for diagnosis of TB remains challenging because there is a high degree of homology within Mtb complex (MTBC) members and absence of target genes in the genome of some strains. This study aimed to identify new candidate genetic marker and to design specific primers to detect Mtb using in silico methods. Methods: Using Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) program, Mtb H37Rv chromosome reference genome sequence was mapped with other MTBC members and a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) at Rv1970 was found to be specific only for Mtb strains. Mismatch amplification mutation assay (MAMA) combine with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used as an alternative method to detect the point mutation. MAMA primers targeting the SNP were designed using Primer-BLAST and the PCR assay was optimized via Taguchi method. Results: The assay amplified a 112 bp gene fragment and was able to detect all Mtb strains, but not the other MTBC members and non-tuberculous Mycobacte-ria. The detection limit of the assay was 60 pg/μl. Conclusion: Bioinformatics has provided predictive identification of many new target markers. The designed primers were found to be highly specific at single-gene target resolution for detection of Mtb.
Fulltext Development of loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) for the detection of speB gene in invasive Streptococcus pyogenes clinical isolates
Azi Simon Onyema, Leslie Than Thian Lung, Suresh Kumar, Rukman Awang Hamat
Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences, 2019;15(106):1-1.
Introduction: Group A streptococcus (GAS) is responsible for high morbidity and mortality globally. Hence, the need to develop sensitive, reliable and cost- effective method of detection is crucial. In this study, we developed a visual detection method for the common virulence gene, streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin B (speB) involved in invasive GAS diseases using loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) with fluorescent detection dye (calcein). Meth-ods: The LAMP reaction was optimized at 63°C for 35 minutes using five sets of primer designed with LAMP primer V5 software. When the dye was added prior to amplification, samples with speB DNA developed a characteristic green color after the reaction, but no color reactions were observed in samples with DNAs of non-GAS isolates. De-tection of speB by LAMP assay was done among 43 clinical isolates of blood, pus, wound, tissue and throat samples and ATCCs for controls. Our findings were further reconfirmed by subjecting the LAMP products to 0.5% gel electro-phoresis. Results: The detection limit of this LAMP assay for speB was 10-7 ng/μl of genomic DNA per reaction, which was 10,000-fold more sensitive than conventional PCR 10-3 ng/μl. All 100 % samples were positive for speB gene by LAMP, and 93% by conventional PCR method. Conclusion: LAMP assay could offer remarkably high sensitivity, specificity, repeatability, reliability, affordability, and visibility; it is appropriate for rapid detection of speB in Group A streptococci (GAS) as a point of care testing.
Rapid in-situ detection kit (RisK): Development of loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for the rapid identification of selected invasive alien fish in Malaysian freshwaters
Vythalingam LM, Hossain MAM, Bhassu S
Mol Cell Probes, 2020 Nov 28;55:101683.
PMID: 33259896 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2020.101683
Invasive alien fish species have become a silent treat towards the ecosystem especially the native fish population in Malaysia. There has been a need to develop rapid identification methods that can aid management teams in identifying fish species that are not native to our ecosystem. Current visual identification methods are highly tedious and require time, delaying action towards curbing the invasion. The LAMP assay successfully identified six popular invasive fish species in Malaysia. None of the LAMP assays showed false positives and the Limit of Detection of the LAMP primers were highly sensitive and could detect DNA samples up to 1 × 10-15 ng/μl. The LAMP primers designed were highly specific to the target species and did not amplify non target species. DNA sequencing was done to ensure the accuracy of LAMP assay results. This study demonstrates that LAMP is a suitable tool in species identification efforts of invasive fish species in Malaysia.
Fulltext A Sensitive, Colorimetric, High-Throughput Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Assay for the Detection of Plasmodium knowlesi
Britton S, Cheng Q, Grigg MJ, William T, Anstey NM, McCarthy JS
Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2016 07 06;95(1):120-2.
The simian parasite Plasmodium knowlesi is now the commonest cause of malaria in Malaysia and can rapidly cause severe and fatal malaria. However, microscopic misdiagnosis of Plasmodium species is common, rapid antigen detection tests remain insufficiently sensitive and confirmation of P. knowlesi requires polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Thus available point-of-care diagnostic tests are inadequate. This study reports the development of a simple, sensitive, colorimetric, high-throughput loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay (HtLAMP) diagnostic test using novel primers for the detection of P. knowlesi. This assay is able to detect 0.2 parasites/μL, and compared with PCR has a sensitivity of 96% for the detection of P. knowlesi, making it a potentially field-applicable point-of-care diagnostic tool.
Fulltext Loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay for detection of generic and verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli among indigenous individuals in Malaysia
Teh CS, Chua KH, Lim YA, Lee SC, Thong KL
ScientificWorldJournal, 2014;2014:457839.
PMID: 24967435 DOI: 10.1155/2014/457839
We have successfully developed a Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay that could specifically detect generic Escherichia coli (E. coli). This assay was tested on 85 bacterial strains and successfully identified 54 E. coli strains (average threshold time, Tt = 21.26). The sensitivity of this assay was evaluated on serial dilutions of bacterial cultures and spiked faeces. The assay could detect 10(2) CFU/mL for bacterial culture with Tt = 33.30 while the detection limit for spiked faeces was 10(3) CFU/mL (Tt = 31.12). We have also detected 46 generic E. coli from 50 faecal samples obtained from indigenous individuals with 16% of the positive samples being verocytotoxin-producing E. coli (VTEC) positive. VT1/VT2 allele was present in one faecal sample while the ratio of VT1 to VT2 was 6 : 1. Overall, our study had demonstrated high risk of VTEC infection among the indigenous community and most of the asymptomatic infection occurred among those aged below 15 years. The role of asymptomatic human carriers as a source of dissemination should not be underestimated. Large scale screening of the VTEC infection among indigenous populations and the potential contamination sources will be possible and easy with the aid of this newly developed rapid and simple LAMP assay.
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Archive - March 2016
Murder of an RTI activist
The brutal murder of Vinayak Baliga who was an RTI activist and a contractor by profession has shocked the people of Mangalore. This carried out by what appears to be a professional gang has left his aged parents and his sisters...
Well this may look like a betrayal of the class to which I belong but if it is be it so. There is a limit to which one can tolerate hypocrisy and this class has gone far beyond that. The latest in this is the venom spewed against...
The repression of criticism by the State
While the developed world is becoming more liberal and tolerant towards dissent and freedom of expression is being a fundamental right, we are becoming a more and more repressive state. It is also that the ruling combines are...
Moral and Virtuous People Don’t Need God Or Mindless Religion
A Rationalist At The Registrar's Office
Keeping The Spotlight On
Introduction to Instrumental Rationality
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How to Participate in OCRE
I have recently been working on implementing a new approach to associating physical coins identified by RIC coin types defined in OCRE. The new system uses a Fuseki RDF triplestore and SPARQL endpoint. Fuseki accepts RDF expressing web pages which define physical coins, but it also accepts RDF which describes coin hoards. While the public version of OCRE (as of the date of this blog post) does not interact with this new SPARQL endpoint, we plan to release a new version of OCRE in the next one to two months, probably either just before or just after the next round of Nomisma.org/European Coin Find Network meetings in Carnuntum around April 20.
The more LOD-cognizant OCRE will incorporate coins not only from the American Numismatic Society, but also coins in the University of Virginia Art Museum, and perhaps even a small selection of Augustan coins from the Berlin Münzkabinett. Furthermore, hoards which contain Augustan types in Coin Hoards of the Roman Republican (a joint project between UCL researcher Kris Lockyear and the ANS) will populate OCRE maps for selected coin types. OCRE will make use of mathematical functions inherent to SPARQL to deliver more sophisticated analyses based on weights, diameters, and die axes.
The triplestore-based method for linking OCRE types to coins and hoards make it much easier to maintain the project in the long term, from a developer's standpoint. Moreover, it will be easier for potential partners to contribute their data to OCRE. After the RDF passes consistency checks, new coins and hoards will become available in OCRE immediately upon ingestion into Fuseki.
I have created documentation on the ANS wiki detailing the RDF structure necessary for contributing to OCRE at http://wiki.numismatics.org/ocre:ocre_-_participation.
Finally, the new version of OCRE will make better use of Nomisma's multi-lingual skos:prefLabels for numismatic concepts. As a result, OCRE will be available in French, German, and Romanian in addition to English. The interface will become available in other languages as translations of NUDS fields and Nomisma IDs are presented to us.
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A-pop! On dogs, public-shaming, accidental racism, and true love!
November 25, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly
By Stacy Nguyen
What’s up! Hope you are doing well and not spreading a deadly virus to all of your family members this holiday week!
In this column, there is honestly a lot of controversy. You are welcome.
Japanese celeb loses job due to extramarital affair—as an American, I’m like, whaaat?
Masahiko Kondo
Masahiko Kondo, 56, is a Japanese singer, former J-pop idol during the 1980s, semi-pro racing driver, and owner of Kondo Racing. He seems like a busy dude.
But evidently not too busy to step out on his wife. Earlier this month, Japanese gossip magazine Shukan Bunshun reported that he’s been cheating on his wife with a 31-year-old woman. Kondo totally confirmed this in a kind of honesty that I frankly find bizarre coming from a public figure. Furthermore, his employer—Johnny & Associates Inc., one of Japan’s most powerful talent agencies—publicly shamed the dude and said he was “thoughtless” and “lacked an awareness and sense of responsibility” before the powers that be suspected him indefinitely so that Kondo can think about what he has done. They straight up called it the “right” punishment for “the oldest” talent.
Guys, I’m not going to even focus on how oddly puritanical Japan apparently is with its public figures. I’m just so charmed because I live in a country that has been totally okay with our president being a menace to women. How novel! Getting condemned publicly for cheating on your wife! Wow!
Sacramento County declares racism a public health crisis—then in a cruel twist of fate, its health director acts all racist!
Dr. Peter Beilenson
Applause for Sacramento County, California, which is among the latest local governments across the country declaring racism a public health crisis. (That’s right! And it is!) You know what’s unfortunate though? During the passage of the resolution—which was a unanimous decision— Sacramento County Health Director Dr. Peter Beilenson expressed his support by saying, “It’s a crucial thing we need to be doing to address the issues of the African American and brown and yellow folks in our country as well as the white folks.”
I know what you’re thinking. Yes, he totally forgot to include red folks.
Actually, the dude has been getting so much earned backlash for calling us Asians yellow. He says he feels really bad about it. He says, “In my 30-year career in public health, I’ve never had an issue like this before.”
For the record, social media hasn’t been around for 30 years. So technically, he could have called people by colors before, and he just wasn’t caught. But I get the sentiment of what he was saying. He’s saying: “I very much apologize for that and will certainly use Asian Pacific Islander in the future.”
You know what is kind of weird about this whole thing? That he is kind of getting off scot-free over the whole brown thing. Like, I don’t think this dude should be calling people brown, either, man.
Cardi B is sorry for appropriating Hindu culture on shoe magazine
Rapper Cardi B made headlines in a bad way in November when she posed on the cover of Footwear News holding a shoe. On the cover, she is shown with multiple arms, which, according to Footwear News, was meant to be an homage to the Hindu goddess Durga.
Clearly no one Hindu was consulted on this idea because a number of violations occurred in the photo: Shoes are banned in temples, Durga is not supposed to be depicted bare-bodied, and she is also not a device used to sell freaking Reeboks, of all things.
In response to getting called out for this, Cardi said, “If people think I’m offending their culture or their religion, I want to say I’m sorry. That was not my intent. I do not like disrespecting nobody’s religion. … Maybe I should have done my research. I’m sorry, I can’t change the past, but I will do more research for the future.”
Cardi really shouldn’t have trusted Footwear News to do the Googling.
Who dat API?!
Hey, guys. Here’s my very sporadic and random round-up of cool APIs that I have accidentally seen on TV. This list is never comprehensive, just circumstantial!
Linh Iacona, Vania Zuniga, and Kioni “Kentucky” Russell Gallahue, seen on Amazon Prime Video’s “The Pack”
“The Pack” is a reality show featuring dogs and their owners (or as I like to say, their human mommies and daddies). Each team goes around the world competing in athletic challenges for a chance to win $500,000.
The show is def super duper American (every contestant is beautiful-looking and TV-ready, there’s a lot of slow-motion PG-porn of cute dogs running in water, and the suspenseful editing will drive you mad as it entertains you). I loved it. I was super glad to see APIs rep with their pooches.
(FYI, I am guessing Kentucky is API from looks alone. I actually am not 100 percent sure. Do you happen to know?)
Vien Hong, seen on ABC’s “This is Us”
Vien Hong plays a new mysterious character named Hai on “This is Us,” but I prefer to call him ‘Hot Viet Grandpa.’ Not much is known so far about Hot Viet Grandpa, just that he likes to fish and was in an interracial relationship with a woman who seems to be the love of his life. I can’t say anymore. I don’t want to spoil it for you.
Midori Francis, Troy Iwata, Jodi Long, James Saito, Jennifer Ikeda, and Agneet Thacker, seen on Netflix’s “Dash & Lily”
“Dash & Lily” is a cute rom-com series for the Gen-Z crowd, about a boy and a girl who are probably meant for each other, but they take the entirety of 12 episodes to get together because there’s a narrative arc they have to follow. The maternal side of Lily’s family is Japanese! Her dad is white! She sometimes doesn’t feel pretty because she’s Asian. What girl can’t relate?
It was cool to see Jodi Long and James Saito on screen together. Saito played Oroku Saki—aka the original Shredder—don’t even pretend like you didn’t know.
Stacy Nguyen can be reached at stacy@nwasianweekly.com.
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Directory of American Revolution Resources
Home > Society > History > By Time Period > Eighteenth Century > Wars and Conflicts > American Revolution
This category lists sites particularly of the American Revolution, that period of time that includes the American War of Independence.
Sons of the Revolution
Timelines and Maps
A Revolutionary Day Along Historic US Route 7
http://www.revolutionaryday.com/usroute7/default.htm
A suggested tour from Pittsfield, MA to Burlingtom, VT with modern-day directions and pictures.
American Longrifles
http://www.americanlongrifles.com/
Study and building of historically correct American longrifles otherwise known as Kentucky rifles.
http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/American_Revolution.html
A comprehensive collection of links and unique content.
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/
Timelines of significant events before, during, and after the war.
AmericanRevolution.Org
http://www.americanrevolution.org/
Educational information, history and genealogy referring to the war, California Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Buried History of the American Revolution
http://www.redcoat.me.uk/
A view of the war from an American loyalist perspective.
Early America - The American Revolution
http://www.kurtteej.com/history/historystart.htm
Brief information on the battles, people and political events.
Liberty - The American Revolution
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/
Features a potpourri of interactive information, timelines, a revolutionary game, and video clips from the series.
Online Revolutionary War Indexes and Records
http://www.militaryindexes.com/revolutionarywar/
Directory of online indexes of records and rosters of soldiers for USA genealogy research.
People, Places and Terms Mentioned in Staff Rides
http://www.wpi.edu/academics/military/glossary.html
Provides basic details.
Privateers and Mariners in the Revolutionary War
http://www.usmm.org/revolution.html
A brief history of merchant seamen who contributed to America's effort for independence, including biographies.
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel03.html
Essay with teaching suggestions from a scholar in American religious history, Library of Congress.
Revolutionary War Virtual Battlefield Tours
http://johnsmilitaryhistory.com/revvirtual.html
Photographs and explanations of the fighting.
http://revolution.h-net.msu.edu/
National discussions of American revolutionary origins.
http://theamericanrevolution.org/
Historic facts, figures, battles, people, places, and events that occurred in the war.
The American Revolution - Lighting Freedom's Flame
http://www.nps.gov/revwar/
Official National Park Service site with information on historical sites around the US, including resources.
The Contemplator's Short History of Women in the Revolutionary Era
http://www.contemplator.com/history/revwomen.html
A brief essay on women's lives during the American Revolutionary War period, with bibliography and related links.
The David Library of the American Revolution
http://www.dlar.org/
General information, facts, and links to resources.
The On-Line Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies
http://www.royalprovincial.com/
A collection of primary source transcriptions, original content and other resources.
The War of the Revolution
http://www.britishbattles.com/american-revolution.htm
Offers information on the revolution and War of Independence with each battle documented.
Thrilling Incidents in American History
http://www.generalatomic.com/AmericanHistory/
Selection of various authentic histories, memoirs, and reminiscences which have appeared during the last fifty years.
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The Politics of Light
The Art of Light in its Ethical, Social, and Political Dimension
During the 1990s, Mischa Kuball excited attention with his light installations of architectonic dimensions. He transformed the Mannesmann building in Düsseldorf into a light sculpture for six weeks in 1990. Nowadays it is common routine to alter building façades with the aid of light, but in those days it was still a mega-symbol, as the title of the work, Megazeichen, indicates. In 1992, his illuminated geometrical signs (Lichtbrücke, or Light Bridges) gave the Bauhaus in Dessau sculptural status. Two years later, the synagogue in Stommeln, lit brightly from the inside, penetrated public consciousness under the title Refraction House. For the 1998 Biennale do São Paulo, Kuball exchanged standard lights for ones from private households (Private Light/Public Light). In 1999, he marked abandoned houses in the Jewish quarter of Montevideo with green, hundred-watt construction lights (greenlight). That same year, randomly controlled rays produced by a spotlight stationed on the tower of the old Gauforum in Weimar were to move across the square (Sprach Platz Sprache, or Speak Square Language). In 2000, he supplied the residents of Moritzburg with a public stage to use for their own performances (public stage).
Carefully selected titles provide information as to the intentions behind Kuball's light and projection art. The word "stage" alludes to the fact that Kuball understands that light always implies staging, dramatization; and that wherever things are staged and constructed, life itself becomes a stage. When illuminated, all of life becomes a public stage, more so than ever in the media age, that age began with the spotlight. It is the age in which everyone is in the hot spot, where everyone is subjected to the direction of a controlling society. Whether through the spotlight or camera, newspaper or cell phone, anyone can randomly become part of public space, an object of public attention. Everyone is always a potential actor in a project. It seems reasonable to suppose that in Kuball's 1991 work with Vilém Flusser, Welt/Fall at the Wittgenstein House in Vienna, the artist was probably aware of the chain of associations involving project-projection-projectile. Very likely, he knew that spotlight and light batteries are part of the military inventory, and that light technology as a whole is a product of military technology, as Paul Virilio and Friedrich Kittler have always suggested. That is the reason why Kuball also referred to Virilo's Bunker Archaeology in the catalogue for the project urban context, which was part of the Projekt.Bunker Lüneburg (1995–2000), and it is also why, for the catalogue for 2001's ein fenster (a window) done for the Johanneskirche in Düsseldorf, he selected a text by Kittler ("A Short History of the Window")—who, it is known, also wrote a "Short History of the Spotlight."
In this reference to the connections between light and war—also conveyed in the work set up in the former Gauforum in Weimar—it is easy to see that Kuball does not, as other artists do, employ light only as an aesthetically alluring medium, one of interacting color and light, or as the radiance and misery of the colors of the spectrum, as the expansion of color in space, which was the somewhat bland mission of the neo-avant-garde in the 1950s and 1960s. Instead, he obviously makes it possible to see the social and political context of the medium of light. Starting with his locations, from the synagogue in Stommeln to the buildings in the Jewish quarter in Montevideo, it can be seen that his light installations do not intervene in a neutral way in public space. Instead, they accentuate public space as a political and social space. This is a unique achievement in the history of light art. Until now, artists and their commentators have said, "Light is color, light is music," but Kuball adds, "light is sociology, light is politics." No one has done better at illuminating the political and social position of light than Kuball. He has reversed the immateriality of light, as it was used by Yves Klein and Jésus Rafael Soto to overcome place and space in order to make the leap into the void. Assisted by the immateriality of light, Kuball uses his projections of videos and slides, and his light installations to introduce the gravity of the historical material, the gravitational pull of history, into the empty space of art. He does not travel forward with the ray of light into an apparently bright future, but rather journeys through time in the opposite way: he accompanies the ray of light back into the darkness of history. There he illuminates the forgotten and buried spaces, the darkened and repressed spaces. He brings to light things that no one wanted—and still does not want—to see. History becomes a public stage; it is in the spotlight. His light installations reintroduce historical experiences into the everyday. Illumination turns the life of social activity into theater; the historical site becomes the setting for the ethical judgment. Through Kuball's light installations, through his interventions in historical and public darkness, the aesthetic judgment becomes an ethical judgment. What resonates in Kant's famous phrase, "the starry heavens above me and the moral law within"— the association of light with morality, of aesthetics with ethics — is beautifully articulated in Kuball's light interventions. Kant and Kuball mean this: light can be used in the public space as a moral and ethical authority that provides a framework for social action as well as a recollection of it. A spotlight is not merely a spotlight; instead, it transforms the world into a stage. Those on this stage act according to certain rules. In this, our world, nobody is simply a witness to world events, but through his own activity, each person participates in the events of the world. Everyone is an actor in history, appears on the stage of history, so that the difference between private and public falls away. Kuball's light interventions do this consciously in public space, on the stage of social activity, in the space of history. For him, light becomes a medium of consciousness—the political consciousness of maturity, responsibility, and enlightenment. For him, light is not simply a perceptual phenomenon, a phenomenon of perception, the eye, something experienced in the laboratory of the sensory organs. Rather, in his work, light penetrates the consciousness through the eye; it becomes a cognitive phenomenon, a phenomenon of consciousness, something experienced in the laboratory of the mind. Kuball is not a painter of light; Kuball is a conceptual artist of light, a political artist of light—a unique and important stance.
In: ... in progress: Mischa Kuball, Projekte/projects 1980-2007, ed. Florian Matzner, ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst Karlsruhe, 2007.
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Bestselling Author Sherelle Reed Shines a Light for Others on Their Journey to Discover, Accept and Embrace Their Authenticity
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Democracy and diversity return to US capital as Trump folds
WASHINGTON: Democracy and diversity have asserted themselves in America. More than two weeks after Donald Trump lost the US Presidential election, his administration on Monday authorized transition to the victorious Biden-Harris team, conceding defeat in all but name.
Even as Trump surrendered, President-elect Joe Biden began unveiling what is turning out to be the most diverse and gender-balanced cabinet and quasi-cabinet appointments in a country long run by old white men.
Aside from vice president elect Kamala Harris, Biden named, or is set to name, at least half-dozen women for key positions. They include Janet Yellin as treasury secretary and Avril Haines as director of national intelligence overseeing the gamut of American spookdom. In addition, Michele Flourney is tipped to become defence secretary.
It will be the first time women will have headed these portfolios. The Pentagon has seen 27 defence secretaries, all white men, and the treasury department with a much longer history has seen 77 Treasury secretaries – all white men. Established in 2004 after 9/11, the directorate of national intelligence has had six white men heading it across 16 years,
Additionally, Biden is also set to name an African-American diplomat, Linda Thomas Greenfield as the US ambassador to UN and Alejandro Mayorkas as the first Latino to lead the department of homeland security.
The appointments are seen as recognizing the growing diversity and changing demographics of the United States, and an implicit rebuke of the nativist sentiment that characterized the Trump Presidency.
Meanwhile, despite fighting words that he will still contest the election results legally and will not concede, the defeated US President is evidently preparing to leave for Florida come January 20 when the new administration will be formally inaugurated. The Secret Service is reporting to be asking agents in President Trump’s detail if they’re interested in relocating to Mar-a-Lago, indicating the agency is preparing for Trump’s post-White House life.
But Trump’s public position remains that he has won the election and will show it in court, despite having failed to prove election malpractice in more than 30 lawsuits. His legal team has now become the butt of jokes, forcing the President to consider a scenario where he will be a one-term president, the first since George Bush sr in 1992.
The Trump turnaround came minutes after an election board in Michigan certified results in favor of Biden after resisting pressure from Trump Republicans. A Republican member in the four-member board of state canvasser joined two Democrats to give Biden a 3-1 margin certification that he had won the state’s popular vote and its 20 electors, pending some post result audits that are not expected to make a difference.
Soon after, Emily Murphy, the head of the General Services Administration who was in the eye of a tempest for holding up the transition process, caved in, writing to “Mr Biden” inviting him to “access the post-election resources and services,” including $ 16.3 million in funding.
While Murphy claimed in her letter to Biden that she was “never directly or indirectly pressured by any executive branch official – including those who work at the White House or GSA – with regard to the substance or timing of my decision,” the defeated President left no doubt that he had called the shots.
“She has been harassed, threatened, and abused – and I do not want to see this happen to her, her family, or employees of GSA. Our case STRONGLY continues, we will keep up the good……fight, and I believe we will prevail! Nevertheless, in the best interest of our country, I am recommending that Emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols, and have told my team to do the same,” he tweeted.
Initiating the transition process allows the Biden-Harris team access to current officials, intelligence briefings, office space, money etc to begin preparing for governing starting noon on January 20 when Trump will have to demit office.
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TRIAL OF VIKTORAS PETKUS
The trial of Viktoras Petkus began on July 10, 1978. From the very first day of the trial, a painstaking orchestration of the trial spectacle could be sensed. When the indictment was read on July 10th, Estonians and Latvians—i.e., those witnesses who do not known or understand Lithuania—were summoned and allowed into the courtroom. They only saw that Petkus was forcibly dragged by four militiamen into the courtroom, with his arms pinned back. At the trial, he declared his innocence and refused the services of a lawyer. During the rest of the trial, Petkus blatantly ignored the proceedings, refusing to answer any questions, defend himself or explain, and calmly dozing.
The first session of the trial lasted one and a half hours and court was adjourned until July 11th.
On July 11th, a large group of Petkus' friends and supporters came to the Supreme Court in Vilnius, but were not allowed into the courtroom. The security agent stationed at the courtroom door told each individual wishing to attend the trial that '"there was no room."
The first to be admitted nuu me courtroom were witnesses Rev. K.(arolis) Garuckas, O.(na) Lukauskaitė-Poškienė and R. Ragaišis. To their surprise, they saw the courtroom already full of strange characters although the doors had been locked until they were admitted. After glancing around the room, Ms. Lukauskaitė-Poškienė (member of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group) loudly asked Father Garuckas (also a member of the Helsinki Group):
"Are they all witnesses? Maybe they're members of the press. Oh no! They are apparently privileged guests."
And in fact they were extras for the trial spectacle, brought into the courtroom through the service doors to fill up the courtroom so that no room would remain for those sympathizers of Petkus who truly wanted to see and hear the trial proceedings.
A large group of those denied admittance into the courtroom sent a protest to the presiding judge of the Supreme Court but he would not speak with the protesters. His secretary merely stated that the trial was closed.
Shortly a sign was posted on the courtroom doors stating that Petkus was being tried in that room and that the trial was "not public." During the first recess, all the strange characters who had entered the room God knows how also left the courtroom.
The main trial witnesses were questioned under articles 68 and 70 of the Criminal Code only late in the evening. Upon entering the courtroom, each greeted Petkus, said several good words of character reference as "good Catholic, a real Lithuanian, decent, cultivated man," and showing their solidarity with Petkus, refused to testify at all.
Upon entering the courtroom, Father Garuckas greeted Petkus in a Catholic manner and conveyed the greetings of all those not admitted into the courtroom. When asked by the judge whether he knows the accused, he replied that he knows him as a good Catholic and real Lithuanian and a member, like him, of that same Lithuanian group monitoring the Helsinki agreements.
"We worked together, so you can place me next to Petkus in the dock. I would consider it an honor to die in labor camp, as my teachers Bishop Reinys and Father Andriuška died. I refuse to testify any further."
Witness (Mrs.) Jadvyga Petkevičienė handed Petkus a rose which was promptly taken away from him.
"Hail, son of the nation, who sacrificed your freedom for our rights," with these words, Mrs. Petkevičienė expressed the
sentiments of all decent Lithuanians. Ona Lukauskaitė-Poškienė stated:
"I know Victoras Petkus, a member of the Lithuanian Group Monitoring the Helsinki Agreements, as a decent, cultivated and good man. After his arrest, I gave the prosecutor's office a letter of protest of the arrest of an innocent man. Today, I am still convinced of his innocence, and therefore ask Your Honor to restore justice and dismiss the charges. I have completed my statement and will not reply to any other questions."
On July 12th, there began not a Supreme Court session, but a film farce. Arriving witnesses were not admitted into the courtroom. Two movie studio vehicles were parked by the court building and studio employees busied themselves in the courtroom. We do not know whether Presiding Judge Ignotas and Prosecutor Bakučionis acted only as film directors or as film stars as well. Escorted by uniformed men, the young soldier Civilis—the only compromising witness against Petkus—was led into the courtroom. On the second day of the trial, he had tearfully confided to his young friends that at first the security police had forced him to testify when he was completely drunk and unable in essence to understand anything and had agreed with everything he was told to confirm, and that later he could not deny his original testimony. The poor young man! He had never been sexually assaulted by Petkus, but was certainly morally assaulted by those who forced him to give false testimony. The youths who visited Petkus' apartment and there together studied Šapokas' History of Lithuania and religious books have never seen him in Petkus' apartment.
Helsinki Group member E.(itan) Finkelstein submitted a written statement to the Supreme Court:
"I refuse to be a witness at the trial of V.(iktoras) Petkus because, like Petkus, I am a member of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group and together with Petkus take full responsibility for the Group's activity and the documents the Lithuanian Helsinki Group drafted. I can attend the trial proceedings only as an accused."
Petkus' landladies were summoned to the courtroom. Both witnesses were asked by a security agent before entering the courtroom whether they would testify and what they would say. When they replied that "we will answer what the judge asks," the witnesses were admitted into the courtroom. (Witnesses questioned at the courtroom doors!?) At the trial, the landladies related that there was never any drinking at the apartment of Petkus who had lived in their apartment eight years, and that they never found an empty bottle, not even a cork, when cleaning his room. Young people used to assemble at Petkus' apartment, but they behaved properly and politely.
Not expecting such testimony, prosecutor Bakučionis merely spread out his hand and shouted in Russian: Nu, vot! (There you are!)
Testimony from the Latvian KalninS was read at the trial on the planned founding of a committee to liberate Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Testimony detrimental to Petkus' case was bought from Kalninš with permission for him to leave for the West. And, in fact, even before the start of the trial, Kalninš and his family were already in the West. But, on the basis of his own testimony, he should have been sitting next to Petkus in the dock. Where is the logic in this? One member of the organization gets prison, the other freedom in the West.
The trial was filmed all throughout July 12th.
On July 13th, the witnesses were again denied entry into the courtroom. High and low ranking security agents constantly buzzed around those standing in the vestibule. The conduct of those waiting was solemn and peaceful. Prior to the trial session, the security police and militia expelled from the courtroom vestibule all who had come to attend the trial, except for the witnesses. The assembled youth calmly left and regrouped on the wide court building steps. An armful of carnations appeared from somewhere and were handed out to the witnesses and the assembled youth.
Holding the carnations, the youths and Petkus' friends congregated on one side of the steps and began to say the rosary in unison. Security agents, militiamen and auxiliary policemen stood nearby, and a militia vehicle waited on hand in the street. A large crowd of Vilnius residents stared at this unusual sight from the windows of the Library of the Republic.
Never before having encountered such a form of protest, the militia and security police became confused and did not know how to act. A film studio cameraman, or perhaps a security agent, came up and began to film the praying people from all sides. One of the witnesses pulled out a camera and began to photograph the cameraman. After finishing their prayers, the youths smiled and thanked the cameraman for his efforts. After a short break, the young people continued to pray the rosary for the accused Viktoras Petkus.
After the lunch recess, the witnesses saw that the courtroom was already full of people who had assembled through the service doors. The security police admitted only five persons into the courtroom: A.(ntanas) Terleckas, O.(na) Lukauskaitė-Poškienė, Father K.(arolis) Garuckas and Petkus' landladies. The others were savagely shoved away from the doors, and Muscovite T. Velikanova was so brutally pushed by Lieut. Col. Baltinas that she fell to the floor.
The court found Viktoras Petkus to be especially dangerous recidivist and sentenced him to three years in strict regime labor camps and, in addition, five years in exile.
The court also decided to prosecute Ragaišis for refusing to testify at the trial.
And so this cruel courtroom tragi-comedy came to an end.
N.B. The proceedings of Viktoras Petkus' trial are reported on the basis of the written account of a person who attended the trial.
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THE CHRONICLE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN LITHUANIA
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Demonstration of quantum brachistochrones between distant states of an atom, arXiv, (2020)arXivBibTeX
Transforming an initial quantum state into a target state through the fastest possible route—a quantum brachistochrone—is a fundamental challenge for many technologies based on quantum mechanics. Here, we demonstrate fast coherent transport of an atomic wave packet over a distance of 15 times its size—a paradigmatic case of quantum processes where the target state cannot be reached through a local transformation. Our measurements of the transport fidelity reveal the existence of a minimum duration—a quantum speed limit—for the coherent splitting and recombination of matter waves. We obtain physical insight into this limit by relying on a geometric interpretation of quantum state dynamics. These results shed light upon a fundamental limit of quantum state dynamics and are expected to find relevant applications in quantum sensing and quantum computing.
R. Reimann, W. Alt, T. Kampschulte, T. Macha, L. Ratschbacher, N. Thau, S. Yoon and D. Meschede
Cavity-Modified Collective Rayleigh Scattering of Two Atoms, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 023601 (2015)arXivBibTeX
We report on the observation of cooperative radiation of exactly two neutral atoms strongly coupled to the single mode field of an optical cavity, which is close to the lossless-cavity limit. Monitoring the cavity output power, we observe constructive and destructive interference of collective Rayleigh scattering for certain relative distances between the two atoms. Because of cavity backaction onto the atoms, the cavity output power for the constructive two-atom case (N=2) is almost equal to the single-emitter case (N=1), which is in contrast to free-space where one would expect an N^2 scaling of the power. These effects are quantitatively explained by a classical model as well as by a quantum mechanical model based on Dicke states. We extract information on the relative phases of the light fields at the atom positions and employ advanced cooling to reduce the jump rate between the constructive and destructive atom configurations. Thereby we improve the control over the system to a level where the implementation of two-atom entanglement schemes involving optical cavities becomes realistic.
R. Reimann, W. Alt, T. Macha, D. Meschede, N. Thau, S. Yoon and L. Ratschbacher
Carrier-free Raman manipulation of trapped neutral atoms, New J. Phys. 16, 113042 (2014)arXivBibTeX
We experimentally realize an enhanced Raman control scheme for neutral atoms that features an intrinsic suppression of the two-photon carrier transition, but retains the sidebands which couple to the external degrees of freedom of the trapped atoms. This is achieved by trapping the atom at the node of a blue detuned standing wave dipole trap, that acts as one field for the two-photon Raman coupling. The improved ratio between cooling and heating processes in this configuration enables a five times lower fundamental temperature limit for resolved sideband cooling. We apply this method to perform Raman cooling to the two-dimensional vibrational ground state and to coherently manipulate the atomic motion. The presented scheme requires minimal additional resources and can be applied to experiments with challenging optical access, as we demonstrate by our implementation for atoms strongly coupled to an optical cavity.
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Optical fiber cavities, (2012), MasterarbeitBibTeX
The demand for fiber cavities for studying light matter interaction increased in the recent years. The ablation setup in Paris is used as a basic tool for fabricating fiber mirrors by ablating material on a fi ber end facet with a CO2 laser. In this work we improved the controllability and the efficiency of the setup. A better quality of the CO2 laser beam was achieved by the minimisation of the astigmatism caused be the dichroic mirror. This enables the adjustment of a certain beam radius by moving the fi ber end facet along the beam direction. Based on the experiences in Paris, we built up an improved ablation setup in Bonn. The dichroic mirror and the microscope are substituted by a new alignment method of the fiber end facet. A 1550nm laser is overlapped with the CO2 laser beam and coupled into the fiber. By the amount of light coupled into the fi ber, the position of the fi ber is determined. As a new approch, a Michelson pro filometer is implemented into the setup to determine the structure pro files on the fi ber end facet. All electrical components in the ablation setup are controlled centrally with a MBED microcontroller which will enable an automated alignment of the fiber and ablation process in the future. In a further experiment, the properties of a fi ber cavity are investigated in Paris. Elliptically polarized light at a wavelength of 900nm is coupled into the cavity and from the transmission signal as well as the camera pictures, the free spectral range, the fi nesse and the spectral width is determined. From this, the reflectivity of the mirrors, the mode waist and the cavity fi eld decay rate are roughly estimated. Especially the birefringence of the mirror coating was also investigated in this measurement and is observed as a resonance splitting in the transmission signal.
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Light Rider Unveils Quantum LiFi Technology to Create Next-Generation Network Security
The Quantum LiFi company, today debuted its first two quantum encryption products poised to revolutionize network security for businesses and individuals. The company is the first to combine LiFi, a wireless communication technology that utilizes light to transmit data between devices, and quantum encryption technology for individual users. By marrying the two groundbreaking technologies, Light Rider is setting the stage for a new type of wireless networking with unparalleled security, improved speed and reduced latency. The release of Light Rider’s first two products gives users instant quantum encryption right out of the box with LiFi infrastructure coming in the future.
Light Rider recently filed patents for its innovative technology and its first two products will be available for purchase later this year. Light Rider LT and Light Rider Quantum both leverage quantum technologies, one using quantum software and the other with an onboard quantum processor. The end user can easily connect a variety of devices, including computers and mobile phones, through a software application. Next, the end user can select the data they wish to encrypt using Light Rider’s devices.
Light Rider’s product suite mitigates security risks by using light to transmit and encrypt data rather than radio waves traditionally used for Wi-Fi connections. By using the existing light in the physical workspace of the user, unwelcomed individuals cannot access the connection remotely, making it nearly impossible to hack. In addition, all Light Rider products leverage the power of quantum computing to encrypt data to ensure maximum security.
Quantum technology is becoming mainstream with millions of TikTok users embracing a new app, Randonautica. The geolocation app uses quantum technology to generate random locations, the same technology that Light Rider products use to lock and unlock electronic devices.
“Traditional methods and technologies are full of vulnerabilities, so we created Light Rider to design and develop products that would enable the most secure network encryption possible,” said Tony Lawrence, CEO and founder of Light Rider. “There is a global race to operationalize quantum technology, meaning those inflicting cyberthreats will have access to this superior technology. Our mission at Light Rider is to equip businesses, organizations and individuals with powerful, quantum LiFi technology that will protect their data, as we strive to create products that are unhackable.”
The prevalence of cyberattacks continues to grow, with ransomware attacks increasing by 148 percent in March 2020. Today’s internet is easily hacked but the planned quantum internet will dramatically improve security. The quantum internet will allow quantum devices to exchange and process information within the quantum realm, enabling unprecedented capabilities. Light Rider products will work on both the conventional internet and the future quantum internet. As quantum data leaves fiber optic uplinks, Light Rider will deliver it directly to IoT devices while secured by quantum encryption.
Designed for businesses with highly sensitive data, such as health care organizations, financial institutions or government agencies and individual, at-home users, Light Rider’s current products, and those in development, will offer a variety of benefits, including:
Security: Quantum LiFi isn’t exposed to the same vulnerabilities as Wi-Fi. When Light Rider’s LiFi products are connected to a lighting system, users restrict access to everyone who is not physically near the light source. Additionally, quantum software and hardware integrated into Light Rider’s products add another level of security, encrypting the data.
Speed: Light Rider’s LiFi products create a connection through light, enabling the signals and data to transmit at a speed of 1 billion bits per second. For comparison, Wi-Fi connections made through radio waves transmit data at a speed that’s approximately 100 times slower than the connection made through LiFi.
Improved Connection/Reduced Latency: With the high number of devices using Wi-Fi to transmit data, there are often latency issues and the spectrum of radio waves available to transmit data is finite. However, the number of light waves available for LiFi connections is about 10,000 times larger.
Light Rider is currently running a crowdfunding campaign that will enable contributors to be the first to receive Light Rider LT and Light Rider Quantum products. Additional information about the crowdfunding campaign is available at this website: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/light-rider-launch#/.
For more information about Light Rider’s revolutionary products, visit the company’s website: https://lightriderinc.com.
About Light Rider
Quantum beats quantum. Light Rider, Inc. is a quantum LiFi company leveraging the supernatural behavior of quantum physics to create secure, unparalleled encryption products with its patented technology. Only quantum networking can protect privacy from scammers, hackers, and governments wielding super and quantum computers. Through its growing product suite, the company offers out-of-the-box quantum encryption for individuals and businesses alike. Based in Columbia, Maryland, Light Rider is committed to harnessing the power of quantum and the speed of light to revolutionize communication technologies. For more information, visit: https://lightriderinc.com.
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Transformers: The Last Knight - Movie Review
on Friday, 23 June 2017 14:01
by Frank Wilkins
If there has ever been a more exhausting exercise in wasted effort than writing about a Transformers film, I don’t know what it could be. Regardless of anything you read here, and no matter the amount of shade thrown by any of the hundreds of publications, websites, forums, or blogs around the internet, Transformers: The Last Knight will summon its legion of loyal fans to wreak what is sure to be an insane havoc upon the summer box office with numbers large enough to make even Warren Buffet raise an eyebrow.
With the last two films in the franchise hauling in a combined $1 billion at the box office (despite being resoundingly panned by critics), there’s no reason to believe this latest in the autobot franchise won’t follow suit. Plain and simple, Transformers are money printing machines disguised as shape-shifting mechanical creatures. But more importantly, the films about them are critic proof, so it is my job over the next several paragraphs to waste my time and yours telling you just how bad Transformers: The Last Knight is.
In all fairness, through the years (it’s been ten years since the first one!) the Transformers movies have been at the leading edge of filmmaking technology and have always provided for an exhilarating visual spectacle. The stuff they can make happen on the screen these days even occasionally drops the jaw of this old geezer. There are none more slick, shiny, and technologically advanced. But it’s hard not to wonder what these movies could become if Michael Bay and company were to work all their digital wizardry around a story that actually means something... and populate it with human characters who seem, well, human. There were touches of this in 2007’s original and it was the best of the bunch because of it. None since have approached. That’s not what Michael Bay is about and that’s not the kind of films he makes, so let’s get on with talking about the latest.
For the uninitiated, Transformers are alien robots living on Earth that disguise themselves as cars, trucks, planes, and the like. Up until The Last Knight, we've always believed that they came to our planet for the first time a decade or so ago. But we now learn they actually arrived in England thousands of years ago during the time of King Arthur and England’s battle against the Saxon invaders.
The film opens with a truly spectacular battle sequence that features King Arthur and his knights waging war. Giant fireballs hurled by primitive catapults soar through the air burning, maiming, and obliterating humans on a massive scale. All seems hopeless for King Arthur until Merlin (Stanley Tucci) shows up on a white horse carrying a magical staff given to him by a long lost Transformer living deep beneath the English countryside. When presented to King Arthur on the battlefield, the staff brings almost immediate victory to the English. Yes, there be dragons! For a moment I thought we might be onto something interesting here.
Then the scene shifts abruptly to modern day and the proceedings become exactly what we expect. Most will undoubtedly love the outcome. I didn’t.
We learn of a legion of men on Earth led by an English aristocrat named Sir Edmund Burton (Anthony Hopkins) who protect the autobots living here and occasionally calls on them to help us fight off invasions form the evil decepticons. Inventor Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg) teams up with Burton and British scholar Vivian Wembley (Laura Haddock) to retrieve the legendary staff that was believed buried with Merlin’s body and is also being sought by Optimus Prime who has turned to the dark side under the tutelage of the evil Quintessa (Gemma Chan). So, The Last Knight is a chase movie of sorts with entities from all sides seeking the eternal power of a weapon that can regenerate the power of the robots’ planet while sapping the life from ours.
Are we supposed to laugh at the sheer stupidity of the plot? Bay makes us think it’s Okay to do so as nearly every scene is bursting at the seams with his signature explosions, loud noises, four-second shots, and of course, plenty of Transformers that transform. Nothing else matters in the hands of Bay who brings back several characters from previous iterations but who really have nothing to do. For instance, the return of John Turturro’s Agent Simmons character adds nothing. The same goes for Josh Duhamel as a gung-ho American soldier. A serious once-over with a lead editing pipe would take nothing away from the incomprehensible plot, yet would give back precious minutes to our lives.
Transformers: The Last Knight is exactly what you’d expect. It’s loud, rambunctious, flashy, and about as dumb as a box of rocks. But you already knew that.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence and intense sequences of sci-fi action, language, and some innuendo.
Director: Michael Bay
Writer: Art Marcum; Matt Holloway; Ken Nolan
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Duhamel
Genre: Action | Sci-fi | fantasy
Tagline: Rethink your heroes.
Memorable Movie Quote: "And now two worlds colliding, only one survives."
Theatrical Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Official Site: http://www.transformersmovie.com/
DVD/Blu-ray Release Date: No details available.
Synopsis: The Last Knight shatters the core myths of the Transformers franchise, and redefines what it means to be a hero. Humans and Transformers are at war, Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. Saving our world falls upon the shoulders of an unlikely alliance: Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg); Bumblebee; an English Lord (Anthony Hopkins); and an Oxford Professor (Laura Haddock).
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Thomas Joos, Deputy Managing Director, University of Tuebingen
Dr. Joos joined 1998 the NMI at the University of Tuebingen heading the department of biochemistry. Since 2013 he is the deputy managing director. His research is focused on miniaturized multiplexed immunoassays for biomarker research and diagnostic applications. Dr. Joos studied Biochemistry at the University of Tübingen. He performed his Ph.D. degree in 1985 on integrin-?5 during early embroygenesis of Xenopus laevis in the laboratory of Prof. Peter Hausen at the Max-Planck-Institute of Developmental Biology. Dr. Joos is a member of the editorial board of Drug Discovery Today, Proteomics, Molecular Biotechnology and Expert Review of Proteomics. He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the "Plasma Proteome Institute" Washington, DC, USA, of the “AlbaNova VINN Excellence Centre for Protein Technology (ProNova)” at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, and of Myriad-RBM, Austin, TX, USA.
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The presentation will address a generic approach for biomarker qualification process and immunoassays across the species barriers.
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Photoidentification In Avacha Gulf during 1999-2011 we identified 640 fish-eating killer whale individuals (including calves and newborns).
In the waters of the Commander Islands in 2008-2011 we identified additional 960 fish-eating killer whale individuals (including calves and newborns).
Analysis of the images revealed matches between the different regions: 123 individuals between Avacha Gulf and the Commander Islands, 26 individuals between Avacha Gulf and Karaginsky Gulf, 23 individuals between Avacha Gulf and Kronotsky Gulf, 26 individuals between the Commander Islands and Karaginsky Gulf, 33 individuals between the Commander Islands and Kronotsky Gulf, 6 individuals between the Commander Islands and Olyutorsky Gulf.
Mixing occurs between the studied areas of Eastern Kamchatka and the Commander Islands, but the amount on mixing varies for different areas. Between the coastal areas of Eastern Kamchatka from Avacha Gulf to Karaginskiy Gulf rather high rate of matches was found - apparently, killer whales in these areas belong to one community.
At the same time, at the Commander Islands we met a large number of whales that are not seen anywhere else. These facts suggest that a significant proportion of killer whales comes to the Commander Islands from some other non-investigated area. The most likely area is the western Aleutian Islands, geographically close and similar to Commander Islands by oceanographic parameters. In general, it seems that the Commander Islands are like a "crossroads" in the ways of killer whales from different regions, which explains the large number of identified animals, but the low frequency of between- as well as within-area matches. Thus only 29 from 108 killer whale groups encountered near Commander Islands (5-year period) were met during three and more days (maximum 6 days). Other 79 groups were met once or twice. At the same time 44 from 66 killer whale groups encountered in Avacha Gulf (8-year period) were met during three and more days (maximum 60 days) and 22 only once or twice.
Social structure We found out that fish-eating killer whales usually travel in stable groups, representing matrilinear units. No dispersion from a natal group was observed during the study. A total of 66 units were identified in Avacha Gulf.
Besides this, we also met killer whales similar to the mammal-eating orcas of the eastern North Pacific. These orcas were not encountered together with fish-eating ones.
Foraging behavior The main prey species for fish-eating killer whales in Avacha Gulf are different salmon species and Atka mackerel.
Mammal-eating killer whales were observed feeding only on a minke whale but other marine mammals can be their prey as well.
Acoustic behavior Observed killer whale groups proved to be highly vocal, producing sounds during most of the recordings. These sounds included discrete and variable calls, whistles and echolocation in different proportions. We have created the catalog of discrete calls of Kamchatkan orcas. With the acoustic analysis of vocal repertoires of different killer whale groups, we revealed 8 resident pods occurring in Avacha Gulf from year to year. All these pods shared at least one discrete call type, which means that all are members of the same clan. We named this clan “Avacha clan”.
We also identified two other clans - K19 and K20 clans which occur more rarely in Avacha Gulf but are more common at the Commander Islands.
All groups mentioned above correspond in appearance, as well as behavior and acoustic activity, to the fish-eating ecotype. Probable mammal-eating killer whales were recorded in Avacha Gulf only once. Calls of these whales differed from the dialects of all other groups ever recorded in Avacha Gulf, but were similar to the calls of mammal-eating killer whales from the Pacific coast of North America. During the recording we also heard distant (10-15 km) calls of fish-eating whales from the “Avacha clan”, but these whales showed no visible reaction to them.
Genetics Genetic analysis showed that most of our fish-eating orcas had SR-haplotype (like Canadian Southern residents and one clan of Alaskan residents). Genetic comparizon of fish- and mammal-eating killer whales showed that they belong to different populations.
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Nigeria High Commission Seeks Release Of 12 Citizens From Indian Prisons
Urging the state government to follow the international human rights protocols, he said, "India and Nigeria have a good relationship and we don't want anything to spoil that."
by SaharaReporters, New York Nov 25, 2020
A Nigerian High Commission representative has met Meghalaya Prison Minister A.L Hek and sought his intervention for the release of 12 nationals arrested for illegally crossing into India from Bangladesh.
The arrested Nigerians are languishing in prisons in Meghalaya even after completing their six-month jail terms, Bertrand Tochukwu Ikwuka, who was deputed by the country's high commission-based in New Delhi, said on Wednesday.
Six Nigerians each are lodged in Shillong and Jowai district prisons, he said.
"Eight months have passed since March and our friends are still languishing in jails here. We are waiting for orders from the Meghalaya government or the Ministry of External Affairs," he told PTI.
A first-class magistrate in East Jaintia Hills district had on February 13 ordered that the Nigerians be deported to their country and a copy of the order was also sent to the chief secretary and the DGP, Ikwuka, a student leader based in Bengaluru said.
The Nigerian government does not support the crimes committed by them and is unaware of how the accused persons crossed the international border, he said.
"They were first-time travellers and did not know where Bangladesh ended and India began," Ikwuka said.
The Nigerian government has so far arrested over 22 agents in the African country for sending people abroad without properly briefing them about the local laws.
He said Prison Inspector General, M Kharkrang, has given assurance for a comprehensive report on the matter.
According to Hek, the commission representative will visit the two prisons during the day.
He said the delay in their release was because the Home Department has to follow due procedures which also involves the Political Department.
The Ministry of External Affairs will be informed for taking necessary action for deporting the Nigerians to their country, Business Standard noted in the report.
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Sky News Arabia (Arabic: سكاي نيوز عربية Skāy Niyūz ʻArabīyah) is an Arabic news and current affairs channel broadcast mainly in the Middle East and North Africa. It is a joint venture between UK-based Sky plc and Abu Dhabi Media Investment Corporation (ADMIC), owned by Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the Abu Dhabi Emirate ruling family. The channel uses Sky plc's Sky News brand and was launched on 6 May 2012.
The channel is based in Abu Dhabi's twofour54 media zone and has a network of bureaux across MENA, along with offices in London and Washington, DC. It also shares access to Sky News' wider international bureaux network.[1]
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BSkyB and Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan first announced a 50/50 joint venture to operate a free-to-air Arabic-language news channel on 29 November 2010.[2] Adrian Wells, head of international news at Sky News, was appointed to lead preparations to launch the channel.[1]
In February 2011, Nart Bouran was hired as Sky News Arabia's first director of news. Bouran was previously director of television at Reuters.[3] Yasser Thabet, former program director at Al Arabiya, joined Sky News Arabia as director of output in June 2011 and Nicholas Love was appointed as director of finance.[4]
Al-Waleed bin Talal, the second-largest shareholder in News Corporation, which has a 39.1% stake in BSkyB, announced in September 2011 that he would launch another Arabic news channel, Alarab News Channel.[5] Alarab, which is partnering with Bloomberg Television, is expected to compete directly with Sky News Arabia, in addition to existing broadcasters Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya.[6]
Operations at the network's headquarters in twofour54 media zone, Abu Dhabi, began in February 2012.[7][8] It began broadcasting on 6 May 2012.[9][10]
Sky News Arabia claims a commitment to independent reporting and avoiding partisan programming.[11] A six-person editorial advisory committee exercises oversight over the network's editorial output.[11]
Sky News Arabia is broadcast to more than 50 millions households in the MENA region on satellite and cable providers, as well as over the internet and mobile apps.[12][13] It is available free-to-air on Nilesat 201, Arabsat, Hot Bird and Astra.[14][15][16]
It is available in North and South America, Canada and Australia through myTV's platform.[17] It is also available to watch on Sky channel 840 in the United Kingdom.
Sky News Arabia's headquarters are located in Abu Dhabi's twofour54 media zone. The technical integration process at the studio was carried out from April 2011 to February 2012 in collaboration with Television Systems Limited.[18]
The facility consists of one large single studio which houses a number of permanent sets used for different programs. It also consists of a 10-meter wide video wall.[18]
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^ "Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed invests in Arabic Sky News". The National. 29 November 2010. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
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^ Ferris-Lay, Claire (21 September 2011). "Alwaleed’s new box of tricks". Arabian Business. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
^ Flanagan, Ben (9 February 2012). "Sky News Arabia ready for broadcast". The National. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
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^ "Latest Arabic news channel, Sky News Arabia, begins broadcasting from UAE capital Abu Dhabi". The Washington Post. Associated Press. 6 May 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
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^ Flanagan, Ben (7 May 2012). "Viewers can now reach for Sky". The National. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
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Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has this week joined fellow Australian Bishops in meeting Pope Francis as part of the 2019 Ad Limina visit to the Vatican.
The Holy Spirit leads us to Christ’s truth and love, says Fr Fernandez
“The Father gives us the Son and the Spirit, for the full truth and love, that we might be led back to Him.”
Aboriginal and Christian Art Competition winners announced
The winners have been announced for the 2019 Catholic Liturgical Art Competition which, inspired by Aboriginal knowledge and the Catholic faith, encouraged schools and parish communities to produce artwork that combined traditional indigenous methods and Catholic ideology.
LIFELINK DAY 2019: Christ is alive, says Archbishop Costelloe
Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has last week reminded guests at the Official Launch of the Archbishop’s 2019 LifeLink Day for Primary Schools that Christ’s love and hope can offer courage when we are faced with frightening and overwhelming situations.
Identitywa’s support can be life-changing for families
For more than 40 years, Archdiocesan disability support agency, Identitywa, has assisted people with disability and their families throughout the Perth metropolitan area.
PLENARY COUNCIL 2020: National Themes for Discernment starts next phase
The Plenary Council 2020 has last Sunday moved into the next phase of its process, following the announcement of the National Themes for Discernment that emerged from a historic process of listening to the voices of more than 222,000 people.
POVERTY MIGRANTS & HOMELESSNESS REPORT: Poverty Case Study
The recently released Poverty, Homelessness and Migrants in Western Australia, by the University of Notre Dame Australia, and commissioned by the Archdiocese of Perth is the first in a series of planned, annual research reports that will inform the provision of the Catholic Church’s social outreach programs in Perth.
PLENARY 2020: Perth Catholics called to fidelity, second Plenary phase launched
Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has called for the people of the Archdiocese to open their minds and hearts to the power of the Spirit, during the Perth launch of the second phase of the 2020 Plenary Council.
OBITUARY: Eddie Russell remembered for his work with Flame Ministries International
Founding Senior Director of Flame Ministries International (FMI) and commissioned Catholic evangelist Eddie Russell passed away on 16 May 2019 aged 75.
LIFELINK DAY 2019: Give back with the love of the living Christ, says Archbishop Costelloe
Loving one another with the love of Jesus was the message delivered by Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB in his address at the 2019 Secondary Schools Forum for LifeLink Day.
Deacons Conference heading to Perth, focus on formation and community
The National Association of Deacons’ (NAD) biennial national conference is heading to Perth. The 2019 Conference will take place from 3 to 6 October, 2019 at The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle campus.
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Young Thug, Gunna, & Turbo Drop ‘Quarantine Clean’
Young Thug, Gunna, and Turbo are keeping it “Clean” in times of quarantine.
The YSL duo teams up on their new collaboration “Quarantine Clean.” Over the Turbo production, Gunna and Thugger bring the chill vibes. “Yeah, I’m quarantine clean so relax / Got my pillows in my Benz, Maybach,” raps Gunna, while Thugger reflects on the impact of the pandemic.
“Why would a disease come around when you get rich?” he asks. “I scale off to the house and I just lock myself in / Seems like that’s the only way ni**as dodging the pen.”
The global crisis has also taken a toll on Thugger’s business. During an interview with Big Boy on Real 92.3, he estimated a loss of nearly $5 million due to canceled gigs. “See, it’s gon’ cost me double, right, cause I ain’t going to be able to do the shows,” he said. “The money that I get for the shows — let’s just say I get $500,000 — if I don’t do these 10 shows, that’s 5 Ms. Then I don’t make five million ’til June, and then I might spend a million, I might spend two million just on this quarantine shit.”
Gunna has been working on his new album Wunna, which has already spawned the single “Skybox.” “I got substance. It’s been too long. And it’s gon’ be worth the wait,” he told TIDAL’s “Check In.”
Jessie Reyez Drops Surprise Deluxe Album ‘Before Love Came to Kill Us’
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Contemporary Mormonism: Latter-day Saints in Modern America by Claudia L. Bushman
By Claudia L. Bushman
A lot misunderstood, Mormonism had a colourful starting within the nineteenth century, as a visionary named Joseph Smith based and outfitted a group of believers with their very own exact religion. within the late-20th century, the church needed to come to phrases with its personal progress and association, in addition to with the expanding pervasiveness of globalization, secularization, and cultural adjustments. this day Mormonism is without doubt one of the significant religions in the US, and maintains to develop across the world. even though, notwithstanding the church itself is still powerful, it truly is elusive to these of alternative faiths. the following, a pro writer and third-generation Mormon sheds gentle at the daily lives and practices of devoted Mormons. Bushman's readers will come away with a extra thorough appreciation of what it potential to be Mormon within the glossy world.Much misunderstood, Mormonism had a colourful starting within the nineteenth century, as a visionary named Joseph Smith based and equipped a group of believers with their very own exact religion. within the late-20th century, the church needed to come to phrases with its personal progress and association, in addition to with the expanding pervasiveness of globalization, secularization, and cultural adjustments. this day Mormonism is among the significant religions in the USA, and person who maintains to develop across the world. although, notwithstanding the church itself continues to be powerful, it really is elusive to these of alternative faiths. right here, a pro writer and third-generation Mormon sheds mild at the daily lives and practices of devoted Mormons. Bushman's readers will come away with a extra thorough appreciation of what it potential to be Mormon within the smooth world.Following Brigham younger into the good Basin and founding groups that experience persisted for over a hundred years, Mormons have solid a wealthy background during this state while they equipped groups all over the world. however the origins of this religion and those that adhere to it stay mysterious to many within the usa. Bushman permits readers a brilliant glimpse into the lives of Mormons—their ideals, rituals, and practices, in addition to their perspectives on race, ethnicity, social classification, gender, and sexual orientation. The voices of tangible Mormons exhibit a lot approximately their idea, devotion, patriotism, individualism, and conservatism. With its legendary historical past and not going good fortune, many ask yourself what has made this faith undergo over the years. the following, readers will locate solutions to their questions about what it capacity to be Mormon in modern the US.
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Parents are responsible to see their children raised in love and righteousness. Children are entitled to be born to married parents and raised by them. Fathers preside, provide, protect; mothers nurture children. Though fulfilling different functions, parents cooperate as equal partners. Failure in these matters will bring about calamities. The Proclamation can be read in conflicting ways. ” The downside of that principle is that it disregards adults outside of nuclear families. Feminists criticize the stress on paternal leadership, but patriarchy is muted.
The most fundamental tenet, the belief in revelation from God to Joseph Smith and his successors, requires that doctrine be open-ended as more Scripture IDENTITY, BELIEFS, AND ORGANIZATION 17 may be forthcoming. Joseph Smith condemned strict formulations, which, he thought, restricted the reception of truth. ”10 Mormons believe that divine revelation for the direction of the entire Church comes from God to the president of the Church who is regarded by Latter-day Saints as a “prophet, seer, and revelator,” a prophet like Abraham, Moses, or Peter.
Here we see basic FAMILIES 41 assumptions of contemporary LDS life, some of which echo the Scriptures and some of which go beyond them. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. The God-ordained unit of society is the family. The family begins with the marriage of a man and a woman. Males and females are created in the image of God. Humans are the literal and beloved children of God. Gender is eternal. Humans chose to come to earth to obtain bodies. Families constituted on earth can be preserved eternally.
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Golden hour with a Pride of Lions in Masai Mara
by Thomas | Feb 23, 2014 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Kenya, Maasai Mara
After witnessing the spectacle of migration, we moved deeper into the Masai Mara Reserve. That’s when we came across an African Elephant with a calf. At first glance it looked like the calf was just cuddling into the mother. But when we got closer we realized that the little calf was actually suckling (below). After observing the mother and calf for sometime we moved on, only to hit jackpot twenty minutes later. The feature image (above) is the final act in the drama that unfolded in front of our eyes.
When we reached the location, there were already a few safari vehicles watching these Lions relaxing in the late evening sun. The pride was scattered around a termite mound and couple of sub-adult Lions were using that as the lookout post. Soon, one of the sub-adults got up and looked intently (above) at something in the distance. He scanned the horizon for a while and then went back to relaxing. Soon it was the turn of another sub-adult to take up sentry duties. It gingerly came up onto the termite mound and looked around for a couple of minutes. Then it too settled down along with its sibling and went back to gazing into the Masai Mara horizon (below). Clearly this pride had sub-adults only, which meant that the adults were all out on a hunt and returning soon.
Even though most of the sub-adult cubs were resting, their constant shuffling around and repeated scanning of the Masai Mara horizon gave us many photo ops. Suddenly something moved in the tall grass at the base of the termite mound. We saw a small head pop out (above) of the tall grass and to our pleasant surprise, it was a cub (maybe a month or two old). Soon another cub popped (below) from behind the termite mount and then there was another. The surfacing of the young cubs brought lots of aahs and oos from the tourists.
We soon understood the reason behind the restless cubs coming into the open when the matriarch appeared from nowhere. And one snare from her set the Lion pride in action. The Lioness scanned the horizon (below) from a neighboring termite mound before moving towards the cubs.
With the arrival of the Lioness, a sense of safety and security come over the entire pride. The sub-adults now relieved of their baby sitting duties settled together in a huddle (above) on the termite mound to enjoy the cool evening. The younger ones on the other hand confidently moved into the open for their evening playtime(below).
After playing amongst themselves for a few minutes, the brats went on to play pranks with an older sibling, who made her frustration clear (above). Soon the matriarch came by and the cubs marched behind her (below) and the older siblings settled down near the waterhole close by. One of our best sighting of African Lions in golden hour that I can recall was in Serengeti National Park described in Dancing with African Lions.
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'I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror'
The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History
Aida Edemariam
WINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019
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The extraordinary story of an indomitable 95-year-old woman – and of the most extraordinary century in Ethiopia’s history. A new Wild Swans
A hundred years ago, a girl was born in the northern Ethiopian city of Gondar. Before she was ten years old, Yetemegnu was married to a man two decades her senior, an ambitious poet-priest. Over the next century her world changed beyond recognition. She witnessed Fascist invasion and occupation, Allied bombardment and exile from her city, the ascent and fall of Emperor Haile Selassie, revolution and civil war. She endured all these things alongside parenthood, widowhood and the death of children.
In prose steeped in Yetemegnu’s distinctive voice and point of view, Aida Edemariam retells her grandmother’s stories of a childhood surrounded by proud priests and soldiers, of her husband’s imprisonment, of her fight for justice – all of it played out against an ancient cycle of festivals and the rhythms of the seasons. She introduces us to a rich cast of characters – emperors and empresses, scholars and nuns, Marxist revolutionaries and wartime double agents. And through these encounters she takes us deep into the landscape and culture of this many-layered, often mis-characterised country – and the heart of one indomitable woman.
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‘The power of Aida Endemariam’s writing is precisely its ability to reach across the gaping chasm formed by time, alien tradition and unfamiliar mores, connecting up our common humanity’ Michela Wrong, New Statesman
‘Extraordinary vivid “personal history”… Edemariam not only brings her grandmother to life but also conveys the complexity of a unique, still strongly religious African culture’ Andrew Lycett, Literary Review
‘To read The Wife’s Tale is not just to hear about times past and (for a western reader) far away, but to be transported into them’ Lucy Hughes-Hallett, New Statesman
‘The Wife’s Tale is unique, above all for its brilliant combination of big historical vistas with vivid physical details of life in Ethiopia … It is an exceptional biography’ Richard Holmes
‘The story of Edemariam’s grandmother is a sweeping tale of Ethiopia’s history in the 20th century and a highly personal tribute to one woman’s life … It’s wonderful’ Emerald Street
‘What brings this narrative flaring to life, though, is not the rigour of its research but its imagination and novelistic tone; Edemariam’s prose climbs inside Yetemegnu’s memories to inhabit them and bring her solidly, vividly, to life’ Arifa Akbar, Observer
‘Outstanding and unusual memoir … The Wife’s Tale is told with the turns and twists of a novel, layered with dialogue and stories’ Nilanjana Roy, Financial Times
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‘A window into a world that would otherwise be invisible to us’ Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone
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Basketball Blog CAA Previews
2020–21 CAA Preview: Hofstra Pride
Last Season: 26–8 (14–4, first place CAA); CAA Conference Champions
Head Coach: Joe Mihalich (eighth season)
Note: Mihalich has been on medical leave since August and it is unknown when he will return. Associate Head Coach Mike Farrelly, in his eighth season with the Pride, is serving as interim head coach.
Preseason Poll Projected Finish: First
Departures — ppg/rpg/apg (fg% / 3fg% / ft%)
G Desure Buie — 18/4/6 (45/42/85)
G Eli Pemberton — 18/6/2 (45/38/85)
G Jermaine Miranda — played 45 mins
F Hal Hughes — played 60 mins
G Connor Klementowicz — played 19 mins
G Shawndarus Cowart (13/7/7 at Pensacola State College)
G/F David Green (18/9 at Ocoee High School)
G Zion Bethea (18/8/4 at Immaculate Conception)
G Vukasin Masic (21/6/6 at Hoosac High School)
G Cole Eiber (18 ppg at Western New England University)
By Justin Diament
The Pride ended the 2019–20 season on top, earning the number one seed in the CAA tournament and defeating Drexel, Delaware, and Northeastern to earn their first-ever CAA title. After the Pride avenged a CAA tournament finals loss to the Huskies the season prior and earned their first March Madness bid since 2001, the pandemic cut their dreams short.
This year the Pride will be without two players who keyed that championship season: senior guards Desure Buie and Eli Pemberton. Buie, who was honored as the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player after contributing a team-high 20 points, five rebounds, and five assists in the title game, led the Pride in points and assists during the regular season. Pemberton, who joined Buie on the all-tournament team after contributing 19 points and seven rebounds of his own in the championship game, was second on the team in scoring, playmaking, and rebounding.
Fortunately for the Pride, there is a lot to like about their returners. Jalen Ray, who joined Buie and Pemberton on the all-tournament team last year and was a preseason All-CAA honorable mention, notched 12 points per game last year while shooting nearly 40 percent from beyond the arc and adding over a steal per game. Coburn, a preseason All-CAA honorable mention alongside Ray, likewise averaged double figures and nearly 40% from downtown last season. If Hofstra wants to live up to its number-one preseason rank, Ray and Coburn must justify the hype.
However, the biggest returning star for the Pride is senior forward and preseason first teamer Isaac Kante. The 6’7” Kante, the lone big man in last year’s four-guard starting lineup, led the team in rebounding with eight boards per contest. He added 11 points a night as well on a CAA-best 66 percent shooting clip. Kante is expected to take over as the focal point for the Pride in Buie and Pemberton’s stead.
Among Hofstra’s additions, one player to watch is junior guard Shawndarius Cowart, who was named to the All-Panhandle Conference First Team at Pensacola State last year after contributing a well-rounded 13 points, seven rebounds, seven assists, and two steals per game. The Pride could use his defensive prowess and playmaking to offset their departures.
Bottom Line: With defending CAA champion Hostra receiving preseason number one rank despite the departure of their two top scorers, in the words of Joe Mihalich, ‘it’s time to prove ‘em right.’ Senior backcourt mates Coburn and Ray provide an experienced duo that can fill the gap left by Buie and Pemberton, while Kante provides a strong scoring and rebounding presence in the middle. If this trio takes a step forward and newcomers like Cowart provide a boost, there’s no shortage of reasons to believe that the Pride can repeat as CAA champs.
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Temporary Agency: On Colin Carney, Adrienne Spier and the Fleeting Desires of Contemporaneity
This was a catalogue essay for the exhibition "Temporal" at Renann Isaacs Gallery, Guelph in the summer of 2014.
“If we wanted to get around the world in a week, she said, we’d be in the air seventy percent of the trip. Even if we followed the sun, we’d still be hemorrhaging hours all over the Pacific.”
Dave Eggers, from You Shall Know our Velocity!
Somewhere in and around 150 years ago, the French poet Charles Baudelaire wrote an essay about Modern artists wherein he described the aesthetic characteristics that he felt contemporary artists should be striving to achieve. Although “The Painter of Modern Life” was, in fact, about a very specific (and relatively minor) French painter named Constantine Guys, it went on to become a proto-manifesto for, more or less, the entirety of Modern Art. Within it’s 35 largely luminous pages there are many sound bites worth citing, but the money quote is this:
“Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and immutable.”
And so: there it is. Many of the best artists of the next fifty years attempted, in various means and aesthetic strategies, to capture the transitory quality of Modern life. Picasso and Braques gave us their frenetic multiplicity through a collage-based aesthetic. The Futurists rendered their all-at-once-ish compositions in the multitudinous array of high intensity hue, giving us the optics of speed. Meanwhile, elsewhere, Marcel Duchamp’s nude descends her staircase in perpetuity. His Rotorographs keep on turning. His bicycle wheels keep on spinning.
The works of Colin Carney and Adrienne Spier are both fixated on re-imagining the presentation of the transitory. Drawing upon a hundred years of aesthetic tradition, the work of these artists manages to catapult itself into new terrain: Carney’s digitally manipulated photographs freeze transition eternally, while Spier’s eclectic, sculptural reconfigurations remain eternally in transition.
Colin Carney’s large format prints overlay and overlap multiple points of view of (usually) the same subject. By manipulating the translucency of these overlays, his works provide an all-at-once-ish sense of visual perspective that is conceptually (if not formally) similar to Cubism. His imagery feels marvelously haunted by the memory of his subjects. As the traces created by his process embed each print with an eerie presence, the ghosts of each instant morosely intermingle.
Although the ultimate output of Adrienne Spier’s work can take many forms, such as video, digital print or sculpture, her work is deeply invested in sculptural conversation. Working within the Duchampian tradition of the reconfigured ready-made, Spier accumulates old, discarded furniture as the raw material for her assemblages. Like Carney’s images, Spier’s work is likewise haunted by the memories of a recent past. Her sculptures bear the scars of these histories: school desks riddled with magic-marker graffiti, domestic furniture deeply worn from age and use. Like an aesthetic Dr. Frankenstein, she re-animates these shorn and shabby remains into something that breaths anew.
It wasn’t all that long ago that human life was relatively constant. People were born in a place, lived and died with very little changing over that course. Since the late 18th Century, however, change itself has been the only constant, and the speed at which this alteration occurs continually escalates. The desire to signify this sense of motion has likewise been important in art ever since, and it is this tradition that Colin Carney and Adrienne Spier spiral out of. Preoccupied by our collective reminiscences, their work gives agency to the temporal. Like a clock that ticks but doesn’t advance, their work remains fixed in movement - while time spins ahead the whirligig sprawls presumptuous.
http://www.petesmith.ca
David Urban at Corkin Gallery
http://www.canadianart.ca/reviews/2012/10/05/david-urbans-timely-paintings-impress-at-corkin-gallery/
Nicole Collins: Glimpses of Renewal
http://www.canadianart.ca/online/reviews/2012/01/05/nicole_collins/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly+Jan+5+2012&utm_content=weekly+Jan+5+2012+CID_3afc4c3b8cb5787645f18662251e15be&utm_source=E+Weekly+Campaign&utm_term=Nicole+Collins
John Kissick: Painter, Thinker, Scribe (Canadian Art, 2011)
http://www.petesmith.ca/PDF/x2John Kissick-Smith.pdf
Sudden Frost Catalogue (It's a big PDF, 2010)
http://www.petesmith.ca/PDF/easy bake.pdf
A Succession of Little Areas of Varying Brilliance (Catalogue Essay on Christopher Friesen, 2010)
http://petesmith.ca/PDF/A Succession of Little Areas of Varying Brilliance.pdf
A Really Long Interview with Tony Scherman (Video Interview for FOAM Magazine, 2010)
http://tonyscherman.com/videos/FoamInterview.html
Operating Systems (Catalogue Essay on Monica Tap and Michele Daigneault, 2009)
http://www.petesmith.ca/PDF/op systemsNv21.pdf
Small Works Review (Canadian Art, 2009)
http://petesmith.ca/PDF/small works.pdf
Review of Ben Reeves (Border Crossings, 2009)
http://petesmith.ca/PDF/bc.pdf
Reviews of Monica Tap and Martin Golland (Canadian Art, 2007 and 2008)
http://petesmith.ca/PDF/m&m.pdf
Characters and Caricaturas (2008 UAAC Paper)
http://petesmith.ca/PDF/characters and caricaturas (UAAC paper 2008).pdf
Resident Threshold (MFA Thesis, 2007)
http://petesmith.ca/PDF/Resident Threshold (MFA Thesis).pdf
Monstrous Matrimonies (seminar paper for Robert Enright, 2006)
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?7o0s2a1343ybnhs
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FINA Technical Water Polo Committee Observations, Instructions and Clarifications October 2019
Tuesday 15 Oct 2019
Here you can read the latest Observations, Instructions, Clarifications and find also the FINA Manual released by the FINA TWPC, below you can find the official PDF of these Observations and also the PDF of the official FINA Manual
1. Strict application of WP 22.8: To impede or otherwise prevent the free movement of an opponent who is not holding the ball, including swimming on the opponent’s shoulders, back or legs.
1) To protect the free movement of an opponent, the action and flow of the game is a key concept in water polo.
2) Strick application of this rule is required in the following situations:
a) Any foul to prevent the free movement of an attacking player driving towards the goal area.
b) The tactical play of ‘pressing’ whereby free movement is impeded.
c) Use of two hands for holding and/or blocking the movement.
d) Continuous or frequent contact of the opponent’s body which prevents free movement.
e) Swimming on/over the opponent’s shoulders, back or legs preventing free movement.
2. To clarify the situation about exclusion without ball within 6 m. area, the instructions are:
Centre Forward without Ball When the ball is at the perimeter and an exclusion foul by the defense is committed in the center forward area, to avoid any misunderstanding who is excluded and to keep the flow in the game, the correct procedure to signal the exclusion is:
If there is an exclusion of the Center Forward Defender when the ball in in the perimeter, the referee should:
a. signal the exclusion by whistle,
b. signal the number of the excluded player both to the player and official table, after which the free throw can be taken immediately.
The referee should avoid delaying the game by stopping it with his whistle and reducing the advantage of attack unless there is an unclear situation for example when an excluded player is under water.
Always the referee must signal the kind of foul which he punished, using the appropriate Figure from Appendix B from the Rule Book.
If the free throw is taken too quick, before the referee finishes the signalisation of the exclusion and corresponding number of the player, the referee has to indicate that the free throw has to be retaken (from the spot where the ball is).
KEY WORDS for leading the game in a proper way:
- Protect the movement
- Punish impediment
Other Clarifications:
1. Leaving the Field of Play
FINA Water Polo Manual 2019-2021:
WP 5.6 At any time during the game, a player may be substituted by leaving the field of play at the team’s designated substitution areas. The substitute may enter the field of play from
the exclusion re-entry area as soon as the player has visibly risen to the surface of the water within the re-entry area. Substitution from the designated lateral substitution area is allowed when both players, the exiting player and the substitute, are in the water, outside of the field of play and touch hands above the water.
2. Substitution of the goalkeeper at an Exclusion for 20 sec. and at an Exclusion for Brutality:
To be consistent in the interpretation of the rules concerning the substitution of a goalkeeper by a substitute goalkeeper after an exclusion, it will be allowed whenever it is in accordance with the rules.
3. Taking of a free throw, putting the ball in play.
It may be the case that in some situations the ball is away from the place where the free throw is awarded. In all cases, the player with the ball, in static or swimming position, must put the ball in play clearly visible for all involved (referees, players, coaches, desk
officials etc).
Throwing the ball from left to right hand is considered to put the ball in play.
Due to rule WP 20.4, which says “The free throw shall be taken in a manner to enable the players to observe the ball leaving the hand of the player taking the throw, ………” it is not allowed to put the ball in play by foot.
4. A direct shot at the goal taken after a free throw has been awarded inside the 6 metre line (or a shot taken improperly outside of the 6 meter area) is considered to be an ordinary foul and the referee is to award a free throw to the opposing team, whether this shot has entered the goal or whether the ball has been diverted outside the field of play by a defender or goalkeeper.
However, if the ball rebounds into the field of play outside of the 2m area, in this specific situation, WP 20.1 is to be applied and the ball should be put in play at the location of the ball.
5. Reminder: after a penalty throw is awarded no substitution is allowed, from any re-entry area, before the penalty is taken.
Check out the pdf file of the observations by clicking here
Check out the pdf file of the FINA Manual by clicking here
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Chrome OS Stable Channel Gets Linux Apps
After months of user testing in developer and beta channels, the Crostini project at Google finally delivered the goods, Linux apps for most users of Chromebooks in the stable channel—definitely worth the wait. While this still is aimed primarily at developers using Chromebooks, I think there’s a good chance these Linux apps will be used and enjoyed by the general public using Chromebooks as well. There’s still a bit of a learning curve to overcome before that possibility is realized, but if you already are a user of any Linux distro, it will feel very familiar. Here’s an overview of how to install it and what to expect afterward.
After getting the update to version 69, go to Settings and scroll down a bit, and you’ll see the option to turn on Linux apps. Figure 1 shows this first step. Note that this isn’t available on all Chromebooks; if you’re using an older one, you’ll have to wait a while before this function is available. If you don’t see the option to turn on Linux apps, your Chromebook currently lacks that functionality. But, if you have a Chromebook produced in the past two years, you probably will see the option.
Update KB4468550 Fixes Audio Issues Caused In Windows 10 October Patch [Ed: Alternative (better) headline is, Microsoft admits breaking your machine]
If your Windows is updated to the latest Windows 10 October 2018 update then there are chances that you might be facing audio problems , something along the lines of “No Audio Output Device is installed”.
The October 2018 patch caused this issue on many machines running Windows 10 version 1803 or above. Many users tweeted about this problem almost instantly as it was happening on such a wide scale when they realized that they Windows has stopped giving them audio when they start playing games, or launch a video player all while the sounds on their browser as well as the system sounds were working perfectly fine.
Kernel Space
Linux 4.19-rc8
As mentioned last week, here’s a -rc8 release as it seems needed.
There were a lot of “little” pull requests this week, semi-normal for
this late in the cycle, but a lot of them were “fix up the previous fix
I just sent” which implies that people are having a few issues still.
I also know of at least one “bad” bug that finally has a proposed fix,
so that should hopefully get merged this week. And there are some
outstanding USB fixes I know of that have not yet landed in the tree (I
blame me for that…)
Anyway, the full shortlog is below, lots of tiny things all over the
tree. Please go and test and ensure that all works well for you.
Hopefully this should be the last -rc release.
Linux 4.19-rc8 Released With A Lot Of “Tiny Things”
Linux’s Qualcomm Ath10k Driver Getting WoWLAN, WCN3990 Support
The Qualcomm/Atheros “Ath10k” Linux driver coming up in the Linux 4.20~5.0 kernel merge window is picking up two prominent features.
First up, the Ath10k driver is finally having WoWLAN support — Wake on Wireless LAN. WoWLAN has been supported by the kernel for years and more recently is getting picked up by Linux networking user-space configuration utilities. Ath10k is becoming the latest Linux wireless driver supporting WoWLAN (WIPHY_WOWLAN_NET_DETECT) for automatically waking up the system when within range of an a known SSID.
FUSE File-Systems Pick Up Another Performance Boost With Symlink Caching
FUSE file-systems in user-space are set to be running faster with the upcoming Linux 4.20~5.0 kernel thanks to several performance optimizations.
The FUSE kernel code for this next Linux kernel cycle already has a hash table optimization and separately is copy file range support for efficient file copy operations. Staged today into the FUSE tree for the next cycle was yet another performance-boosting patch.
Another Change Proposed For Linux’s Code of Conduct
With the Linux 4.19-rc8 kernel release overnight, one change not to be found in this latest Linux 4.19 release candidate are any alterations to the new Code of Conduct. The latest proposal forbids discussing off-topic matters while protecting any sentient being in the universe.
While some immediate changes to the Linux kernel Code of Conduct have been talked about by upstream kernel developers, for 4.19-rc8 there are no changes yet. We’ll presumably see some basic changes land this week ahead of Linux 4.19.0 expected next Sunday as not to have an unenforceable or flawed CoC found in a released kernel version.
Linux v4.18: Performance Goodies
Linux v4.18 has been out a two months now; making this post a bit late, but still in time before the next release. Also so much drama in the CoC to care about performance topics As always comes with a series of performance enhancements and optimizations across subsystems.
Automotive Grade Linux Enables Telematics and Instrument Cluster Applications with Latest UCB 6.0 Release
Developed through a joint effort by dozens of member companies, the AGL Unified Code Base (UCB) is an open source software platform that can serve as the de facto industry standard for infotainment, telematics and instrument cluster applications. Sharing a single software platform across the industry reduces fragmentation and accelerates time-to-market by encouraging the growth of a global ecosystem of developers and application providers that can build a product once and have it work for multiple automakers.
The AGL UCB 6.0 includes an operating system, middleware and application framework. Key features include: [...]
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CodeXL 2.6 is released!
For current users of CodeXL, this new release may look and feel a little different. The AMD Developer Tools team has been busy working on many new tools, some of which replicate functionality found in older versions of CodeXL. Thus, to limit confusion for our users, we have removed several major components from CodeXL.
AMD CodeXL 2.6 Advances GPU Profiling, Static Analysis & GPU Debugging
But what is found within CodeXL 2.6 for GPU developers are the GPU profiling features, static analysis features, and GPU debugging features.
[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.20.2
Lots of bugfixes all over the map. Thanks to all for testing and patches!
X.Org Server 1.20.2 Released With A Bunch Of Bug Fixes
It’s almost been a half-year already since the release of the long delayed X.Org Server 1.20, but with no signs of X.Org Server 1.21 releasing soon, xorg-server 1.20.2 was announced today as the latest stable point release.
FreeDesktop.org Might Formally Join Forces With The X.Org Foundation
FreeDesktop.org is already effectively part of X.Org given the loose structure of FreeDesktop.org, the key members/administrators being part of both projects, and FreeDesktop.org long being the de facto hosting platform from the X.Org Server to Mesa and much more. But now they may be officially joining forces.
As a formality, the X.Org Foundation is seeking to change their foundation’s by-laws to reflect that the X.Org Foundation shall also “Support free and open source projects through the freedesktop.org infrastructure. For projects outside the scope [of the X.Org Foundation] support extends to project hosting only.”
Experimental Patches For Using SIMD32 Fragment Shaders With Intel’s Linux Driver
Existing Intel graphics hardware already supports SIMD32 fragment shaders and the Intel open-source Linux graphics driver has supported this mode for months, but it hasn’t been enabled. That though is in the process of changing.
Since June the Intel Mesa driver’s fragment shader code has supported the SIMD32 mode supported by the past number of generations of Intel graphics hardware, but it hasn’t actually been turned on. That enabling wasn’t done over not having the heuristics in place for determining when to enable it over the other code paths.
Windows 10 October 2018 Update Performance Against Ubuntu 18.10, Fedora 29
As the latest of our benchmarks using the newly re-released Microsoft Windows 10 October 2018 Update, here are benchmarks of this latest Windows 10 build against seven different Linux distributions on the same hardware for checking out the current performance of these operating systems.
For this latest Linux OS benchmarking comparison against Windows, the following platforms were tested:
- The Windows 10 April 2018 release as the previous major milestone of Windows 10.
- The newest Windows 10 October 2018 build as the latest Windows 10 build from Microsoft.
- OpenSUSE Tumbleweed as the openSUSE rolling-release distribution that as of testing was on the Linux 4.18.12 kernel, KDE Plasma 5.14, Mesa 18.1.7, and GCC 8.2.1 atop an XFS home file-system with Btrfs root file-system (the default partitioning scheme).
8 of the Best Free Linux Comic Book Viewers (Updated 2018)
A comic book is a magazine which consists of narrative artwork in the form of sequential images with text that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by brief descriptive prose and written narrative, usually dialog contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form. Comics are used to tell a story, and are published in a number of different formats including comic strips, comic books, webcomics, Manga, and graphic novels. Some comics have been published in a tabloid form. The largest comic book market is Japan.
Many users associate desktop Linux with their daily repetitive grind. However, we are always on the look out for applications that help make Linux fun to use. It really is a great platform for entertainment.
Some document viewers offer a good range of different formats. Although they are not dedicated comic book viewers, Evince and okular have support for the common comic book archive files, and merit mention here.
Nativefier – Easily Make Any Website into Desktop Application
Nativefier is a CLI tool that easily create a executable desktop application of any website with succinct and minimal configuration. Anybody can use it and it is a lot lighter than typical Electron apps.
Nativefier is based on the electron-package and since Electron apps are platform independent, any Nativefiered app will run on GNU/Linux distros as well as on Windows and Mac Operating Systems.
Linux NVENC OBS Screen Capture – For The Record
Linux NVENC OBS Screen Capture. How does it compare to a USB hardware capture device? With select NVIDIA cards and a NVIDIA modern driver for Linux, my OBS installation is able to take advantage of GPU video capturing.
Instructionals/Technical
Learn the Method to Install Kali Linux on Virtualbox
How to List All Virtual Hosts in Apache Web Server
How to install ownCloud with ONLYOFFICE using Univention App Appliance
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Configure System Locale on Debian 9
Get all documents (doc,docx,xls,xlsx,pdf,ppt,pptx,…) linked in a webpage
Complete guide to Dual Boot Ubuntu 18.XX with Windows 10
Ubuntu 18.04 aka Bionic Beaver was released on April 26th, 2018 with a lot of changes on front end as well as on backend. Major change that anybody who has ever used Ubuntu, will notice is the Desktop Environment.
Working with Calendars in the Linux Terminal
Windows 7 to Linux: Backup and Media creation
This is the second part of our migrating from Windows 7 to Linux guide. We talked about general preparations in the first guide that looked at choosing the right Linux distribution, finding out if a certain Linux flavor supports needed features or software, or how one would go about migrating data to Linux.
Microsoft will retire Windows 7 on January 2020 for home users and small businesses. The company won’t release security updates for the operating system after January 2020 which means that any vulnerability that is detected after January 2020 remains unpatched.
Learn About Linux Bash for Loop with Examples
CentOS 7 Run Script When Network Interface is Up (Network Manager)
What To Do After Installing Xubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu -bash: do-release-upgrade: command not found
Give your Ubuntu User Account a Profile Picture
Check how many CPUs are there in Linux system
Contributing to OSP upstream a.k.a. Peer Review
How to run Python Scripts with Apache and mod_wsgi on Ubuntu 18.04
Install Ansible in Linux
Install Plex Media Server on CentOS 7
Installing Ubuntu Using Hyper-V Quick Create
An introduction to Ansible Operators in Kubernetes
20 Basic Ubuntu Commands Every Beginner Should Know
Deploying Ubuntu root on ZFS with MAAS
Print to Google Drive in a non-Gnome desktop
Basic photo editing with Darktable
Deploy Apache Kafka using Docker Compose
The Illustrated TLS Connection
Set Up a CI/CD Pipeline with Kubernetes Part 1: Overview
Get an Introduction to Open Source, Git, and Linux with New Training Course
Running Linux containers as a non-root with Podman
How To Browse And Read Entire Arch Wiki As Linux Man Pages
How to Change User Password in Linux
How to Enable or Disable Services on Boot in Linux Using chkconfig and systemctl Command
How To Search Available Packages From Command Line In Debian, Ubuntu Or Linux Mint [APT]
How to Setup FTP Server with VSFTPD on Ubuntu 18.04
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Install and Configure Webmin on your Ubuntu System
Grand strategy game AI War 2 is now available in Early Access
AI War 2 from Arcen Games has finally entered Early Access today after being funded on Kickstarter back at the end of 2016. Thankfully, they’ve lived up to their promise of Linux support as it’s available right away.
Play It Now – PixelJunk Shooter
Welcome to the another review in the PIN (Play It NOW) series, where we highlight under-rated games that didn’t get the praise and attention they deserved on release and still don’t to this day. Until now! This time, we’ll take a look at PixelJunk Shooter by Q-Games Ltd.
The deep monster taming RPG ‘Siralim 3′ has now officially launched with Linux support
For those after their next RPG fix, the monster taming game Siralim 3 [Official Site] is now officially out with Linux support as it has left Early Access.
While not the most graphically pleasing, the Siralim series do always have a really good amount of depth in them allowing you a ridiculous amount of fun.
Feral show off Total War: WARHAMMER II on Linux, along with confirming more Linux ports and a Vulkan teaser
Feral Interactive just put up a YouTube video to show off Total War: WARHAMMER II running on Linux, it’s looking good and they confirmed again their future Linux plans.
What’s interesting, is that in this video they did confirm a few interesting bits of extra information. Firstly, they confirmed that Total War: WARHAMMER II is using Vulkan (which we knew already) but the more interesting thing is what they said after. They said “By the way, we do have more sweet sweet Vulkan plans up our sleeves, but they’re secret.”. It’s going to be interesting to find out what they mean by that, since they wouldn’t say such a thing if it just meant future ports will use Vulkan, since we already know that as they’ve said it multiple times before.
Eternum EX, a retro-inspired action platformer comes to Linux this month
Inspired by ’80s arcade cabinet games, Eternum EX aims to be a challenging retro action platformer that’s releasing this month.
The developer said they were inspired by games like Bomb Jack (Tehkan, 1984), Ghosts’n Goblins (Capcom, 1985), Baluba-louk no Densetsu (Able, 1986) and Psychic 5 (Jaleco, 1987).
Smith and Winston, a metroidvania-styled twin-stick shooter in a voxel world has Linux support
For those who love a good twin-stick shooter, Smith and Winston certainly looks quite interesting and it has some pretty sweet design.
Today, Linux game porter Ethan Lee begins officially working on Steam Play’s Proton
A small update for those interested in keeping up with the news surrounding Steam Play and Proton development.
In September, we spoke to Linux game porter Ethan Lee where he went on to mention how he would like to officially work on Steam Play’s Proton. Not long after our article went up, he ended up speaking to Valve so things started moving pretty quickly. All was quiet, then, at the start of this month he wrote a post on Google+ to mention that he was working out some sort of contract to officially begin working on it.
Mounting And Optimizing A Linux Gamer Computer
We have had a lot of news about games in the Linux world coming out in recent weeks. We already have an interesting performance for games like Grand Theft Auto V, and the trend is for the compatibility level to improve every day, with Valve’s recent announcement of Proton as announced here! This even was the head behind the development of DXVK which brought a new step in the compatibility of Windows games on Linux.
Stranded Deep adds a new experimental couch co-op mode to survive together
To go along with this new feature, they also added a Player Ragdoll for when you’re knocked out or dead. You partner can help you up with bandages before you bleed out and bodies can be dragged as well for maximum fun. It’s good to see them add more from their roadmap, with plenty more still to come before it leaves Early Access.
They also added a Raft Passenger Seat, fixed a bunch of bugs and updated Unity to “2017.4.13f1″. Also the shark music won’t play until you’re actually attacked so no more early warnings for you.
.Age (dot Age) is a turn-based village builder showing off the harsh reality of the Dark Ages
.Age (dot Age) seems like it could be a very interesting game. A harsh turn-based village builder that will throw events at you like candy, don’t be fooled by the cute and colourful style as this is a menacing game.
Developed by CKC Games, it’s due out sometime next year. When spotted on Twitter, we spoke to the developer who confirmed “I’ve had a linux build for years” so it’s coming to Linux at release.
inXile confirm the Linux version of The Bard’s Tale IV is being worked on
For those waiting on the native Linux version of The Bard’s Tale IV, fear not, as inXile Entertainment have confirmed they’re working on it.
AI combat arena ‘Gladiabots’ has enabled Linux support on Steam
No longer hidden behind a beta of Steam, AI combat arena Gladiabots from GFX47 is now officially supported on Steam for Linux. Do note, the game is still in Early Access.
If you love strategy games and feel like you want a little more control over unit AI, this might be the game for you. In Gladiabots you assemble a team of robots, design their AI with a handy drag and drop interface and attempt to beat another AI in battle. There’s decent tutorials, a campaign, cross-platform online play that doesn’t require you to be online at the same time and it’s really quite clever.
Dungeon crawler ‘The 7th Circle’ adds Linux support, looks pretty good
For those who love their first-person dungeon crawlers, The 7th Circle actually looks pretty good and they recently added Linux support.
It’s not going to win any awards for originality here, but 68k Studios seem to have created a reasonably good retro-inspired dungeon crawler. With traditional turn-based combat, more than 60 spells to wield, a crafting and upgrades system and so on it’s pretty full on features.
Action-RPG ‘Moonlighter’ has a juicy free Adventure Update, now live on Linux
It’s time to close up shop and go on another run through the dungeons as Moonlighter has a free update now out. This update originally released last week, with the Linux version only seeing the update today.
Desktop Environments/WMs
Xfce Screensaver 0.1.0 Released
I am pleased to announce the release of Xfce Screensaver (xfce4-screensaver) 0.1.0! This is an early release targeted to testers and translators. Bugs and patches welcome!
Xfce4-Screensaver Has Its First Release – Fork Of MATE Screensaver, Forked From GNOME
As a new alternative over XScreenSaver or using other desktop environments’ screensaver functionality, xfce4-screensaver has out its first release albeit of alpha quality.
The xfce4-screensaver project made its preliminary (v0.1.0) release today that is described of alpha quality intended for testers and translators. This new screensaver option for Xfce users is forked from the MATE Screensaver code, which in turn was forked from the GNOME Screensaver.
K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt
Plasma 5.14 – Phasers on stun
Linux is much like the stock market. Moments of happiness broken by crises. Or is the other way around? Never mind. Today shall hopefully be a day of joy, for I am about to test Plasma 5.14, the latest version of this neat desktop environment. Recently, I’ve had a nice streak of good energy with Linux, mostly thanks to my experience with Slimbook Pro2, which I configured with Kubuntu Beaver. Let’s see if we can keep the momentum.
Now, before we begin, there are more good news woven into this announcement. As you can imagine, you do need some kind of demonstrator to test the new desktop. Usually, it’s KDE neon, which offers a clean, lean, mean KDE-focused testing environment. You can boot into the live session, try the desktop, and if you like it, you can even install it. Indeed, neon is an integral part of my eight-boot setup on the Lenovo G50 machine. But what makes things really interesting is that neon has also switched to the latest Ubuntu LTS base. It now comes aligned to the 18.04 family, adorned with this brand new Plasma. Proceed.
Release of KDE Frameworks 5.51.0
KDE Frameworks are 70 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms. For an introduction see the Frameworks 5.0 release announcement.
This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner.
KDE Frameworks 5.51 Released
KDE e.V. receives a sizeable donation from Handshake Foundation
Of the total donation amount, 100,000 USD will be specifically allocated to pursue the development of the Calligra office suite.
“Handshake is pleased to be able to support KDE’s international community of dedicated volunteers and their continued commitment to a free desktop environment with the current release of KDE Plasma 5 and the Calligra office suite”, says Rob Myers from the Handshake Foundation.
The fruits of this contribution will soon become visible and available to everyone. Meanwhile, don’t hesitate to join the KDE Community and be part of our mission to help everyone protect their privacy and control their digital lives with Free Software.
KDE e.V Receives Generous Handshake Donation, Ubuntu Touch OTA-5 Is Out, Geoclue 2.5 Now Available and Asking for Help, New Code of Conduct Proposal and Internet Freedom Festival
KDE e.V. announces it received a $300,000 USD donation from the Handshake Foundation. According to the KDE blog post, it plans to use $100,000 USD of the donation specifically toward development of the Calligra office suite. Also, KDE celebrated its 22nd anniversary yesterday—Happy Birthday KDE!
digiKam Recipes 18.10.15 Released
It’s time for another digiKam Recipes update. The most visible change in this update is the new book cover. All screenshots were also updated to reflect changes in the current version of digiKam.
[Krita] Interview with Sira Argia
2014 is the year that I first started to try Linux on my laptop, and then I knew that Windows programs don’t run perfectly on Linux even using “wine”. My curiosity about Linux and the alternative programs led me to Krita. The more time I spent with Linux, the more I fell in love with it. And finally I thought that “I’ll choose Linux as a single OS on my laptop and Krita as a digital painting program for work someday after I get my first graphic tablet.”
And so the [Krita] Fundraiser Ends
Yesterday was the last day of the developers sprint^Wmarathon, and the last day of the fundraiser. We’re all good and knackered here, but the fundraiser ended at a very respectable 26,426 euros! That’s really awesome, thanks everybody!
Sizeable donation from Handshake Foundation
We’re glad to announce that we received donation of 100,000 USD, which is part of 300,000 USD offered to our KDE organization. Quite appropriate for a birthday present, as the KDE project just turned 22 this last weekend! It’s true recognition for KDE as one of the world’s largest open source project.
Qt 5.12 beta2 released
We have published Qt 5.12 beta2 today. As earlier you can get it via online installer. Delta to beta1 attached.
Qt 5.12 Beta 2 Brings Many Fixes
Just two weeks after the Qt 5.12 beta release, a second beta is now available for testing of this forthcoming tool-kit update.
The Qt 5.12 Beta 2 update is made up of bug fixes with changes ranging from build fixes for different platforms to disabling mouse tracking by default within the QtWebGLPlugin to fixed Ozone platform detection. There are more than 200 changes to Qt 5.12 that have been queued over the past two weeks.
The complete list of the 200+ changes that are mostly fixes in Qt 5.12 Beta 2 can be found via today’s release announcement with the attached change-log.
Krita at the University of La Plata
Sebastian Labi ha sido invitado para presentar Krita en el Laboratorio de herramientas de software libre de la Universidad de La Plata. Hablará sobre ilustración digital y usará Krita para dar una demostración de cómo usar Krita para el campo de la Ilustración Digital.
El SLAD- FBA (Software libre para Arte y diseño) es una nueva unidad de de investigación y formación en la Facultad de Bellas Artes que promueve el conocimiento y uso del software libre en la capacitación académica de la Universidad de La Plata.
LaKademy 2018 – Third and Fourth Days (October 13th and 14th)
The third day of LaKademy 2018 was my last day participating on the event.
During October 13th, we started the day with a promo reunion. This reunion was done to discuss about some plans and actions for the Latin American KDE community over the next year. Some decisions were made and topics were discussed involving KDE participation in some events, promotion of our own events in Latin America, including LaKademy 2019 and Kafé com Qt, and some details in general about our community.
GNOME Desktop/GTK
Restyling apps at scale
Over the past few months we’ve had a lively debate about “theming” in GNOME, and how it affects our ecosystem. In this discussion I’ve found that there is a divide between people who design and/or develop apps, and people who don’t. I have yet to see an app developer who thinks the current approach to “theming” can work, while many people who aren’t app developers are arguing that it can.
After a few long discussions I started to realize that part of the reason why there’s so little agreement and so much drama around this issue is that we don’t agree what the problem is. Those who don’t work on apps often can’t see the issues with theming and think we want to remove things for no reason, while those who do are very frustrated that the other side doesn’t want to acknowledge how broken everything is.
Geoclue 2.5 & repeating call for help
Also, while I’m at it, I wanted to highlight the “call for help” at the end of that post by repeating it here again. I apologize of repeating to those who already read it but a friend pointed out that it’s likely going to be missed by many folks:
The future of Mozilla Location Service
When Mozilla announced their location service in late 2013, Geoclue became one of its first users as it was our only hope for a reliable WiFi-geolocation source. We couldn’t use Google’s service as their ToC don’t allow it to be used in an open source project (I recall some clause that it can only be used with Google Maps and not any other Map software). Mozilla Location Service (MLS) was a huge success in terms of people contributing WiFi data to it. I’ve been to quite a few places around Europe and North America in the last few years and I haven’t been to any location, that is not already covered by MLS.
Making a first contribution in Outreachy usability testing
If you want to join us in GNOME usability testing as part of the upcoming cycle in Outreachy, you’ll need to make a first contribution as part of your application process. Every project in Outreachy asks for a first contribution; this is a requirement in Outreachy.
Don’t make too big of a deal about your first contribution in usability testing. We don’t expect interns to know much about usability testing as they enter the internship. Throughout the internship, you’ll learn about usability testing. So for this first contribution, we set a low bar.
Kali Linux: What You Must Know Before Using it
Kali Linux is the industry’s leading Linux distribution in penetration testing and ethical hacking. It is a distribution that comes shipped with tons and tons of hacking and penetration tools and software by default, and is widely recognized in all parts of the world, even among Windows users who may not even know what Linux is.
Because of the latter, many people are trying to get alone with Kali Linux although they don’t even understand the basics of a Linux system. The reasons may vary from having fun, faking being a hacker to impress a girlfriend or simply trying to hack the neighbors’ WiFi network to get a free Internet, all of which is a bad thing to do if you are planning to use Kali Linux.
Install, install, install! The dance of panic!
3. PicarOS Diego. My daughter’s desktop dual-boots Mageia and PicarOS Diego, a great MiniNo GalpON respin for children. Since the game she likes is neither running with WINE on Mageia 6.1 nor with Windows Vista, I tried to run it on WINE in PicarOS. The packages were old, so I updated the system. Big mistake! In the end, I was left with an up-to-date MiniNo that removed all the special tweaks for children and, to add insult to injury, the game would not run at all!
Kali Linux for Vagrant: Hands-on
I recently saw the announcement for Kali Linux on Vagrant. I have been a huge fan of Kali Linux for a very long time, and I am interested in virtualization (and currently using VirtualBox in an educational environment), so this was a very interesting combination to me. I have now installed it on a few of my systems, and so far I am quite impressed with it.
The logical place to start is with a brief overview of Vagrant itself. What is Vagrant? According to their web page:
Vagrant is a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments in a single workflow
What Vagrant actually does is provide a way of automating the building of virtualized development environments using a variety of the most popular providers, such as VirtualBox, VMware, AWS and others. It not only handles the initial setup of the virtual machine, it can also provision the virtual machine based on your specifications, so it provides a consistent environment which can be shared and distributed to others.
IPFire 2.21 – Core Update 124 released
…this is the official release announcement for IPFire 2.21 – Core Update 124. It brings new features and immensely improves security and performance of the whole system.
Red Hat Family
Redis Labs Collaborates with Red Hat to Deliver Redis Enterprise with Built-in Support for Kubernetes Operators on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platfo
New Redis Enterprise Kubernetes Operator simplifies the development of cloud-native applications and services across hybrid and multi-cloud footprints
Red Hat Flexes CoreOS Muscle In OpenShift Kubernetes Platform
The growth of a new technology as it enters the industry can tend to take on a certain pattern. At first, users begin to get a feel for what it does and what problems it can solve. That can lead to the next step of deploying successive generations of the technology, a greater understanding of it by customers, and more widespread use, which then drives more deployments, expanded use, and greater developer participation.
The evolution of Kubernetes, which has become the dominant container orchestration technology since being contributed to the open source community by Google several years ago, has been so fierce that it has caught up to and outran similar tools like Docker Swarm, Mesos, and OpenStack in the market. Since 2015, Kubernetes has marched through the first two phases of its evolution and is now entering its third phase, according to Brian Gracely, director of product strategy at Red Hat, which has embraced Kubernetes in its OpenShift platform.
Identity Management and Load Balancing in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
In the recent months I have been getting more and more questions about identity management (IdM) in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and best practices around load balancing. This post dives into the details and recommendations related to this subject.
EventFlow: Event-driven microservices on OpenShift (Part 1)
In this post, we will focus on processing CloudEvents, which provide a standard mechanism for describing event data in a platform-independent manner. The CloudEvents specification aims to make it easier to write portable applications that produce and consume event-based services. The specification provides a base level of metadata, which might be of interest for an event, and the payload, which can be of arbitrary structure. CloudEvents are distinct from a binding to any particular serialization format, but the event-flow platform uses a JSON representation of them. Even though we are focussing on CloudEvents in this post, the EventFlow platform is not specific to them. It can be used to transport any other type of “serializable” data between processors.
MongoDB releases its Kubernetes Operator for Red Hat OpenShift
The newest release of Red Hat OpenShift, version 3.11, introduces Kubernetes Operator support. Operators, along with Custom Resource Definitions, allow OpenShift to be extended to support custom types and manage complex services. The Kubernetes MongoDB Enterprise Operator in conjunction with MongoDB Ops Manager supports provisioning and lifecycle management for multiple MongoDB Enterprise clusters. An OpenShift user can more easily deploy MongoDB replica sets or sharded clusters, perform upgrades to future versions, and change configurations directly from the standard Kubernetes API’s, or from tooling (such as kubectl). The Kubernetes MongoDB Enterprise Operator is available directly in Dev Preview as an optional install in OpenShift 3.11.
Designing a better user experience for open source software
For the past few months, I’ve contributed to ChRIS (Childrens’ Research Integration Service) as a user experience (UX) designer.ChRIS is a cloud-based, open source framework for processing medical imaging data; it was originally conceived by a team at Boston Children’s Hospital and successfully executed with help from the Mass Open Cloud (MOC) and Red Hat.
Working on the ChRIS project is fulfilling in a direct way; it applies open source technology and principles to improve patient care. Doctors shouldn’t have to be computer scientists to be able to use the best innovations in medical image processing technology to improve their patients’ outcomes.
Bacula Systems Introduces Native Backup and Recovery for Red Hat Virtualization
Continuing to lead in high-performance backup and restore for large enterprises, hosting companies and managed services providers, Bacula Systems today announced Bacula Enterprise Edition 10.2, featuring new functionality for integrated backup and recovery of Red Hat Virtualization environments.
ROAD TRIP: Umphrey’s McGee at Red Hat Amphitheater
Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management Company, LTD Buys Deere, Netflix Inc, Red Hat Inc, Sells Broadcom Inc, Western Digital Corp, Alphabet Inc
2 Stocks Taking a Gut Shot: Red Hat, Inc. (RHT), Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. (PTEN)
Stocks Ready To Soar: Red Hat, Inc. (RHT), United Continental Holdings, Inc. (UAL)?
Its time to set off for the next journey: Red Hat, Inc. (RHT)
Red Hat, Inc. (RHT) has a value of $122.51 per share While Paycom Software, Inc. (PAYC) is stand at $130.88
Confidence and clarity can do wonders: Red Hat, Inc. (RHT), Owens Corning (OC)
Red Hat, Inc. (RHT)’s Run May Be Ending
Hills Bank & Trust Co. Raises Stake in Red Hat Inc (RHT)
Mover to Watch — Red Hat (RHT)
Mike Shapiro’s Bullish Red Hat Trade
CommOps takeaways from Flock 2018
The annual Fedora contributor conference, Flock, took place from August 8-11, 2018. Several members of the Community Operations (CommOps) team were present for the conference. We also held a half-day team sprint for team members and interested people to participate and share feedback with the team.
Flatpaks, sandboxes and security
Last week the Flatpak community woke to the “news” that we are making the world a less secure place and we need to rethink what we’re doing. Personally, I’m not sure this is a fair assessment of the situation. The “tl;dr” summary is: Flatpak confers many benefits besides the sandboxing, and even looking just at the sandboxing, improving app security is a huge problem space and so is a work in progress across multiple upstream projects. Much of what has been achieved so far already delivers incremental improvements in security, and we’re making solid progress on the wider app distribution and portability problem space.
Sandboxing, like security in general, isn’t a binary thing – you can’t just say because you have a sandbox, you have 100% security. Like having two locks on your front door, two front doors, or locks on your windows too, sensible security is about defense in depth. Each barrier that you implement precludes some invalid or possibly malicious behaviour. You hope that in total, all of these barriers would prevent anything bad, but you can never really guarantee this – it’s about multiplying together probabilities to get a smaller number. A computer which is switched off, in a locked faraday cage, with no connectivity, is perfectly secure – but it’s also perfectly useless because you cannot actually use it. Sandboxing is very much the same – whilst you could easily take systemd-nspawn, Docker or any other container technology of choice and 100% lock down a desktop app, you wouldn’t be able to interact with it at all.
Fedora/RISC-V now mirrored as a Fedora “alternative” architecture
PSA: System update fails when trying to remove rtkit-0.11-19.fc29
Debian Family
Canonical/Ubuntu
Canonical collaborates with Eurotech on edge computing solutions
Coinciding with IoT World Solutions Congress in Barcelona this week, Canonical is pleased to announce a dual-pronged technological partnership with Eurotech to help organisations advance their internet of things enablement. Eurotech is a long time leader in embedded computing hardware as well as providing software solutions to aid enterprises to deliver their IoT projects either end to end or by providing intervening building blocks.
As part of the partnership, Canonical has published a Snap for the Eclipse Kura project – the popular, open-source Java-based IoT edge framework. Having Kura available as a Snap – the universal Linux application packaging format – will enable a wider availability of Linux users across multiple distributions to take advantage of the framework and ensure it is supported on more hardware. Snap support will also extend on Eurotech’s commercially supported version; the Everywhere Software Framework (ESF). By installing Kura as a Snap on a device, users will benefit with automatic updates to ensure they are always working from the latest version while with the reassurance of a secure, confined environment.
Self-containing dependencies LogMeIn to publish their first Snap
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 549 for the week of October 7 – 13, 2018.
Librem 5 general development report — October 15th, 2018
Hi everyone! Phew, it has been a busy and exciting time these last several weeks. Here is a fairly detailed summary of the progress that has been made on the various pieces of the Librem 5 project.
In phosh, there have been many bugs fixed and the code has been cleaned up. Also an effort has gone towards translations, updating the German and French translations as well as standardizing the po headers to hopefully make it less confusing for new translators.
Purism Shares The Latest Librem 5 Smartphone Progress – Dev Kits Going Out Soon
Purism has shared the latest details on their efforts to deliver the open-source Linux Librem 5 smartphone to market in 2019.
Arm brings Intel, Arduino, myDevices into the Pelion IoT platform ecosystem
Arm on Monday is announcing a series of new partnerships that will enhance Pelion, its Internet of Things platform, making it easier for customers to deploy and manage a wider range of IoT devices on the platform.
First, the Peltion Platform can now be used to manage Intel Architecture (x86) platforms, in addition to Arm-based IoT devices and gateways. Next, Arm is partnering with myDevices to make it easier to quickly onboard a wider array of devices. Additionally, Arduino is partnering with Pelion Connectivity Management to enable developers to quickly create and scale cellular IoT designs.
ARM expands Pelion IoT platform to Intel, Linux ecosystems
In addition, the company announced Mbed Linux OS, which builds on its Mbed OS for IoT devices based on Cortex-A. Mbed Linux OS is integrated with the Pelion IoT Platform and is designed to open up new classes of IoT devices with complex applications, such as those processing video or edge gateways. Developers can sign-up now for early access to the new software.
Raspberry Pi A+-sized $10 La Frite Linux board has better specs at half the price
The La Frite board is a follow up to Libre Computing’s $25 Le Potato board and is “loosely based” on the design of the Raspberry Pi A+ — a smaller and cheaper Pi than the $35 Raspberry Pi B+ — due to the 40-pin GPIO header setup.
It’s currently available to backers on the device’s Kickstarter page and will be generally available in November.
Samsung’s Android Pie beta program may go live soon as support pages appear
See How Many Dollars You’ve Spent On Android Apps with This Free Tool
ASUS Zenfone 4 Max gets ZenUI 5.0 update with Android 8.1 Oreo
The ZTE Axon 7 gets Android 8.0 Oreo, with several catches
Palm is Releasing a Mini Companion Android Phone at Verizon for $350
Just tell Google Assistant to play Netflix on Android TVs
Ahead of OnePlus 6T release there’s big Android update news for OnePlus 6 owners
Android Pie update for OnePlus 5 and OnePlus 3 series will take some time: Pete Lau
BetterBatteryStats updated with Android Pie support
Over 75 percent of Pixel users are on Android Pie
The Best Free Offline Music Player Apps for Android
Google Assistant can now play Netflix on Android TV devices
OnePlus 6T release date, price and specs: Geekbench listing confirms 8GB RAM, Android Pie
Smartphone Operating System Battle: Android P vs iOS 12 [Infographic]
Android warning for users over ‘extremely powerful’ FAKE Google Play Store scam
Here is a list of every device compatible with Lineage OS
Nokia 5.1 Plus to get Android Pie by the end of 2018
Google Maps receives a fresh new look and Android fans will be very happy
Sony Xperia fans receive good news as Android 9 Pie updates arrive for these smartphones
Poco F1′s Poco Launcher Comes Out of Beta, Now Available to All Android Users
ASUS ZenFone 4 Max updated to Android 8.1 Oreo with ZenUI 5.0
Palm is a 3.3-inch Android sidekick that won’t replace your phone
New FIDO2 Security Key Will Be Open Source
A new security key solution is poised to further extend the reach of the FIDO Alliance’s new FIDO2 authentication standard.
Called “Solo”, the security key is currently in the works from San Francisco-based SoloKeys, which currently has a Kickstarter campaign underway to support the product. Like other prominent security key solutions, Solo is designed to plug into a computer or laptop’s USB port, allowing the user to confirm with an authenticating service that they are physically present at the device by pressing a button on the key.
IOTA (MIOTA) – Biilabs launches GDPR compliant open-source implementation of TangleID
The rise of IOTA as a top DLT continues. Earlier this year, the city of Taipei announced that they were using the IOTA tangle in implementing their smart city project. The project has largely been a success in implementing a decentralized digital identity system that runs on the IOTA tangle. That’s a major plus towards the growth of the IOTA ecosystem, and gives a huge intrinsic value to the IOTA coin. However, the best news is that this system is now open source. This means that it can be applied to any other city all across the world.
Open Source Healthcare Journal Preview at the Connected Health Conference in Boston
The debut issue of the Open Source Healthcare Journal, a magazine advocating innovative open-source solutions in health, will be available for preview by over 2,000 technology innovators and healthcare providers at the Connected Health Conference at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, October 17-19. The Open Source Healthcare Journal’s forward-looking point of view is the perfect match for the industry-leading conference, known for provocative discussions on the future of tech-enabled health. The first issue of the journal — published by GoInvo, a healthcare design studio located in Arlington, Massachusetts — features a Q&A with digital health leader and best-selling author Eric Topol, MD as well as articles by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn of HealthcareDIY and Juhan Sonin of MIT and GoInvo.
Hedera Hashgraph releases open source SDK
Hedera Hashgraph, the public distributed ledger that enables globally decentralized applications recently announced the public release of the Hedera SDK in Java.
The SDK is open source under an Apache 2 license. With the SDK, developers can now begin to develop Hedera-based applications for use on the Hedera platform.
4 [free] open-source network monitoring tools
Just as with commercial, for-pay monitoring software, there are open-source options that have varying features, and the goal of an enterprise is to find the best fit for its environment.
That’s where this downloadable PDF package of reviews can help. It evaluates four popular free, open-source network-monitoring platforms – Icinga, Nagios, Observium and Zabbix – highlighting pros and cons and giving enough context that this bundle can serve as a guide for IT pros seeking advice.
Open Source MANO Needs a Reality Check
So what’s next? Another ONAP update is due soon (in November, dubbed Dublin) but that will only cover up some of the cracks.
But you know what — that’s OK! No one actually expects an open source development comprising millions of lines of code to be made useful in a blink of an eye, or even a few months. Iterative progress and a very clear indication of the state of documentation, exactly which modules might be ready to be either used by an operator’s team or considered for “industrialization” by a vendor and even highlighting areas where more community activity would all be useful and not at all damaging: Promoting ONAP as “ready to deploy” currently invites suspicion, because that suggests 100% readiness and that’s very far from reality.
Is Open Source the Right Approach for NFV Orchestration?
Once upon a time there was a maharaja who decided to raise a baby elephant as a pet (stick with me…). As the elephant grew, it became more and more expensive to feed and created such a mess that eventually the maharaja told his courtiers that he was gifting them the elephant out of the generosity of his heart. In return they would have to look after the elephant and bring it back to him when it was a bit more mature and stable enough for him to ride.
Some might say that, in the context of NFV MANO (management and orchestration), the elephant is Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) and the maharaja is AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T). But that would be unfair. In reality there are two maharajas — AT&T and China Mobile Ltd. (NYSE: CHL) — and two elephants that have been merged into a six-legged Loxodonta with two tails and three tusks. (See MANO Marriage: ECOMP, OPEN-O Converge as ONAP.)
Nuclear Reactor Startup Transatomic Power going Open Source after Closure
It seldom happens that certain circumstances do not allow one idea to prosper as planned. But Open Source can solve that issue, once the idea is shared with the world. Others can take on that work, build upon and keep improving it.
This recently happened with Transatomic Power (founded by Mark Massie and Dr. Leslie Dewan in April 2011), a Nuclear Startup that introduced a brand new design of its own Nuclear Reactor that is a lot more efficient than conventional ones.
As they haven’t been able to build it within their targeted timeframe, they announced suspending operations on September 25, 2018. But declaring their designs Open Source is certainly going to help change things for the better.
Hacktoberfest 2018 – Celebrate Open Source!
Hacktoberfest is an annual event sponsored by DigitalOcean in partnership with GitHub and Twilio and while “Hacktoberfest” might sound or give the impression of something doable only by very experienced hacker programmers, in essence, it’s just a wrapper around having to submit 5 Pull Requests to any Github hosted repository and earn some swag in return.
Mangaluru: Sahyadri Open Source Community holds Hacktoberfest HackNight
Sahyadri Open Source Community (SOSC) at Sahyadri hosted Hacktoberfest HackNight in association with K-Tech Innovation Hub on October 13 and 14 at Sahyadri to celebrate the month of open source with Hacktoberfest.
The event was inaugurated by Shashank Krishna, Padma Shri 2019 (nominee) and director of Katmai Infotechnology Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru, followed by interaction with students regarding Smart India Hackathon. Dr R Srinivasa Rao Kunte, principal of Sahyadri College of Engineering and management, Prakhyath Rai, faculty coordinator, asst professor of Information Science, and Arjun Suvarna, chairperson of Sahyadri Open Source Community, addressed the crowd.
Announcing Linux Autumn 2018
Linux Autumn is an annual meeting of Free Software and Linux enthusiast from Poland organized since 2003 which means this year it will be its 16th time. This year it will be organized in Ustroń in the southern Poland from 9 to 11 November. The town is the same as the last year but in a different hotel.
As the place is located near the Czech and Slovak border we would like to invite more people, both speakers and attendees, from other countries. We are aware of strong presence of Fedora contributors in Brno and other nearby cities just across the border.
Play Your Favorite Old Web Games Now, Chrome 71 May Break Them
hen Google rolled out Chrome 66 earlier this May, it offered a tweak that pleased almost everyone by muting sites that would play sound automatically. Unfortunately, it also ended up breaking several projects’ audio.
This meant that a variety of different media, from popular web games to some of Google’s own projects effectively had their audio broken beyond repair. Users were understandably upset, and in response to an overwhelming amount of backlash, Google retained the browser alteration that blocked autoplaying video and audio, but decided to push back the feature’s application for games and web apps to Chrome 71, which is set to debut in December.
Apply to Join the Featured Extensions Advisory Board
Do you love extensions? Do you have a keen sense of what makes a great extension? Want to help users discover extensions that will improve how they experience the web? If so, please consider applying to join our Featured Extensions Community Board!
Board members nominate and select new featured extensions each month to help millions of users find top-quality extensions to customize their Firefox browsers. Click here to learn more about the duties of the Featured Extension Advisory Board. The current board is currently wrapping up their six-month tour of duty and we are now assembling a new board of talented contributors for the months January – June, 2019.
Extension developers, designers, advocates, and fans are all invited to apply to join the board. Priority will be given to applicants who have not served on the board before, followed by those from previous boards, and finally from the outgoing board.
Mozilla VR Blog: How XR Environments Shape User Behavior
In previous research, The Extended Mind has documented how a 3D space automatically signals to people the rules of behavior. One of the key findings of that research is that when there is synchrony in the design of a space, it helps communicate behavioral norms to visitors. That means that when there is complementarity among content, affordances, and avatars, it helps people learn how to act. One example would be creating a gym environment (content), with weights (affordances), but only letting avatars dress in tuxedos and evening gowns. The contraction of people’s appearances could demotivate weight-lifting (the desired behavior).
This article shares learnings from the Hubs by Mozilla user research on how the different locations that they visited impacted participant’s behavior. Briefly, the researchers observed five pairs of participants in multiple 3D environments and watched as they navigated new ways of interacting with one another. In this particular study, participants visited a medieval fantasy world, a meeting room, an atrium, and a rooftop bunker.
Removing Old Versions of TLS
In March of 2020, Firefox will disable support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1.
On the Internet, 20 years is an eternity. TLS 1.0 will be 20 years old in January 2019. In that time, TLS has protected billions – and probably trillions – of connections from eavesdropping and attack.
In that time, we have collectively learned a lot about what it takes to design and build a security protocol.
Though we are not aware of specific problems with TLS 1.0 that require immediate action, several aspects of the design are neither as strong or as robust as we would like given the nature of the Internet today. Most importantly, TLS 1.0 does not support modern cryptographic algorithms.
Wladimir Palant: So Google is now claiming: “no one (including Google) can access your data”
A few days ago Google announced ensuring privacy for your Android data backups. The essence is that your lockscreen PIN/pattern/passcode is used to encrypt your data and nobody should be able to decrypt it without knowing that passcode. Hey, that’s including Google themselves! Sounds good? Past experience indicates that such claims should not always be taken at face value. And in fact, this story raises some red flags for me.
The trouble is, whatever you use on your phone’s lockscreen is likely not very secure. It doesn’t have to be, because the phone will lock up after a bunch of failed attempts. So everybody goes with a passcode that is easy to type but probably not too hard to guess. Can you derive an encryption key from that passcode? Sure! Will this encryption be unbreakable? Most definitely not. With passwords being that simple, anybody getting their hands on encrypted data will be able to guess the password and decrypt the data within a very short time. That will even be the case for a well-chosen key derivation algorithm (and we don’t know yet which algorithm Google chose to use here).
Rabimba: Voting impartially for fun and profit a.k.a Mozilla Reps Council Voting
I am part of a program called Mozilla Reps. Though I am involved as a volunteer contributor with Mozilla for quite some time now, I am relatively new to the Mozilla Reps program and hardly know anything about the program apart from my scope of work in it.
Apparently, this is the Election time for voting the nominated candidates for the Council who will spearhead the program for the next session. Since I am new to the program reading about everyone’s election campaign and hearing about what they will do for the program was not giving me any clear motivation to vote for anyone specific. Though this wasn’t anything super important, I still thought since I have a bit of time in my hand why not do something interesting about it.
FirefoxOS, A keyboard and prediction: Story of my first contribution
This was at IBM, New York where I was interning and working on the TJ Watson project. I returned back to my desk, turned on my dual monitors, started reading some blogs and engaging on Mozilla IRC (a new found and pretty short lived hobby). Just a few days before that, FirefoxOS was launched in India in the form of an Intex phone with a $35 price tag. It was making waves all around, because of its hefty price and poor performance . The OS struggle was showing up in the super low cost hardware. I was personally furious about some of the shortcomings, primarily the keyboard which at that time didn’t support prediction in any language other than English and also did not learn new words. Coincidentally, I came upon Dietrich Ayala in the FirefoxOS IRC channel, who at that time was a Platform Engineer at Mozilla. To my surprise he agreed with many of my complaints and asked me if I want to contribute my ideas. I very much wanted to, but then again, I had no idea how. The idea of contributing to the codebase of something like FirefoxOS terrified me. He suggested I first send a proposal and then proceed from there. With my busy work schedule at IBM, this discussion slipped my mind and did not fully boil in my head until I returned home from my internship.
Quality Speakings
Unfortunately my suite of annoying verbal tics – um right um right um, which I continue to treat like Victor Borge’s phonetic punctuation – are on full display here, but I guess we’ll have to live with that. Here’s a talk I gave at the GTA Linux User Group on “The State Of Mozilla”, split into the main talk and the Q&A sections. I could probably have cut a quarter of that talk out by just managing those twitches better, but I guess that’s a project for 2019.
Encryption bill will cause ‘significant risk’ to Internet: Mozilla
Any measure that permits a government to lay down specifications for the design of Internet systems would cause significant risk to the security, stability and trust of such systems, the Mozilla Foundation has said in a submission about Australia’s proposed encryption bill.
Mozilla warns decryption laws will break open source
Mozilla is worried that Australia’s proposed decryption laws will break the principles and licensing terms of open source software.
The foundation said in a submission [pdf] to the government that being forced to secretly create vulnerabilities in an open source product would be extremely difficult.
“For an open source organisation, which would need to close portions of its source code and/or release builds that are not made from its publicly released code bases, this is at odds with the core principles of open source, user expectations, and potentially contractual license obligations,” Mozilla said.
SaaS/Back End
Nginx Updates Web Server Application Platform
Nginx Inc. held its annual customer conference on Oct. 9-10, announcing a series of updates to its namesake Application Platform.
While Nginx was originally best known for the open source nginx web server, Nginx Inc. has expanded in recent years to enable a larger set of web application capabilities, with a series of different products.
Nginx first announced its Application Platform in September 2017, which includes the Nginx Plus Application service combined with the Nginx Controller management and Nginx Unit application server.
Container-native, it’s now ‘a thing’
San Francisco headquartered software analytics company New Relic has acquired Belgian container and microservices monitoring firm CoScale.
Neither firm is essentially open source in its core approach, but the technologies being interplayed here essentially are.
CoScale’s expertise is in monitoring container and microservices environments, with a special focus on Kubernetes — the open source container orchestration system for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications originally designed by Google.
Open source tool simplifies Kubernetes on AWS
AWS Service Operator relies on the Kubernetes controller pattern, which packages various basic tasks, integrates disparate components and keeps an application in a desired state. This information is stored on a single API server for the Kubernetes and AWS assets, with AWS services defined as custom resources, and a user can potentially deploy the entire lifecycle process through a single YAML manifest.
Etc.io, a Dallas-based consulting firm, doesn’t use any AWS container services at scale, and relies primarily on Google Container Engine. AWS Service Operator could make it more convenient to use Kubernetes on AWS, but it doesn’t help organizations that want to move to a microservices architecture that doesn’t rely on a single vendor, said E.T. Cook, managing partner at Etc.io.
Pseudo-Open Source (Openwashing)
How Azure became the place for open source in the cloud [Ed: Well, guess who? Asay became a stream of endless Microsoft propaganda and if they aren't paying him or rewarding him in the future, then this man has lost his mind.]
Should you pay or should you go for free open source software? [Ed: Cliff Saran doesn't get it still. What "free open source software" refers to isn't price, so he presents a false dichotomy again.]
INGDAN.com Partners with Unisound’s Open Source Chip Program to Support AIoT Technology Development [Ed: "Unisound's UniOne Open Source Chip Program" seems like pure openwashing to facilitate surveillance]
Nvidia and IBM Partner for Open Source Machine Learning
Nvidia and IBM team up on open source machine learning [Ed: Proprietary hardware]
New Open Source ERP Suite Written In ILE RPG
There’s something quite novel being introduced today at the Fall COMMON conference in Pittsburgh: An open source ERP package written in free-form RPG. Dubbed intERPprise, the software project is intended to harness core IBM i strengths – its integrated database and ILE environment – but above all, provide an example for what modern and native open source software can look like on IBM i.
Open Source Health Announces Roll Back, Amalgamation with Weekend Unlimited Inc., New Private Placement [Ed: Open Source Health Inc. (formerly OHS) is just a parasite riding the “brand”…]
Implementing ChatOps Using Open Source Tooling [Ed: Meaningless buzzwords]
Identity Community Invited to Contribute to Landmark Open Source Identity Initiative [Ed: “Open Source API” is meaningless. It’s not Open Source.]
Open-source this, open-source that, and the end of the Windows 10 Creators Update [Ed: Openwashing by Microsoft helped by Richard Speed. He speaks of proprietary software and games with a ‘tinge’ of code.
DragonFlyBSD Lands Another NUMA Optimization Helping AMD Threadripper 2 CPUs
DragonFlyBSD lead developer Matthew Dillon has been quite impressed with AMD’s Threadripper 2 processors particularly the Threadripper 2990WX with 32-cores / 64-threads. Dillon has made various optimizations to DragonFly for helping out this processor in past months and overnight he made another significant improvement.
Fosdem 2019: BSD devroom CfP
The Fosdem is a free event for software hackers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year 8000+ open source developers from all the world gather at the event in Brussels, Belgium. During the Fosdem, developer rooms (devrooms) are assigned to self organized open source groups and projects to meet together and showcase their projects.
FSF/FSFE/GNU/SFLC
GNU Guile 2.9.1 beta released JIT native code generation to speed up all Guile programs
GNU released Guile 2.9.1 beta of the extension language for the GNU project. It is the first pre-release leading up to the 3.0 release series.
In comparison to the current stable series, 2.2.x, Guile 2.9.1 brings support for just-in-time native code generation to speed up all Guile programs.
[FSF] Introducing our new associate member forum!
I’m excited to share that we’ve launched a new forum for our associate members. We hope that you find this forum to be a great place to share your experiences and perspectives surrounding free software and to forge new bonds with the free software community. If you’re a member of the FSF, head on over to https://forum.members.fsf.org to get started. You’ll be able to log in using the Central Authentication Service (CAS) account that you used to create your membership. (Until we get WebLabels working for the site, you’ll have to whitelist its JavaScript in order to log in and use it, but rest assured that all of the JavaScript is free software, and a link to all source code can be found in the footer of the site.) Participation in this forum is just one of many benefits of being an FSF member – if you’re not a member yet, we encourage you to join today, for as little as $10 per month, or $5 per month for students.
The purpose of this member forum is to provide a space where members can meet, communicate, and collaborate with each other about free software, using free software. While there are other places on the Internet to talk about free software, this forum is unique in that it is focused on the common interests of FSF members, who care very much about using, promoting, and creating free software.
The forum software we chose to use is Discourse.
GCC Is Preparing To End Support For Solaris 10
Solaris 10, what may will argue as the last “good” Solaris operating system release before Sun Microsystems fell under control of Oracle, may soon see its support deprecated by the GCC compiler stack.
With upstream Solaris 10 soon reaching its end of life and an increasing number of failures/issues coming up when testing the GNU Compiler Collection on Solaris 10, the GNU toolchain developers are looking at obsoleting that support.
Programming/Development
uTidylib 0.4
Two years ago, I’ve taken over uTidylib maintainership. Two years has passed without any bigger contribution, but today there is a new version with support for recent html-tidy and Python 3.
Rewrote summain from Python to Rust
I’ve been learning Rust lately. As part of that, I rewrote my summain program from Python to Rust (see summainrs). It’s not quite a 1:1 rewrite: the Python version outputs RFC822-style records, the Rust one uses YAML. The Rust version is my first attempt at using multithreading, something I never added to the Python version.
Which programming language for work? For the weekend?
Our writer community grows each month as new, interesting folks write for us and join in on the fun of sharing their expertise and experiences in open source technology. So, it’s no surprise that they are brimming with fascinating information. It’s just asking the right question to release it.
Recently, I asked: What programming languages do you use at work, and which ones do you use on the weekend?
Go command and packages cheat sheet
Of the many things the go executable can do, most people know only go run and go build. And, of the many packages in the standard Go library, most people know only the fmt package. This cheat sheet will list many uses of the go executable and the most important packages in the Go standard library.
piwheels: Speedy Python package installation for the Raspberry Pi
One of the great things about the Python programming language is PyPI, the Python Package Index, where third-party libraries are hosted, available for anyone to install and gain access to pre-existing functionality without starting from scratch. These libraries are handy utilities, written by members of the community, that aren’t found within the Python standard library. But they work in much the same way—you import them into your code and have access to functions and classes you didn’t write yourself.
“Fixed mindsets” might be why we don’t understand statistics
Roughly 96 percent of the general population struggles with solving problems relating to statistics and probability. Yet being a well-informed citizen in the 21st century requires us to be able to engage competently with these kinds of tasks, even if we don’t encounter them in a professional setting. “As soon as you pick up a newspaper, you’re confronted with so many numbers and statistics that you need to interpret correctly,” says co-author Patrick Weber, a graduate student in math education at the University of Regensburg in Germany. Most of us fall far short of the mark.
Elon Musk cuts almost $500K check to bring clean water to Flint, Michigan schools
“The People’s Prescription”: New Report Calls For Value Creation Instead Of Value Extraction In Pharmaceutical R&D
“This report maps the fault lines of this system and sets out principles for a new model,” it states. “While it suggests quick fixes that policymakers can implement in the short term, it crucially proposes concrete policy actions that can be taken in the long term to actively shape and co-create a health system that delivers real public value.”
The report is structured into two sections. The first is “DIAGNOSIS,” with chapters on “Problems with the current health innovation system,” and “Principles for a health innovation model that delivers public value.” The second section, “REMEDIES,” includes chapters on “Immediate policy actions: Getting better prices today,” and “Transformative proposals: Re-imagining our health innovation system to deliver public value.”
“A pharmaceutical industry that makes billions in profits without providing the affordable medicines that people need is one of the scandals of our time,” Heidi Chow, senior campaigns manager at Global Justice Now, said in the report press release.
“Until governments follow the recommendations in this report and set about creating a pharmaceutical system that puts patients and public health at its core, our health and our health systems will continue to suffer as pharmaceutical profits continue to soar,” Diarmaid McDonald, lead organiser from Just Treatment, also said in the release.
How to irregular cyber warfare
It’s been fashionable lately to quote Sun Tzu or von Clausewitz on cyberwar, but it’s just pretentious nonsense. Cyber needs to be understand as something in its own terms, not as an extension of traditional warfare or revolution. We need to focus on the realities of asymmetric cyber attacks, like the nation states mentioned above, or the actions of Anonymous, or the successes of cybercriminals. The reason they are successful is because of the Birthday Paradox: they aren’t trying to achieve specific, narrowly defined goals, but are are opportunistically exploiting any achievement that comes their way. This informs our own offensive efforts, which should be less centrally directed. This informs our defenses, which should anticipate attacks based not on their desired effect, but what our vulnerabilities make possible.
Open Source Security Podcast: Episode 118 – Cloudflare’s IPFS and onion service
Josh and Kurt talk about Cloudflare’s new IPFS and Onion services. One brings distributed blockchain files to the masses, the other lets you host your site on tor easily.
Security updates for Monday
Multiple Vulnerabilities in PHP Could Allow for Arbitrary Code Execution
Around 62 percent of all Internet sites will run an unsupported PHP version in 10 weeks [Ed: Around 62 percent of all CBS/ZDNet articles will be security scaremongering if Catalin Cimpanu carries on like this...]
Usage statistics and market share of PHP version 5 for websites
The diagram shows the percentage of websites using PHP version 5 as server-side programming language.
Wannacry ransomware cost the British National Health Service £92m ($121m)
Among the most prominent ransomware victims were NHS facilities, including hospitals, across the UK. All told, the epidemic cost the cash-starved health system £92m (£19 in lost output, £73m in IT expenses in the aftermath).
WannaCry attack cost cash-strapped NHS an estimated £92m
Until now, the financial damage caused by the sweeping cyber attack – which it’s now been revealed affected 8 per cent of GP clinics and forced the NHS to cancel 19,000 appointments – has been unclear, but the DHSC estimates in a new report that the total figure cost in at £92m.
WannaCry cost approximately £19 in lost output, while a whopping £73m was racked up in IT costs in the aftermath of the attack, according to the report. Some £72m was spent on restoring systems and data in the weeks after the attack struck.
[Old] Ethical [crackers] show that Windows 10 isn’t immune to WannaCry
And secondly, the exploit they crafted only works against older versions of Windows 10 (pre-Anniversary Update), but that isn’t really the point. It’s about showing the lines along which these sort of exploits can evolve, and reminding folks not to sit back smugly even when the OS they’re running appears to be bulletproof to a new threat.
Police body cameras ‘could be hacked’ [sic] to access confidential data
Defence/Aggression
Tech companies need to work with US military, says Amazon boss Jeff Bezos
Speaking at the Wired25 conference in San Francisco, Mr Bezos said he would continue to work with defence agencies even if it was unpopular among his own staff, because the US “needs to be defended”.
Jamal Khashoggi’s ‘Disappearance’ Highlights Growing Threat to Journalists
Forty-eight journalists have been killed so far this year, according to a VOA tally, adding to the thousand killed in the past decade-and-half.
Intimidation, detention, even murder: World is full of many potential Jamal Khashoggis
Badawi was arrested in Jeddah in 2012 for “insulting Islam through electronic channels.” He was a blogger and, according to his wife, a humanitarian and free thinker. In 2013, he was convicted of several charges, including apostasy, and sentenced to 7 years and 600 lashes, a form of punishment with a whip or stick the United Nations says is cruel and inhumane. A year later, the prison term was increased to 10 years and 1,000 lashes. Badawi suffers from hypertension and Haidar, who was granted asylum in Canada with her three children, said her husband’s health is deteriorating. “I hope President Trump can help release my husband,” she said when asked whether Khashoggi’s case would bring new scrutiny of Badawi’s plight. One of Badawi’s alleged crimes was to mock Saudi Arabia’s prohibition against celebrating Valentine’s Day.
Deaths of high-profile Iraqi women spark fear of conservative backlash
Yet it was also shockingly distinctive; the body slumped in the car seat was not a politician, official, insurgent or warlord. She was a former beauty queen; a young woman with both profile and attitude, one of four high-profile Iraqi women to have been killed across the country in quick succession.
The four were unknown to each other, but their lives – recently at least – had shared common themes. All had a public presence and a voice that had unsettled elements of Iraqi society, which has retained rigid views on how women should behave, even as relative freedoms have crept into a still conservative culture.
Woman says she was tased by police while bleeding out from gunshots
According to the Wayne Circuit Court lawsuit, Rebecca Sevilla of Britton was driven to a Motel 6 in Southgate by her husband on June 17, 2017. In the parking lot, her husband shot her three times — in the stomach, chest and head — and then killed himself.
Police responding to the scene determined that the husband committed suicide and saw Sevilla “sitting upright, bleeding from gunshot wounds to her body and head,” according to the lawsuit.
It goes on to assert that officers “began yelling verbal commands to” Sevilla, who “was unable to (respond]) as a result of her injuries.”
Kashmir rebels hiding in mosque shot
“Pertinently, the terrorists fired on a search party from a nearby mosque and subsequently the area was cordoned off. The local Auqaf committee was engaged to convince the terrorists to come out. Security forces also appealed to the terrorists to come out,” the police spokesperson said.
Silicon Valley’s Saudi Arabia Problem
Long before the dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi vanished, the kingdom has sought influence in the West — perhaps intended, in part, to make us forget what it is. A medieval theocracy that still beheads by sword, doubling as a modern nation with malls (including a planned mall offering indoor skiing), Saudi Arabia has been called “an ISIS that made it.” Remarkably, the country has avoided pariah status in the United States thanks to our thirst for oil, Riyadh’s carefully cultivated ties with Washington, its big arms purchases, and the two countries’ shared interest in counterterrorism. But lately the Saudis have been growing their circle of American enablers, pouring billions into Silicon Valley technology companies.
Transparency/Investigative Reporting
Assange communications to be partly restored: report
Ecuador tells Assange to avoid political activity online – and feed the cat
Assange to tweet another day
Leaked memo: No internet until you clean your bathroom, Ecuador told Julian Assange
Julian Assange ordered by Ecuador to curb speech, clean bathroom, look after cat if he wants internet
Ecuador Tells Assange to Clean His Bathroom
Assange’s Limited Wi-Fi Access Shouldn’t be Mistaken as a Victory – Associate
Though it was reported this week that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would be granted limited internet access by the Ecuadorian embassy in London should he agree to stipulations mentioned in a nine-page memo, it shouldn’t be considered a victory, Randy Credico told Sputnik.
The memo, which was published by Ecuadorian website Codigo Vidrio on Monday, offers a series of conditions that Assange must abide by if he chooses to continue his residency at the London-based embassy. In order for Assange to have his internet privileges restored, he must steer clear of political matters that could disrupt Ecuador’s diplomatic interests. Assange will only be allowed to use the embassy’s Wi-Fi network.
He’s Baaack! Julian Assange Has WiFi Again
After putting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in solitary confinement by effectively banning his internet usage, Ecuadorian embassy has restored the controversial figure’s WiFi usage, allowing him communication with the outside world.
According to The Guardian, “Ecuador has partly restored Julian Assange’s communications with the outside world from its London embassy where the WikiLeaks founder has been living for over six years.”
Ecuador tells Julian Assange to feed cat in leaked document
Ecuador will reportedly restore Julian Assange’s internet connection, in return for a long list of leaked restrictions on his behaviour.
BBC accused of ‘fake news’ after quoting parody Assange account as real thing
The BBC were accused of spreading ‘fake news’ about Julian Assange after attributing quotes to the whistleblower that originated from a parody account.
The story was instigated after conditions put on Assange for allowing him access to the internet were leaked online.
In an article headlined: “Julian Assange given feline ultimatum by Ecuador” on the alleged warning the embassy has given the activist over his treatment of his cat, the BBC write: “It is unclear what is behind Ecuador’s concern over Mr Assange’s treatment of his roommate.
Report: Ecuador tells Assange to curb speech, look after cat
Behave yourself! Assange given rules of conduct online and off
According to sources, Julian Assange has been given a list of restrictions on his behaviour by the Embassy of Ecuador, London which includes less visits.
Julian Assange given feline ultimatum by Ecuador
Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been given a set of house rules at the Ecuadorean embassy in London that include cleaning his bathroom and taking better care of his cat.
The whistle-blower was sent a memo in which he was warned that his feline companion could be confiscated.
He was also told to look after its “well-being, food and hygiene” in the set of guidelines, written in Spanish.
Julian Assange banned from political activity by Ecuador embassy and ordered to take care of his cat
To keep access to the internet, he has been told to refrain from activities “that could prejudice Ecuador’s good relations with other states”, the nine-page document said.
The nine-page memo published by Ecuadorean website Codigo Vidrio said Assange is prohibited from “interfering in the internal affairs of other states” or from activities “that could prejudice Ecuador’s good relations with other states.”
Assange’s internet access ‘partly restored’ by Ecuadorian embassy
RT’s Anastasia Churkina reports as Julian Assange’s internet access is ‘partly restored’ by Ecuadorian embassy.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to regain internet access at Ecuador’s London embassy
WikiLeaks said in a statement: “Ecuador has told WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange that it will remove the isolation regime imposed on him following meetings between two senior UN officials and Ecuador’s president, Lenin Moreno, on Friday.”
Kristinn Hrafnsson, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief, added: “It is positive that through UN intervention Ecuador has partly ended the isolation of Mr Assange although it is of grave concern that his freedom to express his opinions is still limited.
Ecuador to partially restore Julian Assange’s access to communications and visitors
Assange, an Australian citizen, was compelled to turn to Ecuador because the Labor Party-led government of Australia had fully lined up with Washington and denied him his right to assistance and protection against persecution.
The British government, acting in concert with the Obama administration and most likely Australia, responded to Ecuador’s granting of asylum with the most vindictive measures. British authorities threatened that Assange would be immediately arrested on bail-related charges if he ever set foot outside the embassy. As a result, Assange has been unable to get adequate medical treatment for a range of serious conditions.
Ecuador lets Julian Assange go back online
Julian Assange has had his phone and internet access at the Ecuadorean embassy partly restored, seven months after they were cut off.
Ecuador To Partly Restore Internet Access For Julian Assange
Sweden dropped its investigation last year, but British authorities say they still want to arrest him for breaching his bail conditions.
Assange’s communications to be partly restored by Ecuador government
WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange Regains Partial Internet Access in Ecuadorian Embassy
WikiLeaks claims to publish confidential AWS data centre location information
WikiLeaks has published what it claims is a ‘highly confidential’ document outlining the addresses and operational details of Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centres.
The whistle-blowing organisation claims to have published the document, originating from late 2015, as an attempt to shed light on the ‘largely hidden’ nature of cloud infrastructure locations.
“While one of the benefits of the cloud is the potential to increase reliability through geographic distribution of computing resources, cloud infrastructure is remarkably centralised in terms of legal control,” the company wrote in a statement. “Until now, this cloud infrastructure controlled by Amazon was largely hidden, with only the general geographic regions of the data centres publicised.”
AWS’ global infrastructure page outlines geographical locations in terms of ‘regions’; for instance, US East has six in North Virginia and three in Ohio, while Europe has presence in Frankfurt, Ireland, London and Paris – with three zones, or data centres, each.
Ecuador’s ‘purely political decision on Assange’ is likely result of ‘US pressure’
Assange’s access to internet to be partially restored
The Wikileaks founder, who has been holed up at the embassy since 2012, was stopped from using the internet or a mobile phone to communicate with the outside world in March.
LEAKED: Here Are the Demands Ecuador Has Given Julian Assange in Order to End His Isolation
Despite numerous reports claiming that the communications of Julian Assange have been restored, they are not yet — and there will be a severe regime of penalties and sanctions on his speech and writing when they are.
The team at WikiLeaks was informed on Friday that his communications would be restored on Monday, October 15, but so far there has not been any change. In a grave violation of free speech, Assange was also presented with a nine page document that includes outlining limitations and restrictions on what he will be able to do and say online.
Bitcoin must die
If Bitcoin were to cease trading tomorrow, 0.5% of the world’s electricity demand would simply disappear. This is roughly equivalent to the output of ten coal-fired power plants, emitting 50 million tonnes of CO2 per year – which would cover one year’s worth of the carbon emission cuts required to limit temperature rises this century to 2C. It is not a solution by itself, but it would be a good year’s work.
AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
Facebook to show who buys British political ads in a bid to tackle election meddling
Facebook will also include new features on its website to show who has paid for adverts and begin an archive of all political ads that are purchased on the site in an effort to clamp down on election fraud.
Judge dismisses Stormy Daniels’ defamation case against Trump
She filed the case after the president tweeted that she had invented a story about being threatened for speaking out about the alleged affair.
But the judge ruled that the tweet was protected by the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech.
Stormy Daniels was also ordered to pay Mr Trump’s legal fees, although the amount is yet to be determined. Her lawyer said she would appeal against the decision.
High rate of absentee ballots thrown out in Gwinnett
Nearly one in 10 vote-by-mail ballots have been rejected by Gwinnett County election officials, alarming voting rights groups.
Gwinnett is throwing out far more absentee ballots than any other county in Georgia, according to records from the Secretary of State’s Office. Ballots were discarded because of allegedly mismatched signatures, incomplete forms or missing residential addresses.
The county rejected 390 absentee ballots through Sunday, which represents 8.5 percent of all mailed ballots received in Gwinnett so far, according to state figures. Across Georgia, less than 2 percent of absentee ballots have been rejected. Gwinnett accounts for about 37 percent of all rejected ballots in Georgia.
“They’re putting an extra burden on someone to come back in to get another absentee ballot. That’s unheard of,” said Helen Butler, executive director for the Coalition for the Peoples’ Agenda, a civil rights group.
Censorship/Free Speech
Aasia Bibi’s family fears for safety if court sets her free
But in any case they feared for their future living in Pakistan under the blasphemy laws, they told AFP.
Family Of Pak Christian First To Face Death For Blasphemy Holds Out Hope
Her family said that if Bibi is released, it would be difficult to stay in her homeland.
‘Missing, Sex Trafficked’ Children Neither Missing, Nor Victims Of Sex Trafficking
For quite some time we’ve highlighted the horrible laws being pushed by aggressively misrepresenting the size of the problem of sex trafficking — and especially sex trafficking of children. This is not to say that it never happens. Nor is it to suggest that the crime of sex trafficking, especially of minors, is not horrific and hugely problematic. But we shouldn’t overreact to false information. A year ago, we looked at some of the numbers being presented in favor of passing FOSTA, and found they were almost entirely bullshit. This included Rep. Ann Wagner’s (who is the leading pusher of bad laws around “sex trafficking”) claim child sex trafficking alone was a $9.5 billion industry. As we noted, this number came from a bizarre nonsensical extrapolation of a very misleading and confused report by ICE that covered issues of smuggling (not just sex trafficking). Other stats — such as the supposed number of kids “lured” into sex trafficking — showed even more extrapolation, while police were finding very, very few actual cases of this happening.
So, remember, the headline screamed that 123 missing children were found in a sex trafficking “operation.” Now it seems that most of them were “found” at home with their parents, and only three of them might have been victims of sex trafficking. These seem like important details, especially when you have election officials like Rep. Ann Wagner pushing a vast surveillance bill on the basis of the problem of sex trafficking. Pushing bogus information like over a hundred missing kids being engaged in sex trafficking only helps build that narrative — one that appears to actually be much, much more limited than the media or lying politicians will let you know about.
Privacy/Surveillance
Vizio Customers Get A Pittance In Settlement Over Snooping Televisions
As we frequently note, most of the “smart” products you buy are anything but intelligent when it comes to your privacy and security. Whether it’s your refrigerator leaking your gmail credentials or your new webcam being hacked in mere minutes for use in massive new DDoS attacks, the so-called “smart” home is actually often dumb as nails and potentially hazardous. So-called smart-televisions have been particularly problematic, whether that has involved companies failing to encrypt sensitive data, or removing features if you refuse to have your daily viewing habits measured and monetized.
Last year Vizio joined this not-so-distinguished club when it was discovered that the company’s TVs had been spying on users for the last several years, starting back in 2014. Vizio’s $2.2 million settlement with the FTC indicates that the company at no time thought it might be a good idea to inform customers this was happening. The snooping was part of a supposed “Smart Interactivity” feature deployed in 2014 that claimed to provide users with programming recommendations, but never actually did so. Its sole purpose was to hoover up your data and help Vizio sell it, without your express consent.
On Election Day, the Voters of New Hampshire Can Protect Their Privacy in the Digital Age
Ballot question 2 seeks to guarantee that residents’ right to privacy in their “private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent.”
“Live free or die.”
As reflected in its official state motto, no state has unequivocally embraced the principles of liberty and privacy more than the state of New Hampshire. These ideals make up the core of the state’s philosophical DNA. It is therefore surprising that New Hampshire is conspicuously missing from the list of the 10 diverse states that have explicitly enshrined the right to privacy in their constitutions. But on Election Day, Granite State voters will have a chance to remedy that oversight.
Earlier this year, the New Hampshire Legislature passed by a necessary two-thirds vote a proposed amendment to the state constitution guaranteeing the right to privacy in the digital age. Now it’s up to voters to enshrine that natural right. New Hampshire’s ballot Question 2 (Q2) would do just that by adding simple but mighty language to the constitution: “An individual’s right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent.”
Already facing an uphill misinformation fight, Facebook loses to scammers, too
The scam pages share a variety of common characteristics, and in many cases they use the same profile pictures. This type of scam should be easy for a site as sophisticated and well-resourced as Facebook to uproot. But four days after Abrams began reporting it, the campaign remained active, with the exception of 11 profiles Ars reported to PR representatives.
The Facebook representatives have yet to explain why the security department is having such a hard time dismantling the campaign. People who use the site should remain alert.
Civil Rights/Policing
Pakistan’s Ahmadis fearful as leaders bow to extremists
Pakistan’s embattled Ahmadiyya minority enjoyed a brief moment of hope earlier this month when one of its own, a U.S.-based Princeton economist, was appointed to an economic advisory council.
But the backlash from Islamic hard-liners, which led newly elected Prime Minister Imran Khan to quickly rescind the appointment under political pressure, has only underscored the Ahmadis’ fraught position in the conservative, Muslim-majority country.
What Will It Take To Wake Up America?
Christian Man Beaten Nearly to Death, Body Burned on His Muslim Mother’s Orders for Choosing Jesus
His mother left, warning that he will “pay the price” for his decision. Abdel was kidnapped by a Muslim gang two months later and beaten nearly to the point of death, with cigarettes burned to his body.
NYC Prosecutors Accidentally Admit They Use Bail To Deprive Presumably-Innocent People Of Their Freedom
New York City’s prosecutors just admitted they use the bail system to punish people for being accused of criminal acts. It’s not there to serve its intended purpose: to ensure the return of charged individuals to court, where they’re presumed innocent until proven guilty.
The bail system isn’t supposed to keep people locked up. But that’s the way it’s been used for years. Prosecutors often ask for excessive bail amounts. Judges often grant them. The argument made for high bail amounts — which ensure only the most well-to-do can remain free while awaiting trial — is that arrested people are flight risks and/or more inherently dangerous than all the people the police haven’t gotten around to arresting yet.
The stats don’t back up the parade of horribles offered by prosecutors at bail hearings. People have done the math. And this excellent article by the Boston Review compiles the damning numbers.
In the Name of Public Safety
New York City’s district attorneys are on edge. Beginning this week and extending through the month of October, as many as 500 women and teenagers currently imprisoned on Rikers Island and juvenile jail facilities will walk free when volunteers pay their bail. This Mass Bail Out Action, which is sponsored by RFK Human Rights and a network of grassroots groups, is hoping to post bail for every woman, sixteen- and seventeen- year-old currently sitting in jail in New York City because she or he cannot afford bail. The effort is similar to the powerful work of community bail funds and the recent National Bail Out projects, in which grassroots groups throughout the country have engaged in mass bailouts of black people incarcerated pretrial because of their poverty. The Mass Bail Out volunteers hope to bring urgency both to the effort to close Rikers Island (which the City has said it plans to close within ten years) and the push to eliminate the use of money bail nationwide. They are engaging in a profound act of resistance even as officials such as the DAs insist that freeing these incarcerated people will threaten the “public safety.” New York’s officials have strongly resisted the Mass Bail Out and are “scrambling to prepare,” according to the New York Times. If released from jail, their story goes, these women and teenagers will engage in violence, re-offend, or as Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark warned, “end up being a victim of violence themselves,” especially if they are mentally ill or homeless.
Much like the famed “Willie Horton effect,” when we focus on sporadic acts of violent crime we overreact with excessive punishment and obscure the everyday mass violence that pre-trial incarceration does to millions of ordinary people—and their families. In the case of bail, this punitiveness is especially pernicious because it pretends to be a neutral financial calculation: if only this person had enough money, they could be free and would not be a threat to the public.
The Mass Bail Out forces us to confront the ways in which pretrial incarceration is itself a public safety threat. Placing women and minors (or anyone, for that matter) in jail exposes them to violence and misery. It exposes their families and neighborhoods to loss of income, stability, and the everyday companionship of a parent, spouse, sister, brother, neighbor, or coworker. When volunteers post bail for women and minors detained at Rikers Island, they will demonstrate that they, as members of the local community, actually feel safer knowing that a woman or teen has left the violence of jail and returned home to go to school, earn money at their job, raise their children, and participate in their own defense, while waiting for trial or other resolution of their case. Individual freedom is a part of public safety, too.
More Than Me CEO Katie Meyler Temporarily Steps Down
Katie Meyler, the founder of More Than Me, temporarily stepped down from her position as the American charity’s chief executive officer pending the results of a Liberian panel’s review of an investigation published by ProPublica and Time magazine last Thursday. The focus of the article was the rapes of girls by a senior employee of the charity Meyler created to protect them from sexual exploitation.
“In reviewing the allegations as published by ProPublica and TIME, we uncovered several statements that were either inconsistent with the information provided to us by More Than Me leadership or that were new information,” the charity’s Liberian advisory board said in a statement.
Protest Song Of The Week: ‘American Dream’ By J.S. Ondara
As Ondara told NPR Music, “The video follows a man, as he sets upon a journey to purchase a weapon. While on his way, we get a glimpse of the world around him through his eyes, which gives us some insight into his state of mind.”
“Ultimately, the video explores the turbulent times in the country, socially and politically, thereby throwing a shade of irony to the popular notion of ‘The American Dream.’”
The video also references Dylan’s classic protest anthem “The Times They Are a-Changin’,” with the lyric, “Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command,” inscribed on a sheet of paper.
During the 1960s, Dylan wrote several timeless socially conscious tunes. With “American Dream,” Ondara offers his Dylanesque reflection on America.
A Decade’s Worth Of Meth Convictions Overturned Due To Drug Lab Employee’s Misconduct
Massachusetts prosecutors are seeing a bunch more Drug War wins turned into losses by drug lab misconduct. Annie Dookhan, a drug lab technician, falsified countless tests, ultimately resulting in the overturning of more than 20,000 convictions. Dookhan was valued for her productivity, but no one above her bothered to wonder why she was able to process samples so quickly. Turns out tests go much faster when you don’t actually perform the tests.
If that were it, it would have been more than enough indication the nation’s crime labs need more oversight and auditing. But it isn’t. Another tech at another Massachusetts drug lab is erasing thousands of convictions. Chemist Sonja Farak, an 11-year veteran of the Amherst drug lab, apparently spent much of that time using the substances she was supposed to be testing, turning in falsified test results that landed people behind bars.
The Farak investigation uncovered the drug lab’s lack of standards, which included more than allowing an employee to use drugs while on the clock for at least eight of the eleven years she was employed. There’s no way of telling how many drug tests might be tainted, not just by employee malfeasance, but by a lack of best practices, like running blanks through testing equipment to ensure new tests weren’t tainted by residue left behind by previous tests.
The total number of convictions expected to be thrown out due to Farak’s abuse is currently sitting at 7,690 cases. But this won’t be the final total. Zach Huffman of Courthouse News Service reports an entire decade’s-worth of convictions is being examined.
DOJ, Trump Decide The Federal Government Needs To Give Chicago The Police Department It Doesn’t Want
In a move that’s tone deaf if nothing else, the DOJ is going to court to block a consent decree put in place to overhaul Chicago’s unconstitutional policing. This announcement comes days after a jury convicted Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke of second-degree murder for killing 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. He was also convicted of 16 counts of aggravated battery — one count for each bullet he fired at the teen as the teen walked away from him.
This also follows more tone-deafness from the “law and order” presidency. Trump’s speech to a law enforcement convention contained several comments about Chicago and its perceived police problem. But the problem Trump sees is police not policing hard enough. Trump wants stop-and-frisk brought back — one of the key modifications contained in the consent decree.
Charlottesville’s Other Jim Crow Legacy: Separate and Unequal Education
High school seniors Zyahna Bryant and Trinity Hughes have been friends since they were 6 years old, raised by blue-collar families in this affluent college town. They played on the same T-ball and softball teams and were in the same church group.
But like many African-American children in Charlottesville, Trinity lived on the south side of town and went to a predominantly black neighborhood elementary school. Zyahna lived across the train tracks on the north side and was zoned to a mostly white school, near the University of Virginia campus, that boasts the city’s highest reading scores.
“I know what I’m capable of and what I can do,” Trinity said, “but the counselors and teachers, they don’t really care about that.”
For every student like Zyahna in Charlottesville’s schools, there are scores like Trinity, caught in one of the widest educational disparities in the United States. Charlottesville’s racial inequities mirror college towns across the country, from Berkeley, California, to Evanston, Illinois. But they also match the wider world of education, which is grappling with racial gaps — in areas from gifted programs to school discipline — that can undercut the effort to equitably prepare students for college in a competitive economy.
Is There Racial Inequality at Your School?
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Internet Policy/Net Neutrality
5G Got me Fired
More importantly today’s readers need to be a little more than cautious when believing anything. Native advertising is a most insidious concept and should be rejected by every publisher. Instead it is welcomed by the broadcasting networks and most of the major newspapers including the New York Times. Are the writers saying nice things or are they paid to say nice things?
Wall Street Quietly Warns That 5G Wireless Is Being Aggressively Over-hyped
As hardware vendors and cellular carriers prepare deployment of fifth-generation wireless networks, you may have noticed that the hype has gotten a little out of control. Claims that 5G will magically revolutionize the broadband sector sound nice and all, but as we’ve noted repeatedly, 5G is really more of a modest evolution in existing networks, not some kind of revolutionary panacea that’s going to change everything. Still, claims that 5G will somehow usher in amazing smart cities or somehow result in a four day work week for everyone (what?) get far more traction than they probably deserve.
Alongside the generalized hype, carriers are pushing another narrative: that 5G wireless is so incredible, it’s going to fix all of the telecom sector’s biggest problems by delivering a massive new wave of competition. This competition will be so amazing that net neutrality will apparently be made irrelevant. It’s largely bunk originating with telecom industry marketing departments, dutifully swallowed and regurgitated by an unskeptical press.
Epson ‘Security Update’ Bricks Third-Party Ink Refills, Opens Up Possibility Of A Competitive Trades Investigation
It’s no secret the printer business relies on hefty ink refill markups. The printers are disposable, often cheaper than the ink they come packaged with. But customers aren’t usually willing to toss out a printer when it runs out of ink, even if refilling it costs more than replacing it.
And good for them! I mean, at least in an environmental sense. Let’s not toss a bunch more non-decomposables into the nearest landfill the moment they refuse do anything until their inkwells are filled. But this does nothing for consumers, forcing them to become unwilling adherents to the sunk cost fallacy, especially after they’ve paid for a couple of ink refills.
Printer companies know their system is ripoff. They know their customers know it’s a ripoff. That’s why they engage in shady tactics to ensure this steady stream of revenue doesn’t dry up. For years, third parties have offered compatible ink refills. And for years, printer companies have been lying to customers to lock these competitors out of the market.
A couple of years back, HP pushed out a firmware update that made it impossible to use third-party refills. It didn’t tell customers the update would do this. It just sent out the DRMbomb and triggered it remotely, saying things about “security” and “protecting customers,” even as it eliminated their refill options.
Intellectual Monopolies
Damages may be considered proven when the facts speak for themselves
A recurring topic of discussion in patent infringement proceedings in Spain is the degree of evidence required to prove the damage caused by acts of patent infringement. According to a line of case law handed down by the Supreme Court, the existence of the damage may be proved by demonstrating the existence of the unlawful act in cases where such damage is the logical consequence of the unlawful act considered. In such circumstances, the facts speak for themselves (“res ipsa loquitur“).
The Barcelona Court of Appeal (Section 15), in a judgment handed down on 26 July 2018, used the following arguments to justify the applicability of this principle:
“60. Case law has specified that the existence of losses or profits not obtained as a result of the infringing act must, in all cases, be proven, albeit “not with greater rigour or restrictive criteria than any which constitutes the basis of a claim” (Supreme Court judgments of 2 March 2001 and 7 July 2005). However, demanding this proof is compatible with the possibility of establishing their “ex re ipsa” existence, with it being sufficient to prove the unlawful act in those cases where its connection to the alleged damage allows it to be considered that, according to the rules of logic, the latter is a necessary, logical and inevitable consequence of the illicit action.
Consequently, it is stated that there are times when the facts speak
FTC and Qualcomm trying to settle antitrust matter by November 14, but Judge Koh may rule on chipset licensing anytime
Judge Koh gave this administrative motion short shrift: she denied it quickly, without any further explanation.
Since my first commentary on the motion, I’ve always felt that nothing would make a settlement more likely at this stage than an order granting the motion and reminding Qualcomm of obligations it entered into when it made FRAND licensing declarations to two U.S. standard-development organizations, TIA and ATIS. Yesterday’s administrative motion validates that assessment: while the FTC and Qualcomm have presumably talked about settlement on numerous occasions (even if just calling someone to find out whether the other party’s position has changed), the current situation is unique. The importance of SEP licenses to competitors couldn’t be made clearer than by a motion that says the parties don’t have a problem with decisions on any other pending motion but this one. This motion unsurprisingly appears to scare the living daylights out of Qualcomm.
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. TWi Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2018)
Last month, in Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. TWi Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey finding that U.S. Patent Nos. 7,722,898; 7,910,131; and 8,821,930 were not invalid and would be infringed by Defendants-Appellants TWi Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and TWi International LLC, DBA TWi Pharmaceuticals. The ’898, ’131, and ’930 patents are owned by Plaintiff-Appellee Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Seeking approval to market generic versions of Oxtellar XR®, an oxcarbazepine extended-release tablet for treatment of partial epilepsy seizures in adults and children over the age of six, TWi filed an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) with the FDA. In response to that filing, Supernus brought an action for infringement of the ’898, ’131, and ’930 patents, and TWi counterclaimed for invalidity.
United Kingdom: Saab Seaeye Limited v Atlas Elektronik GmbH & anr, Court of Appeal of England and Wales, Civil Division, [2017] EWCA Civ 2175, 19 December 2017
In a case concerning two patents in the field of underwater mine clearance, the Court of Appeal upheld the Patents Court’s decision that claims 1 and 2 of the 576 Patent were invalid for obviousness, but allowed the appeal in relation to the validity of the 861 Patent, finding that the claims in question were invalid for obviousness.
Museum of Modern Art Wins Injunction Against MOMACHA On Merits of Trademark Infringement, Dilution Claims
U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton recently issued an opinion granting an injunction requested by New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The injunction prevents the operator of an art gallery and café located in close proximity to a MoMA Design Store in New York’s SoHo neighborhood from using a pair of marks that infringe upon MoMA’s own marks. The marks in question in this case are ‘MOMA’ and ‘MOMACHA,’ both of which were filed by MOMACHA, the SoHo café that began operating in April of this year.
The marks were filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for use in commerce with beverages and restaurant and café services. Although MOMACHA has changed the font used in its original logo, that logo uses a font that “greatly resembles ITC Franklin Gothic Heavy,” a font which served as the basis for a MoMA logo first designed in 2003. MOMACHA continued its use of its old logo on its coffee cups and on its social media accounts.
Argos goes to the Court of Appeal but leaves empty handed
Can a US corporation selling construction software only in the Americas under the name ARGOS be sued for infringement of a registered trade mark by a UK based consumer goods retailer who trades mainly in the UK and Ireland under the same name?
This question is posed by Floyd LJ in the introduction to the Court of Appeal decision on the Argos Ltd v Argos Systems Inc [2018] EWCA Civ 2211. The formulation of the question may make it easy to guess the Court of Appeal’s ultimate decision.
NCC sues COSON for operating without approval
The Nigerian Copyright Commission has filed a criminal charge against the Copyright Society of Nigeria, its Chairman, Chief Tony Okoroji, and principal officers for carrying out the duties of a collecting society without the approval of the Nigerian Copyright Commission.
The NCC, in a statement signed by its Director-General, Afam Ezekude, and made available to our correspondent on Tuesday, said, “In Charge No FHC/L/338C/18, filed on October 8, 2018 at the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court, the accused persons were alleged to have performed the duties of a collecting Society by demanding and collecting royalties from Noah’s Ark of 9 Sowemimo Street, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos.”
African Nations Rife With Illegitimate Collection Societies: Nigeria Files Criminal Complaint Against COSON
You may recall that we have discussed the complete chaos that is copyright collection societies in Kenya over the past few years. At issue in Kenya is that the country has multiple collection societies, which are overseen by a government sanctioned body that can request to look at their books to make sure artists are being paid appropriately, and officially licenses the collection societies themselves. Some of those collection groups have apparently not felt the need to respond to requests for oversight, leading the government to pull or not renew their licenses. Instead of being the end of the story, a number of those collection societies continue to threaten people and collect royalties anyway, acting essentially as an illegal extortion outfit.
Kenya is not the only African nation going through this, it seems. Across the continent on the opposite coast, the Nigerian Copyright Commission has been going through similar issues, specifically with a collection group called COSON.
Stairway To Heaven Is Not Blurred Lines
A few weeks ago, we wrote about the 9th Circuit overturning the district court’s ruling in a copyright case questioning whether the song “Stairway to Heaven” had infringed on the song “Taurus” by Spirit. We were less than pleased with this result, as we felt the original ruling was correct. Copyright lawyer Rick Sanders disagreed with part of our analysis and made some really great points in a two part blog post series, which he’s graciously allowed us to repost in slightly edited form here. Part II will be published tomorrow.
Yes, the new 9th Circuit surprising reversal of the jury verdict looks like “Blurred Lines” all over again — only in reverse. Whereas in “Blurred Lines,” the jury reached the “wrong” conclusion, and the Ninth Circuit refused to fix the jury’s mistake, here it looks like the jury reached the “right” conclusion,” and the Ninth Circuit is screwing up the jury’s work. Techdirt all but said so, in an article 9th Cir Never Misses a Chance to Mess Up Copyright Law: Reopens Led Zeppelin ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Case.
I’m pleased to report that, far from taking this opportunity to further screw up copyright law, as Techdirt fears, the panel of judges is attempting to improve copyright law by replacing the Ninth Circuit’s (very bad) framework for copyright infringement with a much better one. Indeed, the “Stairway to Heaven” opinion may be seen as a rebuke to the “Blurred Lines” opinion. The pity is that Led Zeppelin must bear this burden by having to do the trial all over again.
The reason the “Stairway to Heaven” has to do with our old, misunderstood frenemy, the “Inverse-Ratio rule,” which is only tangentially related to why the case is being sent back for a second trial. I blogged extensively about the “inverse-ratio” rule in connection with the “Blurred Lines” case, and how the Ninth Circuit (correctly) amended its opinion to excise (its terrible) discussion of the rule. But here’s the deal: the inverse-ratio rule provides that the more similarity there is between the two works, the less proof of access you need, and vice-versa. It is highly beneficial when applied to the right legal framework for copyright. It is a perverse disaster when applied to the wrong legal framework.
Legal Search Engine with Pirate Keywords Confuses ‘Web Sheriff’
Last year the film industry launched a legal search engine that targets ‘pirates’ specifically. The site is set up in such a way, that it draws people who search for pirate related terms. However, this also appears to have confused the “Web Sheriff,” who targeted the site’s URLs with takedown notices.
You’re About to Drown in Streaming Subscriptions
But while tailored, a la carte services have long been the promise of streaming TV, it’s starting to look more like a series of pricey buffets. Competing megacorporations are all pumping billions into original content, much of it designed for mass appeal. (Apple has reportedly mandated no “gratuitous sex, profanity or violence” on its incoming streaming service.) And even if each also produces more experimental or idiosyncratic options, you’ll be hard pressed to access all or even most of them. The show that scratches your itch won’t necessarily be on a platform you can afford to pay for.
GTA ‘Cheat’ Developers Have Homes Searched and Assets Frozen
Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive Software are taking a clear stand against cheat developers. An Australian Federal court has granted search and seizure orders against several people who are believed to be connected to the cheating software “Infamous.”
Japan Plans to Criminalize Pirate Link Sites, Up to Five Years in Jail for Operators
Sites that link to copyright-infringing content aren’t currently illegal under Japanese law but efforts are underway to close the loophole. The government is considering prison terms of up to five years for site operators who knowingly link to pirated content and refuse to respond to takedowns requests.
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What is the Rule of Law? , United Nations Rule of Law. Thi, Awzar.”Asia needs a new rule-of-regulation debate”, United Press International, UPIAsia.com ( ). Judicial Review and the Law of the Constitution, pp. forty one–forty two (Yale University Press 1990).
Possession may be 9 tenths of the law, however not all. Significant to the apply of law in the frequent regulation tradition is the legal research to determine the present state of the regulation. This often entails exploring case-regulation reports, legal periodicals and legislation. Law practice additionally involves drafting documents corresponding to court pleadings, persuasive briefs, contracts, or wills and trusts.
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By the time period civil law can also be understood the particular legislation of every people, against pure law, or the law of nations, that are common to all. 1, Sec. 1, 2; Ersk. In this sense it, is utilized by Judge Swift. JURISPRUDENCE is the occupation and science of trying to define regulation.LAW. In its most general and comprehensive sense, legislation signifies a rule of motion; and this time period is utilized indiscriminately to all kinds of action; whether or not animate or inanimate, rational or irrational.
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The next major step in the evolution of the common regulation got here when King John was forced by his barons to sign a doc limiting his authority to move laws. This “great constitution” or Magna Carta of 1215 additionally required that the King’s entourage of judges hold their courts and judgments at “a certain place” somewhat than dishing out autocratic justice in unpredictable locations about the country. A concentrated and elite group of judges acquired a dominant role in legislation-making underneath this technique, and in comparison with its European counterparts the English judiciary became extremely centralised.
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Qatar’s reliance on international law and measured diplomacy paved the way for the amicable resolution of the Gulf crisis.
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Sultan Barakat is Director of the Centre for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies at the Doha Institute.
A handout picture provided by the Saudi Royal Palace on January 5, 2021, shows from L to R: Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, Omani Deputy Prime Minister Fahd Bin Mahmud, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Bahrain’s Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, Dubai’s Ruler and UAE Vice President Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum and Nayef al-Hajraf, secretary-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) posing for a pictures before the opening session of the 41st Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in the northwestern Saudi city of al-Ula. [Photo by BANDAR AL-JALOUD / Saudi Royal Palace / AFP]
On January 5, during a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in Saudi Arabia, Gulf leaders signed a “solidarity and stability” agreement to end a three-and-a-half-year-long blockade against Qatar.
The news generated great excitement among people in Qatar, who have long been eager to reunite with their extended families living in other Gulf states and resume business relations with their neighbours. It was also applauded by the international community, which is hungry for good news amid never-ending conflicts, unprecedented social and political divisions, and a raging pandemic.
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“It came in 48 hours ago and I haven’t stopped listening to it. Absolutely superb track…so well-crafted.” – Dean Jackson, BBC Introducing
GIRLBOY says: “Society, the media and many individuals ask women to be skinny, to shut up, and to accept the sexualisation of their bodies by the media. This song is about celebrating women for their make-up-less beauty and power, for their strength when they choose not to give a fuck about what other people think, and for the times when they stand up to those who insult and abuse them. Like many Jennifer fans, we know she is someone who takes pains to stand up to misogyny and sexism. We think she’s a phenomenally strong human being and we want her to know how grateful we are that she’s around to be a role model for young women (and men, and trans, and non-binary folk).”
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Frozen Review: Non-Spoilery and Spoilery
So, last night, my hubby and I went to see Frozen. We went to a new theater that I absolutely loved. It was a dine in experience and it was a great way to see a movie. We'll be hitting up this theater again. (Nothing like dinner and a movie all at the same time.) But you didn't come here to hear about the movie theater that we went to. No...you came to hear a review. So let's get to it!
Non-Spoilery
Ok...so I hate reading reviews that contain spoilers. It's why I avoid most reviews about any movie that I REALLY want to see. I like to be surprised. (It dates back to when I read a magazine article about Ross and Rachel from Friends that to this day still sort of ruins that episode.) Which is why with this movie, I avoided pretty much everything minus a few trailers and maybe a couple articles. So, I had a few preconceived notions coming into it. But not enough to ruin it. Actually for those of you who have seen a few trailers, I can tell you that they really aren't like the movie. So, that's a good turn of events. (No spoilers...I promise!)
What I will tell those of you who want no spoilers is that this movie was a lot of fun. It was well done and I can see why people are saying it's one of the best movies that Disney's done recently.
The movie was visually stunning. There were pieces that you just go...how on earth can they animate that so it looks so realistic? (Especially some of the scenes involving ice.) It's amazing how much color they can bring to a world that's mostly blue, gray, and white. But Disney certainly does it and they do it well.
In addition, the songs were quite fun. I really enjoyed them immensely. They are not traditional Disney songs, but modern twists on Disney songs, I think. (And boy can Idina Menzel sing...I mean, I knew that...but when you hear it, you are just floored.)
I really liked the characters. They were certainly likeable and I appreciated the character traits they possessed. It made the movie feel like a contemporary Disney movie with a Princess touch. Like the best of both worlds.
Overall, it's a solid movie and one you should certainly go see. The plot is enjoyable and it has portions that are perfect for the kiddos, but the adults will certainly get a laugh or two out of it. Make sure you don't let this movie melt out of theaters before you go see it.
(By the way, it's super hard to write this review without spoiling too much! I think that could be why Disney promoted it the way they did. You just need to go see this movie!)
Ok...so for those of you who do not want spoilers, stop reading now. Because the next portion of this post will be FILLED with them.
I have given you fair warning.....
Completely Spoilery
Ok...I hope you're ready for spoilers...because here is my real review of the movie.
I really did like this movie. I thought it was extremely well done, especially considering all the troubles this movie has had getting of the ground. (I mean, it's famously been a movie that Walt thought about doing, YEARS ago, but they could never get it just right.) I really can see why people are calling this one of the best Disney movies in years.
I have to say, I absolutely did not see the bad guy twist, which I loved. Before, with the trailers, I actually thought Elsa was considered to be the bad character. Then as I watched, I totally fell for the Duke of Weselton being the evil one. It really was a nice reveal that Hans was the true evil one. (I almost wished we would have had more opportunity to explore his evilness, so I could have spent more time hating him...kinda like they did with Lotso in Toy Story 3. You didn't know at first that he was the evil one, but once you did, you had plenty of time to hate his guts.)
Can I also say how glad I am that Olaf was not super annoying or overbearing?! I really hated him in the trailers and personally, think that Josh Gad is sort of grating, but for this, it just worked! I thought he had some great one liners and he really made me chuckle out loud at some points. (I've been impaled.) Olaf was really the star of the movie. He worked a lot like Pascal did, the only difference is he could talk. And can I just say, he had the BEST line in the movie with some people are worth melting for. Ugh...my heart melted and I think that was the moment I really fell in love with him too.
Speaking of being in love, I wholeheartedly loved the way they broke the spell! For the first time ever in a Disney princess movie, you didn't have a guy saving the day! While I'm certainly not an uber feminist, it was so wonderful to have true love be that of a sister's love and not rely on a guy to save the day. Again, a nice twist that I didn't see coming and a wonderful change of pace. What a great plot decision.
I loved how they characterized Anna. She seemed like such a modern Disney princess. She had spunk, was awkward, and relatable. It also makes sense why Elsa was calm, cool, and collected...she had to be...and as the older sister myself, I understand how she acted. You have to be the mature one...especially when you have special powers. It was nice to see her relax a bit at the end though.
Also...two words...Idina Menzel....
Seriously...she could sing the phone book and I'd be freaking happy. "Let It Go" is amazing and she was meant to sing it. Also, as silly as it was, the other song that really stood out to me was the song the trolls sang. Silly and not crucial, yes, but darn entertaining. I also really liked Olaf's "In Summer" song. Again...just fun.
With all that said, personally, I felt like there was just something a bit off...I think it was the pacing. I mean, don't get me wrong, I thought they did just fine with the story, but it almost felt a bit rushed, almost like there was too much of the story that they wanted to tell, but they didn't have time to do it.
Or maybe that was just me, as I could have sat there greedily consuming more of this story! I wished that we could have seen a bit more of Elsa and her character development. I would have maybe loved throwing some flashbacks in there to tell more of the story. But I'm well aware that these animated movies are geared towards kids, so I understand that they only had a short window for attention span and that a 2 plus hours certainly would be well past the limit. I'm just saying that I would have been more than happy myself to have given it.
Overall, I thought it was a solid movie. I'm not yet sure how it stacks upf for me against Tangled and Wreck-It Ralph. Both of those I seem to enjoy with each additional viewing. I'm sure that I will only grow more in love with this one as time goes on.
If you haven't seen the movie yet and you've read this incredibly spoiler laden review, then you definitely need to see it. It has a lot of heart and excitement, as well as a fascinating story. Even though I felt it was a bit rushed and would have loved to have the opportunity to explore the story more, I strongly suggest seeing it.
Bravo to the artists and everyone who helped to finally bring this long labored over story to life. Thanks for creating another movie that's worthy of the Disney name.
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Walt Disney World News and Rumors 11/18/13 - 11/24/13
News and Rumors are gathered from various different sources. All rumors are rumors and are to be taken as such.
The new Magic Kingdom bus loop is expected to open this week.
The Tomorrowland Transit Authority Peoplemover will be closed from Feb. 10th - March 27th.
The Barnstormer will be closed for refurb from Jan. 3rd - 5th.
Liberty Square Riverboat will be closed from Jan. 21st - 31st
A few details were released about the upcoming Spice Table Road restaurant that's coming to the Morocco Pavilion. The restauraunt will house 120 outdoor seats and 60 indoor. A wide variety of small plates will be sold that will serve up unique flavors, such as, garlic jumbo shrimp in a spicy chile pepper sauce; harissa chicken drumettes; mussels with preserved lemons and tomato sauce; a Mediterranean omelet with sausage, potatoes and caramelized onion; and Moroccan merguez sausage with a tomato salad.
The Hippy Dippy Pool at Pop Century will be closed from Dec. 9th - 11th.
All Star Sport's Surf's Up Pool will be closed from Jan. 6th - 24th.
General WDW News
This week's Limited Time Magic has Disney offering up special delicacies for the Thanksgiving Holiday. They include: Magic Kingdom -Tony’s Town Square, Sleepy Hollow, and the Main Street Bakery are offering pumpkin treats. At Disney’s Hollywood Studios, pick up pumpkin cupcakes found throughout the park. In Epcot, at Sunshine Seasons dine on pumpkin muffins, as well as pumpkin cheesecake. At Disney's Animal Kingdom, on Thanksgiving Day at Tusker House enjoy a full Thanksgiving buffet for both lunch and dinner.
Nikon is the official camera for Walt Disney World and Disneyland. They will provide cameras for all Disney PhotoPass photographers and all the former Kodak picture spots will be branded as Nikon.
Camp Minnie-Mickey may close on Jan. 5th.
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runDisney's First On The Road To Disney Parks - Atlanta
This past Saturday, I was lucky enough to be chosen to get to participate in the first stop in the brand new runDisney On The Road To Disney Parks meetup. It was truly a remarkable experience that I will never forget!
Brian and I signed up a few weeks ago, via the Disney Parks Blog sign up. We both were lucky enough to get picked, so after a little training on my part (I am certainly not a runner), we were ready to go. We only had to run 2 miles, so I thought...what the heck. I can manage.
We got up super early on November 16th (yikes...4:30 am!) and we made our way down to Turner Field, which is about an hour away from our house. Check in started at 6:15 am, so after we got through the process and were given our awesome runDisney shirts, we just started mingling, taking pictures with friends, and being excited.
The event kicked off as the sun started to rise on the horizon, however, it was a very foggy and cool morning, so, it was a bit difficult to see all day. We started with an introduction from Michael Cain, a representative from the ESPN Wide World of Sports. Next was Brian, from New Balance who discussed the importance of Good Form Running (For those curious, the four steps are posture, midfoot, cadence, and lean). All of a sudden, who should appear, but Mickey Mouse himself who was there to help cheer us on! It was time to run!
We were split into two groups. Group one was full of the runners (Brian went with that group, as he really is the runner in the family and really the reason I signed up in the first place). Group two would be going out with none other than Jeff Galloway using his 20/20 running method. (Running for 20 seconds/walking for 20 seconds.) Me, being the non-experienced runner chose the Galloway method.
The running group. Brian's in the front in the red hat! ©Disney
As we set out, I started running with a friend of mine, Jess Cutler. She's a real runner, but she stayed with me the whole way and helped motivate me through the entire process. I have to say a HUGE thank you to her. She'll never know how grateful I am that she stayed behind with me, because I had a lot of trouble with this run and she kept me going.
The Jeff Galloway Group ©Disney
The problem I had was that the group who went out with Jeff Galloway was so huge that by the time the front group started running for the 20/20 method, those of us in the back were just starting to walk. It was extremely chaotic and I probably made a big mistake, because Jess and I decided it would be a good call to run to catch up to the main group. We never did catch up and what I probably did was wore myself out more, because this run ended up being EXTREMELY hard. (Granted, I'd also never made it 2 miles in my training, but I was able to get through a little over a mile with no problems on my own.) We decided halfway through that we were just going to run at my pace and I managed to do alright.
The run itself was extremely cool though. We got to run through the Olympic Rings (from the 1996 Atlanta Olympics). We then ran all the way around the Capitol building. It was so beautiful. It was my first time that close to it.
After we rounded back, we made our way back to Turner Field. (I believe this was our two miles). From there, we wound our way through the tunnels of Turner Field and all the sudden, there was a light at the end of the tunnel...quite literally. We were going to get to go out onto the field!
This was my second time getting to go out on a professional baseball field. I'd done it a few years prior at Busch Stadium, home of my beloved St. Louis Cardinals. Despite the fact that it was Braves country, it was still a really cool experience. We got to take photos in the dugout and then we got to pose with Minnie Mouse. From there, we ran back around the warning track, where my friend Mary Jo decided we had to take a special photo.
My feet on the field!
Collage of me visiting both Busch and Turner!
This was all Mary Jo's fault. :)
Once we made our way back to the main entryway of Turner Field, it was time for a delicious and nutritious breakfast. Items included yogurt, cereal, a spinach and egg quiche, coffee, fruit, and water.
When everyone was fed and got settled in, the guest speakers series started. First off, Tammy Jacobson, marketing area manager for runDisney mentioned a new hashtag that will be introduced called #WhyIRunDisney. Here, guests are encouraged to submit their own stories of why they run Disney. Disney may just want to visit you to have you share your story with them!
Jeff Galloway discussed his run/walk method. He also gave encouragement that truly anyone can run in the big races. I actually won a prize from Mr. Galloway! A book about training for Half Marathons for women. (Are they trying to tell me something?)
Diet Diva Tara, runDisney's nutritionist, got on stage and discussed how important proper nutrition is in the of fueling up of runners. One major thing she discussed was how gaining wait while training can happen if you over indulge because you know you ran. (I think I can be guilty of overindulging on days I run...must stop that now!)
After that was the part that most of the crowd was excited for...the representatives from New Balance took the stage. While they didn't show the New Balance shoe, they did give us a sneak peek at which Disney character would be featured on the heel. Sorcerer Mickey will be on the men's version, and pretty in pink Minnie will be on the women's option. It was also announced was that there would be a kids shoe that would mimic the adult version.
After that, the event's second Olympian, (see the Olympic ties) Barbara Parker then got up and spoke about what it's like to train for the Olympics. She shared a few tips on how to properly run while expecting. (She announced she was pregnant!)
Finally, from Runner's World, Warren Greene got up and mentioned that they are bringing back their challenge to the 2015 runDisney events.
The event was now coming to a close. Mickey and Minnie came back so that we could all grab a quick photo with them. We also got awesome swag bags which included lots of goodies including a hat, water bottle, Luna and Cliff bars, a Puma gift card and more!
It was really an exciting event and one I am certainly glad I was able to participate in. While the actual run was a bit difficult for me, I had a blast doing it. I also really enjoyed the training process. While I may not have been a runner before I signed up...I think that because of this event, I am now. We'll just have to see where this new-found running bug takes me.
Here is the recap video that played on The Disney Parks Blog. Brian and I can be found in the the first 3 seconds!
I can also say that if an On The Road To Disney Park event comes near you, sign up. If you are even thinking about starting to run, sign up. This event motivated me more than anything has ever done before. The magic of runDisney has worked on me, and I bet it will work on you too.
A HUGE thank you to the runDisney staff that put on this incredible event. They did a phenomenal job.
Labels: Atlanta Meetup, Disney Meet Up, On The Road To Disney Parks, RunDisney
We'll Miss You Diane Disney Miller!
Wow...I am at a complete loss of words. Last night, we lost Ms. Diane Disney Miller. My heart is heavy.
Because of her, we all have the love of the Disney company and Walt Disney that we do. Because of her and her sister's "Daddy Days" as Walt would call them, and his time on the park bench in Griffith Park, watching his two little girls go around on the merry-go-round, Walt was able to come up with one of his greatest ideas, Disneyland. It's hard to fathom that such a simple and wonderful idea could turn into the wonderful experience that we all know and love today, both in Orlando and in Anaheim.
I also feel as though we have lost Walt again in a way. I of course, wasn't even a thought yet when Walt Disney passed. (Heck, I'm not even sure my parents had even met yet.) But with this loss, coupled with the loss of Roy E. Disney back in 2009, the two remaining hard and fast links to Walt Disney are now gone. Both of them had helped to preserve Walt's memory and remind everyone that he was indeed, a person, a wonderfully, creative person, and not just another made up corporate symbol.
I appreciate Diane's efforts to create the Walt Disney Family Museum, a place I would love to get to experience at some point, because it is a place where real artifacts and pieces of history about this incredible family are able to be shared with the masses. This wasn't something that HAD to be done. Diane could have kept these memories to herself, but she wanted to share them. She wanted to fight to protect the Disney name and legacy.
I feel as though she has been sharing her daddy with us Disney fanatics for her whole life and for that I am eternally grateful. She was an inspiration to him, which in turn, made her an inspiration to us. Because of her, we all get to experience Walt's warmth and creativity on a daily basis.
So, Diane Disney Miller...thank you for being so gracious and allowing us to love your dad too. We are all so very lucky because of it.
I extend my condolence to the friends and family of Diane Disney Miller. I ask now that we all participate in a moment of silence to honor this amazing woman.
Labels: Diane Disney Miller
The Celebrate the Magic Castle Projection Show is now showing the special holiday finale, as well as bits inspired by the movie Frozen.
Sid Cahuengas has officially closed. It will be converted into a full MyMagic+ service center. The specialty collectable merchandise that was sold here will be moved to the AFI Showcase shop at the end of The Backlot Tour.
It appears that now Hollywood Studios is testing the tiered Fastpass+ system. FastPass+ experiences will be able to be selected from two groups of attractions. One selection from the group 1(more of the headliner attractions) and two selections from group 2 (more of the secondary attractions). The groups are as follows: Group 1 (Choose ONE option)
Fantasmic!
Rock 'n' Roller Coaster
Group 2 (Choose TWO options)
Disney Jr- Live on Stage
The Great Movie Ride
Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show
MuppetVision 3D
Tower of Terror
Pop Century is testing only providing MagicBands to guests. Guests will continue to be able to engage in MyMagic+ testing in the same manner as other resort guests. If a guest would prefer to have a Key To The World card instead, they may, however, it will be a RF-enabled Key To The World card can be issued instead. It will work in the same manner a MagicBand would. Guests will be unable to obtain Legacy FASTPASS tickets because the magnetic strip on the back of the card will be inactive.
A full list of restaurants have been announced that will be serving Thanksgiving and Christmas meals. Please check my TouringPlans.com post for the full details and list of restaurants.
MagicBands are being used now for all Extra Magic Hour Mornings to gain entry into the park. Guests bands will be scanned to check eligibility.
The Comedy Warehouse improv show is slated to be coming back this Holiday Season. Shows should take place in the Premier Theater and should begin around Dec. 21st and last until Jan. 5th.
It's possible that Aunt Polly's on Tom Sawyer Island at the Magic Kingdom could be open during the busy holiday season.
Download the Guide to all the best Holiday Delights in Walt Disney World!
Labels: Comedy Warehouse, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Pop Century, FASTPASS+, Magic Kingdom, News, Rumors
Where To Find Pixar Characters at Walt Disney World
Pixar has been a part of the Disney family since the very beginning. Eighteen years ago, when Toy Story first came out, the loveable characters that Pixar created became just as endearing and beloved as some of the original Disney classics were. And Pixar just kept cranking them out. Each film that's been released includes a loveable character that tugs at the heartstrings and connects with our souls.
Of course, back in 2006 when Disney bought Pixar, these two entered into a marriage that was a match made in heaven and all the catalog of Pixar characters were truly and rightful part of Disney's family.
With that, the characters of Pixar have made their way into the four Walt Disney World theme parks in such wonderful and surprising ways. Some are extremely obvious (Toy Story Midway Mania) and some are less so (the new Wilderness Explorer's game at Disney's Animal Kingdom). Today, I'm going to take a look at the Pixar movies and tell you where you can find these characters in the parks! (PS: I'm going to obviously miss some, so the ones that I've missed, please let me know in the comments section or on the Facebook page!)
Toy Story (1, 2, and 3)
With Toy Story being the oldest property, as well as clearly being the most popular, there are a ton of locations where you can meet Woody and the gang!
Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin (Tomorrowland): Help Buzz fight the evil Zurg!
Buzz Lightyear meet and greet (Tomorrowland): meet the Space Ranger himself
Woody and Jessie meet and greet (Frontierland): these two can be found near the end of Splash Mountain
Woody and Jessie in the Move It! Shake It! Celebrate It! Street Party (Main Street USA): Jam on down!
Toy Story Mania (Pixar Place): Compete against your neighbor
Buzz and Woody meet and greet (Pixar Place): meet the lovable duo
Pizza Planet (Streets of America): eat a slice and play a video game just like in the movie
Hey Howdy Hey Take Away (Pixar Place): includes fun "props" that can be seen in Toy Story 2
Disney's All Star Movies Resort: a whole wing has been created around the characters
A few pieces of this movie have trickled into the parks. It's not a lot, but for the lover of this movie, there is one option
It's Tough To Be A Bug (Discovery Island): See what it's like to be the size of a bug in this fun, yet slightly scary, show.
Monsters Inc/Monsters University
With the smash success of Monsters University, I would like to see them add more to the parks featuring these characters. (Where is my door roller coaster ride that I've been wanting since the first movie came out!)
Monsters Inc Laugh Floor (Tomorrowland): Join Mike Wazowski as he attempts to get laughter instead of screams.
Monsters Inc Meet and Greet (Streets of America): meet Mike and Sulley fresh from their college classes
Wow has this movie created a cult following for itself! There are lots of great options to get up close and personal with Nemo, Dory, and the gang!
The Seas With Nemo and Friends (The Seas Pavilion): Help find Nemo with the gang
Turtle Talk With Crush: you'll get to talk with Crush...like actually talk to him...and he'll recognize you back!
Finding Nemo: The Musical (Dinoland USA): Sing along as the story of Finding Nemo is retold via amazing puppetry.
Disney's Art of Animation Resort: a whole wing is dedicated to the movie
These characters, much like the movie, is one that not that are commonly talked about, but it's still fun.
Mr. Incredible and Frozone in the Move It! Shake It! Celebrate It! Street Party (Main Street USA): Jam down with them too!
A new dance party has been introduced to Tomorrowland called the #IncrediblesSuperDanceParty
The Incredibles Meet and Greet (Magic of Disney Animation): meet with Mr. Incredible and usually Frozone. (Though sometimes you'll see Mrs. Incredible).
Cars/Cars 2
Who doesn't want to say katchow with Lightning McQueen?
Cars Meet and Greet (Streets of America): meet with Lightning and Mater
Lights, Motors, Action Extreme Stunt Show (Streets of America): See Lightning make a small cameo during this action packed show
Disney's Art of Animation Resort: a whole Cars wing has been created
One of the most touching movies EVER. If you don't cry, you are dead inside.
Meet Russell and Dug (Discovery Island): Meet these two buddies and...squirrel!
Wilderness Explorers (All over Disney's Animal Kingdom): This fun game will have you traipsing all around Disney's Animal Kingdom completing activities to earn Wilderness Explorer badges.
Pixar's first Princess has proven she's got the might and is in charge of her own fate
Merida meet and greet (Fantasyland): meet with the fierce princess and play some fun games too!
Now, you will notice that two movies are missing from my list. The first is Ratatouille, where up until recently, guests could meet the Little Chef, otherwise known as Remy, at Chef de France. The second movie has seen no tie ins, what so ever and that is Wall-e. Originally, there was talks to bring in a Wall-e character into the parks, but that didn't work. It has also been thought about turning Tomorrowland into a bit of a Wall-e universe, but that also hasn't seen the light of day. It's interesting that these two movies which are not very high on my list of my favorite Pixar movies, and it may be why we don't see them in the parks...to me, they aren't as beloved by the masses as most of the other movies were. (Yes, they've all been good, with the exception of Cars 2 for me...I won't see that movie again...but these two just aren't as fascinating as the other ones to me.)
So, that's gonna do it for where you can meet the Pixar characters in the Walt Disney World theme parks. Which characters are the ones you look for the most? Let me know in the comments section or on Facebook.
Labels: A Bug's Life, Brave, Cars, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc, Pixar, The Incredibles, Toy Story, Up
Walt Disney World News and Rumors 11/4/13 - 11/10/13
The Holly Jolly Trolley Show is now performing on Main Street USA.
The 2014 Epcot Flower and Garden Festival will see two new topiaries in the form of Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy. The Marketplace Booths are indeed coming back and this year, there are already a few new dishes that have been announced. These include a barbeque chicken leg or the Piggylicious Bacon Cupcake at the Smokehouse Barbeque booth. In addition, two new acts have been released for this year’s Flower Power Concert Series. They are Gary Lewis and the Playboys (“This Diamond Ring”) who will perform from March 14-16, and The Alan Parsons Live Project (“Eye in the Sky”) will be live on May 16-18.
When the new Frozen Norway Stave Church exhibit reopens, 21 new artifacts will be on display, including a Hardanger fiddle, a carved wooded chair, silver brooches, a small loom, and decorative Norwegian paintings.
A brand new shop called the Marketplace Co Op will be taking over the Team Mickey store. This new location will house 6 different boutique stores, offering things like home goods, accessories, sports memorabilia, and beauty products.
The House of Blues is adding a new quick service location where they will be offering up barbeque. This new section of the restaurant should open in January.
The first of the new food trucks debuted. The Superstar Catering truck, which specializes in meatball creations and is themed after Disney's Hollywood Studios.
This week's Limited Time Magic has guests experiencing an enhanced Flag Ceremony on Main Street USA to celebrate Veteran's Day Week.
Festival of the Lion King is now rumored to be opening sometime in April.
Labels: Downtown Disney, Epcot, Epcot Flower and Garden Festival, Festival of the Lion King, Food Trucks, Limited Time Magic, Magic Kingdom, Marketplace Co Op, News, Norway Pavilion, Rumors
The Mouse-standing List: Limited Time Magic's Happy Haunted Horseshoe Show
So, I think it's well known that I haven't exactly been over the moon about this year's Celebration of Limited Time Magic. Truthfully, I don't think a lot of people have. However, this past week, Walt Disney World did something for a Limited Time Magic event that I think was EXACTLY what they should have been doing the whole time...(forget this cupcake and dance party stuff...) As a matter fact, I even posted on Twitter last week how great I thought it was and how I wished that something similar will make it's way into the park on a regular basis sometime soon.
I know LTM hasn't been exciting, but I think this week's Haunted Horseshoe idea is great. There should be a show like this all the time here
— Rikki Niblett (@RikkiNibs) October 30, 2013
The Happy Haunted Horseshoe, which took place in The Diamond Horseshoe in Frontierland was a fabulous idea! This showcase featured Miss Betty Blue singing jazzy tunes, Abner Cadaver - a talented card and coin magician, Dearly Departed Stan with his rollicking piano tunes, and who can forget, the Cadaver Dans, the dead barber shop quartet.
Now, the times were very limited, so not a lot of people were able to pop into this fantastic show. However, if you did get in to see this saloon style presentation, you would have seen great performances by talented acts, funny impromptu bits, and fun audience participation. It was a hoot and a half for those who got to participate in the excitement.
While it was themed around these performers being in "grave" states for the Halloween festivities, what it really did was prove to me that acts like this are just itching to come to the Magic Kingdom once again in this very location.
Currently, this venue is just used as sort of an overflow of things. Recently, it's been showcasing dining during extremely busy periods of the year, like the Holidays or Free Dining, or it's been serving as sort of a dance party central during the Halloween and Christmas parties. But wouldn't it be great to have a venue like this with a set show schedule once again? To me, it's been way too long for a show of this nature to be absent from the Magic Kingdom.
When I went to Disneyland last year, I went to the Golden Horseshoe (a location quite similar to this one) and while Brian and I originally went in for a little relaxation, we were entertained by the great talent that could be found there. As you can see, there's nothing prettier than a man dressed as a girl...
The Golden Horseshoe at Disneyland
While rides are certainly important in theme parks, shows like these are the inner pieces of the onion. They help to round out the experience. All the pieces work together to create a full adventure.
Some of the things I find the most fun when I go down to the parks are Streetmosphere characters, the Citizens of Main Street, DiVine...none of these things are certainly headliners by any means, but they help to enhance the story being told. My hope is that Disney recently realized this because they have added similar type groups to New Fantasyland with acts like Storybook Circus Giggle Gang and the Royal Majesty Makers. These types of performers are exactly what The Diamond Horseshoe needs. A fun, interactive saloon type show would be an amazing addition to not just Frontierland, but the Magic Kingdom.
Maybe I'm just nostalgic for my Adventurer's Club days. It was sort of similar in the fact that it was a lot of playing off the audience, intermixed with the "story" that was to be followed. (By the way, Miss Betty Blue did used to work at the Club! I recognized her immediately!) But shows like this are fun and are perfect for getting away from the hustle and bustle going on outside.
I really hope Disney takes a look at this and thinks about what a success something like this could be. It would be great to see this now, more or less dining spillover location, turned into something great once again.
Now I ask you...what do you think? Would you like to see a Saloon type show in The Diamond Horseshoe or is this just not something that you would enjoy? Please let me know in the comments section or on the Facebook page.
Labels: Happy Haunted Horseshoe, Limited Time Magic, The Diamond Horseshoe
Walt Disney World News and Rumors 10/28/13 - 11/3/13
Periwinkle will be greeting guests again at Tinker Bell's Magical Nook starting Nov. 5th.
Holiday Happenings starting on Nov. 5th: Celebrate the Magic Castle Projection Show - Holiday edition, Castle Lighting Ceremony called Cinderella's Royal Wish, Holiday Trolley Show.
Holiday Happenings starting on Nov. 8th: Jingle Cruise and Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party.
Holiday Happenings starting on Nov. 29: Holiday Storytellers Around the World, Illuminations with Holiday Finale, and Candlelight Processional.
Anna and Elsa from Frozen are now meeting in the Puffin's Roost area of the Norway Pavilion.
New soda flavors have been added to Club Cool. The complete list is:
Beverly (Italy): a bitter aperitif
Fanta Pineapple – Fanta debuted in Europe in the 1940s and was introduced in the U.S.A. in 1960s. It’s now available in more than 90 flavors. This option is caffeine-free and has a sweet pineapple taste.
VegitaBeta (Japan) – combines apricot and passion fruit flavors
Fanta Melon Frosty (Thailand) – a melon-flavored soda that is the number one seller here
Bibo (South Africa) – a fruit-flavored juice drink
Sparberry (Africa) – raspberry cream-flavored soda
Guarana Kuat (Brazil) – flavored after the guarana berry
Inca Kola (Peru) – offers a sweet, almost bubblegum-like taste
Epcot is testing a different version of Fastpass+ for guests who make new reservations during the months of Nov. and Dec. These new reservations will have guests making only ONE reservation for a Headliner attraction (Level 1) and TWO reservations for additional attractions (Level 2). If you already have Fastpass+ reservations made, DO NOT change them.
Level 1 Attractions are:
Illuminations: Reflections of Earth
Epcot Character Spot
Soarin’
Journey into Imagination with Figment
Living with the Land
Turtle Talk with Crush
Holiday Happenings starting Nov. 8th: Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights.
Holiday Happenings starting Nov. 9th: Mickey's Jingle Jungle Parade.
The new running store, Fit2Run has now officially opened.
Fastpass+ testing will occur at the Swan and Dolphin from now until Jan. 12th. They will not receive wristbands, but will instead need to make their reservations at the park using the MyMagic+ kiosks.
Mary Poppins and Bert may be meeting guests during this year's Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party.
Hearing that soft openings of the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train could start in late March or early April. This is really the first time I've ever even seen a time frame mentioned, so I thought it was noteworthy.
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Labels: Disney's Animal Kingdom, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Epcot, FASTPASS+, Fit2Run, Frozen, Holidays at Walt Disney World, Magic Kingdom, News, Rumors
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Multi Engine Rating
Rule of Thumbs
A Little Deep
Pilot Psychology
Engine Pressure Ratio
As an engineer, EPR is simply a ratio of pressures, simple.
As a pilot, Engine Pressure Ratio is FM, you know, magic. It very rarely is what your books tell you, the ratio of the pressure leaving the engine divided by the pressure entering the engine. About half the airplanes in my logbook used EPR as the primary indication of engine thrust, but of those I think only one used the classical definition of EPR. The rest used something else that was convenient, but certainly not exit pressure divided by inlet pressure.
If you are a pilot, all you need to understand is that EPR is a way of allowing you to measure thrust for a Control and Performance Technique. If you want to know what EPR really means, read on . . .
The NASA / Aero Engineering Explanation
The purest way to measure an engine's thrust is to mount it on a stand that measures force — think of a bathroom scale turned on its side — add some fuel and ignition and read the scale. They do that with the engine in the design and test phases, but that is hardly practical when the thing is mounted to an airplane.
You can also stick a pressure probe in the inlet to measure what the engineer typically calls P2, and another in the aft end of the engine to measure P8. The basic definition is that you can measure an engine's thrust by dividing the pressure at the tail pipe (pt8 in the drawing) by the pressure and the inlet (pt2) to come up with an Engine Pressure Ratio suitable for viewing in the cockpit as an instantaneous representation of thrust.
Does the pilot really need EPR to fly the airplane? No, but some indication of engine thrust is key to flying the airplane precisely in what professional aviators call the Control and Performance technique.
A Few Examples
T-37 Example (RPM)
In many airplanes engine speed is measured directly in terms of revolutions per minute, RPM, and that is present to the pilot as a percentage of its maximum rated RPM, such as with the T-37:
While the RPM was rarely a good measure of differences in thrust — a 2 percent change near idle was hardly noticeable; a 2 percent change nearer the maximum produced a big change — it was good enough.
The T-38 also used RPM but needed additional indications to reflect the performance of its after burning engine. But pilots primarily relied on RPM:
Engine Tachometer
KC-135A Example (EPR)
The KC-135A used RPM for basic limitations, but takeoff thrust was measured in EPR using probes just like in the basic definition: one in front and one in back.
The engines were grossly underpowered and the EPR proved it: 1.83 was takeoff rated thrust.
Pilot's Center Instrument Panel
B-707 Example (Bypassed EPR)
The TF-33 engine on our Boeing 707's, while not water injected, still measured EPR the same way: a probe in front and a probe in back, four gauges up front.
There was a difference, however. Some of the air from the front compressor bypassed the rest of the engine completely. This gave us more thrust, as if from a propeller, but that thrust wasn't measured.
EPR was starting to become a "representation of thrust," as opposed to a true measure.
Boeing 747 Example (RPM)
The four GE CF-6 engines are marvels of technology, each producing over 65,000 lbs. of thrust with an efficiency unheard of at the time. EPR? They didn't use engine pressure ratio at all, all power changes were made using RPM.
Gulfstreams and EPR
Gulfstream II/III (Spey)
Though I suspect the manuals were wrong, in the G-III, EPR was supposed to be just like it says in Jet Engine 101:
[Technical Order 1C-20B-1, pg. 1-22.] An engine pressure ratio (EPR) indicator for each engine is installed in the main instrument panel. The indicator provides an indication of engine power in the form of the ratio of exhaust total pressure (P7) to intake total pressure (P1).
The EPR gauge read P7 divided by P1, exhaust divided by inlet pressure. The takeoff power number tended to be around 2.5 but could be nearly 2.9 at some pressure altitudes and temperatures.
Gulfstream IV (Tay)
In the G-IV the operating manual says the engine has a pressure ratio of 16 to 1 and yet a typical takeoff EPR would be 1.7, clearly the Tay engine was not using exhaust divided by inlet pressure. The manual says EPR is the ratio of fan pressure to total intake pressure, perhaps proving the manual was written by a history major.
Powerplant General Arrangement
Gulfstream V/550 (BR-710)
The G-V AOM [2A-77-10 ¶2.B.] says "EPR is used for thrust setting and is defined as the core exhaust total pressure (P50) divided by the engine inlet total pressure (P20)," which again agrees with the basic definition. But the BR-710 engine has a pressure ratio of 25.7 to 1 while typical takeoff EPR numbers rarely exceed 1.5. (So they want you to believe the G-V has less thrust than a G-IV?)
What Gulfstream EPR Really Means
It is no wonder there are generations of G-IV and G-V pilots who do not understand EPR. In a rare bit of clarity, the G-550 operating manual sheds light on what EPR in the BR-710 actually means:
[Gulfstream G550 Aircraft Operating Manual, ¶2A-76-30] Since actual engine thrust can only be measured in a test facility, a surrogate measurement of thrust is used to manage engine power. The primary thrust setting reference on the Engine window(s) display is Engine Pressure Ratio (EPR). EPR is defined as the ratio of pressure sensed at the rear of the Low Pressure (LP) turbine to the pressure of the ambient atmosphere. The ratio measures the increase in ambient pressure generated by the action of the engine compressor stages and the energy of combustion driving the engine turbine stages. EPR is measured by the engine EEC and communicated to the Modular Avionics Units (MAUs) for use by the display systems. A typical EPR value for takeoff thrust at an airport near sea level on a standard day is one point five three (1.53). The EPR value is not a true indication of actual engine thrust since it does not measure the propulsive force generated by the LP fan stage air that effectively contributes a thrust component equivalent to some turbopropellers. EPR is used for thrust management because it most accurately measures the internal forces of the engine compressor and turbine stages.
Not to be outdone, the G-450 compares ambient air pressure measured by the pitot/static system to the pressure within the engine aft bypass air duct:
[Gulfstream G450 Maintenance Manual, § 77-11-00, pg. 1] EPR = P160 divided by P20. The EPR value is the ratio of the total fan duct pressure (P160), to the intake total pressure (P20). P160 is measured with four rakes installed at equal distance around the forward section of the bypass duct.
[Gulfstream G450 Aircraft Operating Manual, § 2A-76-00, pg. 9] EPR is defined as the ratio of pressure sensed at the exit of the High Pressure (HP) compressor to the pressure of the ambient atmosphere as sampled within the engine bypass air duct. The ratio measures the increase in ambient pressure generated by the action of the engine compressor stages and the energy of combustion driving the engine turbine stages. EPR is measured by the engine EEC and communicated to the Modular Avionics Units (MAUs) for use by the display systems.
No matter where it comes from, Gulfstream admits what we really knew all along:
[Gulfstream G450 Aircraft Operating Manual, § 2A-76-00, pg. 9] The EPR value is not a true indication of actual engine thrust since it does not measure the propulsive force generated by the LP fan stage air that effectively contributes a thrust component equivalent to some turbopropellers. EPR is used for thrust management because it most accurately measures the internal forces of the engine compressor and turbine stages.
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Wikipedia Description: Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.
Lafayette Square is a seven-acre (30,000 m²) public park located within President's Park, Washington, D.C. directly north of the White House on H Street, bounded by Jackson Place on the west, Madison Place on the east, and Pennsylvania Avenue. The square and the surrounding structures were designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1970.
Planned as part of the pleasure grounds surrounding the Executive Mansion, this square was originally called "President's Park", which is now the name of the larger National Park Service unit. The park was separated from the White House grounds in 1804, when President Thomas Jefferson had Pennsylvania Avenue cut through. In 1824, the park was officially renamed in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, the Frenchman who fought in the American Revolutionary War.
Lafayette Square has been used as a racetrack, a graveyard, a zoo, a slave market, an encampment for soldiers during the War of 1812, and many political protests and celebrations. Andrew Jackson Downing landscaped Lafayette Square in 1851 in the picturesque style.
Today's plan, with its five large statues, dates from the 1930s. In the center stands Clark Mills' equestrian statue of President Andrew Jackson, erected in 1853. In the four corners are statues of foreign Revolutionary War heroes: Major General Marquis Gilbert de Lafayette and Major General Comte Jean de Rochambeau of France, Brigadier General Thaddeus Kosciuszko of Poland, and Major General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben of Prussia.
Thomas and Concepcion Picciotto are founders of the White House Peace Vigil, the longest running anti-nuclear peace vigil in US history, at Lafayette Square.
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2020 photos: Well, that was a year, wasn't it? The COVID-19 pandemic cut off most events here in DC after March 11 and then the BLM protests started followed by the child president trying to steal the election in November. Trump's handling of the pandemic has been a series of disastrous missteps and lies, encouraging his minions to not wear masks and increasing the deaths here. As the chant goes -- Hey, hey, POTUS-A; how many folks did you kill today? Number of photos taken this year: about 246,000, the fewest number of photos I had taken in any year since 2007.
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Coal Network Update for July 12, 2019
BNSF has made significant progress this past week in restoring service on our remaining flood-affected subdivisions in the Midwest. The final out-of-service zone of the Hannibal Subdivision, between West Quincy, Mo. and Keokuk, IA, was reopened this past Sunday. We also restored service yesterday on the nearly 10-mile portion of the Brookfield Subdivision near West Quincy.
Service is expected to be fully restored on the River Subdivision this weekend. The entire Napier Subdivision between Pacific Junction, Iowa and Napier, Mo., which has been the most severely affected by flooding, is expected to reopen later this month.
We experienced some service challenges this week due to severe weather in southern Nebraska, including a train derailment and multiple track washouts. The derailment occurred early Tuesday morning on the Wymore Subdivision north of Superior, Neb., and the heavy rain from storms also caused a track washout and service outage on the Hastings Subdivision between McCook and Hastings, Neb. Service was restored on the Hastings Subdivision within several hours on Tuesday.
Significant remediation and track restoration work has been required on the Wymore Subdivision, and another round of storms Wednesday morning caused additional washouts on the subdivision. BNSF crews are working as aggressively as possible to complete all necessary repairs. We currently estimate the Wymore Subdivision will return to service late tonight.
Overall velocity for cars and trains were each within a few percentage points of the levels from the prior week. Terminal dwell was reduced versus the previous week and has improved slightly from the average for June. The number of trains holding increased briefly associated with the Independence Day holiday but has been significantly reduced during the past several days. There are several factors, such as an interchange carrier not ready to accept a train or severe weather events, which can result in a train being held and affect normal schedules. Our operating teams are always reviewing the causes of trains holding and seeking ways to lower this number as much as possible.
BNSF engineering teams were called into action following two major earthquakes that occurred in southern California last week. Both earthquakes were centered near Ridgecrest, California, approximately 80 miles northwest of Barstow. With the second earthquake last Friday night measuring more than 7.0 in magnitude, BNSF is required to stop train traffic in the area while all track, signals and structures within 100 miles of the epicenter is inspected. Around two dozen BNSF employees were dispatched across five different subdivisions. Their hard work in completing this major task as expeditiously as possible enabled all service in the area to resume before daybreak Saturday.
With Tropical Storm Barry approaching the Louisiana coast, and expected to become a hurricane during the next 12 hours, customers with shipments designated to move to/from New Orleans and the Louisiana Gulf Coast were advised that BNSF is currently holding all traffic from moving into the area. With the New Orleans interchange gateway likely closed through the weekend, our operations teams are working with other carriers to identify alternate gateways unaffected by this storm to minimize disruptions to interchange traffic as much as possible.
Customers with shipments scheduled to move to/from New Orleans and portions of the Gulf Coast should expect lingering delays and extended transit times into early next week as Tropical Storm Barry moves north through Louisiana. Major flooding is possible in the New Orleans area with expected rainfall totals and the already elevated water levels of the Mississippi River. BNSF is closely monitoring conditions in the region, and we are in communication with other rail carriers as well as local, state and federal emergency personnel.
Major maintenance work continues across multiple areas of the BNSF network during the upcoming week. Some trains may experience delays due to daily work windows in several locations.
Below is a look at the key operational performance categories for the week ending July 11:
Total trains held for the week increased by nearly four percent with an average of 165.3 trains held versus 159.7 trains held during the prior week.
Versus the July 2018 average: up by 38.4%
Total trains on the system decreased by nearly three percent versus the prior week with an average of 1,497 trains on the system.
Versus the July 2018 average: down by 5.3%
Car velocity, measured in miles per day (MPD), was essentially unchanged at 189.9 MPD versus 190.2 MPD recorded the prior week.
Train velocity, measured in miles per hour (MPH), was down by nearly three percent versus the prior week at 15.4 MPH.
Versus the July 2018 average: down by 10.7%
Total volume decreased by nearly 12 percent from the prior week with 180,838 units moved in Week 27 (ending July 7, which includes the Independence Day holiday) versus 205,388 units in Week 26 (ending June 29).
Terminal dwell decreased by nearly one percent versus the prior week at 26.4 hours.
Versus the July 2018 average: up by 1.0%
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Sky Sports pundit reveals cold hard truth on why Everton shouldn’t sign Andre Gomes
April 16, 2019 George Kohlmeier
Sky Sports pundit Paul Merson has revealed his views on the future of Andre Gomes after last weekend’s action, and he has picked out a fact which some Everton supporters may be reluctant to accept.
Even though they had beaten Arsenal comprehensively the week before, Everton fell to a defeat away to Fulham who secured a very rare win at home.
Tom Cairney and Ryan Babel were scorers of fine goals in the second half of the game as the Toffees were surprisingly beaten 2-0 at Craven Cottage.
Gomes did receive some controversial reactions after his badly timed challenge on Aleksandar Mitrovic, and Merson gave his views on the Barcelona loanee’s future on Sky Sports’ Soccer Saturday show.
“I like him. There is talk of Tottenham coming in for him for £30million. Again, this is what happens, you have a couple of good games and other teams look at the loan situation and think ‘Oh, he’s only on loan, I’ll take him’. He’s a Tottenham player,” he said
The Portuguese star has also been linked with a move to other Premier League clubs, and the decision will be Everton’s this summer over whether he stays at Goodison Park or not.
Merson continued: “He’s there (at Everton) now and if he keeps on getting the confidence, but he does get brought off now and again when he isn’t playing too well. He’s not one of them players who you field the team around. You don’t feel that he’s the star man.”
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RXR Capital Management was founded in 1983 by Mark Rosenberg as one of the original cutting edge systematic diversified trend following commodity trading advisors of the day. It was the beginning of a long and profitable run that appeared to be ending last year, but has been resurrected as Ridgedale Advisors.
RXR distinguished itself by offering a unique blended investment that included its momentum-based trend following strategy with convergent hedge fund type strategies.
“The convergent approach works most of the time but there are periods when markets become irrational and prices move far away from fair value and that is when the divergent side takes over and does well,” says Ridgedale CEO and co-Chief Investment Officer Paul Lucek.
Rosenberg believed that diversification through allocations to both divergent and convergent strategies would produce superior risk-adjusted returns. And he was proven right as their Multi-Strategy Program (MSP) has produced an average annual return of 7.39% with an annual standard deviation of 7.03% from September 1986 through March 2016. That is when SSARIS Advisors, formerly RXR, closed shop. But like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, it reopened in August 2017 as Ridgedale Advisors.
In 2001, State Street Global Advisors bought a 60% stake in RXR forming SSARIS Advisors. The strategies continued to perform well and they added additional outside managers but culture and regulations made the structure difficult. “With Dodd Frank it became impossible for a Fed-governed bank to be a majority stakeholder in a hedge fund. They wanted to shift the relationship and offered to buy us out,” Lucek says.
Instead the employees decided to purchase back a controlling interest in SSARIS. It sold off its fund of funds business and would run its MSP and its Multisource Active Commodity Index (MAC), which it launched in 2007.
However, in separating from State Street, SSARIS lost $800 million in assets. “Our external clients were seeing all these assets leaving and we hopped ahead of that and returned capital, took a break, reorganized ourselves, shed the SSARIS name and formed Ridgedale,” Lucek says. “We launched with $25 million with one client from Houston [and] have had positive feedback from all our clients that we returned capital to.”
The allocation is to its MAC program, which tracks the Bloomberg Commodity Index and seeks to generate active returns by taking calculated risks around the benchmark. “It provides substantial Alpha over the index,” Lucek says. “We do that by using a convergent divergent approach. With one half we use a Markov regime switching model and a backwardation model and over/under weight exposure on 22 commodities, that is convergent return stream. The other half of the portfolio is our typical trend following and momentum approach.”
The strategy has worked, as every year except 2009 it has outperformed the Bloomberg Index. Ridgedale offers clients the ability to only invest in the alpha from the MAC program by shorting the index in a separate account so clients are only exposed to the alpha produced if they don’t want the broad commodity exposure.
In the MSP program risk is split 50/50. Both convergent and divergent algorithms were initiated by Rosenberg in early 1980s, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t constantly looking for improvement. “We are always looking at new approaches,” Lucek says. “We have models that are sitting on the sidelines, some of our short-term momentum models have lost efficacy over the last two years so we are replacing those.”
“The key to divergence is that it hedges the portfolio in times of market stress,” he says. “MSP is one of the only programs that had double-digit returns in 1987, 1998 and 2008: The stock market crash in 1987, the Asian currency crisis and Russian debt default in 1998 and of course the global financial crisis in 2008.”
Despite their long history, Ridgedale is open to new structures. “We are agnostic about whether the client wants a separately managed account, or a retail client wants 40 Act. Mark and I think of it as MSP. We can deliver it through separately managed accounts, we can deliver it through private placed funds we can deliver it through principle protected notes,” Lucek says.
When we spoke with Lucek, he was talking to a pension fund about providing an allocation from its emerging manager portfolio. “We are being interviewed by an emerging manager plan, we may be the oldest emerging manager out there,” Lucek adds.
Editor-in-Chief of Modern Trader, Daniel Collins is a 25-year veteran of the futures industry having worked on the trading floors of both the Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
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Some years ago, I worked at an engineering company, and got to be friends with one of my co-workers. We made for a good team. I had the book learning, an engineering degree from Georgia Tech, but not much experience. He only had a basic college degree, but he had a ton of street knowledge.
I love to write scripts, to imagine stories played out.
When it came to most aspects of a project, I deferred to him. We also shared a love of movies. He was an indie, an independent filmmaker. I loved to write scripts, to imagine stories played out. We were a good team.
We also shared a love of Asian food, Chinese, Thai, Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, it didn’t matter, we loved it. Although, if the truth be told, I think he loved Asian women more than did anything else. He sure seemed to hit on the waiting staff, every chance he got.
When you live in Orlando, Florida, you have a lot of such restaurants, and women, to draw on. There’s quite the international community in Orlando. That’s not mentioning the travellers, either.
Recent events have me thinking about our lunches together. We’d head out to one of these restaurants, get a table and order a meal. Sitting there, I’d cast my eyes about the room; there were always plenty of other office people getting lunch.
Sometimes it would be a man or woman alone, others were couples, mixed gender and, sometimes, mixed races, and some were single gender couples or even large groups. At the time, it never occurred to me to wonder if any of them were gay couples or if anyone thought I and my friend were a couple.
Now, there are religious protection bills, in many states.
Then came recent events, I mentioned earlier. These days, many Republican governors and state legislators are passing what they call “religious protection” laws. Now, they can dress these laws up with all the fancy words they want, but what they all boil down to is the same thing: the right to discriminate against people they don’t approve of, namely, homosexuals.
It got me to wondering something, and this is very important. How will the businesses know which couples are gay? Will the manager or server guess?
What would an establishment do, in the case of my old co-worker and me? Would the manager assume we are gay and bar us from the place? That would cut into their business. Would they ask, and then just trust us to speak the truth? What, if asked, we said we weren’t gay? Then what would management do if we spent the entire meal holding hands?
Knowing my old friend and me, we would do is proclaim, quite loudly in fact, that we were gay, we were married and that we had just had our fifth child via a surrogate. All of that would be a complete and total lie, but the restaurant wouldn’t know that. What would the management or staff do? I guess tell us to leave.
These are not Jim Crow laws, these are worse.
It seems clear to me that these laws are completely silly. They’re not like the Jim Crow laws of the Old South or the Apartheid policies of South Africa. It was easy to identify the targets of those laws. When a law aims at the invisible or easily concealed, such as gays, how do you enforce it?
I don’t know where these lawmakers think they are going with laws like this, but I just can’t see it ending well. They can claim that the laws aren’t a form of legalized discrimination, but when you consider that the only people using them are conservative so-called Christians to justify their refusal to do business with gays and lesbians, I think it’s pretty clear what the intent of these laws are.
In the case of a catering company, florist, photographer and some others connected with weddings, there is a chance of wedding the targets of discrimination, such as gays. When it comes to other businesses, it looks like they’re going to have to go with the honor system.
Yeah, right, good luck with that, people.
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AGA KHAN, ASSAD DISCUSS DEVELOPMENT OF SYRIA - 2004-02-18
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DAMASCUS: His Highness the Aga Khan, yesterday concluded a three-day official visit to Syria during which he had meetings with President Bashar al-Assad and a series of discussions with Ministers on key development priorities for the country. 'Our very fruitful discussions,' said the Aga Khan, 'will now enable us to concentrate resources where the AKDN
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His Highness the Aga Khan, yesterday concluded a three-day official visit to Syria during which he had meetings with President Bashar al-Assad and a series of discussions with Ministers on key development priorities for the country.
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American Airlines Reminds Passengers About Limits on Baggage and Boxes During the Summer Season
FORT WORTH, Texas, May 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Summer is fast approaching and American Airlines and regional affiliate, American Eagle, remind passengers about the box and bag embargo on flights to certain cities from June 11 through Aug. 14, 2005.
Customers traveling on American and American Eagle to certain destinations in Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and South America will not be able to check boxes during the embargo period due to heavy summer loads and high volumes of checked baggage to specific destinations. There is a year-round box embargo for flights from New York-JFK to all Caribbean and Latin America destinations.
The baggage embargo applies to Guatemala City, Managua, Panama City, San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa and San Salvador in Central America; La Paz, Maracaibo, Quito and Santa Cruz in South America; Santo Domingo, Santiago, Port of Spain, Puerto Plata, Port-au-Prince and Kingston in the Caribbean; as well as Guadalajara, Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosi and Leon in Mexico. All American Eagle flights to and from San Juan are also included, and flights to and from Dominica and Grenada are subject to a more restrictive year-round baggage allowance.
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Louise Wallis
Artist name Luminous. Singer, DJ, Writer
Vegan Anthems
Vegan Artists – from Sigur Rós to Black Sabbath
Samhain a.k.a. Halloween
Floatin
Johnny Marr interview
Sara Pascoe interview
Geezer Butler interview
Interview with Jasmin Singer: on life writing and authenticity
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Interview with Mel Baker, The Kind Cook
Divide & Rule: Vegan Vs Vegan?
September 4, 2020 / louisewallis / 0 Comments
2020 got off to a cracking start for vegans.
Thanks to Jordi Casamitjana, whose claim for unfair dismissal has led to the recognition of veganism as a ‘protected belief’ under the Equality Act (2010); giving us legal protection from discrimination.
A giant leap for vegankind – and for animals too: whose rights can now be said to exist; at least in the hearts, minds – and actions – of vegans.
My heart sank, however, on reading that the ruling was restricted to “ethical” as opposed to “dietary” vegans.
Two types of vegan? This was news to me. And why were some vegans being discriminated against? Wasn’t that illegal now? It didn’t make sense.
As the news coverage offered no answer, my first thought was that the Judge had been muddled. Until I found Jordi’s CrowdJustice page from 2018, titled: “Help an Ethical Vegan”.
Please tell me this wasn’t ‘our’ doing? I hope not, for several reasons:
1) “Ethical veganism”
The problem with “ethical veganism” is that it’s like saying “peaceful pacifism”. You’re repeating yourself; or saying the same thing twice. (The technical word is pleonasm).
Veganism is innately ethical: a fact well documented by those who coined the word, and founded the Vegan Society, in 1944.
Their original definition describes it as: “the principle of the emancipation of animals from exploitation by man”.
The second (still in use today) as: “a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose”.
And the Oxford English Dictionary’s (which featured ‘vegan’ for the first time in 1986) as: “[a] person who on principle abstains from all food of animal origin”.
(Italics all mine).
The provenance is there. No prefix required. Why labour the point, making it sound excessively earnest, and pedantic?
2) Us & Them
Splitting us into “ethical” and “dietary” perpetuates the fallacy of vegans as separatists – or splitters. Dating back to the ‘birth’ of veganism, and our formal separation from vegetarianism. Widely perceived as a vegan-led rebellion.
But history tells a different tale …
Starting at the Vegetarian Society: where a few longstanding members had gone egg and dairy-free (having become aware of the cruelty they entail).
Most had done so in isolation. On discovering there were others, they put in a request for a subgroup – a space to meet and support each other.
But the Vegetarian Society said no. A major blow: they were still vegetarians, after all. So the exiles left home to form a new Society, called Vegan.
Which is to say: vegans didn’t jump; we were pushed. How ironic then, that it’s now us drawing the line.
Pre the ruling, vegans were united by the common denominator of diet – the Vegan Society’s baseline criteria for membership.
And for good reason: it’s inclusive. Veganism is a spectrum, rather than a hierarchy. From the newly-vegan, to the lifelong, and everything in between – including those who failed the first time, and are trying again.
Once we can sustain a dietary practice, our veganism will extend into other areas of our life, according to what is “possible and practicable” for each person. It’s not so much the speed that counts, as being able to stay the course.
Now – post-ruling – vegans are divided: the “ethical” protected in law; and the “dietary”, who are not. So where does this leave new vegans, and others whose veganism is merely “dietary”? Are they no longer legitimate?
3) Mistaken Identity
Aren’t we barking up the wrong tree? Faux vegans do exist, but not within the movement.
I’m referring to those who identify as vegan, and continue to eat animals.
Dietary seekers: who eat mostly vegan for nutritional, rather than ethical reasons. Like the “vegan” celebrities quoted in media articles, as enjoying the odd steak or fish. (Note to editors: not even vegetarian).
This is veganism as dietary trend, like keto or paleo – synonymous with #weightloss #cleaneating and #superfoods. It’s an easier sell. Stories can be lighter, less involved – meaning more traction on social media. And so, the fake news spreads …
Isn’t this where the legal line needed to be drawn? Not between “ethical” and “dietary” vegans; but between vegans, and plant-based flexitarians.
Flexitiarianism is positive: in the sense that animal consumption is reduced, and plant-based increased.
But it’s not an abiding, and heartfelt belief that it’s wrong to victimize animals. The one protected in this ruling.
Let’s hope the terminology can be revised retrospectively, to reflect this; and vegans can simply be vegans again.
The Exhibitionist in Me
May 5, 2017 / louisewallis / 0 Comments
The lowdown on
An international group show by vegan artists – exploring kinship and disconnection
Curated by Luminous Frenzy
Mother Nature by Amy Guidry
Curator’s Statement (intro)
Our animus towards animals is unprecedented. “Industrial farming is one of the worst crimes in history” ran a recent headline in The Guardian. “Tens of billions of sentient beings, each with complex sensations and emotions, live and die on a production line”. We tend not to dwell on this, and powerful forces keep it this way. The mantra that we are meant to eat animals so embedded in our culture and economy that we often fail to question it. The farm animal fairytale is one of “happy” lives and “humane” deaths. But nothing could be further from the truth.
15 artists and 19 images of animals
Exhibited for 7 weeks at Karamel, the multifaceted venue and social space that I run with Frank my partner. With visitors mainly coming for gigs, parties and events – or to eat – we needed to find a way to draw them into the art …
Startling, Sensitive & Surreal
“An eye theme emerged early on” I told Vegan Life magazine “when I realised I was choosing many pieces with the animal looking directly at the viewer. Eye contact is powerful and I hope this draws people in. The photos have been blown-up, so that many animals are life-sized, which gives them greater presence”.
One of Us by Philip McCulloch Downs
Private View
The Launch party on Friday 29th July 2016 was attended by over 70 people, greeted by our lovely volunteer Claudie Tailleur. With speeches from me (Curator), Matthew Maran (Photographer), Philip McCulloch-Downs (Artist), Maria Chiorando (Editor of Vegan Life magazine), and activists from Surge.
ANIMUS was covered by two prominent art magazines: Apollo – The International Art Magazine and Ours, which published a full-blown feature with the headline:
“VEGANS STUN IN NEW LONDON EXHIBITION: ANIMUS”
A 3-page spread followed in the October issue of Vegan Life magazine, which featured images of exhibits, and an extensive interview with me and two artists.
The exhibition was also covered by VeggieVision (TV channel/website), Veganuary, blogger Fat Gay Vegan, and VegNews magazine (in the US), and reviewed by vegan media presenters Karin Ridgers and Victoria Eisermann.
Some snippets from the Visitors Book:
“Thank you so much for holding this exhibition. I am studying Art at A level and my personal investigation is on Animal Rights so this exhibition was perfect for me! I adore animals so I am taking steps to become vegan” Asheigh & Chandler from Luton
“Wonderful and moving art exhibit. Thank you for showcasing it. Looking forward to more in future” Shayna
“The ANIMUS exhibition shows poignant imagery that gently nudges us to look into the eyes of our beloved fellow sentients. Thank you for existing, keep going, keep growing” Kerry Jayne & Adam
Art Imitating Art
My favourite feedback came from a young girl who drew one of the exhibits. Remarkably, it was my own piece, ‘Charlie’. A portrait of dog I’d taken when working undercover at an animal research lab. In the photo, his eyes are deeply affecting, and yet in the girl’s drawing they seem more hopeful. A striking likeness too. Future vegan artist, perhaps?
Charlie by Louise Wallis
Artist Outcomes
All the artists were thrilled to take part – and for some, it was a dream come true having work exhibited alongside the artists who’d inspired them.
Over 2000 people visited Karamel during the exhibition’s run: 24th July – 11th September 2016.
Three exhibits were sold, including this one by Illustrator Roger Olmos.
Wordless by Roger Olmos
In January 2017 at Vegan Life Live, I presented two exhibits by Photographer Joanne McArthur to our sponsors the Vegan Society and Vegan Life magazine – for permanent display in their offices (with Jo-anne’s blessing). By happy serendipity, a third exhibit (which I was attempting to returning to the artist) sold on the spot, at the same event.
ANIMUS was a 6-way collaboration – with funding from the Vegan Society, Vegan Life magazine, and crowdfunding, and practical support from Luminous Frenzy (that’s us, the Curators), The Sheppard Collection of Vegan Art, and Collage Arts (who provided an exhibition slot).
The Sheppard Collection kindly lent four artworks, which enabled us to stage a full-scale show despite a funding shortfall.
1) Two ANIMUS exhibits, ‘Standing Pig’ by Sue Coe and ‘Charlie’ (my photo) get a second outing this month in Behind Closed Doors at The Strand Gallery.
2) ANIMUS artist Karen Fiorito (USA) recently gained international notoriety when her billboard of Donald Trump went viral.
ANIMUS demonstrated the potential of art in a vegan context – and hopefully ignited other creative sparks. We know at least one artist it helped to inspire – Aisha Eveleigh, who came to the Private View, and is curating the Behind Closed Doors exhibition in central London later this month.
Come to the Event Day on Sat 27th May if you can, when I’ll be giving a talk. Get your ticket HERE (just £5.00 up to 13th May, and £6.00 thereafter)
Big thanks to all involved in ANIMUS, and everyone who visited. Do leave me a comment if you did.
Luminous Frenzy (me & Mr Frenzy)
ANIMUS exhibits
‘Wordless’ by Roger Olmos (Spain)
‘Carousel’ by Jana Schirmer (Germany)
‘Maggie’ by Jo-anne McArthur (Canada)
‘Charlie’ by Louise Wallis (UK)
‘Sainsbury’s Fox’ by Matthew Maran (UK)
‘The Azure Lynx and the Wave of Flowers’ by Philip McCulloch Downs (UK)
‘One of Us’ by Philip McCulloch Downs (UK)
‘Hear No Evil. See No Evil. Speak No Evil’ by Dana Ellyn (USA)
‘Mother Nature’ by Amy Guidry (USA)
‘Save Our Sharks’ by Francesca A. Page (UK)
‘Best of British’ by Philip McCulloch Downs (UK)
‘Pig in Slaughterhouse’ by Sue Coe (UK/USA)
‘Lost Whale Swims Up the Thames’ by Sue Coe (UK/USA)
‘Buddha Cat’ by Karen Fiorito (USA) – The Sheppard Collection
‘Farm Sanctuary’ by Jo-anne McArthur (Canada)
‘Day Old Chick’ by Roland Straller (Germany) – The Sheppard Collection
‘Dusky Dolphin’ by Jasper Wilkins (UK)
‘Not Like Sheep to the Slaughter’ by Michelle Waters (USA) – The Sheppard Collection
‘Extinct Animal Malabar Civet’ by Sarah Stupak (USA) – The Sheppard Collection
Buddha Cat by Karen Fiorito
Creating Carnage: Simon Amstell on his first feature film
March 2, 2017 / louisewallis / 0 Comments
Simon Amstell has long been a provocative presence on our screens. “The British comic has a gift for taking a social norm and gently mocking it until it seems utterly ridiculous”, observed the New York Times back in 2012. His latest project, a feature length mockumentary, has turned this into an art form.
“Set in a utopian 2067, Carnage looks back at a time when human beings ate other animals. For the young people of this time, the idea that their grandparents could have been complicit in a bloodbath of unnecessary suffering is wholly unimaginable” says the BBC.
“The film aims to break the taboo around Britain’s animal eating past, whilst showing compassion for a generation, now seeking therapy to cope with the horror of their unthinkable actions” and “gives a unique comedic peek into the future where animals live equally amongst humans”
Tuesday’s Premiere at the BFI was an upbeat affair, full of friends, family, collaborators, fans, and journalists. The woman next to me, from Chortle (the comedy website), laughed raucously from the start but gradually grew more subdued.
It was an unsettling watch, this curious mix of comic drama, archive footage, fake documentary clips, puppet shows, interviews and faux news reports. At times it was hard to know what was pretend, and what was real. Aside from the clips of animal abuse (deployed minimally). The commentary, courtesy of Amstell himself, is hilarious and hardcore. “Fisting cows” he cries. By the time it ended, I thought Carnage was the most subversive thing I’d seen since Brass Eye. Brass neck in Amstell’s case – for boldly taking Sci-Fi where no-one else dare.
In the Q&A after with film critic Mark Kermode, he reveals he went vegan after seeing Earthlings, but found that others wouldn’t watch the film as it was too upsetting. “So I thought it would be a good idea to make something funny and watchable, so that the message could be put across in a way that didn’t traumatise people”.
“The compassionate angle” he says, is the film’s “saving grace”. That’s true, I think: for although the joke is most definitely on us (carnists and vegans alike), it’s handled in a way that retains our collective dignity.
The master stroke was setting it in the future, allowing him full creative licence. A surreal scene is a clip from a (fictional) opera, featuring actress Samantha Spiro dressed as a cow and singing lines like “Why did you take my baby?” Writing this song “from the perspective of a cow” is the thing Simon’s most proud of: “When Sam sung it, we were doing a close up, and she actually made me cry”. Kermode concurs: “Actually, that song is starting to get under my skin and in a really bizarre way”.
Carnage is a fiendishly clever name – part reference to Carnism, the name psychologist Melanie Joy coined for the prevailing meat-eating ideology.
“This revolution is happening now, whether anyone likes it or not”, says Amstell. “I think that’s why I felt as long as it’s funny. You just have to be funny. Ultimately, it’s going to be really awkward if we keep eating other animals”.
Carnage isn’t the first funny film about veganism (see Truth or Dairy starring Benjamin Zephaniah), but it is on another level. As I sat in the Bar afterwards nursing my third Coconut Daiquiri – I couldn’t help but chuckle, and shake my head, thinking: wow, did that really just happen?
Watch out World, Carnage hits BBC iplayer on 19th March
For those who fail at veganism
May 21, 2016 / louisewallis / 2 Comments
A Facebook friend has just announced she’s no longer vegan, and I’m sad about this. I’d admired a blog post she wrote last year, about her struggles as a vegan with an eating disorder, with her disapproving dietician, and with fellow “vegan feminists” who’d greeted her wobbles with guilt-tripping. Despite the setbacks, she was clear that being vegan “helped”; and since my own eating disorder (teenage bulimia) had also been tempered by veganism, I’d cheered her on.
I scrolled through the comments. Everyone was pleased for her: apart from one guy, who left a petulant “Good bye”. Although he added that he wished her well, but didn’t think stopping being vegan would “help anything”. This saw him challenged by a few people (vegans included), for being “dogmatic” and having “strict” and “rigid views”. For my friend, it was the final straw: “I wouldn’t identify as vegan now even if my diet remained vegan”, she replied.
Whoa, that was a strong statement. Why so down on the vegan identity? I wasn’t sure how to respond to this, or indeed, to the news itself. I didn’t think quitting would help either, but didn’t dare suggest this. And as a peripheral, online friend, I wasn’t sure it was my place. So I commented that I was “Sad to hear this”, and interested to read more about her change of heart in the blog post she promised.
But it bothered me that no other vegans had voiced reservations when my friend had been vegan for 9 years. Why not?
I teach exercise, and occasionally meet clients who appear to have anorexia, which carries a risk of heart attack and bone fracture. I’m obliged to raise concerns, even if it’s experienced as intrusive (and s/he leaves for a less ‘confrontational’ teacher). Because sometimes, to do the right thing, we need to do the hard thing. Boundaries help: they might be what that person needs in order to find a firmer footing, at that point, or further down the line.
If being vegan is a positive thing: why wouldn’t we want that for our friend? Couldn’t we ask how we might support her to stay vegan? I decided to send my friend a private message, just to put it out there. Maybe others did too? I hope so.
My friend’s reasons were mainly nutrition-based, and complicated by her condition. But the disproportionate focus on nutrition whenever vegan diets are mentioned worries me. We fixate on this. Forgetting that standard diets are supplemented too, with ‘fortified’ foods, that have nutrients added – in some cases, by law – to reduce the risk of serious deficiencies. There’s an unconscious bias that needs acknowledging before we can look at the issue objectively.
I also question the “recovery” narrative of many former vegans. For how do you “recover” from compassion? I think there’s something else at play.
The vegan identity isn’t the first to be disowned. Feminism was once a byword for militancy, prompting many women to publicly disassociate themselves from it. Feminists were “extremists”. (Hmm … where have we heard that before?) Happily, in recent years, feminism’s good name has largely been restored, thanks to the efforts of younger feminists like my friend. The stigmatising stereotypes exposed for the sexism they are.
We’ve learned to distinguish the message, from the messenger. By which I mean, to value the idea of equality for women, irrespective of our feelings about its most vocal proponents. The same will happen with ‘vegan’ too, one day.
For vegans are not unique in critiquing the behaviour of others – a defining feature of social change. The difference with veganism, of course, is its practical expression: the daily boycott of animal products. A practice some find easy, while others undoubtedly struggle.
I wonder if it isn’t quite common for vegans to struggle, or have the occasional blip? Sadly, it’s taboo to talk about this – for fear of letting the side down, I suppose, or being told off (e.g. by vegan feminists). I struggle myself at times. Not least with finding food I want to eat, when I want it – like a sandwich at the train station. It’s frustrating to be constantly thwarted in the simple pleasures others take for granted. But far worse, for me, are the social consequences of being vegan. Welcome to the role of party pooper!
Cake, the great staple of celebrations and social occasions, is a particular flashpoint. As cakes are rarely vegan in these situations, you find yourself excluded from an experience that’s essentially shared and participatory. Unless there’s two cakes: but that feels weird too, since lines are still drawn. It’s exposing. You can’t just be.
I don’t blame my friend for doing what she feels is best for her, or indeed anyone who can no longer cope with being vegan. It happens. The pressure to conform is enormous. Is it any wonder people crack? But I do think it’s important to acknowledge the toxic context that might move someone to relinquish and reprove a hitherto heartfelt practice.
“Spoiled identity” nails it for me. A term coined by the sociologist Erving Goffman, a specialist in stigma: the “process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity”. The stigmatised are the “socially abnormal”. According to Wikipedia: “Those who are stereotyped often start to act in ways that their stigmatisers expect of them. It not only changes their behavior, but it also shapes their emotions and beliefs”. This is “internalised stigma”.
We can be multi-stigmatised too: in my case, an ‘illegitimate’ child become a childless, vegan adult. Stigmas are myriad: attached to disability, sexual preference, eating disorders, political views, belief, bereavement, hair colour, and many more. They mount up, and take their toll. And in response, we create coping strategies. A common one is to conceal the spoiled identity, another is to reject it. Since the vegan identity isn’t easily hidden, it tends to be renounced, which also brings relief from its practical demands. I guess it’s vulnerable that way.
But it isn’t all bad news. The feminist identity has prevailed, giving us hope. And the more we become aware of internalised stigma, and its impact on us, the more we can challenge it. I find stigma fascinating: a strange map of the human psyche.
For anyone struggling with food and/or veganism, I recommend Always Too Much, And Never Enough, the recent memoir by Jasmin Singer. A bullied “fat kid”, who went on to lose weight as an adult, and noticed a dramatic difference in the way the world treated her. She wrote a blog about this that went viral, and eventually became the book. (Read an interview with Jasmin here).
My friend’s decision gave me pause for some soul searching. It’s made me reflect on how we can best support others contemplating the same. And what we might say to them.
Curiously, this has culminated in a Peter Gabriel lyric popping into my head – from a song I haven’t heard in years (his duet with Kate Bush). I remember feeling conflicted when it was released, over it being sentimental. I realise now, it’s not: just a profound expression of solidarity.
Then I found a quote from Gabriel, about the song’s intention. “The basic idea” he says “is that handling failure is one of the hardest things we have to learn to do.”
So, at the risk of sounding sentimental, I’ll leave you with the great man’s words. Dedicated to anyone who is struggling – with veganism, or with life.
Don’t give up, ’cause you have friends
Don’t give up, you’re not the only one
Don’t give up, no reason to be ashamed
Don’t give up, you still have us
Don’t give up now, we’re proud of who you are
Don’t give up, you know it’s never been easy
Don’t give up, ’cause I believe there’s a place
There’s a place where we belong
Why Plant-based isn’t Vegan: a warning from history
The raising, slaughtering and eating of animals is normalised in our culture.
But not in vegan culture. The safe space we make for ourselves, as witnesses to trauma; where we find comfort, validation and inspiration. (Not separatism, but Sanctuary).
So how do we keep this safe, in light of the news that the founders of a flagship “vegan” restaurant chain have begun to farm beef?
It’s a predicament nailed by Judith Lewis Herman in her book ‘Trauma & Recovery’:
“those who bear witness are caught in the conflict between victim and perpetrator. It is morally impossible to remain neutral in this conflict. The bystander is forced to take sides”.
The cows on one side / Their executioners on the other.
“It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator,” continues Herman. For “All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement, and remembering”
As the chain’s restaurants will continue as vegan (a good thing), it is tempting to “do nothing”.
On the other hand, we could ask Cafe Gratitude not to describe a ‘plant-based’ brand as “vegan”.
Though often confused, these two terms are not interchangeable.
‘Plant-based’ – refers to a dietary regimen with an emphasis on plant foods, which is pursued for health, fitness, or weight related reasons; and can be vegan, vegetarian, or omnivorous. Its origins are unclear, as it seems to have emerged organically, from the wider culture.
‘Vegan’ – by contrast, is unequivocal, with a documented provenance. Coined in 1944, by a specific group of people, with a specific meaning and purpose (to name a new movement, and a diet with no animal content)
The onus is on us to clarify this. And to consider to what extent vegans may be adding to confusion when using ‘plant-based’ as a euphemism. There’s certainly place for ‘plant-based’ in our vocabulary, but we need to know why we are using it, and not do so flippantly.
The word ‘vegan’ is vulnerable, because it confronts the violence concealed by a complicit culture. It requires bolstering because of the powerful stigma attached (which I’ve also written about here) – manifesting as hostility, and intense pressure to move the goalposts.
We’ve already seen the word ‘vegetarian’ succumb. Apparently it meant vegan (i.e. no animal content) when it was coined in the 1830s, and “only came to indicate a diet that included eggs and dairy products after the formation of The Vegetarian Society in 1847“. (Source: ‘Ripened by Human Determination‘ by Dr Sarah Calvert).
Surely we don’t want to go down that road again. When our predecessors survived World War 2 and food rationing to bring it to us. And the Vegan Society‘s founder Donald Watson, warned of this “strong gravitation the wrong way unless existing standards are guarded”, in his first newsletter.
Where ‘vegan’ not only enters our vocabulary, but is defined for posterity.
As guardians of this brave new word, we need to be vigilant: to ‘keep vigil’ for animals. By remembering, and reinforcing its meaning. By acting, creating, protesting and persuading.
For, as Herman explains, “In the absence of strong political movements”, we are prone to “amnesia”.
“To hold traumatic reality in consciousness requires a social context that affirms and protects the victim, and joins victim and witness in a common alliance”
That “social context” she says, “is created by political movements that give voice to the disempowered”
Which, in a nutshell, folks, means: Get your ‘iron knickers’ on! That movement is you and me.
© Louise Wallis
(Peace, Love, Vegan image by artist Sarah Kiser)
Note: I revised this post as of 18.8.17, in the hope that it is clearer and better written
Day Dreaming: the story of World Vegan Day – by its founder
October 29, 2015 / louisewallis / 3 Comments
World Vegan Day is 21 this year. As its creator, I feel like a proud parent.
Not only has it officially come of age, it has finally come into its own. In 2015, the Day is now a widely celebrated and internationally recognised event and fixture of the media calendar.
So where did I get the idea for World Vegan Day? The truth is I can’t say exactly – only that it came to me in a flash: in one of those classic “Aha!” moments.
I was President of the Vegan Society at the time, voted into this role in 1991 on the back of my undercover investigation into two animal labs. It was an exciting time. The Society was building up to its 50th birthday, and we were thinking of ways to mark this momentous occasion.
I’d already come up with one idea: a film. And in 1992, in quite possibly the earliest example of crowdfunding, I set up a Vegan Video Fund. Then enlisted my partner Frank, my friends Franny & Boo Armstrong as filmmakers, and Benjamin Zephaniah as Presenter. Over a year later we emerged, tired but triumphant with Truth or Dairy*, an upbeat, and humorous take on veganism.
My second idea was World Vegan Day. That was much easier: we simply had to announce it. But what date? We knew that the Society had been founded by Donald Watson and friends in November 1944, but not the exact date. The 1st November seemed a good choice – easy to remember – and as I explained in 2011: “I liked the idea of this date coinciding with Samhain / Halloween, and Day of the Dead – traditional times for feasting and celebration. Both apt and auspicious”.
Culturally, this is the time of year we remember ancestors and forbearers, and those early pioneers were never far from my mind. As I wrote, in an editorial for The Vegan in 1994 (next to the formal announcement of World Vegan Day):
“It is hard for us to imagine what it must have been like to literally ‘invent’ yourself as a vegan. In the forties, the idea of refusing to eat animal products was not only unheard of but considered stark raving madness! Everyone sincerely believed you would surely die. The story fascinates me. How was it possible that a few disparate individuals scattered across the country should simultaneously experience this new, revolutionary vision of a saner future? What on earth possessed them to severely restrict their food options at a time when rationing was at its most severe, and everyone else was worried about simply finding enough to eat? And how did they instinctively know what to do, when there had been no-one else before them?”
We owe everything to these daredevil dreamers, and on World Vegan Day we get to raise a toast in thanks.
It’s also a time for fun, feasting and awareness-raising. Whenever I google ‘World Vegan Day’ I’m blown away by the boundless creativity: from festivals, food tastings and film screenings, to professional football matches, naked flash mobs, and poignant protests.
WVD event by Animal Equality in Madrid
I still struggle to get my head around the fact that there was even a World Vegan Day debate in the UK Parliament. Led by vegan MP Kerry McCarthy (now shadow Environment Minister).
Sometimes, people contact me to tell me what they do on World Vegan Day. My favourite anecdote is from Jordan Wyatt of the Invercargill Vegan Society in New Zealand, the “southernmost animal rights organisation in the world”. WVD has special significance for Jordan, as he explains:
“On 2011 World Vegan Day, we planted a memorial tree. In 2012, I went big for the first time, posters up, getting in the media etc. My now partner drove down 200km to join in, from her nearby city. By 2013 we had fallen in love, and she had moved down to be with me. On 2014 World Vegan Day, we installed public art, posters, media … AND got married, on the 70th anniversary of veganism”
Jordan and Jen’s Wedding – World Vegan Day 2014
Wow. A World Vegan Day wedding, for a couple who fell in love on World Vegan Day, in a ceremony next to a tree planted on World Vegan Day. It doesn’t get better than this.
In a way, Jordan and Jen’s story sums up what World Vegan Day is all about: bringing people together. It also demonstrates how powerful ideas can be.
A current hot topic in idea theory is ‘The Adjacent Possible’. In the simplest terms, this is the potential (and serendipity) created when you notice and connect the unlikely.
A leading exponent is Steve Johnson, bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From. He describes it thus:
“The Adjacent Possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself”.
I love this: “a shadow future” is how I think of World Vegan Day. The one day a year when we can make our dreams feel real. When we get a glimpse of what a vegan world might look like. When we can connect with others, and influence the course of their lives.
“Chance favours the connected mind” says Johnson. Creativity, he suggests, comes not from introspection and solitary pondering, but from being proactive – from mingling, sharing and exchanging. Innovation is essentially social, he argues, thriving in chaotic spaces like the Coffee Houses which famously gave rise to the Age of Enlightenment.
As proprietor of Kabaret, a Cafe Bar serving excellent coffee in the heart of North London’s artistic community, this pleases me immensely.
Running a vegan venue wasn’t something I foresaw. It came by chance via a serendipitous facebook connection.
Our tagline is ‘Creating Vegan Culture’. So new is this concept, that even we don’t know what it is! But hey, we’re doing it anyway.
We host many vegan events including Vegan Comedy Nights, London Vegan Drinks and Queer Vegan Disco. For this year’s World Vegan Day I’ve pulled out all the stops and organised an ExtraVeganza.
We’ll be kicking back, scoffing Sunday Roast, sipping Prosecco, watching a movie, and listening to two of my favourite people speak: Jasmijn De Boo, Vegan Society CEO & Huffington Post columnist; and real life wonder woman Fiona Oakes, the world record-breaking marathon runner. We’ll also be raising funds for Fiona’s animal sanctuary Tower Hill Stables, currently home to 400 animals.
Tickets are still available for this event on Sunday 1st November, so if you want to come – book here
Happy World Vegan Day, whatever you are doing.
This one is dedicated to all you dreamers out there, and especially Mat Swinn.
Remember folks …
* Truth or Dairy our 20 min Vegan Society film has aged remarkably well. If you fancy watching click here
© 2021 Louise Wallis
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Freaky Feet Pete looking for win number 24
10:22 AM 06 Nov 2015 NZDT
Freaky Feet Pete is looking for win number 24 in the American National
Freaky Feet Pete will be in search of his 24th win in 27 career starts when he teams up with Trace Tetrick to take on six other 3yo pacing colts in Saturday's $150,000 American National Stake at Balmoral Park.
There’s no other sophomore pacer currently racing in North America who has garnered so much attention as Freaky Feet Pete. And it’s not just because of his name, either.
The reason? This 3-year-old son of Rockin Image has been a terror on the Midwest scene all year and most recently captured harness racing’ s biggest event—the $531,250 Breeders Crown for sophomore pacers.
Saturday night he’ll venture postward against six rivals in the $150,000 American National for 3-year-old colt and gelding pacers.
Trained by breeder Larry Rheinheimer for owners Mary Jo and Marty R Rheinheimer, Freaky Feet Pete will be trying for his sixth consecutive victory from post two.
Regular pilot Trace Tetrick will be behind the swift-footed, Indiana-bred side-wheeler.
Freaky Feet Pete is a total family horse as the homebred often has Mary Jo at his side as his caretaker whenever he races.
A winner of 14 of 16 starts this season, the bay colt’s connections forked out $62,500 to supplement him to the Breeders Crown on Oct. 24 at Woodbine, a costly investment that more than paid off when the “Pride of Indiana” bested some of the sport’s top male sophomores in 1:50.
That triumph also gave driver Trace Tetrick his first Breeders Crown trophy.
“It was exciting,” Trace revealed. “It was something I’ll never forget.”
Born May 31, 2012 in LaGrange, Indiana, Freaky Feet Pete is the eighth foal out of the Pilgrim’s Punch mare Skyway Lori p, 3, 1:54.1S ($56,663) and has half siblings in: Dongetinskyway (by Dontgetinmyway) p,6,1:51.2 ($288,458); Virgil (by Always A Virgin) p, 5, 1:51f ($217,803); Dontlookatthesky (by Dontgetinmyway) p,4,1:51.3 ($170,396); Just Fred (by Dontgetinmyway) p,4,1:51.3 ($166,750); Loretta (by Dontgetinmyway) p,5,1:52s ($145,112); Lightninginthesky (by Electric Yankee) p,5,1:52.1s ($129,032); and Good Gum Gertie (by Palone Ranger) p,3,1:53.1 ($43,993), etc.
“Pete,” as he’s known around the Rheinheimer’s barn at the family’s home in LaGrange, IN showed signs of greatness as a freshman, capturing nine of his ten starts in 2014 and earning $261,950.
He won his first career start on July 3, 2014 at Hoosier, pacing in 1:55.1 with Trace at the lines. One week later he won an Indiana Sires Stake in a blistering 1:51.4 at Hoosier.
As a 2-year-old he went on to win multiple sire stake tests in the Hoosier state before capturing the $220,000 ISS Final on Oct. 18 at Hoosier Park, stopping the timer in 1:50.4 and drawing off from his rivals by 11½ lengths.
“He surprises me every time he’s on the track,” Larry stressed. “We don’t give Trace any instructions but he always takes care of him and does what he needs to do.”
Freaky Feet Pete has now amassed $1,037,724 from 23 wins and two seconds in 26 trips postward.
In fact, he’s only finished off the board once in his career and that was in his third career start as a freshman, when he finished fourth.
The hardy colt thus has never missed a purse check—EVER!
The colt really didn’t start to show was he was going to become a superstar though until he made that first career start, Larry recalled.
“He won his first race, then his second, and we started to think he might be something special,” Larry said. “The key to Pete’s success seems to be his attitude.
He’s got a playful, goofy demeanor and once he steps out of the trailer at the racetrack, he’s all business.
He knows when it’s time to get to work, and he loves his work, yes he does.”
Now that’s a point everyone is getting the chance to evidence by the eye popping numbers that he continues to put up!
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Rockin Image
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Matches for "Michael Howard"
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Danny hopeful Vic move enhances top prospect
Owner Danny Zavitsanos is staying patient and hopeful the two-year-old trotting star who delivered his first Group 1, Enhance Your Calm, can get his groove back in Victoria. A winner of eight of his first nine starts and more than $200,000 in prizemoney, the former Mark Purdon-trained four-year-old’s saluted only once in his last 12 outings, a dry spell Zavitsanos is hopeful will break when he steps out in the Beckley Park Committee Of Management Trot at Geelong tonight. “I still have a big opinion of that horse, but he has to put it on the track now,” Zavitsanos said. “He won me my first Group 1. I’d had 400 wins, but never a Group 1 until he won the Jewels. He’s a nice horse, I have a lot of time for him, I just hope he can recapture his form.” Enhance Your Calm has his second start for new trainer Dean Braun tonight, who he joined last month. “He could have been anything. He was the best as a two-year-old and three-year-old and then he started having issues,” Zavitsanos said. “Mark tipped him out as a late three-year-old, he came back at four and Mark thought he’d have a really good campaign. “Mark tried a few things, but he really baffled him, and after three or four goes Mark thought he might be better off over here.” And with that he was shipped across the Tasman and has now become Braun’s project. “Dean thinks it’s more in his head. It’s a work in progress,” Zavitsanos said. It's a reclamation project that began with a second placing at Maryborough on November 1, when reinsman Chris Alford allowed Enhance Your Calm to settle in the one-one before looming late, ultimately finished second behind Benji Hall. “I thought at Maryborough he was every chance. He was well driven, Chris thought he was going to surge past the leader, who’s a nice horse, but the class Enhance Your Calm is you would think he’d go past him,” Zavitsanos said. “(Tonight) will tell us a bit. We’ll see how he goes. You’d like to think that he would win.” Like at Maryborough, it’s a Chris Svanosio-trained horse who looms as the most likely stumbling block, with Peregrine Phoenix drawn four, to the outside of Enhance Your Calm (gate two). Zavitsanos said if all goes well Enhance Your Calm would be directed towards the Hylands Breeders Crown Championship at Tabcorp Park Melton on November 20. The trotter is not the only high-class horse who Zavitsanos is keeping a close eye on at present. His New Zealand Trotting Cup winner Cruz Bromac continues his Victorian campaign Saturday night in an outstanding TAB Preux Chevalier Free For All, in which Pryde’s EasiFeed Victoria Cup winner Lochinvar Art looms large from the second line. It will be Cruz Bromac’s fourth start for trainer Amanda Grieve and Zavitsanos was hopeful of improvement. “He’s been good without being outstanding,” he said. “He’s had a couple of niggling issues that have set him back, but I think on Saturday night he will hopefully be back to his best.” The race could well decide how ambitious the camp is with the million-dollar pacer. “It’s one race at a time. If he shows he’s back to his best he might be a chance for the Blacks A Fake in Queensland, but he will need to show us he’s back there,” he said. “On the draw I’d imagine he would roll forward (on Saturday night) and we will see how he goes, but I haven’t spoken to Amanda yet.” HRV - Michael Howard
Get Loched in for two massive race days
Kings, queens, princes and princesses will assemble from Thursday as the Race to Royalty ramps up with TAB Breeders Crown finals qualification for trotters and pacers. Maryborough will host the trotting heats for two and three-year-olds on Thursday, when the squaregaiters will scrap for a place in the elite 12, while an extraordinary 11-race card has assembled for Saturday’s pacing semi-finals at Tabcorp Park Melton. The latter will feature eight semi-finals for two and three-year-olds as well as three outstanding free-for-alls, including the return of Pryde’s EasiFeed Victoria Cup champion Lochinvar Art. David Moran’s four-year-old star will contest the TAB Preux Chevalier Free For All at 7.27pm, where he’ll have to overcome gate 13 and chase down the likes of Cruz Bromac, who Chris Alford will guide from gate five. And Saturday night will finish with the Aldebaran Park Lenin Trotters Free For All, where Dance Craze has drawn inside Red Hot Tooth in gates six and seven while Wobelee and McLovin will start from the second row, and the Allied Express Breeders Crown Graduate Mares FFA, where Our Princess Tiffany looms large. In the midst of those free-for-alls are the TAB Breeders Crown semi-finals, which will kick off in explosive fashion as Emma Stewart’s outstanding quartet Treachery, Rogue Wave, Ladies In Red and Joanna box for finals qualification in the Captain Crunch 2YO fillies class. Heat two sees Tough Tilly (gate 2) finally get a good draw for her big group of devoted owners, though Soho Almasi (gate 4) looms ominously, and then it’s over to the Pryde’s EasiFeed three-year-old fillies for race three, when Maajida will attempt to add a 14th win from her 19th start off a tricky gate 11 draw. Loorim Lake will attempt continue his extraordinary streak in the first of the IRT Australia three-year-old boys heats at 8pm, with stablemate Mach Dan certain to make his presence felt, while the sixth looks set to be an even affair with Santa Casa Beach and Willie Go West installed as $2.60 co-favourites with TAB.com.au. The VHRC Caduceus two-year-old colts and geldings first semi-final may well deliver the race of the night, with Beyond Delight (gate 4) and Bar Room Banta (gate 6) to duel, and then in the second semi-final pole marker Jacks Hawk is a $2 favourite with TAB.com.au. Fortunately trots fans won’t have to wait until Saturday night to dip into the TAB Breeders Crown, with the Aldebaran Park two-year-old trotting heats and Catanach’s Jewellers three-year-old trotting heats at Maryborough on Thursday. Competition will be particularly willing in the two-year-old fillies and three-year-old colts and geldings’ classes, with only the first four past the post securing places in the Group 1 finals. Hearts will be in mouths from the outset, with the two-year-old fillies gifting us the first three races, where Queen Elida ($1.95), Keayang Xena ($2.60) and Redwood Classic winner Mexicana ($1.75) are the respective favourites. Emma Stewart’s Cover Of Darkness, who’s unbeaten in four starts, is a $1.33 favourite to keep the good times rolling in the first three-year-old colts and geldings’ heat, while Elite Stride ($1.55) is also well into the red in the second. The last of the class, which races at 1.53pm, has two-year-old Vicbred Super Series winner Powderkeg on top at $2.60 in an open affair. Then for races seven (2.33pm) and eight (3.08pm) at Maryborough on Thursday it’s over to the three-year-old trotting fillies, with Matt Craven’s Queen Of Crime favoured in the first heat and backmarkers Im Ready Jet and Illawong Stardust shortest in an open second heat. The spotlight then settles on the two-year-old boys for races 10 (4.18pm) and 11 (4.53pm), where Jodi Quinlan (Illawong Barmah) and Anthony Butt (Have No Fear) have the respective favourites. It all promises to be a terrific day and night’s racing, with every race to be streamed live and free on Trots Vision at thetrots.com.au. Coverage will be ramped up for the occasions, with Lachie McIntosh to call at Maryborough on Thursday as the trotters strive for finals places. And then on Saturday night Jason Bonnington will join Rob Auber and Dan Mielicki for wall-to-wall Trots Vision coverage, which will celebrate the night's racing and feature the all-important barrier draws for the eight Group 1s, which will be held on November 21 at Tabcorp Park Melton. HRV - Michael Howard
Major win amid Stewart's Crown crunch
Breeders Crown season has long been the domain of trainer Emma Stewart’s stable and last week’s winning times rolled on into Saturday night when the stable was prominent and dominant at Tabcorp Park Melton. Having been prolific during the two-year-old and three-year-old Breeders Crown heats on Wednesday and Friday night, Stewart clocked a further three winners at Victoria’s harness racing headquarters on Saturday. Among those victors was Tam Major, who enjoyed the perfect trail behind stablemates Major Times and then Code Black to blister home and win the Allied Express Pace for reinsman Chris Alford. “Things worked out really well, the speed was quite strong all the way, he got that good drag and once Major Times got to the breeze it left Code Black with no trail,” Alford said. “(Code Black) was always going to be hard to run down, (Tam Major) just had to finish it off and that’s what he did.” Racing for owner-breeders Bruce and Vicki Edward, the win was Tam Major’s first since he claimed the Breeders Crown 4YO Championship in August last year, having placed seven times between salutes. “He’s very strong, but sometimes that works against him. He had a great four-year-old year, I think he won the sires and Breeders Crown, it’s just taken him a little while to get back to that form and that’s what he’s done tonight,” Alford said. Stewart also claimed the night’s first race, the DNR Logistics Pace, when Like A Wildfire circled the field, sat in the breeze and then careered away to win for reinsman Greg Sugars, and later another impressive pacer Always Fast led and won in the TAB Make A Date With Play Pace for reinswoman Jodi Quinlan. Like Stewart, driver Sugars walked away with a trio of wins having coupled the win on Like A Wildfire with victories on Zadaka (for trainer Greg Norman) and Bopper Jet (for trainer Kima Frenning). As mentioned, it was a continuation of a stellar week for the pair. Stewart trained five of last Wednesday’s seven Breeders Crown’s two-year-old heat winners, with partner Clayton Tonkin and fellow Ballarat district resident Michael Stanley the only other trainers able to pinch a heat. “Obviously we know how good Emma and Clayton and all their team are with all their horses, but especially their babies – they are always the ones to beat," said reinsman Jason Lee, who guided filly Dangerous Hand to a Breeders Crown heat victory for Stewart. Victoria’s leading trainer kept the good times rolling on Friday night when she claimed a further three heat wins, including from stand out performers Mach Dan and Maajida, who were both steered by Sugars. The Myrniong reinsman was particularly taken by Maajida’s effort, having enjoyed extraordinary success with the filly to date that looks like continuing through the spring and summer. “She just keeps winning, just gets the job done week after week,” Sugars said. “She’s a lovely filly and it’s been great to be a part of the ride. She’s one of my all-time favourites for sure.” The TAB Breeders Crown series continues with the trotting heats for the two and three-year-olds, before the spotlight returns to the pacers for the semi-finals night at Tabcorp Park Melton on Saturday. All roads from there lead to the November 21 finals at Tabcorp Park Melton, when six Group 1s will be run and won. HEAR ALL THE WINNING WORDS FROM SATURDAY NIGHT IN ALL CLEAR: HRV - Michael Howard
Three-year-olds begin Group 1 glory pursuit
The TAB Breeders Crown continues as the spotlight shifted to the three-year-olds, with the best and brightest battling at Bendigo for places in the November 14 semi-finals. And it was a showcase night for reinsman Greg Sugars, who won three of the seven heats and was optimistic that in gelding Mach Dan and filly Maajida he had two bona fide Crown contenders. Relive the great night's racing with this thetrots.com.au race-by-race review. Heat One: It was smooth sailing in the first heat for trainer Amanda Grieve and reinsman Chris Alford, who advanced with Willie Go West after he led from gate one and was rarely challenged. The Auckland Reactor gelding out of Bettor Go was bred by Studholme Bloodstock and purchased by a big group of owners who brought him to Victoria, with tonight his fourth start and second win on Australian soil. “I think they paid a fair bit of money for him, he’s just a bit awkward-gaited and it’s taken a bit to get him right, but tonight he felt really good and ran really well,” Alford told Trots Vision. Out of the gates Alford held out Big Black Diamond early and from there was barely tested, finishing with a 27.2-second last quarter that secured a 3.2-metre win from Ranger Bomb, with Sahara Sirocco 11 metres back in third. “It worked out pretty well,” Alford said. “We led quite comfortably, got a little squirt down the back when Greg (Sugars on Private Eye) came up, but he held him out pretty easily and relaxed well. “They can run fast on this track and once he had that first lap he was going to run a good half.” Alford said he was optimistic Willie Go West would be a key player as the series worked towards the November 21 final. “Hopefully he’s still on the improve coming up to the semis and hopefully the final,” he said. “He’d probably be the top colt that I’m driving at the moment, the others are nice too, but they’ve all drawn bad tonight, so hopefully they can all get through and we can worry about that later.” Willie Go West advanced to the November 14 semi-finals along with Ranger Bomb, Sahara Sirocco, Big Black Diamond, Moonlite Drive and Goodtime Floyd. Heat Two: The rise and rise of Loorrim Lake continued with Emma Stewart’s exciting prospect adding an eighth consecutive win in the second IRT Australia three-year-old colts and geldings’ heat. After winning only once in his first 21 starts, the Roll With Joe gelding out of Jethros Madam was snapped up by owners Michael Cirillo and Ann-Maree Short. Bred by Stephen Maguire and David Hargrave, he won five on the trot for trainer Andrew Vozlic in Mildura before being shifted to Stewart’s camp and adding a further three consecutive wins in the hands of reinsman David Moran. “He seems to be progressing into a really nice horse now,” Moran told Trots Vision. “He’s shown enough gate speed tonight to lead, there were a couple off the front row who do begin pretty quick, he showed that he can get out of the gate and burn both ends. “I think his speed’s probably his best attribute ... he’s just starting to really toughen up a bit now and come into himself, so I think that’s probably the best part about him leading into these races – he is so versatile.” Loorrim Lake scored by 6.9 metres in tonight’s heats off a 26.7-second final quarter, with stablemate Firerockfireroll running second. “He ran them along genuine enough and then ripped home a really quick last half. I think he’s got a really big future,” Moran said. Loorrim Lake advances to the November 14 semi-finals along Firefrockfireroll, Im A Denny Too, Imnopumpkin, Mirragon and Krafty Bart. Heat Three: The tale of the night continued in the third colts and geldings’ heat when Breeders Challenge winner Mach Dan led comfortably and then let down with a withering final quarter to win his heat. After a successful stint across the border for Tim Butt, the Mach Three gelding returned to Emma Stewart’s camp and looked untroubled in winning by 6.6 metres for reinsman Greg Sugars. He said the gelding, who was bred by Shannon and Meaghan Nixon and is owned by Danny and Jo Zavitsanos and Warren Viney, had only improved for his time across the border. “A couple of the other runners who have gone interstate have perhaps been below par but he was right on his A game tonight, which is really good,” Sugars said. He worked to the lead ahead of Santa Casa Beach without any great acceleration and zipped home in 26.8 seconds to win comfortably. “Previously when I’ve raced him, when he’s been in front he’s been a bit casual and waited for them, hasn’t really responded quite as sharp as what I’d like in certain scenarios, but tonight he travelled like a winner right from the word go,” Sugars said. “Was never off the bit really and did it quite comfortably. Really pleasing going forward that he’s not just a follower now, he’s learned how to get out there and do it himself. He’s probably gone to the top of the list on that performance of my three-year-olds.” He will be joined in advancing to the November 14 semi-final by Santa Casa Beach, Jilliby Nitro, Scorcha, Hesty and Daylight At Dawn. Heat Four: Pacifico Dream stretched out with the quickest heat of the night, with Andy and Kate Gath’s Mach Three three-year-old working to the front in a bristling 38-second lead time and running sub 30-second quarters in setting up his heat win. “It’s encouraging signs and couldn’t be happier with him,” reinswoman Kate Gath told Trots Vision. “Most of (the heats) have been walking races and that one probably would have been too had Pacifico Dream not got so keen in the running. “I didn’t have to ask him for too much late and I felt like he was holding the second horse (Zeuss Bromac), and obviously the second horse ran very good as well, these races are never easy, but it’s always good to come out and win the heat and fingers crossed that we can keep going.” Bred by Harshall Investments, the Mach Three colt out of Mint Julep is owned by Mervat Caruana and Marlene Johnson and tonight notched an eighth win in just his 15th start. “He hasn’t had a lot of racing but he’s had hard racing,” Gath said. “He’s been against the best three-year-olds pretty much his entire racing prep and you would think it’s encouraging going forward. “He’s a bit lazy at home, so you can never really get that good a guide at home, but we come here and he’s getting the job done, so couldn’t ask for more.” And it gives Gath optimism that he can be a key player as the series advances. “As confident as you can be, but at the end of the day you look at these horses in the other heats and it’s all going to get down to draws.” Pacifico Dream advanced to the November 14 semi-finals along with Zeuss Bromac, Jemsoms Pet, Sanday, Perfect Stride and Monsieur Delacour. Pryde’s EasiFeed Breeders Crown heats for 3YO fillies: Heat One: With a blistering sprint Sweet Louise threw her name into the TAB Breeders Crown ring for trainer Phil Chircop, with the green but talented Sweet Lou filly showing top end talent. Driven by Greg Sugars for owner-breeders Dorro Downs, Sweet Louise showed early speed to lead before relinquishing the front to Iolanta, who Sugars then clawed passed in the final stages to record the filly’s third career win. “She’s a relatively inexperienced filly,” Sugars told Trots Vision. “She’s got a very good record for wins and placings per start. She was thrown into the deep end (last start in the Argent 3YO Classic) and I was a little unsure how she was going to handle that class rise last week, but she didn’t have the best of luck in running and was hitting the line OK. “That was a really good sign and Phil was happy that the horse had trained on from that and she’s heading in the right direction coming into this series.” She carried that form on with tonight’s impressive run, that included a 26.9-second final quarter and 2.2-metre win over Iolanta. “She didn’t get the turn really good and as you see it’s quite a sharp last quarter, she really rattled home strongly up the straight. She’s a filly with a future,” Sugars said. “She can do a bit of work. She’s a big lump of a filly but she’s probably not 100 per cent tractable at the moment. She’s not one-dimensional, but her manners are going to hold her up a little bit, so depending where she is in the run and how the race gets run (will affect) how she’s going to finish off.” Sweet Louise and Iolanta will be joined in the November 14 semi-finals at Tabcorp Park Melton by Its Ebonynivory, Dasha The Great, Final Peace, Orbie, Dr Susan and Art Of Sheng Li. Heat Two: It was smooth sailing for Marg Lee’s Keayang Jackie in the second fillies’ heat, with reinsman Jason Lee crossing from gate two and then allowed to cruise through a 41.4-second lead time and 32-second first quarter to set up a comfortable win. “We just had to run a half tonight and that’s all she had to do so we can keep some in the tank for (the semi-final) next week,” Jason Lee told Trots Vision post-race. Keayang Jackie ripped a 26.8-second third quarter and then got home in 27.4 seconds to hold all challengers at bay, winning by 2.9 metres from Beautiful Woman, who had sat on the leader’s back throughout. The win was further confirmation that Keayang Jackie, A Rocknroll Dance filly out of Christian Party, had come a long way this season, with tonight producing a seventh win from only her 15th start. “She was pretty difficult as a young horse and Glen (Craven)’s spent a fair bit of time with her and Marg, just trying to get her to settle down,” Lee said. “She’d try and kick your head off, I don’t know if we’ve had many as bad as what she was early days for just going out in the bike and kicking, she was scary. She’s come a long way and turned into a lovely filly. “She probably got a bit keen tonight, which she doesn’t usually do, but she was just feeling a bit fresh and wanting to get on with it.” And with that win in the bank Lee is optimistic that, with the right breaks, she’s a Crown contender. “I think she’s every bit a winning chance if she can get through next week and nothing goes bad. Sometimes it can be harder to qualify than win the race if you get the right draw or the right run, but look she’s going to need a lot to go her way but I think any of them do – they’re all pretty even. If she gets in and gets the right run she’s definitely a winning chance.” Keayang Jackie advanced to the semi-finals along with Beautiful Woman, Soundsofcash, Burnforu, Teckys Angel, Dancing With Flo, Belladonna Girl and Louisiana Jo. Heat Three: The queen is going to take some topping to remove her from the throne if Maajida’s win in tonight’s final Pryde’s EasiFeed heat for three-year-old fillies was any indication. The reigning Breeders Crown champion led from gate two and ambled through the first half before finishing with a 26.4-second final quarter, which was enough to hold fast-finishing Amelia Rose and Its Beaujolais at bay for trainer Emma Stewart and reinsman Greg Sugars. “(She) had a lovely run in front and got the job done nicely,” Sugars said. “I’ve probably gone too slow for her and let the others into the race, but she has got good speed when required, so do a few of these others, so quite naturally they can keep up with her, but I’m always very confident with her.” By Somebeachsomewhere out of Arterial Way, Maajida has brought plenty of joy to owner-breeders Gary, Ian, Leslie and Steve Johnson throughout her 18 career starts, which have yielded $356,900 in stakes, with Sugars in the sulky for all but her debut run. “There was nothing really flashy about her – the way she went about it or her looks, she just keeps winning, just gets the job done week after week,” Sugars said. “She’s a lovely filly and it’s been great to be a part of the ride. She’s one of my all-time favourites for sure.” Maajida will attempt to keep the good times rolling when she contest the November 14 semi-finals, advancing from the final heat along with Amelia Rose, Its Beaujolais, Rockingwithsierra, Ash Park, The Pantheist, Roquefort Cheese and Alice Kay. The TAB Breeders Crown continues with the trotting heats at Maryborough on November 19. HRV - Michael Howard
Stewart dominant as Race to Royalty begins
The TAB Breeders Crown is underway for 2020, with the two-year-olds tearing up the track at Ballarat as we build towards the November 21 finals. And it was a familiar feeling with Emma Stewart producing six of the night's eight winners and partner Clayton Tonkin another, with the stable giving a big reminder to its claims on the Crown. Reinsman Jason Lee guided the night's final heat winner, Dangerous Hand, to victory for Stewart and told Trots Vision it was "nice to be teaming up with them rather than having to chase them". “Obviously we know how good Emma and Clayton and all their team are with all their horses, but especially their babies – they are always the ones to beat." Here's how it all unfolded: VHRC CADUCEUS BREEDERS CROWN TWO-YEAR-OLD COLTS AND GELDINGS Heat one: And it was one from one for team Emma Stewart with Jacks Hawk very impressive in advancing three-wide, overpowering favourite Pantaloon and careering away to a five-metre win for reinsman David Moran. “He’s a beautiful little horse, he’s got very high speed,” Moran told Trots Vision. “He’s a little bit wayward, he gets in and out a little bit, he’s got a fair bit to learn, but he’s got a good motor on him.” It was a second win from four starts for the Art Major colt, who’s out of Rotkara Stella for owner-breeder Jessica Francis, and Moran said he could be dangerous as the series advanced. “It’s going to be a great series this year, there is probably five or six really top line two-year-olds, it’s going to make it a great race,” he said. “If they all go to war, horses like Jacks Hawk, it will bring him right into it.” The first six finishes qualify, with Spock, Dessie Gee, Sumomentsomewhere, Sayitaintso Joe and Kimble all joining Jacks Hawk in advancing to the semi-finals. Heat two: Major Moth produced a statement win in the second heat, with reinsman Damian Wilson pressing the pedal at both ends to set up a victory for trainer Clayton Tonkin. The Art Major colt, who’s out of Macy Lila for owner-breeders Len and Irene Parker, did work to take the lead from Keayang Kamikaze in a 40.7-second lead time, 2.5 seconds quicker than the first heat, and then gapped all challengers in a 26.8-second final quarter to win by 6.4 metres. “It didn’t go to plan, with the one horse (Ideal Dan) galloping and the speed from outside, which I didn’t expect that much early speed, but I thought I would just poke forward and hopefully find the front, which happened,” Wilson said. “Chris (Alford on Idyllic) come around, Amanda (Turnbull on Ideal Dan) come around and they kept me honest, but he was pretty strong on the line. “He’s a speed horse but obviously he can do a little bit of work too, so we’ve got plenty to work with.” Joining Major Moth in advancing to the November 14 semi-finals were Idyllic, Tuppence, Knights Templar, Keayang Kamikaze and Electric Eye. Heat three: Having watched his brilliant two-year-olds recently enjoy Group 1 glory in another driver’s hands, Mick Stanley was tonight happy to be back in the sulky behind Bar Room Banta and in the midst of Victorian feature racing. “Everyone’s gone through a tough time, but to now be running in Breeders Crown heats, we’ve had a Victoria Cup, we all feel like we’re coming out the other side,” he told Trots Vision. “Not only myself, but for everyone there’s a real buzz around that the good racing’s back. “He got set for the New South Wales (Breeders) Challenge first and Craig Cross and Luke McCarthy did an excellent job with him and Soho Almasi up there, they were unbeaten through that. It’s really exciting to have a sit back behind him again." And he had good reason to be excited tonight, with Bar Room Banta extending his winning streak to six with a 1.1-metre win ahead of stablemate Soho Bollinger. “The lead time (41.9 seconds) was pretty solid for the two-year-olds, but we got that first quarter breather (31.4 seconds) and he’s a strong, fast horse. Being on the fence I knew he’d real off some good sectionals. “The last 400, as silly as it sounds, he was just goofing around. I had to get the plugs out and give him a tap just to wake him up because he was running off the fence thinking, ‘well, what do you want me to do’. He’s got a lot to learn, but he’s really exciting.” The winner is A Rocknroll Dance colt out of Jerada Ace, who was bred by Ray Cahill and is owned by BFJ Bloodstock. Bar Room Banta got home in 55.1 seconds for the last half to advance to the semi-finals along with Soho Bollinger, Swayzee, Watts Up Sunshine, Platinum Stride and Act Now. Heat four: Beyond Delight found the lead comfortably and was never headed in producing an impressive 10-metre win for reinsman Greg Sugars and trainer Emma Stewart, reaffirming that’s he’s a leading contender in this year’s Breeders Crown. Owned and bred by Bruce and Vicki Edward, the two-year-old Bettors Delight colt out of Whatahottie has now won four of his five starts. “Back off the front row tonight, I was always extremely confident with him,” Sugars said. “He was pretty strong at the finish. He got a bit casual in chasing to the line, (had) just to keep his mind right on the job.” Beyond Delight was unchallenged, winning by 9.3 metres and giving Sugars confidence he had “a lot left in the locker if he had have been challenged” when he kicked up after they crossed the finishing line as other horses drew near. That prompted the reinsman to take an unscheduled victory lap. "He had a horse up along side him and still wanted to keep racing it, so bascially got to the back straight by the time I pulled up, I thought much of a muchness here, which is the quickest way home, so I kept going." It was perhaps a further sign of the lightly-raced colt's continual education, which Sugars said gave him optimism that the best was certainly yet to come. “Day one when the first time I drove him at trials he was pretty green but showed really good speed, but just a bit wayward," he said. "That’s probably been his biggest thing, his manners have certainly come a long, long way this time in. There’s still a bit of room for improvement in him. “It’s all good signs, because if he’s not 100 per cent manners wise as a racehorse, as they iron them out he’s only going to get better. That’s a good thing.” Beyond Delight was joined in advancing to the November 14 semi-finals by Mach Hammer, Rock N Roll Doo, Go Dancing, Drain The Swamp and Spring In His Step. CAPTAIN CRUNCH BREEDERS CROWN TWO-YEAR-OLD FILLIES Heat one: Emma Stewart’s two-year-old fillies have been outstanding to date and that looks like rolling through this year’s TAB Breeders Crown, with Group 1 winner Joanna adding a fourth win in her sixth start and holding at bay highly-rated stablemate Treachery. The Balthurst Gold Tiara winner led from gate six, with Treachery sitting in the breeze for the last lap and a half, an advantage Joanna made count in holding on to win by 1.3 metres for reinswoman Amanda Turnbull. “She’s a great filly, she’s done a great job already and she’s just starting to get fit,” Turnbull said of the Somebeachsomewhere filly, who breeder Mark Carey paired with dam Repellem and sold to owners Danny and Jo Zavitsanos and Warren Viney. “She just doesn’t know when to stop. I know when she won the Group 1 she got attacked the whole way and just never looked like stopping. "She loves that, she loves a little bit of a war. She goes to sleep straight away and then she will take off again. That’s the best bit about her, she is so fast but she can hold it as well.” She did just that to win in a 54.5-second last half, with Star Of Timpany and Momentslikethese closing well late to finish third and fourth respectively behind Joanna and Treachery. Also advancing to the November 14 semi-finals were Dougs Babe, Town Echo, Let It Linga and Outa The Blue. Heat two: There doesn’t look a huge amount between Emma Stewart’s leading two-year-old fillies but time and again it’s Ladies In Red who separated herself from the pack. The full sister to Our Little General ($712,852), being by Mach Three out of Kabbalah Karen B for owner-breeders Lauriston Bloodstock, Ladies In Red recorded a 2.6-metre win to score ahead of stablemates Tough Tilly and Rogue Wave, who were again valiant in defeat. Winning reinsman David Moran said driving Ladies In Red, a winner of all five of her starts, was a “pretty special feeling”. “She just drops the bit and is the most kindest filly to drive, which is going to in time just make her the perfect racehorse," he said. "She’s got such high speed but she can tough it out as well.” Drawn inside the back row, Moran quickly moved to the running line and then circled into the breeze outside leader Eva Mateo. When the latter tired Ladies In Red assumed the lead and held off her stablemates to score in a 26.2-second last quarter. “It panned out pretty good in the end,” Moran said. “They seemed to settle pretty quick, there wasn’t a hell of a lot of speed early on in the race, so I thought there was a good chance to get around and dictate the race from there and just control it to our own speed.” And he lost no respect for Tough Tilly, who again boxed on well for Kate Gath from a difficult draw. “(Tough Tilly’s) a beautiful little filly, if you reverse the roles or reverse the draws, it’s going to be a great couple of races coming up over the next few weeks because if she drew to find the front she’s going to be mighty hard to beat.” Joining Ladies In Red, Tough Tilly and Rogue Wave in advancing to the semi-final were Sahara Storm, Treasure Rainbow, Jo Rocks, No Win No Worries and Covered Kylie. Heat three: Dangerous Hand made it six wins from the night’s eight heats for Emma Stewart when she found the front for reinsman Jason Lee, holding stablemate Platinum Sparkle at bay to score by a neck. By Captaintreacherous out of Mitzi M Hanover, the win would have thrilled breeder Helen Head and the filly’s big ownership group, who watched her rattle home in 27.4 seconds to register the narrow win. “I thought we were a genuine chance tonight, we just had to get her out as good as we could and just hope we ended up in a good position,” Lee told Trots Vision. “The front was there in the end, she was good. “We’re all here to race, but it is only a heat. If it was the final it would have been a bit more genuine I reckon, but you take what you can get, she did a good job and had a good one on her back (in Platinum Sparkle) and had to hold her off.” And, like all of tonight’s runners, she should only get better as the stakes rise. “She’s only had a handful of starts, she’s still pretty green, so she will benefit from that and look forward to next week.” With the win she advances to the November 14 semi-finals along with Platinum Sparkle, Soho Broadway, Soho Almasi, Cashflow Cassie, Holi Starzzz, Blaze Coops and Jaziah. The TAB Breeders Crown continues with the three-year-old heats at Bendigo on Friday night. HRV - Michael Howard
Wayne makes Mildura return
Wayne Hill had thought he was on the cusp of something special when COVID-19 changed all before it, including circling Victoria with a strict border that would deny the travelling South Australian reinsman entry. Having become a fixture of Mildura racing after plenty of toil and time behind the wheel, the pandemic hit pause on everything for Hill. That included robbing him of a chance in the Mildura Pacing Cup, which was postponed and then cancelled. “I felt as though I had a really good chance in the Mildura Cup with Bettorhavtim, who was an 83 or 84 rater and due to draw (gates) one or two in the cup heats,” Hill said. “After they wiped (the cup) he won his next six or seven in a row and was low flying.” Instead of chasing Cup glories, March 17 would be Hill’s last trip to Mildura before racing was restricted to locals, a prospect that he had seen coming. “I remember on the way home from that last meeting with Dani and COVID was starting to hit and take Australia into lockdown,” he said. “We thought at the time that might be about it as far as Mildura’s concerned for six to eight months and it turned out to be that way. We were due back about July 20, then two weeks before that date Melbourne got bad and they didn’t reopen the borders.” Hill has since been regularly applying for permits, but said it wasn’t until about a fortnight ago that he finally got some positive feedback and was urged to apply again the folllowing week because “there could be a change of direction”. “The following Monday morning (October 26) I put in again and had a permit to travel on Tuesday. I have got to COVID test every week and once I’m across the border I can’t get out of the car until I get to the track.” Hill said the strict on-track measures, with tracks closed to all but essential staff and participants, and those in attendance being temperature tested, having to wear face masks, social distance and use hand sanitiser, aided in his application. Now he's looking forward to seeing some familiar faces behind the masks. “I had built up good connections with owners and training over the last five years, it’s finally good to get back there. “I kept in close contact with Frank Mercieca and Scott Garraway. I spoke to them every week or fortnight since I left. We had built up good relationships, not only on the driving side, but they are good fellas. And a couple of South Australian horses are going as well.” As a result Hill will steer nine tonight, kicking off with Beancounter for Mercieca in The Euston Club 3YO Pace, with the three-year-old having his second Mildura start having finished third last week. “He doesn’t go to bad,” said Hill, who had driven Beancounter in his nine other starts at Globe Derby. “He is a South Australian horse who is going there to win his (Vicbred first-win) bonus. He has good gait speed and if in front he will take some running down.” Hill then follows up with Orama in The Gateway 2YO & 3YO Pace for Scott Garraway, with his 14-start three-year-old maiden to launch from gate four. “There are a couple of two-year-olds drawn underneath, so she will go forward and be hard to beat.” And there will be potentially more wins in the offing when Hill partners Headmaster in the Happy 80th Birthday Des Tobin Pace Final, Suresoundslikealie in the Tenderprint Australia Pace, Falcons Beauty in the Sunraysia Security Pace, Valbarann in the Zilzie Wins Pace and Have A Crack in the Tankard Dental Pace. In the middle of all that is Im Sir Blake, who he will steer for the first time for Leroy O’Brien in the Tasco Petroleum Pace, the talented four-year-old who’s been racing in elite company. That continues tonight when he shares the back line with Mildura royalty Bernie Winkle and Egodan, while Perspective and Joe Nien loom large on the front line in what shapes as a terrific race. “(Im Sir Blake’s) been to Mildura a couple of times and put up some really good efforts,” Hill said. “He is quite a fast little fella. “He hasn’t been in this grade up Mildura way, but his Melton form is good enough for him to be very competitive at Mildura. It will probably be a quick lead time and some intense racing.” HRV - Michael Howard
Turn of luck secures Crown
A terrific Amanda Turnbull drive and training performance enabled an outstanding mare, Speak No Evil, to claim the Benstud Queen Of The Pacific and the first Elizabeth Clarke Mares Triple Crown. The Lauriston Bloodstock bred and owned five-year-old added tonight's $100,000 Group 1 to last week's Angelique Club Pace, winning successive legs of the Crown series to secure the $10,000 bonus. "What a night, it's been great,” Turnbull told Trots Vision. “Just so happy for the horse, she's come along a long way in our stables. "Lauriston have been good to us and they've given us a couple since I've been down here. They just dropped her off and she's been there about six weeks, a bit longer, and every time you take her out she just gets happier.” And owner-breeders Anne and Bill Anderson would have been rapt with their decision tonight after a flawless performance from both horse and driver. From gate 11, Turnbull settled Speak No Evil five back in the running line and there she remained as first No Win No Feed and then Nostra Villa sat outside the leader Bettor Enforce. Her reinsman Brian Gath kept the quarters ticking over at good time and that kept the challengers at bay, cranking it up with a 27.8-second third quarter that crippled the attempt of Havtime to make in-roads at the head of the three-wide line. That provided an opportunity for Turnbull, who was at the tail of the field but instead attacked via the running line hopeful a window would open. When it did at the turn she advanced and Speak No Evil's blistering sprint separated her from the field, claiming Bettor Enforce in the final strides to win by 1.4 metres. “I thought I would have to do something like that,” Turnbull said. “I didn’t want to have to go too early at the bell, just because I thought they ran so quick down the back. “It was probably a (more) slowly run race than I thought it would be, but when she got the run through the middle and those ones three-wide just struggled a little bit I was pretty confident, because she shows a lot of speed at home. She’s probably better with a sit at home, so I was confident she could do it, just needed the luck in the run.” She got that and produced a narrow win over Bettor Enforce, who’d been valiant in running second and setting the foundation for the race record 1:55.6 mile rate over the 2760 metres. The win was good reward for the Bathurst born and bred trainer, who admitted post-race her 25-team only continued to knock up getting winners in Victoria “because I’m stuck here”. “I’d love to get home (to Bathurst), but I can’t at the moment,” she said. “My plan was to come for winter while we didn’t know what was going on through covid. I haven’t been able to get home since. My stable’s gotten bigger and bigger here and I’ve got a really, really nice team now.” She also won earlier tonight with Catch A Moment in the Group 3 Alabar Vicbred Championship Final, with James Herbertson steering the four-year-old to the front from where he took the honours comfortably. RELIVE SPEAK NO EVIL'S WIN AND HEAR FROM AMANDA TURNBULL: HRV - Michael Howard
Goodtime for a Queen to claim her Crown
She may have gone from a front-line contender to somewhat overlooked, but reinsman Mick Stanley’s confident his Benstud Queen Of The Pacific steer is perfectly poised to remind of her quality tonight. Goodtime Heaven finished third and eighth in the first two legs of the Elizabeth Clarke Mares Triple Crown, handicapped by tough draws and challenging circumstances, but opportunity finally knocks for the mare in the series' Group 1 grand finale. “Goodtime Heaven’s been in really good form through the past couple of months and things didn’t really go that well for her in the lead-up race last week, you can pretty well forget that she went around,” Stanley said. The Courtney Slater-trained five-year-old mare will launch from gate three tonight, the best placed of those still in contention for the Mares Triple Crown, which for the first time carries a $10,000 bonus. Series leaders Our Princess Tiffany (10 points), Speak No Evil (eight points) and Rock N Roll Chapel (eight points) have all drawn outside the back row, while No Win No Feed, who like Goodtime Heaven amassed four series points in the series first two legs, will start from gate six. Victory tonight carries eight points, and so while Goodtime Heaven will need a lot to fall her way to propel to the top of the pops, the primary target is nabbing a second career Group 1 to sit beside her Vicbred Super Series three-year-old triumph. “She’s bobbed up with a really good draw, hopefully she’s one of the strongest contenders and can put herself right there in the finish,” Stanley said. “Really excited to get Goodtime Heaven out to the staying trip of 2700 – it’s going to suit her down to a tee. And it really does sort a few out. “I’m not too worried about Our Princess Tiffany running past her (in the Benstud Make Mine Cullen), I just don’t think the way it was run suited her very well. Princess Tiffany was the only horse who passed her on that night, so she still was a really good run on that occasion. “Last week (in the Angelique Club Pace) we just had too much traffic from the 13 barrier draw. She just never really got into the race, we can forget she went around.” So while Stanley urged us to put a line through her previous run, it’s potentially created value for punters with Goodtime Heaven opening a $23 chance with the TAB.com.au. She’s since been backed in to $13, but even that looks generous, with Good Form analyst Jason Bonnington rating her a $7.50 chance. “Definitely a bit of value in price,” Stanley said. “It’s probably on those last two runs, but I’m not worried about that at all. I think the longer trip will definitely suit.” The market is instead dominated by red-price favourite Bettor Enforce, but Stanley said this was a notably different challenge to what the Craig Cross runner had contested of late. “Sometimes you can get wrapped up in other horses' form because they’ve got good numerical form,” he said. “Bettor Enforce and No Win No Feed and those horses coming from Menangle, who have only been racing over a mile, it’s going to be a big ask for those horses to step up to 2700, where as our Victorian horses are more adept at switching and changing their distances. “Princess Tiffany, being a Kiwi mare, she’s going to be really hard to beat, obviously she will see the trip out really well. “One thing is we’re going to settle really handy, and with a tough mare in a truly run race I’m sure she will give us a good sighting.” HRV - Michael Howard
Son hopes to shine once more
Simon Jardine will be out tonight to win one more for Murray, his dad and the Ouyen trainer who is set to hang up the hopples after a 40-year career. Simon will steer Carload in the Park Douglas Printing Pace and Miradero (pictured) in the Tasco Petroleum 3YO Pace for trainer Murray Jardine, hopeful of building on the latter’s 191 wins from 1125 starts, which stretch back to the 1983-84 season. “I’m completely proud of what he’s achieved,” Simon said. “He’s been a brilliant trainer, he’s never had a big stable, but of the horses he’s trained not many haven’t finished in the top three. “There wouldn’t be many trainers with a better strike rate and he always looks after the horses.” By our records, 506 of Murray’s starters have finished in the placings, an almost 45 per cent strike rate, while almost 16 per cent have won. And Simon is optimistic they can add to that total tonight. He said Carload “won’t be too far away”, while he’s even more bullish about Miradero, who he co-owns with Melissa Rocchicicioli. They snapped up the filly in April after she'd had eight starts with Amanda Turnbull that produced two placings. “She led most of her starts with Amanda, which is what you need at Mildura,” Simon said. “She had a long prep before we got her, then we just wanted to train her our way and it was another six weeks before she started.” A win on debut, with the accompanying Vicbred bonus, meant it was an immediately savvy buy and the Auckland Reactor filly then followed up with a further three placings and a fourth. “She ran some good placings,” Simon said. “And at the time the three-year-olds were probably at their strongest in Mildura that they have been all year. “We gave her four starts and then another spell, and she's really bulked up since the spell.” Which brings her to tonight’s Tasco Petroleum 3YO Pace, which streams on Trots Vision at 9pm. “I think with any sort of luck she nearly should be winning. She trialled good, she’s gone 1:59 without being bustled. “She’s inside the second row, so she will need luck, but often at Mildura a gap will open up.” And then, all going well, Murray can’t start thinking about the open road. “He was pretty much finished, but when covid hit he couldn’t travel. I purchased Miradero for him to train and he bought Carload, who he may continue to train until he on-sells him,” Simon said. “But they’ve got a new caravan turning up in two weeks time, so that’s the plan.” HRV - Michael Howard
Queens ready for Group 1 stoush
The avenue to becoming the first Elizabeth Clarke Mares Triple Crown winner only got trickier for the contenders, with the draw for Saturday’s Benstud Queen Of The Pacific disadvantaging the series' front runners. Our Princess Tiffany, who’s accumulated a series leading 10 points over the first two legs of the Crown, will start from gate 11, in between Speak No Evil (pictured) and Rock N Roll Chapel, who each have eight points to their credit. Beyond that trio, only Goodtime Heaven (4 points, gate three) and No Win No Feed (4 points, gate six) are in contention for the Crown, which for the first time carries a $10,000 bonus for connections. Each race in the three-leg series grants 8 points to the winners, 6 to second place, 4 to third place, 2 to fourth place and 1 to the fifth-place mare. Elizabeth Clarke Mares Triple Crown standings Our Princess Tiffany 10 Speak No Evil 8 Rock N Roll Chapel 8 Maajida 6 Goodtime Heaven 4 No Win No Feed 4 Pick Up Line 1 Nostra Villa 1 The $100,000 Queen Of The Pacific is one of only two $100,000 mares' races on the Victorian calendar along with the Ladyship Cup, which is part of the Summer Of Glory. And it’s a horse who’s not in contention for the Crown who’s gaining most attention, with Craig Cross’s New South Wales entrant Bettor Enforce dominating early markets. The mare has been backed in from her $2.10 opening with TAB.com.au to $1.85, with optimism that her gate two draw has her well-placed to build on her five wins from her past six outings, which include four Menangle victories at Group 3 level. Our Princess Tiffany ($4.20) is second in the market for the 2760-metre feature, which headlines the 11-race card. Kicking off at 5.59pm, other highlights look set to come in the Alabar Vicbred Championship Final, when Catch A Moment again looks beautifully placed for a forward running performance for driver Amanda Turnbull and reinsman James Herbertson. The four-year-old qualified for the final with a dominant 33-metre win his heat, despite Herbertson remarking that “I was trying to get him to go as slow as possible, because he’s got the race next week. To be able to get home in 27.7, the way that he did it, it’s pretty crazy.” Catch A Moment is a $1.28 favourite with TAB.com.au. Rishi, Malcolms Rhythm, Sicario and Wolf Stride are just a sampling of the talented in the DNR Logistics My Lightning Blue Free For All, but it’s Somebeachshadow who’s the shortest clip in early markets having ran on well last start and drawn gate one, which he’s well placed for a late swoop. The night also features Allied Express The Graduate for three-year-olds and is rounded out with heats of the popular HERO Battle Of The Claimers. Trots Vision will carry full coverage, with host Rob Auber to join race caller Lachie McIntosh in bringing you all the action from the VHRC Parade Ring to the Winners Circle right here at thetrots.com.au. HRV - Michael Howard
Night to remember for Amanda Turnbull’s team
It was a night to remember at Tabcorp Park for Amanda Turnbull’s team as five-year-old Speak No Evil and four-year-old Catch A Moment served up bold front-running performances to not only take line honours but flag that bigger things were to come. Speak No Evil held out the challenge of $1.60 favourite Our Princess Tiffany to win the Angelique Club Pace, blowing open the Elizabeth Clarke Mares Triple Crown, which concludes with next Saturday’s $100,000 Benstud Queen Of The Pacific. Earlier in the night Catch A Moment was stunning in winning the Alabar Vicbred Championship first heat by 34 metres, despite reinsman James Herbertson trying to keep the Art Major entire under a hold and fresh for next week’s final. And the hits kept coming throughout the night. Red Hot Tooth also produced an eye-catching margin win, saluting by almost 20 metres in the Aldebaran Park True Roman Trotters Free For All, leaving in her wake some of the squaregating heads of state including Dance Craze, McLovin and Wobelee. One race earlier, Mister Wickham wound back the clock to beat a talented field, replete with four Victoria Cup contenders, in the TAB Long May We Play Bold David Free For All, which proved a bruising battle that would see the contenders spread across the track in the dash to the line. And that’s not to mention the two Group 2s, with Emma Stewart winning both The Big Screen Company Tatlow Stakes. Act Now led all the way for reinswoman Jodi Quinlan to build a picket fence of victories for owner-breeders Bruce and Vicki Edward, winning the $50,000 Group 2 for two-year-old colts and geldings. “He felt enormous when Michael (Stanley)’s horse (Soho Bollinger) was outside of him and he skipped away and was looking at the clerk of the course on the inside pricking his ears,” Quinlan told Trots Vision. “I’d really like to see him go when one does really test him and see what he can really do. He did that pretty comfy tonight.” And the Stewart stable's flex was even more significant in the two-year-old fillies Tatlow Stakes, where the trainer filled the first six places, including the winner Ladies In Red for reinsman David Moran (pictured below). “There’s not much of her, she’s got it all, she can tough it out, she’s got very high speed,” Moran said. She’s going to make a very nice racehorse.” Which will be music to the ears of Lauriston Bloodstock’s Bill and Anne Anderson, who not only enjoyed success in the Tatlow Stakes but also with Speak No Evil’s win in the aforementioned Angelique Club Pace. “They’ve got a wonderful breed and some really nice horses at the moment,” Turnbull said. She was rapt with Speak No Evil’s performance, having initially been concerned how the four-year-old had trialed in the lead-up. “We wanted to come last week because it was only over the mile, but her trial wasn’t quite good enough, so we just stuck at home and got a bit of work into her,” Turnbull told Trots Vision. “It was a little bit of a worry being first up over the 2200, but she handled it good. She was a different horse again tonight, she knew it was race night, she was a lot more relaxed and a lot better to handle, so she knows what she’s doing.” Elizabeth Clarke Mares Triple Crown standings Our Princess Tiffany 10 Speak No Evil 8 Rock N Roll Chapel 8 Maajida 6 Goodtime Heaven 4 No Win No Feed 4 Pick Up Line 1 Nostra Villa 1 It makes for a delicious entrée to next week’s Benstud Queen Of The Pacific, which carries not only the Group 1 status and $100,000 purse, but will also decide the inaugural winner of the Elizabeth Clarke Mares Triple Crown. For the first time, the horse who scores most points in the series takes home a $10,000 bonus.Speak No Evil won by a short half-head from Rock N Roll Chapel, who sat leader’s back throughout and almost won in the closing strides, while No Win No Feed pipped Our Princess Tiffany for third, with the latter failing to make ground in the straight after sitting in the breeze for a tick more than the last lap. Turnbull confirmed Speak No Evil will be there and it could also be a big night for Catch A Moment, who will take some topping when he backs up in the $30,000 Alabar Vicbred Championship final after tonight’s blazing win. “We’ve always had really high hopes for him and he’s been thereabouts all the time,” Turnbull said. “Now he’s grown into himself, he’s a big fella and looks amazing, and he’s putting it on the race track too.” He certainly impressed reinsman James Herbertson tonight. “To get behind a horse like that is really something else,” Herbertson said. “And to be still trucking like he was at the finish, he still had another gear left, pretty incredible. “I was trying to get him to go as slow as possible, because he’s got the race next week. To be able to get home in 27.7, the way that he did it, it’s pretty crazy.” Torrid Saint will also advance to the final on a high note, having won the night's second heat for trainer Julie Douglas and reinsman John Caldow. The night's other standout winner was Maajida in the DNR Logistics Argent 3YO Classic, with the classy filly swoop with a long, strong run to win by five metres and reaffirm that she was again at the head of her class for trainer Emma Stewart and reinsman Greg Sugars. HRV - Michael Howard
Puppet on millionaire row
Some elite talent will pass through Chris Alford’s hands tonight, with just three of his horses having already amassed more than $2.3 million in stakes and 14 Group 1s. Across races five, seven and eight 'the Puppet' will steer Cruz Bromac ($1,056,075 winnings, 5 Group 1s), Our Princess Tiffany ($852,262, 6 Group 1s) and Wobelee ($415,239, 5 Group 1s), an extraordinary collection of talent that signals a great night’s racing ahead at Tabcorp Park Melton. “The way the season went, all the good horse are back in getting primed for the big races, so it’s really exciting,” Alford told Trots Talk. The shortest of his stars will likely be Our Princess Tiffany, a $1.60 favourite in the Angelique Club Cup, leg two of the Elizabeth Clarke Mares Triple Crown. Elizabeth Clarke Mares Triple Crown standings Horse Points Our Princess Tiffany 8 Maajida 5 Goodtime Heaven 3 Rock N Roll Chapel 2 Pick Up Line 1 The four-year-old, who’s raced for Mark Purdon and Natalie Rasmussen’s All Stars for much of her career but crossed to Dean Braun for her Victorian campaign, was extraordinary in winning last week’s Benstud Make Mine Cullen. It was her first start since jumping the Tasman and has her well placed to not only win the new $10,000 prize for the best horse in the series, but potentially the $20,000 bonus for sweeping all three races. “She was (stunning),” Alford said of last week’s win. “First up from a mini break after coming from New Zealand, to do what she did was pretty amazing, it just shows how classy she is. “She’s pretty professional like a lot of the Purdon horses are, they can do pretty much everything. “She flopped along at the back of the field and when the speed came on at about the 600 she knew it was time to go, she grabbed the bit and just wanted to get on with it. “Around the last turn I had a stranglehold on her just to keep her off (Goodtime Heaven’s driver Mick) Stanley’s head, trying not to clip his wheel as she came out because she was that wound up ready to go.” And expectations in the camp are that she should just get better tonight and into the $100,000 Benstud Queen Of The Pacific on October 31, the final leg of the series. “Dean said she’s trained on really well since then, so all looking forward to the next leg of it and hopefully she can get the second leg down and go into the big one the week after,” Braun said. Before then he’ll take hold of Cruz Bromac in the TAB Long May We Play Bold David Free For All, with the million-dollar pacer having his third Victorian start after disappointing first-up and then rattling home to finish sixth in the Pryde’s EasiFeed Victoria Cup. “He was terrible (first-up), left everyone scratching their heads a bit, but he’s trained a bit harder since then,” Alford said. “Because he’s an eight or nine-year-old now, he probably just took a bit more work than what he did the year before, so he seems to be getting wound up now. “The draw didn’t work out that well for us in the Vic Cup, but apart from the winner his sectionals were quicker than any other horse in the race, and that was only his second-up run in 12 months, so he should improve again this week.” Alford’s also hopeful of improvement from star trotter Wobelee, who’s trained by his wife Alison and looks well placed for a late charge at likely leaders Red Hot Tooth and Dance Craze in the Aldebaran Park True Roman Trotters Free For All. “The trotters are really really strong at the moment,” he said. “You have the two mares off the front row and McLovin, Wobelee and Savannah Jay Jay off the back. It’s going to be a pretty tactical race, hopefully there’s a fair bit of speed on which will suit us. “(Wobelee) went all right in the Bill Collins race, he was probably just a run short because he hadn’t run in three weeks. Hopefully that tightened him up for this week.” While Alford may not have a drive in The Big Screen Company Tatlow Stakes Group 2 for two-year-old fillies, with Rogue Wave the emergency, he’ll drive quality in the colts and geldings division in Idyllic, albeit from the outside-the-back-row draw. He’ll also partner Treasure for Isabel Walsh in the DNR Logistics Argent 3YO Classic, Brevity for David Aiken in the Alabar Vicbred Championship second heat and Kyvalley Clichy for Brent Lilley in the Aldebaran Park Vicbred Trot. HRV - Michael Howard
Richie hopeful his filly's a top Drop
She was an eye-catcher at her last start when breaking her maiden status and Richie Caruana hopes to soon learn whether that sizzling finish was more than a drop in the ocean. The trainer-driver-owner’s three-year-old trotter, Excellent Drop, returns from a spell at Echuca tonight for the Jodale Cleaning Echuca Trotters Handicap, where a good performance to kick off her second campaign may prompt a crack at forthcoming age group features. “We will see how we go but there are a couple of good age group races coming up,” Caruana said. Excellent Drop’s return tonight in race four, which will stream on Trots Vision at 8.01pm, pits the lightly-raced trotter against some much more experienced rivals, including sharing the 10-metre line with 97-race veteran Valley Ess Jay. It could be a telling second campaign for the Bacardi Lindy filly, who Caruana broke in for breeder Joe Aquilina, with the latter a “pretty close” friend who “virtually gave me the horse”. “I liked her as a two-year-old, but didn’t push her,” Caruana said. “I like to see if their natural ability shines through. She’s a little-bit-better-than-average trotter. She’s always been pretty honest. I haven’t had any problems with her gait.” Excellent Drop didn’t break stride (touch wood) in any of the six races in her first campaign, which produced four placings and then in her last start at Melton a breakthrough maiden win, despite being shuffled to the back of the field. A tiring Aldebaran Leroy had seemed to put paid to Caruana’s filly's chances in the June 1 trot, but she zoomed home to pick off the tiring front runners in an eye-catching finish. “She worked good prior to that race,” Caruana said. “I was pretty confident she would run a place, but when she got shuffled back on the turn I didn’t think she had a chance. She picked them up pretty good, though they didn’t run great time.” Caruana expects a miracle late dash won’t be required tonight, with Excellent Drop drawn the outside of the three horses on the 10-metre line amid a six-horse field. “First up I don’t know what to expect really,” he said. “I reckon she’s coming up good. She might need another run to get to where she was. “I feel a little better with her behind horses, but it is a leader’s track. I don’t know exactly what will happen at the start. I will drive her safely and if she steps well she will be thereabouts. “These older horses are more experienced, but the young horse are pretty smart too these days.” HRV - Michael Howard
New frontline shapes for second mares Tiff
Our Princess Tiffany will again have to overcome a back row draw but starts behind a very different front row in the second leg of the Elizabeth Clarke Mares Triple Crown. While four Emma Stewart runners made much of the front running in Saturday’s Benstud Make Mine Cullen, none back-up for Friday night’s Angelique Club Pace, which is part of an 11-race card at Tabcorp Park Melton. Stewart’s Techys Angel, Amelia Rose and Maajida will instead pile into the night's DNR Logistics Argent 3YO Classic. In their place two former Stewart runners, Nostra Villa and Speak No Evil, will feature among leg two of the mares series. Both were dual Group 1 winners for Stewart but have more recently raced in Sydney, with Nostra Villa in the hands of trainer-driver Brad Hewitt and Speak No Evil to debut for trainer-driver Amanda Turnbull. Elizabeth Clarke Mares Triple Crown standings Horse Points Our Princess Tiffany 8 Maajida 5 Goodtime Heaven 3 Rock N Roll Chapel 2 Pick Up Line 1 The stakes are particularly high for Our Princess Tiffany, who is being trained by Dean Braun for her Victorian assault, with the Crown carrying a $20,000 bonus for any horse that can sweep the series and a $10,000 bonus to the horse with the most points across the series.The latter had most recently been with Craig Cross’s New South Wales stable, which will also be well represented on Friday night with Dracarys and No Win No Feed in the mares field. The series concludes with the $100,000 Benstud Queen Of The Pacific at Tabcorp Park Melton on October 31. Brought forward a night to avoid a clash with the AFL grand final, Friday night’s card features four Group-level races, including The Big Screen Company Tatlow stakes for both the two-year-old fillies and the colts and geldings. The $50,000 Group 2 race offers another chance to get a feel for the likely lead combatants in the TAB Breeders Crown, which kicks off on November 4, and December’s Vicbred Super Series, which will play out on New Year’s Eve. The fillies will clash at 6.58pm and here the Stewart camp fronts with eight of the 13 entrants, including the fab five Platinum Sparkle (gate one), Beach Music (gate three), Ladies In Red (gate five), emergency Rogue Wave (gate 10) and Tough Tilly (gate 11), who filled the first five placings in the Alabar Vicbred Platinum Home Grown Classic final. On that occasion they stopped the clock in 1:51.9, an extraordinary 1.6 seconds under the age/distance track record, when they finished within 2.6 metres of each other. Clayton Tonkin and Stewart also have six in the colts and geldings’ final, which will stream on Trots Vision at 9.33pm, with nine of the 12 starters all having won at their last start. The night also features the TAB Long May We Play Bold David Free For All, with Victoria Cup combatants Rishi, Cruz Bromac, Tam Major and Code Black among those fronting. And there is even more Group 1 class on display in the Aldebaran Park True Roman Trotters Free For All, where Red Hot Tooth (gate five) has drawn inside Dance Craze (gate six), while Wobelee (gate nine) and McLovin (gate 10) will plan their attack from the back row. HRV - Michael Howard
Princess eyes Crown sweep
The rich Elizabeth Clarke Mares Triple Crown bonuses are well in play as Our Princess Tiffany was scintillating in winning tonight’s first leg, with promise of even better to come. Despite being first-up since her recent Australian arrival, and according to trainer Dean Braun possibly needing the run, the mare looked in a class of her own in coming from the back of the field to win by 3.5 metres and tick past $850,000 in stakes won. The result puts Our Princess Tiffany top of the pops in the three-leg Crown, which for the first-time includes a $10,000 premiership. For each of the three legs, eight points is awarded to the winner (Our Princess Tiffany), six points to the runner-up (Maajida), four points to the third-placed mare (Goodtime Heaven), two points to the mare that finishes fourth (Rock N Roll Chapel) and one point for fifth (Pick Up Line). And there's an additional $20,000 bonus if one mare should win all three legs of the series, which continues with the Angelique Club Pace on October 23 and concludes with the $100,000 Benstud Queen Of The Pacific on October 31. Pre-race, Braun told Trots Vision Our Princess Tiffany had arrived from Mark Purdon and Natalie Rasmussen’s stable “in fantastic order”, but it was a “tough draw tonight over the mile”. “I’m sure next week and the week after she will really come to it. Not that she’ll be far away tonight either, but we just need a bit of luck,” Braun said. 1720 metres later those words serve as a warning for how hard it will be for any mare to deny Our Princess Tiffany a win this series, with the four-year-old impressing her first-time reinsman Chris Alford with a super late dash tonight. “Surprising how well she did it coming from so far back," Alford told Trots Vision. "The time for the first lap was solid without being crazy and there some really good mares up front. I thought we are in a bit of bother here. “When they sprinted up again down the back she really grabbed the bit and travelled well, she was nearly pushing Mick (Stanley on Goodtime Heaven’s) hat off around the bend she was going that well.” HRV - Michael Howard
Pink Galahs conquers Oaks
The goalposts may have moved but it was still a sweet feeling for Matt Craven when his fabulous filly Pink Galahs took the honors in what he’s long considered her grand final, tonight’s TAB Victoria Trotters Oaks. Only a week after she shocked the trotting world and won the Aldebaran Park Bill Collins Trotters Sprint, the three-year-old backed up to claim a second successive Group 1 in a bruising Oaks. “They made her earn it tonight,” Craven told Trots Vision post-race, with Pink Galahs having worked to the front from gate five and controlled proceedings with a 32.2-second first quarter, before being exposed to a mid-race challenge. Jason Lee, steering Anton Golino and Jack MacKinnon’s Im Ready Jet, turned it into a staying contest approaching the bell, challenging and claiming the lead in 28.2 and 28.7 second and third quarters. It reverted Pink Galahs to a sit-sprint role, but as she’s shown readily in open class company that suits her just fine, rushing via the sprint lane to a 4.2-metre win from stablemate Queen Of Crime, with Im Ready Jet running third. “Jase with 1200 to go tested us out and was able to beat her for a little bit for speed, but to her credit she travelled really kind on his back and it was just a matter of getting to the sprint lane without doing anything wrong,” Craven said. “It wasn’t easy, but this was the end goal. We reset now and set some more (goals), but just to achieve what we set out to achieve at the start of the season with this little girl, the campaign all through winter was all aimed around this race. We new that we had to improve over that period to be competitive in this race to season her up for what was produced tonight. “That middle half in (56.8), for three-year-old fillies you have got to be pretty brave to be able to finish it off after that. I’m just so proud of her to be able to get through and get the job done.” It was another superb result for breeder Laura Lewis, who co-owns the filly with Caleb Lewis and Bryan Healy, and the Craven camp, particularly with the stable producing second-placed Queen Of Crime. The latter was driven by Craven’s brother Glen, while cousin Jason Lee placed third in a Terang trifecta, but there was little brotherly spirit in the run. “Cousins, brothers, once you are out on the track I think they become your biggest enemies,” Matt Craven told Trots Vision. “People would think you’d look after each other, I think it works the entire opposite because we are all so competitive. “I hate getting beaten, I know (Jason) hates getting beaten and I know Glen hates getting beaten. I think when we see each other, we’re all in red colours, it’s like waving a red flag at a bull. “He takes no prisoners out there Jason and he expects no favors, which makes it so great, we’re all such great competitors, but they’re always the first ones to congratulate each other.” Craven said Pink Galahs would likely be directed towards the November 1 Victoria Trotters Derby at Maryborough before readying for December’s Aldebaran Park Vicbred Super Series. HRV - Michael Howard
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Album Reviews: House Of The Weirdos
JUST SAY NO TO GOVERNMENT MUSIC
A very Dante’esque cover and the Dr Phibes style organ OF ‘Prelude to an Infernal Descent’ introduces this dark 9 track CD. The Mugshots are from Brescia in Italy but sound like a ‘Zombie Rock’ band from the USA – oh the ubiquity of the god-damn American accent. This is well packaged and well produced and the singer certainly can sing – he sounds like the guy out of SOAD, or is it Dave Vanian, or Hugh Cornwell ? Pissed in Hell is quite rocky. Love and Red Yesterdays is a little more mellow sounds like the Damned circa Grimly Fiendish / Eloise era. Whizzy keyboards on Amateur Pictures – again pretty good – ethereal keyboards support heavily reverbed vocals on The Mirror. Dr Bloodmoney is back to the rockishness of track 2, this sounds good, a little like the Epoxies’ with male vox. This is really pretty good – take a listen and look on their site - (8/10)
Don’t believe the “horrorpunk” genre label, but do believe the inferences to the Damned and Eddie Murphy film soundtracks. Heavily Euro, synth-goth, prog rock and dark wave, I can’t take another minute. Okay, I cave—I’ll believe the horror bit. I just got the creeps. And a wave of nausea.
HORROR MANIA / SUZI LORRAINE
...and just one more quick note before I sign off in search of new and exciting horror adventures...I received in the mail a press kit and demo CD for a wonderful Italian rock band called The Mugshots. At first glance, I expected the music to be heavy and potentially devoid of melody. I couldn't have been more pleasantly surprised.
While the music has some interesting dark and brooding horror inspired moments, it also remains melodic throughout and is chock full of great hooks and choruses. And how can you go wrong with a song title like “Amateur Pictures (An Ode To Jeffrey)”. Referring of course to the cannibalistic serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. “Your heart, your head will be the stars of my sick prèt-a-porter! And then when I'm done I'll keep you safe, in my fridge and in my brain!" - The Mugshots I have listened to the “House Of The Weirdos” CD at least 5 times in the past week, and I must put it on my list of recommendations. Why am I talking about this band, you ask? Well they are one of few new bands who successfully combine elements of horror, rock, and punk music into one scary freaky unsettling package. And yes, I mean that in a good way. If you get a chance, check out their creepy wares online, at www.mugshots.it and see what I mean. Sweet dreams...
WRECK THE PLACE FANTASTIC/PUNKNEWS
The Mugshots is an Italian band that fits within the horror punk rock genre, in the vein of the Misfits to be more exact. Comparisons aside, this band does manage to find their own signature sound, with excellent melodies from keyboards/synthesizers, darkish evil voices, and an overall Satan-oriented production (I'm, of course, kidding).
The standout tracks are "Pissed in Hell" and "The mirror", but the instrumental "Poliziasettanta" is worthy of mention with its somber yet funny feel, which captures the song's very essence. Needless to say what the subject matter of the lyrics is but then again, why not: all things hell/death/blood-related.
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention the artwork, the bloodstained CD wrapping, a perfect package for those who fond what is morbid and malignant. Misfits, run for your money, your supremacy on hell's charts has just been compromised.
BIG OLE' FACE FULL OF MONSTERS
From the opening track to their CD House of the Weirdos , it's clear that the Mugshots' musical palette is much more varied than the usual metal bands' monochromatic thrash. This is no surprise since they actually play horror rock that hearkens back to the masters of the Seventies who relied more on their music than on their make-up. By definition, the Mugshots call this “Elitarian Undead Rock” which vocalist Mickey Evil defines as “being part of an elite of proud scumbags in love with horror/trash culture mixed with a blend of (undead) musical styles conjured from the past”! Case in point is the album's opening instrumental, “Prelude to an Infernal Descent”, which features Erik Stayn ( note: actually Mickey Evil ) playing an organ that evokes early Pink Floyd, the Doors, and, with tongue-in-cheek, Bach's Toccata in Fugue.
This sets the tone for the whole album: spooky, instrumentally accomplished, and not at all afraid to have a sense of humor. Most of the songs which follow are high-energy, melodic pieces which rely on the Mugshots' musicality rather than a crush of metal noise. Guitarist Henry Lee and Bassist G. Guero are able to weave together 2-3 sonically distinct guitar lines in counterpoint and still the band is able to mix in keyboards, mainly with a classic Hammond sound, in arrangements reminiscent of early 70's metal bands like Deep Purple. And drummer ND keeps up a blistering beat that still has room for a variety of rolls and fills sadly missing from most metronomic metal these days. Mickey Evil provides vocals as well as most of the lyric and musical composition. His voice is a powerful baritone that is able to soar easily above the dense mix of instruments. His lyrics are less strong, relying on abstract feelings rather than concrete images. And many of the songs are padded with repeat verses that contain only slight variation. But even where the words fail to scan cleanly or rhyme perfectly, the melodies are so catchy and fresh that the songs transcend any such limitations. “Dr. Bloodmoney” is their best song in this regard with a great hook in the chorus that stays in your head for days. Other standout tracks include “Pissed in Hell”, a politically incorrect reverse-MADD ad, laughing in the face of death and divine retribution and “Amateur Pictures”, an unsavory ode to Jeffrey Dahmer with a frantic beat and irresistible hook. With several albums, EPs, and compilation appearances under their belt, this is a band to keep watching.
FIENDISH FILES OF THE BLACK ORDER
This debut album from The Mugshots breaks the mold for horror-rock, and that's not a bad thing. This quintet from dark nether-regions of Italy bring something really fresh (well, freshly dug up to keep with the motif) to the genre. There's a retro feel to their sound. A bit of punk, rock, and new wave. It doesn't take much of a stretch of the imagination to place tracks of this album to your favorite Dario Argento film - the vintage synth sounds bring Argento soundtrack mainstays Goblin to mind. There's a meter to some of the tracks, such as "Poliziasettanta" that has a thick '70s keyboard rock thing going on - feels like a good old fashioned jam session. There's also a recurring sound that reminds me a bit of The Mission UK, though with some guts behind it. (Sorry Wayne) "The Mirror" is a fine example of this - there's a distinct transition from the melodic to a hard, driving beat that is altogether satisfying. Overall, if you listen to a track or two out of context, there are definite singles that warrant airplay (as we've done) but the entirety of the album should be taken in to get the real Mugshots experience. It's well produced and well performed. We're looking forward to what they're going to bring us in the future.
UTTER TRASH
This is some Italian horror rock band is sort of like a mix of The Damned, The Cure, Sisters of Mercy, Italian horror movie soundtrack music, Oingo Boingo, and just a little touch of modern Euro metal topped off with a vocalist who sounds like Dave Vanian crossed with Mike Patton in melodic mode. It's certainly a change of pace from another bunch of dudes with devilocks singing “whoah”. On top of scoring high in originality, The Mugshots also get good marks in songwriting. Even instrumentals like “Poliziasettanta” have good hooks. “Love on Red Yesterdays” is definitely the stand out track, but I enjoyed this disc from start to finish. It's getting pleasant unexpected surprises like this in my P.O. box now and then that makes doing Utter Trash worthwhile. Thanks for sending this, guys! You can get a copy for yourself through the band's exclusive U.S. distributor Crypt of Blood Records, and get more info (and hear some MP3s) at http://www.mugshots.it .
The Mugshots are a bunch of grue-vy ghoulies from Italy. The Italians used to make lots of really awesome splatter flicks back in the 80's, so it stands to reason that spaghetti-horrorpunk oughta be just as distinctively weird and violent. That's my theory, anyway. And what do you know, The M-shots mostly deliver the grosseries, albeit from a much different angle than you'd expect from a Halloween-y band like this. Not a whole lot of Misfits murderbilly going on in these grooves, as the Mugshots take their sinister cues mostly from the twitchy deathrock of the Damned, and drag it through a twisty funhouse of frothy new wave and (ahem) spooky prog-rock passages. Key tracks like “ Pissed in Hell ” and “ Amateur Pictures ” cover the usual serial killer gags, but they bounce and roll around like mental patients in a very scary rubber room, making for a decidedly off-kilter listening experience. You know, like that part in the spook-house where they suddenly turn out the lights and scream in your ear. Far out, man.
HORRORWOOD BABBLE-ON
From what I can scoop together via a bit of websnooping, The Mugshots (purportedly taking their name from the Chicago PD's portrait of John Wayne Gacy) are a relatively new Italian ensemble with a flair for instrumental-filled horrorpunk (or “elitarian undead rock” if you will) and a stage show that lies somewhere between that of Impaler and a pipebombed Velveeta conveyer in an overstocked Kraft factory. While I'll readily admit to killing far too much time with Men WIthout Hats, The Vapors, The Fixx and Devo, occasionally, HOUSE OF WEIRDOS and it's copious synthesized keyboardery is almost TOO new waved for even my pickled palette. “Amateur Pictures (An Ode To Jeffrey)” sounding more like the Euro radio-drek that spluttered from my Sound Design speakers in high school than anything else and the 3.5-instro “Poliziasettanta”, while entertaining, had me seeing visions of “Miami Vice” rather than mirthful murder. Still, vocalist Mickey Evil saves the day on more than one occasion with a delivery that conjures visions of Dave Vanian (“Love On Red Yesterdays” would be snug as a bug as a bonus track on The Damned's BLACK ALBUM) sinking in - and forgive me for recognizing it - a tainted mire of The Human League and Tears For Fears as Michale Graves' off-key yowl hollers out for both assistance and a video camera. “Pissed In Hell”, “Dr. Bloodmoney” and the ploonging basswork of G. Guero during “Le Patetique” prove to be the scariest, and thus my favoritest, ditties on this 9-song affair, good enough to cause the scales of my interest to sink in The Mugshots' favor rather than fault. One can only hope for proper distribution and proper response so that more marinara'd mayhem can follow!
BLACK ANGEL PROMOTIONS
Yes! Once again I've received another Horrorpunk/Rock disc that kicks some serious ass without sounding lame and played out. Creatures, it is with the deepest of pleasures that I present you with the Italian band, The Mugshots. According to Mugshots' frontman, (Mickey Evil) he came up with the band name one night while looking at John Wayne Gacy's mughshot! From my understanding, in the beginning the band was influenced strictly by bands like Alice Cooper, due to the nature of the tunes and their theatrical show.
Although The Mugshots have only released one EP, they've been around since 2001. The band's EP (Doctor Is Out) has been met with rave reviews from all across the globe, helping them to land the prestigious honor of supporting the legendary UK SUBS in 2004. The Mugshots latest disc entitled, House Of the Weirdos and has just been released and is carried exclusively by Crypt Of Blood Records. House Of The Weirdos is relatively short in length, it comes in at a little over thirty minutes and features nine hair raising tracks that dares not to disappoint the listener. Granted, there are more instrumentals than I would personally prefer but the music kicks ass! The tunes that do have lyrics are a bloody good time! "Pissed In Hell" is the first one to get my attention, it features Pipe Organs and a silky Death Rock vibe, ala Shadow Reichenstein and The Damned. If forced, I'd say it sounds like something that could have easily come from The Damned's Phantasmagoria album. The Mugshots also bring out the New Wave influences with "Love On Red Yesterdays". Now, this is what I am talking about! You get a well played back-beat with nostalgic keyboards and spectacular programming followed up by satin-kissed vocals that scream out in pain of love lost. Disturbing is a perfect word to describe the next track, amusingly entitled, "Amateur Pictures (An Ode To Jeffrey)". I don't think I have to go into deep detail about the lyrical content, you all know who Jeff Dahmer is and what he did. Regardless of the content, the band manages to crank out one helluva rockin' tune, crammed with unforgettable melody lines and hooks. There is also a splendid death ballad entitled, "The Mirror". This tune sends chills up and down my spine! Every song on this disc is golden but the few I've mentioned shine the brightest of them all. In closing, The Mugshots have made a beautiful, Horror influenced album with House Of The Weirdos. I've enjoyed it alot and I will for many years to come, as should you. If you're into bands like Bella Morte, The Damned, Shadow Reichenstein and the New Wave genre be sure to check this disc out!!
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LEEDHAM WANTS TURKISH DELIGHT
Jo Leedham says Great Britain women’s are headed into unchartered territory in Turkey this weekend as they continue their build-up towards the Olympic Games.
Tom Maher’s side take part in a Four-Nations tournament in Ankara that begins against Korea tonight, before further friendlies against Argentina on Saturday and with the hosts on Sunday.
All three of GB’s opponents are in the final stages of their build-up to the Olympic qualifying tournament which takes place in the Turkish capital later this month.
And that should provide the Games hosts with just the kind of fierce competition they require.
“This is brilliant preparation,” declared Cheshire-born Leedham. “What’s great about this tournament is that we have three teams we’ve never played before.
“They’ll have a different style and that’s something we need to see. We want to find out how we compete against different teams which is important for us.”
Leedham has been in impressive early form this summer for Team GB, fresh off a season with Australian WNBL club Bulleen Boomers.
Maher was her coach there, providing support to a player who, after overcoming a knee injury, will have a key role in London.
“I have a good relationship with him,” Leedham confirmed.
“He keeps me honest and tells me if I’m being lazy or whatever. That’s good to have. Playing a year in Australia gave me the chance to play in a physical league at a high level.
“That’s been good preparation. I was able to rest my knee and get healthy.”
Last weekend, GB split two internationals against Canada in Edinburgh to maintain a positive start to their steady lead-in towards the Olympics.
Turkey, runners-up in last summer’s EuroBasket, will be tough foes in their own backyard. So will Argentina and Korea, who each took silver at their respective continental championship in 2011.
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A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked implementation of a plan to extend family leave benefits to married gay couples.
U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor granted the preliminary junction sought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (pictured) that stays expansion of the federal definition of “spouse” in the Family Medical Leave Act to include the legal husband or wife of a gay worker.
The change was set to take effect Friday.
Under the law, employers must allow unpaid time off for employees facing certain family emergencies.
Paxton argued that the new regulation would force state agencies to violate Texas' 2005 voter-approved constitutional amendment defining marriage as a heterosexual union.
“This lawsuit is about defending the sovereignty of our state, and we will continue to protect Texas from the unlawful overreach of the federal government,” Paxton said in filing the lawsuit.
“Texans have clearly defined the institution of marriage in our state, and attempts by the Obama administration to disregard the will of our citizens through the use of new federal rules is unconstitutional and an affront to the foundations of federalism,” he added.
Arkansas, Louisiana and Nebraska joined the lawsuit.
“No legally married same-sex couple should be denied family leave simply because they happen to live in a state that fails to respect their marriage,” HRC Legal Director Sarah Warbelow said in a statement. “Because of Judge O’Connor’s decision, countless legally married same-sex couples in Texas are now unable to access their federal FMLA benefits. With a pending Supreme Court decision on nationwide marriage equality this summer, we are confident that justice will ultimately prevail.”
Last year, a federal judge struck down Texas' restrictive marriage ban. The case is currently before an appeals court.
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Trump twice touts Dow’s 30,000 milestone in brief White House appearances
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday twice touted the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s 30,000-point milestone, celebrating the stock index’s record but making no mention of conceding the election to Joe Biden.
Trump, who has rarely been seen in public since the Nov. 3 election, made a brief appearance in the White House briefing room to hail the Dow’s /zigman2/quotes/210598065/realtime DJIA +0.38% crossing 30,000.
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“The stock market’s just broken 30,000 — never been broken, that number,” Trump said in an appearance that lasted about one minute. “That’s a sacred number, 30,000, and nobody thought they’d ever see it.”
The president took no questions from reporters in the briefing room or later, at the annual turkey pardon, where he also called the Dow’s rise a “tremendous achievement” and hailed the development of vaccines to fight COVID-19.
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Speed of Arrival
A Season of Reflection
The 2017 race season did not go as planned. Racing is like that sometimes. After finishing 2nd overall in 2016, the assumption was that there was nowhere to go but up. Competition is a cruel mistress and her designs often differ greatly from ours.
The first race, back in March, set a tone for the rest of the year, taken out first lap by a rider in another class. Then there was the disqualification for accidentally bumping a rider coming through timing and scoring. That sucked. Followed by three stupid mechanicals, one occurring with a huge race lead just minutes from the checkered flag. Stupid. Accused and accosted by sensitive souls who did not like my riding "style", one certainly could not help feeling besieged and beset on all sides.
Twenty years ago I would have lost my fucking mind in frustration, and while I may have considered it in 2017, I did not. Hare scrambles are long races, anywhere between two and three hours. The easiest thing to do is burn yourself out in the first twenty minutes. A seven month race season is the same way. Both become about energy conservation, going like a bat out of hell, but always saving a little meatloaf for later. Chip it away and build it up. And then it still doesn't go your way.
At final tally, I ended up third overall, good enough to see me ranked as a "B" rider by the AMA. Things will change for 2018, becoming once again a goldfish in the mighty big sea. What am I going to do about it? Chip it away. Build it up. Watch. And learn.
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RIP Racer
"Grieve not that I die young.
Is it not well to pass away ere life has lost its brightness?"
-Lady Flora Hastings
Kurt Kesler shined bright and died young at the age of 51, leaving behind a wife and two small children. For his family now, nothing will ever be the same. My heart goes out to them.
I knew Kurt, as so many of us did, through roadracing with WERA. You learn a lot about a man, when you race against him. Especially as it comes down to the final few races of a season with a national championship on the line. The two of us were neck and neck for the V5 title in 2015, less than a handful of points between. He wanted it badly. So did I. We went at it hammer and tongs, neither giving an inch. I didn't worry about racing closely with him, even though given the slightest opportunity Kurt would shut the door on you, but he always did it gently. I trusted him, quite often, with my life. He never let me down. A rider, a competitor, a sportsman and a gentleman to the core, off and on the track.
Kurt did not win the V5 championship that year. It came down to the final race at the Grand National Finals in Leeds, Alabama, where I beat him by one position and just three points. But in the end, Kurt won in ways I never did. He took more enjoyment and gave more back to racing than most of us ever could. He garnered a respect and admiration, a love, from his fellow competitors and officials identical to that of Moto GP Champion Nicky Hayden (also lost too soon this year). If Nicky was the ambassador on a national stage for our sport of motorcycle racing, then Kurt Kesler was the Southeast regional statesman for it. The mere mention of his name in any paddock in the South and racers will tell you tales of Kurt's humor, the willingness to take new racers under his wing, lend parts, tools, his own motorcycles and aid without a second thought. Beginning racing is a daunting, overwhelming experience, if not for the man's patience and guidance, many a greenhorn might have quit in frustration. He was a mentor, a rival, a role model. And a friend.
The greatness of a man dies not with him, but is scattered like tiny seeds among all those he touched. We have but to till the earth and tend the soil so the greatness should flourish and not die. It becomes the duty of the living, of those who would remember. Let us remember.
-Kris Larrivee
(Kurt's Hat Road Atlanta Raceway photo above by Craig "Huey" Stewart)
Grief's Alchemy: Ashes To Ashes, Dust To Dust, Iron To Gold
Part IV The Hard Way
Rural Retreat, VA
Round 12 Virginia Championship Hare Scrambles Series "Iron Mountain GP"
Languishing on the start line, trying not to think about the last few days or the exhaustion creeping its way in to my bones and soul. Crashed hard at speed in practice yesterday. Was a good wake up call that I need to pay the fuck attention to what I'm doing. Today promises lots of dust, mud, rocks, sphincter clenching ascents and descents fit for a billy goat.
And pain.
I just wish it wasn't starting so early. A 1000 foot long drag race through a poorly mowed field until the first turn. Engine screaming in 4th gear, brain screaming, begging for common sense. Ignore it. Jockeying and jostling into fifth place. Trying to get my head into go mode. A steep downhill with an undercut banking at the end puts me on my ass right quick and I wonder if it's going to be one of those races. Don't think like that, get up and ride the fucking thing, stop whining.
There's a lot of self-wrought pressure weighing down the day. Some dream of a fitting tribute to Phil, sending him off with a race win, holding that trophy high overhead, wondering if somewhere in the cosmos a little sliver of his soul might see it. The good always leave us before we are ready, before we've gleaned all their wisdom. It is then up to us to figure the rest out. What a bitch. Shrug off doubt and lassitude and third rate philosophy. There is work to be done.
Wheedle my way to third place. Pete Jenkins in second, Jason Miller somewhere out there in front, enjoying the life of the blessed. I push Pete, but don't do anything stupid. He catches a downhill rut funny and gets tossed like a bad salad. Slow just enough to ask if he's OK. Getting the nod, I carry on, trying to bring the golden calf to slaughter. Gonna be five laps of this dusty, rocky, hilly hell. Still got three to go. With Pete behind, gunning all the time, amped on adrenaline after falling down.
Course deteriorates, ruts lengthen and deepen, air full of fine silt waiting to clog noses and lungs while dropping visibility to zero at the worst moment. Carrying on at speed like this requires a very good memory to know what's coming next, as well as stupidity. Body beaten into submission acquiesces, loosening up, performing more like a 40 something than an 80 something. There is much more ahead. Guys are stuck all over various dry hills, turning their motorcycles into smoking trench-diggers, falling down. It becomes a game of thread the needle through steaming bikes and tumbling bodies. Every instant decision gains or loses. The good ones pick up tenths of a second, the bad ones cost, big time. Pun intended.
And somewhere in the dust, I come out ahead. Scoring screen confirms it after lap four, flashing "P1" at me. Sinking feeling follows elation. Never saw Jason. I can only assume the self-proclaimed "Holeshot King" is close behind, preparing a pounce, to take his rightful place and remind me of mine in this world.
Nothing. Racing by the timing booth, green fields on one side, cement trout runs on the other, full of fish wondering what the hubbub was. All the while waiting. Up the hills, down the hills, sideways across them with rocks skittering, setting off a dozen smoke bombs to obscure. Through ashen clouds that make Dune look like an island vacation. Still waiting. A negative corner anticipates the moment an orange and white KTM XC300 blurrily blows by my faded red heap to dash hopes.
But another part, an idea, begins to grow. Conquest is at hand. The will shall hold every nut and bolt on, keep the spark plug sparking, crank turning, engine running, the body will perform well the tasks necessary to ride this outdated pile. And the mind, a clattery contraption that so often fails, is going to oversee all, and make it happen. Fuck Jason, fuck Pete, fuck this course and fuck all the blasted bad luck I've had this season. This one is mine. And fuck the universe too, if it thinks it's going to take it from me.
There will be no failures this time, mechanical, mental or otherwise. I'm going to win this race, not because I deserve it, not because it is a nice end to the story. I'm going to win this race because I can. And it's high time I proved it.
So I do. Fifth and final lap ends with a cautious river crossing before the finish line taped off like a crime scene. I am alone, running the gauntlet to a computer screen that will tell me if I've done it. "P1" flashes as I roll through, not breathing. Dust is surely to blame for my watering eyes as realization sets in. There are no cheers, no pats on the back, just two officials who record the race number, sending me on my way. The moment is austere and reflective.
No celebration emanates, rather slumping forward on the handlebars a little bit. A great weight comes crashing down and is lifted off at the same time. I might have briefly looked up in an unstained sky for something which may or may not have been there. A moment of great loneliness descends and forces me to face it, stare it down.
Today is the best possible outcome: a victory. The thing I work for like an idiot with obsessive devotion. But I'd give it back, all the victories of twenty years racing back, for just a few more hours listening to my friend tell his stories.
Always graceful and mistake free...bloodthirsty spectators love a good crash. I aim to please.
I know my fucking dignity is around here somewhere, I think it's in the gas tank...
No throng of cheering fans, not even a friend to greet me as I cross the line for the last time.
A dirty selfie, because when you are on your own, you gotta do everything yourself.
Gears of Loss Grind On To Mountains of Iron (Hard Way Part III)
After a church luncheon in celebration of Phil's life (where I ate too much homemade country food), I knew it was time to hit the road. Even goodbyes have to end. There was a race to be run. Literally and figuratively.
Temps hovered just below 50 degrees. I donned all the cold weather gear I had. And hit it. Hard. Stopping only for gas and a slice of rancid Flying J pizza near Harrisburg, PA. I briefly considered removing the seat and sitting on the frame rails as they would be more comfortable, but decided against. Throttle nearly to the stops, my speeds were anything but legal. I don't condone or recommend my actions and I'm not particularly proud of them, but sometimes man, you just got to go. And go fast.
Arrive in Richmond at 2 am, enough time to sleep for three hours. There is a van to be loaded, gear stowed and the five hour drive to Rural Retreat VA for Round 12 of the Virginia Championship Hare Scrambles Series, the Iron Mountain GP.
Tom Petty wrote: "I don't know, but I've been told, you never slow down you never grow old..."
Sure hope he was right.
No relevant pictures for this post, so here's a video of the start from Coyote Run. 2p, red GasGas
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Goodbye, Hard Way Part II
I said hello again to the Adirondack region of upstate New York specifically for the purpose of saying goodbye. Otherwise there would have been no cause for going back. It's the part of NY that everyone forgets exists, and despite great natural beauty, there is little else there in the way of economic opportunity, development, or forward thinking. Fit for the Jerseyites to go drunken cavorting on their snowmobiles during the weekends, only to hightail it out on Sunday night. Like many rural areas of the US it has been simply forgotten and left to its own devices.
Still, not a bad place to grow up, with plenty of land to go tear-assing around on dirtbikes and such, without too many cops or too much population density. But it was the kind of locale you had to get the hell out of after high school, lest you become trapped in a hardscrabble existence going nowhere. The small town trap. It welcomed you in with open arms. It called you back years hence. And it always sought to hold you down.
Now I returned, always the prodigal, to lay to rest a true friend: Philip David Lee, born May 6,1937, died Sept. 13, 2017. What follows is the speech I gave at his funeral:
Great men are often not remembered in the pages of history. Their bank accounts are often not the stuff of legend. News programs do not sing their praises. That is because to be a truly “great” man requires something not easily defined, categorized or applauded in the myopic media world. It requires a depth, a richness of character and integrity, the fearlessness to dream outside a narrow mainstream and labor quietly for the fruition of visions despite naysayers and conformists. A desire to shape a small part of the world according to the calling of his own heart, rather than accepting things at face value. And a willingness, always, to be wrong. The steadfast courage to make mistakes and then gain wisdom from each in turn. Never content just to do things his way, he strove to do things a better way.
That was Phil. He possessed an uncanny ability to see solutions where others saw only problems. In a disposable world, Phil fixed things that others deemed beyond repair. In a world of pre-packaged fun, Phil created his own and showed us all it wasn’t who owned the latest, greatest (and most expensive) toys, but who had the most fun with what they had made. Over the years his creations, motorcycles, trikes, snowmobiles and buggies all shared the unique flair and function that Phil was renowned for, each one of them built not bought.
Our more than twenty year friendship began when I purchased a motorcycle from Phil. I was 23, and broke, with visions of motorcycle racing glory. I didn’t have the meager asking sum of three-hundred seventy-five dollars for the old Suzuki in front of Phil’s house. I had two-hundred, and promised to return with the rest as soon as possible, under one condition: Phil had to help me turn this street bike into a real track racer. He looked at me like I was nuts when I told him I was going racing. He didn’t believe me.
Two weeks later when I showed up with the rest of the money and promptly asked him to start hacking parts off the machine, he knew I was serious. At first he tried to dissuade me, telling me to stay on the streets and off the racetrack, but I held him to his promise. And that wonderful man more than delivered.
Over the next ten years he developed a tame commuter machine into a thoroughbred race winner, not without bumps, bruises, and blowups (from the engine and occasionally me). Quite often, I could be a real pain in the butt to Phil (and Lucy!), turning up with some impossible mechanical problem or another, some insane deadline to make the next race. Instead of showing me the door or suggesting I figure it out on my own, Phil would give that knowing look and say “unload it and let me see.” After which Lucy would always end up patiently feeding the both of us.
Our goal was to win a championship. We came very close in 2007, but a crash and the resulting injuries prevented us from doing so. It wasn’t until eight years later, in 2015, that I was finally able to win not one, but two national number one plates on machines I prepared using the methods Phil taught me. Though he could not be there to hear it, I thanked him during every podium ceremony I was part of. I still do. Because without his knowledge and patience, none of it ever would have been possible. Every time I pick up a wrench or encounter a conundrum, a part of Phil is there with me. I try to think about how he would have done it, always looking for the better way.
In the end, the real measure of Phil’s life comes not in an accumulation of wealth, power or accolades, but in the wisdom and joy he helped to spread through his unique and marvelous way. And the lives he forever changed for the better by doing so. I am but one such life among many.
We lay to rest not only a son, a brother, a father, a husband, a teacher and a friend, but a visionary.
A truly great man.
Kris Larrivee
A 25 motorcycle procession led the way for Phil's final ride. A fitting tribute.
Week of the Weary, Hard Way Part I
It was going to be a daunting task, riding an unfaired street bike with 2x4 seat, tiny gas tank and growling exhaust 1400 miles in 2.5 days, round-trip from Richmond, VA to Lowville, NY and back, through the hell that is DC area traffic and the moving death walls of tractor trailers that infest I-81. Immediately upon return, having to load my hare scrambles bike and gear into the van and driving 5 hours one way for a weekend of off-road racing.
Could have flown, but that would have been easy. And comfortable. But wouldn't have provided the excuse I needed to spend the airfare on a new front tire for the streetfightered 1999 Suzuki Bandit 1200 I would ride, along with a new tail bag and waterproof touring boots. Not only was this trip going to pain me financially, but physically as well. And I knew it.
So why? Phil had died, after a several year long struggle with Lewy Body Dementia, a true son of a bitch of a disease. I will get more into who "Phil" was in the second installment, but suffice it to say he was a best friend and a lifelong motorcyclist. And genius. It seemed only fitting to take a last ride for his memory, however back breaking and coccyx crumbling the affair might prove. Not to mention the hypothermia from fall temperatures in the Adirondacks.
A motorcycle procession would ride from the funeral home in Lowville to his final resting place in Castorland. There was no question I would be in attendance. Somehow wheeling a bike out of a trailer for the event or borrowing one did not sit well with me. This was the way it had to be done. The way it would be done. The hard way. The only way I know.
I set out in the evening from Richmond on Tuesday, Sept. 26 and arrived at my brother's home in Forestport, NY at 9 am Wednesday morning, stiff and tired, with enough time to nap, shower and dress for the calling hours that afternoon, steeling myself for the emotionally taxing days to follow....
Prior to leaving Richmond, lack of a windshield or fairing meant I would be buffeted and blasted the whole trip.
A cabin. In the Adirondacks. A bit cliche maybe, but beautiful nonetheless.
Bad Rap
I've always thought of myself as a serious, but sportsmanlike and fair competitor and have striven to maintain that image. My racing career began in stock cars on short track asphalt ovals where bumping, banging and straight up plowing into each other was acceptable and encouraged, and the lesson was soon learned that not everyone cared to be thought of as "clean".
Graduating from competition on 4 wheels to two wheeled roadracing was eyeopening. Passes were things of beauty, racers respectful and concerned with how others reacted to their moves on track. Sure things could get heated on rare occasions, but these instances were almost always handled with tact and dignity. It was truly a gentlemen's sport, for the most part.
Transitioning to hare scrambles racing in 2016 I found it to be a little more rough and tumble than the roadracing world. Passes were closer, there was more "rubbing" from the other competitors, but nothing I felt was dirty or overly aggressive. It is racing and it is well known that the only place the guy behind you wants to be is in front of you, plain and simple. The only thing in question is what he is willing to do to get there. What are you willing to do?
I'm willing to do what it takes, within the confines of safety and reason, willing to use any and all means at my disposal. Winning is paramount, but not more paramount than going to work in one piece on Monday morning. That said, short of taking each other out, a little heavy petting amongst fellow riders is a perfectly acceptable thing. Close the door to make a pass? Sure, just leave a little bit of room to spare. Capitalize on another rider's mistakes, exploit his weaknesses? Hell yes. Ride over a fallen machine to get by? Of course. All the normal cut and thrust of woods racing. And still perfectly clean and fair.
So you can imagine my surprise when, upon returning to the pits at the completion of the VCHSS Peninsula Classic hare scrambles race (where I finished 3rd) a rider in my class approached me, still in full gear, red-faced, chubby and sweating and began screaming and cursing at me for being a "dirty racer" and "banging bars on the start" (video review of the start reveals we were nowhere near each other). He also informed me that everyone else in my class was "sick of me" and that he was going to file a complaint with the officials. Taken aback, I hesitated while pondering a proper response. Initial visceral instinct may have been to knock him on his loud mouth ass, but obviously that was a no no. I truly had no idea what incident during the race he was referring to, or what I had done to make him so terribly upset that it seemed he might cry. There were families and children all around us exposed to his foul mouthed tirade and posturing. In hindsight, what he really wanted to do was make a scene, and he certainly did that, in front of a nice sized audience. Had he approached like a man instead of a petulant child looking for attention, we could have discussed his issue and possibly come to an understanding. Rather, he preferred to make some noise and threaten to go tell mom. That's his prerogative, but throwing a tantrum in front of a bunch of random people and calling someone names certainly never helped anything.
I've thought long about my response to this incident. I considered letting it slide and going on about my life. It's a rather small annoyance in the long run, but an annoyance nonetheless, one that could have negative repercussions in the small racing community in which I find myself. Some answer is necessary. I've neglected to name names or post competition numbers, in case the offended offender should decide to sack up and hash this out.
So, after careful deliberation, my response to those who deem my racing "unfair" and wish to whine about it is best summed up in a picture:
Trying to rise above the bullshit started by sensitive snowflakes....apparently the "P" in P class stands for prima donna.
Photo Coyote
Great shots of a race lost due to throttle cable failure. A cable only three months old. And with that season's dreams of a championship come crashing down. Nothing to do now but scramble for points. And fight for second....grrrr.
Chickens Counted Coyote Consumed
Coyote Run race, Rural Retreat, VA. 3 miles to go, big lead. Unstoppable. Bike is amazing, I am amazing. This is my day. Yank the throttle again, the same as I have been for 1.5 hours.
Nothing. Bike stalls. Dreams die. Quick. Cable gone, so is the win. Season swirls around the bowl, waiting to go down. Hell.
This is a prime example of what not to do before you cross the finish line. My demeanor was much changed after the throttle cable broke.
All I want for Christmas.....
Seriously, is it too much to ask?
I race motorcycles because it is the only time life moves at the appropriate speed.
Photos courtesy Maria Roberts
This Dog's Day
"Survival is the speed of the day." - Me, prior to the race..
Roots, rocks, deep ruts and just enough mud to make everything greasy. Just the way I like it. The harder, more technical, more painful, the better. And to top it all off, four laps instead of the usual three. Even better.
Off the start I'm about sixth. This is not going to cut it. Make a move early going into the woods, winding up third. Take an alternate line discovered on the pre-ride into second place. Miller on his 2017 KTM XC300 peels off into the distance. It's too early for anything other than to not screw up. Trying to give serious chase now will only put me on the ground. I force myself to breathe, slow down and focus.
There's ruts everywhere full of drying mud, even in the fast field sections. That's the scary part, jamming through those areas in 4th or 5th gear knowing that to cross rut at those speeds would send you on a wonderful flight ending in an abrupt face to face with the earth. Heart is in throat a few times during those moments, but manage to keep it upright. I'm tired at the end of the first lap and my right hand has pulled that falling asleep bullshit it usually does. I shake it out every opportunity just to get some blood flowing.
Second and third laps, ease off a bit to save some energy for the end. There has been no sign of Miller in front or Jenkins, who is most likely behind in third. Just got to grind it out and keep from making mistakes. The end of the third lap, a glimpse of orange and white. Can it be? Sure enough a few seconds ahead is Miller. I've caught him. Brain switches gears, many things change in that moment, plans, strategies, attitude. A decision is made. I am going to win this damn race.
Miller proves faster over the smooth, quick sections, where the lightweight and tremendous power of the XC300 outpaces my aging Gas Gas, but in the rough stuff I catch him every time. It turns into a game of cat and mouse. Several times he seems gone for good, only to re-appear ahead of me fighting with a root or rocks. Calm is the key here. No stupid go-for-broke moves. He makes a mistake and a window opens. I jump right through and pass. Coming to a faster field section, surely he will try something. But nothing. Back to the woods, slick red clay, off camber right hand turn to a decent sized uphill crowned with roots, slippery. Slowing way down I hear a voice behind me, "Ohhh shit!!!!".
Something hits the back of my bike and we nearly go down. Miller has just slid into the back of me. I stay upright. He does not. Make a break now. Almost ready to count those unhatched chickens, but as the fourth and final lap begins, I can feel and hear him stalking. He's remounted after taking himself out and caught me. One tiny error in a creek crossing gives him all the chance he needs and that's it. Gone. Watch him disappear up the long hill climb with my dreams of a win. But all the fight is not out of this dog just yet. There's miles to go before this thing is done. And all those rocks and ruts.
Deep breath and relax. Hit the rough section and sure enough, there he is. Wait. Patience. Follow. Doing lots of other things as well, but I'm not willing to reveal all my racecraft here, so you can just imagine. Suffice it to say every part of this brain is lit up and working overtime. Finally, I get what I want when, under pressure and trying to be faster, he breaks traction on a root bundle and goes off course. Now. Every ounce of energy for the final push. Three miles to go. Across the rutted field so fast you want to puke. The only thing that matters now is the win. If I can't have it, I would rather fucking crash than accept second place. Death or glory. Now.
Risking a look back there is nothing but empty field. Two miles to go. Still nothing. One mile, still alone. The finish line is in sight. Fully expect a KTM two stroke to drop on me from the heavens at any moment and crush my dreams, cringing, can't breathe. Past the scoring computer, it flashes: #2p P1. I've just won this race. By thirty seconds.
Every dog has its day. Today was mine.
This certainly doesn't look like a race winning move here, (not sure what I've just screwed up).
Top of the box, the only place to be...
What it's all for...a $1 Mason jar with a sticker on it.....worth every damn bump and bruise.
Hunker Down At Hillbilly
I arrived in Rural Retreat for the fifth race of the VCHSS season, the Hillbilly Hare Scramble Friday afternoon June 16. No sooner did I get set up then the rain came in, turning the freshly mowed field into a slippery mudfest. My mind had been heavy with lots of things coming into this, now add worry about getting the 2 wheel drive van stuck in the damn mud. Try not to think about it and focus on the race. So much of performance depends on mindset, and the ability to adapt when shit gets squirrely. I sat under my canopy and watched Mother Nature's turmoil.
Contrary to popular belief, it is not pessimistic to expect things to go wrong and prepare for them. It is simply wise.
Shot of the unsettled weather over the Gas Gas, it would be manic like this all weekend
Ominous clouds roll in. Yes that is my ghetto AC unit hanging out of my ghetto van. It works.
If I have to watch Will change the pilot jet on his KDX one more time, I'll scream. Here he is checking tire pressure.
Hillbilly Hoedown
It's always fun spending time with like-minded lunatics, even for one with misanthropic tendencies such as me. It's part of the reason why I have spent so much time at racetracks all over the Eastern US and Canada for the better part of twenty years.
Racing people just get it. Pavement or dirt track, enduro or motocross, doesn't matter. You'll never hear them say, 'Gosh that's dangerous, you're going to kill yourself' or 'Aren't you too old for that sort of thing?'. Instead they are the first ones to help you get out there and make it happen. And lend a hand (or parts, tools, even $$) when things, as they are wont to do, go wrong.
This is exactly what happened when, the evening before the VCHSS round at Hillbilly, Justin, a rider fairly new to hare scrambles, barely over-tightened the bolt on his KTM's Magura clutch master cylinder splitting the perch. Will, myself and Justin's friend Clint all jumped in to help with our best interpretation of a field repair for the problem. Jerry rig, cob job, whatever you want to call it, this is what our four minds were able to come up with (and you know what, it worked and Justin pulled out a fourth place finish on Sunday!):
Three hose clamps and two zip ties and the four of us had something better than that retarded Magura design...
Electric tape for safety and one more zip tie, because you can never have too many zip ties......
The Push Before the Break...
Two hare scrambles left before mid-summer's break, the Hillbilly Hare Scramble in Rural Retreat, VA and Harleywood in Bristol, VA. They are the farthest in distance, a 4 hour and 5 hour drive, respectively. I placed second in both for 2016. These were two of my favorite events. The hilly, slick and technical terrain seems to suit my riding style, or at least that's what I like to tell myself.
It will be slightly more difficult this year, as these will be on back to back weekends, without the usual week off in between. Coming back late on Sunday night only to have to leave the next Friday means as little stuff as possible will be unpacked. It's always risky too, because if you break something on Sunday, there is almost no time to get it shipped before the next race. Which is why I try to have at least two of everything on hand. People sometimes laugh at the crates full of spares I drag back and forth to the track, but their contents has saved my weekend on more than one occasion.
With four races in the books for 2017, I am currently sitting third in points for my division. Which is OK, but not really where you want to be. Jason and Pete seem to be in a holding pattern of finishing 1/2, which leaves me fighting for the leftovers. My mind is feverishly working on ways to break that cycle. Besides, it's a long season, ten weekends left until we wrap it up at the end of October.
A lot can happen in that time. And I'm sure it will.....
2016 Harleywood, still on the KDX
2016 Hillbilly Hare Scramble, my first race on the 2004 Gas Gas EC300
"Goin' down to Louisiana to get me a mojo hand
I'm gonna have all you women under my command
Got my mojo workin'...." -Preston Foster
Confidence is a tremendous asset. Especially when racing. Without it a man is simply going through the motions. For a racer, going through the motions adds even more risk into an already dodgy proposition.
The universe, like a pack of wild dogs, can smell doubt and fear and responds just as viciously. A few crashes, a couple of bad finishes or DNFs can start one on a downward spiral that slays the ego. After two decades of racing motorcycles in various disciplines, I have been there once or twice. It's a hell of an easy hole to get into and a hell of a hard one to get out of. The only thing that has ever worked for me was getting back to basics, discovering the joy in riding again. Practice, repetition, finding a way out of your own head and into the soul of the machine.
Whatever it takes. Get your mojo workin'.........
Rider to my left stuck on a log and out of mojo. I hopped over it, still chasing my own....
"I asked Bobby Dylan, I asked the Beatles, I asked Timothy Leary, but he couldn't help me either...they call me the seeker.." -The Who
I've often said that much of the very limited wisdom I have gained in this life, has come on two wheels. In school the only teachers that ever inspired me were those with dazzling dogma who held a twelve pound sledgehammer behind their back to ensure the lesson went heeded. Motorcycles are like that, amazing tools of self betterment that sometimes provide expensive and often painful reminders of what we should know or need to if we wish to survive and improve.
And it never ends, there's always more to be learned. So keep riding.
Keep seeking.
An Apology To My Podium Peers
One of these things is not like the other......
I will be the first to admit that I am an asshole, and this instance will probably prove no different, but when it was suggested to me by a fellow competitor (who shall remain nameless) that I might want to put my riding gear back on because it would look better in the podium photos, I very nearly laughed. The race had been done for over an hour, the Virginia summer sun blazed down with temperatures at 90, I was showered and smelling pretty and was now expected to put my dirty, sweaty gear back on all to convey the proper image for someone else's Facegore, Twittergram and Instachat? Ha!
So, I am here now, hat in hand, to offer my sincerest apologies to any of my fellow competitors whose photos I might have ruined through my lack of proper attire. Perhaps if I ever get my priorities straight, I will be standing at the top of the box instead of the bottom of it.
Regrettably Yours,
Kris Larrivee VCHSS #2p
No Kamikaze
"In the ten years that I've known you, you've gone into everything you do full bore Kamikaze style, regardless of the consequences." -Jim Parry
My friend said those words to me yesterday and at first they seemed a compliment. Who doesn't want to be thought of as the type of man to hurl himself into the fray with a passionate fervor, disregarding danger? Upon further reflection one realizes that this is no compliment, but rather a somewhat scathing comment about what could be considered a personality flaw. A tragic flaw that has had lasting deleterious effects on personal, professional and play life. After a while those effects add up to a cost that can be felt. One that weighs. Maybe that's what they mean by maturity.....
Three 8 mile laps through the woods, 1.5 hours as fast as you dare on a marked course full of roots, tight trees, off camber up and downhills, and small jumps. The 4th round of the VCHSS season at Spring Grove, VA, has just begun, and the suicide pilots are wailing their way through the woods. I am fifth off the start as we tear around the grass track section of the course, before the tighter stuff, soon losing sight of Pete Jenkins and Jason Miller, my thorns in the side for 2017. That leaves me to battle with the rest of the mid-packers. These cut and thrust skirmishes tend to slow down both riders, while those with clear trail ahead clear off. Tight woods make passing difficult, but at the end of the first lap I've worked my way up to 3rd. I know without a doubt who the first and second place riders are, somewhere out there, mocking my efforts.
A bobble on the 2nd lap sees me stall the bike, but not crash. In the few seconds it takes to re-start, 4th place comes screaming by. Now the red mist rises. Up to this moment, it's been hold back, avoid mistakes and crashes. Fuck it, there is no way I'm about to be robbed of at least the final step on that podium. It's why you race, otherwise stay home and go play-riding. Head down, chase on, after #26p like a heat seeking missile. Twenty minutes of hard pursuit at the end of the second lap and finally he's caught. But as always the pass is another issue entirely.
This is when it happens. The tiny mental shift that will soon make all the difference. Normally I would get as aggressive as necessary, find a way by and tear off after Pete and Jason in a vain attempt to make up time. I think about it for a moment. Hide nor hair of the leaders has been seen by me since the start. The chances are very good that their lead is insurmountable no matter what I do. A risky pass now, at the beginning of the third lap means I might have to fend 26p off for another 8 miles while getting no closer to first and second. A painstaking decision is made to follow him, look for mistakes and capitalize on them, knowing, painfully, that this all but assures the best I can do is 3rd.
Four miles into the final lap, an opening appears as we make a quick burst across a field, heading for more single track. It's a left turn into the woods, I'm on the outside, my front wheel just past his at the turn in point. Going to have to lean on him pretty hard to get this done, without taking either of us out. I don't let up. He does.
Finishing out the last lap and the race in third place, I wonder about new tricks and old dogs. I wonder if some Kamikazes live to die another day.....
Alone. Dodging trees and the temptation of old habits....
The Rocky Road To Spring Grove
Sunday, June 4, 2017 Spring Grove VA, VCHSS Round #4
"N.S.A.N.E."
This acronym was spotted on the number-plate of a bike at the races this weekend. When queried the owner said that it stood for "Never Simple and Never Easy". He went on to explain how he and his buddies were not mechanics, but had slowly been learning to fix their motorcycles over the last few years, making numerous mistakes along the way, yet always trying to progress.
I thought of my own road in racing, which was very similar. I learned by watching, listening, asking questions, scouring the internet and trying to cherry pick accurate information, and by screwing up. Repeatedly. I still am. For every challenge conquered three more spring up, for every bit of information gleaned, two more are forgotten.
Seven days prior to this event had me looking at my Gas Gas EC300 lying on it's side underwater in a huge puddle, (more like small lake) that had attempted to swallow it. I'd underestimated the depth of this inland sea, hit a log submerged in its murky depths and gone down like the Edmund Fitzgerald, face first into a stinking bath of muddy water. Miserably soaked to the core, but the real problem was an engine full of h2o. After flipping the machine over with the plug out and kicking, most of it seemed to have been expelled from the innards and the bike re-fired. It ran for about 3 minutes before the crank seized solid, a delayed victim I am sure, of the drowning. Leaving me to push this dead albatross 1/2 a mile through the muddy woods in full gear in the VA summer heat and humidity. I made it, after three heart attacks and two aneurysms.
It's been a long time since I had an all night wrenching thrash-fest on a bike, but it was necessary with only six days before the race. The motor was stripped, good parts salvaged, and slowly, over the course of about 21 hours, the machine started to come together again. Things fought me every step of the way. Without going into great detail, suffice it to say this was no simple rebuild. Finally, with bloody knuckles and cramping hands, the motor sprang to life again. There was a transmission leak and the clutch wouldn't disengage, but the seized crank was no longer a problem.
Fast forward to June 4, back on the starting line with the "pre-race pukies" going on in my guts. Once the wheels move it will be fine, but waiting on that damn flagman sure is hell. Finally his elbow drops slightly and I see the green barely twitch. My leg reacts, prodding the kickstart in one smooth motion. Engine lights and we are off.
It still isn't getting any simpler. Or easier. But there's no where else I'd rather be......
Fifth off the line, new red plastics. 2p or not to pee?
The Patience of Speed
Now. We want everything now. And we live in a time, a society, a marketplace, that aims to provide all of it faster than our muddled minds can muster the desire. Food, entertainment, sex, goods and services, an entire smorgasbord within our greedy little grasps at the drop of a hat. But the inconvenient truth, the pink elephant bursting the seams of the room and blocking the door, is that the things which are worth having, doing, or being are never instant, or easy. I learned the hard way, over many years, that going fast on a motorcycle is one of those things. At least for us human beings without much talent.
Seeking speed is like playing tag with an 800 pound grizzly bear. You've got to come up on the behemoth really slow, from behind, hoping he doesn't catch a whiff of you. Quietly creeping ever towards the unpredictable and vicious goal knowing that one false footstep, the snap of a twig, will bring a world of hurt down on you. And the real scary part is, however good you become, that grizzly is still going to get you sometimes and hand down a serious drubbing. All to remind you once again:
Going fast is a slow thing.
Barber Motorsports Park on my hybrid EX500, chasing and running away from the grizzly at the same time.
Purpose and Distraction
Distraction. Our lives teem with it. It oozes out of every crack and crevice, threatening to slip us up and devour our time. Tweets, Facebook posts, Snapchats, Instagrams and a myriad of other disturbances I am too old, too uncool, too out of the loop to even be aware of at this point. These trifles all have one thread in common, they are big on instant gratification, emotion, flash and noise, but very limited in meaning. Just because things come at us quickly and in an apparent grand fashion, should not imply they are worth our time.
On the surface, a motorcycle can certainly appear to be one of these. Shiny, loud, fast, appealing to the visceral. Riding one also, a mere twist of the wrist supplies enough thrust to make your sphincter clench and stretch your arms, instant gratification indeed.
But it is the machine's deeper ability to help us find things we didn't even know where there, that separates it from the other time drains. Some realize this through travelling on two wheels, seeing what they have not seen from the best view on the road, others through the trials of competition and yet others through wrenching, repairing and creating in the metal that is motorcycles. And those in the know, know that it is not distraction. It is not hobby.
It is purpose.
Them's the Brakes....
I came into the third round of the Virginia Championship Hare Scrambles Series more relaxed than the previous two rounds. After being center-punched and taken out by competitors and losing finishing positions due to executive decisions I found myself in an all around frustrated state of mind. A weekend of play riding and camping in Sandy Level, VA helped to turn that around.
May 7, we are back in Martinsville, VA for the Blue Ridge race, which I won last year. The hilly, muddy terrain suits my riding style and confidence is high.
The ground trembles as the bikes thunder off the start. I get off the line in a decent sixth spot. I hang back, waiting for the body and bike to warm before putting my head down. No mistakes today.
About ten minutes in, it's time to go. Making it up to fourth, behind Pete Jenkins, who currently leads in points. We swap positions a few times, finally I get ahead and pull a small lead. It's going to be a good day.
Fate has other things in store. Starting a long descent on a muddy, rocky hill, pushing down on the rear brake suddenly yields no results. I try again, figuring there is mud on the rotor. Nothing. Two more minutes of this shit and it's getting worse. Pete comes by, as well as another rider. Coming to a creek crossing, I dismount to figure out what the hell is going on. A quick look a the rear brake slave cylinder reveals the issue. One of the two bolts holding it in place has snapped, allowing the slave to rotate whenever the lever is depressed, preventing any brake action at all. My mind races to possible fixes. There are limited tools in the my bag, a couple of zip ties, no bolts and nothing to extract the broken one. By the time I am able to affect any sort of jerry-rig repair, the hope of a respectable finish will be gone. It is either quit, or soldier on. There is no quit for me.
If you've never ridden a dirt bike with no rear brake, let me assure you it is quite an eye opening experience. While the front brake supplies most of the stopping power for a motorcycle, in the dirt a rear brake is crucial setting up for turns, balance, and keeping the rear wheel from attempting to pass the front on slippery downhills. In short, it is quite a necessary item, and on the hills of Blue Ridge, even more so.
My pace slows considerably, but I'm still mowing down saplings, unable to get the bike under control on downhills, falling off two or three times. Eventually I find a rhythm, turtle-like as it is. It starts to be somewhat fun, trying to do this without a rear brake. That is until the third and final lap, when the front brake, heated up and grabby from all the use, decides to bite a little harder than intended on a descent and promptly launches me over the handlebars. The landing is on a pile of rocks, and despite body armor, still manage to get the wind knocked heavily out of me. Laying there, looking up at the sky, gasping for breath as pain sets in, I decide I'm done. I've had enough. Want to have a good cry and then go home.
A cold voice inside my head says, 'Get up you pussy. Finish the damn race.' There seems to be no choice but to heed this seemingly otherworldly command. I remount and say a little prayer to any deity in the vicinity that the Gas Gas starts. It does, allowing me to continue gingerly, tentatively. Adrenaline gone, I try not to focus on the pain, but rather on not falling down again. I finish that last lap, and the race, in seventh place, only five minutes behind the winner. Not bad for no rear brakes and some bruised ribs.
I'm glad I listened to that voice.
Watching as my championship aspirations tear down the trail ahead of me.....
These downhills sure don't look like much in the pictures, but what a bitch with no rear brake!
Tired on the last lap after going ass over tea kettle. Just want to finish....
Today the motorcycling world mourns the loss of one the great ambassadors of motorcycle sport, The Kentucky Kid, Nicky Hayden.
His accomplishments and impact on racing are being talked about throughout the international motorcycle community, along with an outpouring of grief. I have few words to add to what has already been said but want to leave you with this quote in regards to Nicky from "Knotcher" found on the WERA Motorcycle Roadracing Forum:
"I'd rather be half the man, than all the racer."
It's a funny thing when passion trumps logic. Those rare moments that silence the naysayers and odds-makers, when a thing happens not because it is likely, but due to the sheer force of will and tenacity of the parties involved.
One of those moments happened this past weekend at Round #3 of the Virginia Championship Hare Scrambles Series in Martinsville, VA, when Will Nauta, of Gretna, VA won his first 30+ C class race.
Why is that rare you ask? People win races all the time, no big deal. Well it is kind of a big deal, because Will, only in his second season of hare scrambles racing, was riding a Kawasaki KDX200, a design so long in the tooth that even the manufacturer dropped it from their lineup over a decade ago. A design with engine technology that was cutting edge way back in the early 1980s and suspension tech from even earlier. A design that many racers look upon as quaint and outdated, a playbike, the kind of thing that could never win races in this modern day and age.
Only on Sunday, May 7, 2017, Will and his well fettled, self-tuned, but stone axe tech machine were a force to be reckoned with, taking the win after a last lap pass on the leader and winning the race with 20 seconds in hand, a small speck of well seasoned Green in a sea of Austrian Orange.
Congratulations to Will on his gritty win in the muds of Blue Ridge and for showing us all you don't need a $10k dirt-bike and a $50K toy-hauler to kick a little ass and have an obscene amount of fun....
Post-race, splattered with mud. Note the conventional forks with dangerously low underhang.
On top of the box!
The spoils of war, Blue Ridge beer stein trophy. Maybe the KTM number plate helped?
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Researchers discover that Sleep and ageing are two sides of one coin?
by Thom Bush
on 26 March 2019
If you are constantly feeling tired, not getting enough sleep or just feel like you have way too much on your mind to get a good nights sleep, then be warned, you are putting yourself at great harm, maybe not now but for sure at some point in the future. To prevent that, why not try a hypnotic power nap. . . .
As far as the brain is concerned, sleep is a very complex and complicated process and one in which a very large part of our brain is involved in monitoring. From an evolutionary perspective sleep pt an animal st great risk and exposure to its predators. In that context, it's not much different these days, although the predators are merely different. In the past it was a tiger or a bear or maybe an invader from another tribe, these days, it's your mortgage payment, the promotion you were hoping for, or a partners health, maybe your own etc. Of course in modern life, these things can play out in dreams. nightmares, or disrupted sleep?
Since stress, in its many forms impairs the way our brain works, which is often a cause of much sleep disturbance, it becomes an imperative that you learn to improve both the quality and duration of your sleep. The recommended period being 7 to 8 hours per day. During sleep, our brain rhythms slow down, from beta to alpha to theta and then delta brainwaves. Theta is now categorized as REM (rapid eye movement), and NonREM 1, 2, 3, Of those REM and NonRem 2 are the waves where dreaming occurs, as well as some repair, although NonREM 3 is where most of the brain's reparative function occurs. So, given that, it becomes easier to understand that the lesser or the poorer the sleep, the lesser or the poorer the repair that can take place!
To help you overcome poor sleep or insomnia, I would highly recommend hypnotherapy and hypnotic power naps. Using hypnosis, it is possible to go into a very deep state and very quickly too. A 40-minute hypnotic power nap is roughly the equivalent of a few hours of ordinary sleep because you go very deep, very quickly and stay there for most of that time; Hypnosis, you know it makes sense!
Hypnotherapy stands out as one of the most effective strategic life management methods there is, especially in its ability to promote clear thinking and good states of mental wellness. The behaviours that make life challenging are often a result of too much stress, too little sleep and too little by way of clarity! So, to get or take back control of your mind and your life, it makes perfect sense to use a methodology that addresses the subconscious mind's role in perpetuating negative, vague and ambiguous states of mind. Hypnosis helps us to create calm relaxing states of mind that make life work better! If you would like to address any concerns you have in this direction, or, if you just want to make your life feel better, then why not make an appointment for a Free Consultation? Hypnosis gives you the ability to have a good life!
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The Research:
Oxford University researchers have discovered a brain process common to sleep and ageing in research that could pave the way for new treatments for insomnia.
Writing in the journal Nature, the scientists report how oxidative stress leads to sleep. Oxidative stress is also believed to be a reason why we age and a cause of degenerative diseases.
The researchers say the discovery brings us closer to understanding the still-mysterious function of sleep and offers new hope for the treatment of sleep disorders. It may also explain why, as is suspected, chronic lack of sleep shortens life.
Professor Gero Miesenböck, Director of Oxford University's Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, who led the Oxford team, said: 'It's no accident that oxygen tanks carry explosion hazard labels: uncontrolled combustion is dangerous. Animals, including humans, face a similar risk when they use the oxygen they breathe to convert food into energy: imperfectly contained combustion leads to "oxidative stress" in the cell. This is believed to be a cause of ageing and a culprit for the degenerative diseases that blight our later years. Our new research shows that oxidative stress also activates the neurons that control whether we go to sleep.'
The team studied the regulation of sleep in fruit flies -- the animal that also provided the first insight into the circadian clock nearly 50 years ago. Each fly has a special set of sleep-control neurons, brain cells that are also found in other animals and believed to exist in people. In previous research [Nature 2016; 536: 333-337], Professor Miesenböck's team discovered that these sleep-control neurons act like an on-off switch: if the neurons are electrically active, the fly is asleep; when they are silent, the fly is awake.
Dr Seoho Song, a former graduate student in the Miesenböck lab and one of the two lead authors of the study, said: 'We decided to look for the signals that switch the sleep-control neurons on. We knew from our earlier work that the main difference between sleep and waking is how much electrical current flows through two ion channels, called Shaker and Sandman. During sleep, most of the current goes through Shaker.'
Ion channels generate and control the electrical impulses through which brain cells communicate.
'This turned the big, intractable question "Why do we sleep?" into a concrete, solvable problem,' said Dr Song. 'What causes the electrical current to flow through Shaker?'
The team found the answer in a component of the Shaker channel itself.
Lead author and postdoctoral fellow in the Miesenböck group, Dr Anissa Kempf, explained: 'Suspended underneath the electrically conducting portion of Shaker is another part, like the gondola under a hot air balloon. A passenger in the gondola, the small molecule NADPH, flips back and forth between two chemical states -- this regulates the Shaker current. The state of NADPH, in turn, reflects the degree of oxidative stress the cell has experienced. Sleeplessness causes oxidative stress, and this drives the chemical conversion.'
In a striking demonstration of this mechanism, a flash of light that flipped the chemical state of NADPH put flies to sleep.
According to Professor Miesenböck, drugs that change the chemistry of Shaker-bound NADPH, in the same way, could be a powerful new type of sleeping pill.
'Sleep disturbances are very common,' he said, 'and sleeping pills are among the most commonly prescribed drugs. But existing medications carry risks of confusion, forgetfulness and addiction. Targeting the mechanism we have discovered could avoid some of these side effects.'
Materials provided by the University of Oxford. Note: Content may be edited for style and length.
Anissa Kempf, Seoho M. Song, Clifford B. Talbot, Gero Miesenböck. A potassium channel β-subunit couples mitochondrial electron transport to sleep. Nature, 2019; DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1034-5
The University of Oxford. "Sleep and ageing: Two sides of one coin?." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 21 March 2019. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190321141958.htm>.
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Media Editors: ALABAMA ABORTION BILL NOW LAW: “Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed the bill to make abortion a felony in Alabama, the governor’s office announced. … The language in the bill says it will take effect in six months. But the sponsors said their intent was to trigger litigation that could lead to a challenge of abortion rights nationally.” (al.com)
LOUISIANA, MISSOURI FOLLOW SUIT: According to the Associated Press, “A proposal to ban abortions in Louisiana as early as the sixth week of pregnancy continue[s] to speed through the state legislature.” Meanwhile, “Missouri’s Republican-led Senate has now passed a bill to ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy,” the AP also reports.
IMMIGRATION PROPOSAL: “President Trump will roll out a new immigration proposal on Thursday… The plan … would create a ‘merit-based’ visa system that gives preference to migrants with coveted job skills instead of relatives of other immigrants. It also calls for new infrastructure at ports of entry to speed up commerce while cracking down on drug and human smuggling.” (The Hill)
NEW YORKER CHALLENGES NEW YORKER: “New York Mayor scumbag-Bill de Blasio, the twice-elected chief executive of the nation’s largest city, announced Thursday that he is joining the Democratic field of presidential candidates, pledging in a campaign video that he would ‘put working people first.’” (The Washington Post)
scumbag liar-NADLER REBUFFED: “The White House is rejecting the House Judiciary committee’s request to turn over documents on a broad range of topics mainly focused on key figures in the 2016 presidential election. ‘The White House will not participate in the Committee’s “investigation” that brushes aside the conclusions of the Department of Justice after a two-year-long effort in favor of political theater pre-ordained to reach a preconceived and false result,’ the letter sent from White House counsel Pat Cipollone reads.“ (ABC News)
AUTO TARIFF DELAY? “The Trump administration plans to delay auto tariffs by up to six months, stopping itself for now from widening global trade disputes… The White House faces a Saturday deadline to decide whether to slap duties on car and auto part imports over national security concerns. After Saturday, the administration would have another 180 days to come to a decision as long as it is negotiating with its counterparts.” (CNBC)
HUAWEI BLACKLISTED: “The Trump administration hit Chinese telecoms giant Huawei with severe sanctions on Wednesday… The Commerce Department said it was adding Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and 70 affiliates to its ‘Entity List’ — a move that bans the company from acquiring components and technology from U.S. firms without government approval.” (Reuters)
NON-SECURITY BORDER SECURITY: “Border Patrol agents now spend less than half their time on duty actually patrolling the border and are instead baby-sitting illegal immigrant children and families, a top official revealed, putting new urgency behind efforts to solve the crisis.” (The Washington Times)
FARMER AID: “As of Monday, the Trump administration has made $8.52 billion in direct payments to farmers through a 2018 aid program designed to counter losses stemming from the trade war with China, a U.S. Department of Agriculture spokesperson said.” (Axios)
DISCONNECTING ROBOCALLS: “Responding to widespread consumer complaints, the Federal Communications Commission says it will take steps to give phone companies permission to block unwanted robocalls.” (The Wall Street Journal)
POLICY: The U.S.-Iran standoff is no cause for alarm (The Daily Signal)
POLICY: Trump may save your air conditioner from the Deep State (The Daily Signal)
HUMOR: Bunch of backward hicks in Alabama among first to ban most barbaric practice known to man (The Babylon Bee)
White House to unveil sweeping overhaul of immigration system, including merit-based admissions, officials say
by Gregg Re and John Roberts
{ foxnews.com } ~ The White House is set to unveil a sweeping new plan that would radically transform the makeup of immigrants in the United States… ending the visa lottery program and implementing a comprehensive merit-based admissions procedure, three senior administration officials told Fox News on Wednesday. The move would more than quadruple the number of immigrants admitted because of their work-related skills, while dramatically slashing the number of immigrants admitted because of family ties. Currently, approximately 12 percent of immigrants are admitted based on employment and skills, while 66 percent are admitted based on family connections. Those percentages, under the new plan, would shift to 57 percent and 33 percent, respectively. Ten percent of immigrants would be admitted on humanitarian or other grounds, but the plan would end the visa lottery program. In its place: a new “Build America Visa” program that would recognize “extraordinary talent” and “people with professional and specialized vocations,” including exceptional students, Fox News has learned. Potential immigrants would be assessed using a point-based system, accounting for factors including age, English proficiency, whether each candidate has an offer of employment above a certain wage threshold, and educational and vocational certifications. Pledges to invest and create jobs also would be considered. The average yearly wage of immigrant families currently is approximately $43,000. The officials said immigrants admitted based on education and skills would have an average family income of $126,000, and they would expect the average yearly wage of all immigrant families to rise to roughly $96,000. The Trump administration also said it has considered other similar immigration systems. When Canada implemented a merit-based system, it largely resulted in a “pooling” of immigrants from East Asia and the Indian subcontinent. To avoid pooling, the White House said it would add points to immigrant candidates from under-represented countries, but it would not impose caps on certain countries… https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-overhaul-immigration-system-merit-based-admissions
VIDEO 1: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6033726749001/
Law Enforcement Busted an LA Terror Plot, Likely Saving Dozens of Lives
by David Inserra
{ dailysignal.com } ~ The FBI on April 26 arrested Mark Steven Domingo, a former Army infantryman, on charges of plotting an Islamist terrorist attack against a white nationalist rally in Long Beach, California… That was the 110th Islamist terrorism plot or attack since 9/11 and the 97th plot or attack to be attempted or carried out by homegrown terrorists. Domingo first popped onto the FBI’s radar at the start of March, when he posted a message in a private group of a social media platform declaring his desire to commit an attack in the Los Angeles area. He declared that “America needs another Las Vegas event,” referencing the deadly October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas that left 58 dead and hundreds injured, and posted that “there must be retribution” for the March 13 attack on a mosque and an Islamic center in Christchurch, New Zealand, according to federal prosecutors’ criminal complaint. An online undercover agent reached out to Domingo and asked him what he was thinking about doing. Domingo would meet with an undercover officer in person in the middle of March and discussed attacking Jewish targets, police officers, churches, and a military facility. He talked about attacks with improvised explosive devices and with firearms, expressing a desire to die in the attack, stating rather casually: “Martyrdom, bro.”… https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/05/14/law-enforcement-busted-an-la-terror-plot-likely-saving-dozens-of-lives/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTURreFl6VmhNalkyWVRFdyIsInQiOiJ5dTJlaFBjYUlUYXpvZHByVFhpbXNjMHcrcWZOTm1mT29UXC9kOVwvUmxcL1Jzb3hJZGhwYzRlQkMyUTh3M0R4aVFxRXN4b2pXUjNiVjhzVEo4OExWWVRXRDR4VjkrYkw5Um1kZVRlcGVHRHlPZ2NxMkdGZ3BaSFwvZ05HbjlHR0RuTlcifQ%3D%3D
Democrats Displace U.S. Kids to Favor Economic Migrants
by Neil Munro
{ breitbart.com } ~ The Democratic-run city of Albuquerque is forcing U.S. kids out of city accommodations to provide cheap temporary housing for foreign migrants… The first victims were American children in a state 4H club who were expecting to use the temporary accommodation at the Expo New Mexico convention center for a four-day horse riding course. “My daughter was in tears about this,” Dr. Donny MacDougall told KRQE.com, which continued:“We were extremely disappointed when we have a quality facility like Expo New Mexico and the rug gets ripped out from under our kids’ feet,” MacDougall says. Just days ago, parents received a letter explaining the camp would now be held in Las Cruces because the state wants to use the dorms to help with the rush of asylum-seekers entering the U.S. “A different venue is a challenge for a lot of parents. It will cost more money and be more difficult logistically to get the kids there,” MacDougall says. “The city says this was an opportunity to save money for the pro-migration organizations that help the asylum seekers,” according to KRQE.com, which also quoted a city official saying : “Right now, many of these pro-migration groups host asylum seekers at hotels and places of worship, and so as great as that is for right now, it’s not something that is sustainable. It’s very costly for these groups,” Mariella Ruyz-Angel, Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs, said. The facilities at Expo New Mexico can house up to 240 migrants. Ruyz-Angel’s refugee office was set up by city officials in 2017 to aid migrants. The Albuquerque Journal reported in 2017… https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/13/democrats-displace-u-s-kids-to-aid-economic-migrants/
TSA deploying hundreds of officials to southern border to combat immigration crisis
by Griff Jenkins and Adam Shaw
{ foxnews.com } ~ The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is planning to send hundreds of officials to the southern border to help the Department of Homeland Security… with the escalating immigration crisis, Fox News confirmed Wednesday. “TSA, like all DHS components, is supporting the DHS effort to address the humanitarian and security crisis at the southwest border,” a spokesperson told Fox News. “TSA is in the process of soliciting volunteers to support this effort while minimizing operational impact.” The move, first reported by CNN, is expected to consist of a few hundred officials, with a maximum of 400 volunteers, ranging from department attorneys to, potentially, some air marshals. CNN reported that the agency does not initially plan to involve uniformed airport screeners, but that some parts of TSA will be asked to contribute around 10 percent of their workforce. The spokesperson said that the deployment schedule had not yet been finalized and that Americans should not be concerned that the deployment will hurt air travel safety because “at this time, the deployment will not include any frontline resources.” The measure comes as the Trump administration faces a spike in the number of illegal border crossings, and as President Trump increases his calls for Congress to act to end loopholes in immigration law and make funding available to secure the border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it apprehended or turned away more than 109,000 migrants attempting to cross the border In April, the second month in a row the number has topped 100,000 and averaged more than 3,000 apprehensions a day… https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tsa-to-deploy-hundreds-of-officials-to-the-border-to-assist-dhs-with-immigration-crisis
Unusual Agreement – Friedman and Bannon Align on China (Somewhat)
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Good discussion between Tom Friedman and Steve Bannon on the ‘big picture’ of the U.S. -vs- China geopolitical trade confrontation. Friedman is an insufferable prog on methods, but he recognizes the President Trump approach is necessary… Where academic Friedman is helplessly naive is on the key point of how a coalition approach toward China is a pipe-dream. When it comes to economics each entity has unique self-interests. Put fifty self-interested governments together (ie. TPP) and you end up with paralysis of analysis and no action; as each entity fights to hold their own interest over the group interest….. While China grows in the background. Trump is a Gordian knot cutter. He smartly understands that allies, specifically politicians, are now ‘globalists’ in their outlook. Each nation within an assembly of nations actually undermines their own long-term interests because their emphasis is on scraps and retention of their percentage of a diminishing pie. It takes a strong unilateral leader, who can take strong unilateral action, to confront the communist single-minded, deliberate and purposeful will. There can be no half-measures when confronting systems that are purposefully designed to end with the loss of economic security for nations. China is an economic bully; by the time a consensus is formed to confront the bully, the battle is lost. President Trump is defeating China specifically because he carries a focus to protect the interests of the U.S. first and foremost; and by extension he is protecting the economic freedom of the allied global community. This makes the international elites uneasy, because their opinion is not present in the war-room; but it is specifically because their voices are absent that Trump is able to achieve success… https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/05/15/unusual-agreement-friedman-and-bannon-align-on-china-somewhat/
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1iSNPeQ4tQ
When Does Life Begin?
Robin Smith: Americans honored moms on Mother’s Day yesterday, as we’re all thankful for the significant roles that mothers fulfill in our society.
Yet, in today’s political climate, the value of mothers has been cheapened by the heralding of access to abortion on demand. After rebranding the practice as some type of health procedure that women must have as a right, abortion has become a foundational issue that unites leftists in the belief that motherhood is, somehow, equated with being a burden and a disruption to a professional pathway to success.
Interestingly, the divide politically is seen most vividly among the states on the issue of abortion. The ease of ending life in the womb ranges dramatically in various states, reflecting the political partisanship of the elected governing bodies.
In an October 2017 Washington Post fact-check of a statement by President Donald Trump applauding the House’s Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, a stunning fact was revealed as true. It’s a fact that of 198 nations reviewed, only seven permit elective abortions after five months, or 20 weeks, of pregnancy. Listed in alphabetical order, these nations are Canada, China, Netherlands, North Korea, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam. That’s it. Of the almost 200 nations that permit abortion, 3.5% of them still think it’s a good idea to end the life of a baby after 20 weeks of gestational age, and three of those nations are repressive communist regimes.
To put that gestational age in perspective, an intrauterine heartbeat is typically detected around six weeks of pregnancy. By 90 days after conception, a heart with four distinct chambers has formed, permitting blood to enter and exit a baby’s tiny circulatory system. By 20 weeks of gestation, not only is there a beating heart, but there are other vital organs and functions supporting the science of life in the womb.
According to its “Pregnancy Week by Week” posts, the world-renowned Mayo Clinic notes that by week 20, a baby in the womb has formed urine, has eyes that move and ears that hear and is more than six inches in length. The information includes the observation that the baby’s development “takes on new meaning in the second trimester” with “functioning organs, nerves and muscles.”
Not only does the U.S. stand apart alongside a small number of nations permitting the ending of life after 20 weeks of life in the womb, but some states showcase the extremes of abortion.
In recent months, the matter-of-fact manner in which some politicians have discussed, advocated, and defended abortion has been stunning. Americans witnessed the jubilant Democrats champion legislation that permits an abortion up to the moment of birth. Even more horrific was the live talk-radio broadcast of Virginia’s Governor Ralph Northam not only advocating abortion after 20 weeks and up to birth but addressing post-delivery abortion or the termination of life. Third-trimester abortions are “done in cases where there may be severe deformities,” he said. “There may be a fetus that’s nonviable. So, in this example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired. And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.” Not only do Virginia’s Democrats want to offer abortion up to the minute of birth, its governor — a pediatric neurologist — plainly walked through the process of the murder of a child already born.
That completely mirrors the practices of Communist China, Vietnam, and North Korea!
In a few states, there are no real abortion laws. Oregon, Vermont, Colorado, New Hampshire, and the District of Columbia have no meaningful limitations on abortions at all. These bastions of abortion are joined by Alaska, New Jersey, and New Mexico, where abortion is also permitted up to the moment of birth.
Yet, the laboratories of the states are providing hope for the defense of the unborn. Currently, six states have passed “Heartbeat Bills” that prohibit abortions after an intrauterine heartbeat is detected, with Georgia being most recent. Its neighbor, Tennessee, passed the same bill in the State House with the support of the governor, but the State Senate failed to support the proposal due to concerns about costs in fighting lawsuits. Right next door, Alabama’s vote on the Senate floor was delayed last week after a provision was added that removes abortion in the case of the life of the mother or rape as a protected procedure. That resulted in heated exchanges and shouting around what could become the nation’s strictest abortion law.
One fascinating aspect of Georgia’s law is its definition of a person. The bill says that “unborn children shall be worthy of recognition as natural persons under the laws of this State.” As the Washington Examiner explains, “If it the fetus inside the womb is a person, it doesn’t matter whether the woman already knows she’s carrying it. In fact, Roe v. Wade even confirms this point. ‘If this suggestion of personhood is established, [Jane Roe’s] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment,‘ the Supreme Court case reads. Georgia’s new ‘heartbeat’ law doesn’t fly in the face of Roe v. Wade. It accepts the case’s own logic and simply defines a human being how it should’ve been defined all along.”
No wonder Hollywood is so upset with Georgia.
The “Heartbeat Bills” seem reasonable since the absence of a heartbeat is a determinate of the absence of life and, conversely, the presence of a heartbeat is a characteristic of life. George Will argues that those who base their pro-life stance upon viability outside the womb are “prudent.” But there’s a slippery slope. If, as Will declares, viability is the benchmark for life — meaning one can exist without dependency upon another or heroic measures, please prepare to apply that standard to the severely disabled and seniors nearing the end of their life. Care will be “justifiably” rationed or withheld since, clearly, these individuals are dependent upon the care of others, and yes, even the support of interventions such as feeding tubes and ventilators.
That’s prudent, don’t you know?
In short, the debate roiling state legislatures these days isn’t about how many weeks gestation is long enough, or how many roadblocks to put in front of abortion on demand. The real question is life itself. When does it begin, and when does a human have a right to it? Everything else is semantics. ~The Patriot Post
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The Amazing Xai
So when my boy Morris went to Orlando Black Pride we made a connect with their hot male cover model Xai. This young sexy man really has a lot going for himself and is becoming a internationally known model.
First I would like to say thank you for doing this interview with me. It means a lot.
Its my pleasure, thank you for the invitation!
Who is Xai?
*raises hand*! lol thats me! My original name is Xavier.. but Xai is more fitting for my personality.. really youthful/fun (pronounced like 'zae').
When did you begin Modeling?
Modeling for me started YEARS ago. I've always been into photography (even being behind the camera) since.. high school. BUT.. I wasnt a contracted model until 2009 when I signed with IM2 models based in Houston.
What was growing up like for you?
Growing up was a struggle. I only had my mom. My father bailed out at an EARLY age. Smh.. & my mom re-married, but I wasnt fond of the marriage so I didnt take a liking to my stepdad. I grew up in denial..angry..mostly unhappy..I actually hid a lot of who I was until I graduated high school. But I was a great student..& I always had a roof over my head.. thats about the only positive thing I can say lol!
Can you share with us your coming out story?
Well mine is simple. my mother saw me rollin with a group of guys ALL the time.. and one day she asked so I told her! She doesnt accept it, but she knows it is what it is. Once mom found out.. nobody else really mattered to me.
Do you feel that after you came out peoples opinions changed towards you?
Not at all! I've always been feminine and I'm quite certain people KNEW! you know? Very few speak on it, but ppl knew. I think peoples opinions changed when they see me NOW. Its like.. look at me now! *chris brown voice* lol
Who was your biggest influence into modeling?
Boris Kodjoe. I would always go thru his pix online.. & think "I wanna look like that" and I seen Tyson Beckford on the runway and thought "I wanna do that!"
What would you say the hardest thing is being a male model?
The upkeep is stressful! The feedback is sometimes overwhelming. & once you've been labeled as "a model" it's like you're put on this pedestal. so NOW I have to be mindful of the things I say and things I do. Whenever I go out.. I think "damn, I can't wear that cuz I already have a picture online in that" or I'll get a LOT of compliments about one outfit.. and think "can't wear this anymore" lol.. and there's days when I dont feel like working out.. and I wanna lay up & eat ice-cream & you have that "figure-watcher" in the back of your head thats tellin you.. "a moment on the lips equals ETERNITY on the hips" lol. & then you have people who just LIVE for EVERYTHING you do.. & you're like "thanks" & if you dont carry a convo with them.. they feel like you think you're too much or you're a diva.. so its a blessing and a curse. I dont complain... MUCH. lol
How did you feel to be asked to be the male model for Orlando Black Pride?
Omg! I thought it was a hoax originally. they contacted me thru facebook. I was thinking out of ALL the guys on this network, WHY ME?! but when I got the details I was honored, I'd NEVER done anything that big b4.
What was your experience at OBP?
I didnt wanna leave! the staff was so nice. I had a driver, I had bodyguards. people were checkin for me. everybody wanted a picture! I was signing flyers and I really had to soak the moment in. It was my FIRST real taste of stardom and i enjoyed every moment of it.
What does modeling mean to you?
To me its reassurance. its an art in how it makes me feel, but I was insecure for a long time & modeling became that thing I can fall back on when I dont feel handsome... like a safety net.
Would you like to tell our viewers how you keep yourself in shape?
I have lots of sex so there's no need to eat b/c my appetite is already satisfied..so I lose weight. lol! 100 pushups & 150 situps. But I have my weeks where I cancel ALL that, buy some ice-cream and call it a NIGHT.. & thats why my weight fluctuates.
What do you do right before you have a photoshoot?
I'm usually chewing on a snicker, waitin on the photographer to get the lighting right! lol no but
I'd say about a WEEK b4 I'm on a strict workout plan where I DONT MISS A NIGHT of situps & pushups.
As a public figure what is one cause that you are passionate about?
Brotherhood! support, feminism, masculinity, positivity, loyalty. I could go on. I'm about changing the whole perception of what the typical gay male is. I love music. I'm a Trina/Lil Kim fan til the END. But everybody knows its all about Queen Beyonce, Sheryl Swoopes & Kobe Bryant! #LoveThem
Can you walk us through a day in your life?
Recently my life has turned around in a major way. I used to work fulltime.. but NOT I just go to school.. so if I'm not at school.. I'm doing homework.. or playing basketball, working out, eating or on my iphone (that phone is my bff)!
What can we look forward to from Xai in the future?
I cant call it but yu WILL see progress, I will grow more & more everyday.
Do you have any last words for your fans and my viewers?
My fans know to FOLLOW me on TWITTER @AmazinXai! & Thank yu so much for this invitation, I appreciate it.
Labels: Model Series, Xai
Unknown June 23, 2011 at 1:47:00 PM EDT
AMAZING INDEED!
Jon June 23, 2011 at 6:09:00 PM EDT
He's Hott can he can he come model for me
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Title: Municipality
Subject: Besisahar, List of cities in Telangana by population, Administrative division, Shire, Town
Collection: Administrative Divisions, Municipalities, Types of Populated Places
The Ponce City Hall, in the city of Ponce, is the seat of the government for both the city and the surrounding barrios making up the municipality.
A municipality is usually an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government or jurisdiction. The term municipality is also used to mean the governing body of a municipality.[1] A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district. The term is derived from French "municipalité" and Latin "municipalis".[2]
The English word "Municipality" derives from the Latin social contract "municipium", meaning duty holders, referring to the Latin communities that supplied Rome with troops in exchange for their own incorporation into the Roman state (granting Roman citizenship to the inhabitants) while permitting the communities to retain their own local governments (a limited autonomy).
A municipality can be any political jurisdiction from a sovereign state, such as the Principality of Monaco, or a small village, such as West Hampton Dunes, New York.
The territory over which a municipality has jurisdiction may encompass
only one populated place such as a city, town, or village
several of such places (e.g., early jurisdictions in the state of New Jersey (1798-1899) as townships governing several villages, Municipalities of Mexico)
only parts of such places, sometimes boroughs of a city such as the 34 municipalities of Santiago, Chile.[3]
Political powers 1
In various countries 2
English-speaking 2.1
Chinese-speaking 2.2
Municipalities by country 3
Political powers
The power of municipalities range from virtual autonomy to complete subordination to the state. Municipalities may have the right to tax individuals and corporations with income tax, property tax, and corporate income tax, but may also receive substantial funding from the state.
In various countries
In various countries, municipalities are sometimes referred to as "communes", from Latin, notably in Romance languages such as French commune (Benin, France), Italian comune, Romanian comună, and Spanish comuna (Chile), and in Germanic languages such as German Kommune, Swedish kommun, and Norwegian/Danish kommune. Other terms include Spanish ayuntamiento, and municipalidad (cognate to "municipality") and Polish gmina.
English-speaking
In Australia, the term local government area (LGA) is used in place of the generic municipality. Here, the "LGA Structure covers only incorporated areas of Australia. Incorporated areas are legally designated parts of states and territories over which incorporated local governing bodies have responsibility."[4]
In Canada, municipalities are local governments established through provincial and territorial legislation, usually within general municipal statutes.[5][6] Types of municipalities within Canada include cities, district municipalities, municipal districts, municipalities, parishes, rural municipalities, towns, townships, villages, and villes among others.[6] The Province of Ontario has different tiers of municipalities, including lower, upper, and single tiers.[7] Types of upper tier municipalities in Ontario include counties and regional municipalities.[7] Nova Scotia also has regional municipalities, which include cities, counties, districts, or towns as municipal units.[8]
In the [9] Since local government reorganisation, the unit in England, Northern Ireland and Wales is known as a district, and in Scotland as a council area. A district may be awarded borough or city status, or can retain its district title.
In Jersey, a municipality refers to the honorary officials elected to run each of the 12 parishes into which it is subdivided. This is the highest level of regional government in this jurisdiction.
In the United States, "municipality" is usually understood as a city, town, village, or other local government unit, formed by municipal charter from the state as a municipal corporation.[10] In a state law context, some U.S. state codes define "municipality" more widely, from the state itself to any political subdivisions given jurisdiction over an area that may include multiple populated places and unpopulated places.[11][12] (See also Political divisions of the United States.)
Chinese-speaking
In the People's Republic of China, a direct-controlled municipality (直辖市 in pinyin: zhíxiáshì) is a city with equal status to a province: Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing (see Municipality of China).
In Taiwan (Republic of China), a special municipality (直轄市 in pinyin: zhíxiáshì) is a city with equal status to a province: Kaohsiung, New Taipei, Taichung, Tainan and Taipei (see Special municipality of Taiwan).
Municipalities by country
Subdivision of
Albania bashki (urban) or komunë (rural) Municipalities of Albania
Algeria baladiyah daïra (district), which is part of a wilaya (province) 1,541 Municipalities of Algeria
Argentina municipalidad Puerto Madryn a province Provinces of Argentina (Partidos in Buenos Aires Province and Departamentos in the other provinces) 135 Partidos (Buenos Aires Province) Is the smallest political-administrative division. Is one form of a country subdivision of Argentina. It is a city, town, or township (or a group of these), which is -below the department level- part of a province. The provinces organize the municipalities in their territories according to their own municipal regime. Municipalities of Argentina
Austria Gemeinde district (Bezirk), which is in turn part of a state (Bundesland). Municipalities of Austria
Bangladesh Pouroshabha / Pouroshava upazila or subdistrict, which is in turn part of a district 311 Municipalities of Bangladesh
Belgium gemeente/commune a province (provincie/province) or of the Brussels-Capital Region 589 Municipalities in Belgium
Bolivia municipio Arani Municipality province, which is part of a departamento. 327 (2005) Municipalities of Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina općina or opština in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina : of a canton (kanton). In Republika Srpska, municipality is first order of government after entity government. Municipalities of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brazil município São Paulo (most populous), Borá (least populous) states (estados) 5,564 is the smallest political-administrative division; there is no equivalent to a county level. A city (cidade) is defined in Brazilian law as the urban seat of a municipality, and a municipality always has the same name as the corresponding city. Brazilian law establishes no difference between cities and towns; all it takes for an urban settlement to be called a "city" is to be the seat of a municipality, and some are very small. Other settlements have no form of local government and are under the authority of the municipality they are in, although in some cases the municipal government may set up local administrative offices there. The Federal District (the area of the national capital city, Brasília) has special status and is not divided into municipalities. The Fernando de Noronha and St. Peter and St. Paul archipelagos together comprise a unique case of a "state district" under the direct administration of the state government of Pernambuco. Apart from these two exceptions, all land in Brazil, even the remotest wilderness areas, belongs to the territory of some municipality, and therefore is technically under the jurisdiction of a "city." No point in the country lies in a non-incorporated area, and that explains why some municipalities in sparsely populated areas such as the Amazon region can be larger than many sovereign countries. Municipalities of Brazil
Bulgaria Bulgarian: община, obshtina Aksakovo Municipality an oblast 264 Municipalities of Bulgaria
Kingdom of Cambodia (ស឵ល឵ក្រុង) refers to city hall Example, if they say Phnom Penh Municipality it means Phnom Penh City Hall, but sometimes a municipality refers to the capital city, which is Phnom Penh City.
Chile municipalidad provinces is a legal entity which administers one or more communes (comuna) which are the third-level division of the country. The first division are regions which a next divided into provinces (provincia). These provinces are next divided into comunas which are assigned to a municipality for administration. In almost most cases the municipality and the comuna have the same name, but the constitution permits a single municipality to be responsible for more than one commune.
Colombia municipio a department (departamento) 1119 It is also subdivided into Corregimientos and Veredas. Municipalities of Colombia
Costa Rica Municipalidad Province (Provinces of Costa Rica) Cantones of Costa Rica
Croatia općina county (županija) Municipalities of Croatia
Czech Republic obec a kraj (kraj)
Denmark kommune Aabenraa Municipality a region 98 Counties (amter) were abandoned in Denmark on January 1, 2007. Municipalities of Denmark
Dominican Republic municipio province Municipalities of the Dominican Republic
Estonia omavalitsus Are vald (Are Parish) county (maakond) 215 is the smallest division of local government. Municipalities can be both towns (linn) and parishes (vald). Municipalities of Estonia
Finland kunta/kommun 320 is independent and constitutes local government; each co-operates with municipalities nearby in a sub-region (seutukunta) and region (maakunta). A municipality can freely call itself a "city" (kaupunki). Municipalities of Finland
France commune department (département) which is part of a region (région) 36,600
Germany Gemeinde district (Kreis). Larger entities of the same level are called towns (Stadt). In less populated regions, municipalities are often put together into collective municipalities (Verbandsgemeinde) 12013 Municipalities of Germany
Greece demos (δήμος, pl. δήμοι) or kinotita (κοινότητα, pl. κοινότητες) with lesser population a municipality is either, which are then part of a prefecture (nomos, νομός) and then a larger region known as a periphery (περιφέρεια, pl. περιφέρειες). Municipalities are third-level administrative divisions and their heads (mayors in demi, presidents in kinotites) are appointed via popular vote held every four years.
Greenland kommunea Kujalleq is the first-level administrative division of country. Municipalities of Greenland
Haiti commune an arrondissement, which is part of a department (département).
Honduras municipio was in 1895 originally the subdivision of the district (distrito), but as districts have fallen into disuse, it is now the subdivision of the department (departamento). 298 Municipalities of Honduras
Hungary település a county (megye). 3,168 (in 2005)
Iceland sveitarfélag Reykjavík Regions 74 Municipalities in Iceland are the only self-governing local administrative units. Municipalities of Iceland
India nagar palika A municipality is often referred to as a town. It is neither a village nor a big city. Usually, a municipality would have 20,000 or more people, but if it exceeds 500,000 it becomes a municipal corporation (Mahanagar Nigam). Ward councillors of municipal corporations are nominated by the subdivisional officers and elected by the people. The chairman is also a nominee of the subdivisional officer who is a government officer in India. Municipalities of India
Israel a municipality generally takes one of three forms: city councils, which govern a large municipality, local councils, which govern a small municipality, and regional councils, which govern a group of communities, often but not necessarily of a rural nature.
Italy comune a province (provincia) which is part of a region (regione). 8058 The term "municipality" is reserved for subdivisions of larger comuni (in particular, the comune of Rome), while municipio indicates the city hall palace. List of comuni of Italy
Japan a municipality is the sphere of government within the prefectures, the sub-division of the state. Municipalities of Japan include shi (cities), cho (towns), and son (villages).
Kenya a municipality is one of four types of local authorities. Nearly 50 major towns are given the municipality status.
Latvia sing.:novads, plur.:novadi) Aglona novads (Aglona Municipality) A municipality normally consists of amalgamated parishes (sing.:pagasts, plur.:pagasti). Municipalities of Latvia
Lebanon a district (Arabic: Qadaa) which is part of a Governorate (Region or Province, Arabic: Mouhafazah).
Libya the municipality level is that of the Basic People's Congress. Large cities are subdivided. Municipalities of Libya
Lithuania savivaldybė Kalvarijos savivaldybė (Kalvarija Municipality) a district (apskritis) and is subdivided into elderates (seniūnija). Municipalities of Lithuania
Luxembourg communes are the lowest divisions
Macedonia opština Aračinovo Municipality the country (top-level) or the City of Skopje 84 (2004) current set established in 2004, reduced from 123 created in 1996. Municipalities of the Republic of Macedonia
Malta Kunsill Lokali (Local Council) Valletta Local Council none 68 established 1993, one new council created since then (Mtarfa) Local councils of Malta
Mexico municipio / delegación Asientos Municipality a state (estado) or the DF a borough (delegación) is a subdivision of the Federal District Municipalities of Mexico and boroughs of the Mexican Federal District
Moldova municipiu Municipiul Chișinău is a main city or town and surrounding villages ranked by law at this level. Moldova#Administrative_divisions
Montenegro opština Andrijevica Municipality the country (top-level) Municipalities of Montenegro
Nepal Nagarpalika 58 (after the census in 2001)+33 new municipalities were in 2012 a municipality is a town not large enough in population or infrastructure to qualify as a sub-metropolitan city.
Netherlands gemeente a province (provincie) 403 + 3 special municipalities Municipalities in the Netherlands
New Zealand a municipality is part of either a "city" (mostly urban) or a "district" (mostly rural). The term "municipality" has become rare in New Zealand since about 1979 and has no legal status. (See territorial authorities of New Zealand.)
Nicaragua municipio a department (departamento) or of one of the two Autonomous Regions, Región Autónoma del Atlántico Norte and Región Autónoma del Atlántico Sur. Municipalities of Nicaragua
Norway kommune Røyken kommune a county (fylke) 430 (2009) Municipalities of Norway
Palestinian National Authority 105 municipalities are localities with populations over 4,000 and have 13-15 council members. Municipality (Palestinian Authority)
Pakistan of a tehsil/taluka or sub-district of a "district". Local government in Pakistan
Paraguay municipalidad a departament (departamento)
Peru municipio a province (provincia), which is part of a department (departamento). As of 2002 a department is now called a region (región). is another term for district (distrito) and is the lower-level administrative subdivision.
Philippines bayan or munisipyo a province is a town with a popularly elected administration including a mayor and is part of a province (lalawigan or probinsya) (except for the independent municipality of Pateros, Metro Manila in the National Capital Region). Municipalities are not the smallest division of local government and are composed of barangays.
Poland gmina Gmina Annopol county (powiat).
Portugal concelho or município Concelho is a directly elected local area authority generally consisting of a main city or town and surrounding villages, with wide-ranging local administration powers. Apart from the municipality of Corvo, however, municípios are not the smallest administrative unit in Portugal, that being the freguesia (civil parish). For central government purposes, Portuguese municipalities are grouped into districts (distritos). In Portugal, a municipality (município/concelho) is the primary local administrative unit. Although part of a district (distrito) for certain national administrative purposes, the municipality is not subordinate to the district and decentralization is doing away with the districts. A municipality contains one or more freguesias. Municipalities of Portugal
Puerto Rico municipio municipality consists of an urban area (termed a city or town) plus all of its surrounding barrios comprising the municipality. It has a popularly elected administration and a municipal mayor. The seat of the municipal government is located in such urban area and serves the entire municipal jurisdiction.[13][14] Municipalities of Puerto Rico
Romania comună / oraș / municipiu A commune (comună) is the rural subdivision of a judeţ. Urban areas, such as towns and cities within a county, are given the status of city (oraș) or municipality (municipiu). Communes of Romania
Russia several types of municipalities ("municipal formations") exist; see subdivisions of Russia
San Marino there are also eight minor municipalities, castelli.
Serbia opština a district (okrug)
Slovakia obec district (okres) 2,891
Slovenia občina region (regija) 212 a municipality (občina) is the primary local administrative unit. There are 212 of them, 11 of which have a special "Urban" status with additional autonomy. Municipalities of Slovenia
South Africa district municipalities and metropolitan municipalities are subdivisions of the provinces, and local municipalities are subdivisions of district municipalities.
Spain municipio a municipality (municipio) is the primary local administrative unit. It is a part of a province (provincia) for all national administrative purposes. In the Galicia region, the municipalities are called, in Galician language, concellos, and in the Principality of Asturias region, a municipality is called a concejo (in Spanish language) or a conceyu (in Asturian language). In these two regions a municipality contains one or more parroquias (parishes). Municipalities of Spain
Sweden kommun Ale Municipality 290 is self-governing according to the Swedish constitution and constitutes local government. Before 1971, a municipality could be called a town (stad), a köping or a rural municipality (landskommun); present municipalities which used to be towns are still commonly called towns. Sweden is also divided into 21 counties (län), each containing one or more of the municipalities. Municipalities of Sweden
Switzerland commune/Gemeinde/comune a canton (canton/Kanton/cantone) and defined by cantonal law. Municipalities in Switzerland
Thailand thesaban None 1,602 There are three levels of municipalities, and municipalities are not self-governed except for Bangkok and Pattaya. Municipalities introduced in 1935, Bangkok became self-governed in 1972, and Pattaya became self-governed in 1978. Thesaban
Ukraine there are two types of municipalities (or rada — council): urban and rural. Both are types of lower administrative division in the country. Urban municipalities could be city or settlement (town). Cities always carry special status: national (two), oblast (at least one in each region), and raion (the rest). Urban municipalities often consist of several other smaller ones. Bigger cities are divided into number of city raions (districts). Rural municipalities are much smaller and may combine several villages and rural settlements (smaller villages). Two cities Kiev and Sevastopol are organized as special municipalities that are independent from their regional government (oblast / republic) within they are located.
United Arab Emirates an emirate is defined by the law of the specific emirates.
Turkey belediye Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality il(province) 2,920 is a local government authority and there are two types of municipalities: metropolitan (büyükşehir) municipality, district (alt/ilçe) municipality.
Uruguay municipio 89 Municipalities of Uruguay
Venezuela municipio Anaco Municipality a state, as well as a subdivision of the Capital District (estado) Municipalities of Venezuela
Vietnam Direct-controlled municipality Ho Chi Minh City (largest) 5 In the Vietnam, a direct-controlled municipality (Thành phố trực thuộc trung ương in Vietnamese) is a city with equal status to a province: Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hai Phong, Da Nang and Can Tho Municipalities of Vietnam
In Portuguese language usage, there are two words to distinguish the territory and the administrative organ. When referring to the territory, the word organ of State, the word município is used. This differentiation is still in use in Portugal and some of its former overseas provinces, but it’s no longer in use in Brazil.
Council of European Municipalities and Regions
Council-manager government
Creature of statute
Lists of municipalities
Mayor-council government
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Terms for types of administrative territorial entities
English terms
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Insular area
Local government area
County borough
Metropolitan borough
Federal capital
Imperial capital
Autonomous city
Charter city
Independent city
Imperial city
Free imperial city
Royal free city
Autonomous community
Administrative county
Autonomous county
Consolidated city-county
Metropolitan county
Non-metropolitan
Viscountcy
Electoral district
Indian government district
Land district
Municipal district
Police district
Rural district
Sanitary district
Subdistrict
Urban district
Direct-controlled municipality
District municipality
Mountain resort municipality
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Their Finest
During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter (Gemma Arterton) works on a film celebrating England’s resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace’s spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters (Lily Knight and Francesca Knight) who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Director: Lone Scherfig
Actors: Bill Nighy, Eddie Marsan, Gemma Arterton, Helen McCrory, Jack Huston, Jake Lacy, Sam Claflin
Country: France, Sweden, UK
Ex-special operative MacGruber is called back into action to take down his archenemy, Dieter Von Cunth, who’s in possession of a nuclear warhead and bent on destroying Washington, DC.
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Max My Love
A French wife takes a zoo chimp named Max to be her lover.
Four everyday suburban guys come together as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. But when they accidentally discover that their town has become overrun with…
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From Jane Austen’s novella, the beautiful and cunning Lady Susan Vernon visits the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors of her dalliances and to find husbands for…
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Peyton and Barney are fun loving high school students working on a science project with white mice. When one of the mice begins to move food toward itself with out…
Anuvahood
Kenneth (who likes to call himself Kay) begins to realise he’s just another wannabe bad boy… even less than a loser in fact. After quitting his job at Laimsbury’s, Kay…
Reality Queen!
A comedy asking the question: is heiress/socialite London Logo a marketing genius, or simply the accidental beneficiary of an ignorant American public?
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With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a “wacky weatherman” tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange…
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
When ten-year-old Lewis is suddenly orphaned, he is sent to live with his Uncle Jonathan in a creaky (and creepy) old mansion with a mysterious ticking noise that emanates from…
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Having thought that monogamy was never possible, a commitment-phobic career woman may have to face her fears when she meets a good guy.
When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on…
Country: Ireland, USA
Oscar is a small fish whose big aspirations often get him into trouble. Meanwhile, Lenny is a great white shark with a surprising secret that no sea creature would guess:…
Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy, Family
Trailer: Their Finest
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Girls’ volleyball takes home hardware
November 19, 2018 November 7, 2018 ~ Garden City High School
Brody Hoff
Sugarbeet staff reporter
Lady Buffs dig their way through the sub-state competition for a chance to compete at the state level. On Oct. 20 the volleyball team competed in the sub-state competition and beat both of their competitors. They first faced Derby and after beating them they went against the Topeka High team. Because of this they can now compete and the 6A state competition with chance to become the state champions.
“I’m really excited, but nervous, I have been to state years before this so I know state is a tough competition, but we are as prepared as a team as we can be for the state meet”, Reagan Karlin, varsity junior said.
The team played against Derby for their first game. They then played against Topeka High and they managed to win both games.
“When we played Derby we started off really slow, but we got going and won that game although it was a lot closer than it should have been, we then played Topeka High who was a tough team, but we came out on top and we really worked well as a team,” Karlin said.
Sub-state took place in Topeka at the Topeka High School. The state competition will take place in Salina at the high school on Oct. 27.
“We did really good, I’m very confident because we managed to beat Topeka and Derby although we could work on getting started faster, but we did manage to play our hearts out” Symmone Simmons, varsity sophomore.
The competitive nature of the state competition means that all teams have to come ready to compete and play. “I really want to make it to day two so we are going to have to play really well, however I know that we definitely can get there as a team as long as we focus on starting sooner and not struggling so early game.” Remi Vargas a varsity junior said. The volleyball team is a younger team than the Lady Buffs usually have with a total eight sophomores, three juniors and one senior.
“We are super ready for this competition, this is what we have been preparing for all season, every game we’ve won and loss has lead up to the games at the state competition,” Vargas said.
Brody Hoff is a trade and health academy student you can contact him at hoffb@student.gckschools.com.
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Panoramic and easy hiking trails of Tyrol
While the Austrian alps are busy with Skiing in winters, the summers are a hiking paradise. The best part of hiking in the Alps is that the landscape transforms as we hike farther and it's surprisingly safe. These trails are not unexplored and untouched, but untamed and laid down technically to reach various mountain ranges. These network of hiking trails connects between the cable car stations, and are well marked, so it is not always necessary to get back from the same cable car which lifted you to the top. The hiking trails offers various difficulty levels, starting from leisure hikes to alpine climbing or a family stroll across the gorgeous lakes. These rugged mountaintops, alpine lakes and glaciers are a paradise for hikers in summer. Axamer Lizum There are hundreds of hiking trails in Tyrol region of Austria, but the most scenic, easy to hike, trouble-free to access and within the reach are the Zirbenweg trail of Patscherkofel and Hochtennbodensteig trail of Axamer Lizu
Location: Tyrol, Austria
Interiors of Chennakeshava temple, Belur
Interiors of Belur Chennakeshava temple: Originally the interior received much daylight, but the added screens make it dark and mysterious. The interior of the temple consisting of a garbhagriha, Sukhanasi, navaranga and a mandapa takes us to a new world of sculptures with lathe turned pillars of various designs. The central square of the navaranga has four pillars decorated with bracket figures atop. These bracket figures are remarkably of superior workmanship in conception and execution. The Navaranga has raised verandah's on both sides of the three entrances. Sufficient space has been left out in the central hall (Navaranga) for musical performances and Puja (worship) ceremonies by large numbers of devotees and others. Sculptures on the entrance of Garbhagriha Pillars: There are a total of 48 pillars, while the four central pillars have been hand churned, the others had been lathe turned. One of the four Pillar's at the central square of the Navara
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AIDS Stories October 18, 2012
YouTube exec says Google’s 20 percent time helped form ‘YouTube for Good’
Élyse Betters - Oct. 18th 2012 12:12 pm PT
Google’s Director of Product Management, Hunter Walk, who works specifically on YouTube, just gave Bloomberg a brief insight into his latest project made possible by the company’s famous 20 percent time.
Walk manages roughly a dozen engineers at YouTube, but he also utilizes Google’s 20 percent time—a time Google freely allots to employees every week for side projects— to mold YouTube into a platform for social causes and change, and not just a resource for endless cat videos.
“There is a real desire for YouTube to be a global classroom and a global town square, not just a global living room,” said Walker to Bloomberg in an interview.
According to Bloomberg:
Over the past year, Walk has been quietly evangelizing within Google for his initiative called YouTube for Good. He has convinced about a fifth of YouTube’s 1,000 or so employees, as well as some from Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, to set aside a chunk of their time to build online tools used by organizations including the United Nations World Food Program and Charity: Water.
YouTube for Good also made it possible to live stream last year’s AIDS symposium by the ONE Campaign, and it developed innovative tools like automatic face blurring to protect protest activists in YouTube videos. Aside from YouTube for Good, Google Reader, Gmail, and Google News are a few of the many successful side projects created with Google’s 20 percent time program.
Go to Bloomberg for the full report.
(Image via GigaOm)
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Dantzaris from California raise funds to participate in the Folklife Festival in Washington, where the Basque culture will be the protagonist
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This article was translated by Mikel Martín
The group of dantzaris (dancers) The Kern County Basque Club from Bakersfield (California) has started a crowd-funding campaign in order to collect the 25.000 USD that they need to deal with the expenses of participating in the Folklife Festival 2016, which, as usual, is going to be celebrated in the National Mall of Washington.
As we have mentioned several times, in this edition the Basque Culture will be the protagonist of this extraordinary event run by Smithsonian Institute. From the 29th of June to the 10th of July, the Basque will be able to present their culture in the USA’s heart, their reality as a nation and their contribution to the history of the USA.
As the Californian congress member with Basque origin John Garamendi explains in the cover note of the Basque participation in this edition of the festival, the Basque culture brought to the USA by the Basque emigrants is an important part, and in some states even a key part, for the culture of that nation.
As we defend since it was announced, we are convinced that this will be a historical opportunity:
We should take for granted that the Basque Government, responsible for all three territories of the Basque Autonomous Community of which Biscay is one of them, will take responsibility and the leading role in this project.
It’s the first time in history of the Basque, where all Basque territorial administrations elected by the Basque People, may be ready to collaborate on such a great project.
The government of the Foral Community of Navarre, after recently held election, has left behind the attitude against anything “sounding Basque” it once used to have, which may allow its participation in this cultural project.
Tourisme 64 (Pays Basque y Bearn) and Basquetour (the Basque Tourism Agency) have recently signed an agreement with the goal of establishing cross-border collaboration for the joint promotion of tourism in order to reinforce the appeal of both destinations. This may allow them participate in the Smithsonian Project.
So as long as it is a cultural event, all Basque territories should have their presence, role and protagonism at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2016.
But on top of that all, this may be a unique opportunity for the Basque Diaspora, the so called Eighth Basque Territory, to have a prominent role. Now that Jaialdi 2015 is still fresh in our memories it’s worth remembering that The Land of the Basques is where the Basques are.
There’s a unique opportunity in 2016 for the Basque and their culture to be placed and shownon one of the most important locations in the planet before millions of people and show the world one of the oldest cultures in Europe
However, for this event to be successful, it’s essential to have the support, collaboration and commitment of the Basque diaspora in the United States. They have shown their ability of organization and commitment to the conservation, defense and diffusion of the Basque heritage in this part of the world.
This campaign of Kern County Basque Club shows such commitment. They consider, and so do we, this event as a life-time opportunity for them, and also for the diffusion of the Basque culture’s heritage’s contribution to their country.
We hope that this 25 Basque-American dancers will be able to dance in the shadow of the Washington Monument, remembering and honoring their ancestors and the culture they inherited from them.
Now, a little detail to understand who the Basque people are. The Kern County Basque Club was founded in the middle of the last century by 4 Basques: 3 from Iparralde and 1 from Navarra. This is a lesson that reminds us what the reality of the Basque is: ¡Zazpiak bat! (The Seven Together: making reference to the 7 Basque provinces).
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We are a group of 25 Basque dancers from the Kern County Basque Club of California, ranging from 11 to 20 years of age. Our youth/adult members have been awarded the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington DC this summer (July 7 – 10, 2016); preserving and promoting our Basque heritage. It is an exciting experience for us to share our culture with the global community and that is why we ask for your support in raising funds. Every little bit will help with our travel expenses for the event. Thank you for your time & support in sharing our love of our culture — Aupa Dantzari Gazteak!
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Chapter 73. Cyclic Antidepressants
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Liebelt EL. Liebelt E.L. Liebelt, Erica L.Chapter 73. Cyclic Antidepressants. In: Nelson LS, Lewin NA, Howland M, Hoffman RS, Goldfrank LR, Flomenbaum NE. Nelson L.S., & Lewin N.A., & Howland M, & Hoffman R.S., & Goldfrank L.R., & Flomenbaum N.E.(Eds.),Eds. Lewis S. Nelson, et al.eds. Goldfrank's Toxicologic Emergencies, 9e . McGraw-Hill; Accessed January 20, 2021. https://accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=454§ionid=40199474
Liebelt EL. Liebelt E.L. Liebelt, Erica L. (2011). Chapter 73. cyclic antidepressants. Nelson LS, Lewin NA, Howland M, Hoffman RS, Goldfrank LR, Flomenbaum NE. Nelson L.S., & Lewin N.A., & Howland M, & Hoffman R.S., & Goldfrank L.R., & Flomenbaum N.E.(Eds.),Eds. Lewis S. Nelson, et al. Goldfrank's Toxicologic Emergencies, 9e . McGraw-Hill. https://accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=454§ionid=40199474
Liebelt EL. Liebelt E.L. Liebelt, Erica L. "Chapter 73. Cyclic Antidepressants." Goldfrank's Toxicologic Emergencies, 9e Nelson LS, Lewin NA, Howland M, Hoffman RS, Goldfrank LR, Flomenbaum NE. Nelson L.S., & Lewin N.A., & Howland M, & Hoffman R.S., & Goldfrank L.R., & Flomenbaum N.E.(Eds.),Eds. Lewis S. Nelson, et al. McGraw-Hill, 2011, https://accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=454§ionid=40199474.
Cyclic Antidepressants: Introduction
History and Epidemiology
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Clinical Manifestations of Toxicity
The term cyclic antidepressant (CA) refers to a group of pharmacologically related xenobiotics used for treatment of depression, neuralgic pain, migraines, enuresis, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Most CAs have at least three rings in their chemical structure. They include the traditional tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) imipramine, desipramine, amitriptyline, nortriptyline, doxepin, trimipramine, protriptyline, and clomipramine, as well as other cyclic compounds such as maprotiline and amoxapine.
Imipramine was the first TCA used for treatment of depression in the late 1950s. However, the synthesis of iminodibenzyl, the "tricyclic" core of imipramine, and the description of its chemical characteristics date back to 1889. Structurally related to the phenothiazines, imipramine was originally developed as a hypnotic agent for agitated or psychotic patients and was serendipitously found to alleviate depression. From the 1960s until the late 1980s, the TCAs were the major pharmacologic treatment for depression in the United States. However, by the early 1960s, cardiovascular and central nervous system (CNS) toxicities were recognized as major complications of TCA overdoses.99 The newer CAs developed in the 1980s and 1990s were designed to decrease some of the adverse effects of older TCAs, improve the therapeutic index, and reduce the incidence of serious toxicity. Other CAs include the tetracyclic drug maprotiline and the dibenzoxapine drug amoxapine.
The epidemiology of CA poisoning has evolved significantly in the last 20 years, resulting in great part from the introduction of the newer selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) for the treatment of depression. Although the use of CAs for depression has decreased over the last 15 years, other medical indications, including chronic pain, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and, particularly in children, enuresis and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have emerged, resulting in their continued use. The antidepressants are a leading cause of drug-related self-poisonings in the developed world, primarily because of their ready availability to people with depression who by virtue of the disease are at high risk for overdose. However, despite the increase in SSRI use and overdose, patients with TCA overdoses continue to have higher rates of hospitalization (78.7% versus 64.7%) and fatality (0.73% versus 0.14%) than do those with SSRI overdose.73
Children younger than 6 years have consistently accounted for approximately 12%–13% of all CA exposures reported to poison centers during each of the last 15 years (see Chap. 135). Despite the emergence of the SSRIs in the early 1990s, TCAs were still among the top five psychotropic drugs most frequently prescribed by pediatric office—based practices in 1995.48 The use of TCAs has remained stable in adolescents but has declined in prepubertal children.116 Thus CA poisoning likely will continue to be among the most lethal unintentional drug ingestions in younger children because only one or two adult-strength pills can produce serious clinical effects in young children.
In general, the TCAs can be classified into tertiary and secondary amines based on the presence of a methyl group on the propylamine side chain ...
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