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Thought About Your Advocacy Strategy Lately?
By Joe Gianoni on May 14, 2019
When it comes to advocacy, it feels silly to say that the most important thing is reaching the right folks with the right message at the right time, but it’s the truth. The key lies in the nuances of doing so effectively. This is exactly why we need to constantly innovate and uncover new ideas or ways to connect with people who can advance your organization’s mission. If the human mind was black and white, that would be one thing, but it is not, and so engaging advocates requires constant innovation.
Chris Masak, senior associate director of advocacy at the Alzheimer’s Association, joined Roz Lemieux, director of Blackbaud Labs, on a recent episode of The sgENGAGE Podcast to discuss innovations in advocacy programs. Having worked in advocacy for the Association for nearly 8 years, Chris has seen a lot of what the nonprofit sector has to offer as far as technology, opportunity, and strategy.
During the conversation, Chris touched on many interesting topics including identifying and targeting the right people, ways that new technologies can be leveraged, and how not being afraid of risk can lead to breaking the mold. Here are a few key tips from the conversation:
Always be thinking of new ways to incorporate our ever-developing technology. Things like virtual reality for instance, could play a pivotal role. Chris gives the following example: “Marching into a Senate office with a VR headset and trying to strap it to a senator might get security called. But the flip side is there might be opportunities for those kind of experiences. People virtually attending lobby days, so on and so forth.”
Engagement:
“We’re big proponents of what have you done for me lately,” Chris said. Pay attention to the folks who have taken action recently – people who have spoken out on an issue, shared a tweet, or even just clicked a button online in support. Statistically, they’re the ones that are going to take the action again or do the next thing on that list.
Leaving room for innovation:
My favorite part of the interview was when Chris said: “There’s been some ridiculous, or what seemed initially as ridiculous, tactics that I’ve learned, from a number of folks here, that ultimately when you look at it, they really broke the mold. They created a new set of best practices along the way. It’s really striking how sometimes, trying to go to the bleeding edge, if you don’t almost come full circle back to the stuff that’s been abandoned and just do away with it. A new spin. You can even have success there. One of the examples I always give is television ads. All the television ads got loud with loud music and visuals and manic and frantic editing and things like that. And then you occasionally see that one ad that is dead silent, text on a black screen and nothing else. It’s almost like when you buy a newspaper ad, it’s not really interactive. It doesn’t do anything like that. But that’s a jarring experience when you’re sitting at home because you’re like, did my TV turn off? And you look at it, pay it attention. So there’s some times you can take an old thing and put it in a new platform and still achieve success.”
Click here to listen to the full episode to hear everything Chris shared about innovating to engage more advocates to advance your cause.
Joe Gianoni
Joe has been with Blackbaud for over three years and supports the brand team as an Associate Marketing Communication Specialist. He is involved with managing content for the npENGAGE website and the sgENGAGE podcast and is thrilled to be in a position to share leading industry trends and ideas within the philanthropic sector. With a passion for animal welfare and the arts, he is a self-proclaimed patron of live music based in New York City who prior to Blackbaud spent more time working with dogs than humans.
Thank you for sharing the main topics from the sgENGAGE Podcast. The summary is on point for people who are creative, innovative and on the brink of creating new technological modes of communication.
Glad to share, we’re revamping our advocacy strategy!
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I very much enjoyed reading A Declaration of Independents and Greg Orman’s very detailed description of the failings of the two-party system, his characterization of independents and our important role. Breaking the duopoly of the two-party system is critically important to the future of our political process.
I have been active in the independence movement since 1986 and founded New Jersey Independent Voters (NJIV) in 2016 when I moved to New Jersey. In New Jersey, we have 2.4 million registered independents—more than the Democrats (2 million) and Republicans (1.2 million). All of the statewide and most of the local elections are decided in the primaries. But, independents cannot vote in the primaries unless we change our registration to one of the parties. We have a lot of opinions in NJIV and many ideas about amplifying the voice of independents. Some of our members want to work through Democratic country committees and others are interested in trying to take over the Republican party, some work with the Green party and others believe in no parties. We have conservatives, liberals, progressives, moderates. All agree that we should not be paying for a political process that excludes us as independents.
Reading the second chapter, “My Path To Political Independence” had me thinking about my own path over these many years. I grew up in a Republican area of Long Island. During our mock presidential debate in sixth grade, I was the only student in class supporting George McGovern. In high school, I attended every School Board meeting. I thought it was undemocratic to not have a student representative on the Board and campaigned (unsuccessfully) for that throughout four years of high school.
On to college, where I majored in political sciences and was active in women’s, gay and lesbian, peace and anti-nuclear weapons and other progressive causes. In 1981, I did a summer internship in Washington with the Northeast-Midwest Senate Coalition, a bi-partisan, regional association of democratic and republican senators from 17 states. My job was to analyze the economic legislation being proposed, included the efforts to create urban enterprise zones and the Reagan tax cuts. I came out of that summer disillusioned with electoral politics and determined to make change outside of the electoral process. For the next five years, I threw myself into progressive grassroots organizing. I helped organize unions at my first two jobs, went to Nicaragua to help build a school (during Iran-Contra), was active in anti-poverty efforts, started the Philadelphia women’s newspaper and was one of the founders of numerous progressive groups including ACT-UP, NJG (a Jewish-Lesbian group), Women’s Pentagon Action and other peace and anti-nuclear efforts.
After a number of years, I realized that there were limitations to what could be accomplished without an electoral component. At the same time, I was not willing to become a democrat. I thought the party (and the whole political process) was corrupt and was co-opting the political causes I believed in.
In 1986, I met Dr. Lenora Fulani and Dr. Fred Newman. They were co-founders of a number of organizations, including the New Alliance Party (a progressive third party). In 1988, I worked on Dr. Fulani’s presidential campaign and ran as an independent for statewide office in PA. Many of my longtime progressive partners attacked my efforts and voted for a pro-life candidate solely because he was a democrat. I loved traveling the state and campaigning for Dr. Fulani, bringing people who were left out—African Americans, Latinos, gay and lesbian, poor and working-class people of every color—into the political process as independents. I had discovered a new path.
Over the past 32 years, I have run as an independent in Pennsylvania, New York, California and Massachusetts and managed a number of independent campaigns. I have personally spoken to thousands of people from all walks of life, creating new conversations and new ways of being together. I am proud to be building a place where all voices can be heard.
Greg Orman and I have taken different paths and ended up in the same place. We can speak to and hear each other. And, that’s what I most love about being an independent.
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thank you for sharing your story, you are truly an example of what democracy should be about. i am so impressed that at such a young age you had the clarity of a mature adult and that despite the political system, you have accomplished so much. Onward!
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Strangers on the internet hailed Duncan Socrates Lemp as a martyr for their anti-government movement after a police officer shot and killed the 21-year-old man during a pre-dawn raid on his family’s Maryland home.
A hashtag campaign spreading Lemp’s name on social media has been a mixed blessing for his grieving family. While grateful for the support, Lemp’s parents told The Associated Press that it has made them uneasy to see his death galvanize a loose network of gun-toting supporters of the “boogaloo,” the nascent movement’s slang for a second civil war.
During two interviews in recent days about the March 12 shooting, Mercedes and Matt Lemp said their son wasn’t a threat to the tactical unit officers who stormed their Potomac house around 4:30 a.m. And they don’t believe he was part of any extremist movement.
“It’s a bit strange,” Matt Lemp said. “And while it’s nice to know that people are thinking of him positively, he didn’t — and we don’t — agree with a lot of what they’re saying,”
Self-described “boogaloo bois” have joined protests against coronavirus lockdowns and racial injustice, carrying rifles and wearing tactical gear over Hawaiian shirts. The shirts refer to “big luau,” a riff on the term “boogaloo,” which comes from the title of a 1984 sequel to a breakdancing movie.
It’s not all fun and memes: Federal authorities have linked the movement to domestic terrorism attacks and plots, including the slaying of a federal security officer and a sheriff’s deputy in California. An Air Force sergeant was arrested for the killing.
Boogaloo promoters point to social media posts by Lemp as evidence he supported their movement. Mercedes Lemp recalled her son mentioning “boog bois,” but called assertions that her son was a member of the boogaloo group “very strange because it is not what he was at all.”
“It definitely gives me a bit of uneasiness because it’s not a true representation,” she said.
A post on Lemp’s Instagram account shortly before his death included the term “boogaloo” with a photograph of two people holding up rifles. His last tweet, on Dec. 31, said “the constitution is dead.”
A person who identified himself as Duncan Lemp under a username that friends said Lemp had employed on other social media accounts wrote on an internet forum called “My Militia” last year that he was “an active III%’r and looking for local members & recruits.” That’s a reference to the Three Percenters wing of the anti-government extremist movement.
Friend and colleague Thomas Smith said he and Lemp worked together as software engineers for a federal government defense contractor in 2019.
“He was a staunch believer in the constitution,” Smith said. He added that Lemp also frequented the 4chan imageboard. The forum was a launching pad for the boogaloo movement.
Lemp’s parents, 19-year-old brother, and girlfriend, Kasey Robinson — who gave birth to their son this month — are waiting for prosecutors to determine whether the Montgomery County police officer was justified in shooting Lemp.
Detectives had a no-knock warrant to search Lemp’s home for guns. Robinson said she was sleeping next to him when police opened fire from outside the house, according to a family attorney.
The family’s account of the shooting contradicts statements by the Montgomery County Police Department, which said Lemp was armed with a rifle and ignored commands to show his hands and get on the floor. A “booby trap” affixed to Lemp’s bedroom door was designed to fire a shotgun shell at anyone entering, according to police.
The department hasn’t said if any body cameras recorded the encounter.
Detectives obtained the no-knock warrant after receiving an anonymous tip that Lemp illegally possessed firearms, the department said. Lemp had a criminal record as a juvenile that made it illegal for him to possess or buy firearms until he turned 30, according to police. Investigators recovered three rifles and two handguns from his home.
The morning her son was shot, an explosion jolted Mercedes Lemp awake in a basement bedroom. She ran upstairs and saw masked officers rushing into the house. They isolated her in a guest bedroom. She heard Duncan’s girlfriend shout, “You’re killing him!” Later, she heard an emergency medical technician say, “Unresponsive.”
“And that’s when I knew they had killed him,” she said.
Lemp’s father, Matt Lemp, woke up in a ground-floor bedroom to the sound of shattering glass, an explosion and gunshots. Officers cuffed him at gunpoint. Nobody told him that his son was dead until hours later, after officers took them to a police station.
“None of those people were talking to us,” he said. “They were barely human.”
Lemp, who was white, died a day before police in Louisville, Kentucky, fatally shot Breonna Taylor, an unarmed Black woman, during a drug raid. Taylor’s death fueled national protests and police reform initiatives.
Montgomery County officials have ignored or rejected written requests to meet with Lemp’s parents and disclose more about the investigation, said family attorney Rene Sandler.
“They deserve to be acknowledged,” Sandler added.
On Twitter, Robinson frequently shares memories of Lemp and rebuts rumors about the shooting.
“He was a techie. Not a terrorist,” she recently posted.
Robinson’s attorney, Cary Hansel, accused police of falsely portraying Lemp as an extremist to justify the shooting.
Mike Dunn, a 20-year-old boogaloo supporter from Virginia, said Lemp contacted him over Facebook last December and offered to code a website for him. Lemp’s killing sealed Dunn’s commitment to the movement, which turned the hashtag #HisNameWasDuncanLemp into a rallying cry.
“I realized how quick and how surely and how easy government would overreach. When they took somebody that was a friend of mine, it made me wake up to how much they’ll do,” Dunn said.
Duncan Lemp’s son was born last Wednesday. Robinson and the child are living with Lemp’s parents.
“It’s really the only way that we’ve been able to survive,” Mercedes Lemp said.
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Living Waters from the River of Life
On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. [38] Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.” [39] By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
•• Jesus promised that the Holy Spirit would “flow”from within believers like “rivers of living water” (38, KJV).
• A remarkable illustration of these God-given rivers of the living water of life may be found in Ezekiel, chapter 47 (see below).
• Let’s read that inspiring Scripture portion and then see some of the great applications of that water of life in our spiritual lives in the 21st century.
Ezekiel 47:1-12 The man brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water coming out from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar…. [3] As the man went eastward with a measuring line in his hand, he measured off a thousand cubits and then led me through water that was ankle-deep. [4] He measured off another thousand cubits and led me through water that was knee-deep. He measured off another thousand and led me through water that was up to the waist. [5] He measured off another thousand, but now it was a river that I could not cross, because the water had risen and was deep enough to swim in — a river that no one could cross. [6] He asked me, “Son of man, do you see this?” Then he led me back to the bank of the river. [7] When I arrived there, I saw a great number of trees on each side of the river. [8] He said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah, where it enters the Sea. When it empties into the Sea, the water there becomes fresh. [9] Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish, because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh; so where the river flows everything will live. [10] Fishermen will stand along the shore; from En Gedi to En Eglaim there will be places for spreading nets. The fish will be of many kinds — like the fish of the Great Sea. [11] But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt. [12] Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear, beca
use the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.”
•• This is a river of life-giving water flowing from God’s altar in His temple.
## The key verse (vs. 9) says: “Where the river flows everything will live.”
•• Remember Jesus’ words, likening the Holy Spirit to “rivers of living water.”
•• I suggest that a person can take five approaches to this living water:
(1) Stay on the bank entirely = never get saved.
(2) Step in ankle-deep [vs. 3] = receive the initial presence within of the Holy Spirit at salvation, but no more.
(3) Wade in knee-deep [vs. 4] = minister as best you can with the Holy Spirit in you from salvation, but without the baptism with the Holy Spirit that is described in Acts 1:5,8; 2:4.
(4) Wade in waist-deep [vs. 4] = receive the baptism with the Holy Spirit and begin to feel the “flow” of God’s river.
(5) Enter living waters that are over your head[vs. 5] = you no longer control things; the Holy Spirit is fully in charge.
•• [vs. 6] “Son of man, do you see this?” — The hasty answer is, “Of course.” But think … do you really seethis?
• The early Church, full of this vibrant, life-giving water, brought life everywhere it went. Do we?
•• An intellectualized Gospel brings people in ankle-deep at best.
• The Pentecostal experience may bring us in as far as waist-deep.
• But the overwhelming life of the Spirit is found in those like the Bible’s writers who were “carried along by the Holy Spirit” (2 Peter 1:21).
• That is, where we are baptized and filled with the Spirit, but also fully yielded and following the Spirit.
## [vs. 9] “Where the river [of God’s Spirit] flows, everything will live.”
•• [vs. 8] “When it empties into the [dead] sea, the water there becomes fresh.”
• All that is now stagnant, stale, and lifeless can be brought to fresh and vibrant life by the Holy Spirit.
•• [vs. 9] “Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows.”
• As in 3,000 at Pentecost! (Acts 2:1,41)“Swarms” come to the Lord when the living water is flowing.
•• [vs. 10] “Fishermen will stand along the shore.” — Jesus wants to make Spirit-filled people into effective “fishers of men.”
•• [vs. 10] “The fish will be of many kinds.” — Don’t limit your vision. The living water can bring life to “many kinds” of people — Muslims, Hindus, goddess worshipers, unbelievers of every sort. Plenty of fish will end up in God’s nets as the harvest of souls is drawn in.
•• [vs. 11] “But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh.” — a warning to us not to let the living waters stagnate. Keep your spiritual life alive, fresh, and vibrant.
•• [vs. 12] “Fruit trees of all kinds … will bear, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them.”
• Want to bear fruit? The fruit of souls won? the fruit of disciples growing in God? the fruit of lives dramatically changed?
(1) Wade into the Holy Spirit’s waters over your head.
(2) Yield yourself totally to God’s flow.
(3) Let those waters flow to others.
(4) “Where the river flows everything will live.”
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Justia Patents Having Details Of Setting Or Programming Of Interconnections Or Logic FunctionsUS Patent for Reprogrammable three dimensional field programmable gate arrays Patent (Patent # 7,692,448)
Reprogrammable three dimensional field programmable gate arrays
3D FPGAs are elucidated with (a) interlayer information sharing, (b) intermittent and variable timing of layer configuration and (c) multilayer multi-functionality. 3D FPGAs are applied to reprogrammable SoCs.
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The present application claims the benefit of priority under U.S.C. §119 from U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/993,683 filed on Sep. 12, 2007, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety for all purposes.
The invention involves reprogrammable multilayer integrated circuitry consisting of field programmable gate array (FPGA) and complex programmable logic device (CPLD) architectures. Components of the present invention involve micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS) and nano-electro-mechanical systems (NEMS). Because the system is a hybrid heterostructure semiconductor device that incorporates evolvable hardware, the system is exemplar of polymorphous computing architecture (PCA) and cognitive computing.
The challenge of modern computing is to build economically efficient chips that incorporate more transistors to meet the goal of achieving Moore's law of doubling performance every two years. The limits of semiconductor technology are affecting this ability to grow in the next few years, as transistors become smaller and chips become bigger and hotter. The semiconductor industry has developed the system on a chip (SoC) as a way to continue high performance chip evolution.
So far, there have been four main ways to construct a high performance semiconductor. First, chips have multiple cores. Second, chips optimize software scheduling. Third, chips utilize efficient memory management. Fourth, chips employ polymorphic computing. To some degree, all of these models evolve from the Von Neumann computer architecture developed after WWII in which a microprocessor's logic component fetches instructions from memory.
The simplest model for increasing chip performance employs multiple processing cores. By multiplying the number of cores by eighty, Intel has created a prototype teraflop chip design. In essence, this architecture uses a parallel computing approach similar to supercomputing parallel computing models. Like some supercomputing applications, this approach is limited to optimizing arithmetic-intensive applications such as modeling.
The Tera-op, Reliable, Intelligently Adaptive Processing System (TRIPS), developed at the University of Texas with funding from DARPA, focuses on software scheduling optimization to produce high performance computing. This model's “push” system uses data availability to fetch instructions, thereby putting additional pressure on the compiler to organize the parallelism in the high speed operating system. There are three levels of concurrency in the TRIPS architecture, including instruction-level parallelism (ILP), thread-level parallelism (TLP) and data-level parallelism (DLP). The TRIPS processor will process numerous instructions simultaneously and map them onto a grid for execution in specific nodes. The grid of execution nodes is reconfigurable to optimize specific applications. Unlike the multi-core model, TRIPS is a uniprocessor model, yet it includes numerous components for parallelization.
The third model is represented by the Cell microprocessor architecture developed jointly by the Sony, Toshiba and IBM (STI) consortium. The Cell architecture uses a novel memory “coherence” architecture in which latency is overcome with a bandwidth priority and in which power usage is balanced with peak computational usage. This model integrates a microprocessor design with coprocessor elements; these eight elements are called “synergistic processor elements” (SPEs). The Cell uses an interconnection bus with four unidirectional data flow rings to connect each of four processors with their SPEs, thereby meeting a teraflop performance objective. Each SPE is capable of producing 32 GFLOPS of power in the 65 nm version, which was introduced in 2007.
The MOrphable Networked Micro-ARCHitecture (MONARCH) uses six reduced instruction set computing (RISC) microprocessors, twelve arithmetic clusters and thirty-one memory clusters to achieve a 64 GFLOPS performance with 60 gigabytes per second of memory. Designed by Raytheon and USC/ISI from DARPA funding, the MONARCH differs distinctly from other high performance SoCs in that it uses evolvable hardware (EHW) components such as field programmable compute array (FPCA) and smart memory architectures to produce an efficient polymorphic computing platform.
MONARCH combines key elements in the high performance processing system (HPPS) with Data Intensive Architecture (DIVA) Processor in Memory (PIM) technologies to create a unified, flexible, very large scale integrated (VLSI) system. The advantage of this model is that reprogrammability of hardware from one application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) position to another produces faster response to uncertain changes in the environment. The chip is optimized to be flexible to changing conditions and to maximize power efficiency (3-6 GFLOPS per watt). Specific applications of MONARCH involve embedded computing, such as sensor networks.
These four main high performance SoC models have specific applications for which they are suited. For instance, the multi-core model is optimized for arithmetic applications, while MONARCH is optimized for sensor data analysis. However, all four also have limits.
The multi-core architecture has a problem of synchronization of the parallel micro-processors that conform to a single clocking model. This problem limits their responsiveness to specific types of applications, particularly those that require rapid environmental change. Further, the multi-core architecture requires “thread-aware” software to exploit its parallelism, which is cumbersome and produces quality of service (QoS) problems and inefficiencies.
By emphasizing its compiler, the TRIPS architecture has the problem of optimizing the coordination of scheduling. This bottleneck prevents peak performance over a prolonged period.
The Cell architecture requires constant optimization of its memory management system, which leads to QoS problems.
Finally, MONARCH depends on static intellectual property (IP) cores that are limited to combinations of specified pre-determined ASICs to program its evolvable hardware components. This restriction limits the extent of its flexibility, which was precisely its chief design advantage.
In addition to SoC models, there is a network on a chip (NoC) model, introduced by Arteris in 2007. Targeted to the communications industry, the 45 nm NoC is a form of SoC that uses IP cores in FPGAs for reprogrammable functions and that features low power consumption for embedded computing applications. The chip is optimized for on-chip communications processing. Though targeted at the communications industry, particularly wireless communications, the chip has limits of flexibility that it was designed to overcome, primarily in its deterministic IP core application software.
Various implementations of FPGAs represent reconfigurable computing. The most prominent examples are the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro and Virtex-4 devices that combine one or more microprocessor cores in an FPGA logic fabric. Similarly, the Atmel FPSLIC processor combines an AVR processor with programmable logic architecture. The Atmel microcontroller has the FPGA fabric on the same die to produce a fine-grained reconfigurable device. These hybrid FPGAs and embedded microprocessors represent a generation of system on a programmable chip (SOPC). While these hybrids are architecturally interesting, they possess the limits of each type of design paradigm, with restricted microprocessor performance and restricted deterministic IP core application software. Though they have higher performance than a typical single core microprocessor, they are less flexible than a pure FPGA model.
All of these chip types are two dimensional planar micro system devices. A new generation of three dimensional integrated circuits and components is emerging that is noteworthy as well. The idea to stack two dimensional chips by sandwiching two or more ICs using a fabrication process required a solution to the problem of creating vertical connections between the layers. IBM solved this problem by developing “through silicon vias” (TSVs) which are vertical connections “etched through the silicon wafer and filled with metal.” This approach of using TSVs to create 3D connections allows the addition of many more pathways between 2D layers. However, this 3D chip approach of stacking existing 2D planar IC layers is generally limited to three or four layers. While TSVs substantially limit the distance that information traverses, this stacking approach merely evolves the 2D approach to create a static 3D model.
In U.S. Pat. No. 5,111,278, Echelberger describes a 3D multi-chip module system in which layers in an integrated circuit are stacked by using aligned TSVs. This early 3D circuit model represents a simple stacking approach. U.S. Pat. No. 5,426,072 provides a method to manufacture a 3D IC from stacked silicon on insulation (SOI) wafers. U.S. Pat. No. 5,657,537 presents a method of stacking two dimensional circuit modules and U.S. Pat. No. 6,355,501 describes a 3D IC stacking assembly technique.
Recently, 3D stacking models have been developed on chip in which several layers are constructed on a single complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) die. Some models have combined eight or nine contiguous layers in a single CMOS chip, though this model lacks integrated vertical planes. MIT's microsystems group has created 3D ICs that contain multiple layers and TSVs on a single chip.
3D FPGAs have been created at the University of Minnesota by stacking layers of single planar FPGAs. However, these chips have only adjacent layer connectivity.
3D memory has been developed by Samsung and by BeSang. The Samsung approach stacks eight 2-Gb wafer level processed stack packages (WSPs) using TSVs in order to minimize interconnects between layers and increase information access efficiency. The Samsung TSV method uses tiny lasers to create etching that is later filled in with copper. BeSang combines 3D package level stacking of memory with a logic layer of a chip device using metal bonding.
See also U.S. Pat. No. 5,915,167 for a description of a 3D DRAM stacking technique, U.S. Pat. No. 6,717,222 for a description of a 3D memory IC, U.S. Pat. No. 7,160,761 for a description of a vertically stacked field programmable nonvolatile memory and U.S. Pat. No. 6,501,111 for a description of a 3D programmable memory device.
Finally, in the supercomputing sphere, the Cray T3D developed a three dimensional supercomputer consisting of 2048 DEC Alpha chips in a torus networking configuration.
In general, all of the 3D chip models merely combine two or more 2D layers. They all represent a simple bonding of current technologies. While planar design chips are easier to make, they are not generally high performance.
Prior systems demonstrate performance limits, programmability limits, multi-functionality limits and logic and memory bottlenecks. There are typically trade-offs of performance and power.
The present invention views the system on a chip as an ecosystem consisting of significant intelligent components. The prior art for intelligence in computing consists of two main paradigms. On the one hand, the view of evolvable hardware (EHW) uses FPGAs as examples. On the other hand, software elements consist of intelligent software agents that exhibit collective behaviors. Both of these hardware and software aspects take inspiration from biological domains.
First, the intelligent SoC borrows from biological concepts of post-initialized reprogrammability that resembles a protein network that responds to its changing environmental conditions. The interoperation of protein networks in cells is a key behavioral paradigm for the iSoC. The slowly evolving DNA root structure produces the protein network elements, yet the dynamics of the protein network are interactive with both itself and its environment.
Second, the elements of the iSoC resemble the subsystems of a human body. The circulatory system represents the routers, the endocrine system is the memory, the skeletal system is comparable to the interconnects, the nervous system is the autonomic process, the immune system provides defense and security as it does in a body, the eyes and ears are the sensor network and the muscular system is the bandwidth. In this analogy, the brain is the central controller.
For the most part, SoCs require three dimensionality in order to achieve high performance objectives. In addition, SoCs require multiple cores that are reprogrammable so as to maintain flexibility for multiple applications. Such reprogrammability allows the chip to be implemented cost effectively. Reprogrammability, moreover, allows the chip to be updatable and future proof. In some versions, SoCs need to be power efficient for use in embedded mobile devices. Because they will be prominent in embedded devices, they also need to be fault tolerant. By combining the best aspects of deterministic microprocessor elements with indeterministic EHW elements, an intelligent SoC efficiently delivers superior performance.
While the design criteria are necessary, economic efficiency is also required. Computational economics reveals a comparative cost analysis that includes efficiency maximization of (a) power, (b) interconnect metrics, (c) transistor per memory metrics and (d) transistor per logic metrics.
Problems that the System Solves
Optimization problems that the system solves can be divided into two classes: bi-objective optimization problems (BOOPs) and multi-objective optimization problems (MOOPs).
BOOPs consist of trade-offs in semiconductor factors such as (a) energy consumption versus performance, (b) number of transistors versus heat dissipation, (c) interconnect area versus performance and (d) high performance versus low cost.
Regarding MOOPs, the multiple factors include: (a) thermal performance (energy/heat dissipation), (b) energy optimization (low power use), (c) timing performance (various metrics), (d) reconfiguration time (for FPGAs and CPLDs), (e) interconnect length optimization (for energy delay), (f) use of space, (g) bandwidth optimization and (h) cost (manufacture and usability) efficiency. The combination of solutions to trade-offs of multiple problems determines the design of specific semiconductors. The present system presents a set of solutions to these complex optimization problems.
One of the chief problems is to identify ways to limit latency. Latency represents a bottleneck in an integrated circuit when the wait to complete a task slows down the efficiency of the system. Examples of causes of latency include interconnect routing architectures, memory configuration and interface design. Limiting latency problems requires the development of methods for scheduling, anticipation, parallelization, pipeline efficiency and locality-priority processing.
An application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) is a hard wired semiconductor that is organized to perform a specific function. ASICs are particularly used in embedded applications to control a specific function of regular inputs and outputs. Because they only perform a specific function, they maximize efficiency; they do not need more memory or logic capabilities than is necessary to perform the function. As a consequence of these attributes, ASICs are used in high performance environments. They may be as much as a hundred times faster at performing a particular function than a microprocessor is. A microprocessor is designed to perform multiple functions by using multi-application software in a logic circuitry to fetch instructions from memory with each cycle of the circuit's clock. The MP compromises performance for additional flexibility.
A field programmable gate array (FPGA) is a complex programmable logic device (CPLD) that moves from one ASIC hardware position to another ASIC hardware position in order to provide both the flexibility of multiple applications and the performance benefits of an ASIC. FPGAs are programmed after manufacture in order to provide design flexibility to customers and to reduce production time and cost. FPGAs are used for rapid prototyping in uncertain environments and represent a form of evolvable hardware (EHW).
FPGAs are either deterministic, which limits the scope of their programmability, or indeterministic, which allows them to continuously reprogram. A simple deterministic FPGA will alternate between only two or three ASIC hardware circuit positions. Continuous reprogrammability of indeterministic FPGAs, on the other hand, produces hardware evolvability that interacts with an uncertain, and constantly changing, environment. A challenge with traditional CP-FPGAs is that they take too long to restructure their hardware, which is a dilemma in a rapidly changing environment.
The present invention advances the technology for FPGAs. The system describes 3D FPGAs which feature multiple integrated layers in a single complex integrated circuit. The present system incorporates a novel technique for integrating the operation of logic gates on more than one layer. The unique 3D configuration for FPGAs disclosed herein uses look up tables and memory in new ways that provide increased flexibility. The system describes how to share information between layers in a 3D FPGA. Since different layers of a 3D FPGA can operate independently, they may restructure at different times, and at different speeds, which allows the IC to operate while specific layers are transforming positions, thereby reducing latency. Different layers are also used simultaneously for different functions thereby making the 3D FPGA multi-functional overall as well as reprogrammable.
The use of multiple networked 3D FPGAs in a 3D iSoC provides a powerful hardware system that allows the flexibility of reprogrammability with the performance of ASIC arrays.
The reprogrammable logic in the iSoC uses fully integrated 3D FPGAs that employ (a) selective reprogrammability, (b) on-demand reconfigurability, (c) auto-programming, (d) load rebalancing and (e) power optimization.
ADVANTAGES OF THE PRESENT SYSTEM
The integration of multiple FPGAs in a single device produces a synergistic interactivity effect with numerous performance and flexibility benefits. 3D FPGAs provide optimal efficiency and multi-functionality.
DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The present disclosure describes solutions to problems involving constructing and optimizing reprogrammable 3D logic devices.
(1) Programmable Floating Gate Topography in Multi-Layer 3D FPGA
The present invention describes a multi-layer 3D FPGA in which the layers work asynchronously. Through silicon vias (TSVs) connect the layers of the 3D FPGA. TSVs connect individual tiles between layers to allow communication between the layers and parts of layers.
Each layer has a different function and operates independently from other layers. In one embodiment of the present invention, memory layers are sandwiched between separate FPGA layers in order to provide supplementary memory to the parallel functional layers.
In the present invention, specific rows of circuits on specific layers of the 3D FPGA go off-line to reconfigure and then come back on-line after the row has transformed to a new position to perform a specific logical function. This process allows the modulation of the overall FPGA in regular sequence to maximize performance. Because of the reordering circuits in rows on specific tiles in a multi-layer FPGA, parts of each layer maintain operation to allow continuous functioning, thereby minimizing down time. Since different layers perform different application functions, in order to maximize efficiency of operation, a specific layer is able to transform its hardware circuitry in a sequence that prioritizes a particular application.
(2) Gate Pivot to Contact Multiple Layers in 3D FPGA
A typical planar FPGA gate is a filament that moves to a new site in a cell circuit to complete a connection. In a multi-layer FPGA, however, adjacent layers are close enough to each other for the gates of one layer to extend to connect to the gates of another layer. This allows additional flexibility for transformation of the IC circuit. In CMOS multi-layer fabrication architectures the layers are very close together. These 9-layer FPGA 3D modules are then combined to form a stack of 12 modules in a single node. The multi-layer gate extension is limited to adjacent layers in the integrated CMOS 9-layer stack.
In order to perform the inter-layer connection, the gates use a pivot hinge as an initial motion delay. The hinges on the interior of the chip layer plane retract in a joint socket by 90 to 180 degrees. The hinge uses a retractable joint socket with a pivot that provides the shoulder 270 degree movement at the corner hinge mechanism.
In a further embodiment, the TSVs are themselves movable gates.
In another embodiment of the present system, smaller gates will make contact by meeting in the middle. This saves time, and energy because each half-gate will not need to move as far as a full size gate.
(3) Logic Block Clusters in Interior and LUT and SRAM on Anterior of each Layer of 3D FPGA
Traditional planar FPGAs use “configurable logic blocks” (Xilinx) or “logic array blocks” (Altera) as programmable logic circuitry. The logic blocks are arranged as adjacent cells on the interior of a 2D circuit. The logic blocks access look up tables (LUTs) for program instructions and use static random access memory (SRAM), erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM) or flash memory for memory storage or access. The logic blocks use configurable interconnects that are arranged between a grid of fixed filaments and the LUTs. The logic blocks are connected between fixed interconnects using configurable switches.
The present system uses layers of FPGAs in a multi-layer configuration. Up to a dozen stacks of multi-layer FPGAs are combined in a single 3D node. Each layer consists of a cluster of sixteen logic blocks arranged four by four. As an example, each logic block is 1 mm by 1 mm so that the combined surface of the logic block clusters is 4 mm by 4 mm including boundaries. The data used by the logic block clusters are 8 bytes wide. If the FPGA layer operates at a clock speed of 500 MHz, this allows for a maximum 8 Gb/s data transfer rate.
Each logic block is arranged as an adjacent tile. The advantage of using sixteen tiles on a layer is that each tile may be reprogrammed independently. The LUTs and the memory tiles are located on the anterior (sides) of each layer, while the logic block clusters are located on the interior of the layer.
(4) Autonomous Inter-Layer Information Sharing in 3D FPGAs
Secondary LUTs on other layers are accessed by different layers than those on which the logic blocks are located. Sharing LUTs on a 3D FPGA between layers provides supplementary capabilities to the traditional model that both accelerates the process and provides additional flexibility.
Furthermore, the system uses multi-level memory in a 3D FPGA beyond what is provided on a specific layer itself. By using on-layer memory combined with alternative layer memory in the 3D FPGA node as well as memory from memory nodes, the present 3D model has far more flexibility than traditional models.
Specific layers on the 3D FPGA are used for differentiated dedicated functional applications. However, the FPGA changes functions of a specific layer on demand, much like a constantly transforming department store that changes the contents of its departments.
Because the center layers are strategically located in a stack of layers in the 3D FPGA, information from them is accessed more frequently by the overall system. Since these layers are accessed more frequently, they store more information than other layers on the periphery.
(5) Intermittent Restructuring of Multiple Layers of 3D FPGA
Given the configuration of the multi-layer 3D FPGA described here, each layer is seen as operationally autonomous yet capable of sharing information between layers and nodes. Any single layer transforms its configuration independently of the transformability of other layers, thereby allowing the FPGA as a whole to partially adjust while maintaining functionality on other layers. This same principle is applied to individual tiles or to clusters of tiles on specific layers as well. This is similar to the way in which a road repair can be performed on a segment while other parts of the road continue to be used by motorists. Reconfiguring only parts of the FPGA module saves time compared to the traditional transformation process. This independent layer functionality allows the 3D FPGA to perform continuous switching for continuous reprogrammability.
In a “conservative” version of a 3D FPGA, which is deterministic, the extent of evolution between ASIC hardware configuration positions is restricted. This limitation between specific positions means decreased flexibility but provides much faster performance.
By intermittently switching functions on different layers, the 3D FPGA maintains maximum flexibility.
This intermittent restructuring scheme becomes particularly advantageous in the event that one of the chip's circuits fails. Though the overall performance will be relatively restricted in the event of the failure of a part, the architecture of the 3D FPGA will allow its continued operation in a fail-safe mode.
The process of restructuration of the whole FPGA proceeds in phases. Any one (or parts of one) or more layers may be off-line in a restructuration mode. This simultaneous restructuring of circuitry in a 3D FPGA is a major advance that is made possible because of the unique configuration of a multi-layer system outlined here. However, during the evolutionary phase, other layers are actively performing their structured operations. The restructuring process occurs row by row and tile by tile in order to maximize logical consistency. For instance, specific rows restructure in the top and bottom layers at one time and then the adjacent layers subsequently restructure.
In one embodiment, the data from memory is stored in an independence memory module during the restructuring process and then re-imported after the restructuration.
(6) Variable Timing of Reconfiguration in 3D FPGA
Not only are the layers of a 3D FPGA restructuring their logic circuitry intermittently, but also the timing of their restructuration is variable. The reconfiguration time of the FPGA is a key factor in optimizing performance functionality of the chip.
Different layers restructure at different rates in the current 3D FPGA, particularly because different layers perform specific functions. A layer with limited deterministic restructuration is transformed more rapidly because it has restricted flexibility. However, an indeterministic layer restructures relatively more slowly because it has more complex reconfiguration options.
Variable restructuring rates of logic blocks are modulated by asynchronous clocking of the FPGA.
Variable timing of restructuration of layers in a 3D FPGA is useful particularly for on-demand applications that have unforeseen requirements. This complex application setting allows coordination of more complex indeterministic and deterministic layers that increase overall reprogrammable flexibility.
(7) Multi-Functionality in 3D FPGA
Since the 3D FPGA uses different layers for different functions, the overall chip is used for multiple simultaneous ASIC operations at any given time. However, the current invention allows the continuous oscillation between ASIC circuit positions of each layer, thereby permitting the constant operation of the chip. In addition, since the different layers of the chip are used for different functions, the integrated functionality of the 3D FPGA is increasingly flexible. Different functions available within different layers are shared to complete tasks efficiently.
(8) 3D FPGA Integration in Hybrid 3D SoC Architecture
The 3D FPGA is a key ingredient in the 3D SoC. It represents a reprogrammable module that simultaneously provides maximum flexibility and optimum performance. When combined with multiple 3D FPGAs, the present system represents a quantum leap in performance from existing planar circuits as well as 3D MP circuitry designs.
The synthesis of multiple 3D FPGAs in the 3D SoC creates the 3D field programmable compute array (FPCA). In this important embodiment, the FPGAs are synchronized for maximum reprogrammability and performance. Different combinations of 3D FPGAs may be united in different configurations. For instance, primarily deterministic FPGAs are combined with primarily indeterministic FPGAs in order to obtain the benefits of both architectures, such as rapid restructuration as well as maximum flexibility in an uncertain environment, to maximize performance.
The coordination of multiple FPGAs also involves the sharing of memory and instructions on different devices. This process of sharing resources extends the utility of each FPGA beyond its specific limits. The advantage of working with multiple FPGAs in a network is that they work asynchronously to solve independent problems as well as work together to solve more complex problems in a network configuration. Multiple FPGAs work together by dividing functions and sharing tasks in a division of labor. This function sharing process scales as additional FPGAs are added to the collective. The FPGAs create interactive networks, both within and among neighborhood clusters.
In one embodiment, layers of one FPGA work with the layers of other FPGAs even as the remainder of each respective FPGA works independently. This networking model provides additional fail-safe functionality as well as the benefit of each FPGA's autonomy and performance maximization.
Further, the use of multiple FPGAs in parallel configurations allows the simultaneous solution of different classes of problems. The FPGAs share not only resources but problem solving techniques to solve MOOPs as efficiently as possible. This model of the FPGA sharing parallel multiple FPGA resources is also scalable. The addition of new FPGA nodes allows the network to add linkages and improve computability resources and solutions correspondingly.
(9) Tracking 3D FPGA Performance
Deterministic FPGAs move from one ASIC position to another ASIC position with evolvable hardware circuitry yet are relatively simple to model and track. The performance of indeterministic FPGAs, on the other hand, is, by definition, difficult to track in part because they may be continuously reprogrammable as they interact with an uncertain and unpredictable environment.
The present system records the tracking behavior of the 3D FPGA by recording the information on configuration transformation to memory. As the FPGA layers oscillate to different positions, the new positions are recorded and stored.
This tracking process is important because as the FPGA responds to an environment, it may be necessary to recall the response mechanisms used in an experimentation process rather than reengage in a short-sighted restructuration process. Tracking the FPGA configuration pathways is critical to maintaining a learning mechanism that will optimize behaviors in an embedded computer system.
Although the invention has been shown and described with respect to a certain embodiment or embodiments, it is obvious that equivalent alterations and modifications will occur to others skilled in the art upon the reading and understanding of this specification and the annexed drawings. In particular regard to the various functions performed by the above described elements (components, assemblies, devices, compositions, etc.) the terms (including a reference to a “means”) used to describe such elements are intended to correspond, unless otherwise indicated, to any element that performs the specified function of the described element (i.e., that is functionally equivalent), even though not structurally equivalent to the disclosed structure that performs the function in the herein illustrated exemplary embodiment or embodiments of the invention. In addition, while a particular feature of the invention may have been described above with respect to only one or more of several illustrated embodiments, such feature may be combined with one or more other features of the other embodiments, as may be desired and advantageous for any given or particular application.
3D, three dimensional
AIS, artificial immune system
ASIC, application specific integrated circuit
BOOP, bi-objective optimization problem
CMOS, complementary metal oxide semiconductor
CPLD, complex programmable logic device
D-EDA, dynamic electronic design automation
DIVA, data intensive architecture
DLP, data level parallelism
EC, evolutionary computation
EDA, electronic design automation
EHW, evolvable hardware
eMOOP, evolvable multi-objective optimization problem
FLOPS, floating operations per second
FPCA, field programmable compute array
FPGA, field programmable gate array
GA, genetic algorithm
HDL, hardware description layer
HPPS, high performance processing system
ILP, instruction level parallelism
IP, intellectual property
iSoC, intelligent system on a chip
LUT, look up table
MEMS, micro electro mechanical system
MONARCH, morphable networked micro-architecture
MOOP, multi-objective optimization problem
MPSOC, multi-processor system on a chip
NEMS, nano electro mechanical system
NoC, network on a chip
PCA, polymorphous computing architecture
PIM, processor in memory
RISC, reduced instruction set computing
SCOC, supercomputer on a chip
SoC, system on a chip
SOI, silicon on insulation
SOPC, system on a programmable chip
SPE, synergistic processor element
SPR, synthetic placement and routing
TLP, thread level parallelism
TRIPS, Tera-op reliable intelligently adaptive processing system
TSV, through silicon via
VLSI, very large scale integration
WSPS, wafer level processed stack packages
DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing the top view of an FPGA layer in a multilayer FPGA IC.
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a view of a multilayer FPGA.
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a hybrid 3D multilayer IC.
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a multilayer IC view in which layers of FPGAs change positions of logic arrays in sequence.
FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a top view of pivoting gates in a FPGA layer in a multilayer IC.
FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a side view of alternating layers of a multilayer FPGA with hinged gates.
FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of a side view of two layers of a multilayer FPGA with hinged gate pivots (shown moving) in the lower layer.
FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of multilayer IC with a highlighted multi-layer CMOS integrated layer.
FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of hinges attached to gates on a layer of a multilayer FPGA.
FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram of movable gates on hinges on tiles between two layers of a multilayer FPGA.
FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram of gates from two layers of a multilayer FPGA which meet in the middle of one tile.
FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram of movable gates attached to hinges on joints between tiles in a multilayer FPGA in which the joints move 90, 180 and 270 degrees.
FIG. 13 is a block diagram of two CPUs connected to an FPGA, three controllers and three memory devices in a multilayer SoC.
FIG. 14 is a block diagram of two CPUs (attached to two memory modules) and two FPGAs connected to four controllers in a multilayer SoC.
FIG. 15 is a schematic diagram of a multilayer hybrid IC with multiple pipelines between microprocessor, memory and FPGA layers.
FIG. 16 is a schematic diagram of two adjacent FPGA layers in a multilayer IC that access each others' LUTs and SRAM.
FIG. 17 is a schematic diagram of a multilayer FPGA with interlayer memory sharing.
FIG. 18 is a schematic diagram of a multilayer IC, with FPGA layers and memory layers, interacting with a multilayer memory module.
FIG. 19 is a flow chart showing the process of reconfiguration of a FPGA layer in a multilayer IC.
FIG. 20 is a schematic diagram showing the order of restructuring of layers in a 3D FPGA.
FIG. 21 is a schematic diagram showing the variable rates and directions of restructuring of a multilayer FPGA.
FIG. 22 is a schematic diagram showing the flows between layers of 3D FPGAs and 3D memory modules in a 3D iSoC neighborhood cluster.
FIG. 23 is a flow chart showing the restructuring process of a 3D FPGA as it interacts with its indeterministic environment.
FIG. 24 is a table showing the categories of applications of an ASIC and FPGA.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES
FIG. 1 shows the top view of an FPGA layer in a multilayer FPGA IC. The logic blocks are shown as box configurations on the interior layers of the FPGA. The (SRAM) memory is shown as rectangles on the outside layer on the top and bottom of the device. The look up tables (LUTs), shown as triangles, are located on the outside layer on the left and right sides of the device. The switch matrix component is shown as a circle. The FPGA operates after the switch matrix receives program code to restructure the configuration of the logic block arrays, which access the LUTs and store data in memory. The FPGA structures its logic array interconnects into an ASIC position in order to perform a specific task.
FIG. 2 shows a view of a multilayer FPGA (200) with ten layers. FIG. 3 shows a hybrid 3D multilayer IC (300). The 3D node consists of analog (A1), FPGA (F1, F2, F3 and F4), microprocessor (L1) and memory (M1, M2 and M3) layers. FIG. 4 shows a multilayer IC (400) view in which layers of FPGAs change positions of logic arrays in sequence. The timing of the changing of positions of the FPGA layers shown here are one to two, two to three and then four to five and five to six and then seven to eight and eight to nine. The constant restructuring of the layers of the multilayer FPGA module promote efficiency of the overall module, so that some layers are inactive when in the process of restructuring while the overall module is continuously active.
FIG. 5 shows a top view of pivoting gates in a FPGA layer (500) in a multilayer IC. The internal tiles contain logic block arrays (520 and 530) that reposition to new ASIC positions.
FIG. 6 shows a side view of alternating layers of a multilayer FPGA (600) with hinged gates. The gates extend from one layer to an adjacent layer. FIG. 7 shows a side view of two layers of a multilayer FPGA with hinged gate pivots (shown moving) in the lower layer. In the top layer, the gates (710) are positioned vertically in a passive position. In the bottom layer, the gates (730) are moving to a specific position between adjacent layers.
FIG. 8 shows a multilayer IC (800) with a highlighted multi-layer CMOS integrated layer (810).
FIG. 9 shows hinges attached to gates on a layer of a multilayer FPGA. The hinges (910) pivot between positions (920) on adjacent FPGAs to perform a restructuring process. FIG. 10 shows movable gates (1020) on hinges (1010) on tiles between two layers of a multilayer FPGA. FIG. 11 shows gates (1120) from two layers of a multilayer FPGA which meet in the middle of one tile. The hinges (1110) move the half sized gates (1120) to meet in the middle of two adjacent layers. This process maximizes the efficiency of using smaller gate sizes for faster restructuring.
FIG. 12 shows movable gates attached to hinges on joints between tiles in a multilayer FPGA in which the joints move 90, 180 and 270 degrees. The joint socket (1250) at A (1260) moves at a 90 degree arc. The joint socket (1230) at B (1240) moves at a 180 degree arc. The joint socket (1210) at C (1220) moves at a 270 degree arc. The use of variable range joint sockets allows the multilayer FPGA to position different types of joints at different locations for maximum flexibility.
FIG. 13 is a block diagram of two CPUs (attached to two memory modules) and two FPGAs connected to four controllers in a multilayer node in a SoC. The CPUs (1300 and 1310) each have on-board SRAM (1305 and 1315) as well as access to external DRAM (1330, 1340 and 1350) memory layers. The FPGA (1320) uses on-board SRAM (1325 and 1327). The three logic devices interface with controllers (1360, 1370 and 1380) for specific applications.
FIG. 14 is a block diagram of two CPUs (attached to memory modules) and two FPGAs connected to four controllers in a multilayer SoC. The CPUs (1415 and 1460) are connected to the external DRAM (1450 and 1455). The FPGAs (1400 and 1430) contain internal SRAM components (1405, 1410, 1435 and 1440). The four logic devices are connected to four controllers (1460, 1465, 1470 and 1475).
FIG. 15 shows a multilayer hybrid IC with multiple pipelines between microprocessor, memory and FPGA layers. The microprocessor layers (1500) are connected to the memory layers (1520) by multiple pipelines (1510). The FPGA layers (1540) are connected to the memory layers (1520) by multiple pipelines (1530).
FIG. 16 shows two adjacent FPGA layers in a multilayer IC that access each others' LUTs and SRAM. The logic block arrays in the top FPGA access the SRAMs and LUTs on the bottom FPGA. The logic block arrays of the bottom FPGA access its own LUTs and the LUTs and SRAMs of the top FPGA. This multiple parallel processing of logic and data using multiple FPGA layers maximizes the capacity of the computing system.
FIG. 17 shows a multilayer FPGA with interlayer memory sharing. The LUTs on the outside tiles of the FPGAs interact by using TSVs within the multilayer IC. The system resembles elevator shafts in a high rise building as they move data from floor to floor to meet the demands of the users.
FIG. 18 shows a multilayer IC, with FPGA layers and memory layer, interacting with a multilayer memory module. The memory module (1805) has six layers while the hybrid multilayer logic module (1800) has seven layers. The hybrid logic module has microprocessors (layers two and five), FPGAs (layers one, three and six), a memory layer (layer four) and an analog layer (layer seven). The logic module routes data from memory component to memory component on the various layers, including memory tiles of logic layers. The logic device stores data in and accesses data from the multi-layer memory module.
FIG. 19 is a flow chart showing the process of reconfiguration of a FPGA layer in a multilayer IC. After the layer 1 FPGA receives a signal to restructure its logic blocks (1900), the FPGA layer assimilates software restructuring instructions (1910) The interconnects in the logic blocks then reconfigure to a specific position (1920) and the FPGA layer initiates processing solutions to new sets of problems (1930). Layers two through N receive a signal to restructure their logic blocks (1940) by using IMSAs and the 3D FPGA restructures logic block configurations in phases (1950).
FIG. 20 shows the order of restructuring of layers in a 3D FPGA. On the left scale, the sequence of restructuring of the layers is show to be 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 8, 7, 4 and 3 for layers 1 through 9. FIG. 21 shows the variable rates and directions of restructuring of a multilayer FPGA. In the drawing representation, the first two layers and the last two layers are slowly restructuring as depicted by the single arrows. Layers three, four, six and seven are restructuring at much faster rates. The center layer is not restructuring. The sequence of restructuring is shown as 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 7, 4 and 3 for layers 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9.
FIG. 22 shows the flows between layers of 3D FPGAs and 3D memory modules in a 3D iSoC neighborhood cluster. The flows of data between nodes at 2200, 2210, 2220, 2230 and 2240 within a cluster of nodes shows the origins and destinations of data sets on various layers of the nodes using multiple pipelines.
FIG. 23 is a flow chart showing the restructuring process of a 3D FPGA as it interacts with its indeterministic environment. After the 3D FPGA restructures its logic blocks on multiple layers (2300), it solves MOOPs (2310) and receives feedback from the environment (2320). The 3D FPGA organizes solutions to new MOOPs (2330) and maps out a new configuration of logic blocks (2340). The 3D FPGA restructures logic blocks (2350) as it continues to solve MOOPs, records the restructuring data in memory (2360) and accesses memory to solve new MOOPs to map out a new reconfiguration model (2370). The 3D FPGA then tracks the pathways of restructuring (2380) for future reference.
FIG. 24 shows the categories of applications of an ASIC and FPGA. The 3D FPGA has advantages in solving MOOPs in an evolutionary environment as it maximizes predictive and anticipatory behaviors by using hybrid metaheuristics for continuous co-evolution.
1. A system for organizing reprogrammable three dimensional (3D) field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), comprising:
a set of arrays of logic and memory components on two or more layers of a hybrid multilayer logic device;
a set of SRAM tiles on the outer edge of each layer;
a set of logic block arrays on tiles in the interior of each layer arranged in symmetrical rows connected by interconnects and TSVs;
a set of switch matrices on tiles in the interior of each layer to connect the logic block arrays and the memory components with interconnects and TSVs;
a set of look up tables (LUTs) on memory tiles for access to arithmetic data;
movable interconnects within the logic block arrays that change position when activated by at least one switch matrix from one ASIC position to another ASIC position; and
a set of TSVs that connect the tiles of one layer to the tiles of an adjacent layer.
2. A system of claim 1, wherein:
The interconnects are positioned vertically between adjacent layers of the multilayer FPGA;
The vertical interconnects move position when activated by at least one switch matrix; and
The vertical interconnects activate the logic block array of one layer of the multilayer FPGA from the switch matrix of an adjacent layer.
A flexible joint activates the vertical interconnects to move position when activated by a switch matrix on an adjacent layer of a multilayer FPGA;
The flexible joint moves at a 90 degree arc when positioned in a corner position;
The flexible joint moves at a 180 degree arc when positioned in a side position on a tile; and
The flexible joint moves at a 270 degree arc when positioned in a center position on a tile.
Two flexible joints are activated on tiles of adjacent layers to activate the vertical interconnects to move position to meet in the middle when activated by two synchronized switch matrices of a 3D FPGA.
5. A system for organizing one or more layers of reprogrammable three dimensional (3D) field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) in a multi-layer integrated circuit, comprising:
a set of arrays of logic and memory components on one or more layers of a hybrid multi-layer integrated circuit, each with a set of SRAM tiles, logic block array tiles and switch matrix tiles; and
wherein the logic components of an FPGA layer store data and instructions in and access data and instructions from memory components on other layers of the multi-layer integrated circuit.
At least one FGPA layer and at least one microprocessor layer are synchronized to work together to perform separate computational tasks in the multi-layer hybrid integrated circuit;
The FPGA layer activates specific application devices; and
The microprocessor layer activates specific application devices.
Two or more FPGA layers in the multi-layer hybrid integrated circuit store data and instructions in and access data and instructions from SRAM tiles of adjacent layers; and
The storing of and access to data and instructions in adjacent FPGA layers are performed by multiple parallel pipelines.
One or more FPGA layers on a multi-layer hybrid integrated circuit store data and instructions in and access data and instructions from DRAM layers of other multi-layer memory modules.
a set of arrays of logic and memory components on one or more layers of a hybrid multi-layer integrated circuit, each with a set of SRAM tiles, logic block array tiles and switch matrix tiles;
wherein when the environment changes, a sensor is activated in the device application for each FPGA layer and the FPGA layer reconfigures the interconnects in the logic block arrays to a different ASIC layout structure; and
wherein the multi-layer FPGA uses D-EDA modeling to design the customized placement and routing configuration of each change of phase state of the FPGA as it reprograms.
10. The system of claim 9, wherein:
One layer in the multi-layer hybrid IC models at least one FPGA layer for reconfiguration.
At least one FPGA layer is reconfigured to solve evolving MOOPs as the environment changes;
As at least one FPGA layer restructures its logic block array to at least two configurations in a sequence, the data of the restructuration pattern are stored in a database;
When the multi-layer FPGA seeks to solve MOOPs in an evolving environment, it accesses the database to assess the new MOOPs by analyzing the factors of the past solutions; and
At least one layer of the multi-layer FPGA solves MOOPs and continuously restructures its logic block arrays while reprogramming all the layers in the multi-layer FPGA.
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Date of Patent: Apr 6, 2010
Inventor: Neal Solomon (Oakland, CA)
Primary Examiner: Don P Le
Current U.S. Class: Having Details Of Setting Or Programming Of Interconnections Or Logic Functions (326/38); Significant Integrated Structure, Layout, Or Layout Interconnections (326/41)
International Classification: H03K 19/177 (20060101);
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So You Think You Can Dance — Top 4 Perform
Tuesday night was the last time we could vote on our favorites, the finale sort-of version. One more episode to go–to crown not just one winner but two: America’s favorite girl and guy. Lending critiques to the evening’s performances are resident judges Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy. Award-winner Rob Marshall was in the house lending his extensive knowledge to the mix.
Dancers: Eliana and Cyrus
Choreographer: Jason Gilkison
Style: Paso Doble (Eliana is the matador and Cyrus the bull)
Song: “The Game Has Changed” by Daft Punk
My thoughts: Cyrus is one determined bull, but was ultimately defeated by the lovely Eliana who continues to bring her strength of character to each role she embodies. It was a great opening number and a very smart move on the part of the choreographer, knowing that Cyrus’ lack of technique would not work in this situation.
The judges: Nigel thought Eliana had secured her place in the industry. He pointed out some things to Cyrus to help him improve and commended him on good partnering. Mary said that Cyrus conquering the paso doble must have felt like skinny dipping with snapping turtles and was very masculine. Eliana was on fire tonight. Rob loved how Eliana threw away technique and focused on the story. He told Cyrus it was exciting to watch them let it happen in the moment.
Dancers: Tiffany and Will Wingfield (Season 4 All Star)
Choreographer: Sonya Tayeh
Song: “The Time is Now” by Moloko
My thoughts: Tiffany was really enjoying herself. She is a little spitfire with a lot of grace and strength. It was nice to see Will back, too. The music was a bit boring.
The judges: Mary that she was a star tonight. She loved it and felt there was great partnering. Rob thought Tiffany was great–fearless. Nigel said Tiffany is so little but her lines are so strong, so big. She is a tremendous dancer.
Dancers: Chehon and Eliana
Choreographer: Marat Daukayev
Style: Ballet
Song: “The Nutcracker Suite (Pas De Deux)” by Bruton APM Studios
My thoughts: FINALLY! The first time two ballet contestants were paired up with each other to actually do ballet. I had chills. The dance was exquisite. Poor Eliana almost had a wardrobe malfunction.
The judges: Rob said it showed their versatility. Eliana’s extensions were breath-taking. Nigel made mention that the choreographer, Marat Daukayev, was the principal dancer with the Kirov Ballet. He said that Chehon made it look so easy. Mary thought it was spectacular.
Dancers: Tiffany and Cyrus
Choreographer: Tessandra Chavez
Style: Lyrical hip-hop (story is that Cyrus has broken Tiffany’s heart).
Song: “Best Thing I Never Had” by Beyonce
My thoughts: It was a good pairing. I did get chills (or was it just the air conditioning?) I still have not been WOWED tonight.
The judges: Nigel mentioned that neither of them had been in the bottom 2 or 3 the entire competition. Both were so good at emotional routines and were incredible. Mary thought they killed it. Rob thought that they had “abandon”. He said it was his favorite so far of the evening.
Dancers: Tiffany, Cyrus, Chehon and Eliana
Choreographer: Tyce Diorio
Style: Quirky (is that a style?) I guess Broadway
Song: “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (District 78 remix) by KPM Studio Artists
My thoughts: That must have been the most difficult piece to showcase all their unique, diverse skills. I did not care for it personally, but I respect Tyce’s challenge.
Dancers: Chehon & Allison Holker
Choreographer: Stacey Tookey
Song: “Leave” by Once–A New Musical (Original Broadway Cast)
My thoughts: My favorite so far tonight. Those leaps Chehon does are incredible. Allison’s face was so full of expression. I think Chehon is finally peaking, taking in all the feedback he has been given and applying it.
The judges: They received a standing ovation. Mary had a WOOOOO yell. She said that Chehon was free at last, free at last, and that his performance ability was growing and growing. Rob thought the height on his leaps was unbelievable. Allison was fierce. Nigel thought Allison should be an actress. With Allison, Chehon came alive.
Dancers: Eliana and Tiffany
Choreographer: Ray Leeper
Style: Pole dancing? (Broadway)
Song: “When You’re Good to Mama” by Chicago–The Musical (1996 Broadway Revival Cast)
My thoughts: I did not care for it. I understand it is difficult and some of the moves defied gravity. It’s okay; one does not have to like all the dances.
The judges: Another standing ovation. Rob (who won an Academy Award in 2002 for the movie Chicago) said he was trying to imagine Queen Latifah doing that. Mary said the two ladies were extraordinary. It was fun and sassy. Nigel said he could not say anything that would not get him into trouble.
Dancers: Cyrus and Chehon
Style: Jazz — (story is their struggle for the top)
Song: “Fangs (District 78 Remix)” by Little Red Lung
My thoughts: These are always weird dances. They are either hits or misses. Benji and Travis’ dance of the nerds was memorable. Alex Wong’s dance with Twitch was memorable. This was okay for me. Chehon is definitely the better dancer but Cyrus always tries to keep up and should be commended for that as well.
The judges: No standing ovation this time. Nigel thought Sonya choreographed this well. Cyrus has improved so much as a dancer and he is so proud. Chehon has also grown as a person and is his favorite dancer. Both were inspirational. Mary thought both have had a tremendous journey. Rob felt like they were lifting each other up as dancers always do.
Dancers: Eliana and Alex Wong
Choreographer: Travis Wall
Song: “Without You” by Harry Nilsson
My thoughts: Two ballet dancers doing contemporary. Usually I have chills with every dance Travis choreographs, but this one not. The dancing was awesome, but I think I would have chosen the slower Mariah Carey version of the song. I think that is what was not resonating with me.
The judges: Were on their feet. Rob said it was poetry. They (Eliana and Alex) got lost in it and we (the judges) did, too. Nigel said it was his favorite routine of the night and that Eliana was his favorite of all time on the series. (Nigel–Melanie Moore will be very hurt). Mary said it was her favorite of the night as well. Eliana had extraordinary passion that oozes from her body.
Dancers: Tiffany and Chehon
Choreographer: Dmitry Chaplin
Style: Rumba
Song: “Love Me Tender” by Adam Levy and Norah Jones
My thoughts: Wooooo Tiffany! You have been cute, but this was sexy and sophisticated. It must have been hard to come out and dance like that after hearing all this gush about Eliana. Well done young lady. Dmitry said during the rehearsal shots that this dance you have to feel uncomfortable watching it. Was I? No. And I think that was an issue with Chehon. He needed to bring more Latin steam.
The judges: Mary thought it was beautiful. She did not believe the chemistry but the movement was gorgeous. Tiffany was fabulous. Rob thought it was sexy. He thought the connection was beautiful. Nigel said this dance was so much sexier than the pole dance. He commented to Chehon that they couldn’t find a shirt with buttons for him? Mary laughed and said, “Dmitry was the choreographer!”
Dancers: Cyrus and Twitch (Glitch meets tWitch)
Choreographer: Christopher Scott (with the assistance of Madd Chadd, an animator)
Style: Animator (story is they are robots in a secret lab).
Song: “Like A Criminal” by District 78
My thoughts: THAT ROCKED!!!! It was so Terminator-like. Rise of the Machines. Watch out. My favorite routine of the night.
The judges: Standing ovation. Rob said it was crazy; the two guys were superstars. Mary loved it. Nigel wanted people to know that tWitch worked so hard at that because he is not an animator. Hip hop and animation are so very different. He mentioned that Christopher Scott felt they were world class in what they do.
Then Nigel really upset me. Cyrus is having a moment, the time of his life, and Nigel drops a spirit-crushing blow to Cyrus: I am supporting Chehon for my own personal reasons. And goes on and on about it. That Nigel “loved his bones, but won’t vote for him.” Nigel has been a mentor to Cyrus. Nigel’s opinions hold great weight to Cyrus. I remember thinking, “Why don’t you just tear out his heart and stomp on it, Nigel?” Did you really HAVE to say that? Could you have just critiqued his performance and left it at that?
I have always respected Nigel. In that moment, I lost a generous portion of that respect. Did Nigel just have a gaffe on live TV where he said something he should not have? It reminded me of his comments last year to the two guys that one of the girls would win the competition for which he later apologized. Again a spirit-crushing moment to Tadd and Marko. Or are you trying to manipulate voters? Either way, it is not cool, dude. Nigel, I love your bones but that move made me not vote for either one. I do not appreciate being manipulated into voting.
Eliana danced to “Passacaglia” by Johann Johannsson. Interestingly, she said in her interview that she did not want to be typecast as just ballet, but then she does a ballet number. It’s beautiful but I see no risk-taking here. Cyrus decided to go with something we’ve already seen–his solo during Vegas week to “Holy Ghost (Helicopter Showdown and Sluggo Remix)” by Messinian. It would have been nice to have seen something different. Tiffany danced to “I Believe” by Fantasia. With her, too, I think I have seen all these moves in previous solos. Chehon’s solo was the best. He danced to “How It Ends” by DeVotchKa. I liked the use of a prop other than a costume. I liked it already. His solo incorporated all that he has learned and not just another ballet routine, which is his strength. It was risky and I admired him for it.
Guest Performance
A B-boy dancer named Jean Sok from Paris, France took the stage. The young man only has one leg and uses crutches sometimes. It was a beautiful combination of strength and grace. I stopped breathing for a moment. He danced to the song, “Expression” by Helen Jane Long.
Who will be the winners? I think it could go either way.
Tags: "Best Thing I Never Had", "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (District 78 Remix)", "Fangs (District 78 Remix)", "Holy Ghost (Helicopter Showdown and Sluggo Remix)", "How It Ends", "I Believe", "Leave", "Like A Criminal", "Love Me Tender", "Passacaglia", "The Game Has Changed", "The Nutcracker Suite (Pas De Deux)", "The Time is Now", "When You're Good To Mama", "Without You", Adam Levy and Norah Jones, Alex Wong, Allison Holker, animator, ballet, ballroom, Beyonce, Broadway, Bruton APM Studios, California, Cat Deeley, Chehon Wespi-Tschopp, Chicago--The Musical (1996 Broadway Revival Cast, Christopher Scott, competition, contemporary, Cyrus "Glitch" Spencer, Daft Punk, dance, DeVotchKa, District 78, Dmitry Chaplin, Dragon House, Eliana Girard, elimination, entertainment, Fantasia, Fox, Fox Broadcasting, Fox VIP, France, Glitch meets Twitch, Harry Nilsson, Hilda Bowen, Hilda Clark, Hilda Clark Bowen, hip-hop, hot tamale train, Jason Gilkison, jazz, Jean Sok, Johann Johannsson, judging, KPM Studio Artists, Little Red Lung, Los Angeles, lyrical hip-hop, Madd Chadd, Marat Daukayev, Mary Murphy, Messinian, Moloko, Nigel Lythgoe, Once--A New Musical (Original Broadway Cast), Paris, paso doble, PBMom, pole dancing, Queen Latifah, Ray Leeper, Rob Marshall, rumba, Season 9, So You Think You Can Dance, Stacey Tookey, Stephen 'tWitch' Boss, SYTYCD, Tessandra Chavez, Tiffany Maher, Travis Wall, Tyce Diorio, Will Wingfield
So You Think You Can Dance — All Stars Part 2
I had this big long write up I planned to type up this weekend, but I decided to do some intense yard work and hurt my dominant hand in the process. So no blog for the last week, especially since tomorrow is a new show. Still hurting, so I don’t know what I’m going to do about tomorrow’s show. So let me keep it brief. I thought most of the dancers stepped it up on Wednesday. My chills have returned. As far as the contestants who were at the bottom: I was not surprised with Lindsay and Witney being at the bottom 2, but I think the judges were wrong. I prefer Lindsay’s way of ballroom dancing. As far as the boys, I was shocked Will was in the bottom 2. That Bollywood dance was incredibly difficult. Cole is a great dancer as well, but his technique has not been so great the last few weeks. For who remains, I will predict Eliana will be the win for the girls (Tiffany in second place) and for the guys Cyrus will win this and I am really unsure who will be in second place between Cole and Chehon.
Tags: Alex Wong, Allison Holker, Anya Garnis, Audrey Case, ballroom, Broadway, California, Cat Deeley, Chehon Wespi-Tschopp, Christopher Scott, Cole Horibe, competition, contemporary, Cyrus "Glitch" Spencer, dance, Dave Scott, disco, Dragon House, Eliana Girard, elimination, entertainment, Fox, Fox Broadcasting, Fox VIP, Hilda Bowen, Hilda Clark, Hilda Clark Bowen, hip-hop, hot tamale train, jazz, judging, Kathryn McCormick, Lauren Gottlieb, Lindsay Arnold, Los Angeles, lyrical hip-hop, Mandy Moore, Mary Murphy, Nigel Lythgoe, PBMom, perseverance, Season 9, So You Think You Can Dance, Stephen 'tWitch' Boss, SYTYCD, Tiffany Maher, Tim Burton, Tyce Diorio, Will Thomas, Witney Carson
So You Think You Can Dance — All Stars Return
Tonight our top 10 are paired with our All Stars from previous seasons. The one dancer I am looking most forward to watching tonight is Eliana, with whom she is going to be paired, and seeing her dance. You know that the show is going to reward her from being paired all these weeks with Cyrus. I enjoy Cyrus and I think Eliana has elevated his technique all these weeks; it is time for her to have a chance in the spotlight.
Joining the resident judges Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy is Benjamin Millepied who starred in the movie “Black Swan.” He is part of a creative force behind the new group called the L.A. Dance Project and that group would be performing that evening.
The opening song was choreographed by Tyce Diorio as a tribute to the legend Gene Kelly who would have been 100 years old on Thursday. His wife, Patricia, was in the audience. Tyce also filled in for the slightly injured Cole in the dance routine. The song was “The Cool World Stomp (Reprise)” by Mark Isham.
I have not given Cat Deeley enough love this season. I wish she could host every show (including The XFactor). She is so lovely and seems so genuine in her appreciation of the dancers as her children.
Dancer: Tiffany
All-Star: Brandon Bryant (Season 5)
Style: Disco (ugh)
Choreographer: Doriana Sanchez
Song: “You Make Me Feel…(Disco Fries Remix)” by Cobra Starship featuring Sabi
My thoughts: I am not a big fan of this style on the show. It does showcase athleticism and gymnastics, but this is more of a dance in which one participates, not for a competition. They did a great job. Cat Deeley thought it was Saturday Night Fever On Steroids. No, not really. Maybe more like Saturday Night Fever On Starbucks. Tiffany does not even look like she is sweating (I hate her–not really).
The judges: Loved it. They felt Tiffany and Brandon had a great connection and it was a great party. Benjamin said that she had a chance to be fearless tonight because of Brandon’s partnering. He was impressed by the constant level of energy and expressive face.
Dancer: Witney
All-Star: Nick Lazzarini (Season 1)
Song: “Sing It Back” by Moloko
Necessary story: They are in an abandoned lounge. Witney and Nick are ghosts who are still doing the show but no one is seeing it.
My thoughts: Travis Wall jazz? I am glad I watched it back again because the So You Think You Can Dance app program was irritating the crap out of me (had to put on my reading glasses to read my phone, then put my distance glasses on to watch them dance). However, it was only slightly better. I thought Witney looked out at the audience too much. Just when she was connecting with Nick and I started feeling the dance, she would look at the judges or at the audience and it would break that connection for me. I didn’t feel any chemistry between them. I thought Witney had a lot of chemistry with Witney. It could have been a smoldering hot (like Eliana’s dance to come). It was not my favorite. I even preferred the disco dance more. I disagreed wholeheartedly with the judges.
The judges: Benjamin thought it was excellent and great fun to watch. Nigel said, “You were totally committed.” She was sexy when she was breathing. “You’re a star.” Mary said, “Lord Have Murphy.” It was smoldering. Each week she is a shining star and she loved the ending move.
Dancer: Cole
All-Star: Anya Garnis (Season 3)
Style: Cha-Cha
Choreographer: Dmitry Chaplin (a.k.a. Be Still My heart)
Song: “Glad You Came” by The Wanted
My thoughts: What is in the water tonight??? Cole is one of my favorites. It was rough. His foot work was rough. It looked a little amateurish. Did his injury play into this. I think he might be in danger for this week’s eliminations (that will be announced next Wednesday). It looked better the second time I watched versus the first time because I was still irritated with that app. When you dance with Anya you have to bring it. Unfortunately, I kept trying to stick Dmitry in there and knew how much better it would be with him in there. Note to Cole: You cannot say you want to be the first in the top 10 to be on the hot tamale train and then have an under-seasoned dish.
The judges: Mary thought it was amazing. She reminded people that Anya was the reason why the phrase “hot tamale train” became infamous. She thought Cole did a tremendous job. She said the foot work and lines were okay, and the chemistry was not hot enough. He did a good job and his bags are packed but he is still on the platform. Benjamin thought it was great, that Cole partnered well. He offered to Cole to think of movement quality and contrast in a performance for something Cole could learn. Nigel agreed with Mary. He was a little disappointed with the contact with Anya. There was no rise and fall. He needed to get sexy with Anya first and then in the performing. He needed to have both.
Dancer: Lindsay
All-Star: Jakob Karr (Season 6)
Style: Broadway
Choreographer: Spencer Liff
Song: “Dancin’ Dan (Me and My Shadow)” by Fosse (Original Broadway Cast)
My thoughts: I guess this is the downside of having an emotional episode last week of all my favorite Mia Michaels’ routines: I was very bored tonight; nothing was moving me to want to pick up the phone to vote. She had beautiful lines. The synchronization of the two dancers must have been extremely difficult, especially during those moments they could not see each other.
The judges: Nigel thought it was a great routine, magnificent. She still had a lot to learn but she was nearly there. Mary thought they had first-class tickets on the hot tamale train. The synchronization was fabulous. Benjamin thought it was extremely well executed.
Dancer: Will
All-Star: Kathryn McCormick (Season 6) and star of Step-Up Revolution
Style: Bollywood
Choreographer: Nakul Dev Mahajan
Song: “Ooh La La” by The Dirty Picture (Soundtrack)
Necessary Story: She is the snake; he is the snake charmer.
My thoughts: Oh wow! There was another “Will” that did Bollywood: (See Sanctuary, Will, Season 2, episode 12. Who says science fiction isn’t entertaining).
Okay back to THIS Will. I LOVED THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My favorite dance of the evening (so far). Finally woke up some life inside of me. The first move when he moves up her front–it was more sensual in the rehearsals, but I’m nitpicking. The synchronization was spot on. The difficulty of these moves versus the dance with Lindsay and the shadow is multiplied by factor 10. It made me want to get up and dance around my room if I was not so enchanted by the snake charmer. In the end, though, the cobra bit him. And I think he was slightly smitten with her because he kept kissing her when the judges were talking. I’ll vote for him tonight. This is dancing on STEROIDS instead of Starbucks (i.e., the disco routine).
The judges: Mary thought he was the Energizer Bunny but also had amazing control. She felt like he was one of the most likeable guys in the competition. Benjamin thought it was charming and had a unique style. It was completely engaging and interesting. Will took advantage of every section and showed different ways of expressions. Nigel said he brought personality to everything he did.
Dancer: Cyrus
All-Star: Jaimie Goodwin (Season 3)
Song: “Outro” by M83
Necessary Story: Life after destruction; two sole survivors at the end of the world.
My thoughts: Travis Wall and a story about surviving the apocalypse (two of my favorite things). Ah, yes, this is the Travis Wall that gives me goosebumps. I remember being critical of this when I watched it and I was tweeting, but I changed my mind. Not being distracted by that app, I got chills. Cyrus really did rise to the challenge. Travis was smart in the way he choreographed it, showing off his strengths and hiding some of his weaknesses, but he also made Cyrus. You may be able to criticize the technique (and my saying that Eliana was “stuck” with him) but Cyrus is humble and Cyrus has an amazing heart. You know that he is not expecting to win but he feels blessed to be there. And you cannot help but fall in love with that quality about him. I did worry about the length of time the judges were spending on him with the comments because I thought that was preparing him for being in the bottom 3.
The judges: Benjamin finds this energy compelling to watch. He can also partner very well. Cyrus has a raw energy that is very exciting. Nigel paraphrased a quote from George Balanchine: “I don’t want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.” He felt that Cyrus HAS to dance. There is still so much for him to learn, but he works very hard. (Cyrus is humbled by the accolades). Mary said that Travis did not hold back and made it even harder for Cyrus. Maybe his feet and his legs are not the best right now. It is the passion he gives and people connect with that.
Dancer: Chehon
All-Star: Lauren Gottlieb (Season 3)
Style: Lyrical hip-hop
Choreographer: Dave Scott
Song: “Pretty Wings” by Maxwell
Necessary Story: Two friends who support each other.
My thoughts: It is still too stiff in the upper body. I felt like the spiked-out hair made it look like he was trying too hard (although I realize that is not his doing). It is not a world that he belongs (hip-hop). he is a brilliant ballet dancer. However, my expectations are very high because Alex Wong blew my conventional thinking that ballet dancers could never do hip-hop (the dance with tWitch: Get Outta Your Mind–one of my favorite routines of ALL TIME). He tried hard, but it was just okay for me. Again, with the judges giving him a lot of feedback, I felt like he was in the bottom 3 as well.
The judges: Nigel complimented him on everything not being straight and him having a smile on his face. He was much warmer. Mary said she wanted it to be more funky, but it was going in and out. It was not the most memorable but personally he accomplished a lot. Benjamin said the kind of looseness of tonight’s dance he needed to focus on. Performance was spontaneous. He was having fun with her. Chehon was very charismatic.
Dancer: George
All-Star: Allison Holker (Season 2)
Song: “Bahamut” by Hazmat Modine
Story: George lets the train go by because of this great distraction (Allison)
My thoughts: I love George. If you want a song about lightness, you have him dance it. You want something hot and passionate–no. I do not think he has ever been in love like that before so it came off as a little high school production-ish, like he was acting at acting that he was in lust with this woman. After hearing Mary and Benjamin talk, though, I thought I was just cranky again, but Nigel agreed.
The judges: Mary felt it was fun to watch. He had a good time and good technique. Benjamin thought he is an amazing mover. He attacked every step with a vengeance and he was a fan. Nigel thought that his technique is tremendous but he did not believe his character. Here he was to have a raunchy night with this raunchy lady and it just appeared like he was dancing.
Dancer: Eliana (FINALLY!)
All-Star: Alex Wong (Season 7) TOTALLY PSYCHED
Style: Who cares
Song: “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) By Nancy Sinatra
My thoughts: WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I found my breath rising and falling with the movement. They were so into each other. It was sensual, sexy, smoldering. And I want that red dress. They received a standing ovation. She deserved that! Then I thought, wow, wouldn’t it have sucked if all this lead-up to her performance had fallen flat?
The judges: Nigel said this is what he meant by maturity in movement. Eliana is his favorite girl this year. She was perfect technically and in performance. It was a fusion of the two. Mary said her hair went up on her arm. Her favorite routine of the night. It took her breath away. She was the star of the show tonight–the perfect tiramisu (Mary must have been pretty hungry). Benjamin said it was a great dance and a great song. She has it all: Performance driven by so much passion which is most important.
Dancer: Audrey
All-Star: Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss (Season 4; one of my favorite all-stars)
Style: Hip hop
Song: “Sincerely, Jane” by Janelle Monae
Necessary Story: A couple of 400 years bond together by love and hate. I’m already thinking “Dark Shadows.”
My thoughts: Audrey was worried she wasn’t going to keep up with tWitch and while he definitely owned the stage, she held her own. I kept thinking she reminded me of a particular actress and Nigel named her. That routine was a lot of fun.
The judges: Benjamin thought she did well. He felt it was unfair to have tWitch, but he wanted more from her, to shine of her own accord. He wanted her not to be afraid. Mary thought it was a great comical number and very entertaining. She was watching Audrey the whole time. She thought it synchronized well and she loved the groove. She called Audrey a dance angel. Nigel agreed with Benjamin. He wanted her to be more like Helena Bonham Carter (Tim Burton’s wife) and get a little crazy like she is.
My Favorites Tonight
For the girls, in this order: Eliana, Audrey, Lindsay, Tiffany, Witney
For the guys, in this order: Will, Cyrus, Chehon, Cole, George
They are only going with the bottom 2 this week. For the girls it is Witney (who did the bench routine last week) and Audrey (who did the flowers routine). For the boys, it is Chehon (who did the bench routine) and George (who did the Hometown Glory routine last week). And of course the audience wants to see solos; there is still 20 minutes left in the show.
Witney: Song: “You’ll Find A Way (Switch and Sinden Remix)” by Santigold. I don’t know. Witney is starting to get on my nerves. There was too much self-worship and too much hair (what they tell the people who are auditioning NOT to do).
Audrey: Song: “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” by Jennifer Holliday. I LOVE her song choice. I don’t know if that was deliberate but there is a touch of rebellion in her that I like. Her technique in her solo was better than Witney’s, but I did start to see the same moves over and over.
Chehon: Song: “Til Enda” by Olafur Arnalds (Commissioned by Wayne McGregor/Random Dance). His technique is….whoa. I know…profound review.
George: Song: “Brotsjor” by Olafur Arnalds (that’s kind of funny; did they plan that?) It was great, too. A mix of ballet and contemporary.
My going-home picks were Witney (because she seems to have hit a plateau). And for the guys, I think they are going to take George’s blah performance tonight into account.
After the LA Dance Project performed (Song: “Trio” by Nico Muhly), the people going home were announced. Nigel said the decision tonight was not unanimous (I think he meant for the girls), but Audrey was going home. Did you see Witney’s face? I really do not like this young lady any more. She had this smirk on her face–it reminded me of a pageant girl who pretends that she is shocked but not shocked. I do not like people like that. My opinion of her just tanked. For the guys, it will be George who is leaving us tonight.
Predictions for Next Week
Based on tonight’s performances, I think Witney and Tiffany will be in the bottom 2 (Witney because of her performance, but Tiffany because she was closer to the beginning of the show and people have short memories). For the guys, Chehon and Cole because of their performance issues.
Tags: "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going", "Bahamut", "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)", "Black Swan", "Brotsjor", "Dancin' Dan (Me and My Shadow)", "Hometown Glory", "Ooh La La", "Outro", "Pretty Wings", "Sincerely Jane", "Sing It Back", "Step-Up Revolution", "The Cool World Stomp (Reprise)" Mark Isham, "Til Enda", "Trio", "You Make Me Feel (Disco Fries Remix)", "You'll Find A Way (Switch and Sinden Remix)", 100 years old, Alex Wong, Allison Holker, Anya Garnis, Audrey Case, ballroom, bench routine, Benjamin Millepied, Brandon Bryant, Broadway, California, Cat Deeley, Chehon Wespi-Tschopp, Cobra Starship featuring Sabi, Cole Horibe, competition, contemporary, Cyrus "Glitch" Spencer, dance, Dark Shadows, Dave Scott, disco, Dmitry Chaplin, Doriana Sanchez, Dragon House, Eliana Girard, elimination, entertainment, Fosse (Original Broadway Cast), Fox, Fox Broadcasting, Fox VIP, Gene Kelly, George Lawrence II, ghosts in an abandoned lounge, Hazmat Modine, Helena Bonham Carter, Hilda Bowen, Hilda Clark, Hilda Clark Bowen, hip-hop, hot tamale train, Jaimie Goodwin, Jakob Karr, Janelle Monae, jazz, Jennifer Holliday, judging, Kathryn McCormick, LA Dance Project, Lauren Gottlieb, Lindsay Arnold, Los Angeles, lyrical hip-hop, M83, Mary Murphy, Maxwell, Mia Michaels, Moloko, Nakul Dev Mahajan, Nancy Sinatra, Nick Lazzarini, Nico Muhly, Nigel Lythgoe, Olafur Arnalds, Olafur Arnalds (Comissioned by Wayne McGregor/Random Dance)", Patricia Kelly, PBMom, perseverance, Santigold, Saturday Night Fever On Starbucks, Saturday Night Fever On Steroids, season 1, season 3, Season 5, season 6, Season 9, So You Think You Can Dance, Spencer Liff, Stacey Tookey, Stephen 'tWitch' Boss, SYTYCD, The Dirty Picture (Soundtrack), The Wanted, Tiffany Maher, Tim Burton, Travis Wall, Tyce Diorio, Will Thomas, Witney Carson
So You Think You Can Dance Mia Michaels’ Night
This is my 100th blog post since moving to this site. Exciting, yes? I had a fabulous trip to New York and will have some blogs, including my moving trip to the 9/11 Memorial Site.
I know. I’m very late with this review. I was behind before I went on vacation and I’m even further behind now that I am back. Tonight the top 14 faced a third elimination. The dancers had two weeks off. The Olympics gave my DVR a break from exploding from overuse. Tonight two very special judges were in town after performing for the Dizzyfeet Foundation’s National Dance Day gala, Michael Nunn and Billy Trevitt of The BalletBoyz from the UK. While the show was away, Tabitha and Napoleon welcomed their son, London Riley D’Umo, into the world. Of note, someone on Facebook has been pretending to be them, but this is the legitimate Facebook page for them, and you can see pictures of the baby on there. Congratulations!
Tonight’s show would see the return of our favorite Mia Michaels’ routines. Mia Michaels and Travis Wall are my favorite contemporary choreographers on So You Think You Can Dance. They seem to be able to tap into the emotional center of my brain that leaves the deepest, long-lasting impressions. Whether it be chills or tears, I have never forgotten the original dances.
Mary and Nigel will be bringing bias to the table tonight since they were present for the original Mia choreography where Billy and Michael would be bringing a fresh perspective, judging the dances on tonight’s performances alone.
The opening group number showed us a new dance from Mia. The song was “Hanging On” by Active Child. Was this the first group CPR by our dancers? I could feel the power of the fine line between life and death, although I could see where it could also be the symbolism of the life and death of a relationship on a more simple level. I also hoped those roses were de-thorned.
Dancers: Cyrus and Eliana
Inspired Dances: Cyrus had been inspired by Brian Gaynor’s audition. Brian is now one of Cyrus’ roommates at Dragon House. Eliana’s inspiration was Wade Robson’s Peace Dance with 10 dancers interpreting the same movement.
Mia’s Dance: The Door Dance originally performed by tWitch and Katee Shean
Song: “Mercy” by Duffy
My thoughts: Cyrus’ and Eliana’s kiss looked “icky” and not full of hot passion. Cyrus was able to ignite his own locking/popping style that made it stand apart from tWitch. I would never believe that Eliana is a ballet dancer because she was that awesome at contemporary.
The judges: Nigel pointed out Cyrus bringing out his own flair but also that he needs to drop the tension in his shoulders. Eliana showed us that she is great at creating these characters because ballet dancers usually focus on technique first and character second. Mary said Eliana was “swagger-welcious” and that Cyrus brought his own swagger to the group. Michael said they were strong performers. Eliana would have him begging for mercy for sure and there was a good use of props. Billy said that something that should not have worked did work fantastically.
Next we saw some clips of National Dance Day and how much it was spreading globally.
Dancers: George and Tiffany
Inspired Dances: For George it was Wade Robinson’s Ramalama group dance from season 2. For Tiffany it was when Ellen was on the other side of the door on Mia’s door dance and moving into the tWitch/Alex Wong “Out of Your Mind” dance. She hopes to be on The Ellen Show.
Mia’s Dance: The Hometown Glory dance originally performed by Katee Shean and Joshua Allen in Season 4.
Song: “Hometown Glory” by Adele
My thoughts: I had chills from the beginning. It was phenomenal. I know it was only two dances so far tonight, but this one became my favorite of the night (until the last routine).
The judges: Mary felt like we needed to call 911 because we witnessed a murder this evening on stage. She thought it was phenomenal, that Tiffany was soft when she needed to be and powerful when that was needed. The assisted lift was perfect (my note–did she mean the assisted run?) She said George elevated the role today. Michael felt like it had fantastic energy. It was a great match up to each other. Tiffany got so into character, but maybe too much because she didn’t look like she needed any help whatsoever from George in the assisted run and that was the point (she needed to be lifted). He felt like she needed to pull it back a bit. Nigel felt like we finally saw the best from George this evening. Tiffany over-egged the pudding, but would prefer that and trying to calm it down, versus not giving enough energy and having to ramp it up.
Dancers: Will and Amelia
Inspired Dances: For Will it was the group routine where Nigel got kidnapped in season 4. For Amelia it was Melanie and Neal’s routine “Total Eclipse of the Heart.”
Mia’s Dance: The Butt Dance made famous by Evan Kasprzak and Randy Evans. Interestingly, Amelia seemed surprised, but there is a French feel for it and her audition was French-inspired. Mia was probably remembering that when this routine was assigned. Amelia looked like she might feel uncomfortable with everyone looking at her butt for the evening.
Song: “Koop Island Blues” by Koop
My thoughts: While it might be technically challenging and does elicit an emotional response from me, it was not goosebumps. I could feel Amelia’s discomfort at the thought of everyone looking at her butt. There was a height difference, too. Evan and Randy were shorter. Also Evan’s Broadway experience allowed him to shine the character more than Will’s contemporary background. Please also see my notes after hearing what Nigel had to say. George and Tiffany’s routine still my favorite at this point.
The judges: Nigel felt that Will was trying to bring the character out. He said Amelia needed to bring more character. He noticed that she was looking at the floor much of the routine. At this point, that comment from Nigel made me feel like, “Yeah, do you think so?” Perhaps knowing everyone was looking at her butt made her a little self-conscious and perhaps psyched her out a bit. The first thing Nigel said was that he had Randy’s butt in his mind for the last 3 years! I like Nigel but that is a little creepy. Even the most seasoned dancer would have felt weird hearing that. Mary liked it. Felt it was too big and maybe the character needed to be pulled back more. Was Will entranced by Amelia’s butt? Absolutely. She also felt that Amelia maybe looking down at the floor was her attempt at being coy. Having nothing to compare it to, Billy felt it was very strong, musical, and endearing. Both dancers were wonderfully in character. There were moments when subtlety would have been good, but it overall was great.
Dancers: Janelle and Dareian
Inspired Dances: For Janelle, it was the Mark Kanemura and Chelsie Hightower’s “Bleeding Love” routine. For Dareian, it was Kent and Neal’s Season 7 routine by Travis Wall “In The End” routine.
Mia’s Routine: The “bed” routine done by tWitch and Kherington Payne
Song: “Dreaming With a Broken Heart” by John Mayer
My thoughts: This might be their strongest routine yet, but I did not have chills, the kind I got seeing the original. They might be bringing their A-game too late.
The judges: Michael thought it was “wow!” The choreography and the ideas about it were wonderful. He was worried about Dareian’s lines. If he gets over that hurdle, he’s got it. Janelle had a great performance but he found himself looking at her hair oddly rather than the choreography. He did not know why but he just did. Billy said that it was difficult or Janelle because the movement is all about Dareian and not her, but they did well. Nigel said this was Mia Michaels at her best. For Dareian it was the first time he felt personality out of him and Nigel felt what Dareian was feeling. Janelle is at her best when he can see Janelle’s eyes smiling and her hips moving. She did not stand out tonight. Dareian’s technique was stronger than the original done by tWitch. Mary agrees with the comment on technique. There was no passion and at the end felt that it was overacted by Janelle. Dareian needs to fix his feet.
Dancers: Audrey and Matthew
Inspired Dances: For Audrey it was season 1’s Brian Friedman’s disco routine performed by Melody Lacayanga and Nick Lazzarini. (I did not watch season 1 of this show). For Matthew it was the 80’s jazz piece in season 7 by Ade Torbert and Lauren Froderman.
Mia’s Dance: The loss of Mia’s father and the reunion in heaven originally performed By Lacey Schwimmer and Neil Haskell.
Song: “Time” by Billy Porter
My thoughts: I thought Matthew was the star in this piece. Just watching the “making of/behind the scenes practice” brought tears to my eyes, but watching Mathew at the beginning where he smiles at first seeing his daughter (Audrey) and then the breath he took was he first caught sight of her had me in tears. Audrey was great, too, but I was watching Matthew more. They were able to make the transition I thought between the chemistry of a couple in love from previous weeks to the energy of a father and daughter. My new favorite of the night. I was a little shocked at what the judges had to say about Matthew, so after hearing their comments I watched it again and I could see some of what they were saying that he could have been more playful, but I think their comments were a bit too harsh.
The judges: Mary was very emotional, sharing that when Mia originally choreographed the song that Mary’s father had been diagnosed with lung cancer and the song gave her courage to take leave from her business to go be with her father in those final times. Mary, however, did not feel the passion or truth in this piece tonight from Matthew. She thought Audrey was the shining star. Billy said there were amazing things from Audrey and the first pirouette was flawless. He felt Matthew needed to disguise the effort of the dancing that weighed into it. Nigel felt that when Neil did the dance, it showed the playful man that Mia’s father was, that Matthew needed to bring fun into Audrey’s life. He felt Matthew was a little too focused on the dance steps rather than being a dad joined up with his daughter. That character that was needed did not come across.
Dancers: Witney and Chehon
Inspired Dances: For Chehon it was Melanie Moore’s Atlanta audition. For Witney it was “Danielle’s” audition in S4 (that turned out to be Travis Wall in drag).
Mia’s Dance: The bench routine performed by Season 2 Travis Wall and Heidi Groskreutz
Song: “Calling You” by Celine Dion
My thoughts: It was hard for a ballet dancer like Chehon to move into a contemporary style that requires him to loosening up a little. Regardless I still got chills when Chehon was lying on the bench with Witney under it. Not as good as Heidi and Travis’ routine, but that is some hard competition to live up to. They did a good job, but this dance is so iconic and it was TRAVIS WALL.
The judges: Nigel was pleased. He felt the passion came across. He also explained what the dance was about. Apparently Mia was in love with a gay man who was not going to be able to return the same kind of love to her. Mary felt they pulled it off. She wants Chehon to let go a bit more. She thought Witney was “wow” and was remarkable tonight. Michael asked Witney is she was a Salt Lake City girl, and said that Salt Lake is a fantastic place for dance (without really commenting on Witney’s dance tonight). He told Chehon he always had a job with The BalletBoyz if he ever wanted one.
Dancers: Lindsay and Cole
Inspired Dances: For Cole, it was Mark Kanemura in Season 4. They are friends and are from the same dance studio. Lindsay was inspired was Travis Wall and Benji Schwimmer’s nerd dance on the finale of season 2.
Mia’s Dance: The “Addiction” routine originally performed by Kupono Aweau and Kayla Radomski in season 5.
Song: “Gravity” by Sara Bareilles
My thoughts: Cole was spectacular. This was indeed my favorite routine of the night. When he ran his lips up her leg in a gesture of him “the addiction” consuming the whole of her, I got chills. Lindsay did a great job, too, but Cole was mesmerizing in his robotic-like movements.
The judges: Billy was impressed. Both have versatility in bucket loads, something that is needed for the business. Mary said this was the best performance from both of them. Kupono was a bit more sinister, but Cole was a quirky kind of demented, but it worked. Lindsay was amazing. Nigel said they came out on top tonight of everyone. Cole’s performance was quite chilling.
George, Dareian and Matthew are in the bottom 3 for the guys and Amelia, Janelle and Lindsay are in the bottom 3 for the girls. The judges wanted to see all of them perform solos before they made their decisions.
Amelia danced to “Falling Slowly” by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova. I prefer Kris Allen’s version. It does not look like she is dancing for her life. Janelle did a belly dance routine to “Inta Omri” by Elie Attieh and she, too, does not look like she wants it. It was fun but there was nothing remarkable or stand-out about it. Lindsay did a dance to “Hip Hip Chin Chin” by Club des Belugas. I felt like out of the three girls she wanted it more and I think her routine with Cole tonight is likely to save her.
The guys looked more poised to fight for their spots. George danced to “So Long, Lonesome” by Exploding in the Sky. He really wants it. There is something about George that reminds me of the painter Thomas Kinkade. When George dances, he lights up the stage. Dareian came out fighting, dancing to “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World” by Joshua Ledet. Unfortunately he has underperformed his peers most of the season and has not made a real connection with the audience. Matthew danced to “Delicate” by Damien Rice. Out of the three guys, I was not so sure he wanted that spot so badly, like he had written it off that it would not be his. But out of the three guys, I think they’ll put George through.
Nigel said the judges would save Lindsay mostly because of her performance in tonight’s routines. For the boys, they would save George. Dareian really needed to fix his feet and they felt Matthew was not connecting with the audience (I would disagree with them on that).
As a personal note, I think that Cyrus, as much as I adore him, should have been up there instead of Matthew because he has been getting by without a great technique, but it is about America’s favorite dancers, not the “best” technical dancer. Next week the couples will be broken up and they will be paired with all-stars from previous seasons.
Who will go home this week based on their performances on Wednesday? I think Cyrus should be in the bottom 2 and maybe Will is in trouble. Witney and Audrey might be in the bottom 2 for the girls. The voting is going to get more difficult. I am looking forward to seeing Eliana paired with an all-star. She, I think, is the most underappreciated dancer in the show. It’s time for her to have a moment in the sun.
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So You Think You Can Dance — Top 20 Dance Again & First Elimination
So You Think You Can Dance — Top 20 Dance for a Third Time
I don’t know about you, but this entire format this year has me very confused. Why the change? The first week traditionally has been for us to meet the Top 20 and get a chance to see them dance. Then the second week, traditionally the top 20 dance, we vote, and then the next day, the 3 people with the lowest votes in the girls and the guys get to dance for their lives and the judges choose who is going home. However, the second week, the top 20 danced, and then there was no show the next day. When I heard they would tell who was going home the next week, I thought to myself, okay, so they are going to make us vote again, give the Top 20 a third week to dance so we could thoroughly enjoy them, get to know them, etc., and then on the next-day show, they will add the two weeks’ votes together, and continue on. However, that was not the case. The top 20 danced, but based on the votes, based on what they saw this week and last week, and with additional input from the choreographers from this week and last week decided who was leaving tonight. Nigel reminded us that they were not “voting people” off, but rather sending home the people who did not receive the most votes. Personally it is a game of semantics–like is the cup half empty or half full. I inquired with my OFFICIALFOXVIP contacts if this was just a one-time thing because of scheduling difficulty with the other shows and apparently this is the way they are doing it this year. On one hand, it makes it better for me because trying to type up a blog on Wednesday night before the Thursday show is very difficult. On the other hand, it seems kind of cruel to the dancers. They do not know if their previous week’s dance is going to put them in the bottom 3, and that will translate in the dances they perform on Wednesday night, which in turn will turn into the votes they get for that dance and whether or not they are in the bottom 3 the following week. It sounds like a mind game. I know Nigel Lythgoe is not like that, and I do not know if it was a demand of the network, but I do not like it.
Having said, that, let’s get on with the performances this week. We had Adam Shankman, guest judge, on tonight and the barrage of funny plugs for “Step-Up Revolution.” The group dance was choreographed by Tabitha and Napoleon D’Umo to the song: “The Beautiful People (District 78 Remix) by Marilyn Manson. I started having déjà vu. Didn’t we see a song choreographed to this song before? I looked it up and turns out I was right. Comfort Fedoke and Chris Jarosz performed to it, choreographed by Tyce Diorio, in week 3 of season 4, in 2008. See a YouTube clip from the episode.
Even though it was a repeat, the dance was slightly different and it was zombie-esque (I like the word “esque” lately) and had hints of the Thriller dance.
The show opens and Adam thinks Cat is like a big sexy tomato. Cat invites him to take a bite. I love when Adam Shankman is on. He has the BEST lines.
Dancers: Cole and Lindsay
Choreographer: Christopher Scott
Song: “Teeth” by Lady Gaga
My thoughts: It was a lot of fun. Cole was great and definitely played the nerd wonderfully, keeping in character throughout the judges’ critique. Was Lindsay a nerd’s dream or did the nitrous oxide do things to Cole’s head? What a happy gaseous delusion! Christopher Scott’s routines are kind of hit or miss for me. There are either brilliant, or seemingly hastily put together.
The judges: Adam thought the American Dental Association should adopt the routine. Cole was freaking him out (in a good way). He thought Lindsay was holding her sex kitten in and needed to really attack it. Nigel certainly thought it was incentive for Great Britain to go to the dentist. He felt it was a bit immature. He thought Lindsay was playing to the audience and not to Cole. Mary said the routine put a smile on her face. She felt Lindsay needed to be vampier. Part of the show is acting and she will need to bring that. Cole is a lean, mean dancing machine.
Dancers: Amelia and Will
Song: “3326” by Olafor Arnalds
Story: Two souls are carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders. They are searching for the light at the end of the tunnel.
My thoughts: I could feel that weight and the oppression of their souls. I had goosebumps, the first tonight. They had stunning lines. Amelia and Will have great chemistry. In this dance, they moved as one. WOW! It was my favorite routine of the night.
The judges: Mary screamed: “OOOOOOOO!” Sonya was right on top tonight with this beautiful routine. Will and Amelia brought it to life. Will was rising to the occasion. They have gone another floor up in her eyes. Adam gave them a standing ovation. Of Amelia, he said he was completely lost in the piece and it took him on a journey. Will 1,000,000% “Stepped it up” (movie plug). It was brilliant. Nigel said that not only had Travis grown, but Sonya, too, has show tremendous growth on the show since she joined. She said Amelia was great a great, quirky dancer. Both Will and Amelia were absolutely brilliant dancers.
Dancers: Amber and Nick
Choreographers: Miriam Larici and Leonardo Barrionuevo
Style: Tango
Song: “Tanguera” by Sexteto Mayor
My thoughts: My eyes were drawn to Amber immediately and not because of her red dress. There is one spot where she almost looked at the audience and lost her character. There was a lot of hard footwork being performed by both Nick and Amber. It was intense.
The judges: Adam thought it was hot. Amber was spectacular, a fire-breathing dragon. Nick was a brilliant partner but he vanished a bit. Nigel thought Amber made herself look good, a cobra ready to pounce. Nick was very strong and it showed. Mary said it was a difficult routine. Nick and Amber made it not look like work. Amber was a fire out there and she was in awe. She gave a “hats-off” to Nick; he did great.
Dancers: Audrey and Matt
Song: “Hear Me Now” (Dri, Lind and Lukka Mix) by Steed Lord
Story: The robotic struggle between men and women
My thoughts: It was hard hitting and angry. You could feel the struggle. It was my second favorite routine of the evening. These two have great chemistry together and are superior dancers.
The judges: Nigel loves the “stank steps.” They were incredible and are one of America’s favorite couples. Mary said they, too, were one of her favorite couples, and quite the dynamic duo. They maximized everything. One of her favorite routines tonight. Adam said tonight belongs to Sonya. Audrey was “friggin brilliant.” He told Matt if he kept it up like that, it was his competition to lose. It was amazing and for them to stay in the zone.
Dancers: Dareian and Janelle
Song: “My Girl” by The Temptations
Story: A wedding proposal
My thoughts: It was the first kiss of the season, which promptly some fun from the judges, more fun than this routine unfortunately. Mary said she was not getting into this kissing thing this season, so Adam fake-kissed Nigel. It was fantastic. This routine did nothing for me. Dareian was the stronger dancer of the two, however. I think Christopher Scott did not do such a great job tonight with his choreography. Maybe he is the type that needs awhile to prepare, to think things out. He needs to learn how to Twitter-up his dance routines. Less than 140 characters but strong thoughts that resonate with people.
The judges: Adam felt Dareian was more invested than Janelle. Nigel said that so much depends on the choreography and it was a little uninspiring. Both are better dancers but they have to bring it, too, as Adam pointed out. Mary said the routine was sweet and it was just okay.
Dancers: Brandon and Janaya
Choreographer: Sean Cheesman
Song: “Bring On The Men (From Jekyll & Hyde: The Gothic Musical Thriller) by Linda Eder
Style: Broadway — Hot romance book gets the girl frisky
My thoughts: It was a very fun routine with high energy. Some of the moves were great. Sean Cheesman is another “hit or miss” choreographer for me, but this one, I liked.
The judges: He felt like Brandon “stepped it up” (movie plug). Janaya’s lines were great and she played the crowd. Nigel thought it was brilliant Broadway and agreed with Adam. Janaya brought something this week that she did not have last week. Mary thought it was the most entertaining routine of the night. The stepper (Brandon) was “stepping it up” tonight with energy. Great acting from Brandon and Janaya was amazing. Cat thought it was fearless.
Choreographers: Melaine LaPatin and Tony Meredith
Song: “I’m Shakin'” by Jack White
Style: Jive
My thoughts: I am a huge fan of Cyrus. He brings his personality and enthusiasm to every dance; however, his lack of technique is beginning to show in a big way. Eliana is always wonderful. The routine was lively. Cyrus tries so hard and I am so proud of him.
The judges: Mary said Cyrus’ feet were not quite right, that his posture goes in and out. He is doing great partnership. Her star is still showing for Eliana. She is a phenomenal dancer. She was cookin’. Adam said that he was amazed Cyrus got through it. Eliana was the hardest working woman tonight. Nigel said that at some time Cyrus will hit a brick wall. Cyrus has to connect the dots and needs to fill in the blank spaces. Eliana has a tough job with Cyrus. She has to compensate a great deal for Cyrus’ lack of knowledge.
Dancers: Alexa and Daniel
Choreographer: Dee Caspary
Song: “So Long My Friend” by Yanni
Additional info: The bath tub is the water drowning the words.
My thoughts: They are good technical dancers. They did much better this week, but I really hated last week’s piece. However, by the end of the song, I realize the chemistry really is not there. I don’t know what exactly it is. Is Alexa shutting off her heart again to protect it like she did in Vegas because she does not want to fail, thus really fulfilling her own destiny with her thoughts? Do she and Daniel not have any chemistry off screen? I hoped the title of the song was not going to be their ironic fate. I loved the blue outfit that resembled the water. It was beautiful.
The judges: Adam complimented Dee on a beautiful routine. He told Alexa and Daniel although it was beautiful it was a bit chilly. He is not sure exactly what was missing. It was missing the passion. They were not connecting. Mary agreed with Adam. There is no chemistry between the two of them. Nigel said it was danced brilliantly but there is no chemistry.
Dancers: Tiffany and George
Choreographers: Melanie LaPatin and Tony Meredith
Style: Foxtrot
Song: “I Want To Be Loved by You” by Sinead O’Connor
My thoughts: Sinead O’Connor? Really? That was the biggest surprise to me. I suppose I have not kept up on her career. It was my third favorite routine this evening. My eyes were drawn to George, but they did a tremendous job. I love George’s energy; it is always happy and calm. He is such a smooth operator. I also loved her costume.
The judges: Mary thought Tiffany did everything perfectly. Adam was madly in love with it. It reminded him of Fred and Ginger. They “stepped up” (movie plug) to a whole new level. It was “in-freaking-credible.” Nigel they could be the “Opening Act” for anybody. They should be a lesson to every couple on the show.
Song: “Tandav Music” by Aatish Kapadia
Style: Bollywood of course
My thoughts: It was high energy. Bollywood has to be one of the toughest dances out there, especially because of the hand moves, but also it requires a great deal of stamina and strength. Chehon did the better job of the two. Nakul looked so proud of them. I would not have known Chehon was a ballet dancer tonight. He took the constructive criticism he received last week and applied it.
The judges: Adam said it was the first time he saw joy in Chehon. Witney needed to extend her neck. He still felt chemistry between them even though they were apart during the dance. Mary said it was so much better this week for Chehon and that he was on fire tonight. Nigel thought Chehon was fantastic. He cannot believe that Witney was doing knee turns. He also noticed with khattak in the dance routine.
The Results From Last Week
Based on last week’s votes, Janaya, Alexa, and Witney were in the bottom 3 for the girls. When the camera flashed to Alexa, she knows she is leaving. She looks down and cannot smile. Janaya and Witney are there with their chins up and smiles on their faces. The bottom 3 guys were Nick, Daniel and Chehon. Nigel said that the votes were for people America liked, but they have to stay unemotional about their decision. They were the best 20 dancers across this season. After talking to the choreographers, seeing them dance this week and last, they were saving Chehon and Witney. I imagine the Bollywood routine helped to save them.
Extra Bonuses
There was a great segment about the movie “Step-Up Revolution” coming out. Jamal Sims is the choreographer, but so are Travis Wall and Mia Michaels, Mia also playing the role of “Olivia” in the movie. Adam Shankman is the producer. It features several SYTYCD alumni including Stephen “tWitch” Boss, Tony Bellissimo, Phillip Chbeeb, and Kathryn McCormick.
Speak Out and Step Up (movie plug): What do you think of the decisions this week? What do you think of this new format? Let us know!
Note: I’m headed to New York on Thursday. Since it takes me about 4-6 hours to get this blog done, I do not think I’ll be able to do a detailed blog and pack Wednesday night. I’ll try to get something up, although it likely will not be in this regular format. I appreciate your support for this blog. I’d love to get more comments on it and have a discussion.
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So You Think You Can Dance — Let the Voting Begin
So You Think You Can Dance — Top 20 Voting Begins
The evening started out well with a Mad-Men-ish dance, choreographed by Christopher Scott, to the song, “Architect of the Mind” by Kerry Muzzey. The judges for this evening were our resident judges Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy with the guest judge the fabulous Kenny Ortega. Many goosebump moments happened for me this evening.
What We Learned in 7 Seconds About Our Contestants
Witney Carson is 18, plays guitar and the drums, likes to golf, has over 100 relatives and is afraid of crickets. Chehon Wespi-Tschopp is 23. He was born in Chicago, but grew up in Switzerland. He is a ballet dancer, thinks in 2 languages and finds it hard to talk really fast. Tiffany Maher is 19. Her nickname is T-Maher-Starr, has “baby hands”, had a pet duck, and likes going to the beach. George Lawrence II is 19 and loves the color green. He loves collard greens, hates being outside, is camera shy and had a pet frog (want to bet he named it Kermit?). Janaya French is 20, wants to meet Shamu, loves fuzzy socks, hates orange candy and thinks Chucky is her worst nightmare. Brandon Mitchell is 27, from Kansas City, Kansas, is allergic to cats and dogs. His brother broke the world’s record for the long jump for 8 year olds. Alexa Anderson is 19, loves red lipstick, being outside, watermelon and puppies. She can eat frozen yogurt for every meal and her favorite topping is sprinkles. Daniel Baker humored things up by playing up America’s stereotypical idea of an Aussie. He is 24, puts shrimp on the barbie, throws boomerangs, has a pet kangaroo, is related to Crocodile Dundee and owns vegemite. Right. Amber Jackson is 21. She loves track, bunnies, and skating. She hates sausage and sleeps with stuffed animals. Nick Bloxson-Carter is 20, just took 23 credits and does not advise anyone else to be quite that insane. He loves movies, hanging out with friends, laughing, and the beach. His dad works at the Playboy mansion. Amelia Lowe is 18. Her dad is a tattoo artist. She was named after Amelia Earhart because her dad loves to fly planes. Her mom is a Pilates instructor. Will Thomas is 19. Orange is his favorite color. He believes he is Simba. Janelle Issis is 24 and from Birmingham, Alabama. She likes the movie, “The Color Purple”. She can cook. She loves roller coasters. Dareian Kujawa is 20. He left home to join the circus. He used to play hockey. He hates spiders. He loves the color blue and can mimic Donald Duck. Eliana Girard is 21. She hates raisins, is addicted to “True Blood” and loves the word “Alfred.” Cyrus Spencer is also known as Glitch, is age 22, a Pisces (I knew I liked him for some reason!), has a dozen pair of gauges (earrings), is addicted to shoes and loves basketball. Audrey Case is 18 and is from Oklahoma. She reminded us that she can make fart noises with her neck. She collects elephants and loves Taylor Lautner. Matthew Kazmierczak is 21. He loves hiking, is definitely a cat person, is terrified of sharks, has 6 tattoos and is terrified of the mannequin that was in the room with him at the time of the interview. Cole Horibe is 26 and is a walking cliché. He is an Asian male who is a ninja martial artist. He liked math when he was “young” (oh please, like 26 is old?), and is part of the descendent line of the 47 Ronin Samurai. Lindsay Arnold is 18, likes food, hates spiders and tomatoes, cannot cook and gave someone stitches once.
Couples Dances
Dancers: Witney Carson and Chehon Wespi-Tschopp
Choreographer: Louis Van Amstel
Dance: Samba
Song: “Jump” by The Cube Guys and Lucinana
My opinion: I loved Witney’s pink dress. Chehon did well being a ballet dancer and worked the audience well during one of the moves, but he is too straight in his posture. Witney did a great job.
The Judges: Nigel thought Witney was a star. Chehon needed to relax more and enjoy the music. Mary pointed out Chehon’s foot work, but moved his body well across the floor. Witney got a 1st class ticket on the hot-tamale train. Kenny thought Witney was like Marilyn Munroe in “Some Like It Hot” but hotter. He told Chehon to surrender to the music and agrees pretty much with Nigel.
Dancers: Tiffany Maher and George Lawrence II
Choreographer: Sonya Tayeh (Dance is about the stars being aligned for a couple and they realize each other and who they are.)
Dance: Contemporary
Song: “Turning Page” by Sleeping At Last
My opinion: Goosebumps. I had them when Sonya was just describing the dance, the emotion that the feel towards each other (I am a hopeful romantic at heart) and goosebumps while it was being performed. I have always rooted for George and hoped that his dad could see that he really is a fantastic dancer.
The Judges: Mary said it left her breathless. She said that George is one of the best dancers in the competition. She commented how connected the two of them were. Kenny said they both surrendered, and it reminded him of youth. “You spilled it.” Nigel thought it was superb and loved the arabesque in the lift.
Dancers: Janaya French and Brandon Mitchell
Choreographer: Napoleon and Tabitha Dumo (who looks radiant and like she is going to give birth at any moment). The story is about addiction and the choice between it and love.
Dance: Hip-Hop
Song: “Take Care” by Drake featuring Rihanna
My thoughts: It was average. Brandon got the feelings of anger across well but I did not feel the struggle. Not exactly sure why.
The Judges: Kenny believed the story and thought they did a great job. Nigel thought Nappytabs was very clever to hide some of their flaws through this dance. Mary believed Brandon but felt Janaya needed to be more gritty.
Dancers: Alexa Anderson and Daniel Baker
Dance: Jazz (it is supposed to be sexy, quirky).
Song: “Hey, Hey (DF’s Attention Vocal Mix) by Dennis Ferrer
My opinion: I felt absolutely no chemistry between these two. It was intricate, but sexy and quirky? No. Their faces showed that there were really thinking about all the movements and not really feeling the dance. And they had that one face (smiling) the entire dance. I have had a problem with Alexa’s facial expressions in the past (smiling during a song whose lyrics were sad, for example). Is that the dancers’ issue or the choreographer by making the routine technically difficult? Not sure. Maybe a bit of both. It was my least favorite dance of the evening.
The judges: Nigel hopes the audience can appreciate the level of difficulty. He did not see the chemistry either. Mary said that Daniel looked like he was enjoying himself. Kenny thought it was a demanding piece. He thought they were invested in the exercise but not in the performance.
Dancers: Amber Jackson and Nick Bloxsom-Carter
Dance: Viennese waltz
Song: “Nights in White Satin” by Tina Arena
My opinion: This dance is something you see on Dancing With The Stars. For the audience of So You Think You Can Dance, it usually is the dance of death or at least puts people in the bottom 3. I thought it was beautiful and flowed very well.
The judges: Mary said it was dreamy. Kenny thought it was fluid and flowing and loved it. Nigel told Nick to watch his facial movements.
Dancers: Amelia Lowe and Will Thomas
Choreographers: Napoleon and Tabitha Dumo
Dance: “Unconventional hip-hop” — Character pop. Sophisticated kitty meets alley cat (may explain why Will thinks he is Simba)
Song: “The Lovecats” by The Cure
My opinion: I liked this a great deal. It was upbeat and playful. It made me smile. One of my favorite dances of the evening.
The judges: Kenny thought it was fun and charming and loved it. Nigel thought they were “smitten kittens.” He thought it was terrific and memorable. Mary thought it was “purrrfect.” She commented that it made you happy.
Dancers: Janelle Issis and Dareian Kujawa
Dance: African Jazz
Song: “Jungle” by Hilight Tribe
My opinion: They did a great job. I’d have a headache after dancing like that.
The judges: Nigel loved it. Mary said it was exciting. It was like a jungle dance-off and they both came out as winners. Kenny thought it was universal and was like watching 2 flames dancing across the stage.
Dancers: Eliana Girard and Cyrus “Glitch” Spencer
Dance: Broadway
Song: “Run And Tell That” by Hairspray (Original Broadway Cast)
My opinion: I am such a fan of Cyrus. Ballet meets the animator and it worked! It was fabulous and so much fun to watch. Tyce was so proud of them. Another one of my favorites this evening.
The judges: Mary said she had never seen Tyce worked up that much before in her life. This will be “googled up”, i.e., watched over and over again. She said, “Winners are ordinary people with extraordinary hearts” and Cyrus lays his heart out on that stage. Eliana was a ballerina who could get down. Kenny felt like it was watching a Broadway performance right on a New York stage. Their personalities were on fire. Nigel said Cyrus is not the best dancer but he always gives 100% of himself. Eliana is the benchmark for the other girls in this competition.
Dancers: Audrey Case and Matthew Kazmierczak
Dance: Contemporary (story is on the Titanic after the sketch scene)
Song: “Unchained Melody” by The Righteous Brothers
My opinion: I did not think the song was going to work because we associate that song with “Ghost” and not the movie The Titanic, but it worked. I had goosebumps. For someone who was joking around during the interview and rehearsal, Matt turned on the hot factor. It looked like they were totally and completely in love with each other. It was on fire. I think my favorite dance of the evening.
The judges: On their feet! Kenny thought it was an exquisite choice and was brilliantly danced. Nigel thought it was his favorite of the night and it was a very special moment. Mary loved it.
Dancers: Lindsay Arnold and Cole Horibe
Dance: Paso Doble (instead of a bull and matador, Lindsay’s character was going to be like poison to the warrior).
Song: “Unstoppable” by E. S. Posthumus
My opinion: I normally do not like these dances but they pulled it off. I figured they were going to do something big having the pimp spot of the evening. I had goosebumps. My goosebumps never lie. It was hot.
The judges: They were standing once again. Cat made a comment that Cole had the “blue steel” look (from Zoolander). Kenny thought it was electrifying, mesmerizing and the most fantastic dance he has seen on this show. Mary thought it was the best paso doble Jason has ever choreographed on the show. Lindsay was fabulous and fiery. Cole was “oh my God.” She said it was a beautiful paso doble. Nigel said it was the best paso doble ever done on this show.
After tonight, here is my list of favorites in some semblance of order. It is hard to rate them because they really are so good.
Guys: Cole, George, Matt, Cyrus, Will, Brandon, Nick, Dareian, Chehon, Daniel (sorry Daniel fans; it was this particular dance that put him in the bottom for me.
Girls: Audrey, Amelia, Lindsay, Eliana, Janelle, Amber, Tiffany, Witney, Janaya, Alexa (again, the dance was what put her on the bottom of this particular list).
Who are your favorites? Who is your top 3 and bottom 3?
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So You Think You Can Dance — Top 20 Photo Shoot
So You Think You Can Dance Photo Shoot
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So You Think You Can Dance — Season 9 — Top 20
So You Think You Can Dance — Season 9 — Top 20 Revealed and Performance Show
What a great night to not only celebrate the 200th episode of So You Think You Can Dance, but to also welcome back the magnificent Mia Michaels. Cat Deeley looked particularly stunning this evening as she opened the show. Nigel Lythgoe announced that there would be two winners this season: One from the girls and one from the guys. On the judges panel this evening where our regulars, Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy, and guest judge is adorkable Zooey Deschanel from Fox’s hit show “New Girl.”
Learning Their Fate — Whittling down 35 to the Top 20
People who are in: The first 3 people receiving a yes from the judges were Alexa Alexander, George Lawrence II and Will Thomas. Amber Jackson who had auditioned in season 6, got to the Green Mile, did not make it, auditioned again, and did not even get that far, and said she would not audition again was through. She had grown a great deal emotionally and came back. Perseverance and a positive attitude paid off well for her. After a fake out that made Lindsay think she was out, Witney Carson and friend Lindsay Arnold were both in. Nick Bloxson-Carson also won a spot. Daniel Baker, who had left his job in the San Francisco Ballet and Chehon Wespi-Tschopp who left his job in New York City, both were in. Eliana Girard in her blue-suede shoes and bubbly personality was also on the show. Both Tiffany Maher and Audrey Case went in together. Debbie Allen said she was almost invisible but then she pushed her way to the front. As Tiffany receives a yes, Audrey looks worried. Adam Shankman breaks the news that she made it as well. She cannot believe it and asks, “Wait….are you sure?” She goes and calls her mom. Janelle Issis also was in disbelief as Adam welcomed her into the top 20. Adam said, “Honey, OWN this. You’re the first belly dancer in the top 20.” Janelle is a bit accident prone. She smacked her nose going back through the door to the waiting area and was ill this evening and told not to dance in the performance show. Mary Murphy did a silly version of Simon Says with Ryan-Gosling-look-alike Matthew Kazmierczak with which he readily complied and then received a yes. Dareian Kujawa told the panel he was working on his feet positioning, but they are like brutes. Lil’C tells him to keep working on that because he is in to the top 20. Janaya French moved to Los Angeles after she Vegas week and has had some highs and lows. She is through. After telling the last two girls that they were looking for star quality this year, Tyce Diorio informed Amelia Lowe she was put through as the final female contestant. Mary was telling Cole Horibe about hills and valleys in a dancer’s life and compliments him on his uniqueness. She sees no valleys for him–he is put through to the top 20. Namaste, Cole. Stepper Brandon Mitchell joined the top 20. Cyrus “Glitch” Spencer, who struggled with choreography in Vegas, but always had a great attitude, showed an ability to adapt quickly, and has that special “it” factor. Not only does he radiate this wonderful energy, but he has quite the fan base in America. Even though his dancing might not be up to par with some of the others, his personality will take him far. Nigel commented that he has “never seen anybody like Cyrus in my entire life.”
People who are out: I was surprised by the no given to Megan Branch. She was really good, but they are looking for variety. Abigail Ruz, Kaitlynn Edgar, Katie Muth, and Rebecca Hart were encouraged to come back next year. Sadly, Joshua Alexander was a no this season. No one can really know if the trip to the emergency room that stopped him from performing his final solo became a factor. They insisted Joshua return next season and I hope he does as well. He is a tremendous dancer. They also passed this year on Blake Zelesnikar, Jasmine Mason, and Daniel Kermidas. Jill Johnson, who went into the judges’ room together with Amelia Lowe, was sent home. Tappers did not fare well this season, sending Aaron Turner and Zack Everheart home. Going into the judges’ room with Brandon Mitchell was Devon McCullough. Adam said they would see Devon next year. With Cyrus in, that meant that Feliciano Turk, who had wonderful moments in Vegas, was out.
Dance #1
Dancers: Alexa, George, Will, Amber
Song: “We Found Love (BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge)” by JessieJ
My thoughts: They had great expression, reach, lines, timing, partnering. They blended and complimented each other with a very fluid flow. I got goosebumps (and if you haven’t read my blog before, my goosebumps never lie) towards the end.
The Judges: Nigel gave constructive criticism to Will about keeping up with the shorter dancers. He had encouraging words for Alexa and Amber. To George, Nigel said that if every light in the studio went out, he would still shine. Mary complimented Will’s partnering skills. She complimented Alexa on dealing with her demons. George’s leaps were phenomenal and Amber shed her emotional baggage. Zooey complimented the team work; she could not wait to see more.
Dancers: Witney, Lindsay and Nick
Song: “Dance Again” by Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull
My thoughts: It had great energy and great partnering. It didn’t floor me (sorry).
The judges: Mary gave a “woo” that sounded like the train was still in the station and not the hot tamale train that was moving. Zooey said the girls looked like twins and were incredible. Nick kept up with them as well.
Dancers: Daniel, Chehon, and Eliana
Song: “Romantic Inclinations/Like a Shot/Fury” by P. Mottram/S. Everitt/G Shadid, T. Marberger
Choreographer: Desmond Richardson and Dwight Rhoden
My thoughts: Goosebumps, but not the entire song. It looked like at times the boys were flinching when they got too close to Eliana, and then when the judges were commenting, it was apparent that the costume was inflicting wounds on them. Boo to the costuming department on that one.
The judges: Nigel commented the boys on their bravery at leaving paying jobs to come to the show. He also complimented Eliana on her classical skills. Mary called Eliana a ballet warrior. Mary went from “wow” or “woo” in her hot-tamale-train voice but her train whistle did not sound like it was quite fully on the train.
Dancers: Audrey and Tiffany (Janelle was out per doctor’s orders)
Song: “Sail” by AWOLNATION
Choreographer: Sonya Tayeh (assisted by Season 8 winner Melanie Moore)
My thoughts: Audrey and Tiffany had great timing, wonderful warrior spirit and great team work. It did not give me the goosebumps though.
The judges: Zooey said they made an amazing, great pair. The choreography was incredible. Tiffany was very strong and Audrey was graceful, which made for a good pairing. Nigel said that they looked like Pebbles (of the Flintstones) dancing.
Dancers: Dareian, Amelia, Janaya, and Matthew
Song: “Modern Drift” by Efterklang
My thoughts: My eyes were fixed on Amelia. She reminded me of my favorite from last season, Melanie Moore, especially in the jump into Dareian’s arms.
The judges: Zooey thought it was delicate and beautiful, like watching a painting move. Amelia shines like she irradiates light. Mary gave accolades to Stacy Tookey for the routine. She said Dareian had great strength, power and partnering. Amelia was fabulous. Janaya was not on their radar at first, but she is “now out of that radar.” I think Mary meant to say she was now ON their radar. Mary still loves Matthew.
Dancers: Brandon, Cole, Cyrus
Song: “Resolve” by Nathan Lanier
Choreographer: Christopher Scott (and Marko Germar said on Twitter he assisted in this routine)
My thoughts: I loved the baseball voiceover using their real names. Very clever, very inventive. It was a fantastic idea for a routine especially with the baseball all-stars game coming up on Fox. Christopher Scott did a wonderful job highlight each one of their strengths but blended with perfection. I did not get chills but I enjoyed it immensely.
The judges: Cat Deeley said she had the first chills of the season (I know she is not a judge but I love her as a host). Nigel commented that in front of them was a stepper, an animator and a martial artist and that they complimented each other, and complimented Christopher for highlighting each one of their strengths. Mary said they “hit it out of the ballpark with that one.”
Dancers: The girls
Song: “Where The Light Gets In” by Sennen
Story: The door is the gateway to the afterlife.
My thoughts: Travis Wall’s choreography always seems to elicit a deep emotional response from me, much like Mia Michaels. It was like watching angels dancing on the plane of existence between the two worlds. I got goosebumps about halfway in and had tears in my eyes by the end of the routine.
The judges: Nigel said it was like frieze on a Greek vase and complimented Travis on his growth since being a contestant on SYTYCD. Zooey said it was a beautiful routine for beautiful girls. Cat mentioned the word “ethereal.”
Dancers: The boys
Song: “Precognition (Steed Lord Machine Mix)” by Steed Lord
Story: They had to fight to win on the show. During the footage of learning the routine, she said having this group is like releasing the wolves to the masses (and I instantly pictured “Twilight”). She wants them to be exposed physically to expose the inner man. Brandon was comfortable with the male-male partnering ’cause he “likes the ladies.”
My thoughts: Each group of guys got to show their strengths but it did not illicit an emotional response from me like the girls did. I definitely did not like the high-waisted costumes. The guys looked very uncomfortable in them.
The judges: Nigel does not like the pants either (called them maternity pants). He chuckles at Will because he is not as buff as the other guys. The routine was athletic, gymnastic and strong, and the boys had to be that way now. Mary enjoyed George’s assisted lift. She loved the routine and thought the guys were great. Zooey would love to join in with them, and the boys were encouraging her to come up and do so. She thought it was all fantastic.
Dancers: The top 20
Song: “Eyes (Coachella Live 2012 Version)” by Kaskade
Choreographer: MIA MICHAELS IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My thoughts: I love Mia and have missed her being on the show. I got goosebumps when they moved their sunglasses off their eyes onto their heads right at the part of the show that said, “look into my eyes.” Eyes are the window into a person’s soul. The choreography keeps building throughout the entire song. I had goosebumps the entire song. And everyone stepped up.
The judges: Nigel kept it short and sweet, “Welcome home momma; you’ve been missed.”
It was a phenomenal ending to a terrific beginning for the journey of season 9’s top 20. They take a week off for our United States July 4th birthday, and will be back on July 11th.
My Early Favorites (in no particular order and I reserve the right to change my mind at any time)
Guys: Cole Horibe, Cyrus “Glitch” Spencer, Daniel Baker, George Lawrence II, Dareian Kujawa
Girls: Amelia Lowe, Janelle Issis, Eliana Gerard, Amber Jackson, Alexa Anderson
Who are yours?
National Dance Day
The third-annual National Dance Day will take place on Saturday, July 28. There is a hip-hop master class with Lauren Gottlieb, Lauren Froderman, and Brandon Bryant video and a Zumba fitness video for people of all levels with Kass Martin, Gina Grant and SYTYCD All-Stars Allison Holker and Ade Obayomi. That Saturday evening, there will be a Dizzy Feet Foundation Gala at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in the Music Center. Desmond Richardson will be performing as will Alvin Ailey, American Ballet Theater, LXD, and the All-Stars from SYTYCD (past and present). Click on the logos below to learn more.
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In 2012 Arby’s, a leading global quick-service restaurant company, decided to deploy remotely controlled thermostats across its company-owned restaurants in a bid to get energy costs under control, as well as to ensure proper comfort among their guests. After reviewing the products on the market, Arby’s selected four products for pilot testing. Among them was Powerhouse Dynamics’ SiteSage®. What immediately distinguished SiteSage from the other products was that it was capable of much more than remote thermostat control – it also offered other capabilities that interested Arby’s, including:
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These added capabilities played a key role in Arby’s eventual selection of SiteSage. For example, at a demonstration of the system about two weeks after installation, SiteSage was able to show Arby’s that the outdoor lighting system at the pilot location, which was on a timer, was being turned off at noon rather than midnight, and that their walk-in freezer compressor was never turning off, with temperatures sometimes exceeding the levels required for food safety. After several more weeks of testing, Arby’s was even more impressed with the systems and decided that SiteSage was the best choice for moving into the next stage of the trial – a 23 restaurant rollout in the Minneapolis area. Stage 2 of the pilot also proved successful, leading Arby’s to roll the system out across all 860 company-owned U.S. restaurants, on a very aggressive timetable. With the help of Arby’s chosen deployment partner, the rollout was completed just five months later.
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Scott Boatwright,
SVP Operations, Arby’s Restaurant Group, Inc.
The SiteSage Platform at Arby’s
At Arby’s, the SiteSage system delivers HVAC controls and diagnostics, along with food safety alerting and reporting. In addition to managing the wireless thermostats, SiteSage monitors the energy use of each HVAC unit at the breaker panel, and also monitors temperature in the supply and return ducts. SiteSage algorithms alert Arby’s management team to a range of issues with the HVAC units, including compressors that are short cycling, economizers that are not working, and units that are not able to reach the second stage of cooling. Arby’s has created thermostat setting “templates” that can be pushed down to restaurants at a regional level or other basis with the touch of a button, avoiding the need to program each thermostat individually.
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Keeping Men Healthy
Does Vitamin D Work For Treating Prostatitis?
April 20, 2020 February 5, 2019 by James Reacher
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You might not immediately think of vitamin D for prostatitis treatment, but this essential vitamin that plays many important roles in men’s health, including prostate health and immunity. Vitamin D also acts like a hormone in the body. This vitamin has demonstrated effect in managing symptoms of both bacterial and nonbacterial forms of prostatitis, such as chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS), and enlarged prostate, also called benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Vitamin D has demonstrated anticancer properties, and a number of studies have established that vitamin D deficiency is associated with an increased risk for prostate cancer.
Vitamin D for Prostatitis Treatment — Does It Work?
There are significant clinical studies and research supporting Vitamin D for prostatitis treatment, making it a Tier 2 supplement for prostatitis. Because prostatitis shares some symptoms with BPH, we look at research on supplements that may benefit both prostatitis and BPH patients. Even though BPH is not directly related to prostatitis, by looking at how vitamin D affects other prostate conditions we can see the role this vitamin plays in overall prostate health.
Low levels of vitamin D are associated with prostatitis, BPH, and prostate cancer.
Studies on using vitamin D for prostatitis and BPH include the following:
The Journal of Autoimmunity published a study on prostatitis and vitamin D, in which investigators explored the effect of vitamin D receptor silencing on the development of experimental autoimmune prostatitis in mice. The researchers concluded, “Vitamin D receptor modulation holds the promise of interfering with autoimmune prostatitis.” (Motrich 2009)
A review published in the International Journal of Andrology noted that scientists are beginning to appreciate chronic inflammation as a potentially important factor in men who have BPH, as well as the role of bacterial prostatitis and nonbacterial CP/CPPS. The authors also pointed out that “the mechanism of action of VDR [vitamin D receptor] agonists supports an important role of chronic inflammation in BPH pathogenesis and strengthens the concept of these agents as a therapeutic option for pharmacological treatment of BPH.” (Fibbi 2010)
A study reported that having a low level of vitamin D circulating in the blood is linked to a greater risk of enlarged prostate or prostate cancer. An epidemiological study of 977 randomly chosen men investigated the prevalence of prostate disease based on blood samples, a questionnaire, and physical examination. Investigators found a 23.1% prevalence of BPH, 5.1% of prostatitis, and 3.7% of prostate cancer. Among other discoveries, the authors found lower levels of vitamin D in men with BPH and prostate cancer. Because vitamin D inhibits cellular proliferation, the authors noted, “Lower levels are confirmatory with its loss of protective role against prostate cancer.” (Galic 2008)
Additional evidence can be found in an Italian study in which researchers identified how the vitamin D receptor agonist elocalcitol, a synthetic derivative of vitamin D3, is capable of stopping growth of the prostate in BPH patients. The process by which elocalcitol both stops inflammation and the growth of BPH cells is complex, and involves elocalcitol’s ability to significantly inhibit production of IL-8, a substance involved in BPH pathogenesis, by BPH cells stimulated with inflammatory cytokines, and IL-8-induced proliferation of BPH cells. The authors concluded that their data “provide a mechanistic explanation for the anti-proliferative and anti-inflammatory properties of elocalcitol in BPH cells. (Penna 2009)
A number of trials have evaluated the relationship between vitamin D and BPH. One study evaluated 4,770 participants in the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial who were free of BPH at baseline. Over seven years, 876 incident BPH cases were documented. When the investigators analyzed factors such as diet, alcohol, and supplement use via a food frequency questionnaire, they determined there were no associations between supplemental antioxidants and BPH risk, and there was “weak evidence for associations of lycopene, zinc, and supplemental vitamin D with reduced risk.” (Kristal 2008)
Uses and Side Effects of Vitamin D
It is important to take the right form of vitamin D, which is D3. The Vitamin D Council recommends taking 5,000 IU of D3 daily for two to three months, then asking your healthcare provider to check levels with a 25-hydroxyvitamin D test. Once you know your body’s level of vitamin D, you can adjust the dosage until your blood levels are between 50 and 80 ng/ml, which is the healthy range recommended by the Vitamin D Council and other experts.
Even though vitamin D is added to milk, food is not the best way to absorb vitamin D. The best source of vitamin D is getting 15 to 20 minutes of sunlight each day, but that is not always possible. That’s why supplements are important as well. People over 50 are at an increased risk for vitamin D deficiency.
References for Vitamin D for Prostatitis Treatment:
Fibbi B et al. Chronic inflammation in the pathogenesis of benign prostatic hyperplasia. Int J Androl 2010 Jun 1; 33(3): 475-88
Galic J, Simunovic D. Prostate disease prevalence with epidemiological and hormonal analysis in randomly selected male population in Crotia. Coll Anthropol 2008; 32(4):1195-1202.
Gilbert R et al. Associations of circulating and dietary vitamin D with prostate cancer risk: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis. Cancer Causes Control 2011 Mar; 22(3): 319-40
Krishnan AV, Feldman D. Molecular pathways mediating the anti-inflammatory effects of calcitriol: implications for prostate cancer chemoprevention and treatment. Endocr Relat Cancer 2010 Jan 29; 17(1): R19-38
Kristal AR et al. Dietary patterns, supplement use, and the risk of symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia: results from the prostate cancer prevention trial. Am J Epidemiol. 2008 Apr 15; 167(8):925-34.
Motrich RD et al. Impact of vitamin D receptor activity on experimental autoimmune prostatitis. J Autoimmun 2009 Mar; 32(2): 140-48
Newsom-Davis TE et al. The promiscuous receptor. BJU Int 2009 Nov; 104(9): 1204-7.
Penna G et al. The vitamin D receptor agonist elocalcitol inhibits IL-8-dependent benign prostatic hyperplasia stromal cell proliferation and inflammatory response by targeting the RhoA/Rho kinase and NF-kappaB pathways. Prostate 2009 Apr 1; 69(5): 480-93
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How did Henry McCarty, also known as William H. Bonney or Billy the Kid, die?
William H. Bonney was shot and killed by Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner on July 14, 1881. Bonney was an infamous Western outlaw who was called “Billy the Kid”. He was born in a poor Irish neighborhood on New York City's East Side. Before he was shot dead at age 21, Billy the Kid had reputedly killed 27 people in the American West. Billy the Kid called himself William H. Bonney, but his original name was probably Henry McCarty. Bonney was his mother Catherine’s maiden name, and William was the first name of his mother’s longtime companion–William Antrin–who acted as Billy’s father after his biological father disappeared.
dvdeaton
“Take these guns away, I don’t need them anymore.. knock knock knocking on Heaven’s Door..” Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid!!
George Albert Binet
Dawna Garrett, former relative???
Feb 24, 2020 7:17PM
Carroll Price
Most famous western "gunfights" involved unsuspecting (but often deserving) individuals being ambushed from cover, shot in the back, or killed after being disarmed - including the over hyped Gunfight at OK Corral.
Douglas Dalton
Garrett, shot him in the back, kid had no chance but of course he didn’t deserve a chance
Jan 3, 2020 6:00PM
Dawna Garrett
Dawna Garrett here Pat Garrett was a former relative,I knew the answer cuz my whole life I heard how our relative killed Billy The Kid
Jan 2, 2020 10:14AM
Have read and watched movies and television shows on this subject! Would be pretty dumb not to know this answer!!!
I remembered that one very well just not the new name. Just Kid and Bonney
Gold Toy Box
The story goes that Billy was ambushed in the dark as he asked "who is there" (in Spanish). Another story is that Garrett just shot someone and claimed the reward. Young Guns was just a 20th century version of the Dime novels of the 1800's, almost nothing historically accurate or true.
Dec 7, 2019 5:41PM
jack patti go
No idea, but thanks for the info
larrywagner
Still not sure, maybe Pat Garrett shot the wrong man.
Marylea Smith
Young Guns great movie about the story of Billy the Kid
Oct 16, 2019 8:23PM
Jas Newman
George Oliver Prince, Garrett was murdered at age 57.
Oct 5, 2019 1:12AM
filmnut, Sounds like Robert Ford shooting Jesse James.
docluci
Needed another hint
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African Quotes
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Hero Quotes
Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.
Agency Quotes
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Thomas Horn
Prison Guards Quotes
Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
Anyone Quotes
I've done a movie called 'Lemonade Mouth' for Disney Channel, which was fun to do. I actually got discovered through an open casting call where anyone could audition.
Elevate Quotes
I love actors, and I love the casting process. It's funny, like, some writers don't like actors because, I think, they are the faces of the show, and so you feel sort of secondary, but I love actors because they elevate the material; they make it better.
Asian Quotes
There aren't as many roles, and I think there's a lack of openness in casting an Asian character in a leading role or unless they're a stereotype. It's been hard. I've been able to play some non-stereotypical roles, which is great, but I have a lot of Asian actor friends who are struggling.
Persons Quotes
Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.
Locals Quotes
Local casting is just something I love doing.
Benh Zeitlin
Director Quotes
I used to take it personally when a casting director didn't like me or I didn't get picked for something. Now I realize you can't do that. It'll mess with your self-esteem. Don't take rejection overly personally. If that doesn't work out, there's something else waiting for you.
Bit Quotes
I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
Laura Spencer
Carry Quotes
Unless you have a real passion for making movies, then don't bother. I had to carry energy and light into every meeting, only to be told, 'We don't want you.' I couldn't take it personally. You just have to wait, and live for those moments when the casting director likes you.
Laura Harring
People like casting me as these characters who definitely have an edge to them, but I don't really think 'bad boy' is something anyone can say about themselves without sounding stupid.
Blair Redford
Disappointment Quotes
Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.
Bet Quotes
People weren't willing to bet on 'The Commercial Guy' when they were casting movies and television in the beginning, but I stuck around, and now it's slowly starting to pay off.
Cast Quotes
A casting director who'd cast me in 'Assassins' sent a video to Kevin Reynolds, the director, and Mel Gibson, whose company is producing '187.' Then I went in and auditioned, and a few hours later, they called me.
Kelly Rowan
Agent Quotes
'Mariah' was the first series-regular role for me, and that really came about because of 'Secret Honor.' That really was a direct result of that. Because now I had an agent and was submitted for that part, for James Malone. And... I was the casting director's first choice for James Malone.
Philip Baker Hall
Accepting Quotes
I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress because I wanted to be glamorous and a leading lady like everybody else. I looked in the mirror and thought I looked pretty good, but casting didn't ever see me that way.
Beth Grant
Decided Quotes
Casting my fate to the heavens, quite literally, I decided to go wireless. Completely wireless. All wireless, all the time, everywhere.
I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of the auditions was taking place in Paris. So I tried myself to contact every name involved in the movie I could possibly find on the IMDb!
Came Quotes
One night at a party, a really drunk guy came up to me and said, 'Whoa you look like Yves Saint Laurent' because I was wearing a turtleneck. I'd love to track that guy down and tell him that he gave pretty good casting advice.
Although Quotes
All my time not devoted to my master's service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things in moulds made of earth, in attempting to make paper, gunpowder, and many other experiments, that, although I could not perfect, yet convinced me of its practicability if I had the means.
Front Quotes
The first heart you win over is that casting director. In first meetings, they'll be the ones who see your pitch for the character. And then as you get further up, they'll be the ones reading with you in front of the network.
I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.
Norman Fell
North Carolina Quotes
I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!
Maddie Hasson
I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in the movie industry, but nothing overwhelming.
Dorothy Stratten
Actors Quotes
To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.
Real Quotes
The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
Victoria Gotti
Opportunity Quotes
'Skins' wanted to create a new thing by actually casting real teenagers. I think it was very brave of them. They also wanted to give the opportunity to people who didn't go to drama school.
Looks Quotes
Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.
Chance Quotes
A well known director wouldn't take the chance on casting me for an American role after he discovered that I was English. Some time later, he expressed his regret that he hadn't taken the chance with me.
Marsha Thomason
Audience Quotes
I love America. I eagerly became a citizen. I have no bitterness toward those casting directors who dismissed me because of my accent, nor toward the producers and directors who wanted to cast me but thought the audience wouldn't accept my accent. I think they're selling their audience short.
Persis Khambatta
Birth Quotes
NBC's pilot season of 1994 is legendary in the business. In a world where failure is commonplace, we midwifed the birth of both 'Friends' and 'ER'. While 'ER' came essentially out of the blue, we'd been casting around for a 'Friends'-like show for some time at the network.
Warren Littlefield
Jobs Quotes
I used to be very shy. When I first started, I had to go to a casting, and I had to go in a bikini. I thought I was too skinny. But I went in and got the job! And that's how I started.
Paris Quotes
When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.
Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.
Biggest Quotes
You think when you start getting jobs that it'll get easier, but that's the biggest lie ever. It gets harder. You have to put in more work. I wish it were the casting couch days because it'd be a lot easier!
Kerry Condon
Brings Quotes
The casting of 'Slumdog Millionaire' is a dream. Anil Kapoor, as the sleazy TV host, diamonds winking in his earlobes, has never been better; the quietly understated Irrfan Khan turns in another bravura performance as the police inspector whose questioning brings out Jamal's story.
Shashi Tharoor
Bring Quotes
Many of the crew members I work with and continue to work with were friends or have become close friends, and so we keep working together. And I like casting friends of mine or people I know in parts I know would be perfect for them. I like to bring things and people that mean something to me in to my work.
Excited Quotes
Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.
Catherine Tate
Boy Quotes
In Ronald Reagan's chaotic childhood, the imagination was armor. There is nothing unusual about that; transcending the doubts, hesitations, and fears swirling around you by casting yourself internally as the hero of your own adventure story is a characteristic psychic defense mechanism of the Boy Who Disappears.
Rick Perlstein
Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.
Todd Solondz
People Quotes
People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.
Linda Hunt
Texas Quotes
My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.
Aid Quotes
I'm an artist with a message, and my message is more for society, casting the mirror onto them and saying, 'Hey, this is what we look like, what are we going to do about it, how are we going to use what we've been through to aid where we're going.'
Trai Byers
Auditions Quotes
I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.
Work Ethic Quotes
I do notice that when I come in to meet casting people, they love that I'm Australian. Maybe it's our good work ethic.
Bbc Quotes
I used to do a Saturday drama group called Young Blood Theatre Company with school-friends in west London - nothing to do with my mum and dad. A casting director came to pick people out for a new BBC children's series called 'MI High.' She picked me, I auditioned, and I got the job.
Conscious Quotes
I loved doing casting because I love actors, and I am very conscious of what actors do. But I always wanted to be a producer.
Scott Rudin
When I realized that nothing is perfect and no one is perfect, I was able to overcome my initial fears. I was holding myself to some weird standard that I was putting outside of myself, i.e., the director or casting director - they're not expecting perfection. I had all these strange trappings I would put myself in.
White Quotes
A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white.
Chain Quotes
A lot of the stuff that's happening now, I can trace back to 'Death of a Salesman.' Francine Maisler, the casting director, saw 'Death of a Salesman' and called me in for 'Unbroken.' The casting director of 'Normal Heart' had seen 'Salesman' too. I look back on it now, and it's like one thing led to another; it was a chain reaction.
Miracle Quotes
Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.
Lionel Blue
I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.
Vote Quotes
Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
Mets Quotes
And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio'.
If you put up posters around town for high-school kids, high-school kids will come. If you're casting politicians, you can't put up posters and have politicians come down.
Doors Quotes
If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
Tv Shows Quotes
My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.
Danny Strong
Twilight Quotes
Casting is really exciting. With 'Twilight,' I wasn't involved at all with the casting in the original. They kept me in the loop, which was great. They'd be like, 'Hey Kristen Stewart's gonna do it' and I was like, 'Really? Awesome.'
Any debut novel is usually a case of spitting into the wind - or, just maybe, casting your bread upon the waters. Without an established audience in place, first-time authors have to hope for resonant word of mouth and a receptive reviewer or three.
Paul Di Filippo
Concerned Quotes
But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.
Directors Quotes
In my last year of drama school, I was Abigail in 'The Crucible' and Nina in 'The Seagull,' and I did some Shakespeare with the RSC. That's what casting directors saw me in, and I got put up for a lot of period drama auditions. I always get told I suit the costumes. I don't think I have a very modern-looking face.
Kimberley Nixon
Future Quotes
I am really interested in the way we relate to time. In particular, the way readers and writers talk to each other. Casting your voice out into the future is very beautiful to me.
Beyond Quotes
Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that.
Gone Quotes
I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead.
I would love to do a talk show. Naturally, I would love to do more films. I'd love to be able to see casting directors more willing to put in a character who happens to be deaf. I'm not talking about doing deaf storylines, but putting in deaf characters. I'd love to be able to do Broadway.
Ladders Quotes
I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net.
Stylist Quotes
When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then.
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
Every casting director I've met is a woman.
Agents Quotes
When a casting agent sees me, he kind of knows what he's getting.
People have nervous tics they don't know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, 'Is there something I'm doing?' I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them.
Couple Quotes
I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, 'What am I going to do?' My husband's view of it was, 'Stay home... We'll have more children; you'll love this.' And I was very restless about it.
Account Quotes
I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom's was a casting director, so really, as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.
Hands Quotes
I have to speak for myself. As far as videos go - casting, the artwork, everything - I'm completely hands-on. You have to be if you want your points across.
Flags Quotes
The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.
Financing Quotes
If a movie doesn't even have financing yet, they'll do a table read for it at a casting director's office with actors, for the producer and the writer, just to hear if the movie is working.
Actions Quotes
What actions have the happy soul-brides performed? They have obtained the fruit of their pre-ordained destiny. Casting His Glance of Grace, the Lord unites them with Himself.
Acting Quotes
I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.
Orange Quotes
George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about!
Stories Quotes
The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story, based on who's embodying it.
Going Out Quotes
I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an actress.
Editing Quotes
I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. On the set there's not a lot for me to do.
Mad Quotes
Don't turn around. 'Cuz you will get punched in the face. Don't make this worse. You've already gone and got me mad. It's too bad, I'm not sad It's casting over. Just one of those things you'll have to get over it.
Watches Quotes
Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.
Venice Quotes
Quentin [Tarantino] called me and said: "Yeah, you've got to be in my movie. You've got to be in Death Proof." But he made me audition. I was like: "Dude, I don't even want to do this..." So I left the casting of Hostel: Part II to drive to Venice, where Quentin was holding his casting, and the person ahead of me was Derek Richardson from Hostel 1 and he was like: "Dude, what are you doing here?" I said: "Don't ask!"
The casting directors that were aware of The Real World looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.
Thinking Quotes
I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on The Purge was crucial to that movie working.
Again Quotes
Yesterday in Palm Beach County, Florida, the 'oops' factor again reared its ugly head, casting doubt in the minds of many Floridians about whether or not their vote was actually counted,
Capability Quotes
We have provided engineering solutions to the casting and foundry industry for many years. We are excited about the capability and features that KUKA offers to our next generation of customized solutions. Feedback from customers has been extremely positive and we look forward to a long and successful partnership with KUKA Robotics.
Gary Foster
Agencies Quotes
The process that was devised for casting a ballot was simply too cumbersome, too time-consuming, and involved dealing with too many government agencies to make it a usable process.
Wayne Cornelius
I am affirming that the casting couch for men exists in the modeling world
Happy Ending I did with Paul Winfield. There was a play- within- the- play and I was his mother - which is a peculiar bit of casting, to say the least.
Brett Somers
Barred Quotes
The provincial government of NWFP has not barred women from casting their votes in local government elections,
European Quotes
The profit warning from Sun Micro is casting somewhat of a shadow over the European markets.
Tom Hougaard
Law Quotes
Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes.
I used to put that I studied with Stella Adler on my resume. I never met Stella Adler. But if you told a casting director you studied with Stella Adler all the sudden they'd let you in the door.
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You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.
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“There were heretics among the Jewish people who burdened Moshe [with their carping]. If Moshe left home early, they would say ‘he must be having some trouble at home,’ and if Moshe left home later they would say: ‘Why has the son of Amram tarried at home? What do you think? It must be because he is sitting and scheming against you’” (Rashi, Devarim 1:12). Whatever Moshe did – it didn’t matter – the whiners found some fault with it. No wonder that at one low point, Moshe exclaimed to G-d: “Master of the Universe! There are seventy independent empires in the world – and You had to command me to go to the Jewish people?!” (Vayikra Raba 2:4)
It is impossible not to think of the way the Jewish people treated the great Moshe – he who brought us the Torah from Heaven and is characterized as G-d’s “confidante,” so to speak – if we hope to gain some perspective on the open season – the hunting season – currently underway against Israel’s Chief Rabbinate. The attacks, the slurs, the wholesale disparagement, the demands that the institution be torn down and replaced (with what, no one seems to suggest) or simply torn down, period, are relentless.
The recent kerfuffle is a case in point. A noted American rabbi, as detailed here, temporarily had his authorization suspended to submit attestation of Jewishness letters on behalf of his congregants allegedly because his credentials as an Orthodox rabbi are being widely questioned. Another American rabbi – an educator, and a fine person known to me – also had his letters rejected allegedly on the grounds that only pulpit or community rabbis can submit letters to the Rabbanut. Should the Rabbanut – or some other organization, such as the RCA – vet prospective letter signers? Of course. In matters of marriage, divorce, or conversion, we are dealing with Kedushat Yisrael, the sanctity of the Jew and membership in good standing in the Jewish people that affects the nation, not just individuals. And that vetting will necessarily involve regulations, standards, and policies that must be navigated. Perhaps some light can be shed by reference to my own personal experience.
My letters have been routinely accepted by the Rabbanut for many years already – except for three occasions when they were summarily rejected. When they were rejected (one, just two months ago), I didn’t immediately run to the media or hire PR firms, or lawyers. Instead, I laughed, and turned to one of my colleagues for assistance.
What happened? The first letter rejected was when I affirmed the Jewishness of my parents for the Rabbanut, the second when I affirmed the Jewishness of my oldest daughter and her children when they made aliya several years ago, and the third was when I affirmed the Jewishness of my youngest daughter and her children as they plan their aliya this summer. How could it be that my letters were rejected? Because the Rabbanut does not accept attestations from family members, and these were my closest relatives. But…but…but, aren’t I a reliable informant? Am I not trusted to certify other people? Yes. So what sense does it make that I can’t now certify my own family? Because that is the policy.
Does the policy make sense? Not really, until we recognize that the policy is rooted in halacha, not secular, political or emotional logic. For example, I have served as a witness to marriage well over 100 times – but I was not qualified, according to Torah law, to be a witness at my own children’s weddings. How could that be? The Torah says so. It is a categorical exclusion, not based on lack of credibility.
The Rabbanut’s logic is actually quite sound in this instance. I accept the policy (even as I keep trying to flout it, hoping it has changed!). In each case, one of my colleagues (actually, the same one) drafted the necessary letters. Indeed, Rabbi Berel Wein tells the story of having his own credentials as a rabbi rejected by the Rabbanut because he had to have another rabbi certify him – even though his name appeared on the registry as recognized by the Rabbanut to certify others.
Every bureaucracy has rules, and those rules usually have some internal logic. Regarding the second case mentioned above, it seems clear that the Rabbanut does not accept attestation letters from educators. Does that make sense? Well, yes, although I can see both sides. In truth, whenever an educator has a question about the Jewishness of a child, he/she generally turns to the pulpit rabbi to ascertain the requisite information. That is why the Rabbanut relies on pulpit/community rabbis. The rejection was not personal; simply, the affiant was not qualified to make such an attestation under current rules.
The first case has already been addressed, but is the Rabbanut’s categorical exclusion of the affirmations of non-Orthodox rabbis unreasonable? Consider this bit of news: the Wall Street Journal (January 18, 2014) reported on the newly-elected rabbi of the prestigious Reform temple, the Central Synagogue of Manhattan, one Angela Warnick Buchdahl, heralded as a “pioneer.” And she certainly is. Born of a Korean Buddhist mother and an American Jewish father, she has diverse experiences, qualifications, and talents – and is even a cantor. Alas, the new “rabbi” is not Jewish according to Jewish law, apparently a trivial detail to her electors. Should her testimony regarding the Jewishness of her members be accepted by the Rabbanut? Of course not.
Anyone who maintains that the Rabbanut – or Israeli society – should accept the conversions performed under non-Orthodox auspices lacks a complete understanding of both Jewish identity and the catastrophe unfolding in American Jewish life. Anyone who wants to tear down the Rabbanut and replace it with something “that mirrors the diversity of modern Jewish life,” as one writer put it, is obviously hostile to Torah, whatever their personal practices might be. And anyone who thinks that the Rabbanut blundered here because of unfamiliarity with American Judaism should think again; perhaps they know it too well, but we just don’t like what they see.
Could the bureaucracy be streamlined, improved and made more user-friendly? Of course, and that applies to all bureaucracies whose weakness is not usually policy but that the consumer is at the mercy of indifferent clerks who get paid whether or not they are pleasant or efficient. And that could be true of the Rabbanut bureaucracy, as it certainly is of the motor vehicle bureau, the utilities companies, the cellphone companies, the passport office, etc. – and in any country on earth.
Other writers, conflating their opinions with reality, have accused the Rabbanut of being anti-woman (and thus opposed to Rabbi Weiss), or being on a power trip (a projection that could be equally applied to rabbis who unilaterally try to change the mesorah simply because they want to), and even of struggling to retain their power in light of the coming changes in curriculum or conscription (risible, as the Rabbanut is not involved in those areas at all).
Among recent screeds, one writer viciously castigated the Rabbanut for opposing women’s service in the IDF. In that, of course, they deviated from the opinion of their predecessors not one iota. The Rabbanut has always opposed women’s service in the IDF, and instead encourages National Service. Even the previous IDF Chief Rabbi, Rav Avichai Ronsky, openly opposed women’s service while at the same time vowing to protect their interests if they chose to serve. So this was another baseless accusation.
For sure, I have my own complaints. I wish the Rabbanut would be more outspoken on issues relating to Israeli society. I wish they would have been more forceful in opposing the Oslo madness. I wish the Rabbanut would be the address for the government of Israel not only for technical halachic issues but on public policy issues – on how the Torah addresses the variety of challenges a modern state faces. And I wish the election procedures were more dignified, the electorate much smaller, and was comprised only of people who value Torah and the Rabbinate. It is permissible to wish.
It has become commonplace that any discussion of today’s Rabbanut must include a lament about how it has never met expectations as an institution, and how all successors pale before the great Rav Avraham Yitzchak Hacohen Kook, the first Chief Rabbi. And for sure Rav Kook was a giant among men, a genius in Torah, a lover of all Jews, and a fascinating blend of Hitnagdut and Chasidut. That lament will always include a reference to the fact that Rav Kook endeavored to bring all Jews closer to Torah, as opposed to today’s Rabbanut “that drives Jews away from Torah.” And yet, for all his greatness, I do not recall reading that all Jews in Eretz Yisrael in Rav Kook’s day were Shomrei Mitzvot; in fact, relatively few were, unlike today. I do recall reading of Rav Kook’s frustrations when his opinions were not sought or not followed by the Histadrut, the Jewish Agency or other official bodies. His opposition to a Biblical Criticism department at the new Hebrew University was ignored. He admonished Jews – with limited success – not to pick up their mail at the post office on Shabbat or Yom Tov. Rav Kook’s Rabbanut, notwithstanding his greatness, was a constant struggle against the establishment and the widespread indifference to Torah in the general population. We should lose the nostalgia. The main imperative of the Rabbanut of Rav Kook – to ensure the kashrut of marriages and divorces – is what is now being challenged by today’s critics. In any event, we “only have the judge in our time” (Rashi, Devarim 17:9). We don’t live in the past.
I have met Rav David Lau on numerous occasions. He is an honorable person, a talmid chacham, a mentsch, a patriot who served with distinction in the IDF’s Intelligence Corps, and a leader who is spending long hours trying to rectify the weaknesses in the bureaucracy – and who still teaches Torah daily across the country in as many settings as he can reach. He doesn’t deserve the “Moshe” treatment, except, perhaps, in this sense: “And what are we? Your complaints are not against us but against G-d!” (Shmot 16:8).
The Chief Rabbinate is enduring the same slings and arrows as did Moshe and as are rabbis across the globe. They are the prime targets of modern man who resents authority, resents being told what they can or can’t do, and resents (and chafes under) any limitation on his autonomy. It is as if we will decide how we worship G-d, not G-d (memo to teenage girls wearing tefillin, the latest act of self-absorption, self-worship and mimicry of men masquerading as piety). That is the real problem.
There are many Jews, even some nominally Orthodox or neo-Conservative, who scour the sources to permit themselves to do what they want to do, who are uncomfortable with the Mesorah, who want validation for every deviation, and who therefore rail against any source of authority. They will not want any Rabbanut or any rabbinical authority, except as the verbalizer of platitudes and officiant at ceremonies. We hear that “the Rabbanut does not speak to the modern Jew!” Perhaps it does, but the real problem is the modern Jew chooses not to listen because he doesn’t like what he hears.
A Boston politician running for re-election used to say, “Don’t compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative.” Is the alternative a Rabbanut without authority, or a Torah that speaks in the language of benign suggestions rather than absolute commandments? Is the alternative sought an Israeli society where anything goes, hefkerut reigns, where religion and state are as distinct as in secular countries? Such a state would not be a “Jewish state,” nor, if the Torah has any meaning, would it long survive.
In a Jewish state, one who wants to intermarry – or a kohen who wants to marry a convert or a divorcee – might have to go to Cyprus (better they not get married altogether). But if they have to go to Cyprus, so what? It is a small price to pay to maintain the integrity of a Jewish state. Indeed, individuals often pay a greater price to provide for the nation. Secular “coercion” (army, taxes, laws, etc.) seems to have more backers than religious “coercion.” But a Jewish state honors its Torah, its rabbis, its land and its people. It honors its Shabbat, its kashrut, its family purity and its ethical laws.
Those Jews – observant of mitzvot – who are calling for the dissolution of the Rabbanut and the separation of religion and state in Israel are trying to curry favor with the anti-religious, liberal left, thinking somehow they will make common cause in the future. But in so doing they have essentially given up on Israel as a “Jewish state” by divesting the phrase of all substance and meaning.
So, perhaps, before insisting that the “Palestinians” recognize Israel as a “Jewish state,” we should insist that Jews recognize Israel as a “Jewish state” – including prime ministers, rabbis and other public figures. Maybe then, at least for a brief time, they will hold their fire, and try to build rather than destroy.
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3 responses to “Open Season”
Mr. Cohen | January 26, 2014 at 3:40 am |
Obama vs. Israel:
http://www.jta.org/2014/01/24/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/palestinian-negotiator-kerry-plan-includes-series-of-israeli-withdrawals
New York Times vs. Israel:
http://5tjt.com/camera-billboard-near-ny-times-office-criticizes-paper-for-biased-reporting/
http://www.camera.org/nytimes/
Iran vs. Israel:
http://matzav.com/iranian-spy-to-serve-10-years-pollard-serving-29
http://5tjt.com/europe-courts-iran-shuns-israel/
Mr. Cohen | February 3, 2014 at 7:08 pm |
http://matzav.com/shameful-avi-weiss-attacks-israels-chief-rabbinate-in-the-ny-times
http://matzav.com/plo-delegation-promoting-avi-weiss-ny-times-attack-piece
Phil | February 4, 2014 at 1:17 pm |
A great piece! However, I wonder how Rabbi P. views Moshe Feiglin’s stance against a State Rabbinate, especially since I think in many ways the Rabbi and Feiglin agree on many aspects of Torah Judaism and its relationship to a Jewish state.
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Purple shows existing 5G coverage, while blue areas show future coverage and white areas remain covered by 3G/4G.
By Taylah Eastwell
A number of residents living in the Dandenong Ranges and Yarra Valley are now covered by Telstra’s 5G network after a recent roll-out.
There are 370 suburbs in Victoria with selected areas of the new coverage, including Montrose, Olinda, Ferny Creek, Selby, Tremont, Mt Dandenong, Emerald, Menzies Creek, Belgrave, Belgrave South, Avonsleigh, Lysterfield, Lysterfield South, Cockatoo, Upwey, Upper Ferntree Gully, Ferntree Gully, Knoxfield.
Coverage also extends to Lilydale, Wandin North, Launching Place and Badger Creek.
According to Telstra, 5G is the next leap forward in mobile network technology, allowing for downloads that take “seconds, not minutes”.
2G brought us SMS and picture messaging. 3G was all about mobile internet. 4G made streaming and sharing part of everyday life. 5G stands for fifth generation,” Telstra’s website states.
Telstra’s Network Technology Development and Solutions Executive, Channa Seneviratne said coverage has been extended to capture “even more areas of our big cities, regional centres and country towns.”
Ms Seneviratne said more roll-outs are expected, with more Australians to be covered by Telstra 5G than any other provider.
“This isn’t any ordinary milestone, especially when you look back just a couple of years to see where we’ve come from and now to the huge 5G network construction project we’re getting on with,” she said.
Telstra already has more than 750,000 5G devices on the network and is adding thousands of new 5G devices every single week as more customers take up new devices.
There are more than 2,650 Telstra 5G sites on-air across the country, as well as coverage in more than 100 cities and towns and more than 2,000 suburbs across Australia with selected areas of Telstra 5G coverage.
The telecommunication giant plans to bring 5G coverage to 75 percent of the population by mid-2021.
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2013 is quickly approaching and we’re taking a look back through our 2012 releases! FRESH From Reference Recordings releases a new hit Blues Release! New Fresh! ReleaseDoin’ What It TakesLloyd JonesFR-704 REVIEWS “Doin’ What It Takes is full of tremendous songwriting and performances. Lloyd may be Doin’ What It Takes, but believe me he doin’ it right. Outstanding. Destined to be yet another Northwest blues classic, and hopefully far beyond as well. Lloyd Jones is…
LLoyd Jones on Oregon Arts Beat
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BluesWax Talks with Lloyd Jones
The Blues Revue’s online voice BluesWax features a new interview with Lloyd Jones: “Lloyd Jones has six albums credited to his name and while being a regional favorite for decades, he hasn’t managed to create national attention just yet. But things may change with his latest disc, Doin’ What It Takes, which has all the elements needed for Jones to vault onto the radar screens of DJs, journalists, and festivals. For what it’s worth, Jones’…
Doin What It Takes named a “Pick to Click”
SiriusXM channel “B.B. King’s Bluesville” DJ Bill Wax has released his upcoming “Picks to Click” a little early, and take a look at who comes in at number thirteen: “Honeydrops Live” – California Honeydrops – Independent “Music Is Medicine” – Zac Harmon – Independent “Blood Red Blues” – Cee Cee James – FWG Records “Living The Dream” – Albert Castiglia – Blues Leaf “Every Kinda’ Blues” – Johnny Neal – Breakin’ Records “Blues On Solid…
Positively Entertainment Ranks Lloyd Jones with Best of Blues Legends
Jeff Shivers of Positively Entertainment ranks Lloyd Jones with the best of the blues legends, and other legends… “Ah, The great Northwest and the legends it provides. There are the classic legends of the past, like Paul Bunyan with his blue ox Babe. There are other blue legends living among us now and Portland, Ore. seems to have quite a few… “Then there’s the most revered of blues legends, the six-string gunslingers, guitar pickers and…
Lloyd Jones – Global Phenom
In a wonderful preview of Lloyd Jones‘ upcoming San Juan Islands Fair performance, the San Juan Journal shares a wonderful story of Lloyd Jones making an impact all halfway across the world in Denmark: “When a band halfway around the world listens to all your music, learns all your songs, and then prepares itself just for you, the artist, to drop by, plug in and let loose on a foreign audience, one might think you’ve…
Everybody’s Playing Lloyd Jones!
New Fresh! From Reference Recordings release Doin’ What It Takes by blues legend Lloyd Jones is turning up everywhere! This week the Roots Music Report Blues Chart that tells us how often something is played on radio stations across the country, has Doin’ What It Takes at #37! But it’s not just your over-the-air radio stations that are excited about this new recording, Online radio stations and podcasters are getting in on the action as…
Cascade Blues Reviews Lloyd Jones “Doin’ What It Takes”
The Cascade Blues Association has a nice feature on Lloyd Jones and his new Fresh! From Reference Recordings release Doin’ What It Takes! “Doin’ What It Takes is the credo by which Portland bluesman Lloyd Jones has been following throughout his career… “Lloyd Jones is referred to as “The Groove Merchant.” It is a fitting title because he is without question one of the funkiest, soulful artists ever to strap on a Fender. So much…
Blues Revue calls Doin’ What It Takes Tasteful and Refreshing
Blues Revue: The World’s Blues Magazine rates Lloyd Jones’ Fresh! From Reference Recordings release Doin’ What It Takes a 9/10 and calls it a “Tasteful and Refreshing” recording. Read an excerpt here and find the full review on www.BluesRevue.com! “I was turned on to this tasty disc back in January on Delbert McClinton‘s cruise by Delbert’s longtime sax player Don Wise, and have been patiently waiting for this one to come out. Now that I…
Doin’ What It Takes featured on AudiophileReview.com
New Fresh! From Reference Recordings release Doin’ What It Takes by Lloyd Jones gets a feature and quick review on AudiophileReview.com! “If blues with a funk edge is your thing, Doin’ What it Takes will have you jukin’ by the fourth measure of the opening tune, “Bend in The River.”… The recording quality is impressive, as you would expect from a Reference Recordings’ project.” — AudiophileReview.com Read the full review, rating, and more on AudiophileReview.com!…
Lloyd Jones “Doin What It Takes” Hits #3 in Oregon
The most recent Roots Radio Airplay Charts are out, and in the State of Oregon, Lloyd Jones, Doin’ What It Takes is #3 in all genres! Take a look: Listen to “Bend in the River” on RRradio: Purchase Doin’ What It Takes from ReferenceRecordings.com Today!
What folks have said about Lloyd Jones
As we look forward to hearing what folks think of our new Lloyd Jones release, we thought it would be fun to start the weekend by seeing what folks have said about his releases in the past! Of his Love Gotcha (1999) release: “This is Jones’ best album to date. The blues/R&B veteran is in top form – his guitar playing is incisive and efficient, and his singing is terrific. His songwriting, however, is probably…
New Release – Lloyd Jones “Doin’ What It Takes”
New Fresh! ReleaseDoin’ What It TakesLloyd JonesFR-704 “…you know who’s really good is this guy named Lloyd Jones, also out of Portland; he writes great songs, blues and R&B…” —Robert Cray A gifted singer, songwriter, guitarist and respected band leader, Lloyd Jones writes timeless music, steeped in a rich musical history learned, lived and loved over four decades. “This is not a work of science. It’s about attitude and joy that applies to all age…
Lloyd Jones Playing Portland
Lloyd Jones’ new release Doin’ What It Takes comes out next Tuesday, but if you’re in the Portland, Oregon area this weekend, you can get a pre-release treat! Friday, the Lloyd Jones Trio will be performing at Qyimby’s, and Saturday Lloyd Jones will be at O’Connor’s “Vault” in the historic Multnomah Village. Details below: Quimby’s www.quimbysat19th.comFriday, June 29th 8:30-11:30pm“This is a special night with the great Louis Pain on organ (You’ve heard him on Paul…
One Week Away…Doin What It Takes
We’re just one week away from the newest Fresh! From Reference Recordings release featuring bluesman Lloyd Jones Doin’ What It Takes! So to get you as excited as we are, here are some samples from ALL of the tracks on the album: Bend In The River I’ll Be Right on Down Without You Doin’ What It Takes I Can’t Stop Never Again Give A Little My Wife Can’t Cook Worried Life Blues Ruby Do Doin’…
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Image Enhancement by S-Shaped Curves Using Successive Approximation for Preserving Brightness
Damian Tohl, Jim Li
For image contrast enhancement, an S-shaped transfer function has been developed to better match the human vision system with an associated median brightness subtraction and addition method to preserve the median brightness of an image. However, this median brightness preservation method will cause clipping of the dynamic range of images resulting in a loss of contrast. Moreover, preserving the mean or median image brightness will sometimes produce a different result without a consistent preference. In this letter, we have developed a method to preserve either the mean or median image brightness by shifting the intersection point of S-shaped curves along the ${\mathbf y=x}$ line by successive approximation. To improve computational efficiency, two newly derived equations have been proposed to reduce the number of optimum control parameters from four to two for solving the S-shaped curves. In addition, our proposed method can alter the image brightness without causing clipping at either ends of the intensity range. Our proposed brightness preservation method can also be applied to a video sequence to change its brightness without causing any flickering. It has been shown that our proposed method can produce visually pleasing enhanced images and videos.
https://doi.org/10.1109/LSP.2017.2718018
Brightness preservation
image and video enhancement
S-shaped curve
10.1109/LSP.2017.2718018
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Tohl, D., & Li, J. (2017). Image Enhancement by S-Shaped Curves Using Successive Approximation for Preserving Brightness. IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS, 24(8), 1247-1251. [7954739]. https://doi.org/10.1109/LSP.2017.2718018
Tohl, Damian ; Li, Jim. / Image Enhancement by S-Shaped Curves Using Successive Approximation for Preserving Brightness. In: IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS. 2017 ; Vol. 24, No. 8. pp. 1247-1251.
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by Levina
Who was responsible for Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits – Mufti, Abdullah or Jagmohan?
They were shot at, their women violated and butchered, their children were strangled with wires and their houses burnt down to ashes.
The long forgotten Kashmiri Pandits are back in the limelight again. No, they are not trending on twitter because a human rights group has taken up their cause, nor has Bollywood decided to march with placards in their support; it was apparently an innocuous tweet by the well-known journalist, Ms Tavleen singh, which has again brought the issue to the fore.
Rubbish. I was in Srinagar and saw what happened. More than 300,000 pandits left overnight almost because of the violence that Governor Jagmohan was unable to control. The Indian media has always been ‘patriotic’ on Kashmir. https://t.co/c45D5blTGs
— Tavleen Singh (@tavleen_singh) April 27, 2018
Why did Kashmiri Pandits flee overnight?
The oft heard theory is, 300,000 Kashmiri Pandits were forced to flee the valley overnight to escape a state sponsored violence on the night of January 19th ,1990. The date coincides with Mr JagMohan taking over as the Governor of the state and ergo fingers are pointed at him for facilitating the movement of Pandits out of the valley, to Jammu. But anyone with a little analytical mind will tell you that this was not a possibility as neither a combined effort by state transport or defence force’s transport could have achieved such a feat in early 90’s, nor could Kashmiri Pandits have used their own vehicles to travel, as back in that era, having a personal car was a luxury. There are more questions that need to be answered. For example- How did Jagmohan, whose previous stint in Kashmir 1984-1989 earned him a good name among Kashmiris, become a slayer overnight?
Interestingly this theory gets a lot push by many main stream journalists and politicians alike, despite the populace being aware of the incidents which pushed Kashmiri pandits out of the valley. Do they really think we are so naïve to have forgotten what happened in the valley? Here’s a tweet by Digvijay Singh in support of the popular theory.
Kashmiri Pandits were unnecessarily forced to leave the Valley by Jagmohan. Hindus and Muslims lived together for Centuries in Kashmir.
— digvijaya singh (@digvijaya_28) January 19, 2015
The untold truth and the sequence of events:
1984: Islam khatre mein hai
This was the year when Ghulam Muhammed Shah, brother in law of Farooq Abdullah, had become the chief minister of J&K. During his short stint as chief minister he had decided to build a mosque (Shah Masjid) within the premises of an ancient Hindu temple in Jammu; this was done under the pretext of “Islam khatare mein hai”. Division on the basis of religion had just dropped its roots in the valley bringing the Pandits on the radars.
1986: The prelude
It was long before 1990 that issues related to communal violence had begun in Kashmir but it is mostly overlooked or never discussed. The year was 1986 when valley saw one of the worst communal riots in the state; the riots took place in Anantnag district of South Kashmir, which used to be the political bastion of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, the late Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister. Back then Sayeed was a member of the Congress party. It is estimated that close to 300 homes of Kashmiri Pandits were lost in the riots and a few temples were also burnt down.
1987: Watershed moment
The elections held on 23rd march of 1987 were largely reported as rigged. Those contesting the elections were Farooq Abdullah (National Conference), Mufti Mohammed Sayeed (Indian National Congress), and Muhammad Yusuf Shah aka Syed Salahuddin (Muslim United Front). Syed Salahuddin, present chief of terrorist outfit Hizbul Mujahideen, had been holding a grudge against Governor Jagmohan, as he had shot down Salahuddin’s request of infusing capital into orchards; apparently these orchards were used to shelter terrorists. Interestingly his election manager of 1987 was a man named Yasin Malik, a state fed separatist who now heads JKLF( Jammu and Kashmir liberation front).
1989: Staged kidnap of Rubaiya Mufti
Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s daughter, Rubaiya, a Doctor intern was kidnapped; what followed was the prompt release of 5 dreaded terrorists in exchange to getting Rubaiya back home. 14 years after the Kidnap, JKLF vice chairman Javed Mir confessed it was staged and carried out by JKLF. In short, Mufti Sayeed and JKLF’s chief Yasin Malik, all had their hands in the cookie jar.
1989- call for Nizam-E-Mustafa
All this while since 1986 butchering of Kashmiri pandits continued unabated in the valley. But later half of 1989 was particularly bad. These were times when Kashmiri Pandits were put on the cross hairs; Tilak Lal Tappu, a well-known lawyer was murdered; Justice Nil Kant Ganju was shot and so were other Kashmiri Pandits; the list is long. Posters had begun to appear on the streets with hitlists, and any Kashmiri Pandit who found his name on the list would flee the valley. This did not happen overnight!
Jan 19, 1990 : The fateful night
Last seven days which led upto Jan 19 saw some blood curdling incidents in the valley; Kashmiri Pandits faced all kinds of persecution that included brutal killings of men and rape of women. Children too were not spared. This is when Jagmohan had taken over as the governor and Farooq Abdullah had resigned as the chief minister.
This was also the time when central government was facing turbulence; in power was a coalition govt led by VP Singh,who had surrendered to the whims of terrorists.
A survey was carried out by an NGO, J&K Centre for Minority Studies, which was set up by a retired IAS officer ML Kaul; the purpose of the survey was to gauge “Impact of migration on the socio-economic conditions of Kashmiri Displaced People” and also it investigated the circumstances and causes of mass exodus of people from the valley. The sample chosen for the survey were mostly from Srinagar district- 33%, 6% from Badgam, 31% Anantnag, 9% Pulwama, 12% Baramulla and 9% from Kupwara district. It not just included Kashmiri Pandit families but also Sikh and a few refugee Muslim families.
An overwhelming majority of the people, 85% of people from the camp and 94% of people living outside camps, surveyed said that the sudden decision for migration” of Kashmiri Pandits was- “insecurity induced by terrorist violence in view of random, gruesome and torturous killings” . So this should bring an end to the conspiracy theory that exodus of Kashmiri Pandits was state sponsored and the blames levelled at Jagmohan Malhotra hold no water.
Now its time for the audience to ponder – A Chief minister who ran away to London when Kashmir was in crisis, Union minister whose daughter’s kidnapping was staged, a Governor who decided to take the bull by horns- who do you think was responsible for the Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits?
Definitely not Jagmohan Malhotra in my opinion.
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Your Childhood Is Dead; Nintendo Power Is No More
By Andy Reierson December 28, 2012
At the end of 2012, the 285th and final issue of Nintendo Power was shipped to subscribers and newsstands worldwide, officially bringing to end to any shred of adolescence you thought you still possessed. Flipping through this issue is a bittersweet affair, and it really does read like a eulogy to your younger self.
Nintendo Power is a name revered by even the most casual of gamers, and its demise has seemingly tolled the death bell for gaming-related printed media.
There is a ton of great content in the issue for retro gamers to dig into. There’s a countdown of the 285 best games for Nintendo consoles (one for each issue), memoirs from former editors, a retrospective of each year of Nintendo Power history, and more.
As an added bonus, there is also a commemorative poster featuring every single Nintendo Power cover ever printed. It’s one of the coolest pieces of gaming memorabilia ever produced, and an awesome addition to any gaming room.
The final issue’s cover is probably its most endearing aspect; it’s clearly an homage to the magazine’s inaugural issue and is even done in the same clay-sculpture art style. It’s blissfully nostalgic and a fitting tribute to the magazine’s roots. Nintendo Power‘s old slogan from the NES days, “The Source for Nintendo Players Straight From The Pros,” was even tagged on at the bottom.
It’s a wonderful piece of retro-minded sentiment and is sure to bring a smile to any longtime reader. Even if you haven’t read Nintendo Power in years, I highly recommend you go out and find yourself a copy of this one. It’s an invaluable piece of gaming history and one I will treasure immensely.
I am personally saddened, as I’m sure many other gamers are, to see Nintendo Power go. Before the Internet, gaming magazines were the only way to obtain news on upcoming games and informed strategies on the ones you already owned.
Who didn’t salivate over owning a complete map of the Legend of Zelda‘s overworld? Nintendo Power offered all this and more, and is no doubt an integral part of 90’s-kid pop culture.
I vividly remember sitting for hours on my bed, flipping through stacks of back issues, most of which I had read at least 10 times already. Nintendo Power is, without question, one of my main writing influences, and a big reason why I founded Retrovolve in the first place. I can’t help but feel a little guilty. After all, it’s idiots like me that started websites of our own and pretended to credible who are responsible for diminishing the demand for these types of publications. Regardless, I have nothing but the highest appreciation for the magazine and all those who contributed over the last 24 years.
So thanks for two decades of wonderful gaming memories, Nintendo Power. Most of all, thanks for inspiring a kid with an unwavering love for video games to never grow up and start writing about them himself. I hope that in some way, I am able to inspire young gamers the way you inspired me.
Andy Reierson
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Researchers Find Fresh Fodder for IoT Attack Cannons
December 6, 2016 by BrianKrebs
New research published this week could provide plenty of fresh fodder for Mirai, a malware strain that enslaves poorly-secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in powerful online attacks. Researchers in Austria have unearthed a pair of backdoor accounts in more than 80 different IP camera models made by Sony Corp. Separately, Israeli security experts have discovered trivially exploitable weaknesses in nearly a half-million white-labeled IP camera models that are not currently sought out by Mirai.
A Sony IPELA camera. Image: Sony.
In a blog post published today, Austrian security firm SEC Consult said it found two apparent backdoor accounts in Sony IPELA Engine IP Cameras — devices mainly used by enterprises and authorities. According to SEC Consult, the two previously undocumented user accounts — named “primana” and “debug” — could be used by remote attackers to commandeer the Web server built into these devices, and then to enable “telnet” on them.
Telnet — a protocol that allows remote logons over the Internet — is the very same communications method abused by Mirai, which constantly scours the Web for IoT devices with telnet enabled and protected by factory-default passwords.
“We believe that this backdoor was introduced by Sony developers on purpose (maybe as a way to debug the device during development or factory functional testing) and not an ‘unauthorized third party’ like in other cases (e.g. the Juniper ScreenOS Backdoor, CVE-2015-7755),” SEC Consult wrote.
It’s unclear precisely how many Sony IP cameras may be vulnerable, but a scan of the Web using Censys.io indicates there are at least 4,250 that are currently reachable over the Internet.
“Those Sony IPELA ENGINE IP camera devices are definitely reachable on the Internet and a potential target for Mirai-like botnets, but of course it depends on the network/firewall configuration,” said Johannes Greil, head of SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab. “From our point of view, this is only the tip of the iceberg because it’s only one search string fro the device we have.”
Greil said there are other undocumented functionalities in the Sony IP cameras that could be maliciously used by malware or miscreants, such as commands that can be invoked to distort images and/or video recorded by the cameras, or a camera heating feature that could be abused to overheat the devices.
Sony did not respond to multiple requests for comment. But the researchers said said Sony has quietly made available to its users an update that disables the backdoor accounts on the affected devices. However, users still need to manually update the firmware using a program called SNC Toolbox.
Greil said it seems likely that the backdoor accounts have been present in Sony cameras for at least four years, as there are signs that someone may have discovered the hidden accounts back in 2012 and attempted to crack the passwords then. SEC Consult’s writeup on their findings is available here.
In other news, researchers at security firm Cybereason say they’ve found at least two previously unknown security flaws in dozens of IP camera families that are white-labeled under a number of different brands (and some without brands at all) that are available for purchase via places like eBay and Amazon. The devices are all administered with the password “888888,” and may be remotely accessible over the Internet if they are not protected behind a firewall. KrebsOnSecurity has confirmed that while the Mirai botnet currently includes this password in the combinations it tries, the username for this password is not part of Mirai’s current configuration.
But Cybereason’s team found that they could easily exploit these devices even if they were set up behind a firewall. That’s because all of these cameras ship with a factory-default peer-to-peer (P2P) communications capability that enables remote “cloud” access to the devices via the manufacturer’s Web site — provided a customer visits the site and provides the unique camera ID stamped on the bottom of the devices.
Although it may seem that attackers would need physical access to the vulnerable devices in order to derive those unique camera IDs, Cybereason’s principal security researcher Amit Serper said the company figured out a simple way to enumerate all possible camera IDs using the manufacturer’s Web site.
“We reverse engineered these cameras so that we can use the manufacturer’s own infrastructure to access them and do whatever we want,” Serper said. “We can use the company’s own cloud network and from there jump onto the customer’s network.”
Lior Div, co-founder and CEO at Cybereason, said a review of the code built into these devices shows the manufacturer does not appear to have made security a priority, and that people using these devices should simply toss them in the trash.
“There is no firmware update mechanism built into these cameras, so there’s no way to patch them,” Div said. “The version of Linux running on these devices was in some cases 14 years old, and the other code libraries on the devices are just as ancient. These devices are so hopelessly broken from a security perspective that it’s hard to really understand what’s going on in the minds of people putting them together.”
Cybereason said it is not disclosing full technical details of the flaws because it would enable any attacker to compromise them for use in online attacks. But it has published a few tips that should help customers determine whether they have a vulnerable device. For example, the camera’s password (888888) is printed on a sticker on the bottom of the devices, and the UID — also printed on the sticker — starts with one of these text strings:
The sticker on the bottom of the camera will tell you if the device is affected by the vulnerability. Image: Cybereason.
“People tend to look down on IoT research and call it junk hacking,” Cybereason’s Yoav Orot wrote in a blog post about its findings. “But that isn’t the right approach if researchers hope to prevent future Mirai botnet attacks. A smart (insert device here) is still a computer, regardless of its size. It has a processor, software and hardware and is vulnerable to malware just like a laptop or desktop. Whether the device records The Walking Dead or lets you watch your cat while you’re at work, attackers can still own it. Researchers should work on junk hacking because these efforts can improve device security (and consumer security in the process), keep consumer products out of the garbage heap and prevent them from being used to carry out DDoS attacks.”
The discoveries by SEC Consult and Cybereason come as policymakers in Washington, D.C. are grappling with what to do about the existing and dawning surge in poorly-secured IoT devices. A blue-ribbon panel commissioned by President Obama issued a 90-page report last week full of cybersecurity policy recommendations for the 45th President of the United States, and IoT concerns and addressing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks emerged as top concerns in that report.
Meanwhile, Morning Consult reports that U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has laid out an unexpected roadmap through which the agency could regulate the security of IoT devices. The proposed certification process was laid out in a response to a letter sent by Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) shortly after the IoT-based attacks in October that targeted Internet infrastructure company Dyn and knocked offline a number of the Web’s top destinations for the better part of a day.
Morning Consult’s Brendan Bordelon notes that while Wheeler is set to step down as chairman on Jan. 20, “the new framework could be used to support legislation enhancing the FCC’s ability to regulate IoT devices.”
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3 more Prince Albert police officers test positive for COVID-19
Published Tuesday, October 20, 2020 11:43AM CST
SASKATOON -- Three more Prince Albert Police Service members have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total to four.
The police service was notified of the positive tests over the weekend and on Monday, according to a news release.
“The police service takes the health and safety of all members and staff seriously, and is continuing with enhanced cleaning procedures and masking requirements where distancing of at least two metres cannot be guaranteed,” the release said.
“Both the main station and the police substation underwent additional cleaning and disinfecting over the weekend following the confirmation of a first positive case late last week, and further cleaning is planned to ensure both locations are properly sanitized.”
The front offices at both police locations are temporarily closed to the public until further notice. A phone and buzzer outside the police main station is still available to members of the public who wish to speak with an officer.
The province reported 66 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday.
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The Hitchcock Blondes Testify
Today three of the Hitchcock blondes share what it was like to work with the director.
KIM NOVAK, interviewed in LA on Friday August 31st 2012
“It’s wonderful that Vertigo was named the number 1 film of all time. It’s only a shame that Hitch isn’t here to know it. He is one of the great directors and one to be studied. He was a perfectionist and didn’t make any short cuts.”
EVA MARIE SAINT, interviewed in LA on Tuesday October 16th 2012
“There were six of us Hitchcock blondes, and it’s like we all were married to the man at one time or another and we all have a different take on him. Each actress was at a different stage of their life, we were different ages, some married, some not. My experience with Hitch was one of utter respect, warmth, friendliness and humour, and North by Northwest was a glorious time in my life.”
DORIS DAY, interviewed in Carmel on Monday June 18th 2012
“He was wonderful, a great director and a good friend. I loved working with him. In The Man Who Knew Too Much he shot the scene when I find out that my son is kidnapped from many different angles and he always knew exactly what he wanted.”
8 responses to “The Hitchcock Blondes Testify”
Michael ⋅
Looking forward to hearing what his fellow workers have to say
Joel Gunz ⋅
Tippi does indeed seem to be working out issues that are bigger than Hitchcock — and that likely predate her association with him. What I find fascinating is that his alleged abuses pale in comparison to the treatment she meted out when she became a producer.
Dave ⋅
This seems like a sensationalized case of “leading the witness,” with Donald Spoto pushing his agenda on the public with Tippi as his mouthpiece.
Dan Sneed ⋅
Exactly my opinion as well. Spoto has built his writing career on tearing down Hitchcock and to re-hash The Dark Side of Genius years later in Spellbound By Beauty is the greatest evidence of that hatchet work. The discrepancies between those two books in regard to the alleged incidents during the filming of Marnie are too numerous to list here, but are sufficient to call Spoto’s veracity into question. And Ms. Hedren’s inconsistencies in her stories over the years also make her allegations extremely suspect. They have presented no evidence to substantiate their slander of Hitchcock and without that evidence their testimony is worthless.
Dave Pattern ⋅
Glad to support this blog, as I strongly feel the recent media reporting and hype surrounding “The Girl” has been far too one-sided.
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Paul Gray ⋅
Not really sure its necessary to defend Hitch to such a great degree. He made her and without him she was nothing as the remainder of her career has shown. Instead of thanking her lucky stars she got to work with the master and honour his memory she decides to alienate many people for the sake of a tawdry and inaccurate tv movie…madness. Their is overwhelming evidence/testimony of Hitch treating his actresses with a great deal of respect, she should hang her head in shame.
What particularly saddens me is the likes of the brilliant Toby Jones (portraying Hitch) and other British actors I admire being involved. Anyway, you just have to see Sienna Millers name attached to it to know it will be laughable, girl couldnt act to save her life.
Long live Hitch ….
cadavra ⋅
Not that I’m defending him, but it IS possible that he was obsessed with Hedren in a way he was not with the others–possibly because those other three were already established stars when he worked with them, whereas he discovered Hedren and was perhaps acting out his own private “Vertigo.” (Apologies for the run-on sentence.)
Hi-fi celluloid monster ⋅
This is a wonderful site and I’m very glad that someone took the initiative to put up some kind of defense for Hitch. Ever since this story broke it seems as if it has been swallowed with little or no thought as to its validity. To me as a lifelong Hitch-phile this was very troubling. After all despite not knowing the man personally, you’d think you’d know something about him and the situation after critically watching Marnie at least 10 times by age 10. Hopefully, people will stumble across this and not just take the film/book’s viewpoint as fact.
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Perception of external funding needs to change
Shané Schutte - Deputy Editor, Real Business
Access to external funding is no longer the hurdle we thought it was. In fact, research has unveiled declining figures have more to do with attitude than anything else. This is best emphasised by the fall in EIS and SEIS applications – a “near 20 per cent decline year-on-year.”
Of the industry leaders Real Business spoke to about EIS and SEIS, Neil Pearson, partner and tax and investment specialist at Mills & Reeve, explained the “increasingly complicated nature of the tax relief system is turning people off and deterring vital deals needed to drive growth through both schemes.”
His emphasis on complexity and confusion being the main deterrents, pushes away popular belief that lack of access is to blame for SME bosses not pursuing external funding. In fact, Ultimate Finance conducted a survey to canvas attitudes towards borrowing, and found hesitation to be mostly attributable to “fear”.
It suggested that 47 per cent believed relying on external funding would result in a loss of independence, while 44 per cent thought it would cause more worries. Some 37 per cent also deemed external funding too much of risk in the current economic climate.
Ron Robson, CEO of Ultimate Finance, said: “It’s not good news for the UK economy, if SMEs understand the benefits of borrowing, yet do not seek the funding that could have a positive effect on operations. In many ways it’s not a surprise; years of economic instability which preceded Brexit has led to a general uncertainty on ‘what next’.
“The bigger challenge to tackle is that SMEs have a fear of funding and are not seeking finance when it’s needed. This is contrary to messages that lenders aren’t lending, which is simply not the case; borrowing figures are down due to demand. This mixed communication is contributing to confusion and takes attention away from educating SMEs about the positive impact borrowing money can have.”
This echoes a prior report from Wesleyan Bank, which claimed small businesses have become more cautious.
Its director of sales and marketing, Sean Read, said: “The recession has instilled a ‘non-borrowing’ culture into the mindsets of many SME owners, but now we’re working in a better economy, it’s time for them to broaden their horizons. SMEs are the lifeblood of the UK economy, after all.”
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Reason TV: The Problem with Hurricane Sandy Aid
Joshua Swain, Nick Gillespie, and Jim Epstein | 1.11.2013 3:44 PM
"The Problem with Hurricane Sandy Aid" is the latest from Reason TV.
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Joshua Swain was producer for "Stossel on Reason." Prior to his current position, he was a producer for Reason TV. A Virginia native, he attended George Mason University and currently lives in New York.
Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason.
Jim Epstein is the executive editor of Reason TV and Reason's podcasts.
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NDC marks 5 years of Atta Mills’ passing
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The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) will today — Monday, July 24, 2017 — mark the fifth anniversary of the death of President John Evans Atta Mills with a series of special events.
The former President, who assumed the seat of Presidency on the ticket of the NDC, will be celebrated in a week-long programme under the theme, ‘5 years of ascending into immortality’.
The President, renowned for his love for peace, died on July 24, 2012 just few months away from the crucial 2012 general elections.
The cause of his death remains a tightly guided secret, but speculations are that he died from complications from cancer.
The death the ‘’Peacemaker’’, as he was fondly referred to, has seen many commentators and political critics demand a full disclosure of the cause of his death, however, those calls have fallen on death ears.
The programme to commemorate the death of Prof Mills begins with a wreath laying ceremony on July 24 at the Asomdzwe Park followed shortly by a memorial service at Kukuhill in Osu in the Greater Accra Region.
There will also be a memorial lecture at the Atta Mills Law Faculty at GIMPA.
The event is expected to see big shots of the NDC in attendance, including the former President John Mahama and a member of the British House of Lords, Lord Paul Boateng.
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June 6, 2020 January 12, 2021 by Gavin 323
Alia Bhatt is undeniably the hottest sensation on social media.
Alia Bhatt may have made it to the industry through the heavy weight her surname carries. However, she seems to have won hearts over the years not just because of that but because of her warm on-screen presence and her consistent high-performance acts.
Alia Bhatt uses her social media platforms to share a slice of her life with her fans and to give them a glimpse of who Alia Bhatt really is, as a person. In her social media feeds, she is a cat lover and her cat is absolutely heart-warming. Her acting talent requires no introduction and her fashion sense seems to win hearts every time. She can get the paparazzi clicking behind her in a second.
It could be pictures of her with her mother or her super fluffy cat – Alia just knows to win hearts.
What is even more amazing about Alia Bhatt is the fact that she is generous and thoughtful. She uses her Instagram profile to create awareness among the fans. In her recent post, she shared:
“Friendly reminder that washing your hands for 20 seconds does not mean you need to have the tap running for 20 seconds. In the midst of one global crisis let’s not worsen another.”
That being said, this does not deviate the attention to just wise words from the actress. She even posts hot and sensuous pictures donning the best of attires to give her ardent fans some good eye-feasts.
All in all, Alia is a wholesome package of entertainment peppered with some occasional pearls of wisdom. This makes her the hottest sensation online, undeniably so.
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Series: IBM Future of Identity Study
Beyond the Password Era: Changing Consumer Habits Signal the End Is Near
By Cassy Lalan
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The death of the password has been rumored for years, but to this day it remains the primary way we identify ourselves online, with the average user now managing well over 100 accounts that require a password. Yet changing tides in the cybersecurity landscape, combined with evolving technology and consumer preferences, indicate that the end of the password era may finally be at hand.
Consumers Embrace Alternatives to Password Protection
In the wake of countless data breaches, consumers are becoming increasingly security-aware and open to changes in the way they identify themselves online. In a recent IBM Security study, respondents ranked security as their top priority over convenience when logging in to the majority of applications.
As options such as biometrics, multifactor authentication (MFA) and password managers become more advanced, consumers are already starting to move beyond password-only approaches and embrace a new future of identity. The IBM study found that fingerprint scans are seen as the most secure method of authentication. In addition, 67 percent of consumers are using biometric authentication today, while 87 percent said they’d be open to this technology in the future.
Millennials, currently the largest generation in the U.S. workforce, are at the forefront of driving these changes. With a stronger preference for convenience, younger generations are the most likely to embrace biometrics. They are also twice as likely as older generations (ages 55+) to use a password manager to lock down their accounts.
‘Today’ Takes a Closer Look at the Future of Identity
NBC’s Tom Costello recently joined IBM X-Force experts at the Cyber Range in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to discuss why password-only approaches are becoming obsolete and what the future may hold in terms of how we prove our identities online.
Check out the full “Today” segment, along with tips to protect yourself online:
To learn more about consumer trends around identity and access, check out IBM’s “Future of Identity Study.” You can also get highlights and additional analysis from this podcast and blog series.
Read the complete “IBM Future of Identity Study”
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National Pub Design Awards 2016
Conservation Winner – Scottish Stores, London
The Scottish Stores, a Grade II listed building, was designed by architects Wylson and Long in 1900-1. This much-loved urban landmark was brought back to life in 2015 when its three distinct bars were impressively conserved. The Jacobethan-styled woodwork in the server has been sympathetically restored, as have the coloured lithographs of hunting scenes by Cecil Aldin (1900), set into frames in the panelling.
Refurbishment & Joe Goodwin Award Winner – Tim Bobbin, Burnley
A handsome stone building, Tim Bobbin, dates to 1701, but in the 1960s it was insensitively ‘restored’ and by the 1990s looked very tired and sad. Samuel Smiths’ in-house architects have rescued this prominent pub through an excellent refurbishment. The pub’s multi-room plan has been restored.
Refurbishment (Commended) – The Ship, Sheffield
This stunning Edwardian street-corner pub was originally built, as the superb tiled frieze boasts, for Tomlinson’s Anchor Brewery. A 1978 Bass Charrington plan indicates how the building was opened out. Originally four separate entrances led to (1) a lobby (with off-sales) and lounge, (2) the public bar, (3) the sung and (4) a lobby and billiards room. Changes saw the kitchen become the ladies, movement of the central bar to the current position and replacement of the corner door by a window. Previous plans indicate that the room on the left of the entrance was originally two shops.
The wording ‘Dram Shop’ on the corner of the ceramic frontage (above the sealed up corner door) is also worth noting. ‘Dram Shop’ is a local phrase for ‘Off Sales’ and can be seen at a number of other Sheffield locations.
In the 1990’s Bass sold the Ship to Hardy and Hansons’ Kimberley Brewery of Nottingham. It passed on to Greene King in 2006 when they took over, and closed, the Kimberley brewery. Subsequently, the building did not fare well as its interior was allowed to slowly deteriorate. The Ship closed in February 2015 and was subsequently reopened by Hawthorn Leisure the following September after a six figure cash injection. Hawthorn Leisure worked to retain as many original features as possible. This included restoring the original inside tiling, which builders found hidden beneath years of decoration. The pub has now been restored to its Edwardian glitz and glitter.
Since the inception of these awards in 1983, The Ship is only the second Sheffield Pub to receive an award: In 2010, the Sheffield Tap was awarded Best Conversion to Pub Use.
Following the national presentation at the Scottish Stores, there will be a presentation event at the Ship on Wednesday 31st.May at 16:00 – all welcome! – our Pub Heritage officer will forward the certificate he collected, in London, on behalf of Sheffield, to its rightful owners, the Ship.
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Apologies to the Bath Hotel, winners of the English Heritage Conservation Award in 2002
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Also, in the year 2000, in the English Heritage Conservation Award, they Hillsborough Hotel was Highly Commended.
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Flight Facilities – All Your Love (Christopher Port Remix)
Listen to Christopher Port’s remix of Flight Facilities’ ‘All Your Love’.
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Christopher Port – Everything in Quotes “DARK” EP
Christopher Port today shares his Everything In Quotes “DARK” EP, out via Future Classic x Pieater. A sound that’s best described as a refreshing take on UKG, the EP includes two additional tracks, ‘Uppers’ and ‘Raver VIP’ as well as previously released single ‘Nobody Chose You’ and most recent track ‘Baby It’s Not My Will’. Dark, brooding and subdued, Everything In Quotes “DARK” is marked as a highly impressive contribution to the electronic music landscape.
Speaking on the EP, Christopher Port says:
“The name “Everything in Quotes” is taken from a lecture by fashion designer, Virgil Abloh, in which he talks about architecture, creativity and fashion amongst other things. One of the most important things for me as an artist is being able to have a direct line to the listener. I want you to hear my music exactly how I made it, yet still be able to perceive it in your own way. To me “Everything in Quotes” personifies this. You are hearing my music in the exact form I created it, similar to a direct quote. I believe this makes the connection between the artist and the listener much stronger. I’ve always been drawn to the darker side of art. I love music that has a sense of foreboding, melancholy and unease. This comes in so many different forms and shades, much more than I have presented on these tracks.”
With the EP, also comes Christopher Port’s a special visualizer which doubles as its own unique rolling look-book video showcasing the producer’s fashion debut with his own brand of hand-sewn unisex shirts available for sale as a limited, one-off item.
Christopher Port says of the line, “These tops are the tangible affirmation of the music from my EP “Dark”. This video for me is a process film that shows the creation of the prototypes that informed the finished pieces with four distinct sections that are based off the four EP tracks. The video also works as a visual response to the music by my long-term collaborator and incredible director/editor Hamish Mitchell.”. Check out the design here and watch the video for ‘Baby It’s Not My Will’ below:
This November, Christopher Port will embark on a AUS tour. 2018 will see the release of his second instalment of Everything In Quotes, with a follow-up EP “LIGHT”, along with its corresponding fashion line. Stay tuned for more on this soon.
‘EVERYTHING IN QUOTES “DARK”’ IS OUT NOW.
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Christopher Port – Baby It’s Not My Will
Christopher Port today shares his latest track, ‘Baby It’s Not My Will’. With this release, the London based producer delivers dark and subdued track featuring his customary sounds of vinyl crackle, distorted vocal samples and brooding synth pads that dolefully circle round and round in repetition. This is the second single taken off his forthcoming Everything in Quotes “Dark” EP set for release on October 20 via a special collaboration between leading Australian independent labels, Future Classic and Pieater.
‘Baby It’s Not My Will’ follows the release of ‘Nobody Chose You’, which picked up support from tastemaker titles including Tsugi, Stoney Roads and Acid Stag. Following this, leading online publication The 405 invited Christopher to create a mix for their Plastic Platform series which highlights some of the influences and tracks he was listening to whilst writing the forthcoming Everything in Quotes “Dark” EP.
Since its release, ‘Nobody Chose You’ has been added to high rotation across radio stations worldwide including BBC Radio 1, 6 Music and 1Xtra with spins from Huw Stephens and Annie Nightingale, as well as such as Double J and FBi Radio in Australia.
When he’s not creating or designing under his own name, Christopher Port keeps very busy playing live drums for Jack Grace, Airling, #1 Dads and Big Scary and producing tracks for artists such as Annie Bass and Buoy.
His recent relocation to the UK is indicative of this talented young artist’s strong ambition and desire to immerse himself in the scene by which he’s inspired. Coupled with the quality and unique sounds he’s producing, 2017 is looking to be a strong year.
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Indian Wells – Cascades
Full stream of Indian Wells’ emotive new single on Friends Of Friends. More info on xlr8r. Get it here.
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Seekae – Turbine Blue
Australian electronic trio Seekae today share ‘Turbine Blue’, the first new release from the group since 2014. The track premiered overnight via Triple J, and can be heard below:
In a striking step beyond last album ‘The Worry’, the band explore new sonic territory with ‘Turbine Blue’, to create their most confident, honest and direct work to date. Distinctively Seekae, the track is original in sound and risk-taking in its production. The song was composed and recorded in Berlin’s Funkhaus Studio – the vocal was delivered after eating a pizza microwaved at a petrol station, carried back to the studio through the rain.
Through 80’s and 90’s Korg synthesisers, ‘Turbine Blue’ provides a mid-tempo, melancholic, drone-like progression that serves to uplift in the face of isolation and loneliness – a Seekae staple. A siren’s tune, ‘Turbine Blue’ moves towards something blissful and agonising, like the cyclical nature of love, departing and arriving, hurting and pleasing all in one act. ‘Turbine Blue’ is a confessionary love song. Full of hope but laced with the sheer dizzying heights of the risks involved in a confession.
‘Turbine Blue’ is out now on Future Classic.
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Video: Hayden James – Just A Lover
Singer, songwriter and producer Hayden James, today returns with an official video to accompany his infectious jam “Just A Lover”. Out via Future Classic, the video can be viewed below.
Directed by Leigh NewmanofSplintr, the video shows an encounter between two lovers in a dingy American motel. With dreamlike sequences intertwined with passionate scenes between the two characters, the video serves as the perfect accompaniment to a track that pleads and croons for a temporary lover.
With the audio premiering on Stereogum last month, the track made the rounds in the blogosphere and beyond, charting on Hype Machine and turning heads with it’s intricate percussion and catchy vocals. A follow up to his runaway hit, “Something About You”, “Just A Lover” now stands at over 2 million plays on Spotify alone.
A remix package for “Just A Lover” has also been revealed – featuring remixes from Pomo, Karma Kid and Frits Wentlink. Producing for the likes of Mac Miller and Anderson .Paak, and with previous remixes for Tinashe and Janet Jackson under his belt, Montreal whizz Pomo’s sleek spin fuses his signature funk and house inspired beats with Hayden’s original. Meanwhile British producer Karma Kid, twists up the structure and BPM for a fresh, heavier take, and Dutch lo-fi house connoisseur Frits Wentlink delivers a wonky, textured reimagining to keep everyone moving.
Set to complete his run of Australian and Asia shows at a sold-out Metro Theatre in Sydney tomorrow night, and with a mammoth 19 date US tour due to kick off in October, the only way seems to be up for the trailblazing Hayden James.
“JUST A LOVER” OUT NOW ON FUTURE CLASSIC.
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Kenton Slash Demon – Peace (Lone Remix)
Kenton Slash Demon – Copenhagen-based duo Silas Moldenhawer and Jonas Kenton – recently announced their new single ‘Peace’ for the Future Classic label, coupled with a retro sci fi-themed video from director Jenna Mangulad, and now they return with a sizeable remix from one of the UK’s finest producers, Lone.
‘Peace’ follows Kenton Slash Demon’s breakout pair of EP’s for Future Classic, Harpe/Syko and TT/Dok, which earned them praise from the likes of Stereogum, The Line of Best Fit, SPIN, Thump and Time Out New York as well as spins on KCRW, BBC Radio 1 & 6Music and placement on the Spotify Viral U.S., Australia and Global charts. ‘Peace’ has so far garnered support from everyone from Wonderland, Hunger TV, FACT and XLR8R to Sir Elton John, who played the track on his ‘Rocket Hour’ show for Beats 1.
Kenton Slash Demon will head out on a short US tour with Flume at the end of next month before returning to the UK to play Bestival and a headline show at London’s Pickle Factory in September.
Tags: Future Classic, Kenton Slash Demon, lone, remix
ONE IN A MILLION: A FUTURE CLASSIC COMPILATION
Future Classic have released their One In A Million: A Future Classic Compilation, the latest instalment in a series that showcases the roster of one of Australia’s leading labels, featuring three exclusives as well as defining moments from the past twelve months.
One of those exclusives includes the recently shared ‘One In A Million’ from Midnight To Monaco, the track that opens the album and gives it its name. A spellbinding duo consisting of LA-based hit maker Donnie Sloan and Canadian vocalist Ricky Ducati, their penchant for grandiose pop hooks and lush acapella melodies saw them top the Hype Machine chart with their first single ‘Suicide’. Following on from this anthemic debut, ‘One In A Million’ once again merges buoyant barbershop-esque vocal harmonies with darker lyricism, already gaining widespread support with the likes of Resident Advisor, Wonderland Magazine, Dancing Astronaut and more. You can revisit that track here:
Of course the label heavyweights also feature, with Chet Faker offering up slow burner ‘Bend’ and Flume’s latest smash hit ‘Never Be Like You’ featuring rising star Kai, the first single from his forthcoming album Skin and a #1 double-platinum Single in his native Australia, currently at 52 millon streams worldwide and counting.
Meanwhile Sydney’s Touch Sensitive follows his appearance on Future Classic’s previous compilation with an I:Cube remix of the beautifully named ‘Pizza Guy’. Hype Machine conquerors ODESZA also feature with a remix of rising Sydney producer Hayden James’ ‘Something About You’.
Other highlights from the compilation include the 8-bit future bass collaboration ‘World Record’ from Wave Racer and Lido as well as ‘Another Dub In The Sun’, an extended, shimmering Dreems x Jagwar Ma cover of 80s psychedelic outfit The Moffs. Taking the tempo down is a double header from beatmaker Ta-ku, first with sultry R&B classic ‘Love Again’ featuring Detroit R&B crooner JMSN and Soulection’s Sango before an enthralling cover of Estelle’s classic ‘American Boy’ with vocalist Wafia (also a recent signing to Future Classic). Listen to Basenji’s new track ‘Chroma’:
With over 40 million Soundcloud streams across 20 tracks, One In A Million marks a milestone moment for the label that has now spent over a decade introducing vital new Australian artists to the world and breaking new ground in electronic music. Over the past year in particular, that spirit has also been encapsulated in their signing of international acts like Danish duo Kenton Slash Demon, new music from Brooklyn’s synth fetishist Chrome Sparks (whose respective singles ‘Syko’ and ‘Moonraker feature on the album), as well as last Autumn’s label-focused FCxUSA tour that played host to the likes of Cyril Hahn, SOPHIE, Classixx and more, from which friendships and collaborations among the Future Classic crew grew.
With a host more releases planned this year from one of the Southern Hemisphere’s most prolific labels, expect to hear plenty more from Future Classic for another decade and beyond.
Midnight to Monaco – One In A Million
Wafia – Heartburn
Flume – Never Be Like You (feat. Kai)
Ta-ku – Love Again (feat. JMSN & Sango)
Panama – Jungle
Basenji – Chroma
Chet Faker – Bend
Kenton Slash Demon – Syko
World Champion – Tip Pit
Charles Murdoch, Touch Sensitive & Aya Olatunji – Play The Clown
Flight Facilities – Heart Attack (Julian Hamilton Rework)
Charles Murdoch – Straws
Seekae – The Worry (András Dub)
Wave Racer – World Record (feat. Lido)
Hayden James – Something About You (ODESZA Remix)
Touch Sensitive – Pizza Guy (I:CUBE Remix)
Ta-ku – American Girl (feat. Wafia)
Collarbones – Turning (Flume remix)
Chrome Sparks – Moonraker
Dreems x Jagwar Ma – Another Dub In The Sun (Dreems & Juno’s Dub Version)
Tags: compilation, Future Classic
Flume – Never Be Like You feat. Kai (Disclosure Remix)
UK duo Disclosure have unveiled their remix of Flume’s ‘Never Be Like You’ feat. Kai. Disclosure’s raw, retro nouveau, deep house reinterpretation of ‘Never Be Like You’ had them say: “So happy we can finally return the favour of remixing duties to our buddy Flume. His remix of our song blew our minds when he delivered it. We hope you all enjoy our version of his amazing new single!”
Flume’s ‘Never Be Like You’ feat. Kai (Disclosure Remix) is out now on Future Classic. Stream via Spotify and Apple Music, or download a copy on iTunes.
Tags: Disclosure, flume, Future Classic, kai, remix
Charles Murdoch – Back To It feat. Banoffee & Oscar Key Sung
Mercurial Brisbane producer Charles Murdoch has today released his eagerly anticipated debut LP ‘Point’ on award-winning Australian label Future Classic. With featured vocals from Ta-ku, Oscar Key Sung, Banoffee, Wafia, Hak, KUČKA and Chloe Kaul, “Point” is an album of treasures; a beautifully diverse masterpiece from start to finish.
To mark the release and to follow on from the acclaimed singles “Straws”, “Frogs” and “Privacy”, you can now listen to album track “Back To It” featuring Banoffee and Oscar Key Sung on Soundcloud. With both featured artist’s blissful harmonies layered atop minimal, pulsating beats, the track is sonic serenity at its finest and further cements Charles as one of the most important contenders in the electronic music landscape right now.
Tags: Banoffee, Charles Murdoch, Future Classic, Oscar Key Sung
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After Battling Breast Cancer and Infertility, Mom Welcomes Miracle Baby
At 31-years-old, and during the week of her daughter’s first birthday, Gemma Isaacs received shocking news. Not only did her doctor confirm that she had the BRCA1 gene, but that the swollen lymph node they biopsied was, in fact, breast cancer. Two years since her diagnosis, Gemma has survived chemotherapy, radiation, and a double mastectomy, and has now welcomed her miracle baby boy into the world.
Before the birth of first-born Ella, Gemma hadn’t intended on getting the test for the BRCA gene. “I had kind of planned in my head that I was going to have a family and once I finished having children, I would have my test because I thought then I would be happy to go ahead and have surgery,” explained Gemma. “That was my mindset.” However, once she became a mom, Gemma knew she needed to start planning for the future. “I decided I didn’t want to do that anymore and just wanted to find out about the gene mutation. Having a baby changed my perspective.”
When Gemma was told by her doctor that she had a small mass in her right breast, as well as the BRCA1 gene, Gemma sprung into action. She began chemotherapy and radiotherapy right away, but had concerns that the treatment would impact her fertility. Despite harvesting her eggs and embryos before starting treatment, there were still no guarantees about the long-term impacts treatment would have on her body.
After extensive months of treatment, losing her hair, and opting to have a double mastectomy, Gemma maintained her positive attitude and made it her mission to keep any sense of normalcy she could. And for Gemma, that meant keeping up with her rigorous workout routine. “Throughout my cancer journey, exercise was really important to me. I would go to the gym and run as much as possible,” said Gemma. “Before cancer, I ate well and trained. Obviously, it doesn’t matter who you are — cancer can affect you, but I wanted to keep that up and feel it really helped my recovery.”
After posting her story online, Gemma quickly found other women with the BRCA gene looking for support. She soon began organizing gatherings for people in similar situations and, eventually, she co-founded BRCA Sisters as a support group for young people affected by genetic cancers. In April of 2019, after recovering from her double mastectomy surgery, Gemma ran the Royal Parks Half Marathon with four other women and raised over $8,000 for the BRCA Sisters organization.
After two years of surgeries, tests, radiation, and more, Gemma was finally cancer-free. She met with a fertility doctor who noted that Gemma’s ovaries were longer working within her regular cycle and her hormone levels were low. Though the doctor suggested hormone replacement therapy, Gemma insisted on a more natural process. She opted for a hormone-free vegan diet and, by the end of 2019, she became pregnant with baby boy Jack.
“I had a very easy pregnancy, which I would say was marred only by a fear of something bad happening again from my past experiences. After dealing with chemotherapy and a double mastectomy, not much feels difficult anymore,” Gemma told Metro.co.uk. “I am not sure I will ever shake the feeling of waiting for something to go wrong, particularly as now things feel so positive, but I am trying to enjoy every moment.”
“Being a family of four is something, after being diagnosed, I never believed would happen and I am not sure the reality has actually set in.”
“I want to support others going through BRCA diagnosis or breast cancer, but I also want to do more to show the benefits of movement and exercise for those going through cancer.” You can follow Gemma on Instagram to keep up with her journey, as well as the BRCA Sisters’ Instagram to learn more about the organization.
This article was originally published by Greatergood.com. Read the original article here.
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Love Fantasy? Check Out the New Release Tour for The Midspring Rebellion by Doreen Heron (excerpt and giveaway)
Title: The Midspring Rebellion
Author: Doreen Heron
Publisher: NineStar Press
Heat Level: 2 – Fade to Black Sex
Pairing: Male/Male
Length: 25100
Genre: Fantasy, LGBT, fairies, royalty, magic, mythical creatures
Things are amiss in the fairy court, made worse one spring morning when King Oberon’s wife decides to leave him. His decision to gather his thoughts in the human realm lead him into the path, and arms, of workaholic human Nick Chandler. But when Oberon’s throne is threatened, will he be able to retain his kingship and his newfound love?
The Midspring Rebellion
Doreen Heron © 2019
As it always did, the Wheel of the Year continued to turn.
Midsummer turned to Midfall.
Midfall to Midwinter.
Midwinter to Midspring.
The seasons changed. The years changed. But life in the Fairy Court remained the same.
And this left Titania dissatisfied.
“It is time for a change,” she announced one evening over dinner. Oberon had known something was wrong the moment she dismissed the waiting staff. It had been over three hundred years since they had eaten alone, and even that was because Titania had wanted to discuss the idea of adopting another Changeling. Not that the idea had gone anywhere, of course. Oberon had learned his lesson about taking human children long before that, and he had not been keen to repeat the experiment. It was natural, then, that he held his breath when Titania spoke, and he waited for whatever she was about to decide. “We have become stale.”
Oberon found it impossible to disagree. Being married for a millennium was certainly an accomplishment by anyone’s count—especially when fairy marriages were annulled and then voluntarily renewed on an annual basis. But one thousand years of an arranged marriage was going above and beyond in his royal duties, of this, he was sure.
“What do you propose?” he asked, not entirely sure he wanted an answer. A separation from Titania might allow them both to pursue other interests, but there was no denying that a split in the Royal Court could rip the whole of his already unstable kingdom in half.
“A separation.”
He nodded. He’d known where this was going, and he couldn’t say he was particularly unhappy about it. But he had questions.
“Why now? We’ve been living this same way these last three hundred years. Why propose this now?”
“It is the best possible time. The kingdom is at risk of civil war…”
“…Which is exactly why we should be united.”
“Or is it why this is the ideal time for a split? We would not want to needlessly disrupt harmony in the kingdom. Ergo, if we split while there are already fractures…”
“…we guarantee a split in the kingdom.”
“We hurry along a split we already know is coming.”
Oberon closed his eyes and shook his head. Titania had always been ruthlessly logical. It was one of the reasons his father had chosen her as a perfect mate, and—more importantly—a future queen.
“I have met someone else.”
Well, that was the clincher, wasn’t it?
“I have fallen in love.”
“Love?” Oberon frowned at his queen, unsure of exactly what he was hearing. “What of love? We are a king and a queen. Love need play no part in anything.”
“Oberon, even the mortals have abandoned that way of thinking now. It is time for us to catch up.”
Oberon grunted. It pained him to hear Titania speak of love. She’d not as much as breathed the word in five hundred years, not since his trick to cause her to fall for the human Bottom.
“This love. It is not the human, is it?” he asked. “The actor.” His voice dripped with venom as he spoke, though he himself wasn’t sure if he was jealous that she had fallen with such ease or angry that his own magic had been the cause.
“Oberon, humans lead short lives. Bottom died many, many years ago.”
“Then who?”
This time, it was Titania’s turn to shake her head, causing blossoms of pink and orange to fall from her hair and hit the ground.
“Not important,” she said. She stood and pushed her chair back under the oak table, before walking delicately over and taking her husband’s left hand. “I release you.” She smiled. She turned a hand over and undid the leather strap that was tied at his palm. “I release you.” She unwound the leather from his hand, uncrossing the straps that worked up his forearm. “I release you.” She pulled the leather from his bicep, taut with the tension and stress running through his body. She leaned over and kissed his forehead. “Good luck to you, Oberon.”
He stood at the window of his tower, having vanished the glass to get a better look at what was going on. He watched as Titania loaded her trunks onto the glass chariot. He watched as a male fairy, face obscured by some of Titania’s trickery to stop him from being identified, helped to pile the heavier pieces of furniture. He watched as the two of them climbed into the chariot, and as the dragonflies took flight, pulling it into the woods and out of sight.
He thought he should shout. He thought he should swear. He thought he should cry. But he found himself empty. For a thousand years, he had known he could be temperamental or selfish or immature and Titania would always be by his side. Because she had had to. They had vows. But she had met someone better than him, and she was gone.
Ultimately, he chose to do what many do when they find themselves bereft, and he began to prepare himself for bed. He removed his emerald-green robes and ran a damp washcloth across his torso. His muscles contracted at the cold, tightening and becoming more defined than they usually were when hidden beneath his loose robes. Usually, he enjoyed the feeling of his tightening body, but even that was little comfort in the light of being left alone. He unwrapped the leather strap that ran across his waist—a symbol of his perpetual commitment to his kingdom—and draped it across the wooden dressing table. He dipped the washcloth in the water again before removing his loincloth and washing the rest of his body. It was only right to be clean before entering the kingdom of the DreamWeaver, and he was not about to abandon formality and politesse just because he would be alone in his bed tonight. Naked, but dry after patting the water away with a towel, he knelt by his bed.
“I give thanks to the earth, which bore me and gave me life. I give thanks to the great unknown, who guides me and shapes my fate. I give thanks to my ancestors, from whom I descend and for whom I live a life which is not mine, but which belongs to my subjects. These are my thanks.”
He stood and climbed into bed, pulling his mouse pelt blankets over him, and curled up into a ball. Scrunching his eyes together, he willed himself to sleep. It didn’t come easily, as visions of Titania and her paramour danced through his head, but eventually he found himself drifting off.
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Is there one DLPFC in cognitive action control? Evidence for heterogeneity from Co-activation-based parcellation
Edna C. Cieslik, Karl Zilles, Svenja Caspers, Christian Roski, Tanja S. Kellermann, Oliver Jakobs, Robert Langner, Angela R. Laird, Peter T. Fox, Simon B. Eickhoff
The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) has consistently been implicated in cognitive control of motor behavior. There is, however, considerable variability in the exact location and extension of these activations across functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiments. This poses the question of whether this variability reflects sampling error and spatial uncertainty in fMRI experiments or structural and functional heterogeneity of this region. This study shows that the right DLPFC as observed in 4 different experiments tapping executive action control may be subdivided into 2 distinct subregions-an anterior-ventral and a posterior-dorsal one-based on their whole-brain co-activation patterns across neuroimaging studies. Investigation of task-dependent and task-independent connectivity revealed both clusters to be involved in distinct neural networks. The posterior subregion showed increased connectivity with bilateral intraparietal sulci, whereas the anterior subregion showed increased connectivity with the anterior cingulate cortex. Functional characterization with quantitative forward and reverse inferences revealed the anterior network to be more strongly associated with attention and action inhibition processes, whereas the posterior network was more strongly related to action execution and working memory. The present data provide evidence that cognitive action control in the right DLPFC may rely on differentiable neural networks and cognitive functions.
https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhs256
10.1093/cercor/bhs256
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Cieslik, E. C., Zilles, K., Caspers, S., Roski, C., Kellermann, T. S., Jakobs, O., Langner, R., Laird, A. R., Fox, P. T., & Eickhoff, S. B. (2013). Is there one DLPFC in cognitive action control? Evidence for heterogeneity from Co-activation-based parcellation. Cerebral Cortex, 23(11), 2677-2689. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhs256
Is there one DLPFC in cognitive action control? Evidence for heterogeneity from Co-activation-based parcellation. / Cieslik, Edna C.; Zilles, Karl; Caspers, Svenja; Roski, Christian; Kellermann, Tanja S.; Jakobs, Oliver; Langner, Robert; Laird, Angela R.; Fox, Peter T.; Eickhoff, Simon B.
In: Cerebral Cortex, Vol. 23, No. 11, 11.2013, p. 2677-2689.
Cieslik, EC, Zilles, K, Caspers, S, Roski, C, Kellermann, TS, Jakobs, O, Langner, R, Laird, AR, Fox, PT & Eickhoff, SB 2013, 'Is there one DLPFC in cognitive action control? Evidence for heterogeneity from Co-activation-based parcellation', Cerebral Cortex, vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 2677-2689. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhs256
Cieslik EC, Zilles K, Caspers S, Roski C, Kellermann TS, Jakobs O et al. Is there one DLPFC in cognitive action control? Evidence for heterogeneity from Co-activation-based parcellation. Cerebral Cortex. 2013 Nov;23(11):2677-2689. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhs256
Cieslik, Edna C. ; Zilles, Karl ; Caspers, Svenja ; Roski, Christian ; Kellermann, Tanja S. ; Jakobs, Oliver ; Langner, Robert ; Laird, Angela R. ; Fox, Peter T. ; Eickhoff, Simon B. / Is there one DLPFC in cognitive action control? Evidence for heterogeneity from Co-activation-based parcellation. In: Cerebral Cortex. 2013 ; Vol. 23, No. 11. pp. 2677-2689.
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Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Research Ideas Competition 2020/2021 | up to $10,000 CAD
Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is now accepting applications from eligible Doctoral Student or Post-doctoral Fellow for its 2020/2021 Research Ideas Competition. The deadline for the submission of applications for the IDRC Research Ideas Competition is 11th December, 2020.
The goal of this competition is to inspire novel research ideas that aim to strengthen policy interventions, population health, environmental sustainability and/or health, gender and social equity in LMICs.
These novel ideas are expected to deliver health and environmental co-benefits by addressing the interlinked nutrition and environmental challenges and knowledge gaps that impede shifts towards healthier and sustainable food systems. These ideas will promote a conceptual understanding of healthy and sustainable food systems and account for the practical realities of their implementation.
This competition aims to:
Identify novel, solutions-oriented research ideas that promote healthy and sustainable food systems in LMICs;
Support interdisciplinary exchange of ideas that draw upon different theories, methodological tools, frameworks, and approaches;
Harness lessons from research, civil society and policy spheres which bridge the fields of global health, food systems and environmental sustainability research.
IDRC Research Ideas Competition Eligibility.
Applicant for this call must be a Doctoral Student or Post-doctoral Fellow;
Be a Canadian, permanent resident of Canada, or citizen of LMICs enrolled in a doctoral degree or post-doctoral fellowship program at a recognized university (not only universities in Canada).
Proposed research ideas must be relevant and applicable to LMIC settings, with a particular focus on low-income communities. This includes, but is not limited to, a theoretical or practical grounding in specific local LMIC context(s), the relevance of an idea to local research, policy or community actors, and how an idea builds on previous engagement with local actors.
IDRC Research Ideas Competition Award.
Ten winning applications will receive $10,000 CAD each administered directly to the primary applicant. The award will be provided upon the submission of the final idea write up and a formal presentation at the Ideas Symposium (virtual or in-person).
Award-winners will have access to mentorship from a broad interdisciplinary network of mentors including scientific and technical support.
Award-winners will also have the opportunity to further strengthen their idea, contribute to a global compendium of research ideas, and attract the attention of a wider audience of researchers, trainees, policy-makers, funders and practitioners.
How to Apply for IDRC Research Ideas Competition.
Your application is ready for submission when it includes these four
A proposal (maximum 5 pages) of a research idea which directly addresses at least one of the three aforementioned thematic directions, and is informed by the key consideration of ‘building better from COVID-19’;
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Michael Jacobson Interview
by Michael Jacobson and Quimby Melton
Part of "Cryptotexts": a SCRIPTjr.nl special section.
In addition to your curatorial work with The New Post-Literate, you've written two of your own asemic texts: Action Figures (imgs. 1-5) and The Giant's Fence (imgs. 6-9). Do you see your work as part of a cryptotext tradition that includes the Voynich manuscript and Codex Seraphinianus?
First, I have to say I'm a terrible cryptographer. Readers should know that if they're going to look for codes in my work. Nevertheless, I can say, with some confidence, that the Voynich manuscript is more relevant to my asemic writing than the Codex Seraphinianus. I'm much more familiar with that text and have been since I began developing my personal calligraphic style. Tim Gaze, of asemic.net and SCRIPTjr.nl's editorial board, introduced me to the Codex Seraphinianus a few years ago, and it's a very interesting book. But the Voynich manuscript seems more significantly proto-asemic to me. That is, I think the text may very well reveal its secrets if one studies it in terms of visual aesthetics rather than semantics.
Part of me hopes the Voynich will never be deciphered, but who knows? Maybe it's written in an extinct European language that could be translated if we found the right Rosetta Stone. Undeciphered languages, in fact, influence my work a good deal. The Giant's Fence, for example, was influenced by Rongorongo and illegible graffiti.
Even if you're not actively engaging in cryptography, would it be inappropriate to suggest Action Figures and The Giant's Fence are cryptographic?
My asemic novels are cryptographic to the extent that their language is obscured and hidden. But while the general aesthetics of cryptography and secret writing have always fascinated me, my asemic texts are less encryption-focused and more akin to sigils, wherein the text is abstracted and charged with energy, and xeno/exolinguistics.
Not only is "illegible alien wizard graffiti" a good description of my penmanship, it might make a good topic for a future SCRIPTjr.nl special section.
Why not throw in some extra-terrestrial haiku for good measure?
Some Edmund H. North-meets-Bashō, perhaps:
A large, scary 'bot.
Klaatu barada nikto.
The earth lives again.
Oh, my!
Getting back to your work, if it formally has more in common with sigils, ancient Pascuense script, and exolinguistic haiku, where would you ground your work's sensibility?
In terms of sensibility, I have more in common with the French symbolists and lettrists than with codemakers and codebreakers. Like all these groups, I'm acutely interested in exploring what happens to language when meaning is intentionally obscured. But unlike the latter two, I'm uninterested in providing a decoding mechanism or trying to reverse engineer an objective cipher.
How would you say broader contemporary post-literate writing relates to cryptotexts like the Voynich and the Codex Seraphinianus?
This is the information age, and we route almost all our information through DARPA's internet. In the post-9/11 security climate, I wouldn't be surprised if most, if not all, emails coming into and going out of the US aren't recorded by the NSA: America's Big Brother.
In fact, investigations by news outlets like PBS suggest exactly that.1
No one likes to be spied upon or even think they're being spied upon. Post-literate writing and texts like the Voynich manuscript and the Codex Seraphinianus offer readers and writers an oasis in such a climate. They allow us to communicate using semantically undecipherable signs.
In that sense, asemic writing and cryptotexts have a subversive quality to them in that they challenge government authority over communication. Thinking beyond political concerns and moving back into the realm of aesthetics, they offer readers and writers a more or less impenetrable subjective shelter. Since they usually cannot be "broken" -- that is, translated into objective carriers of meaning -- one can interpret asemic texts as the ultimate encoders of personal insight and reflection. Everything from little sister's journal to the rape fantasies of a poetic psychopath could be safely housed in asemic glyphs.
I have put some of my ugliest and most beautiful thoughts into my asemic texts, and that's where I'd like these thoughts to stay. The unknown author of the Voynich manuscript may have felt a similar need to express him or herself as completely as possible but without giving readers overly-easy access to the inner sanctum of his or her naked thought. Luigi Serafini, author of the Codex Seraphinianus, claims the Codex is asemic, but maybe that's just to throw the crypto-dogs off the scent.2
It's fascinating to think of asemic writing in this way: as a sort of locked vault one shares with the world while withholding the key or combination (sometimes even from oneself).
Since we've covered form and sensibility, let's move on to method. Do you write your asemic novels in semantic language first and then translate or do you arrange abstract signs independently of any semantic meaning?
I start my novels at the semantic beach, where meaningful and meaningless language converge. I'm particularly interested in exploring the moment when a simple line on a page begins to have meaning, when the content of a gesture is sufficient to scream, "I exist!" Ultimately, though, I've come to the conclusion that it's very hard to write a gesture completely devoid of meaning or to write a gesture that's completely filled with meaning.
The Giant's Fence, my first book, attempts to push written, symbolic communication to the breaking point and create a sort of "trans-symbolism," that is, signs transcending symbolic communication. My second book, Action Figures, is probably my most gentle and accessible text because it's a collection of street hieroglyphs. The Paranoia Machine, my peripheral vision reading machine (img. 10), is concerned with internal and external psychological conflict and with the problem of artist-as-survivalist in a contemporary society that has devalued the role of creator. My recent asemic animations (below) simply seem to scream, "Holy shit! Life!"3
What about materials? Nico Vassilakis, for example, composes work like Language Is Hell on an iPod touch. The Paranoia Machine notwithstanding, do you use contemporary technology and gadgetry to create your asemic typefaces? The Giant's Fence looks hand-drawn.
All my work begins as pen-and-paper sketches. I like to use this low-tech approach to document the modern American high-tech environment because I think it's an interesting, and ironic, way to capture today's ultra-technical reality. When I begin an asemic text, I will either do some automatic writing or snatch a shape from the surrounding environment. I start simply and develop complexity. Usually the signs begin as recognizable symbols that, through subsequent generations, become abstract designs whose origin eventually becomes obscure even to myself, the creator of the piece.
Though the defining characteristic of asemic writing is its muted semantic meaning, in what ways do you consider yourself a "a creator of meaning," "a communicator," and/or "a storyteller?"
Through my own work, and by curating The New Post-Literate, I'm trying to tell a story of change and (r)evolution. I'm interested in texts whose form remains constant, but whose meaning evolves over time and in the individual mind. Asemic writing is somewhat like dramatic writing and even entertainment script forms: the text stays the same, but individual performances change from night to night, from production (event) to production (event). As I see it, asemic writing is a means of scripting the world. Each reader-writer-viewer breathes unique life into asemic texts and individual signs like actors.
Interesting metaphor. It, of course, makes the conjunction of asemic texts and screen/teleplays in SCRIPTjr.nl seem all the more congruent.
I also write to stay ahead of death. I know I'll be caught sooner or later, but in the meantime, I'm trying to stay a step ahead. Social media may make it possible to live on in ways previously unimagined. For example, I recently watched a YouTube video featuring Arthur Rimbaud. The creator, Jim Clark, has animated a childhood picture of the poet and overdubed a Frenchman reading "Ophéle."4 Maybe this is our future: we'll live on, one way or another, whether we want to or not.
Based on some of the points you make above, within or without the current new media context, the radical subjectivity of asemic writing almost ensures writers a sort of eternality. The potential life span of an asemic text is really only limited by the durability of its plastic media. Unlike other forms of literature -- whose meanings change and that go in and out of fashion and popularity and always risk functional erasure as a result of linguistic extinction -- asemic writing is virtually timeless. This is true whether, like your work and the Codex Seraphinianus, a given text was intended to be asemic or, like the Rongorongo tablets and possibly the Voynich manuscript, becomes so over time.
What other advantages, if any, do you think asemic writers have over semantic writers? You could answer the question in reverse too, if you'd like.
Like the French symbolists' complex metaphors, asemic writing's main advantage lies in its ability to express difficult and complex emotions in ways that aren't easily essentialized or finalized. I'm not much of a verbal communicator, but I do have a sense that asemic writing captures new experiences as they happen. It has a certain immediacy that semantic writing lacks. The latter seems to record experiences after the fact, but asemic writing focuses on the future-as-it-happens. Its meaning comes into, and goes out of, existence as the reader-writer-viewer negotiates with it.
What are the most constructive methods for approaching, that is "interpreting," asemic literature?
One must have an explorer's spirit to interpret asemic texts. They aren't bound by anything except the limits of one's imagination. I also think asemic texts offer readers access to the author's raw life experience. Because the text is undecipherable, an asemic author is likely to put down thoughts and emotions that don't exist in standard written communication. What the reader does with this nexus of communication is entirely up to him or her. I recommend "reading" an asemic text in various places, in various orders, and in various contexts so the glyphs can interact with the environment and always seem fresh.
What are the roots of post-literate culture, and how has it developed during your relationship with it?
Post-literate writing has probably existed for almost as long as conventional literacy has. There are examples of what I would consider post-literate writing in various ancient cultures around the world. Nevertheless, the term "post-literate" was first used by Marshall McLuhan in the 1960's,5 and that's as good a place as any to start. Multimedia was beginning to saturate American society, and a standard definition of "post-literate" is "occurring after the introduction of the electronic media." One of the reasons I chose to name my online gallery "The New Post-Literate" is because it exists in a purely electronic environment.
Really, I consider any form of writing post-literate if it goes beyond conventional literacy, if its expressions move beyond traditional literacy. As such, the discourse can include cryptography, visual poetry, asemic writing, rebuses, hypergraphic super writing, xenolinguistics, graffiti, comics, &tc. I should note too that this evolutionary tension between traditional literacy and post-literacy seems to be playing itself out on the internet and via new (e)book forms. I suspect this is why, even though people are reading fewer and fewer traditional books, it's still an exciting time to be a writer.
What exactly would you say are the core goals and/or interests of contemporary post-literate writing?
Post-literate writing is the next stage in the evolution of writing. In the same way Dada gave birth to Surrealism, asemic writing will create a viable, self-sustaining post-literate writing culture. Like all asemic writers, I just want to know where the human literacy story will go next. Of course, selling a few books would be nice, and I'd like to see some arts funding roll in.
While a robust mercantile spirit is unavoidable and even admirable in the arts, be careful what you wish for concerning the latter. As Foucault reminds us, care is most certainly control, and institutional prisons have etiolated many an artist, artwork, and arts movement. Post-literate culture's independence and noble poverty are two of its strengths. Currently, the movement's destiny and "power structure" -- as it exists -- lie in the hands of a decenterd, populist network of like-minded enthusiasts, and it seems to have flourished in this climate, under what I once heard the critic Dave Hickey refer to as "the warm sunshine of benign neglect."
On that note, I do find it interesting that post-literate/asemic writing culture has developed without an official marketing department, as it were. It's maintained its independence and even become centrally ungovernable. Additionally, most, if not all, asemic texts are self- or micro-press published.
As I suggested in the introduction to SCRIPTjr.nl's legacy issue 1.2, it's impossible to over-state the revolutionary importance of this aspect of contemporary literary culture. Within asemic and vispo culture specifically, independent 'zines like Tim Gaze's Asemic Magazine and publishers like Arrum Press, Xexoxial Editions, xPress(ed), and Andrew Topel's Avantacular Press need all the plugs and support they can get.
If asemic texts remain independently published, and find a sizeable, paying audience, they could help revolutionize the writing and publishing industry.
Absolutely agreed.
Hopefully, SCRIPTshop will help asemic writers and artists sell their work more easily.
Moving on, who would you say are the major artists working in the field? Who, in your opinion, are especially effective asemic writers?
There are a lot of great asemic writers and artists out there. I don't think I could pick out any favorites from the current post-literate generation. The New Post-Literate showcases new work every week so interested readers can decide for themselves.
The New Post-Literate is another resource that can't be plugged enough. And I suppose your reluctance to use your position to dole out favors or influence opinion speaks to the movement's nebulous democracy at present.
Be that as it may, I think asemic writing is still too new to decide who history will remember. Tons of great asemic works still need to be written. A robust post-literate culture still needs to be built. The asemic writing movement is still trying to find its wings.
Thinking about this development, where do you see post-literate culture in a decade or two?
I'd like to see post-literate writing programs pop up at colleges and universities. Much of what we're doing today will seem rather dated by then, though.
And that's why it will reside there. The academy is an aesthetic and epistemic archive. It's not really designed to be a generative dynamo of new movements and thought.
The next generation of asemic writers will probably emit telepathic vispo and use jetpacks to create asemic skywriting.
That gets you an "Oh my" of my own!
Back on the ground, I'd like to see libraries and bookstores dedicate sections to asemic writing. Amazon and WorldCat already categorize asemic texts in their own right, and I'd like to see other entities like the Library of Congress follow suit.
Class P, subclass PN and Class N, subclasses NC-NE and NX are just waiting, aren't they? The LOC gives "Anacreontic literature" its own call number (6233-6238), and I bet no one reads or writes that wine-soaked nonsense anymore.
My fundamental hope, however, is that generations of asemic writers will perpetuate the tradition of international cosmopolitanism that defines the culture at present, bring millions more people into the fold, and help them discover how interesting and challenging asemic literature is.
Two of my wilder ideas:
I'd like to develop a martial arts style based on asemic calligraphy, and I'd like to travel the world in an old Chinese junk disseminating asemic writing.
You could be the Caine of asemic culture.
See, for example, the PBS Frontline episode "Spying on the Home Front" (Prod. WGBH Boston, 2007. DVD. PBS Video, 2007). The episode can also be reviewed on the web: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/ (5 September 2010. PBS. Frontline, 15 May 2007). ↩
This according to an uncited statement Serafini allegedly made to "the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles ... on May 8, 2009" ("Codex Seraphinianus," Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus#Writing_system [7 September 2010]). ↩
See also Jacobson's kinetic asemic blog novel Mynd Eraser (http://mynderaser.blogspot.com [27 September 2010]). ↩
See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db1gctCmkXU (5 September 2010. Jim Clark/poetryanimations. YouTube, 20 December 2008). Clark's series of animations also includes "readings" by William Blake, John Keats, William Wordsworth, and several other poets. See http://www.youtube.com/user/poetryanimations (5 September 2010. Jim Clark/poetryanimations. YouTube, 05 September 2010) to watch the entire series. ↩
See Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (McGraw Hill, NY, 1964; MIT Press, 1994; Gingko Press, 2003). ↩
Citation: Jacobson, Michael and Quimby Melton. 17 March 2013. "Michael Jacobson Interview." SCRIPTjr.nl. https://scriptjr.nl/special-sections/cryptotexts/michael-jacobson-interview (accessed [PST / -8:00]).
Updated: March 17, 2013 at 12:32 am (PST / -8:00)
Michael Jacobson is a writer and artist from Minneapolis, Minnesota USA. His books include The Giant’s Fence, Action Figures, Mynd Eraser, and The Paranoia Machine. Besides writing books, he curates a gallery for asemic writing called The New Post-Literate. He is also on the editorial board of SCRIPTjr.nl. In his spare time, he is working on designing a planet named “THAT”. Recently, he was published in The Last Vispo Anthology (Fantagraphics), and was interviewed by SampleKanon.
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Factional squabbles
Read the controversial emails by Prashant Bhushan's sister that pushed AAP to breaking point
In January, Shalini Gupta tacitly asked NRI backers to halt party funding because she claimed that Kejriwal was backing dubious candidates for the Delhi polls.
Ajaz Ashraf
Mar 09, 2015 · 08:45 am
Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters
The war in the Aam Aadmi Party spilled out in the open last week but the relationship between the two squabbling factions of Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan-Yogendra Yadav had reached a breaking point early in January. Tensions were held in check only because a showdown would have marred the fledgling formation’s chances in the Delhi state elections in February.
This strain had been caused by two emails sent by senior leader Prashant Bhushan’s US-based sister, Shalini Gupta, to members of the AAP Global Group, which consists of 700-800 NRI contacts of the party. In the messages, Gupta tacitly discouraged members from donating money to the AAP’s war-chest on the grounds that Kejriwal had fielded corrupt candidates in the Delhi assembly elections.
Her emails sent shockwaves through the party higher echelons, not only not because she is Bhushan’s sister but also because her calling card described her as the Coordinator AAP Global Supporters and Organisation Development Advisor.
Her emails demonstrate that she was not willing to wait for the verdict of the AAP Lokpal, Admiral (retd) L Ramdas, on the suitability of 12 nominations that were being challenged. AAP’s ombudsman is supposed to be the final arbiter of complaints made by members of the National Executive, which has representatives from different states. On January 4, a committee had been constituted to assist Admiral Ramdas determine whether the complaints about the 12 candidates had any merit. Yet emails sent by Gupta on January 5 and January 6 show she had already made up her mind that Kejriwal was guilty of violating party norms by choosing dubious candidates.
Confusion in the ranks
More significantly, her intervention had come at the time the NRI supporters of AAP were keen to donate money or even groups of them financially adopting specific constituencies in Delhi. At least two NRIs responded to Gupta messages, saying they were confused and wondered whether it was indeed the appropriate time to stoke the controversy over the choice of candidates.
It was Gupta’s mail that convinced some of the AAP leaders that the Bhushan family was attempting to undermine the party’s poll prospects, in the hope of getting the better of the rival faction. For long, this group had ignored the barbs periodically thrown at Kejriwal by AAP founder-member Shanti Bhushan, Prashant and Shalini’s father. They were willing to believe that he was a mercurial old man. However, they couldn’t but see an insidious design in Gupta’s crisp description of the divide in AAP in the email to the party’s global supporters.
This chain of emails, which was sent to this writer by an NRI volunteer, demonstrates that the factional war in AAP had already acquired a destructive intensity in early January. Below are extracts from Gupta’s emails, and also some responses to her. They have been reproduced here without changes.
Gupta’s email of January 6 opens with these candid lines:
“Since all of you are important stakeholders in the party, donating your time and money some straight talk is warranted. Here is my perspective. You will get a different answer to your question depending on who you talk to.”
She went out to outline the divisions as she saw them. She wrote,
“One camp believes that in this game of politics if we have to pick some candidates and employ some techniques that other political parties do. Also the benchmark that arvind is using is even if these candidates have recently been inducted from other political, parties and we all know their reputation, source of disproportionate assets etc, or that they have used money and muscle to win previous elections, they are ok as AAP candidates as long as there is no concrete proof of any wrongdoing that would be evidence in court.”
Gupta goes on to describe the politics of the rival camp. She writes,
“The other camp of leaders believe that even if there is no concrete proof, if they have an unsavory reputation as local thugs, have disproportionate assets and illegal professions, and have used wrong means to win previous elections they do not come up to the standards of AAP candidate and we cannot expect them to work in public interest if they win. Many such people have a setting with the police and do not allow FIRs to be registered against them. So to use proof as a standard is not enough for AAP. These are career politicians just out to make money. Moreover to fight the election with such candidates is political suicide.”
Gupta did not name the leaders of the “other camp.” However, in an email of January 5, she praised her brother for mounting pressure on AAP for demanding that the AAP Lokpal scrutinise the credentials of “some candidates”. She wrote, “This negotiation has happened because of very strong push by a group of leaders led by Prashant Bhushan who did not want to see the party ideology of clean politics thrown by the wayside.”
Confused reactions
Her email confused and irritated at least two NRIs. One, Motika Anand wrote, in a mail dated January 6,
“I wanted to finalise adopting a constituency as there might not be enough time for elections. I want to see AAP winning the elections and at this point I want to canvass for AAP not a particular candidate. This needs to be cleared up as to what is going on? Whether we focus on candidates or AAP as a whole?”
Another, Atul Anand, referred to the fact that Gupta did not spell out the precise number of candidates under the Lokpal’s scrutiny. He wrote,
“Imho these complaints, dont know how many seats we are talking about, should have been reviewed before announcing candidates. We will be made a laughing stock for these ticket cancellations which media/bjp will only gleefully grab as another uturn [U-turn] by AAP.”
It is debatable how many of the recipients of Gupta’s emails knew of her relationship to Prashant and Shanti Bhushan. On March 3, a good fortnight after the AAP had formed the Delhi government, one Jay Chatterjee wrote to Gupta, “Is that true that you are the same Shalini Gupta who is the daughter of Shanti Bhusan? If that’s true then you should step down as NRI coordinator and get elected through a pre-declared, transparent and due process.” This email triggered a debate among AAP’s NRI supporters, many of whom though commended her for working diligently in the past.
Resignation submitted
On March 4, Gupta sent out another email, asking to be relieved of the “responsibility to coordinate the Global NRI team”. By this time, the National Executive of the party had voted to drop Prashant Bhushan and Yadav from the party’s apex decision-making body, the Political Affairs Committee.
Gupta may have been justified in expressing her concerns about the choice of candidates, but as AAP’s NRI Coordinator she should have been circumspect in writing mails that discouraged potential donors. AAP’s Delhi unit believes she should have waited for the Lokpal’s verdict before echoing her brother’s opinion on the credentials of candidates.
The battle over shortlisted candidates had started in November, with verbal jousts in the Political Affairs Committee each time a slew of names was to be cleared. Prashant Bhushan questioned the credentials of several candidates, arguing, as Gupta did in her emails, that they didn’t have good reputations in their constituencies. An exasperated Kejriwal reportedly shouted at Bhushan in one meeting in November, “You can’t go around distributing certificates of honesty to candidates. You have to furnish evidence.”
Even as the two leaders battled out, the party’s Delhi Complaints Committee, which examines objections filed against candidates, worked overtime to reconcile differences over names. Initially, there was a list of 19 names over which the rival factions disagreed vehemently. This was whittled down to 12. Among them, Bhushan was particularly adamant on not fielding Amanatullah Khan from Okhla.
Ultimately, on the night of Jan 4, it was decided to refer the names of 12 candidates to the Lokpal, Admiral L Ramdas. A committee of seven members, acceptable to both the warring factions, was constituted to assist Ramdas. Both factions also agreed to abide by the Lokpal’s verdict. Six of the seven members were from outside Delhi. The committee sent teams of volunteers, the majority of whom were not from Delhi, to all the 12 constituencies, to talk to a large number of people and carry out an investigation.
Admiral Ramdas stayed in Delhi from January 13 to the night of January 17. He sought field reports, and all the 12 contentious candidates appeared before the committee to be cross-examined. In addition, both Prashant and Yogendra Yadav made verbal presentations before the committee. Eventually, Admiral Ramdas recommended the substituting of only two of the 12 candidates.
Binding verdict
Since the Lokpal’s verdict was binding on the warring factions, AAP leaders believed they could proceed with the election campaign without any distractions. Their hopes were dashed barely a fortnight before February 7, when Shanti Bhushan hailed the decision of Kiran Bedi to join the Bharatiya Janata Party as a “master stroke”. Bedi had worked alongside many AAP leaders in the Anna Hazare anti-corruption movement, but had a falling out with them when they decided to turn it into a political party. For good measure, Shanti Bhushan added, “Reorientation within AAP is very much needed…I think everything is not right in the party and it is not being run on lines it was expected to run or what it was established for.”
Both Prashant Bhushan and Yadav immediately expressed their disapproval of Shanti Bhushan’s statement. But other party leaders were no longer willing to look benignly upon Shanti Bhushan’s politically damaging remarks. This was largely because of the evidence they now had of Gupta echoing her brother’s views. They veered around to believing that there was a conspiracy between the Bhushans and Yadav to wreck the party’s chances in the polls and weaken Kejriwal.
The initial indication of the power struggle in AAP came even before the Lok Sabha elections last year when Satya, who was training volunteers, met with Vijay Raman, who was Yadav’s political manager. Raman was looking for a person who could replace him in Yadav’s team because, as he told Satya, his poor health made it impossible for him to continue with the job.
Raman praised Yadav’s political acumen and sagacity and told Satya of Yadav’s resolve to build a strong team around him. Satya said to Scroll.in, “I was surprised when Raman said Kejriwal’s reading and understanding of politics wasn’t good, and that he would be replaced by Yadav.” Satya claimed he kept the conversation to himself for months until he told Kejriwal about it sometime in July. “He said he would confront Yadav, but I dissuaded him saying it is I who should,” said Satya.
Satya had his chance to do so in August, at an IIM alumni association meet in Singapore at which Yadav was also present. “Yadav expressed his shock and said Raman had said such things to others as well, and that it was the reason why he had been removed from his team,” Satya said.
Mounting suspicion
But Raman’s reported remarks fanned the mounting suspicion in the party. In June, Kejriwal had broken down at a National Executive meet in Delhi. “I can fight Modi, I can fight Rahul Gandhi, I can fight Robert Vadra, but I have not come here to fight Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav,” he told the gathering. His emotional outburst resulted in a truce between the leaders.
But at a National Executive meeting of Sangrur in July, Shanti Bhushan reiterated the one-man-one-post principle, declaring that the party had become one-person centric, and had started to resemble the outfits of Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav. At this point, Ashish Khetan got up and reminded Shanti Bhushan about the book he had written on the Janata Party in the mid-1970s, in which he had described how Prime Minister Morarji Desai and Home Minister Charan Singh were perpetually conspiring against each other.
Khetan went on to say that there seemed a conspiracy afoot to turn AAP into a clone of Janata Parivar, and that the only way to pre-empt this eventuality was to pass a resolution to revamp the Political Affairs Committee and drop some members from it. At this point, Kejriwal intervened and took the mike away from Khetan.
Many of these incidents were recalled on February 26, at a meeting of the Delhi-based members of the National Executive. There was a veritable slanging match between the two factions and both Prashant Bhushan and Yadav were accused of, willy-nilly, sabotaging AAP’s Delhi election campaign.
But between Feb 26 and March 1, AAP leader Prof Anand Kumar hammered out a compromise formula between Kejriwal and Yadav. In a handwritten note to Kejriwal, Prof Kumar had said that Yadav and Prashant Bhushan would step down from the Political Affairs Committee and, in return, Yadav would get to oversee Haryana. However, this deal fell through on March 1 as Bhushan refused to step down. Perhaps Yadav could have been still placated but the Delhi unit of the party mounted pressure on Kejriwal to not place Haryana under his supervision.
But the volcano erupted at the National Executive meeting on March 4, when a resolution was adoped accusing Yadav and Bhushan of sabotaging AAP’s election campaign. It has widened the chasm in the party, and unless some wise people intervene, AAP seems headed for a split.
Ajaz Ashraf is a journalist based in Delhi. His novel, The Hour Before Dawn, is available in bookstores around the country.
Clarification: The strapline of this article has been amended to introduce the word "tacitly".
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Written by Mike Landman on July 2, 2013
We Ripplers have been keeping hush–hush about something for a little while. But good things take time, and today I’m excited to be posting something really good. As of July 1st, 2013 we are welcoming Live Oak Hosting into the Ripple® family! I could go on and on here about how this will benefit both Live Oak and Ripple customers, but there will be plenty of time for that in the coming weeks. Instead Live Oak Hosting founder Andy Meadows and Ripple CEO Mike Landman have a few words of their own to share.
A Letter from Live Oak founder Andy Meadows:
In 2 days, on July 4, 2013, Live Oak Hosting will celebrate 10 years of service to our clients. We started with a simple endeavor – to serve our customers. Ten years later, we are still starting every day with the same desire and focus – to take care of your hosting needs so you can take care of business.
I am delighted to announce that while our past 10 years has been great, the fun is just beginning. Today, the entire Live Oak Hosting support team joins Ripple, an Atlanta-based managed IT services firm. While change can always be daunting, we believe that this means tremendous opportunities are ahead for our clients, our technology partners, and our team.
The same team that has answered our phones for years will continue to do so, each and every day (go ahead, call us right now and say “Hello”). You will continue to hear the same friendly voices, receive the same knowledgeable support, and get the best care we know how to give. While many things will be exactly as they have been for many years, there are a lot of great new ideas and opportunities just around the corner.
Our clients will benefit from business as usual, but with a broader suite of services and a larger team to lend a hand to more areas than ever before.
Our technology partners will benefit from stronger resources, deeper partnerships, and broader industry knowledge. We’ll still be here to help you do what you do, and be a true partner every step of the way.
Still have questions? Don’t worry, we’re still here to answer them. Just give us a ring at the usual number (877-272-5743) or drop us an email at [email protected] Keep an ear to the ground for the new folks at Ripple IT. Mike Landman, their CEO & Founder, runs a great company. Their mantra is “Humans First” and he means it.
I am truly excited about this new phase of adventure for Live Oak Hosting and know it will bring tremendous benefits to our customers, partners, and team.
Thank you for ten wonderful years of business, conversation, and friendships. I look forward to them continuing for a lifetime.
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When Andy and I decided to bring Live Oak Hosting into the Ripple family, this became the first order of business. Live Oak has a 10-year record of amazing customer service, and we are committed to another 10. We will endeavor to do no harm.
Today is a milestone in our 16-year evolution as well, and we’re very excited to continue providing you with great IT and hosting services. I thought perhaps a little roadmap would be a good introduction. So here’s what we plan to do.
1. Keep doing what we’re doing. You will work with the same folks you love working with today, and get the same great service. You might even get to meet a few new faces in the coming months (faces like these).
2. Learn about you. Over the next few months we’d like to learn as much about your company as possible. Our mission is to help people get important work done, and if we can help you get your important work done, we want to know how.
3. Introduce ourselves. If you like the Live Oak team, I think you’ll like the Ripple team too. We’re not a faceless monolith, but a small team of people that love people. One of the reasons we combined forces is that over the years you have expressed interest in a broader set of IT services. As Andy was preparing for the future, he felt strongly that the future should be someplace that could help Live Oak customers, not merely absorb them. We’re going to do everything in our power to see that his sentiment and legacy are realized.
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Registration of volunteers for the nationwide tree planting campaign in Estonia will start on Monday, 15 March. Starting today, initial information on the project can be found on the State Forest Management Centre (RMK) website at www.rmk.ee/en. The website shows what areas will be planted and describes how to take part. Information in Russian and English will be added shortly.
During the planting campaign, which starts on 1 May, participants in the forthcoming Song and Dance Festival, alongside other volunteers, will plant one million new trees. “Taking part in the planting goes to the heart for the singers and dancers,” said Ilmar Moss, adviser to the Song and Dance Festival Foundation. “We are sure that 10,000 Festival participants will take part in the event, for even now more people have expressed interest than the forests can possibly accommodate at the time. We’ll soon have details on all the participating groups and choruses.”
The campaign will take place from 1 May to 16 May across Estonia. Registration of volunteers is planned for 15 March through 15 April. “The registration period may be shortened, if we get the needed number of volunteers sooner,” said Ulvar Kulbi, Marketing Director of the RMK Forest Management Department. “That’s why we ask everyone to take registration seriously. Whoever is not quite sure they are coming should let someone else use the opportunity instead.”
Sites for planting have been set aside both in private and state forests in every county. They cover about 430 hectares of land, of which 240 hectares are private property and 190 hectares are state-owned lots. A total of one million trees will be planted, mostly 4-year-old fir saplings but also some pines and birches.
Estonia is known for its fine natural landscape, close to half of which is covered with forest. It is worth noting that last year our 135-year-old tradition of Song and Dance Festivals made its way into the UNESCO List of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. Ten thousand Festival participants, together with 10,000 other volunteers will add a million new trees to Estonian forests. “A person who has planted a tree with his or her own hands will value and protect our forests today and tomorrow,” said Ulvar Kulbi, underscoring the importance of the campaign.
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Try as you might, it’s impossible to fully replicate the look and feel of your favorite bar. But that doesn’t mean you can’t make the experience of drinking at home pleasurable. One of the quickest ways to class up your own personal bar? A dazzling set of cocktail glasses.
We know what you’re thinking—if you’re at home then you can drink out of any glass that’s handy, right? True enough, but if you want to replicate the high-quality bar experience, then you’ll need glasses that are befitting of the finest spirits and mixed drinks, especially if you like to play host. That’s why you’re going to want a top-notch set of cocktail glasses. Just like with cocktails, everyone has their own preferences, but, regardless of your tastes, you’re going to want a set of glasses that’s elegant, durable and versatile—especially if you fancy yourself something of a mixologist.
If you’ve invited friends over for an upcoming soirée or if you just want to upgrade your bar, then the time is right to invest in a new set of cocktail glasses. Here are four of the best available on Amazon.
1. JoyJolt Afina Cocktail Glass Set
JoyJolt’s stylish cocktail glasses are basically martini glasses without the stem. And while that may at first sound like a vice, it’s actually a virtue. Not only does it make the glass much harder to accidentally tip over, it also makes them more versatile. In other words, you can feel confident drinking just about any cocktail from these glasses. They’re also more durable than your standard martini glass, and can withstand a run through the dishwasher.
JoyJolt Afina Cocktail Glass Set: $18.95
2. Mofado Whiskey Glass Set
There is something so simple and yet so elegant about Mofado’s whiskey glasses. While they don’t immediately grab you, a closer study shows that they offer everything you could want from a cocktail glass. Their design is clean and sophisticated, and they’re larger than the standard whiskey glass (they hold 12 ounces of liquid instead of the regular eight or 10). Plus, they have a heavy base and are plenty durable. In other words, these are glasses for people who want to spend more time focused on their drink than what they drink it out of.
Mofado Whiskey Glass Set: $25.00
3. Riedel Nick & Nora Cocktail Glass Set
As anyone who’s ever drank a martini knows, it’s a cocktail that’s easy to spill. Not when you’re drinking onefrom one of Riedel’s glasses, though. The brand’s cocktail glasses combine a martini glass with a coupe—and the result is just as elegant as you’d expect. One thing to note: Like all long-stemmed glasses, these are a tad more fragile than other offerings on this list. Despite this, they’re still dishwasher-safe.
Riedel Nick & Nora Cocktail Glass Set: $29.90
4. Kanars Whiskey Glass Set
If you want to feel like you’re on the set of Mad Men when you’re drinking at home, then you’re going to want a set of glasses like Kanars’s. The brand’s lead-free crystal glasses feature a striking, geometric etched pattern at the bottom that’s sure to turn heads. They’re also durable and dishwasher-safe and feature a heavy base design that promises they won’t tip over easily. And, if you really like them, they’re available as a set of six.
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Crazy for the Storm
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This hair raising, yet inspiring memoir, chronicles a tragic accident after Norman Ollestad’s chartered airplane slams into the San Gabriel Mountains which leaves Norman Jr., age 11, to face certain death, scaling down a vertical icy mountain, surviving against the odds. Norman’s detailed account of the crash and the emotional toll it takes on his young life is sprinkled throughout the book, flashing back to his childhood at the beach in California. The tone of his father pushing him into extreme sports is almost sinister, yet we cheer him on as he surfs, skis, and travels through Mexican jungles with a dad who insists on pushing his son further, harder, faster. Norman senior’s recklessness makes one squirm, although he is an optimist at heart.
Beautifully written, in this story I wondered how tough it must be to achieve a balance when raising children. We want them to be independent, encouraging them to stretch and strive to be the best. But how much is too pushy? When should one pull back from being the over bearing stage mom or demanding little league coach, or in this case, propelling one’s child towards dangerous sports? Yet Norman today is thankful that his father encouraged him; raised him with the belief that one should never give up. For it is this message – the constant voice in his head, that enabled him to survive on that mountain years ago. This is a remarkable read, available at our Sierra Madre Public Library.
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There’s an interesting discussion going on over in Jeff Pelline’s blog about the Google Fiber for Communities project. One of Jeff’s readers, Bob Garza, posted a pointer to an interesting article about the project in yesterday’s San Jose Mercury (“Gaga for Google: Communities compete for high-speed Internet“).
The Mercury article is entertaining because it shows the lengths — sometimes ludicrous lengths — to which some communities will go to attract Google’s attention:
They’re swilling Google-tinis in Sarasota, Fla., and vowing to Google-ize the names of their firstborn children up in Duluth. Topeka has been temporarily re-christened Google, Kan. And mayors throughout the realm are vying for the search giant’s favor, from sucking up to it on Twitter to jumping into icy Lake Superior in their shorts.
… From Berkeley to Boca Raton, hundreds of cities have joined the high-tech stampede to be chosen as a host for Google’s grand fiber-optic experiment — free installation of a network delivering Internet speeds 100 times faster than what most Americans have ever seen.
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It occurred to me as I read the Mercury article that getting Google’s attention and getting them to choose our community are two entirely different things.
And I also had a flash of insight: While most communities will naturally emphasize their unique qualifications, what might be most influential is to emphasize what’s not unique. That is, emphasize how our community is typical or representative of the best in American rural life.
Since it will obviously be impossible for Google to select every rural community that applies for this project, the next best thing will be to select a qualified rural community that in some sense represents all rural communities, a model for what is typical of rural communities. It might be in our interest to suggest such a strategy in our application to Google.
Any citizen may submit a recommendation to Google on the project website here. See my own submission on behalf of Nevada County at the end of this post. Everyone who has an interest in this project should use this tool. We could have a “virtual gigabit rally” for our community. This might add some weight to the decision scale.
I’m assuming that Google will choose at least one rural community. Support for this assumption can be found in several of Google’s writings. The very first sentence in the very first paragraph of its “Project Overview” uses a rural example:
Imagine sitting in a rural health clinic, streaming three-dimensional medical imaging over the web, and discussing a unique condition with a specialist in New York. Or downloading a high-definition, full-length feature film in less than five minutes. Or collaborating with classmates around the world while watching live 3D video of a university lecture. Universal, ultra high-speed Internet access will make all this, and more possible.
In Google’s comments to the FCC in support of a National Broadband Plan, they again use the rural example:
Last November, the FCC paved the way for “white spaces” spectrum to be used to deliver better and faster wireless broadband connections to American consumers. The Commission should encourage use of unlicensed devices in “white spaces” spectrum by eliminating unnecessary requirements and easing interference standards in rural areas where no actual harmful interference would occur.
And in Google’s Public Policy Blog, their proposal to operate a “white spaces” spectrum database elicits a number of references to the rural application:
This spectrum, which can cover vast distances, could be used to connect underserved rural and urban communities to the Internet, at perhaps a tenth of the cost of today’s municipal wi-fi projects … We believe this technology holds particular promise for those tens of millions of Americans living in more rural areas … Wally Bowen of the Mountain Area Information Network discussed the potential of these airwaves to bring broadband access to rural communities … Utilizing the unused TV “white spaces” for broadband access would be a tremendous opportunity to bring the Internet to more Americans — including those in rural areas and first responders.
Google, in its Project Description, also speaks of wanting to achieve as rapid a deployment as possible.
Here’s the text of my submission to Google this morning, using the tool mentioned above. I’m unaccustomed to writing advertising copy, but I took my best shot, even at the risk of a little extra hyperbole.
As a former Stanford network engineer who lived 40 years in Palo Alto and now the last few years in Nevada County, I feel confident in saying that Nevada County represents the perfect testbed for the rural portion of your project.
Nevada County well reflects the American rural ideal, with its demographic mix of high-tech savvy and strong community values. And like most rural communities at this time in our history, it is hurting economically.
The gigabit project could act here like a catalyst injected into a supersaturated solution, provoking an economic phase change.
Our county, with a population of nearly 100,000, is rich with the talent and requisite infrastructure ingredients for such a project. This is the original home of Grass Valley Group, a world leader in video technology. There is a significant amount of broadband technology here, but, as always, the rural distances inhibit its reach.
The talent in this county is remarkable, and you will no doubt get more details about that from the municipal application. I offer my comments here in support of that application.
The point I would emphasize is that, since Google obviously can’t deploy this project to all the rural communities that will apply for it, it makes sense to select an emblematic or archetypal rural community, one that will stand for all.
Nevada County is that county, beyond a doubt, with the additional advantage that it already has a high-degree of high-tech savvy among its citizens, so the prospects for a rapid deployment are very high.
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Don, you’re spot on. This is exactly how we’re positioning the project to Google in the RFI and video. If you look at the list of communities who are considering submittal, very few (if any) are rural. Given the Nevada County Connected project — http://www.nevadacountyconnected.com — for which we are currently completing a Round 2 ARRA application, we understand the need for wired and wireless technologies to converge in geographically diverse rural areas. Serious, and well thought out, submissions to Google’s “Nominate your community” at http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/public/options can help our application. Thanks for your submission.
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(NSF) — Planning work to address flooding from rising sea levels, similar to how the state maps out road and bridge projects for five years, is being considered by the new Republican leaders of the Florida House and Senate.
House Speaker Chris Sprowls, R-Palm Harbor, and Senate President Wilton Simpson, R-Trilby, expressed a desire Tuesday to establish work programs that would address the increased impacts of rising sea levels in coastal communities.
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“We need to identify our most vulnerable areas, where the need is,” Simpson said. “And it’s not like we don’t have engineers that can tell us that around the state and develop a priority list.”
Their comments, which came after they were sworn in to lead the House and Senate for the next two years, represented a further evolution in the position of Florida Republicans about climate change. But environmentalists said the GOP leaders are not going far enough.
“They’re acknowledging the need — how can you not in Florida acknowledge the need to start making our communities more resilient?” Florida Conservation Voters Executive Director Aliki Moncrief said. “But they still sort of have their heads deliberately in the sand when it comes to tackling what’s actually causing the problem in the first place.”
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Before a legislative organization session Tuesday, Florida Conservation Voters sent a letter to Sprowls and Simpson urging the creation of a joint committee on climate change to look beyond the issue of coastal flooding by delving into economic and social impacts and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Simpson suggested working with local governments to put budgets together to establish future work plans in line with the Department of Transportation’s five-year work program for roads and bridges. The Department of Transportation has long used the program to set plans for projects.
Sprowls, meanwhile, suggested shifting environmental spending from land acquisition to addressing rising waters that flood streets, damage homes and ruin businesses.
“We need to stop treating our environmental budget like a giant pork-barrel buffet. We need to bring the same long-range planning and strategic discipline to our environmental programs that we bring to our transportation work plan,” Sprowls said. “We need to stop fixating on land purchases as the sole measure of conservation and embrace the spectrum of priorities from beach renourishment to septic tank conversion to flood mitigation.”
Moncrief called Sprowls’ comment about land acquisition “jarring,” as a category in the state’s Florida Forever land-acquisition program is designed to address climate change impacts.
“Part of the land acquisition strategy is to make sure that we’ve got resilient shorelines, that we are protecting places that protect people, that prevents flooding,” Moncrief said.
Tuesday’s comments by the House and Senate leaders came less than two years after Republicans in Tallahassee, led in part by Sprowls, started to reverse nearly a decade of refusing to acknowledge climate science or even saying the phrase “climate change.”
A Senate staff analysis for the 2020 legislative session said a Southeast Florida work group dealing with climate-change issues has projected Southeast Florida could see sea-level rise from 1 to nearly 3 feet over the next 40 years, while a Tampa Bay advisory panel estimated waters in that region could go up 1 to 2.5 feet in 30 years.
“In the U.S., sea level rise and flooding threaten an estimated $1 trillion in coastal real-estate value, and analyses estimate that there is a chance Florida could lose more than $300 billion in property value by 2100,” the staff analysis said.
A little over a year ago, when Gov. Ron DeSantis employed a chief resilience officer to build a statewide strategy to prepare Florida for the economic, physical and environmental impacts of climate change, Sprowls said Republicans needed to stop being afraid of words like “climate change” and “sea level rise.”
The comments Tuesay were not the first time a legislative leader has ruminated on using the transportation five-year work plan as a blueprint for environmental projects.
In 2014, former Senate President Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando, suggested lawmakers set a multiple-year work plan for voter-approved water projects and land preservation.
That came as Florida voters in 2014 approved an amendment to the state Constitution that requires 33 percent of documentary-stamp tax revenues collected on real estate transactions to go into what is known as the Land Acquisition Trust Fund.
By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida
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Swedes are rapidly losing faith in their country’s response to the pandemic, with even the King delivering a rare rebuke to those in charge.
Significantly more Swedes have gotten sick and died from Covid-19 than elsewhere in the Nordic region. And with Stockholm recently almost running out of intensive care beds, frustration levels are high.
“The Swedish people have suffered enormously in difficult conditions,” King Carl XVI Gustaf told state broadcaster SVT. When it comes to the strategy deployed in Sweden, he said, “I think we have failed.”
Much of the blame has been directed toward the chief architect of Sweden’s strategy, Anders Tegnell, its state epidemiologist. A poll published on Thursday showed that support for him and his employer has slumped over the past two months.
“Confidence is in a downward spiral,” said Nicklas Kallebring, an analyst at Ipsos.
Prime Minister Stefan Lofven also voiced his displeasure.
“The King observes, as we and many others have, that the fact that so many people have died cannot be seen as anything else than a failure,” Lofven told reporters in Stockholm on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Tegnell has continued to defend Sweden’s overall strategy of avoiding lockdowns. He also argues that there’s no real evidence that face masks work, and Swedes are among the only people left going about their daily lives largely mask-free, with shops, restaurants and gyms all still open.
In an interview with broadcaster TV4, Tegnell said no one can tell whether Sweden’s strategy has failed. He was responding to a report published earlier in the week that showed significant shortcomings in Sweden’s approach that led to excess deaths among the elderly.
“More or less all countries are struggling with this,” he said. But he also acknowledged that the situation in his home country is dire.
“We are beginning to approach breaking point in many different aspects,” he said. “I understand that health-care is having a very tough time now…the staff are worn out,” all of which means “that the pressure on care is becoming very, very great.”
Almost 8,000 Swedes have died of Covid-19. That compares with less than 1,000 in Denmark, about 480 in Finland and just over 400 in Norway.
In his interview with TV4, Tegnell said he was “surprised” by the intensity of the second wave of the pandemic.
“I think many, with me, are surprised that it has been able to come back so strongly,” he said.
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Introducing entries 66 to 70 on this year's Startups 100 index
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Updated: Feb 13, 2020 Published: Jun 30, 2019
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Startups 100 Ranking: 66
Company name: Scape Technologies
Website: https://scape.io/
AI-powered startup helping cameras see better
At the time of writing, over 1,400 self-driving vehicles are being tested in the U.S. alone. Over two million drones are sold around the world every year. And commercial giants such as Amazon, Tesco and Dominos are trialling delivery robots to convey their products.
This armada of intelligent vehicles will reshape our world. But how can we ensure that they interact safely with the humans sharing their highways and airspaces? Scape Technologies believes the answer lies in a new generation of cameras, which go beyond taking photographs and can actually ‘see’ the world around them.
Since starting out in 2016, Scape has been using artificial intelligence to allow cameras to recognise their surroundings. The company’s proprietary ‘Vision Engine’ builds 3D maps and stores them in the cloud, providing hyper-accurate recognition of surrounding buildings and objects. Using Scape’s Visual Positioning Service, a camera-based device can tap into the Vision Engine to determine their location.
Scape says the technology is far more accurate than conventional GPS, and the use of cloud storage means it’s infinitely scalable. As if to prove this point, Scape’s 30-person team has already produced a detailed map of London. In fact the company has collected street view images in over 100 cities, spanning five continents, in just 12 months.
Investors are clearly impressed, judging by a seed funding round which accrued $8m at the start of 2019. Scape says it’s initially targeting augmented reality apps but believes its technology can also be applied to mobility, logistics and robotics.
Glad to see Scape in the list? Visit the AI and Future Tech Startups 100 Trends page to find other impressive companies.
Company name: OneFifty Digital
Website: www.onefiftyconsultancy.com
Brand consultancy which uses social data to reduce marketing waste
With surveys showing that 30% of marketing budgets are wasted, it’s time the industry got smarter – both to maximize the value of their campaigns and stop spamming people with adverts that don’t help them.
OneFiftyDigital is attempting to solve this problem – which costs the industry an estimated $20bn a year – using the power of digital data. The company believes digital data provides unprecedented insights into what customers actually want, and is determined to help its clients take advantage.
The company says its key service is “evolving existing marketing strategies for a socially driven world.” It helps clients move away from campaigns based on their own preconceived ideas and towards models based on proven social data, which enables the client to identify who is influential to their brands and how they network online. Then OneFifty’s experts help the client create a strategy to engage with these people.
OneFifty’s team comprises everyone from data scientists to potential instagrammers, facilitating the creation of campaigns which promote raw facts with the context behind them. Founders Katie Buckett and Alex Pearmain believe they’ve struck upon a winning formula, and have talked of creating the country’s most influential brand marketing consultancy.
Having already worked with clients such as BP, O2 and Unilever, there’s plenty of evidence to back up their confidence.
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Company name: KASKO
Website: www.kasko.io
Insurtech-as-a-service platform providing mix-and-match products for speed and flexibility
Insurtech-as-a-service remains a fledgling industry, but KASKO is becoming a market-leader with a platform which allows insurers and agents to create plug-and-play products which bypass tired legacy systems.
The company prides itself on its speed: new insurance products typically take up to 2 years to go to market, but KASKO’s products are up and running in 4-5 weeks. It’s cheap, too, costing between £20 and £50,000 per year (a conventional insurance product can cost up to £1m).
However perhaps the most important USP is flexibility.Instead of relying on one central product system, KASKO has built a loose framework of microservices which can be mixed and matched to create a unique combination. Any third party service can be integrated into the KASKO platform, and the company’s team of experts take a bespoke approach to each client, so they can choose the microservices that work for them.
Just three years on from launch, KASKO is already active in five countries and has built more than 30 products for 15 different partners.
Company name: Talentful
Website: www.talentful.com
Tech-focused recruitment firm which prides itself on working hand-in-hand with clients
Let’s face it, recruitment has a bad rep. It’s infamous for its ruthlessness and an obsession with the bottom line at the expense of the client’s interests. But one tech-focused startup is striving to change things.
Talentful (14 in last year’s Startups 100) sends teams of recruitment experts to work in-house with clients on a project basis, getting to know their needs before sourcing candidates. The company prides itself on working hand-in-hand with clients to find long-term staffing solutions, rather than simply shoehorning candidates into the wrong roles for an easy 10%.
To this end, Talentful has moved away from the traditional commission model, believing it encourages quick fixes which aren’t geared towards the client’s actual needs. Instead it offers a flexible subscription model, ideal for long-term partnerships. Given that around 90% of Talentful’s clients renew their subscription, it’s a model which clearly works.
The company works with a number of renowned organisations in the tech space including Google, Netflix and WeWork, and just like its clients it’s committed to game-changing innovation: engineers are currently working on a psychometric platform which, according to the Talentful team, will “change the face of candidate engagement.”
Buoyed by its early success, Talentful will soon branch out beyond its UK base and open offices in Berlin and San Francisco. Given the widespread dissatisfaction with conventional recruitment firms, there’s a huge market to be conquered.
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Company name: Broadstone
Website: https://broadstoneapp.com
Smart staffing platform providing ‘labour as a service’ for regulated industries
Since the turn of the century the number of self-employed people in Britain has increased by 45%. This huge influx of people seeking freedom and flexibility has placed major demands on the temporary staffing industry, as more and more people migrate to the gig economy.
Broadstone believes it’s hit upon a solution which could change the industry forever. Its ‘Labour as a Service’ recruitment solution, built on artificial intelligence, allows job-seekers to find temporary vacancies in traditional industry with heavy regulation, such as security and logistics.
The company’s digital-first platform is packed with innovations including an AI-powered chatbot, facial recognition checks and even a geolocation punch clock. Information services company Experian has been brought in to provide background verification, vital for companies working in highly sensitive sectors.
Broadstone has been backed by Maven Capital and is already scaling fast. In June the company reported a 300% increase in revenue and a 700% increase in its user community over the previous six months. By 2020, it hopes to be facilitating transactions worth £1m per month.
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Hunting Unicorns in the Stags Leap District
Amber LeBeau in Millennials, Napa Valley, Wine grapes
Even if it’s was just a marketing farce of Horace Chase, I still like the story of how Stags’ Leap Winery (and the area) got its name. Jancis Robinson recounts it in her book, American Wine, with the legend of Wappo tribal hunters chasing a stag. The hunt was close until the cunning beast secured its freedom by leaping across a vast chasm among the craggy palisades.
The “Leap” of the Stags Leap District behind Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars.
Kirk Grace, director of vineyard operations for Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, pointed those fabled peaks out to me when I visited the district on a recent press tour. I thought about those hunters often while tasting through a stellar line-up of Stags Leap District wines.
There’s a lot of great wine here, no doubt. Trophies and treasures abound with a close-knit community of growers and producers. It’s hard to find a bad bottle because they all hold each other accountable for maintaining the area’s reputation.
But even with the bounty of treasures, there is still the urge to hunt.
As I noted in my post, Napa Valley — Boomer or Bust?, there’s a dichotomy brewing in the valley. It’s between what the Boomers (and, to some degree, Gen Xers) want to buy against the boredom that Millennials have with seeing the same ole, same ole everywhere. It’s this boredom that pushes us away from Napa in a hunt for something different.
However, from a business point of view, the current Napa recipe is working spectacularly well right now. Folks are making outstanding Cabs and Chardonnays which Boomers and Gen Xers are gobbling up. Of course, the fact that Cabernet Sauvignon grows really well in Napa Valley helps a lot.
You can’t discount how delicious these Cabs can be. They are, indeed, “dialed in.”
As Doug Shafer of Shafer Vineyards noted, the valley has spent the last 40 years or so dialing things in. They have virtually perfected the art of making exquisite Cabernet. I can’t argue against that. The proof was loud and clear in the many sinfully delicious wines that I had on that trip. It has also been solidified over the years by several bottles that I’ve purchased and enjoyed on my own.
But even with all that velvet-glove gluttony, my Millennial heart was still tempted by another sin.
A craving for something different. Something exciting. Something worth stringing a bow and sharpening arrows for.
While the stag has gotten fat and easy to cull, I was excited to discover other beasts in the Stags Leap District that would have given the Wappos a good fight. These wines are often made in meager quantities and rarely see the light of retail or restaurant wine lists. Instead, these are the gems hidden in the tasting rooms and wine club offerings. But they are absolutely worth hunting down.
The Steltzner Stags Leap District Sangiovese was so good that a member of our tasting party bought another vintage (2015) to take to dinner.
What was even more remarkable–beyond their existence–is that each of these wines was quintessentially Stags Leap. The family resemblance you see in SLD Cabs of bright, juicy fruit with powerful, yet ripe and forgiving tannins echoes fiercely throughout these wines. Likewise, you can see the same care and “dialed in” attention that Stags Leap producers are known for in each bottle.
Of course, with all that care and the SLD banner comes a hefty price tag. With the average price of land in Napa over $300,000 an acre (and hitting over $400,000 an acre in the Stags Leap District), nothing here is going to be cheap.
Undoubtedly, this is always going to be an area where the Millennial Math is a struggle. However, one of the things that enhances value is excitement and uniqueness.
And you can’t get much more exciting and unique than hunting unicorns.
So let me share with you some of the unicorns I discovered in the Stags Leap District.
Again, I’m not trying to downplay the region’s flagship Cabernets. But trumpets have been heralding their triumphs for decades. If you’re like me, sometimes your ears get enchanted by a different tune. I think each of these wines offers notes worth singing about.
Note: the wines tasted below were samples provided on the press tour.
Steltzner Sangiovese ($55)
I’m going to be writing a dedicated piece on Dick Steltzner in the not too distant future. It’s fascinating how someone who is so ingrained into Stags Leap District history would step out of the parade so many times to do his own thing.
Even though Steltzner’s Cabernet Sauvignon has been prominently featured in iconic bottlings like the inaugural vintage of Joseph Phelps’ Insignia and the 1972 Clos du Val Cabernet Sauvignon (of Judgement of Paris fame), he’s never been afraid to try new things.
The 2016 Steltzner Sangio. Probably my favorite of the two vintages but they were both excellent.
The initial plantings of Steltzner Vineyards in the mid-1960s included Riesling which had been a favorite of Dick Steltzner since he tried Stony Hill’s version. The Riesling didn’t work out, but that didn’t discourage him from experimenting again in the 1980s with adding Merlot, Malbec, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Pinotage and Sangiovese.
Over the years, Dick Steltzner has gradually parcelled and sold off his vineyard–first in 1990 and most recently in 2012 to the PlumpJack Group. However, he’s kept many of his oldest and favorite plantings including the absolutely delicious Sangiovese as well as some Malbec vines which will occasionally be made as a varietal ($55).
Today, the vineyards are managed by Jim Barbour with the wines made by Mike Smith and Robert Pepi.
The Wine and Verdict
Medium-plus intensity nose. A mix of black cherries and plums. Not as herbal as an Italian example. Instead, there is an intense blue floral component.
On the palate, those dark fruits carry through and are quite juicy with medium-plus acidity. Full-Bodied but not overbearing with ripe medium-plus tannins. As with the Stags Leap District Cabs, the texture and mouthfeel are outstanding. The fruit wraps around your tongue, having a tug of war with the mouthwatering acidity. It makes you want to both hold the wine in your mouth to savor and swallow so you can enjoy another sip. Long finish brings back the floral notes and adds a little oak spice.
Like Villa Ragazzi’s Pope Valley/Oakville Sangioveses, you’re not going to mistake this for a Tuscan wine. But this wine has more than enough character to stand on its own compared to similarly priced Brunellos.
Ilsley Seis Primas ($79)
Not long after Nathan Fay pioneered Cabernet Sauvignon in the Stags Leap District, Robert Mondavi suggested to Ernest Ilsley in 1964 that he try his hand at the variety. The Ilsley Vineyard was already selling their Carignan and Zinfandel to Charles Krug winery. When Robert Mondavi opened his winery a couple of years later, a good chunk of the fruit for his very first Cab came from the young Ilsley vines.
The Ilsleys continue to sell fruit to wineries even after starting their own label in 2000–most notably to Shafer Vineyards where David Ilsley is the vineyard manager. David also manages the family vineyard with brother Ernie running operations and sister Janice handling hospitality and sales. Since 2009, Heather Pyle-Lucas has been making the wines after starting at Robert Mondavi Winery.
Such a delicious bottle. I’m kicking myself for not figuring out a way to bring a few bottles back to Paris.
The 2015 Seis Primas is a blend of 62% Malbec, 24% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Merlot and 2% Cabernet Franc with only 183 cases made. The name pays homage to the six girl cousins that make up the 4th generation of the Ilsley family. The wine is sourced from six separate vineyard blocks including a 1996 planting of Malbec that the girls’ grandfather, Ed Ilsley, added to the family estate.
High-intensity nose. Rich dark blackberry fruit and plum. Lots of blue floral notes of violet and irises. There is also some noticeable oak spice, but it’s not dominating at all.
On the palate, the oak is more noticeable with a chocolate component added to the dark fruit. But still not overwhelming with black pepper spice emerging that compliments the allspice and cinnamon. Full-bodied with high-tannins, the wine is balanced well with medium-plus acidity that keeps the fruit tasting fresh. Long finish lingers on the spices.
I know that I said that it’s hard to find value in the Stags Leap District, but this wine proves me wrong. I’m stunned that this bottle is less than $100. It was easily one of the Top 5 wines that I had that entire week in the Stags Leap District after visiting 15 wineries and trying lots of heavy-hitters.
Honestly, if this wine had the magical “C-word” on the label, it probably could fetch closer to $130. All the Ilsley wines are sold direct-to-consumer. If you want any chance of bagging this trophy, you need to visit this family winery.
Clos du Val Cabernet Franc ($100)
The 2016 Clos du Val Cabernet Franc. Still young but impressive already.
Even among Stags Leap District Cabernet Sauvignons, Clos du Val is a unicorn. From founding winemaker Bernard Portet to current winemaker Ted Henry and assistant Mabel Ojeda, tasting a Clos du Val Cab stands out from the pack. While the use of new French oak has steadily increased over the years (100% for their 2015 Hirondelle estate), it’s never been as overt as it is with many of their Napa brethren.
With lively acid and more moderate alcohols, these are always wines that sing in harmony with food. Think Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty’s “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.” Yeah, Fleetwood Mac and the Heartbreakers are great–just like a big, bold, luscious Napa Cab is at times. But, damn, if there’s not something magical about tension and style.
These are also wines built for aging. That’s why it wasn’t shocking that when the historic 1976 Judgement of Paris wine tasting was recreated in 1986, it saw the 1972 Clos du Val Cab nab first place.
The Cabernet Franc comes from the estate Hirondelle Vineyard that surrounds the winery. It’s named after the French word for “swallows” and references the birds that build their nests on the northwest side of the winery every spring. The 2016 vintage was 99% Cabernet Franc with 1% Cabernet Sauvignon. Clos du Val’s winemaking team aged the wine 20 months in a mix of 80% new French and Hungarian oak.
Some of the swallows and nests that give the Hirondelle Vineyard its name.
High-intensity nose. Very floral but also an earthy, leather component. Underneath there is some dark fruit of blueberries and blackberries, but they’re secondary notes in this very evocative bouquet.
On the palate, the fruit makes its presence more known and are amplified by high acidity. Very mouthwatering. The earthy, leathery notes are still here but add a truffle component. It’s not like a Rhone, but it’s almost meaty. Firm, medium-plus tannins have solid structure but are still approachable. Moderate length finish brings backs the floral notes.
This is definitely a completely different Cabernet Franc than anything you would see in the Loire. It’s also not as “Cab Sauv-like” as many new world examples of Cabernet Franc can be (especially in Napa and Washington). The wine is certainly its own beast and is bursting with character. I can only imagine how much more depth and complexity this wine will get with age.
At $100 a bottle, you’re paying top-shelf Cab prices for it. But I guarantee this wine is going to have you scribbling a lot more tasting notes and descriptors than your typical $100+ Napa Cab.
Quixote Malbec ($80)
Or step into the shower they have in the visitor’s bathroom at the Quixote tasting room.
Quixote is pretty much the Narnia of Napa Valley. If you want to find unicorns, all you need to do is enter through the Friedensreich Hundertwasser-designed wardrobe and there you are.
Carl Doumani founded Quixote in 1996 not long before he sold Stags’ Leap Winery to Beringer (now Treasury Wine Estates). At Stags’ Leap, Doumani built a reputation for the high quality of his Petite Sirah. When he sold the property, he kept many of the choice parcels for his new venture. The current owners, the Chinese private firm Le Melange, which acquired Quixote in 2014, continues to make Petite Sirah a significant focus.
They make three tiers of Petite Sirah. The prices range from the red label Panza ($50) up to their premier black label Helmet of Mambrino ($105-125 depending on the vintage). Quixote also makes a very charming rose of Petite Sirah ($35). All of those are well worth trying. However, the one wine that really knocked my socks off was their Stags Leap Malbec.
Doumani fell in love with the grape after a trip to Argentina in the 2000s. He had a little less than an acre planted with the first vintage released in 2011. Only around 100-150 cases of this wine are produced each year.
The 2015 Quixote Stags Leap Malbec.
Medium-plus intensity nose. Blackberries clearly dominate the show with some noticeable chocolatey oak undertones. With a little air comes black pepper spice, anise and savory leather notes.
On the palate, this was one of the most quintessential Stags Leap wines I tasted. Totally “iron fist in a velvet glove” all the way. Very full-bodied with ripe, medium-plus tannins. The plush texture is accentuated by the creamy vanilla of the oak. Medium acidity gives enough balance to add juiciness to the blackberries and also highlight a red plum component. Moderate finish brings back the spice notes with the black licorice note lingering the most.
In many ways, I can see regular consumers (as opposed to blind tasters) thinking this was a Napa Cab. There’s the rich dark fruit with noticeable oak. Coupled with the full-bodied structure and mouthfeel, it hits all those hedonistic notes that many consumers seek out in top-shelf Napa wines. But I love what the Malbec-y spice brings to the table. It helps the wine stand apart as a unicorn worth seeking out.
It’s definitely different than Malbecs grown elsewhere in the world (and a lot pricier too). However, this is truly a unique expression of the grape that reflects the Stags Leap District exceedingly well.
Other Stags Leap District Unicorns that I haven’t had yet but am on the hunt for.
In 2014, Decanter magazine noted that the Stags Leap District was planted to 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Franc, 2% Petite Sirah and 1% other. I honestly don’t think the numbers have changed much in the last five years. If anything, Cab has probably gained more ground and relegated Cabernet Franc and Petite Sirah to the One-Percenter Club.
So, yeah, these wines are going to be hard to fine. But my experiences with the unicorns that I’ve already encountered has me feeling that these are going to be worth the hunt.
Chimney Rock Cabernet Franc ($85)
Yup. Totally fangirl’d.
I fully admit that I’m an Elizabeth Vianna fangirl. I adore her work at Chimney Rock and she also has a great twitter account worth following. Another upcoming post in the works will see me getting geeky over Chimney Rock’s crazy delicious Elevage Blanc.
From a solely Stags Leap perspective, this Cabernet Franc from their estate vineyard intrigues me. Even though Chimney Rock’s vineyards essentially encircles Clos du Val’s Hirondelle vineyard, I suspect that this will be a very different expression of Cabernet Franc. That’s partly why it would be so cool to try.
Chimney Rock also occasionally releases a rose of Cabernet Franc as well as a varietal Sauvignon gris– when the latter is not being used up in their Elevage blanc.
Update: Oh and there’s now this to look forward to!
We bottled our first commercial version of that wine this year! We will have a 2018 Stags Leap District Fiano! Only 23 cases produced but it’s pretty fun wine!
— Elizabeth Vianna (@ChimneyRockWine) July 20, 2019
Yes! A Stags Leap District Fiano!
Pine Ridge Petit Verdot ($75)
While founded and based in the Stags Leap District, Pine Ridge sources fruit from many places and has estate vineyards in Carneros, Howell Mountain, Rutherford and Oakville.
Founded by Gary Andrus in 1978 and now owned by the Crimson Wine Group, Pine Ridge was also a big player in getting the Stags Leap District established as an AVA. While the winery is well-known for its Chenin blanc-Viognier blend (sourced mostly from the Clarksburg AVA in Sacramento, Solano and Yolo counties), the bread and butter of Pine Ridge’s Stags Leap estate is, of course, their Cab.
That’s what makes trying this Petit Verdot so intriguing even though a small amount comes from their Oakville property. Petit Verdot is a late-ripening variety that is seeing increased interest across the globe. It’s being planted more to help offset the toll that climate change is having on overripe Cab & Merlot. Of course, it can be a finicky grape to make as a varietal. However, when it’s done well, it’s a spicy delight!
Regusci Zinfandel ($60)
If you want to listen to a great podcast, check out Doug Shafer’s interview with Jim Regusci.
The Regusci family has a tremendous history in Napa Valley beginning with the site of the very first dedicated winery built in the Stags Leap District. The stone building, constructed by Terrill Grigsby in 1878, was known as the Occidental Winery for many years.
In 1932, Gaetano Regusci acquired the property and planted Zinfandel with many of those vines still producing fruit today. The family would sell grapes and maintain a dairy ranch on the property for several decades. In 1996, Gaetano’s son and grandson, Angelo and Jim Regusci, started the Regusci Winery.
While Zinfandel has a long history in Napa, its numbers are slowly dwindling. That’s a shame because Zinfandel is the “Craft Beer” of American Wine and a grape that is poised to capture Millennials’ attention. I don’t think anyone else in the Stags Leap District is still growing the grape which certainly makes this a fun unicorn to find.
Stags’ Leap Winery Ne Cede Malis ($150)
I became fascinated with this wine when I attended a winemaker’s dinner last year with Stags’ Leap Winery’s winemaker Joanne Wing.
Stags’ Leap Winery Winemaker Joanne Wing.
Sourced from a tiny Prohibition-era block of vines, Ne Cede Malis is a field blend. Mostly Petite Sirah with up to 15 other different grapes including Sauvignon blanc, an unknown Muscat variety, Carignane, Mourvedre, Grenache, Peloursin, Cinsault, Malbec and Syrah. The grapes are all harvested together and co-fermented.
Coming from the Latin family motto of Horace Chase, Ne Cede Malis means “Don’t give in to misfortune.” But with the last vintage of Ne Cede Malis on Wine-Searcher being 2015 (Ave price $86), I do fret that maybe these old vines came into some misfortune. If any of my readers know differently, do leave a comment. (UPDATE BELOW)
Of course, that is the risk that comes with all unicorns. One day they may simply cease to exist. But that is also part of the thrill of the hunt.
Sometimes you bag your prize. Other times you’re standing on the edge of a cliff watching it leap away.
UPDATE: The Ne Cede Malis lives on! I was very excited to get an email from Stags’ Leap Winery letting me know that these old vines are still going strong with the 2016 vintage slated to be released in the fall for a suggested retail of $150. Only around 500 cases were produced so this is still a unicorn worth hunting!
Written by Amber LeBeau in Millennials, Napa Valley, Wine grapes on Jul 20, 2019
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Same Disability. Some Have Tougher Jobs
Workers at construction sites or in warehouses can feel their bodies breaking down over time. This could be the natural aging process, or it could have to do with their overly strenuous jobs.
It’s not easy to tease apart the effects of each. But consider two groups of workers with back and spine stiffness or deformities employed in a variety of occupations. One group has had the back problems since they were children or teenagers, while the other group’s disability began as adults.
Given that they all have a similar disability, it might seem that both groups would also have similar physical demands at work. But that isn’t the case.
A recent study found that the workers who developed back problems as adults were required to lift and carry more weight as part of their jobs. The maximum weight they were required to lift was 26.5 pounds on average. That was a lot more – six pounds more – than the maximum weight handled by the people who already had back problems when they started working.
The significance of workers with late-onset conditions having more taxing jobs is that their jobs “may have caused their health conditions,” the researchers said.
It’s important to add some perspective to this finding, however. A separate analysis in the study comparing workers with and without a disability showed that many people with disabilities have jobs that accommodate them.
But the disparity in working conditions within the disabled population is still a concern. Another example involves people with emotional and cognitive disorders. Ideally, they cope better if they can work at a reasonable pace. But the researchers found that a larger share of workers – three out of four on average – who developed these disorders as adults were in jobs requiring them to work quickly. That compares with just two-thirds of people with early-onset conditions.
We know aging causes physical infirmities. But the physical demands of work also seem to play a role.
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LinkedIn Or LinkedOut? Revisiting the 2016 SourceCon State of Sourcing Survey
By Steven Jiang, Pete Radloff and Ninh Tran December 19, 2016 September 21, 2017
I was invited to join a Facebook group “No LinkedIn Fridays” by Jeff Newman. It’s a group of active, innovative recruiters and sourcers who’re exploring new resources, channels, and tools to find a LinkedIn alternative. As advised by the group admins, this group is for people who will commit not just to staying off LinkedIn every Friday but also to sharing our other go-to places, tips, tricks and any other information that will help us get beyond the quick fixes. Later Kerri Mills updated the group photo with a fantastic “LinkedOut” logo as shown in the cover image of this article.
Wait…it’s so familiar, isn’t it? LinkedIn or LinkedOut? It motivated me to write something to share with our community.
When Shannon Pritchett published the 2016 State of Sourcing survey results on SourceCon this October, I felt that I could not admire the SourceCon community more. It’s a community with a deep and insightful understanding of talent sourcing. Most of us owe Pritchett 20 minutes of careful reading of her articles and surveys. I would like to revisit the sourcing survey to argue whether we are leaning towards being LinkedIn or LinkedOut.
How much do we “LinkedIn?”
I summarize the usage of LinkedIn from the survey in table one. Wow! LnkedIn dominates our talent sourcing industry without any doubt. If we combine usage of both LinkedIn paid and LinkedIn free, it’s almost 100% of recruiters who use LinkedIn daily. LinkedIn owns the most accurate and fresh professional data on over 400 million professionals, making it the biggest ever recruiting platform.
Table 1: Usage of LinkedIn job board and candidate search from SourceCon community
However, 100% of usage doesn’t bring 100% successful hires. Table two shows how many hires recruiters can attribute to LinkedIn paid vs. LinkedIn free accounts in the last 12 months.
Table 2: How efficient and effective LinkedIn can be for successful hires.
Almost 20% of recruiters had no hires in the past 12 months. These people are (or should be) looking for better channels than LinkedIn. Unfortunately, LinkedIn is still the best channel so far. Picture one shows the lever of satisfaction with LinkedIn paid and LinkedIn free. Paid LinkedIn takes the number one, and free LinkedIn takes the number three.
Picture 1: Linkedin paid, Indeed and LinkedIn free are the top three most satisfied websites as a sourcing tool.
How much do we “LinkedIn?” The answer is so clear. It raises a dangerous signal that we rely on LinkedIn too much. Homogeneity may not help most of us to be outperforming our peers. At the meantime, LinkedIn seems to have no interests in listening to the recruiter community. Furthermore, more and more people are leaving or inactive on LinkedIn. LinkedIn may lose the principal advantage of having the most accurate and fresh professional data shortly. What should we do then to keep and even improve further our recruiting efficiency? Our sourcing channel should be diversified.
How to “LinkedOut?”
Before getting into this section, I want to be clear that I am not trying to convince you to leave LinkedIn. If LinkedIn is working well, why not keep going and even make better use of it? Having multiple tools and resources is not only smart but also practical. To recruiters and sourcers, it’s always good to explore more and better solutions for talent acquisition. It brings to my memory my Ph.D. advisor. He told me an easy way to be outstanding – standing out. We have to stand out first. Everyone is on LinkedIn now. If we could stand out of LinkedIn for a single Friday, we are outstanding for that day. Of course, the assumption is that we don’t sacrifice any efficiency.
Do we have good database alternatives to search? It’s the first question we may ask. We may have to try Google/Bing X-ray search, Facebook graph search, Indeed search, AngelList search, Github search, Twitter search, Quora search, Stackoverflow search, PDF resume search, etc. If we believe that the Internet has been resourceful enough, we should be confident that we could find more than enough candidates precisely.
Do we have proper channels to engage candidates without LinkedIn InMails and messages? There are a lot of ways to find anyone’s email address. Hiretual, Connectifier, Prophet, etc. are great tools to find contact information. We might also have to find other innovative ways to reach out candidates if we don’t want to be labeled as “spam producers.” At the meantime, this requires more of a commitment to recruiter training and development. I also believe that we might indeed need a new social platform so that we can engage with candidates more naturally and friendly.
Are we allowed to stand out of LinkedIn even for a single day? So many recruiter managers measure a recruiter’s performance based on LinkedIn activities. If we don’t have a free space to explore, we will have to stay at our existing TA workflow/process forever. We get used to it, and our bosses get used to it as well. Stand out, please. If we do believe sourcing can be innovative and creative, why not start to change from now?
Steven Jiang
Steven Jiang, CEO and Co-founder of Hiretual, a sourcing platform that combines recruiting with science to transform the Internet to be recruiter friendly. Steven is an engineering prodigy who was promoted from being a junior engineer to an engineering manager in less than one year, officially becoming the youngest engineering manager in Samsung's history. He scaled his engineering team from 20 to 120 engineers during that year before he went onto co-found Hiretual with his boss.
Pete Radloff
Pete Radloff is a veteran recruiter, sourcer, and consultant, who has been in the industry since 2000, with experience in both agency and corporate settings. Pete’s passion stretches across several areas of talent acquisition, including recruitment and sourcing, social media, employment branding, recruitment operations and the training and mentoring of recruiters.
Currently the Principal Technical Recruiter for comScore, and a Lead Consultant with exaqueo, Pete has previously worked for other high-growth organizations such as NPR and LivingSocial. In addition to recruiting top talent both in the U.S. and abroad for these companies, Pete has developed successful recruitment and sourcing frameworks, recruitment processes and procedures, and enhancements to the candidate experience to enhance employer brand. He also has deep experience in recruitment systems selection and implementation, vendor selection and HR Tech & Sourcing tool evaluation.
Being part of the local recruiting community in DC has always been important to Pete. He was a member of Board of Directors for recruitDC since for 6 years, and has also been a speaker at several recruitDC events. He is also a contributing writer at RecruitingDaily and SourceCon.
You can find him on LinkedIn and Twitter, or at his site, RecruitingIn3D
Ninh Tran
Ninh Tran is the Chief Relationship Builder of Hiretual, a “Recruiter’s Best Friend” and an AI recruiting platform of choice, built by recruiters for recruiters, that continually proves to make the Internet recruiting friendly and your life easier. Ninh is also a SourceCon, ERE Media, and Recruiter.com author, and has spoken on various subjects such as “AI & the Future of Recruiting”, “Today’s Sourcing Technology and Skills”, “Recruiting Workflow Automation”, “Hacking Authentic Leadership for Growth”, and “Selling is Human in the Digital World” at University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, and global TA conferences. As Cal alumni, Ninh founded Trucksome to help emerging local food economies thrive while creating thousands of jobs for the unemployed right here in the US. Then he went on to Google before co-founding an executive search firm HireTeamMate where he leads the business and recruiting operations that placed hundreds under one year before founding Hiretual.
Reach Ninh via Twitter: @NinhTran09
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DAVID JAMES EFFLANDT
ELGIN - David James Efflandt, age 65, formerly of Milwaukee, WI. Died unexpectedly of natural causes on Friday, November 24, 2017. Preceded in death by his father, James Frederick Efflandt. Loving son of Patricia Lee Efflandt (nee Bjorklund) of Elkhart Lake, WI. Dear brother of Susan (Phillip) Powell of Waukesha, WI, Bruce and Brian Efflandt of Milwaukee. Fond uncle of Rebecca (Lynn) Niklasch of Oconomowoc, WI and Kristina (Charlie) Barber of Spartanburg, SC; and his great-nephews, Cody and Hunter Niklasch. Further survived by cousins, other relatives and friends. Visitation Wednesday, December 6 from 4:00pm until time of Memorial Service at 6:00pm at the Schmidt & Bartelt Funeral Home, 10121 W. North Avenue, Wauwatosa, WI. Private interment Valhalla Memorial Park, Milwaukee. David graduated from Marquette University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and retired from Cla-Val Company as a Sales Engineer with 40 years of service. He enjoyed the outdoors especially hunting along with motorcycles, cooking, working on his computer and autocross racing. He will be missed by his family and friends. Schmidt & Bartelt Funeral & Cremation Services, 10121 W. North Avenue, Wauwatosa, WI, 414-774-5010, www.schmidtandbartelt.com .
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Sunny Survey
A Key to Improving Our Bodies, Minds and Relationships
By Chris Davis Jan 14, 2021
Let's face it, there has been a lot of sadness through the past year. One practice that can help you feel more joy and optimism, is the practice of gratitude. Giving thanks for the things you do have can help build a stronger immune system, help you sleep, and feel more compassion and less loneliness. It allows you to stay in the present moment, rather than worry or have regret over things we can no longer control.
Five suggestions to help you get on the path of gratitude HERE!
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Steve-O Is Sober-O
44 days sober, to be exact. On the 13th of March Steve-O was involuntarily sent to the “looney bin” at Cedars-Sinai and placed on a 5150 hold (if you don’t know what that is, where have you been?). His status soon changed to a 5250 hold, and Steve-O was officially checked in to the hospital on March 16th.
Now he’s out and clean, and appearing in court. The former Jackass star pled not guilty today to charges of felony possession of cocaine, stemming from his arrest last month.
Steve-O took a moment with TMZ to reflect on how he got himself to his current place in life.
“I’m proud of what I’ve done in the past to distract people from the fact that the world can be a bad place.”
On the other hand, he added, “I think I could have reached for better sorts of things to be looked up for than to be an alcoholic drug addict that hurts himself for a living.”
“I was a mess…I didn’t have my act together.”
I truly wish Steve-O the best of luck with the long path of sobriety ahead.
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Court evangelical Ralph Reed says Trump will get more than 81% of the white evangelical vote in 2020
October 17, 2020 October 16, 2020 / johnfea
It wouldn’t surprise me.
Here is Jon Ward at Yahoo News:
Ralph Reed, a veteran Republican operative who has helped corral the evangelical vote for Republicans for the last 30 years, said he thinks white evangelical support for President Trump is likely to be higher in the 2020 election than it was four years ago.
“I think the 81 percent of the evangelical vote that Trump received four years ago is the floor,” Reed, president of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, said in an interview. “I don’t think it’s beyond the realm of possibility that he could end up in the mid-80s.”
Reed said that by Election Day his organization will have knocked on between 3.7 million and 4 million doors in a get-out-the-vote effort.
And he predicted that the efforts of his group, and others like it, combined with white evangelical enthusiasm for Trump, will produce votes from 5 million to 10 million white evangelicals who did not vote at all in 2016. Reed claimed that there were 31 million white evangelical votes for Trump four years ago.
Read the rest here.
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Reminder: How to enter for an all-expenses-paid vacation to Costa Rica
Costa Rican students get the surprise of a lifetime: a trip to NASA
The Tico Times March 8, 2016 March 8, 2016
The six Florida-bound teenagers hugged, celebrated and cried with their families. (Katherine Stanley/The Tico Times)
“Poverty is no excuse,” said Sandra Cauffman. “If you work hard, you are going far. That, I promise you.”
Your standard motivational speech from a highly successful Costa Rican to a group of her younger compatriots? Hardly. Cauffman — a deputy project manager for NASA who co-directed the MAVEN mission to Mars and now directs the GOES-R satellite program — was speaking via Skype from her offices at NASA to six teenagers sitting in a conference room in Guachipelín, Escazú.
Those six teenagers had just received some big news. More than one face was streaked with tears. A boy had his head in his hands, gobsmacked.
Elián can't believe it; Diana wipes away a tear. Katherine Stanley/The Tico Times
Cauffman had just told the high-school students that they are going to make their first trip outside the country in October: to Cape Canaveral, Florida, where they will be Cauffman’s VIP guests at the launch of the new GOES meteorological satellite.
Like Cauffman, who was raised by a single mother in the southern San José district of Hatillo, the six winners of this trip are from some of San Jose’s toughest neighborhoods. Daniel Aguilar, Diana Araya, Celinne Cordero, Valeria Salazar, Elián Torres and José Andrá Vega are all beneficiaries of the Monge Foundation. The organization is the nonprofit arm of Grupo Monge, the company whose brands include the home appliance chain Importadora Monge and the electronics chain Play.
Through the foundation’s SOY CAMBIO (“I AM CHANGE”) program, students receive intensive support to help them achieve their academic and professional goals, and training in subjects including English and technology.
SOY CAMBIO, whose formal name is the Program of Student Leadership and Employability, works with motivated, low-income students between 15 and 19 years old in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, with plans to expand to Guatemala and Honduras.
Read more: Meet Sandra Cauffman, the Tica co-directing NASA’s current mission to Mars
To take advantage of Cauffman’s idea of bringing young Costa Ricans to the satellite launch, the foundation created a contest, “¿Qué tan lunático sos?” and told students they were competing for a chance to attend an event with former astronauts in San José later this week. What neither the selected students nor their parents, who also attended yesterday’s announcement, realized was that their trip would extend far beyond the Costa Rican capital.
It took a few minutes for Cauffman’s news to sink in.
“You don’t know. You have no idea. There are no words,” a beaming José André Vega, 18, told Cauffman when he got his chance at the microphone. “I have read about your life story and how you got ahead. You are an admirable person.”
Representatives from the Monge organization noticed some other standard-bearers in the room: the kids themselves.
Sandra Cauffman on the big screen. Katherine Stanley/The Tico Times
“I have two kids, and my dream for them is that they follow the example of young people like you,” said Alfredo Monge, president of Grupo Monge’s board of directors.
“You are the ones who have been showing us the path to success,” María José Monge, president of the Monge Foundation, told the group.
The kids were bursting with questions for Cauffman.
“What’s everything like up there?” asked Daniel Aguilar, 18, eliciting broad smiles on the faces of his listeners. Hearing the breadth of his own question, he rephrased: “I mean, work-wise.”
“I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a mad scientist someday,” said Celinne Cordero, 18. “Are there things beyond space? Is there life on Mars? These are the questions you ask yourself …. But it all seemed impossible.”
Impossible? Not so fast. NASA awaits.
Full disclosure: The author is the co-founder of JumpStart Costa Rica, a non-profit whose sponsors include the Monge Foundation. She helped make initial contacts for the Fundación Monge-Sandra Cauffman alliance.
Monge Foundation president María José Monge (left) and executive director Byron Salas (right) with the selected students. Katherine Stanley/The Tico Times
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Alexander The Great And UFOs
July 15, 2020 by Nancy Thames
by Daniel Russ
Alexander The Great“The first recorded incident regarding Alexander the Great and UFO’s was recorded in 329BC. Alexander decided to invade India and was attempting to cross the river Indus to engage the Indian army when “gleaming silver shields” swooped down and made several passes over the battle.
These “gleaming silver shields” had the effect of startling his cavalry horses, causing them to stampede. They also had a similar effect on the enemies’ horses and elephants so it was difficult to ascertain whose side these “gleaming silver shields” were on. Nevertheless, after exiting the battle victoriously Alexander decided to not proceed any further into India.
Seven years later Alexander was confronted with the greatest challenge of his military career. In his attempt to conquer the Persian Empire he realized that the city of Tyre needed to be captured in order to prevent the Persians from using that port to land an army behind him.
The original coastal city of Tyre had been destroyed before and had been rebuilt some distance offshore from its original site. Having no navy, Alexander decided to use the remains of the old city to build a causeway to the new one.
It took Alexander six full months to do this and when the task was completed and his troops staged their assault they were easily rebuffed because the walls were too high to quickly scale and too thick to batter down. Not only that but the causeway was too narrow to allow sufficient troops to launch a massive enough attack to overwhelm the enemy in order to scale the walls.
Not only was this a problem for Alexander but apparently a problem for God as well. Both the prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah had spoken of Gods’ curse and eventual destruction of Tyre. (Ezekiel Chapters 27 & 28 and Isaiah Chapter 23). How was Alexander going to achieve his goal? How was God going to ensure that His prophecy would be fulfilled?
The historical account, recorded by Alexander’s chief historian, states that, during an attack of the island city, one of two ‘gleaming silver shields’ attacked a section of the wall with a ‘beam of light’ which subsequently caused that section of the wall to fall! Alexander’s’ men poured through the opening and captured the city.
What is so noteworthy about this encounter is the fact that the historians for the defeated people of Tyre reported the exact same reason for the loss of their city! Usually, the reason given by a defeated people is different than that given by the victors, but in this instance their accounts read the same.
Before he started his major offensive against Persia Alexander sought the advice of an oracle in a temple located in the desert. He set off, with a small party of men, but miscalculated the logistics and found himself hopelessly out of water and dying of thirst.
Almost miraculously, a rare, but unusually strong rain cloud burst overhead and gave him and his men sufficient water to safely complete their journey. No one reported seeing any ‘gleaming silver shields’ but here again is a case of a wondrous “cloud” that we see so many occurrences of in the Bible.
This remarkable incident was apparently paralleled by an equally fantastic visitation during the Siege of Tyre by Alexander in 332 BC. Quoting Giovanni Gustavo Droysens Storia di Alessandro il Grande, the erudite Italian Alberto Fenoglio, writes in CLYPEUS Anno 111, No 2, a startling revelation which we now translate
‘The fortress would not yeld, its walls were fifty feet high and constructed so solidly that no siege-engine was able to damage it. The Tyrians disposed of the greatest technicians and builders of war-machines of the time and they intercepted in the air the incendiary arrows and projectiles hurled by the catapults on the city.
One day suddenly there appeared over the Macedonian camp these “flying shields”, as they had been called, which flew in triangular formation led by an exceedingly large one, the others were smaller by almost a half. In all there were five. The unknown chronicler narrates that they circled slowly over Tyre while thousands of warriors on both sides stood and watched them in astonishment. Suddenly from the largest “shield” came a lightning-flash that struck the walls, these crumbled, other flashes followed and walls and towers dissolved, as if they had been built of mud, leaving the way open for the besiegers who poured like an avalanche through the breeches. The “flying shields” hovered over the city until it was completely stormed then they very swiftly disappeared aloft, soon melting into the blue sky.’120“
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LOGE Leavenworth Downtown will open in November.
LOGE appeals to the nature-focused guest
By Nicole Carlino on
NORTH BEND, WA—LOGE, the lifestyle hotel group that brings forgotten motels near towns and trails back to life, is well-positioned to appeal to guests at a time when most are looking for travel that embraces nature. So named for its “Live Outside, Go Explore” ethos, LOGE has introduced a number of measures that promote the safety and social distancing of travelers while immersing them in the locale. The company is also set to open its sixth property this fall.
“We focus on a really specific customer set: an active outdoor lifestyle customer, primarily targeted toward second markets,” explained Johannes Ariens, CEO/co-founder of LOGE.
Instead of setting down roots in Aspen or Vail, CO, LOGE finds opportunities in markets like Breckenridge, CO.
“These are places where we see the consumer actually spending most of their time,” Ariens said. “Most people go to Aspen once every one or two years to ski, versus the place that is drivable, three to four hours from their home, which they’re going to five, 10, 15 times a year. That’s really where we focus.”
With properties in Bend, OR; Westport, WA; Leavenworth, WA; Mt. Shasta, CA; and Breckenridge, LOGE finds dilapidated motels in the right markets and repositions them to be an outdoor-adventure-focused experience. Guests can choose from hotel rooms to hostel bunks and campsites.
LOGE aims to fill the gap between branded and Airbnb. “In its early days, Airbnb was very individual, but that has kind of changed over time; we see ourselves filling that customer demand—super individual, intimate, live like a local,” he said, adding that LOGE aims to marry that with what guests get from brands: a dependable product.
With the goal to be in markets that are drivable and near nature, the properties are well-positioned during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I don’t think anyone saw COVID-19 coming, but it does speak very much to our model,” Ariens said. “Most of our customers are not flying across the country. They’re driving to our locations directly from their primary household. That is really important because flight travel is down drastically. However, individuals’ urge to get out of the house and do that in a way where they can really control that experience and their exposure is important for consumers.”
LOGE properties are exterior corridor and are fully automated with keypad entry, so there’s no reason to go to the lobby or a front desk. Guests can communicate with staff via SMS, purchases can be added to the room bill without a formal physical transaction and housekeeping uses a digital checklist that reflects a COVID-19-specific protocol.
“Every room has an independent mechanical system—the exhaust to the outside—so you’re not sharing systems or interior corridors, and during the time of your stay, our employees will not be entering the room,” Ariens said. “Instead, we’re providing cleaning kits so you can refresh your room at your leisure, but without threatening your sense of place and privacy.”
In response to COVID-19, the company implemented its Go Together Code, a series of protocols. In addition to contactless check-in, deep-cleaning rooms and DIY housekeeping kits, LOGE redesigned outdoor spaces to be suitable for appropriate physical distancing, rearranged its facilities and has a mask policy for all staff and vendors. All crew members also have a stringent pre-shift physical and mental health checklist.
Ariens said LOGE came up with the code by focusing on the local community. “Ultimately, we take a pretty small-business approach to each location,” he said. “How do we keep our local community safe? Each of our local communities that we’re in have their own mandates they’re currently allowing, so we started with that. From there, it was a process of working back to informing our customer.”
To do so, LOGE has introduced a guide. “We call them the Go Together guides,” Ariens said. “They take all of those guidelines that have been issued by town, state and local officials, and put them into a really palatable format that our customers can access. We’ve created location-specific guides for our customers to help them understand how to go walk on a trail, what trails may be open, what current F&B options exist and how you interact with those, and then we also provided to our customers—and to anyone who sees them on our website—our crew and vendor guidelines, so they can understand what they can expect from our crew when they show up, and making it really clear that the option for them as customers is really in their hands to decide how much interaction they’re comfortable with.”
LOGE has also engaged new F&B partnerships. It’s stocking its cafés and retail areas with offerings from Patagonia Provisions; has teamed up with Hopworks Urban Brewery; and Shar Snacks trail mix will now be available to guests. Through the launch of a partnership with Traeger Grills, LOGE properties offer wood fire grills. Complementary Traeger pellets are on hand at each location.
“We really focused on how to enhance the customer experience without needing to encumber personal space,” Ariens said. “For instance, our Traeger partnership [offers]a completely customer-driven experience. We’re providing the pellets and grills in our outdoor kitchens, but you would bring your own food and be able to engage in that in a way that is for you.”
Other LOGE partnerships include Fox Racing, a leader in mountain bike apparel and protection technology, and Artist Home, which helps LOGE curate its lineup of outdoor performances. In-room and on-site amenities include Rumpl, a blanket designed for indoor and outdoor use; BioLite Headlamps; adventure-grade hammocks by Kammok; Miir mugs; and Cloud Paper, 100% bamboo toilet paper.
“All of our partnerships are built around the idea of experiential activation,” Ariens said. “It’s not something you’re buying; it’s activated on property in a unique way to allow for you to be able to engage with those brands and products as a customer without actually having to experience a shared space.”
Ariens noted that the brand is looking to grow more, opening its second Leavenworth location—and sixth overall for the company—in November. The newly renovated LOGE Leavenworth Downtown will feature 26 guestrooms and suites; a bar/café called The Iconoclast and a beer garden serving local draughts, as well as outdoor patios and ample workspace. Additionally, the property will include a 1,600-sq.-ft. multi-use meeting space.
In addition to this opening, Ariens said, “We also have projects we’re working on in the Rocky Mountain West area in addition to Breckenridge, as well as the Southeast and California.”
He noted, “One of the bigger things we look for in a site is what we would define as elbow room. When we think about the COVID-19 pandemic, that inadvertently becomes more relevant, but more generally, we like to find sites that have the opportunity to be activated in an exterior format. Everyone uses the outdoor space.”
While the outdoor kitchens can help guests social distance now, they can also bring people together. “One of the things we love so much about what we do is this idea of the outdoor kitchens and what cooking and food does to bring people together as a way to create meaningful interactions,” he said. “We often say it’s all but impossible to stand in the same general vicinity as someone barbecuing and not strike up a conversation. And that’s what we want to create: opportunities for that to happen.”
Additionally, he said, “Our music program is significant and a big part of what we do with our brand, and so we need spaces to build those stages for our artists to perform, as well as space for an outdoor kitchen. Those are often offered to us in the asset class we tend to look at because generally speaking the way to achieve density on those sites is by going out, and that creates more open green space you can look within to find those unique pockets for activation opportunities.” HB
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Pepperdine Caruso Law Seeks To Hire Tax, Criminal Law, Evidence And Torts Profs
Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law is seeking to fill two entry-level, tenure-track positions on our faculty. We welcome candidates across all areas of law to apply, with some areas of particular interest including Criminal Law, Evidence, Tax, and Torts.
The School of Law is an ABA-accredited, AALS member law school located in Malibu, California. Pepperdine is a Christian university committed to the highest standards of academic excellence and Christian values, where students are strengthened for lives of purpose, service, and leadership. The School of Law welcomes applications from people of all faiths and is particularly interested in receiving applications from candidates who may bring greater racial, ethnic, and gender diversity to the faculty. Pepperdine University is an equal opportunity employer.
For further information, please contact Professor David Han, Chair, Faculty Appointments Committee.
Law schools looking to hire tenure-track/tenured Tax Profs to start in the 2021-22 academic year:
Loyola-L.A.
August 18, 2020 in Legal Education, Pepperdine Legal Ed, Pepperdine Tax, Tax, Tax Prof Jobs | Permalink | Comments (1)
2021 U.S. News Tax Rankings
The new 2021 U.S. News Tax Rankings include the tax programs at 187 law schools (the faculty survey had a 59% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
Rank Score School
1 4.8 NYU
2 4.4 Georgetown
3 4.3 Northwestern
3 4.3 Florida
5 4.1 UCLA
5 4.1 Virginia
7 4.0 Harvard
7 4.0 Stanford
7 4.0 Chicago
10 3.9 Columbia
11 3.8 Loyola-L.A.
11 3.8 UC-Irvine
11 3.8 Michigan
11 3.8 Yale
15 3.7 Penn
15 3.7 USC
15 3.7 Texas
18 3.6 Boston College
18 3.6 Duke
20 3.5 Indiana (Maurer)
21 3.4 Boston University
21 3.4 San Diego
23 3.3 UC-Hastings
23 3.3 UC-Berkeley
23 3.3 Washington Univ.
26 3.2 UC-Davis
26 3.2 Houston
26 3.2 Miami
26 3.2 Minnesota
26 3.2 North Carolina
26 3.2 Pittsburgh
32 3.1 BYU
32 3.1 Fordham
32 3.1 Ohio State
32 3.1 Alabama
32 3.1 Washington & Lee
37 3.0 Arizona State
37 3.0 Florida State
37 3.0 Pepperdine
37 3.0 Temple
37 3.0 Villanova
42 2.9 Cornell
42 2.9 George Washington
42 2.9 Washington
45 2.8 Georgia
45 2.8 Illinois
45 2.8 Notre Dame
48 2.7 Brooklyn
48 2.7 Emory
48 2.7 Loyola-Chicago
48 2.7 SMU
48 2.7 UNLV
48 2.7 Vanderbilt
48 2.7 Cardozo
Among the law schools in the tax rankings last year, here are the biggest upward moves:
+14: Ohio State (#32), Washington University (#23)
+11: Houston (#26)
+9: Yale (#11)
+6: Arizona State (#37), UC-Davis (#26)
Here are the biggest downward moves:
-17: Washington (#42)
-12: Temple (#37), Villanova (#37)
-10: George Washington (#42)
-8: Georgia (#45)
-7: Boston University (#21)
Derek Muller (Pepperdine) notes the absurd volatility of USNWR specialty law rankings by pointing out changes in the peer reputation scores of tax programs at these law schools:
South Carolina: 2.6 (+0.6)
Loyola Chicago: 2.7 (+0.4)
Albany: 1.8 (+0.4)
Cornell: 2.9 (+0.4)
Ohio State: 3.1 (+0.4)
Baltimore: 2.3 (+0.4)
Cincinnati: 2.4 (+0.4)
Richmond: 2.6 (+0.4)
Washington University: 3.3 (+0.4)
Suffolk: 1.5 (-0.4)
Wyoming: 1.5 (-0.4)
Vermont: 1.3 (-0.4)
New England Law: 1.2 (-0.4)
Montana: 2.0 (-0.5)
Here are the rankings of law schools with graduate tax programs:
March 18, 2020 in Law School Rankings, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education, Pepperdine Legal Ed, Pepperdine Tax, Tax, Tax Rankings | Permalink | Comments (0)
More On The 50 Most-Cited Tax Articles of All Time
Following up on my previous post on Jonathan H. Choi (NYU), The 50 Most-Cited Tax Articles of All Time, 36 Yale J. on Reg.: Notice & Comment (May 11, 2019):
47 authors (40 men, 7 women) wrote the 50 most-cited tax articles, 8 (7 men, 1 woman) more than once:
Author Frequency
Boris Bittker 4
David Weisbach 4
Joseph Bankman 3
Stanley Surrey 3
Reuven Avi-Yonah 2
Michael Graetz 2
Marjorie Kornhauser 2
Edward Zelinsky 2
Bruce Ackerman 1
Anne Alstott 1
William Andrews 1
Lily Batchelder 1
Walter Blum 1
Paul Caron 1
Marvin Chirelstein 1
Dan Coenen 1
Richard Doernberg 1
Peter Enrich 1
Victor Fleischer 1
Pamela Gann 1
Mark Gergen 1
Fred Goldberg 1
Thomas Griffith 1
Erwin Griswold 1
Daniel Halperin 1
David Hariton 1
Walter Hellerstein 1
Kristin Hickman 1
Harry Kalven 1
Louis Kaplow 1
Mark Kelman 1
Leandra Lederman 1
Fred McChesney 1
Beverly Moran 1
R.A. Musgrave 1
Jacob Nussim 1
Michael O’Hear 1
Peter Orszag 1
Randolph Paul 1
William Plumb 1
Eric Posner 1
David Schizer 1
Steven Shavell 1
Dan Shaviro 1
David Slawson 1
Joseph Sneed 1
William Whitford 1
The authors are from 22 law schools, 12 law schools are represented more than once:
School Frequency
Harvard 9
Cardozo 2
Emory 2
NYU 2
Tulane 2
USC 2
Duke 1
Marquette 1
Northeastern 1
Pepperdine 1
UC-Berkeley 1
UC-Irvine 1
Vanderbilt 1
The 50 most-cited tax articles were published in 21 law reviews (12 law reviews published 2 or more of the articles):
August 1, 2019 in Legal Education, Pepperdine Tax, Tax, Tax Prof Rankings, Tax Rankings, Tax Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (1)
The Blog Must Go On For This Law Dean
Law.com, The Blog Must Go On for This Law Dean:
Pepperdine University Law Dean Paul Caron reflects on his two years of running a law school while also publishing his widely read TaxProf Blog, which chronicles legal education's biggest stories.
Paul Caron—legal education’s so-called Blog Emperor—took the reins at Pepperdine University School of Law in 2017, and his two years as dean have been a remarkable ride.
Things got off to a rough start in the spring of 2018 when the school was removed from the U.S. News & World Report rankings after Pepperdine discovered a mistake in the data it submitted that artificially increased its ranking and reported it to the publication. (Pepperdine returned to the ranking this year, moving up from its previous No. 72 to No. 51).
The challenges didn’t end there. In November, a Pepperdine law student was present at a nearby music venue when an armed man opened fire, killing 12. The law student was unharmed but the massacre, in which a Pepperdine undergraduate died, shook the Malibu, California, campus. A day later, the so-called Woolsey Fire tore through the area and came close to leveling the campus. The law school was spared, but closed for more than two weeks in the aftermath.
Through it all, Caron maintained his role as the town crier of legal education with his TaxProf Blog, which aggregates news about tax law and law schools. The 15-year-old blog is a must-read for legal educators and has become an important tool to raise Pepperdine’s profile and stature in the academy. Caron posts stories about events and initiatives at Pepperdine, not to mention plenty of photos of its seaside campus. Law.com caught up with Caron this week to discuss juggling the blog with his dean duties and why he hasn’t given TaxProf Blog up. His answers have been edited for length and clarity.
July 18, 2019 in About This Blog, Legal Ed News, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education, Pepperdine Legal Ed, Pepperdine Tax, Tax, Tax News | Permalink | Comments (6)
Dorothy Brown: Goodbye, But Not Farewell
Dorothy Brown headed back to Emory yesterday after completing her stint at Pepperdine as our Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor. She left behind one old friend and countless new ones. She regaled our students in Federal Income Tax and Tax Policy, which she co-taught (cough) with a frazzled dean. I will have three lasting memories of Dorothy's time here: (1) the great tax workshop series we put together, with seven outstanding speakers and wonderful post-presentation lunches; (2) the wonderful Critical Tax Conference we co-hosted, particularly Dorothy's fiery keynote address, The Life of a Tax Crit: When Keeping It Real Can Go Really Really Wrong; and (3) most importantly, the relationships Dorothy developed in her four months here, particularly with the students and staff (perhaps never before has a Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor (certainly not me) taken several staff people out for meals and given them gifts on her departure). We hope Dorothy will be back in Malibu in the future, initially as part of our Spring 2020 tax workshop series.
April 24, 2019 in Legal Education, Pepperdine Legal Ed, Pepperdine Tax, Tax, Tax Prof Moves | Permalink | Comments (0)
Morse Presents GILTI: The Cooperative Potential Of A Unilateral Minimum Tax Today At Pepperdine
Susan C. Morse (Texas) presents GILTI: The Cooperative Potential of a Unilateral Minimum Tax at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Workshop Series hosted by Dorothy Brown and Paul Caron and funded in part by a generous gift from Scott Racine:
Could the U.S. tax on global intangible low-taxed income, or GILTI, end the game of international tax competition? The GILTI tax is a unilateral minimum tax enacted as part as 2017 tax statute known as the TCJA. There is a long-shot possibility that it might save the global corporate tax. A robust global corporate tax in turn could support innovative new policy options such as the use of corporate tax revenue to further international social justice goals. The stakes are high. Is there any chance that GILTI could do it? ...
This paper proceeds as follows. Part I compares the GILTI tax to the U.S. deferral regime that preceded it, and describes the cooperative potential of the U.S. international corporate tax law after the 2017 Act. Part II explains the details of GILTI structure, which works as advertised if international tax systems conform with respect to timing, rate and base. Part III explains that taxpayers will attempt to disrupt the convergence of timing, rate and base. Tax administrators, in turn, will face the question of whether, and how, to pursue the possibility of harmonizing corporate tax systems in light of the tools offered by the U.S. international corporate tax law after the 2017 Act.
April 22, 2019 in Colloquia, Pepperdine Tax, Scholarship, Tax, Tax Workshops | Permalink | Comments (0)
Kysar Presents Unravelling The Tax Treaty Today At Pepperdine
Rebecca Kysar (Fordham) presents Unravelling the Tax Treaty, 103 Minn. L. Rev. ___ (2019), at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Workshop Series hosted by Dorothy Brown and Paul Caron and funded in part by a generous gift from Scott Racine:
Coordination among nations over the taxation of international transactions rests on a network of some 2,000 bilateral double tax treaties. The double tax treaty is, in many ways, the roots of the international system of taxation. That system, however, is in upheaval in the face of globalization, technological advances, taxpayer abuse, and shifting political tides. In the academic literature, however, scrutiny of tax treaties is largely confined to the albeit important question of whether tax treaties are beneficial for developing countries. Surprisingly little consideration has been paid to whether developed countries, like the United States, should continue to sign tax treaties with one another, and no formal revenue or economic analyses of the treaties has been undertaken by the United States government. In fact, little evidence or theory exists to support entrance into tax treaties by the United States, and examination of investment flows indicates the treaties may even lose U.S. revenues. Problematically, the treaties also thwart reforms of the antiquated and broken international tax system. The trajectory of the recent U.S. tax legislation illustrates this phenomenon.
April 8, 2019 in Colloquia, Pepperdine Tax, Scholarship, Tax, Tax Workshops | Permalink | Comments (0)
22nd Annual Critical Tax Theory Conference At Pepperdine
Pepperdine hosts the 22nd Annual Critical Tax Theory Conference (program) today and tomorrow:
The Critical Tax Theory Conference has a long history of fostering the work of both established and emerging scholars whose research challenges and enriches the tax law and policy literature. Critical tax scholars question assumptions of objectivity in tax, as their work explores how tax law and policy impact historically marginalized groups. At a time when tax policy is once again at the forefront of politics and public discourse, the work of these and other critical tax scholars supports a more robust discussion of the role for tax law in current and future social and economic policy.
Keynote Address: Dorothy Brown (Emory; Visiting at Pepperdine), The Life of a Tax Crit: When Keeping It Real Can Go Really Really Wrong
Panel #1:
Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.) (moderator)
Leslie Book (Villanova), Giving Taxpayer Rights a Seat at the Table
Orli Oren-Kolbinger (Villanova), The Effect of Judges’ Personal and Professional Backgrounds on their Decisions in Equitable 'Innocent Spouse Relief’ Cases
Christine Kim (Utah), Insulation by Separation: When Dual-Class Stock Met Corporate Spin-offs
April 6, 2019 in Pepperdine Tax, Scholarship, Tax, Tax Conferences, Tax Workshops | Permalink | Comments (0)
Blank Presents Simplexity And Legal Calculators Today At Pepperdine
Joshua Blank (UC-Irvine) presents Simplexity and Legal Calculators (with Leigh Osofsky (North Carolina)) at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Workshop Series hosted by Dorothy Brown and Paul Caron and funded in part by a generous gift from Scott Racine:
Automated customer service has become one of the primary ways in which consumers find answers to their questions, whether they involve airline reservations, medical insurance coverage or unresponsive home appliances. Federal and state tax authorities have increasingly begun to offer online decision-making tools that provide guidance regarding the tax law to taxpayers. Some online tools, such as the IRS’s “Withholding Calculator,” direct taxpayers to input wage information in order to receive confirmation of whether their tax withholding is adequate. More comprehensive online tools, such as the IRS’s “Interactive Tax Assistant,” ask taxpayers personal questions and then deliver answers on topics ranging from whether the taxpayer is required to file a tax return to whether the taxpayer is entitled to claim certain tax credits to whether a type of income is taxable. These online tools do not just perform mathematical calculations; rather, they attempt to calculate taxpayers’ legal consequences.
March 25, 2019 in Colloquia, Pepperdine Tax, Scholarship, Tax, Tax Workshops | Permalink | Comments (0)
Update: 2021 U.S. News Tax Rankings
As I blogged last fall, U.S. News has dramatically changed their ranking of nine law school specialty programs:
Law school specialty rankings ... are based solely on peer assessments by law school faculty who teach in that specialty area. The peer assessment surveys for the specialty law school area rankings were conducted in fall 2018 and early 2019 by U.S. News.
This year for the first time, law school faculty members who teach in each specialty area rated the other law schools in that specialty area on a 5-point scale. Those schools with the highest average scores among those raters who rated them appear in the rankings and are ranked in descending order based on their average peer score they received in that specialty area. In all the previous law school specialty rankings, the law school raters chose their top 15 in a specialty area. This new methodology produced a significantly larger number of schools that were ranked in each specialty area – in some cases five or six times more. ... [A]ll programs that received 10 or more ratings are numerically ranked in that specialty. Schools with less than 10 ratings in a specialty aren't listed. [The response rate of the tax faculty survey was 50%.].
The new 2020 U.S. News Tax Rankings include the tax programs at 175 law schools. Here are the Top 50:
6 4.0 Columbia
8 3.9 UC-Irvine
11 3.8 Chicago
11 3.8 Pennsylvania
25 3.1 Univ. of Washington
43 2.8 Georgia State
46 2.7 Tulane
46 2.7 Iowa
46 2.7 William & Mary
Among the law schools in the tax rankings last year, ranked last year Here are the biggest upward moves:
+13: Stanford (#6)
+8: Chicago (#11), Penn (#11)
+6: Columbia (#6)
+5: Duke (#14)
-30: Denver (55)
-8: Univ. of Washington (#25)
-6: Loyola-L.A. (#14), San Diego (#22)
-5: Yale (#20)
Shobe Presents Economic Segregation, Tax Reform, And The Local Tax Deduction Today At Pepperdine
Gladriel Shobe (BYU) presents Economic Segregation, Tax Reform, and the Local Tax Deduction at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Workshop Series hosted by Dorothy Brown and Paul Caron and funded in part by a generous gift from Scott Racine:
Economic segregation has increased over the past half century. The trend of rich localities getting richer while poor localities get poorer is particularly concerning because it limits upward mobility and perpetuates intergenerational income inequality. This Article makes the novel argument that the federal deduction for local taxes rewards, and likely contributes to, economic segregation. It arrives at that conclusion by showing that the local tax deduction disproportionately subsidizes wealthy localities because only those localities have a critical mass of wealthy taxpayers who claim the deduction. This allows wealthy localities, but not poor localities, to provide services at a cost less than face value to their residents. This Article argues that the deduction’s subsidy for wealthy localities rewards and likely contributes to economic segregation because it provides an incentive for the wealthy to segregate into wealthy, subsidized localities over less segregated and less subsidized localities.
March 4, 2019 in Colloquia, Pepperdine Tax, Scholarship, Tax, Tax Workshops | Permalink | Comments (1)
Maynard Presents Legislating Tax Cuts With Tall Tales Today At Pepperdine
Goldburn P. Maynard Jr. (Louisville) presents Legislating Tax Cuts With Tall Tales at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Workshop Series hosted by Dorothy Brown and Paul Caron and funded in part by a generous gift from Scott Racine:
Part I provides a brief introduction to the work of philosophers Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel on everyday libertarianism. This part shows how the narratives of hard work and just desert along with stories of government oppression have been used to support policies that harm those who vote against them. System Justification Theory helps to explain the counterintuitive notion that the disadvantaged have a need to defend the status quo.
Part II proceeds by exploring three tax reform battles from different decades: 1986, 2001, 2017. By comparing the three, this part shows that there was a narrative element to each. Yet, the importance of data decreased across each tax fight. In 1986 there was a genuine commitment to thorough data collection. By 2017, reformers were dodging the data and questioning its effectiveness.
February 18, 2019 in Colloquia, Pepperdine Tax, Scholarship, Tax, Tax Workshops | Permalink | Comments (1)
Oh Presents The Effects Of Capital Gains Rate Uncertainty On Realization Today At Pepperdine
Jason Oh (UCLA) presents The Effects of Capital Gains Rate Uncertainty on Realization (with David Kamin (NYU)) at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Workshop Series hosted by Dorothy Brown and Paul Caron and funded in part by a generous gift from Scott Racine:
Taxpayers should expect capital gains rates to fluctuate in light of frequent historical changes and the current divergence of rates preferred by Democrats and Republicans. This paper is the first to model the effect of such rate uncertainty on the realization incentives of asset holders and finds those effects to be potentially large. There are several implications. First, rate uncertainty may alleviate the lock-in effect of the realization rule when rates are low and exacerbate lock-in when rates are high. Second, there could be significant inaccuracies extrapolating the elasticity of capital gains realizations measured at one rate to another. Third, some policy solutions aimed at addressing distortions created by the realization rule may not work as well as expected.
February 4, 2019 in Colloquia, Pepperdine Tax, Scholarship, Tax, Tax Workshops | Permalink | Comments (0)
Kleiman Presents Tax Limits And Public Control Today At Pepperdine
Ariel Jurow Kleiman (San Diego) presents Tax Limits and the Future of Local Democracy, 133 Harv. L. Rev. ___ 2019), at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Workshop Series hosted by Dorothy Brown and Paul Caron:
Local governments are severely restricted in their ability to raise tax revenue, in part by state-level statutes that place caps on local tax rates and revenue. Many attribute the proliferation of these local tax limitations to entrenched antitax sentiment among U.S. taxpayers. This antitax narrative is attractive for its simplicity and explanatory power. It provides a clear mandate for those enacting tax limiting laws as well as a simple fiscal rubric for those evaluating the success of such limits—namely, lower taxes equals success. However, the explanatory power of the antitax narrative is limited. Perhaps most notably, it fails to explain why voters regularly approve tax increases, even in places with strict tax limitations. Using the lens of the 1970s Tax Revolt, this Article complicates the traditional antitax narrative surrounding tax limitations, offering evidence that voters also supported tax limits in order to increase public control and oversight of local government fiscal decisions.
January 23, 2019 in Colloquia, Pepperdine Tax, Scholarship, Tax, Tax Workshops | Permalink | Comments (1)
Pepperdine Tax Policy Workshop Series (Spring 2019)
Here is the schedule for the Spring 2019 Pepperdine Tax Policy Workshop Series I am co-hosting with Dorothy Brown, our Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law, funded in part with a generous gift from Scott Racine:
January 23: Ariel Jurow Kleiman (San Diego), Tax Limits and the Future of Local Democracy, 133 Harv. L. Rev. ___ (2019)
February 4: Jason Oh (UCLA), The Effects of Capital Gains Rate Uncertainty on Realization (with David Kamin (NYU))
February 18: Goldburn Maynard (Louisville), Legislating Tax Cuts With Tall Tales
March 4: Gladriel Shobe (BYU), Economic Segregation, Tax Reform, and the Local Tax Deduction
March 25: Joshua Blank (UC-Irvine), Simplexity and Legal Calculators (with Leigh Osofsky (North Carolina))
April 8: Rebecca Kysar (Fordham), Unravelling The Tax Treaty, 103 Minn. L. Rev. ___ (2019)
April 22: Susan Morse (Texas), GILTI: The Cooperative Potential of a Unilateral Minimum Tax
I will of course blog each professor's paper on the day of their presentation. Southern California professors and practitioners are welcome to attend any of the sessions (10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.), as well as lunch with our speaker and students (12:00 pm - 1:15 pm) — just let me know.
January 7, 2019 in Colloquia, Pepperdine Tax, Scholarship, Tax, Tax Workshops | Permalink | Comments (0)
Barry Presents Collusion In Markets With Syndication Today At Pepperdine
Jordan Barry presents Collusion in Markets With Syndication (with John Hatfield (Texas), Scott Kominers (Harvard) & Richard Lowery (Texas)) at Pepperdine today as part of our Faculty Workshop Series hosted by Babette Boliek:
Many markets, including the markets for IPOs and debt issuances, are syndicated, in that a bidder who wins a contract will often invite competitors to join a syndicate that will fulfill the contract. We model syndicated markets as a repeated extensive form game, and show that standard intuitions from industrial organization can be reversed: Collusion may become easier as market concentration falls, and market entry may in fact facilitate collusion. In particular, price collusion can be sustained by a strategy in which firms refuse to join the syndicate of any firm that deviates from the collusive price, thereby raising total production costs. Our results can thus rationalize the apparently contradictory empirical facts that the market for IPO underwriting exhibits seemingly collusive pricing despite its low level of market concentration.
November 9, 2017 in Colloquia, Pepperdine Tax, Scholarship, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thanks to the faculty and students who made our Spring 2017 Pepperdine Tax Policy Workshop Series such a rousing success:
Jan. 25 Adam Chodorow (Arizona State), The Parsonage Exemption, 51 U.C. Davis L. Rev. ___ (2017)
Feb. 6 Katherine Pratt (Loyola-L.A.), The Tax Definition of “Medical Care:” A Critique of the Startling IRS Arguments in O’Donnabhain v. Commissioner, 23 Mich. J. Gender & L. 313 (2016)
Feb. 20 Joshua Blank (NYU), The Timing of Tax Transparency, 90 S. Cal. L. Rev. 449 (2017)
Mar. 6 Erin Scharf (Arizona State), Hyper Preemption
Mar. 27 Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings), Tax Compliance in a Decentralizing Economy
Apr. 10 Edward Kleinbard (USC), Capital Taxation In An Age Of Inequality, 90 S. Cal. L. Rev. 593 (2017)
Apr. 24 Daniel Hemel (Chicago), Federalism as a Safeguard of Progressive Taxation, 93 N.Y.U. L. Rev. ___ (2017)
May 9, 2017 in Colloquia, Pepperdine Tax, Scholarship, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
Hemel Presents The Federalist Safeguards of Progressive Taxation Today At Pepperdine
Daniel Hemel (Chicago) presents The Federalist Safeguards of Progressive Taxation, 93 NYU L. Rev. ___ (2017), at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Workshop Series funded in part by a generous gift from Scott Racine:
This essay considers the distributional consequences of the Supreme Court’s federalism jurisprudence over the past quarter century, focusing specifically on the anticommandeering, anti-coercion, and state sovereign immunity doctrines. The first of these doctrines prevents Congress from compelling the states to administer federal programs; the second prevents Congress from achieving the same result through offers that for practical purposes the states cannot refuse; the third prohibits Congress from abrogating state sovereign immunity outside a limited class of cases. These doctrines vest the states with valuable entitlements and allow the states to sell those entitlements back to Congress for a price. In this respect, the doctrines have an intergovernmental distributional effect, shifting wealth from the federal government to the states.
April 24, 2017 in Colloquia, Pepperdine Tax, Scholarship, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
Kleinbard Presents Capital Taxation In An Age Of Inequality Today at Pepperdine
Edward Kleinbard (USC) presents Capital Taxation In An Age Of Inequality, 90 S. Cal. L. Rev. ___ (2017), at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Workshop Series funded in part by a generous gift from Scott Racine:
The standard view in the U.S. tax law academy remains that capital income taxation is both a poor idea in theory and completely infeasible in practice. But this ignores the first-order importance of political economy issues in the design of tax instruments. The pervasive presence of gifts and bequests renders moot the claim that the results obtained by Atkinson and Stiglitz (1976) counsel against taxing capital income in practice.
Taxing capital income is responsive to important political economy exigencies confronting the United States, including substantial tax revenue shortfalls relative to realistic government spending targets, increasing income and wealth inequality at the top end of distributions, and the surprising persistence of dynastic wealth. It also responds to a new strand of economic literature that argues that “inclusive growth” leads to higher growth.
Viswanathan Presents Tax Compliance In A Decentralizing Economy Today At Pepperdine
Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings) presents Tax Compliance in a Decentralizing Economy at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Workshop Series funded in part by a generous gift from Scott Racine:
Tax compliance in the United States has long relied on information from centralized intermediaries—the financial institutions, employers, and brokers that help ensure income is reported and taxes are paid. Yet while the IRS remains tied to these centralized entities, consumers and businesses are not. New technologies, such as the on-demand sharing platform economy (companies such as Airbnb, Uber, and Instacart) and the blockchain (the platform on which Bitcoin is based) are providing new, decentralized options for exchanging goods and services. Without legislative and agency intervention, these technologies pose a critical threat to the reporting system underlying domestic and international tax compliance.
March 27, 2017 in Colloquia, Pepperdine Tax, Scholarship, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
Scharff Presents Hyper Preemption Today At Pepperdine
Erin Scharf (Arizona State) presents Hyper Preemption: A Reordering of the State-Local Relationship at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Workshop Series funded in part by a generous gift from Scott Racine:
The role of cities in our federalist system is once again in the news. President Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to cut federal funding for “sanctuary cities” was a newspaper headline across the country. However, this federal-municipal showdown is part of a much larger story about the changing regulatory role of cities. Even as cities cast themselves as defiant against conservative federal policies, many are finding themselves in a much weaker position with respect to state policymaking.
Already, state legislators across the country are introducing bills that would cut state funding to local governments implementing “sanctuary city” policies. Such efforts are among the many preemption bills pending in statehouses across the country. Local governments, as creature of state law, are required to conform to state law, and legislatures have used this power to block municipal regulatory policies.
March 6, 2017 in Colloquia, Pepperdine Tax, Scholarship, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
Blank Presents The Timing Of Tax Transparency Today At Pepperdine
Joshua Blank (NYU) presents The Timing of Tax Transparency, 90 S. Cal. L. Rev. ___ (2017), at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Workshop Series funded in part by a generous gift from Scott Racine:
Fairness in the administration of the tax law is the subject of intense debate in the United States. As recent headlines reveal, the Internal Revenue Service has been accused of failing to enforce the tax law equitably in its review of tax-exempt status applications by political organizations, the international tax structures of multinational corporations, and the estate tax returns of millionaires, among other areas. Many have argued that greater “tax transparency” would better empower the public to hold the IRS accountable and the IRS to defend itself against accusations of malfeasance. Mandatory public disclosure of taxpayers’ tax return information is often proposed as a way to achieve greater tax transparency. Yet, in addition to concerns regarding exposure of personal and proprietary information, broad public disclosure measures pose potential threats to the taxing authority’s ability to enforce the tax law.
February 20, 2017 in Colloquia, Pepperdine Tax, Scholarship, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
Pratt Presents The IRS's Startling Attempt To Deny Medical Expense Deduction For Cost Of Male-To-Female Transition Today At Pepperdine
Katherine Pratt (Loyola-L.A.) presents The Tax Definition of “Medical Care:” A Critique of the Startling IRS Arguments in O’Donnabhain v. Commissioner, 23 Mich. J. Gender & L. 313 (2016), at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Workshop Series funded in part by a generous gift from Scott Racine:
This Article critiques the startling arguments made by the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) in O’Donnabhain v. Commissioner, a case in which the issue was whether a person diagnosed with gender identity disorder (“GID”) could take a federal tax deduction for the costs of male-to-female medical transition, including hormone treatment, genital surgery, and breast augmentation.
February 6, 2017 in Colloquia, Pepperdine Tax, Scholarship, Tax | Permalink | Comments (2)
Chodorow Presents The Parsonage Exemption Today At Pepperdine
Adam Chodorow (Arizona State) presents The Parsonage Exemption at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Workshop Series funded in part by a generous gift from Scott Racine:
The parsonage exemption allows “ministers of the gospel” to exclude the value of housing benefits from income, whether received in-kind or as a cash allowance. Critics argue that the provision is unconstitutional, and the dispute is likely to make it to the Supreme Court. This Article fills an important gap in the debate over the parsonage exemption by offering a nuanced explanation of how it and other housing provisions function within the tax code. Placing the parsonage exemption in its proper tax context makes clear that (1) other tax-free housing provisions and exemptions for religious organizations cannot provide the parsonage exemption constitutional cover; (2) the parsonage exemption involves significantly more entanglement than would the generally applicable housing provision; (3) permitting ministers to receive tax-free housing violates the core tax principles of horizontal and vertical equity; and (4) other exemptions for religious organizations cannot justify the parsonage exemption.
January 25, 2017 in Colloquia, Pepperdine Tax, Scholarship, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
Here is the schedule for my Spring 2017 Pepperdine Tax Policy Workshop Series:
I will of course blog each professor's paper on the day of their presentation. Southern California professors and practitioners are welcome to attend any of the sessions (11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.) — just let me know.
January 23, 2017 in Colloquia, Legal Education, Pepperdine Tax, Scholarship, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
Kahng Presents Who Owns Human Capital? Today At Pepperdine
Lily Kahng (Seattle) presents Who Owns Human Capital?, 93 Wash. U. L. Rev. ___ (2017), at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Workshop Series funded in part by a generous gift from Scott Racine:
This Article analyzes the tax law’s capital income preference through the lens of intellectual capital, an increasingly important driver of economic productivity whose value derives primarily from workers’ knowledge, experience and skills. The Article discusses how business owners increasingly are able to “propertize” labor into intellectual capital — to control their workers and appropriate the returns on their labor through the expansive use of intellectual property laws, contract and employment laws, and other legal mechanisms. The Article then shows how the tax law provides significant subsidies to the process of propertization and thereby contributes to the inequitable distribution of returns between business owners and workers. The Article’s analysis further reveals the tax law’s fundamental capital-labor distinction to be questionable, perhaps even illusory, an insight which has profound implications for the tax law.
Update: Post-presentation lunch:
Oh Presents How The Rich Drive Progressive Marginal Tax Rates Today At Pepperdine
Jason S. Oh (UCLA) presents How the Rich Drive Progressive Marginal Tax Rates at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Workshop Series funded in part by a generous gift from Scott Racine:
Why do income tax systems consistently feature progressive marginal rates? The existing literature tells a political story focusing on the preferences of the poor and middle class – high rates at the top of the rate schedule can fund greater redistribution. This Article argues that progressive marginal rates can alternatively be explained by focusing on the preferences of the middle class and the rich regarding the bottom of the rate schedule. Specifically, these groups benefit from inframarginal rate cuts at low levels of income. This alternative explanation of marginal rate progressivity is attractive because it focuses on the rich, a group which intuition and research suggest wields disproportionate political power.
Oei Presents The Tax Lives Of Uber Drivers Today At Pepperdine, UC-Irvine
Shuyi Oei (Tulane) presents The Tax Lives of Uber Drivers: Evidence from Internet Discussion Forums (with Diane Ring (Boston College)) today at Pepperdine (as part of our Tax Policy Workshop Series funded in part by a generous gift from Scott Racine) and UC-Irvine (as part of its Tax Law and Policy Colloquium Series hosted by Omri Marian):
In this Article, we investigate the tax issues and challenges facing Uber and Lyft drivers by studying their online interactions in three internet discussion forums: Reddit.com, Uberpeople.net, and Intuit TurboTax AnswerXchange. Using descriptive statistics and content analysis, we examine (1) the substantive tax concerns facing forum participants, (2) how taxes affect their driving and profitability decisions, and (3) the degree of user sophistication, accuracy of legal advising, and other cultural features of the forums.
Aprill Presents The Section 527 Obstacle to Meaningful Section 501(c)(4) Regulation Today At Pepperdine
Ellen P. Aprill (Loyola-L.A.) presents The Section 527 Obstacle to Meaningful Section 501(c)(4) Regulation, 13 Pitt. Tax Rev. 43 (2015), at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Workshop Series funded in part by a generous gift from Scott Racine:
As is well known, on May 10, 2013, at a session of the American Bar Association Tax Section meeting in Washington, D.C., Lois Lerner, at the time the director of the Exempt Organization Division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS or Service), apologized for IRS mishandling of applications by Tea Party groups for exemption as social welfare groups under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code. A few days later, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) Inspector General released a report (TIGTA Report) concluding that the “IRS used inappropriate criteria that identified for review Tea Party and other organizations applying for tax-exempt status based upon their names or policy positions instead of indications of potential political campaign intervention.”
Brooks Presents Quasi-Public Spending Today At Pepperdine, UC-Irvine
John R. Brooks (Georgetown) presents Quasi-Public Spending, 104 Geo. L.J. ___ (2016), today at Pepperdine (as part of our Tax Policy Workshop Series funded in part by a generous gift from Scott Racine) and UC-Irvine (as part of its Tax Law and Policy Colloquium Series hosted by Omri Marian):
The United States has increasingly designed certain public spending programs not as traditional tax-financed programs, but rather as mixtures of private expenditures, subsidies, and limited taxes. Thus part of what could have gone to the government as a tax is instead used to purchase the good or service directly, with only incremental taxes and subsidies to manage distributional goals. This Article terms this “quasi-public spending,” and argues that it is descriptive of our evolving approaches to both health care and higher education.
Chodorow Presents Bitcoin, Foreign Currency, And The Case For Basis Pooling Today At Pepperdine
Adam Chodorow (Arizona State) presents Bitcoin, Foreign Currency, and the Case for Basis Pooling at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Workshop Series. The Pepperdine Tax Policy Workshop Series funded in part by a generous gift from Scott Racine:
The IRS recently dealt a blow to bitcoin enthusiasts by ruling that Bitcoin and other similar currencies should be treated as property – and not foreign currency – for income tax purposes. As a result, those who use bitcoin to purchase goods or services must report gain or loss on each transaction if the bitcoin has changed value between the time it was acquired and spent. The IRS’s decision seems correct as a matter of positive law, but laws can always be changed.
In this Article I consider whether bitcoin should be treated as a foreign currency for income tax purposes, which would permit bitcoin users to take advantage of the personal use exemption that applies to such currency. I conclude that it should not because the rationale for extending the personal use exemption to bitcoin is weak, at least from the government’s perspective. Moreover, expanding the definition of foreign currency could create significant line-drawing problems.
Marian Presents The State Administration Of International Tax Avoidance Today At Pepperdine
Omri Marian (UC-Irvine) presents The State Administration of International Tax Avoidance at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Workshop Series:
This Article documents a process in which a national tax administration in one jurisdiction, is consciously and systematically assisting taxpayers to avoid taxes in other jurisdictions. The aiding tax administration collects a small amount tax from the aided taxpayers. Such tax is functionally structured as a fee paid for government-provided tax avoidance services. Such behavior can be easily copied (and probably is copied) by other tax administrations. The implications are profound. On the normative front, the findings should fundamentally change our understanding of the concept of international tax competition. Tax competition is generally understood to be the adoption of low tax rates in order to attract investments into the jurisdiction. Instead, this Article identifies an intentional “bagger thy neighbor” behavior, aimed at attracting revenue generated by successful investments in other jurisdictions, without attracting actual investments. The result is a distorted competitive environment, in which revenue is denied from jurisdictions the infrastructure and workforce of which support economically productive activity. On the practical front, the findings suggest that internationally coordinated efforts to combat tax avoidance are misaimed. Current efforts are largely aimed at curtailing aggressive taxpayer behavior. Instead, the Article proposes that the focus of such efforts should be curtailing certain rogue practices adopted by national tax administrations.
Jan. 25 Omri Marian (UC-Irvine), The State Administration of International Tax Avoidance
Feb. 8 Adam Chodorow (Arizona State), Bitcoin, Foreign Currency, and the Case for Basis Pooling
Feb. 22 John Brooks (Georgetown), Quasi-Public Spending
Mar. 7 Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.), The Section 527 Obstacle to Meaningful Section 501(c)(4) Regulation
Mar. 28 Shuyi Oei (Tulane), The Tax Lives of Uber Drivers: Evidence from Internet Discussion Forums
Apr. 11 Jason Oh (UCLA), How the Rich Drive Progressive Marginal Tax Rates
Apr. 25 Lily Kahng (Seattle), Who Owns Human Capital?
I will of course blog each professor's paper on the day of their presentation. Southern California professors and practitioners are welcome to attend any of the sessions (11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.) -- just let me know.
Field Presents Aggressive Tax Planning and the Ethical Tax Lawyer Today at Pepperdine
Heather Field (UC-Hastings) presents Aggressive Tax Planning and the Ethical Tax Lawyer at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Colloquium Series:
[H]ow should a tax planner, who wants to engage in “permissible tax planning” but not cross the line over into “unethical loophole lawyering,” exercise her discretion and judgment? This paper seeks to answer this question by drawing on both (a) the extensive literature on lawyering and professionalism and (b) the social science literature regarding factors that contribute to biased decision-making and unintentional lapses in judgment. The explicit incorporation of these strands of literature into the discourse on tax ethics helps each tax planner operationalize, on an individual basis and in a way that aligns with her values, both the general and tax-specific rules of professional conduct. The existing tax ethics literature primarily focuses either on how to comply with the rules governing practice or on how the rules should be improved. Thus, this paper contributes to the literature by focusing on the issues that the rules leave to the discretion of the tax practitioner (rather than on the issues that the rules address) and by approaching the discussion from a lawyering perspective20 (rather than from a policymaking perspective).
Specifically, this paper argues that a lawyer seeking to pursue a career as an ethical tax planner should identify and implement her philosophy of lawyering to help her make difficult discretionary decisions in a principled way, and when implementing that approach to lawyering, she should work to counteract the subtle factors that can skew her professional judgment. ...
Ultimately, this paper argues that an important part of being an ethical tax planner, particularly when dealing with contestable tax positions, includes being deliberate about how one approaches the task of giving tax planning advice and being self-aware about the ways in which one exercises judgment. By fleshing out the concept of ethical tax planning, I hope to give our students confidence and guidance as they embark on (hopefully, ethical) careers as tax planners, and I hope to ease the tension between tax academics’ scholarly work condemning aggressive tax planning and their classroom work, in which they often teach students how to use those same tax planning techniques. And perhaps this limited defense of the ethics of the tax planning profession can help to rehabilitate the public image of tax lawyers.
Fleischer Presents Libertarianism and the Charitable Tax Subsidies Today at Pepperdine
Miranda Perry Fleischer (San Diego) presents Libertarianism and the Charitable Tax Subsidies at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Colloquium Series:
Although many Americans claim to subscribe to libertarian theories of justice, tax scholarship is largely silent about the interaction between libertarian principles and the structure of our tax system. This is not surprising, for what springs to mind when a legal academic hears the word “libertarianism” is Robert Nozick’s argument that taxation is slavery. If all taxation is indeed slavery, why bother analyzing libertarian principles for insights into our tax system? This dismissal, however, ignores the diversity of libertarian thought. To that end, this Article mines the nuances of libertarian theory for insights into one feature of our tax system: the charitable tax subsidies.
Exploring the nuances of libertarian theory yields some surprising results. Some strands of libertarian thought suggest that the charitable tax subsidies are in and of themselves illegitimate. These strands of libertarianism forbid not only redistribution but also anything except the most minimal provision of public goods needed to protect life and property, such as defense. Yet several other strands do see a role for the state to engage in a varying amount of redistribution or to provide varying amounts of public goods. On one spectrum are interpretations that admit that the state should play a role in providing public goods (strictly defined) and/or provide a provide a safety net to the very poorest but no more, and on the other is an interpretation of left-libertarianism that might support something akin to our current structure.
April 6, 2015 in Colloquia, Pepperdine Tax, Scholarship, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
Polsky Presents Private Equity Tax Games Today at Pepperdine
Gregg D. Polsky (North Carolina) presents A Compendium of Private Equity Tax Games at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Colloquium Series:
This paper will describe and analyze tax strategies, lawful and unlawful, used by private equity firms to minimize taxes. While one strategy — the use of “carried interest” — should by now be well understood by tax practitioners and academics, the others remain far more obscure. In combination, these strategies allow private equity managers to pay preferential tax rates on all of their risky pay (through carried interest), pay preferential tax rates on much of their non-risky pay (through management fee waivers and misallocations of their expense deductions), and push much of the residual non-risky pay down to their funds’ portfolio companies who, unlike the fund, can derive significant tax benefits from the resulting deductions (through monitoring fees and management fee offsets).
Oei Presents Can Sharing Be Taxed? Today at Pepperdine
Shu-Yi Oei (Tulane) presents Can Sharing Be Taxed? (with Diane M. Ring (Boston College)) at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Colloquium Series:
The past few years have seen the rise of a new model of production and consumption of goods and services, often referred to as the “sharing economy.” Fueled by startups such as Uber and Airbnb, sharing enables individuals to obtain rides, accommodations, and other goods and services from peers via the Internet or mobile application in exchange for payment. The rise of sharing has raised questions about how it should be regulated, including whether existing laws and regulations can and should be enforced in this new sector or whether new ones are needed.
In this Article, we explore those questions in the context of taxation. We argue that, contrary to the claims of some commentators, the application of substantive tax law to sharing is mostly (though not completely) clear, because current law generally contains the concepts and categories necessary to tax sharing. However, tax enforcement and compliance may present challenges, as a result of two distinctive features of sharing. First, some sharing businesses tend to opportunistically pick the more favorable regulatory interpretation if there is ambiguity regarding which rule applies or whether a rule applies. This leads to compliance and enforcement gaps. Second, the “microbusiness” nature of sharing raises unique compliance and enforcement concerns. We suggest strategies for addressing these dual challenges, including lower information reporting thresholds, safe harbors and advance rulings to simplify tax reporting, and targeted enforcement efforts.
Jordan M. Barry (San Diego) is the commentator. For more, see Jordan M. Barry & Paul L. Caron, Tax Regulation, Transportation Innovation, and the Sharing Economy, 82 U. Chi. L. Rev. Dialogue ___ (2015).
Kleinbard Presents We Are Better Than This Today at Pepperdine
Edward Kleinbard (USC) presents We Are Better Than This: How Government Should Spend Our Money at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Colloquium Series:
We Are Better Than This fundamentally reframes budget debates in the United States. Author Edward D. Kleinbard explains how the public's preoccupation with tax policy alone has obscured any understanding of government's ability to complement the private sector through investment and insurance programs that enhance the general welfare and prosperity of our society at large.
He argues that when we choose how government should spend and tax, we open a window into our "fiscal soul," because those choices are the means by which we express the values we cherish and the regard in which we hold our fellow citizens. Though these values are being diminished by short-sighted decisions to starve government, strategic government spending can directly make citizens happier, healthier, and even wealthier.
Expertly combining the latest economic research with his insider knowledge of the budget process into a simple yet compelling narrative, he unmasks the tax mythologies and false arguments that too often dominate contemporary discourse about budget policies. Large quantities of comparative data are succinctly distilled to situate the United States among its peer countries, so that readers can judge for themselves whether contemporary budget choices really reflect our aspirational fiscal soul,
Kleinbard's presentation takes a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on economics, finance, law, political science and moral philosophy. He uniquely weaves economic research and moral philosophy together by emphasizing our welfare, not just our national income, and by contrasting the actual beliefs of Adam Smith, a great moral philosopher, with the cartoon version of the man presented by proponents of the most extreme forms of private market triumphalism.
February 18, 2015 in Book Club, Colloquia, Pepperdine Tax, Scholarship, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
Caron Presents Faculty Scholarship Rankings and Law School Success Today at Pepperdine
Paul L. Caron (Pepperdine) presents Faculty Scholarship Rankings and Law School Success at Pepperdine today:
In What Law Schools Can Learn From Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Tex. L. Rev. 1483 (2004), Rafael Gely and I argued that legal education must use technology to develop more sophisticated measures of law school success and faculty contributions to law school success. Here, I use existing measures of faculty scholarly output (publications) and influence (law review citations, Google Scholar citations (H-Index and M-Index), and SSRN downloads) both to chart how Pepperdine's faculty compares with our competitors and to detail individual Pepperdine faculty contributions in these measures. I then offer some thoughts on what these existing ranking methodologies leave out in measuring faculty contributions to law school success. I argue that religious law schools are uniquely positioned to thrive in the midst of the law school crisis because our faith-fueled commitment to our students and to each other empowers us to better define the pathways to success for our schools, our students, and our faculties and equips us to make that journey together.
February 6, 2015 in Colloquia, Legal Education, Pepperdine Tax, Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0)
Graetz Presents The Tax Reform Road Not Taken -- Yet Today at Pepperdine
Michael J. Graetz (Columbia) presents The Tax Reform Road Not Taken -- Yet, 67 Nat'l Tax J. 419 (2014), at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Colloquium Series:
The United States has traveled a unique tax policy path, avoiding value added taxes (VATs), which have now been adopted by every OECD country and 160 countries worldwide. Moreover, many U.S. consumption tax advocates have insisted on direct personalized taxes that are unlike taxes used anywhere in the world. This article details a tax reform plan that uses revenues from a VAT to substantially reduce and reform our nation’s tax system. The plan would (1) enact a destination-based VAT; (2) use the revenue produced by this VAT to finance an income tax exemption of $100,000 of family income and to lower income tax rates on income above that amount; (3) lower the corporate income tax rate to 15 percent; and (4) protect low and-moderate-income workers from a tax increase through payroll tax credits and expanded refundable child tax credits. This revenue and distributionally neutral plan would stimulate economic growth, free more than 150 million Americans from having to file income tax returns, solve the difficult problems of international income taxation, and remove the temptation for Congress to use tax benefits as if they are solutions to the nation’s pressing social and economic problems.
Chodorow Presents Pope Francis, the Bible, and Tax Policy Today at Pepperdine
Adam Chodorow (Arizona State) presents Pope Francis, the Bible, and Tax Policy at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Colloquium Series:
What does the Bible actually say, either directly about taxes and tax-like institutions or indirectly about principles that should guide policymakers, regarding an appropriate tax system?
To what extent should the Bible or religious views guide votes or opinions on such secular policy matters?
Biblical Tax Systems and the Case for Progressive Taxation, 23 J.L. & Relig. 53 (2008):
With the political rise of the religious right, American policymakers have increasingly looked to religion for guidance on important policy issues, including questions of distributive justice and how best to allocate tax burdens. While many claim that Judeo-Christian values require progressivity, the examples of taxation found in the sacred texts apparently refute this claim. This article examines four examples of taxation found in the Bible and Talmud to determine whether it is appropriate to infer from them a Judeo-Christian principle of tax fairness that should apply in a modern, secular tax system. I find that, not only do these examples use different methods for allocating tax burdens, making it impossible to identify one principle, but, more important, each example bears the stamp of its religious purpose or historical circumstances, making it inappropriate to rely on these examples as evidence of a divinely-sanctioned principle of tax justice.
Adam's visit is sponsored by Pepeprdine's Diane and Guilford Glazer Institute for Jewish Studies.
Jan. 14 Adam Chodorow (Arizona State), Pope Francis, the Bible, and Tax Policy
Feb. 2 Michael Graetz (Columbia), The Tax Reform Road Not Taken -- Yet
Feb. 18 Ed Kleinbard (USC), We Are Better Than This: How Government Should Spend Our Money
Mar. 2 Shu-Yi Oei (Tulane), Human Equity? Regulating the New Income Share Agreements
Mar. 23 Gregg Polsky (North Carolina), Private Equity Tax Games
Apr. 6 Miranda Fleischer (San Diego), Libertarianism and the Charitable Tax Subsidies
Apr. 20 Heather Field (UC-Hastings), Aggressive Tax Planning and the Ethical Tax Lawyer
Barry Presents PPL and the Arbitrary Foreign Income Tax Credit Today at Pepperdine
Jordan M. Barry (San Diego) presents PPL and the Arbitrary Foreign Income Tax Credit at Pepperdine today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series hosted by Paul Caron:
Last year, the Supreme Court decided PPL v. Commissioner, ruling that the United Kingdom’s windfall tax qualifies for a U.S. foreign income tax credit. Even though the windfall tax only applies to a handful of taxpayers, economists and tax experts nationwide closely followed the PPL litigation: The foreign income tax credit a key provision of the U.S. tax code and a major component of U.S. economic policy. The rules surrounding the foreign income tax credit are quite intricate, and there is relatively little authoritative guidance to help taxpayers navigate them. And since the Supreme Court decides foreign income tax credit cases so rarely, the Court’s reasoning in PPL will likely influence courts’ thinking—and taxpayers’ pocketbooks—for many years to come.
Unfortunately, the Court’s decision in PPL does little to clarify the law and guide taxpayers. Instead, it reveals the fundamentally arbitrary nature of the foreign income tax credit.
The Court justifies its ruling as a triumph of substance over form. But the Court’s opinion itself demonstrates how two taxes can be the same in substance, yet be treated quite differently for purposes of the foreign income tax credit. The Court describes a specific hypothetical tax that would not be creditable—yet there are multiple taxes that are substantively identical to the Court’s hypothetical tax, but qualify for significant foreign income tax credits.
This Article explores these conceptual problems with the foreign income tax credit, as demonstrated by PPL, and suggests several ways in which Congress and the IRS might wish to ameliorate them.
Fleischer Presents Innovation, Equity Compensation, and the New Inequality Today at Pepperdine
Victor Fleischer (San Diego) presents Sweat Equity: Innovation, Equity Compensation, and the New Inequality at Pepperdine today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series hosted by Paul Caron:
How people get paid—not just how much—explains the rising income inequality in the United States. Company founders, corporate executives, real estate developers, venture capitalists, and private equity fund managers often get paid in “sweat equity.” In exchange for labor, they receive equity in a venture largely financed with other people’s money. Globalization, technological change, and other factors have created economic conditions such that when companies are successful, those with sweat equity can receive unprecedented increases in income and wealth, and these gains are increasingly concentrated among a select few. For the rest of us, wages have stagnated.
The culture of equity-based pay has proven highly successful as a solution to the fundamental problem of entrepreneurial economics: how to get people with financial capital to share it with those who have the talent, motivation, and ideas. From the oil fields of Texas to the garages of Silicon Valley and the trading desks and boardrooms of Wall Street, sweat equity aligns the incentives of managers and investors. It is the engine of American innovation and economic growth.
But sweat equity is also rocket fuel for economic inequality. Economic gains increasingly flow to a lucky and talented elite, the one percent of the one percent, leaving everyone else behind. Our tax code aggravates the inequality problem, leaving sweat equity lightly taxed while taxes on wages have increased dramatically. The common recommendation of the political left—raise taxes on the rich—misses the target by focusing on ordinary income rather than sweat equity.
Addressing the problem of inequality will require finding fair methods of redistribution that do not disrupt the complex economic, legal, institutional and cultural infrastructure that forms the foundation for American innovation and entrepreneurship. Possibilities include redesigning the capital gains tax, adopting a progressive consumption tax, redesigning the estate tax, and increasing incentives for charitable giving. We must achieve enough redistribution to ensure some social mobility and some equality of opportunity, but not so much that the next generation of founders finds the risk and reward of entrepreneurship unattractive.
Lawsky Presents How Tax Models Work Today at Pepperdine
Sarah B. Lawsky (UC-Irvine) presents How Tax Models Work, 54 B.C. L. Rev. 1657 (2012), at Pepperdine today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series hosted by Paul Caron:
Unlike many social and physical sciences, legal scholarship includes little or no discussion of what models mean, how they are connected to the real world of law and policy, or how they should, and should not, be used by legal scholars. This void exists notwithstanding legal scholarship’s increasing reliance on explicit modeling in fields such as law and economics. This Article uses the example of economic modeling in tax scholarship to investigate how legal scholarship uses models, and how models in legal scholarship work. The Article lays out a path between two extremes. At one extreme is scholarship that employs models without either reflection or self-consciousness to make real-world recommendations; at the other is scholarship that rejects models because their assumptions are too far from reality. This Article argues that neither approach is correct. Models are useful and important for legal scholarship, but not in the way that some critics and proponents seem to believe. Drawing from literature in the philosophy of science, this Article argues that we reason from economic models through a mix of deductive and ampliative logic, through leaps, creativity, and intuition. Models cannot provide certainty about what the law should be; rather, economic models are merely one kind of voice in an ongoing and necessarily inconclusive conversation. This Article concludes by drawing on this deeper understanding of models and modeling to propose ways that legal scholarship can and should use economic models.
See also Sarah B. Lawsky, Modeling Uncertainty in Tax Law, 65 Stanford L. Rev. 241 (2013).
Galle Presents Nonprofit Executive Pay as an Agency Problem Today at Pepperdine
Brian D. Galle (Boston College) presents Nonprofit Executive Pay as an Agency Problem: Evidence from U.S. Colleges and Universities (with David I. Walker (Boston University)) at Pepperdine today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series hosted by Paul Caron:
We analyze the determinants of the compensation of private college and university presidents from 1999 through 2007. We find that the fraction of institutional revenue derived from current donations is negatively associated with compensation and that presidents of religiously-affiliated institutions receive lower levels of compensation. Looking at the determinants of contributions, we find a negative association between presidential pay and subsequent donations. We interpret these results as consistent with the hypotheses that donors to nonprofits are sensitive to executive pay and that stakeholder outrage plays a role in constraining that pay. We discuss the implications of these findings for the regulation of nonprofits and for our broader understanding of the pay-setting process at for-profit as well as nonprofit organizations.
Brian D. Galle (Boston College) & David I. Walker (Boston University), Sunshine, Stakeholders, and Executive Pay: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach:
We evaluate the effect of highly salient disclosure of private college and university president compensation on subsequent donations using a quasi-experimental research design. Using a differences-in-discontinuities approach to compare institutions that are highlighted in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s annual "top 10" list of most highly-compensated presidents against similar others, we find that appearing on a top 10 list is associated with reduced average donations of approximately 4.5 million dollars in the first full fiscal year following disclosure, despite greater fundraising efforts at "top 10" schools. We also find some evidence that top 10 appearances slow the growth of compensation, while increasing fundraising and enrollment, in subsequent years. We interpret these results as consistent with the hypothesis that donors care about compensation and react negatively to high levels of pay, on average; but (absent highly-salient disclosures) are not fully informed about pay levels. Thus, while donors represent a potential source of monitoring and discipline with respect to executive pay in the nonprofit sector, significant agency problems remain. We discuss the implications of these findings for the regulation of nonprofits and for our broader understanding of the pay-setting process at for-profit as well as nonprofit organizations.
Osofsky Presents Beyond Worst-First Tax Enforcement Today at Pepperdine
Leigh Osofsky (Miami) presents Beyond Worst-First Tax Enforcement at Pepperdine today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series hosted by Paul Caron:
When enforcement resources are limited, how should the scarce enforcement resources be allocated to maximize compliance with the law? The answer to this question can determine to what extent the law on the books translates to the law in practice. A dominant school of thought in the tax literature suggests that they should be allocated based on a “worst-first” method, whereby the individuals likely to be most noncompliant are targeted. However, “worst-first” methods suffer some underappreciated weaknesses. While “worst-first” methods can encourage all individuals to increase compliance so as not to be deemed the “worst,” they can also provide cover to engage in noncompliance that is perceived moderate for the relevant population. This dynamic can become most problematic in highly noncompliant populations. In such populations, existing, high levels of noncompliance, and underlying, structural causes of the high noncompliance can serve as coordinating mechanisms, providing mutual assurance of low compliance. Moreover, “worst-first” theories do not provide a comprehensive explanation for the group and project-based enforcement practices that are found in a number of actual enforcement settings. In response to these deficits in existing theory, I draw on work from across different disciplines to develop a new layer of analysis regarding the allocation of scarce tax enforcement resources. I suggest that, under certain conditions, deterrence can be enhanced by allocating scarce enforcement resources among a low-compliance population of taxpayers through a process I call microdeterrence. After setting forth the theoretical case for microdeterrence, I examine how it might apply in the cash business tax sector, a setting that presents particular challenges for “worst-first” methods. I conclude that microdeterrence may increase compliance, meriting its application and empirical evaluation. More fundamentally, this Article underscores the importance of the allocation of scarce enforcement resources, some of the deficits in existing theory, and the potential benefits of integrating additional layers of analysis.
Caron Presents Revitalizing the Estate Tax: Five Easy Pieces Today at Pepperdine
Paul L. Caron (Pepperdine) presents Revitalizing the Estate Tax: Five Easy Pieces, 142 Tax Notes ___ (2014) (with James R. Repetti (Boston College)) at Pepperdine today as part of its Faculty Workshop Series:
In The Estate Tax Non-Gap, Why Repeal a Voluntary Tax?, 20 Stan. L. & Pol'y Rev. 153 (2009), we argued that, contrary to the state of the law over thirty-five years ago when George Cooper wrote his seminal article, A Voluntary Tax? New Perspectives on Sophisticated Estate Tax Avoidance, 77 Colum. L. Rev. 161 (1977), taxpayers today generally “can reduce the value of assets subject to transfer tax in many instances only if they are willing to assume the risk that the reduction may be economically real and reduce the actual value of assets transferred to heirs or, alternatively, in narrow situations if they are willing to incur some tax risk.” In Occupy the Tax Code: Using the Estate Tax to Reduce Inequality and Spur Economic Growth, 40 Pepp. L. Rev. 1255 (2013), we documented the dramatic increase in income and wealth inequality over the past thirty years and the accompanying adverse social consequences and long-term negative impact on economic growth. We argued that tax policy historically has played an important role in reducing inequality and that the estate tax is a particularly apt reform vehicle in light of the role of inherited assets among the very rich and the adverse economic effects of such inherited wealth. In this article, we advance five estate and gift tax reform proposals that will generate needed revenue, reduce inequality, and contribute to economic growth: (1) disallow minority discounts where the transferred asset or business is controlled by family before and after the transfer; (2) maintain parity between the unified credit exemption amount for the estate tax and gift tax; (3) reduce the wealth transfer tax exemptions to $3.5 million, increase the maximum tax rate to 45 percent, and limit the GST exemption period to 50 years; (4) restrict the ability of gifts made in trust to qualify for the gift tax annual exclusion; and (5) impose a lifetime cap on the amount that can be contributed to a Grantor-Retained Annuity Trust (“GRAT”).
Winchester Presents Carried Interest for the Common Man Today at Pepperdine
Richard Winchester (Thomas Jefferson) presents Carried Interest for the Common Man at Pepperdine today as part of our Tax Policy Colloquium Series:
In recent years, the public has become increasingly aware of the compensation arrangement known as carried interest, which permits private equity fund managers to pay tax at obscenely low rates on obscenely high earnings for their work. The publicity has led Congress to consider no fewer than eight separate pieces of legislation since 2007 to increase the tax on carried interest. Much of the energy behind this movement seems to be grounded in a concern that the tax system currently allows certain rich individuals to gain an advantage that is not available to anyone else. However, that is not entirely accurate. For years, huge numbers of ordinary self-employed people have been able to limit the tax on their earnings when they conduct their business through a formal business entity instead of as a sole proprietor. These business structures produce the same objectionable results as a carried interest arrangement. They just happen to be utilized by the common man. It is long past time for Congress to address this inequity in a comprehensive way with the same energy that it is devoting to addressing the taxation of carried interest.
Update: Post-presentation dinner:
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Bangladesh 30th most infected country, as cases cross 22,000
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17 May, 2020, 07:15 pm
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Bangladesh is now the 30th most infected country in terms of confirmed Covid-19 cases, with more than 22,000 positive cases as of Sunday morning.
During the last 24 hours, 1,273 new cases have been detected, taking the number of confirmed cases to 22,268.
During the same period, 14 new deaths were registered, taking the total death count to 328, according to the health ministry data.
With as many as 91,314 confirmed cases, neighbouring India is the 11th most infected country worldwide and second in Asia.
Bangladesh is 9th among Asian countries, just below the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The UAE has only 359 cases more than Bangladesh.
India also surpassed China in terms of confirmed Covid-19 cases yesterday.
China, the origin country of Covid-19, is now at 13th position and has so far reported 82,947 positive cases and 4,633 deaths.
Meanwhile, Western Asian and world's 18th most populous country Iran topped among the Asian countries in terms of the number of positive cases. The country so far confirmed 118,392 positive cases of the novel coronavirus, with 6,937 deaths.
Inside Bangladesh
The number of positive cases in Dhaka crossed 9,000, which is 59.09 percent of the total confirmed cases as of May 16, according to the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).
Outside Dhaka, Chattogram on Saturday saw a big rise in Covid-19 cases with 66 being tested positive in a day, followed by Rangpur with 40, Chuadanga with 38. Chattogram is currently in the 3rd position among the districts in terms of confirmed cases with 619 testing positive so far.
The 2nd most infected district is Narayanganj. The district saw 35 new cases on Saturday with 1,400 testing positive for the virus so far.
Cox's Bazar, Feni, Gazipur, Cumilla, Jashore, Noakhali, Joypurhat have also seen some large increases in the number of positive Covid-19 cases recently.
This is a clear sign that the outbreak of Covid-19 is currently at the community level. More than 8,100 tests were conducted on the last day, taking the total number of tests to over 1.75 lakh so far.
By testing 8,114 samples on Sunday, Bangladesh found 15.7 percent of them positive. This is the second-largest daily confirmed cases per 100 tests.
The previous record was 17.7 percent on April 20. On that day, 492 among 2,779 samples came positive.
Earlier on Thursday, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said that the number of tests conducted to diagnose Covid-19 would be increased to 15,000 per day.
If it's done, with today's rate, Bangladesh will see more than 2,350 positive cases every day.
Amid the increasing number of positive cases across the country, the government allowed some apparel factories and shopping spots to reopen, which increased the risk of the virus spreading to more people.
Globally, more than 4,739,000 people have so far been infected in 188 countries with the highly contagious coronavirus, and more than 313,000 deaths have been recorded, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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Kohli asks players to respect bio-secure protocols during IPL
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RCB skipper Virat Kohli at the nets. Photo: RCB Twitter
After being postponed for more than five months, the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 edition is set to take off from September 19 in the UAE. The tournament will take place within bio-secure protocols laid down by the BCCI and IPL governing body.
On this regard, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) skipper Virat Kohli has said that the players must respect the bio-secure protocols and should feel privileged to play under such circumstances.
"We are all here to play cricket. The bio-bubble needs to be respected at all times for the tournament to happen eventually," Kohli said on RCB's Youtube show 'Bold Diaries'.
The Indian skipper added, "Accept the phase that we are going through and understand the privilege that we have, just to be a part of the IPL. Everyone should accept that and not behave in a manner which situation doesn't require them to."
Kohli also talked about his first net sessions for RCB. He said that he felt nervous heading to the nets and added that nobody thought a couple of months ago that IPL would take place.
"A couple of months back you couldn't imagine that you will have IPL firstly. When we had our practice session yesterday, I realised how long it has been. When I was heading to the practice session, I felt nervous. I felt a bit jittery but things were okay. I didn't miss the game as much as I thought I might...just carrying on with life was also important," added the RCB skipper.
Virat Kohli / Royal Challengers Bangalore / Indian Premier League
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Learning from policy failure: Bangladesh and the Covid-19 crisis
Dr Asif M Shahan
09 June, 2020, 10:30 am
Last modified: 09 June, 2020, 10:34 am
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Covid-19 crisis is probably the “wickedest” problem that we have faced in our lifetime and as such, it required a quick scanning of the environment and a quick definition of the problem which unfortunately did not happen in Bangladesh
One of the biggest problems of public policy design is - it is not and cannot always be objective. We love to use the term evidence-based policy and argue passionately about the need for evidence in shaping solutions.
That may work in a utopia but not in real life. In the real world, the question of values become important and politics often play a bigger role in determining policy outcome.
Henceforth, policy design is something that must be problem-oriented, scientific, methodologically sound, and yet, paradoxically, value-oriented. This is a puzzle that every country faces, and none can deal with properly.
It is important to understand that in designing policy, the most important thing is identifying and defining the public policy problem.
We can "see" a problem but to make it 'policy worthy', we need to define it, narrow it down properly and understand its different aspects.
Otherwise, it is simply not possible to determine what the policy purpose should be, which goals we should emphasise on, which options we should consider and which policy instruments we should utilise. This is the most important first step in designing policy.
In policy studies, the term "wicked problem" is quite well-known. Wicked problems are not day to day regular problems and instead, they are multi-dimensional, challenge the status quo and may very well require solutions and analysis that are non-incremental, innovative, and multi-dimensional.
Wicked problems force the government to move away from "parallel processing" and jump into "serial processing" as it requires the adoption of a collaborative approach where the GOs and the NGOs need to work together.
Covid-19 crisis is probably the "wickedest" problem that we have faced in our lifetime and as such, it required a quick scanning of the environment and a quick definition of the problem which unfortunately did not happen in Bangladesh.
The thing is, most of the countries that went through the crisis managed to define the problem quite well even when they failed to respond properly.
The eventual denial often resulted in sound problem definition.
It is likely that countries like USA or Canada or even Italy defined the problem as "lack of preparedness" of the health sector and flattening the curve became an important policy option which was often utilized through tools like social distancing or lockdown.
Sweden and the UK (initially) defined the problem differently way and so did Belarus. The question, however, is- how did Bangladesh define the problem?
To be honest, we do not know.
There was that initial problem denial phase when both the religious and the political leaders agreed that we had nothing to worry about and we were more powerful than corona and that phase continued even after the country kept identifying corona patients.
The interesting thing is- in Bangladesh, we chose the option first and tried to fit the problem accordingly. We went for "long vacations" without making it clear why we were adopting it.
And we clearly failed to identify the policy problem properly as we decided that our problem was "failure to enforce lockdown". That is probably one of the most ridiculous things that we have done.
The thing is, as we failed to define the problem clearly, the government could not explain why they were focusing on lockdown, the citizens did not understand what was going on and even the business or the private sector did not get a clear signal from the government.
Furthermore, since it is the "wickedest" of the problems, it had/has different dimensions- the public health dimension focusing mostly on the health system's capacity to deal with the pandemic, the economic dimension emphasising on either supporting the poor or opening up the market, the social dimension reflecting citizen's lack of understanding or lack of trust and the administrative dimension focusing on the implementation of the policy solutions.
We clearly failed to identify the policy problem properly as we decided that our problem was “failure to enforce lockdown”. Photo: Saikat Bhadra
What we needed was comprehensive planning addressing all these dimensions - something that remained absent. Here is what we could have done instead.
Defining the problem
Most probably we could define the policy problem while focusing on two different issues- health system and economic vulnerability. From this perspective, probably the policy problem could be- "inadequate capacity of the health and economic system to support the most vulnerable ones".
The defining problem in this way would have allowed the government to go for a collaborative approach in finding solutions.
At the same time, it would have been made clear to everyone that the government would concentrate on building/ rebuilding the capacity of the health system while protecting the poor during their toughest time allowing the relevant actors to strategise accordingly.
Determining the purpose and the goal
The government initially had three options- eliminate the crisis (which is not possible), contain (the logical one that the government chose) and status-quo (not possible). It was important for the government to make clear that it was going for a containment strategy, i.e. its purpose is to contain it.
In other words, the government could have concentrated on solving the problem by building the capacity of the health system and to achieve that end, it could look for different options.
Unfortunately, the government failed to distinguish between means and ends encouraging many to think that "vacation" or lockdown is the end. Henceforth, the market got a wrong signal, panicked, forced the workers to come back and people decided to flee the city.
At the same time, goal-wise, the government could have made it clear that in solving the policy problem we needed to focus on three issues- first, we had to concentrate on efficiency and thus, making the health system efficient could become a top-priority; second, we had to emphasise on equity and could ensure that equitable support and distribution for all were ensured and third, initially, we needed to focus on security even at the expense of liberty and that is why ensuring effective enforcement of lockdown and social distancing should get priority. We did not choose the goals wisely.
Choosing the option
We did choose probably the right option but without consulting the health sector and system experts, without considering policy goals and without calculating the consequences.
As it turns out, we did not try to translate these options into policy actions properly and thus implemented them haphazardly. At the same time, as mentioned earlier, we chose the options as ends and not as means to end.
Choosing the instruments
Surprisingly, the government's performances are mixed in case of choosing and utilising the policy tools/ instruments.
Some of these tools like information sharing, exhortation were not introduced and applied properly, some did not work so far (e.g. treasure in terms of financial incentives), some had mixed results (using authority to make people stay at home) and other worked quite well (innovative solutions at the local level).
Again, this has happened not because of the success of the policy makers at the top (who often could not identify the right tool) but because of the commitment of the frontline-administrators. The thing is we need to learn quickly as the crisis is far from over. We need to go for a two-stage problem definition.
First of all, we need to identify and define short-term problems, i.e. the issues that need to be addressed within the shortest possible time and secondly, we need to consider how things will when and if the second wave arrives in winter.
We have to start thinking now, consult with the policy experts and health sector professionals, economist, sociologists and local government experts and based on that, define future problems, determine the purpose and goal, identify the target population, determine the options to choose from and start working on the policy instruments. We do not have much time.
Dr Asif M Shahan, is Associate Professor at Department of Development Studies, University of Dhaka
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In recent years, Brotherhood has supported many worthwhile projects, both inside and outside the Temple. We sponsor a Scholarship for TBT High School Students to participate in any of the NFTY Israel programs. One of our outside activities has been sponsorship of the Wyandanch Project’s Annual excursion to a baseball game.
On the social scene, Brotherhood’s Annual Bowling Night is a big draw. Outings to sports events have regularly been huge successes. Brotherhood also co-sponsors Temple Beth Torah events and functions. Temple Beth Torah Brotherhood sponsors a softball team in the age 30 and over Nassau/Suffolk Temple league. The team begins practice indoors in March and the season runs Sunday mornings from Spring through August.
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What The New President of France Macron Means for the Fintech Sector.
By Angela Scott-Briggs
The election of Emmanuel macron as the new president of France is anticipated to have a positive impact on the fintech sector in France and the development of the financial sector at large. Macron is fond of new technologies and passionate about better economic performance in both France and the European Union at large. He was born in Amiens, France in 1977 and is married to Brigitte Trogneux, who is 24 years his senior.
During his reign as the economy minister in the government of former president Francois Hollande, Macron was very particular in advocating for free market policies and the reduction of public finance deficit. He has denied being a socialist and explained that he had accepted the position of minister in the leftist government simply to serve the public interest. Indeed, he did not contest for the presidency on either the left leaning or right leaning political parties but formed his own centrist movement, En Marche!
Macron’s progressive approach to the economy is evident in his unequivocal advocacy for the economic overhaul. He is known to have backed the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the European Union and Canada. Macron is also pro-EU. According to Mourtaza Asad Syed of Yomoni, Macron greatly supported the fintech sector when he served as the economy minister. In particular, he made several initiatives including European convergences like the Payments Service Directive, implementation of banking mobility and co-regulation based on the British sandbox model.
Macron’s approach to the economy and trade including with other countries is undoubtedly conducive to the fintech sector which has thrived partly as a result of trade between different countries. Particularly, European fintech startups have thrived because companies in one country are able to do business with other companies located in other countries with ease.
Significantly, Macron has a finance background, having worked for Rothschild, an investment bank, for four years. During his career in banking, he learnt the ropes of mergers, acquisitions, and debt restructuring, consequently earning the nickname, “the Mozart of finance” after advising Nestle on its acquisition of a Pfizer unit for $12 billion in 2012. While at Rothschild, he found himself at the centre of French business intrigues.
Macron has also dealt with technology companies. For instance, he was part of a team that advised Thierry Breton as chief executive of the technology firm Atos regarding the purchase of Siemens IT unit in 2010. As a junior officer, Macron was in charge of drawing financial models on excel and other software.
Oliver Goy, the founder and president of Lendix, met Macron who gave a talk at the Fintech Revolution, a French fintech event conducted in 2016. According to the conversation they had at the event, Goy asserts that Macron is keen on supporting further development of the fintech sector.
Fintech innovators in Europe can surely count on Macron to champion a better fintech environment. Moreover, he is already aiming at making Paris the Financial Center of the world. So, France is one of the Fintech Countries to watch from now till 2022.
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T. Glynn & M. Berryman & Y. Langdon & S. McDonald (2003) Bilingual literacy gains from classroom language and literacy strategies for beginning Māori second language learners: Final Report.. Ministry of Education Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga
Bilingual literacy gains from classroom language and literacy strategies for beginning Māori second language learners: Final Report. Wellington: Ministry of Education. This publication is not currently available online. Visit your local library or contact Waikato University for advice on obtaining this publication.
T. Glynn & C. Richardson & M. Berryman & R. Bishop (2001) Diagnostic assessment tools in Māori medium education: Stocktake and preliminary evaluation: Final report to the Ministry of Education (2001). Ministry of Education Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga
The purpose of the stocktake/evaluation was “to determine which Māori-medium diagnostic tools are currently used in New Zealand to assess student’s achievement in reading, writing and mathematics in the first 4 to 5 years of instruction.” The study also sought to identify gaps in current provisions and potential areas for development.
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Montreal Canadiens Head Coach Michel Therrien Was Right
By Ryan Szporer May 13th, 2015
Montreal Canadiens head coach Michel Therrien got it right, following his team’s final game of the season against the Tampa Bay Lightning. He just chose the wrong words.
Therrien: “I felt that physically and mentally we were drained. It’s disappointing but I guess those things happen.” #HabsIO
— Dave Stubbs (@Dave_Stubbs) May 13, 2015
Canadiens vs. Lightning, aka the Better Team
There’s no debating that the Lightning were the better team in Game 6. If the 4-1 final score wasn’t an indicative enough metric to justify such a statement in your eyes, it’s your lucky day (well, luckier morning after, anyway). You have your pick of many that say the exact same thing.
Following a trend that likely determined the outcome of the series, the Canadiens got out-powerplayed one goal versus zero
Meanwhile, the Canadiens got out-faceoffed 36-26
And, in spite of holding the edge in shots each game up to Tuesday, 173-127 overall, the Habs got outshot with their fates on the line 28-19
What is perhaps the most damning stat of the night is that, despite getting outshot, the Canadiens got outhit 33-22. Think about that for a second… and how it’s illegal to hit someone without the puck… and how the Lightning had the puck most of the night.
For whatever reason, the Lightning just seemed to want it more.
Really, only a fool would argue that the Canadiens deserved to win the series based on that effort. So, even though Therrien is receiving some heat for arguably throwing his team under the bus, give credit where credit is due: in this era of cookie-cutter quotes that don’t really say anything, Therrien opted to tell the truth. He was disappointed.
All of Habs fandom is with you on that one. However, it isn’t that Montreal got eliminated that is truly disappointing. After they fell behind 3-0, most fans out there were just grateful to get to watch two more games and dare to dream. It’s the way they lost that has thrown fans for a loop after they had played so well for most of the series up to that point.
You can argue that they deserved a better fate as a result. But at the end of the day the better team won. Better teams don’t fall behind 3-0. Better teams don’t get scored on with literally one second left in that all-important third game. Better teams show up consistently when their season is on the line, even in losing.
So, Therrien is understandably disappointed in his team and in himself. He did use “we” in that “drained” quote after all. One can only hope that he meant it, because the failure is his as well.
Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price – Eric Bolte-USA TODAY Sports)
The main problem with what he said? The last part, the somewhat-apathetic “I guess those things happen” part. Those things are not supposed to. Especially not for the second straight season, after the Canadiens got eliminated in similar fashion in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Final against the New York Rangers, listlessly getting 18 shots on goal in a 1-0 defeat. Hey! What do you know? They improved!
I guess they were physically and mentally drained then too. Of course, they didn’t have Carey Price for most of that series, so no one really questioned that earlier-than-hoped-for elimination, even though a lack of quality of goaltending was not what did them in, in the end.
Ironically, it may have this year. However, seeing as Carey Price, who allowed 16 goals in six games on 154 shots (.896 save percentage) in the series, is the main reason Montreal got as far as it did, it’s hard to throw any of the blame in his direction.
It’s Therrien’s job to properly prepare his team for each game. He by and large did it most of the series. He didn’t do it properly ahead of Game 6. I guess those things happen too, as evidenced by all those first periods this season when the Habs came out flat.
Montreal Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin and head coach Michel Therrien – (Eric Bolte-US PRESSWIRE)
Therrien will not get fired, nor does he really deserve to. For all intents and purposes, he’s coached the Canadiens to three straight 100-point seasons, getting to the second round twice and the third round once, exceeding expectations on at least two of those occasions (in 2013, the Habs were coming off a third-to-last-place finish).
Love him or hate his dump-and-chase coaching tactics, that’s the resume of a pretty successful coach. And his success behind the bench, especially in 2013-14, has justifiably earned him some slack. Losing in the second round, even had the Habs been swept, is not proper cause for dismissal, especially for a team supposedly in transition.
It was an undeniably great 50-win, 110-point, Atlantic Division-championship season. But it can be built on. And, so, general manager Marc Bergevin has his priorities for this offseason. Looking for a new coach is not one of them. Finding a new buzzword should be.
“Disappointing” should meanwhile be stricken from everyone’s dictionaries moving forward. If it creeps up again this same time next year, that’s a step back instead.
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Running out of timeouts
As pandemic continues, basketball players are stuck in a tug-of-war between state regulations and the IHSA’s desire to get players safely onto the court
The 2019-20 boys basketball team gets fired up before a game against Cary-Grove on January 8 in the West Main Gym. This season’s basketball season has been disrupted due to COVID-19 restrictions handed down from both the governor and the IHSA.
Kylie Chisamore, Sports Editor
Basketballs dribbled up and down the court, sneakers squeaking from the freshly waxed gym floors, crowds cheering as another three points are scored—all of this seems to be the dreams of many basketball athletes this winter. But the basketball season has officially been paused.
As of November 20, IHSA put winter sports on hold until they reevaluated the risk of proceeding with the winter seasons on December 2.
“All IHSA sports and activities will cease by November 20 for what we hope is a short-term pause,” said Craig Anderson, IHSA executive director. “Given the rising COVID-19 cases in our state and region, we support the governor’s mitigations and believe it is imperative for everyone in the state to do their part in following them so that we can return to high school sports participation as soon as possible.”
“Basketball being on pause sucks, everything feels weird nowadays,” says senior Brian Jordan. “Normally we’d have a Thanksgiving tournament but we didn’t have anything going on and it doesn’t feel right.”
This pause includes all open gym and conditioning sessions. Teams, however, can have outdoor workouts in groups of ten or fewer. IHSA also states that “coaches cannot organize non-school participation in any fashion.”
Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Public Health had put an end to medium and high risk sport back in October, pushing them to be played in the spring. However, IHSA went against these recommendations and continued on with all winter sports. With the safety of athletes being put at risk, many insurance companies would not insure the schools causing many of them to drop out of the IHSA’s season. This resulted in the calendar for winter sports being shortened significantly and pushed back to not start until February or even later.
“When school and other social interactions have been taken away, not having sports causes isolation,” said Rob Niemic, head girls basketball coach. “One thing that we must keep in mind is that, at one point, things will improve. Things may not be back to the past normal, but we will be able to get back competing and back in the schools and do other social opportunities that will exist again too.”
MCHS’s boys and girls basketball teams are prepared to begin their season as soon as the IHSA gives approval. However while waiting for their seasons to begin, the athletes have to navigate the plethora of freetime they now have on their hands.
“It has also been super challenging because now we have a bunch of downtime that we have to fill, which would’ve been spent practicing and playing games,” said sophomore Lynette Alsot. “I think that all of this downtime has not only affected our bodies and increased our boredom, but it has also affected our mental health.”
During this pause in the season, coaches have been doing their part to try and help players with their mental health by working to keep spirits up.
“I try to keep encouraging our athletes by having them plan for the future as they will have something to look forward to when things begin to normalize,” said Niemic.
Niemic has also been sending messages of encouragement to his players encouraging them to continue believing in a season. These messages impact the players and keep them going through a difficult time.
“Coach Niemic has been sending out messages and videos that keep our hope up and most importantly to remind us to keep persevering through these unique and uncertain times,” said Alsot. “As teammates, we have been staying in touch with each other, and that helps us by supporting one another and just knowing that we are there for each other.”
“We should just control what we can control,” explains Jordan, reciting advice coaches gave him these past few weeks. He says this is what all players should hear in these frustrating times, and this advice is helpful to those in shock, sorrow, or a state of disbelief.
Coaches and players still have high hopes for a future season in basketball. They are anxious to get back on the court and play hard as soon as it is safe for them to do so. In all of these decisions, the safety and health of all players and coaches have taken priority.
Additional reporting for this story by Emma Snyder.
Kylie Chisamore is a junior at McHenry High School's West Campus. She loves volunteering with our Key Club and managing sports teams. She loves horror movies and musicals (especially "Heathers"). Kylie has joined in hope of voicing the unheard voices of MCHS.
Madison Harvey
Madison Harvey is a freshman at West Campus. When she's not playing softball or volleyball, she likes to write, read, bake, and experiment with a camera. She is excited to learn and grow as a journalist and photographer.
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8 Differences | Marvel’s Thor vs. The Original Norse Thor
Posted by weblog | Apr 15, 2020 | People | 0 |
All those Marvel’s Fans, Who would have thoughted there are Two Thor Marvel’s Thor vs Original Norse Thor. We did a comprehensive research on both Marvel’s Thor vs Original Norse Thor.
The Thor that most people in this day and age are familiar with made his debut in 1962 in the science fiction comic, titled “Journey into Mystery”. And this the adaptation which Hollywood chose to portray through its superhero movies in the last decade.
However, did you know that the God of Thunder has been tickling people’s imaginations since the time of the Roman Empire?
Thor was a God in Norse mythology and was both feared and worshipped by the Scandinavian and the German people of antiquity.
Stan Lee’s depiction of Thor differs from the original Norse Thor in quite a few ways. Here are 8 Differences | Marvel’s Thor vs. The Original Norse Thor
1- Thor’s Beard and Hair Color
Thor, as presented in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has a blonde beard and blonde hair.
However, according to the manuscripts related to antiquity, the original Norse Thor was touched by fire, meaning, he had a red beard and red hair.
2- Thor’s relationship status
In the Marvel’s version of Thor, he is depicted as continually chasing Jane Foster, a woman who is from Earth. In the first two volumes of MCU Thor, Jane Foster has been given a significant role, however, in the third volume she is nowhere to be found and later in the Infinity War saga we learn that poor Thor has been dumped by his human girlfriend.
The Norse version of Thor’s love life is not so dramatic. On the contrary, he is married and has two children and lives in a 540 room mansion named the “Place of Might”, which is the biggest in Asgard. His wife’s name is Sif(the woman he trains within the first two Thor Movies), and the two boys are named Trudi and Modi. However, Thor has a third son, which he adopted by the name of Ullr.
3- Hela, the daughter of Loki
In the MCU, Hella is depicted as the sour and vengeful daughter of Odin, making her the elder sister of Thor.
In Norse mythology, things are a bit complicated. Hella is Loki’s daughter. As per Norse folklore, Loki has fathered many children, including the big bad black wolf seen in MCU’s Ragnarok.
4- Loki the Destroyer
The third volume of Thor called Ragnarok, Loki lends a hand to Thor throughout the movie, going as far as helping him reign in Hela.
In Norse mythology, Loki is not so generous, to the contrary, he helps the bad guys in destroying Asgard. In the Norse folklore, Loki backstabs his fellow comrades and sides with the Old Gods to take down Asgard.
5- Thor is Loki’s nephew
Everyone who has been following the Marvel’s depiction of Thor, knows Loki to be the eccentric stepbrother of Thor, who was adopted by Odin at the climax of Asgard’s great war with Giants.
As per Norse lore, Loki is the vengeful stepbrother of Odin All-father, who has severe grievances regarding his position in Asgard. His relationship with his nephew is also not very pleasant, as Thor catches him red-handed conspiring to remove Odin from the throne.
6- He rides on goats
The Marvel’s portrayal of Thor uses his hammer to fly. It is quite evident that the God of thunder cannot operate without his hammer.
The Norse version of Thor’s flying abilities is more interesting. He uses an enchanted chariot to travel around the world, the chariot is pulled by two goats, named tooth-grinder and tooth-gnasher.
7- Mjolnir requires gloves
Thor, in the MCU, uses Mjolnir without gloves, however, per the Norse legends, Mjolnir cannot be used without a specific kind of magical gloves. Failure to wield it without gloves will hamper Thor’s ability to reign over the storms. The gloves are one of the three objects that Thor relies upon for his mind gobbling powers.
8- Ragnarok is the end
In the MCU’s depiction of Ragnarok, Thor and Loki escape Asgard, and Hella is left at the mercy of Surtur, who goes on to destroy Asgard.
The Norse folklore paints a grim picture. Thor, Loki, Heimdall, Odin, Freya -all succumb to death after the event. Ragnarok, by definition, means re-creation and for the world to re-create itself, it has to be destroyed.
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The Roads of My Relations
Devon A. Mihesuah (Author)
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"I've traveled a lot of roads, but never alone. My relations are with me," says Billie McKenney, one of the matriarchs of the complex family of Choctaws searching for peace as the white world rapidly encroaches on their tribal land, politics, and values. In her first collection of stories, Native American writer Devon A. Mihesuah chronicles the lives of several generations of a close-knit Choctaw family as they are forced from their traditional homeland in nineteenth-century Mississippi and endure unspeakable sorrows during their journey before settling in southeastern Oklahoma.
Blending family lore, stark realism, and vivid imagination, The Roads of My Relations relays a strong sense of Choctaw culture and world view in absorbing tales of history and legend. Unfolding through the voices and actions of family members, confused half-bloods, and unlikely heroes—not all of them living or even human—the stories tell of the horrors of forced removal, the turbulence of post Civil War Indian Territory, the terrifying violence suffered at the hands of immortal Crow witches, and the family's ultimate survival against forces of evil. Time-traveling ghosts, mysterious medicine men, and eerie shape-shifters share the pages with proud matriarchs, mischievous schoolgirls, and loving siblings.
Together, these interwoven stories express the strength and persistence of a tribe whose identity and pride have survived the disruptions of colonialism. With The Roads of My Relations, Devon A. Mihesuah has created a universal and timeless exploration of heritage, spirituality, and the importance of preserving and passing on tradition.
Trophy Award for Best Fiction Book of 2000, Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc.
"A sprawling, yet intimate, portrait of one family's place in [Native American] society and in the larger society in which we all live." —Resound
"Full of powerful imagery, sometimes whimsical, often bleak . . . What is particularly refreshing about Mihesuah's lushly detailed work is that it eschews both contemporary New Age renderings of Native American culture and nineteenth-century romanticism. . . . Mihesuah creates fascinating characters and robust histories." —American Indian Quarterly
237 Pages 6 x 9 x 0.6 Published: 2000 Paperback (9780816520411)
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Digitalization: The Digital Oilfield is Arriving Sooner than We Think
Posted by tesla@jabvertising.com on December 31, 2020 | Featured
The Coronavirus and a surge of available connectivity means take up of new E&P technologies is stronger than ever, writes Tore Morten Olsen, President, Maritime, Marlink.
The oilfield of the future is a concept that was emerging before the Coronavirus overwhelmed the global economy and sent shockwaves through the energy markets. In fact, the disruption of 2020 is the continuation by other means of a trend that was already gathering pace.
When Norwegian energy major Equinor first announced a tender for the ‘Rig of The Future’ it aimed to lower its cost of operations with fewer humans onboard, greater automation and digitalization, driving higher efficiency and lower carbon emissions. The company targeted 50% lower operating costs than its current rigs, achieved through a combination of fuel savings and reduced headcount.
Some skepticism surrounds the project’s status and while evaluation of the project is continuing, it is becoming clear that Equinor identified technology gaps in areas including fully unmanned operations on the drill floor and solutions for achieve zero carbon dioxide emissions.
Whatever the short-term impacts, it seems clear that digital technology will be key to realizing similar projects and helping the wider industry meet both its environmental and financial targets.
For new technology to be more widely adopted also requires cultural and organization change. The offshore industry has used surveillance and some elements of remote control for many years but the acceleration of this process towards remote and virtual operations marks a critical step forward on the journey.
The energy market has traditionally positioned itself on the conservative end of the adoption curve and the inherent disadvantages of both operational size and legacy systems have led to uncertainty about how to safely adopt and integrate new technology.
The combination of ‘new technology plus people’ has been seen as risky while simply applying enough people power gives a level of confidence. This stems in part from the fact that company senior decision-makers have field experience but are not ‘digital natives’ who have grown up with technology.
Current market conditions, compounded by the imposition of social distancing measures have led to a unique crossroads that all offshore operators must face. Less capacity for available staff, increased costs and the difficulty of transporting people to and from remote sites are forcing them to quickly adapt.
When the potential of remote operations was proposed in the past, there tended to be push back: a combination of regulation and corporate culture meant there was always a reason to have people on site. It’s possible that with the shore office also changed by Covid-19, and the remote work revolution the idea of a hybrid approach has become more acceptable.
Out at sea there is a need to develop a transformational vision, while keeping the focus on the asset itself. While modern platforms are likely be well equipped, but depending on the age, configuration and condition of their assets, the extent of digitalization effort and the investment required will vary.
This new normal allows for previously sacrosanct subjects to be approached and different solutions to be considered. The last few months have seen the advancement in technological acceptance pushed forward by months or even decades. In February 2020, a major operator reported that remote operations had increased from less than 10% to approaching 30% six months later.
Applications such as video and low latency two-way data transfer share the same drivers which are catalyzing the adoption of more remote operations. In fact, the kind of remote visual inspections we have seen done increasingly by drone or over video might even be possible by direct satellite inspection as more and more low earth satellites join the fleet.
Such working practices have proven their value during months of lockdown and the technology is reliable enough to support increasingly complex applications.
Remote operations in the offshore market provide multiple benefits. These include risk mitigation because more personnel are removed from the offshore environment, certainty of program delivery thanks to expedited data delivery, client cost reductions and more flexible and scalable operations and finally sustainability because operational carbon footprint can be dramatically reduced.
A designer of remote operations centers mentioned that pre-Covid-19, his company faced a long cycle of justification, approval and funding before he got to a sale. Now he’s dealing with engaged executives that know they need to adapt and who see remote as a conduit to do this.
This serves as a catalyst allowing for the remapping workflows and reshaping management structures enabling a transformational vison to emerge with a focus on digitalization.
The last few months have seen the advancement in technological acceptance pushed forward by months or even decades. In February 2020, a major operator reported that remote operations had increased from less than 10% to approaching 30% six months later. Tore Morten Olsen, President, Maritime, Marlink
A digital evolution
The connectivity component of the digital oilfield was already changing prior to the pandemic. Just a few years ago the focus was mainly on crew welfare and how to monetize bits and bytes with new applications.
An OSV that might have been on a 256kbps plan five years ago would have at least quadrupled its bandwidth to 1MB using a combination of remote monitoring and other operational data. Upgrades to communications platform mean that the same OSV might be able to use its existing antenna and onboard equipment to get much greater capability without increasing its sunk costs.
At the more technology-driven end of the market seismic survey vessels are performing edge processing of data and connecting to the cloud rather than share raw data for analysis ashore. A subsea vessel can work faster and with greater control over its actions thanks to improvements in network technology.
Marlink supports this kind of innovation using a distributed teleport infrastructure with ‘handover’ and landing to the local teleport which reduces latency.
In both onshore and offshore fields, whether moving or static these remote facilities face the same challenges. The problem of reliably and robustly connecting systems and workers in the field to control centers and the cloud requires expertise in mobile and fixed communications.
It is still a case of selecting appropriate bandwidth capability to match the application as a different speed of response is needed for remote drone piloting compared to pipeline inspection. A tendency we have noticed is for operators to ask for higher and higher bandwidth without necessarily having the demand to support it. It is better to start lower and upgrade as they move from low level data into real time applications.
What seems clear is that with fewer people onboard, the size of assets whether fixed or mobile can be smaller and more tailored to specific roles. They will be more tightly connected to shore but will also have more systems onboard for processing data gathered from any phase of the exploration and production process.
We have grown accustomed to an industry with assets and vessels specialized towards specific and particular tasks. The future could see fewer larger motherships controlling smaller and potentially autonomous vessels which perform specific tasks but without crew onboard.
Operators are already looking into a new generation of multi-purpose vessels for the inspection, repair and maintenance market, which provide a platform to launch autonomous and remote-controlled vessels. These will perform tasks such as mapping of the seabed and other geophysical survey applications for pre-seismic and pipe-laying survey and windfarm development.
Marlink is providing a “smart” network solution to the Remotely Operated Service at Sea (ROSS) OSV project developed by offshore services operator SeaOwl, which demonstrated the concept to strategic partners including French energy major Total in early September. The ROSS project aims to bring down the cost of operations by remotely controlling a vessel from shore, initially in the offshore sector with potential application to other civilian and military craft.
The rig of the future has already been conceived as a smaller asset, designed for more flexible operations with a higher degree of automation and control systems that enable the operator to reduce numbers and still satisfy regulatory requirements.
Such designs would embrace technical flexibility in a way we have not seen in place in the energy market with smaller multi-purpose vessels having capabilities beyond the larger vessels in service today.
The key message is this: the oilfield of the future is not a distant dream but already a work in progress. It needs to happen here and now as we adapt to the Covid-19 environment; cultural resistance to positive technological change cannot be an excuse for lower safety standards or higher costs. Despite the tragedy of the virus, operators can take advantage of a once in a lifetime opportunity, leverage the digital transformation towards a smarter and safer industry.
CyberSecure: Connectivity & cyber security walk hand-in-hand
While connectivity is the circulatory system to digitalization, cyber security is the immune system. We recently spoke with Patrick Decool, Marlink’s Director Innovations, to discuss the increasing prevalence of cyber-attacks on maritime and offshore assets and strategies to protect those assets.
While ‘Cyber Attack’ is the buzzword, attack in this regard can be somewhat of a misnomer as the majority of ‘attacks’ are actually facilitated accidentally from within a company.
According to Patrick Decool, Director Innovations, Marlink, Marlink sees that there are many IT breaches made by the crew; ‘cybersecurity is not just about attacks, it’s also about managing properly your network and making sure the crew are not bypassing the rules that you’ve defined within your own IT policy,’ said Decool. ‘We’ve seen that 68% (of) these threats are coming from the crew.’
Marlink’s study further found that 22% of the threats are coming from the admin network, with 10% coming from the IoT or OT network. ‘10% compared to the rest might be not so much, but 10% of something that could affect an engine or an automation is dramatic from a safety perspective of the vessel.’
Decool believes the discussion will start to move from IoT to OT as OT gets more and more connected. ‘Then the interest from attackers may grow because the impact will be much larger. Once I have an access to the OT environments, then I have a real pressure on the company moving forward.’
According to Decool, vigilance is the keyword in keeping your networks safe – ‘Be pragmatic, follow the ‘plan-do-check-act’ principle, and don’t worry you’ll do that next year and the year after’ – as cyber security is a race without a finish.
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I find it difficult to admit when I’m having trouble at the best of times, be it with mental or physical health. I’ve been known to shrug off a cough only for it to land me in hospital and I certainly never talk about times when I’m feeling down on myself.
This stubborn-mule attitude combined with what happened at my baby’s six-week check-up led to a serious downward spiral of postnatal anxiety and depression which took the best part of two years to overcome. Two years of happy memories missed. Two years spent in a dark haze of tears, anger and sadness. Two years where I should have sought the help I needed but didn’t.
I remember my baby’s postnatal check like it was yesterday. Squeezing my eyes tight shut, I waited for the doctor to finish checking over my tiny daughter. The sane part of me knew she was fine and healthy but the ugly, crazy, dark thoughts were right there, convincing me that there would be bad news and I’d missed something obvious that anyone else would have noticed in a second. It had been just about seven weeks since she had been born and every moment of it had pretty much been horrific.
But that’s just motherhood, right?
But she was fine. Good. “And everything’s okay with you?” the doctor asked. My mind raced. Was that a rhetorical question? Was this part of the process or did I look so bloody awful that he was concerned? Was he asking an awkward medical question about my stitched-up bits and pieces or did he really want to know if I was okay?
So, I slapped on that same smile I’d been giving to everyone who’d flippantly asked and said, “Yeah! Yeah, I’m fine.”
Now, don’t get me wrong. This isn’t a criticism of my doctor, who is a lovely man and very kind and professional. This isn’t a criticism of the many friends and family members who came for tea and biscuits to coo over the baby and tell me how well I was at coping as a single parent with a newborn. The horrible and strange thing about suffering from post-natal depression is that, if you don’t want anyone to know about it, it’s very, very easy to hide.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t alone in my postnatal check experience. According to NCT, more than half of new mothers with mental health problems they wanted to discuss did not feel able to do so at their postnatal check. The recommended six-week postnatal check-up is meant to uncover new mothers’ physical or mental health difficulties. Yet NCT found that 54% of women who had emotional or mental health problems they wanted to talk about did not feel able to discuss them at their six-week postnatal check. The charity for parents also found that a quarter of these mothers (24%) said there wasn’t time to talk about the concern during their appointment; and more than half (60%) said they were embarrassed or worried that the doctor would think they weren’t capable of looking after their baby.
This was my experience to the letter. I didn’t want to say that I woke up every day feeling like I’d been run over by a truck and that just getting out of bed seemed like an insurmountable mission. I didn’t want to say that my life felt like a living nightmare – who wants to seem like an ungrateful cow when you’ve just been given the greatest gift known to mankind?! I didn’t want to take time out of that appointment to talk about my feelings when clearly the baby was more important. How selfish that would have seemed?
Of course, if I had had the courage to talk about how I was feeling, my doctor would have listened. He would have been sympathetic and understanding and would have offered me help, which is what did happen way down the line when I eventually crawled back into his office, sobbing and at the very end of my tether in every way.
As part of its #Hiddenhalf campaign, NCT is calling for more funding for the six-week check so that health professionals have the time to give every mother a full appointment, rather than squeezing it in with an examination of their baby. Many mothers are lucky and have doctors that do ask thoughtful, open questions about their mental health when they do go for the six-week check. Many mothers are braver than me and able to say if they’re feeling crappy and need help. But many, many mothers are just like me – too afraid to admit there’s a problem, too scared of being judged and embarrassed for not doing a good enough job and too worried about what might happen if you do admit that #mumlife isn’t a series of Insta-perfect pics.
I’ve come through the other side of my postnatal journey now; relatively unscathed overall and now a very happy mum, but also very sad that I didn’t look after myself in the way that I should have. I should have loved myself more. Now, I can pass it on in the spirit of all things MOLO and love another mother instead. I would urge new mums to do right by yourselves.
Ask yourself: u ok hun? If the answer is no, please speak up. Tell someone: your GP, health visitor, midwife or someone who loves you. There’s help out there if you need it.
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Strictly Ballroom The Musical
Monday 14 - Saturday 19 February 2022 Dance
Tickets £25.00 to £52.00
Venue: Theatre Royal
Running time: Act 1: 1 hour, Interval: 20 mins, Act 2: 1 hour
Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult aged 18+
Please note: This is a rescheduled date from 26 Sep – 3 Oct 2020. Further information for tickets holders impacted by this change of date, can be found here
Strictly Ballroom the Musical, based on the award-winning world-wide film phenomenon, is heading to Nottingham starring Kevin Clifton as Scott Hastings.
With direction from dancer, choreographer, theatre director and Britain’s favourite TV Judge, Craig Revel Horwood, Strictly Ballroom the Musical will be will be foxtrotting into town in February 2022.
Bringing together a cast of over 20 world class performers, Strictly Ballroom the Musical follows arrogant, rebellious young ballroom dancer, Scott Hastings. When his radical and daring dance style see him fall out of favour with Australian Federation, he must dance with beginner, Fran. Together they find the courage to defy tradition and discover that to win, your steps don’t need to be strictly ballroom!
Featuring break-into-song numbers such as Love is in the Air, Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps and Time After Time, as well as several wonderful new songs by internationally acclaimed artists including Sia, David Foster and Eddie Perfect. This spectacle is sure to make for an unforgettable evening under the glitter ball that will send your heart soaring and toes tapping!
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Miriam Shaded – a woman with an important mission
Miriam Shaded it's a President of Fund Estera.
Pretty, strong and good. Warsaw-based Miriam Shaded is the president of Estera Foundation that is active in saving Christian lives worldwide.
by Agnes Malinowski (article) and Parasshuram Shalgar (video)
4 November 2016 at 16:47 Updated on 7 November 2016 at 09:37
Miriam Shaded is a Polish charity worker. In 2015 she took part in the elections to the Polish parliament. Since the beginning of the war in Syria she helped 60 Christian families to leave the country and find a new safe haven in Poland. Her Estera-Fund supports them by giving them 2.600 pln monthly.
Miriam about Islam
Miriam Shaded and her help for persecuted people Miriam said:
"Islam is a totalitarian system." She protects poor and persecuted Christians. She fights for women's rights. Here are some of the most interesting statements of Shaded: "islam it's totalitarian system”
“In Quran are 163 verses about violence” “Muhammad was a pedophile. (...) He spoke about hatred. (...).
Islam isn't compliant with the Constitution of Republic of Poland.”
“The most important objective of Islam is Jihad on the nonbelievers which means the fight and the submission through force.”
“Islam punishes apostates and nonbelievers by death, which means that Islam itself restricts the basic rights of our Constitution.(...)"
"The Qur’an is a book that calls for hatred and violence and legitimizes crime." "It's useless to negate that mass executions of Christians are taking place in Syria on a daily basis. Christians, who are ambassadors of our values are being slaughtered. I thought it was the most important and noble thing to save human lives from slaughter.” “Maybe they have a problem because my campaign only helps Christians? I don't know.
(...)" - she asked.
Miriam's successes
Miriam's successes Her Estera-Fund helped 60 Christian families from Syria (Damascus). They came to Poland. Miriam Shaded was the first to bring help to the persecuted Christians in the Middle East, because any organization in Europe failed to do so. This is her the biggest success. When she started to parliament she got the most votes of the party she represented.
Shaded became very famous in Poland and Europe. Magazines and portals in Europe (and not only: in Asia too) began to write about her. Her ambitious plans want to outlaw Islam in Poland.
"Seeking an expert lawyer that can win major issues on the territory of Poland and perhaps the EU who will help me win my process in the case of delegalizing Islam as a totalitarian system and the Qur’an as a book that calls for hatred and violence and which legitimizes crime." - she wrote on her facebook-account.
Miriam Shaded -a real women
Miriam Shaded – a woman with an important mission. Her aim is to help Christians in Syria. She wants to protect Poland and Europe from Islam. This is a woman with an important mission who never gives up fighting for human lives.
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International Center gears up for grand opening
Traneshia Stormer
Students and faculty are buzzing about the new International Student Center which is set to have its Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony March 31 at 10 a.m.
Although the contractors are still finishing up a few details both inside and outside the building, students are eagerly waiting their chance to get inside.
Sami Owens, director of international student programs and services, said “We are still trying to get it open to students a few days ahead of the big event.”
Alumni Eric Liew donated $1 million to ULM for the center’s construction and is looking forward to the grand opening and meeting more international students.
Liew and Linda, his wife, will be at the ceremony and have the opportunity to say a few words to the audience.
Senior Avery Cunningham said, “ I am very excited because I know it has been in the making for a while and I cannot wait for the display of the hard work that has been put forth to make this happen”.
She is from the Bahamas and will be at ULM until her graduation in Spring 2016.
The building will serve as the community center for international students on campus. It provides a central place for students to learn, socialize and relax while feeling more closely connected to campus.
“To me, the new international student center will give students a new perspective of the international students at ULM,” Cunningham said.
Cunningham said that it gives them a place to call home and makes them feel like they are truly welcome at ULM.
This center will not replace Culture Connection, a social and educational space where students, faculty and community members gather to share their culture and learn about new cultures.
Owens said, “The new building will ideally have a clubhouse ambiance with a full kitchen and meditation/prayer room”.
There will also be study rooms available that will double as temporary bedrooms for students who arrive on campus before the residence halls open.
Next week is “International Week.” There will be a couple of small events following the grand opening.
Students are currently planning a couple movie nights and a karaoke night that will be held in the new building.
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September 1, 2020 September 1, 2020 Ryan DeLarmeLeave a Comment on Jimmy Savile Elite Paedophile Ring Exposed
Jimmy Savile Elite Paedophile Ring Exposed
[Edited by Ryan DeLarme]
Jimmy Savile was at the centre of this pedophile ring that procured children for well-known figures in the British establishment including former Prime Minister, paedophile and murderer Edward Heath.
The police and mainstream media are trying to muddy the waters by focusing only on the low-level non-entity pedos like Gary Glitter who we already know about.
The media doesn’t seem to want to go after the wider network that includes major politicians and “lords” who are clearly in it up to their necks.
At least we can rely on the alternative media to expose some of the big names who are involved in the child trafficking industry.
The Jimmy Savile thing will continue to haunt the BBC for the rest of their days.
Over the next few months I’m sure that the BBC will find that a significant number of people are refusing to re-new their TV licence.
A big reduction in profits will certainly make them sit up and take notice.
Also read: The Secret Connection Between Pedophile Jimmy Savile And The British Royal Family
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Categories censorship, corruption, Crimes Against Children, Crimes Against Humanity, Geopolitics, Independent Media, Independent Research, Media Corruption, Notable Occurrence, UncategorizedTags BBC, Crimes Against Children, Jimmy Savile, pedophile ring, UK
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Tharp, Twyla
born July 1, 1941, Portland, Ind., U.S.
U.S. dancer, director, and choreographer.
She danced with Paul Taylor's company from 1963 to 1965, when she formed her own troupe and began to choreograph works such as Deuce Coupe (1973), Push Comes to Shove (1976), Baker's Dozen (1979), Nine Sinatra Songs (1982), and Fait Accompli (1984). In 1988 she disbanded her company and was resident choreographer with the American Ballet Theatre (1988–91). She has also choreographed for the Broadway theatre (including The Catherine Wheel, 1981) and several films (including Hair, 1979, and Amadeus, 1984). Tharp is notable for her humour and particularly for having been one of the first American choreographers to use popular music.
Twyla Tharp.
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▪ American dancer and choreographer
born July 1, 1941, Portland, Indiana, U.S.
popular American dancer, director, and choreographer noted for her innovation and for the humour she brought to much of her work.
Tharp grew up in her native Portland, Indiana, and in Los Angeles; her childhood included comprehensive training in music and dance. While a student at Barnard College, she studied at the American Ballet Theatre School and received instruction from Richard Thomas, Martha Graham (Graham, Martha), and Merce Cunningham (Cunningham, Merce), among others. In 1963, shortly before her graduation from Barnard, she joined the Paul Taylor (Taylor, Paul) Dance Company, where she soon established herself as a dancer of considerable talent and imagination. In 1965 she formed her own troupe.
Tharp's first publicly performed piece of choreography, Tank Dive, was presented in 1965 at Hunter College. Over the next several years she choreographed numerous pieces, many of which employed street clothes, a bare stage, and no music. With her offbeat, technically precise explorations of various kinds and combinations of movements, she built a small but devoted following. In 1971 Tharp adopted jazz music and began creating dances that appealed to larger audiences. Her choreography retained its technical brilliance, often overlaid with an air of nonchalance, while its touches of flippant humour became more marked. Her pieces, most notably The Fugue (1970), Deuce Coupe (1973), Push Comes to Shove (1976), and Baker's Dozen (1979), established Tharp as one of the most innovative and popular modern choreographers. In addition, she created pieces for motion pictures such as Hair (1979), Ragtime (1981), and Amadeus (1984). In 1988 she disbanded her company and joined the American Ballet Theatre, where she served as artistic associate until 1990. Tharp's autobiography, Push Comes to Shove, was published in 1992.
See also Tharp's Sidebar: On Technology and Dance.
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Tharp,Twyla — Tharp (thärp), Twyla. Born 1941. American dancer and choreographer whose works, such as Deuce Coupe (1973), combine jazz, tap, ballet, and modern dance. * * * … Universalium
Tharp, Twyla — (n. 1 jul. 1941, Portland, Ind., EE.UU.). Bailarina, directora y coreógrafa estadounidense. Bailó en la compañía de Paul Taylor de 1963 a 1965; después formó su propio grupo y empezó a componer la coreografía de obras como Deuce Coupe (1973),… … Enciclopedia Universal
Twyla Tharp — (1 de julio, 1941, Portland) es una coreógrafa, ex bailarina y directora de danza estadounidense. Bailó con la Paul Taylor Dance Company desde 1963 hasta 1965, que fue cuando formó su propia compañía de danza, iniciando a coreografiar ballets… … Wikipedia Español
Tharp — noun innovative United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1941) • Syn: ↑Twyla Tharp • Instance Hypernyms: ↑dancer, ↑professional dancer, ↑terpsichorean, ↑choreographer * * * [THärp] Twyla, (1941 ) U.S. dancer and choreographer. She… … Useful english dictionary
Twyla Tharp — Twila Thornburg Naissance 1er juillet 1941 Portland dans l’Indiana, États Unis … Wikipédia en Français
Twyla Tharp — (2004) Twyla Tharp (* 1. Juli 1941 in Portland, Indiana/USA) ist eine Choreografin und Ballettmeisterin. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 … Deutsch Wikipedia
Tharp — ist der Familienname folgender Personen: John Tharp (1736–1804), britischer Pflanzer und Sklavenhalter auf Jamaika Marie Tharp (* 1920), US amerikanische Wissenschaftlerin Twyla Tharp (* 1941), US amerikanische Choreografin und Ballettmeisterin… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Twyla Tharp — ➡ Tharp * * * … Universalium
Tharp — [θɑːp], Twyla, amerikanische Tänzerin und Choreographin, * Portland (Indiana) 1. 7. 1942; studierte u. a. bei Martha Graham, A. Nikolais, M. Cunningham und P. Taylor, bevor sie 1965 ein vorwiegend aus Tänzerinnen bestehendes Ensemble gründete;… … Universal-Lexikon
Tharp — Not to be confused with Thorp. Tharp is a surname, and may refer to: *Aran Tharp (b. 1977), American avant garde musician *John Tharp (1744–1804), Jamaican property owner *Kenneth Tharp (contemporary), English dance artist *Marie Tharp… … Wikipedia
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New Drug Review 2019
Jack DeRuiter, PhD
Harrison School of Pharmacy
Pamela L. Holston, RPh, BS, BA
Health Information Designs, Inc.
Taylor Joseph DeRuiter, PharmD
US Pharm. 2019;44(10):18-28.
New molecular entities (NMEs), as defined by the FDA, are new drug products containing as their active ingredient a chemical substance marketed for the first time in the United States. The following descriptions of NMEs approved in 2018–2019 (TABLE 1) details the basic clinical and pharmacologic profiles of each new drug, as well as key precautions and warnings. Also included is a brief summary of selected pharmacokinetic, adverse-reaction, drug-interaction, and dosing data submitted to the FDA in support of the manufacturer’s New Drug Application. This review is intended to be objective rather than evaluative in content. The information for each NME was obtained primarily from sources published prior to FDA approval. Experience clearly demonstrates that many aspects of a new drug’s therapeutic profile are not detected in premarketing studies and emerge after the drug is used in large numbers of patients. Studies have demonstrated the appearance of “new” adverse reactions for many NMEs within several years after they first become available. Some of these drugs may eventually acquire at least one black box warning for serious adverse drug reactions or are withdrawn from the market for safety reasons that were not recognized at the time of approval. Therefore, while this review offers a starting point for learning about new drugs, it is essential that practitioners be aware of changes in a drug’s therapeutic profile as reported in the pharmaceutical literature and by their own patients.
Siponimod (Mayzent, Novartis)
Indication and Clinical Profile1,2: Siponimod is indicated for the treatment of relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS) in adults, including clinically isolated syndrome, relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS), and active secondary progressive MS (SPMS). MS is a chronic autoimmune disease of the central nervous system in which the immune system destroys the myelin sheath that surrounds the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. This demyelination slows or even stops nerve impulses, resulting in muscular weakness or motor-skill dysfunction, vision problems, and cognitive dysfunction. It is estimated that 1 million Americans have MS, and most cases (85%) begin as RRMS, in which episodes of worsening function are followed by recovery periods in which some residual disability may remain. Over time, up to 90% of patients with RRMS will transition to SPMS, which involves worsening neurologic function independent of relapses during the disease course. In the initial stage of SPMS, patients may continue to experience relapses (active SMPS) for several years, after which relapses no longer occur but disability progresses (inactive SMPS).
FDA approval was based on data from a randomized, double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled trial involving 1,651 subjects with SPMS who had evidence of disability progression in the prior 2 years, no relapses 3 months before enrollment, and an Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) score between 3.0 and 6.5. The primary endpoint was time to 3-month confirmed disability progression (CDP), defined as a ≥1-point increase in EDSS from baseline (0.5-point increase for patients with baseline EDSS of ≥5.5) sustained for 3 months. Evaluations were performed at screening, every 3 months during the study, and when a suspected relapse occurred. MRI evaluations were performed at screening and every 12 months. At study completion, based on a time-to-event analysis, 6% fewer patients (statistically significant) experienced 3-month CDP compared with placebo. Siponimod patients also experienced a reduction in annualized relapse rate compared with placebo (0.071 vs. 0.160, respectively). The safety and efficacy of siponimod have not been studied in pediatric patients.
Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics1,2: Siponimod (FIGURE 1) is an azetidinecarboxylic acid that acts as a high-affinity sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) receptor 1 and 5 modulator. Its action at these lymph node receptors prevents the egress of lymphocytes into peripheral circulation and, possibly, migration into the central nervous system.
Siponimod has an absolute oral bioavailability of 84%, and it achieves peak plasma concentration about 4 hours post dose. It is extensively metabolized—primarily via CYP2C9 (79%) and 3A4 (19%)—to inactive metabolites with subsequent biliary or fecal excretion. Siponimod is cleared at a mean rate of 3.11 L per hour and has an elimination half-life of roughly 30 hours.
Adverse Reactions and Drug Interactions1,2: The most common (≥10%) adverse reactions in clinical trials were headache, hypertension, falls, and serum transaminase elevation. Other potential serious adverse reactions included increased risk of infection, possibly irreversible reductions of forced expiratory volume in 1 second, elevations of liver enzymes, and macular edema. Siponimod may cause cardiovascular adverse effects including bradycardia, atrioventricular (AV) conduction delay, and hypertension (which are typically mild and resolve during treatment), as well as QT prolongation. Because of these effects, a cardiology consultation is recommended before siponimod is initiated in patients with a QT interval >500 msec, arrhythmias requiring treatment with Class Ia or III antiarrhythmic drugs, ischemic heart disease, heart failure (HF), history of cardiac arrest or myocardial infarction (MI), cerebrovascular disease, uncontrolled hypertension, history of second-degree or higher AV block, sick sinus syndrome, or sinoatrial heart block. The use of siponimod with other medications that prolong the QT interval or are known to decrease heart rate (e.g., verapamil, diltiazem, beta-blockers) should be avoided in the absence of a cardiology consultation owing to the effects of siponimod on heart rate.
Because of its immunosuppressive effects, siponimod should be used with caution in patients receiving antineoplastic, immune-modulating, or immunosuppressive therapy, and it should not be used following treatment with alemtuzumab. Live attenuated vaccines should be avoided during and up to 4 weeks after treatment with siponimod, and treatment should be paused at least 1 week before and for 4 weeks after administration of other vaccines, as siponimod may reduce their effectiveness. Given its mechanism of action, patients receiving siponimod should be monitored for posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy due to the John Cunningham virus, and rebound syndrome, as the use of other S1P receptor modulators has resulted in these adverse effects.
Because of its extensive CYP metabolism, siponimod exposure can be altered by drugs that affect these enzymes; therefore, siponimod should not be used concomitantly with drugs that cause a combination of moderate CYP2C9 inhibition and moderate-to-strong CYP3A4 inhibition (e.g., fluconazole) or a combination of moderate CYP2C9 induction and strong CYP3A4 induction (e.g., carbamazepine). Siponimod should be used with caution with moderate CYP2C9 inhibitors or inducers.
Dosage and Administration1,2: Siponimod is supplied as 0.25-mg and 2-mg tablets for oral administration. Owing to its high level of CYP2C9 metabolism, patients should be tested for CYP2C9 variants to determine the CYP2C9 genotype. The recommended initial dosage of siponimod is 0.25 mg daily, with incremental increases up to a maintenance dosage of 1 or 2 mg daily, depending on CYP2C9 genotype. Siponimod is contraindicated in patients with a CYP2C9 *3/*3 genotype; those with a recent diagnosis of MI or unstable angina, stroke, transient ischemic attack, decompensated HF requiring hospitalization, or Class III or IV HF; and those with Mobitz type II second-degree, third-degree AV block, or sick sinus syndrome (unless patient has a functioning pacemaker). No dose adjustments are required for renal or hepatic impairment.
Brexanolone (Zulresso, Sage)
Indication and Clinical Profile3,4: Brexanolone, which is indicated for the treatment of postpartum depression (PPD) in adult women, is the first drug the FDA has approved specifically for this disorder. PPD is a major depressive episode (MDE) that occurs following childbirth, although its symptoms can start during pregnancy. As with other forms of depression, PPD is characterized by sadness and anhedonia (loss of interest in activities and decreased ability to feel pleasure); it typically presents with symptoms such as cognitive impairment, feelings of worthlessness or guilt, or suicidal ideation.
The efficacy of brexanolone was demonstrated in two multicenter, placebo-controlled studies in women aged 18 to 45 years who had PPD. Patients met Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders criteria for an MDE with onset of symptoms in the third trimester or within 4 weeks of delivery. In both studies, patients received a 60-hour continuous IV infusion of brexanolone or placebo and were assessed for the next 4 weeks. The first study included patients with severe PPD (Hamilton Depression Rating Scale [HAM-D] score of ≥26); the second study included patients with moderate PPD (HAM-D score of 20-25). Titration to the recommended target dosage of 90 mcg/kg/h was evaluated in both studies (patients received 30 mcg/kg/h for 4 h, 60 mcg/kg/h for 20 h, 90 mcg/kg/h for 28 h, a taper to 60 mcg/kg/h for 4 h, and then 30 mcg/kg/h for 4 h). The first study also evaluated titration to a target dosage of 60 mcg/kg/h (patients received 30 mcg/kg/h for 4 h, 60 mcg/kg/h for 52 h, and then 30 mcg/kg/h for 4 h). The primary endpoint was the mean change from baseline in depressive symptoms as measured by the HAM-D total score at the end of the infusion (hour 60). In both studies, titration to a target dosage of brexanolone 90 mcg/kg/h was superior to placebo in improvement of depressive symptoms. This was also observed at the end of the 30-day follow-up period.
Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics3,4: Brexanolone (FIGURE 2) is a progesterone derivative that appears to function as a neurohormone. This agent’s mechanism of action in the treatment of PPD is not fully understood but is thought to be related to its positive allosteric modulation of both synaptic and extrasynaptic gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)A receptors. Allosteric modulation of these receptors results in varying degrees of desired activity rather than complete receptor activation or inhibition. Brexanolone seems to have little or no action at other ligand-gated ion channels, including N-methyl-D-aspartate, AMPA, kainite, and glycine receptors.
Brexanolone exhibits dose-proportional pharmacokinetics over a range of 30 mcg/kg/h to 270 mcg/kg/h (3 × maximum recommended dosage). Mean steady-state exposure at 60 mcg/kg/h and 90 mcg/kg/h was about 52 ng/mL and 79 ng/mL, respectively. The drug has a volume of distribution of 3 L/kg and is >99% bound by plasma proteins. Brexanolone is extensively metabolized by non–CYP-based pathways via ketoreduction (aldo-keto reductases), glucuronidation (uridine diphosphate glucuronosyltransferases), and sulfation (cytosolic sulfotransferases), and the metabolites are pharmacologically inactive. The drug has an elimination half-life of approximately 9 hours and a total plasma clearance of 1 L/h/kg. It is excreted primarily as metabolites in the feces (47%) and urine (42%).
Adverse Reactions and Drug Interactions3,4: The most common adverse reactions (>5%) reported by patients treated with brexanolone in clinical trials included sedation/somnolence, dry mouth, loss of consciousness, and flushing/hot flush. The drug label has a black box warning stating that patients are at risk for excessive sedation or sudden loss of consciousness during administration of brexanolone. Because of these risks, patients should be monitored for excessive sedation and sudden loss of consciousness and have continuous pulse oximetry monitoring. Brexanolone is a Schedule IV controlled substance that has been shown to have an abuse-related neuropharmacologic profile similar to that of alprazolam and midazolam. Data are not available regarding use in pregnant women; however, based on findings in animals of other drugs that enhance GABAergic inhibition, brexanolone may cause fetal harm. Data from a lactation study in 12 women indicate that brexanolone is transferred to breast milk in nursing mothers; however, the relative infant exposure is low (1%-2% of the maternal weight-adjusted dosage). Available data do not suggest a significant risk of adverse reactions from exposure in breastfed infants.
Coadministration of brexanolone with central nervous system depressants (opioids, benzodiazepines) may increase the likelihood or severity of sedation. In the placebo-controlled studies, a higher percentage of brexanolone-treated patients who used concomitant antidepressants reported sedation-related events. No clinically significant differences in the pharmacokinetics of phenytoin (CYP2C9 substrate) were observed when it was used concomitantly with brexanolone. No studies were conducted to evaluate the effects of other drugs on brexanolone pharmacokinetics.
Dosage and Administration3,4: Brexanolone is supplied as a solution for IV administration and is available only through the Zulresso Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS), a restricted program that requires the drug to be administered in a certified healthcare facility registered in the program. Brexanolone is administered as a continuous IV infusion over 60 hours (2.5 days). The manufacturer’s prescribing information should be consulted for details on drug administration. As noted previously, because of the risk of serious harm due to the sudden loss of consciousness, the patient must be monitored for excessive sedation and sudden loss of consciousness and have continuous pulse oximetry monitoring. Treatment should be initiated early enough in the day to allow for recognition of excessive sedation. If excessive sedation occurs at any time, the infusion should be stopped until symptoms resolve. The infusion may be resumed at the same or lower dose as clinically appropriate. If pulse oximetry reveals hypoxia, the infusion should be stopped and not resumed. Brexanolone should be discontinued in patients whose PPD worsens or who experience emergent suicidal thoughts and behaviors. No dose adjustment is necessary in mild-to-severe renal impairment (estimated glomerular filtration rate [eGFR] ≥15 mL/min/1.73 m²), but use in end-stage renal disease (eGFR <15 mL/min/1.73 m²) should be avoided owing to potential accumulation of the solubilizing agent used for brexanolone (i.e., betadex sulfobutyl ether sodium). No dose adjustment is necessary in hepatic impairment. During the infusion periods, the patient must be accompanied while caring for her child(ren). The need for these steps is addressed in a boxed warning in the drug’s prescribing information. As part of the REMS, patients should be counseled on the risks of brexanolone treatment and instructed that they must be monitored at a healthcare facility for the entire 60 hours of infusion. After treatment, the patient should not drive, operate machinery, or do other dangerous activities until feelings of sleepiness from the treatment have completely resolved.
Prucalopride (Motegrity, Shire)
Indication and Clinical Profile5,6: Prucalopride is indicated for the treatment of chronic idiopathic constipation (CIC) in adults. CIC, also known as functional constipation, is characterized by difficult, infrequent, or incomplete defecation that lacks an apparent physical or physiological cause. It is estimated that approximately 35 million U.S. adults have CIC. Prucalopride is the fourth prescription drug to receive FDA approval specifically for treatment of CIC, and it is the first agent in its pharmacologic class to be approved for this use.
FDA approval was based on data from six multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials involving 2,484 adult patients with a history of CIC. The primary endpoint of all trials was the proportion of patients receiving prucalopride versus placebo who were treatment responders (i.e., experienced an average of at least three complete spontaneous bowel movements [CSBMs] per week) over 12 weeks. A statistically significant increase in the proportion of patients who responded to treatment with prucalopride (19%-38%) versus placebo (10%-18%) was demonstrated in five of the trials; the sixth trial, showing a 5% difference in responders, did not achieve statistical significance. Improvement in the frequency of CSBMs per week was seen as early as week 1 and was maintained through week 12 in all trials.
Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics5,6: Prucalopride (FIGURE 3), a dihydrobenzofuran-7-carboxamide, is a selective serotonin-4 receptor agonist that activates lower-gastrointestinal (GI)-tract smooth muscle, resulting in stimulation of colonic peristalsis and increased bowel motility. Prucalopride has an absolute oral bioavailability of 90% and achieves peak plasma concentrations within 2 to 3 hours following administration. It undergoes minimal metabolism to at least seven different minor metabolites via CYP3A4, and 60% to 65% of the dose is excreted unchanged. Prucalopride has a half-life of 24 hours and it is primarily excreted renally (84%) via passive filtration and active secretion, with roughly 13% excreted in the feces.
Adverse Reactions and Drug Interactions5,6: The most common (≥2%) adverse reactions reported in clinical trials were headache, abdominal pain, nausea, diarrhea, abdominal distention, dizziness, vomiting, flatulence, and fatigue. Patients who experience diarrhea that is severe or persists for several days should discontinue prucalopride and consult their healthcare provider. Other adverse reactions noted during clinical trials included abnormal GI sounds, decreased appetite, migraine, and pollakiuria. Because suicidal ideation and suicide attempts were reported during clinical trials, patients who are receiving prucalopride should be monitored for worsening depression or emergence of suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Owing to its limited CYP metabolism and highly selective receptor activity, prucalopride has no known significant drug interactions.
Dosage and Administration5,6: Prucalopride is supplied as 1-mg and 2-mg oral tablets. The recommended dosage is 2 mg for patients with a creatinine clearance (CrCl) of ≥30 mL/minute and 1 mg daily for those with CrCl <30 mL/minute who do not require hemodialysis. Prucalopride use should be avoided in patients with end-stage renal disease requiring hemodialysis. The safety and efficacy of prucalopride have not been studied in pediatric patients. The drug is contraindicated in patients with a previous serious hypersensitivity reaction to prucalopride or to any components of the drug, and in those with intestinal perforation or obstruction due to structural or functional disorder of the gut wall, obstructive ileus, or severe inflammatory conditions of the GI tract.
Romosozumab-aqqg (Evenity, Amgen)
Indication and Clinical Profile7,8: The FDA approved romosozumab-aqqg for the treatment of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women who are at high risk for fracture (i.e., history of osteoporotic fracture or multiple risk factors for fracture) and in patients who failed or are intolerant to other available osteoporosis therapy. More than 10 million people in the United States have osteoporosis, which occurs most frequently in women who are past menopause.
FDA approval of romosozumab-aqqg was based on two phase III, placebo-controlled trials: FRAME and ARCH. FRAME (fracture study in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis) evaluated the efficacy of romosozumab-aqqg (210 mg administered monthly) in reducing the incidence of new vertebral fractures through 12 months in 7,180 postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. It also investigated the efficacy of romosozumab-aqqg treatment for 12 months followed by denosumab for 12 months in reducing the incidence of new vertebral fractures through 24 months. In this trial, 1 year of romosozumab-aqqg treatment lowered the risk of a new vertebral fracture by 73% compared with placebo. This benefit was maintained over the second year of the trial, when romosozumab-aqqg was followed by 1 year of denosumab therapy compared with placebo followed by denosumab.
ARCH (active-controlled fracture study in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis at high risk of fracture) was an alendronate-controlled trial of romosozumab-aqqg in 4,093 postmenopausal women with osteoporosis and previous fracture history. This event-driven trial compared 12 months of romosozumab-aqqg (210 mg monthly) followed by ≥12 months of alendronate (70 mg) with alendronate alone to assess the drug’s efficacy in reducing risk of clinical fracture (nonvertebral fracture and symptomatic vertebral fracture) through the primary analysis period and the incidence of new vertebral fracture at 24 months. In ARCH, 1 year of romosozumab-aqqg followed by 1 year of alendronate reduced the risk of a new vertebral fracture by 50% versus 2 years of alendronate alone. Romosozumab-aqqg followed by alendronate also reduced the risk of nonvertebral fractures versus alendronate alone and significantly increased bone mass density.
Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics7,8: Romosozumab-aqqg is a humanized monoclonal antibody (immunoglobulin G2) that inhibits sclerostin, a glycoprotein secreted by osteocytes that produces antianabolic effects on bone. This drug increases bone formation and, to a lesser extent, decreases bone resorption. In animal studies, romosozumab-aqqg increased new trabecular and cortical bone formation by stimulating osteoblastic activity, resulting in increased bone mass and improvements in bone structure and strength. The bone-forming effect of romosozumab-aqqg wanes after 12 doses, so no more than 12 doses should be given. If osteoporosis therapy is needed after the 12th dose, the patient should begin a treatment that reduces bone resorption.
Peak plasma concentration (22.2 mcg/mL) occurs 5 days after SC administration of standard doses of romosozumab-aqqg, and steady state is achieved by 3 months. Development of antibodies to romosozumab-aqqg leads to decreased mean concentrations up to 22%. The drug’s volume of distribution is 3.9 L. While the metabolism has not been characterized, romosozumab-aqqg is expected to be degraded into small peptides and amino acids via catabolic pathways similar to those for endogenous IgG. The drug’s elimination half-life is 12.8 days, and its clearance is 0.38 mL/h/kg.
Adverse Reactions and Drug Interactions7,8: Common side effects reported for romosozumab-aqqg included joint pain, headache, and injection-site reactions. The drug was associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) death, heart attack, and stroke in the alendronate trial, but not in the placebo trial. Therefore, romosozumab-aqqg has a boxed warning that it may increase the risk of heart attack, stroke, and CV death and should not be used in patients who had a heart attack or stroke within the previous year. In patients with other CV risk factors, potential benefits versus risk should be assessed. If a patient experiences a myocardial infarction or stroke during therapy, romosozumab-aqqg should be discontinued. In rodent reproduction studies, weekly administration during the period of organogenesis at exposures exceeding 32 times the typical clinical exposure produced skeletal abnormalities in offspring. There is no information on the presence of romosozumab-aqqg in human milk, the effects on breastfed infants, or the effects on milk production. Therefore, this drug is not indicated for use in women of reproductive potential or those who are nursing.
Dosage and Administration7,8: Romosozumab-aqqg is supplied as 105 mg/1.17 mL single-use, prefilled syringes for SC administration and should be administered by a healthcare provider. The recommended dosage is 210 mg administered SC in the abdomen, thigh, or upper arm. Two separate prefilled syringes (each containing 105 mg of drug in 1.17 mL) are provided, and they should be injected in succession to meet the total dosage of 210 mg. The drug should be administered once per month for 12 consecutive months. Patients should be adequately supplemented with calcium and vitamin D during treatment, and preexisting hypocalcemia should be corrected before therapy is initiated. If a dose is missed, it should be administered as soon as it can be rescheduled. Thereafter, romosozumab-aqqg may be scheduled every month from the date of the last dose. No dose adjustment is required; however, patients with severe renal impairment (estimated glomerular filtration rate 15-29 mL/min/1.73 m²) or who are receiving dialysis have a greater risk of hypocalcemia.
Revefenacin (Yupelri, Mylan)
Indication and Clinical Profile9,10: Revefenacin is indicated for maintenance treatment of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This lung disease is characterized by progressively worsening airflow obstruction that interferes with breathing. In COPD, long-term exposure to respiratory irritants, most commonly cigarette smoke, damages the lungs and airways and causes chronic bronchitis and/or emphysema. Most patients who develop COPD are aged 40 years or older, and patients typically experience chest tightness, chronic cough, and excessive phlegm. According to the CDC, 16 million Americans have COPD. According to the Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, COPD is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States.
FDA approval was based primarily on data from two replicate 12-week, randomized, double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled trials involving 1,229 subjects aged 40 years or older with moderate-to-very-severe COPD, a history of smoking for ≥10 pack-years, and a forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1)/forced vital capacity ratio of ≤0.7. The primary endpoint of both trials was the change from baseline in predose FEV1 at day 85. Upon completion of the trial, revefenacin patients experienced a mean change in predose FEV1 from baseline of +127, which demonstrated a statistically significant improvement over patients who received placebo (–19). The safety and efficacy of revefenacin have not been studied in pediatric patients.
Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics9,10: Revefenacin (FIGURE 4) is a structurally novel, nonselective, long-acting, muscarinic antagonist that blocks M3 receptors at the smooth muscle in the airways. Antagonism of these receptors blocks endogenous acetylcholine-induced bronchoconstriction, leading to net bronchodilation.
The time to peak plasma concentration of revefenacin and its active metabolite occurs 14 to 41 minutes after inhaled administration. Revefenacin and its active metabolite are extensively distributed to tissues and are 71% and 42%, respectively, plasma protein bound. The drug is primarily metabolized hepatically via hydrolysis to its major active metabolite, which maintains 10% to 33% of revefenacin’s receptor activity. Revefenacin has a terminal half-life of 22 to 70 hours, and it is excreted predominantly in the feces, with less than 1% excreted renally.
Adverse Reactions and Drug Interactions9,10: The most common (1%-10%) adverse reactions reported in clinical trials were headache, nasopharyngitis, upper respiratory tract infection, back pain, bronchitis, oropharyngeal pain, dizziness, and hypertension. Patients receiving revefenacin who experience paradoxical bronchospasm should discontinue the drug and initiate therapy with another agent. Revefenacin may cause an increase in intraocular pressure; therefore, it should be used with caution in patients with open-angle glaucoma. Owing to its potential for causing or worsening urinary retention, revefenacin should be used with caution in patients with preexisting benign prostatic hyperplasia or bladder-neck obstruction.
Coadministration of revefenacin with other anticholinergics should be avoided because of the potential for increased anticholinergic adverse effects of both medications. Concomitant use of revefenacin and drugs that inhibit organic anion–transporting polypeptide 1B1 and 1B3 (e.g., rifampicin, cyclosporine) is not recommended, as these drugs could result in increased systemic exposure of the active metabolite and in adverse effects.
Dosage and Administration9,10: Revefenacin is supplied as 175 mcg/3 mL unit-dose vials of nebulization solution. The recommended dosage is 175 mcg (1 vial) per day via a standard jet nebulizer with a mouthpiece connected to an air compressor. The use of revefenacin in patients with hepatic impairment is not recommended, and the drug is contraindicated in patients with a previous serious hypersensitivity reaction to revefenacin or to any of its components.
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2. Kappos L, Bar-Or A, Cree BAC, et al. Siponimod versus placebo in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (EXPAND): a double-blind, randomised, phase 3 study. Lancet. 2018;391:1263-1273.
3. Zulresso (brexanolone) package insert. Cambridge, MA: Sage Therapeutics, Inc; March 2019.
4. Meltzer-Brody S, Colquhoun H, Riesenberg R, et al. Brexanolone injection in post-partum depression: two multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trials. Lancet. 2018;392:1058-1070.
5. Motegrity (prucalopride) package insert. Lexington, MA: Shire US, Inc; December 2018.
6. Mahajan R. Prucalopride: a recently approved drug by the Food and Drug Administration for chronic idiopathic constipation. Int J Appl Basic Med Res. 2019;9:1-2.
7. Evenity (romosozumab-aqqg) package insert. Thousand Oaks, CA: Amgen Inc; April 2019.
8. Cosman F, Crittenden DB, Adachi JD, et al. Romosozumab treatment in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. N Engl J Med. 2016;375(16):1532-1543.
9. Yupelri (revefenacin) package insert. Morgantown, WV: Mylan Specialty LP; November 2018.
10. Pudi K, Pendyala S, Barnes C, et al. Trials in progress: two 12-week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group phase 3 trials of a nebulized long-acting muscarinic antagonist (revefenacin) in study participants with moderate to very severe COPD. Chest. 2016;150:825A [abstract].
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10 Years of Queer: Support the Marlborough Theatre
5 November, 2018 14 November, 2018 Adam Lowe
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Iconic LGBT arts space Marlborough Theatre is currently crowdfunding urgent repairs on its historic building.
The theatre – which The Guardian calls ‘a refuge for cutting-edge performance’ – is working hard to meet its modest £10,000 total for the 10 Years of Queer campaign. Because it’s an all-or-nothing fundraiser, however, if the theatre doesn’t meet its target, it gets nothing. The theatre is currently 30% shy of its total, and hopes members of the LGBT community can chip in to preserve the space for future generations – and get some unique rewards for their pledges.
The theatre is especially known for developing new talent, including artists such as Travis Alabanza, and for hosting some of the best queer acts still around today, including David Hoyle, Neil Bartlett and Justin Vivian Bond.
The campaign launched back in September, because the project-based funding the theatre relies on does not cover the vital repair works necessary to keep the Brighton & Hove theatre alive.
Local figures have supported the campaign, including Brighton Fringe CEO Julian Caddy, who says, ‘The Marlborough Theatre is a massive, vital part of not only what makes the LGBTQ+ community what it is, but also Brighton as a whole too. It’s not easy, but through their collective passion, and with limited resources over the years, they have made a lasting difference to people of all genders, ethnicities and outlooks. We must support them to continue their good work. To lose the Marly is absolutely unthinkable.’
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Artist Rosana Cade has spoken out about the theatre’s impact, saying, ‘I really believe that the work they do has such a wide and important influence across multiple sectors in the UK, culturally and socially, that it is probably impossible to chart.’
Those who back the campaign don’t just get a warm glow, however – backers can nab bespoke gifts for their pledges, including a performance art tea towel featuring hand drawn portraits from 100 top artists, photography sessions, and a fun-filled sleepover with artist Harry Clayton-Wright with dinner, cocktails and more rom-coms than you can shake a stick at.
About the theatre
Marlborough Theatre has been run by Community Interest Company Marlborough Productions since 2010. The team comprises three Creative: Producers Abby Butcher, David Sheppeard and Tarik Elmoutawakil; as well as Programme Coordinator Ema Boswood and Programme Assistant Ellie Stanton. Their programme comprises a huge variety of live art, theatre, performance art, spoken word, comedy and live literature from home grown emerging talents to nationally acclaimed artists and companies.
Support the campaign by backing or sharing with your networks: crowdfunder.co.uk/10-years-of-queer.
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Too late to drop out, Victoria byelection candidate endorses rival
Scott Weston Sr. ENG Journalist, CTV Vancouver Island
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Published Tuesday, November 24, 2020 2:59PM PST
Jason Heit says that by stepping aside and supporting Stephen Andrew’s campaign, there is better opportunity to bring balance to the council table. (CTV News)
VICTORIA -- Victoria council byelection candidate Jason Heit is asking his supporters to instead vote for rival candidate Stephen Andrew.
Heit says he entered the race for the seat on council because he was frustrated with how the current council is dealing with issues such as homelessness, policing and the rise in petty crime. He says he is endorsing Andrew because they both share the same views on what needs to be done to make the city better for its citizens and business owners.
“With only one seat up for election, I don’t want to do anything that would risk splitting the vote,” said Heit on Tuesday. “I think Stephen has a good agenda and so it is in the best interests of the people and the community for me to step aside and endorse Stephen Andrew.”
Heit says that by stepping aside and supporting Andrew’s campaign, there is better opportunity to bring balance to the council table. He feels he and Andrew share common ground and common sense when it comes to addressing the challenges the city is facing.
“Looking at things from all sides and really trying to do what’s best for everybody as opposed to the left-versus-right argument,” said Heit. “Stephen and I have talked and it is great to see that we are aligned because I think more than anything right now what Victoria needs is unity.”
Heit says he feels that by supporting Andrew he can contribute positively to foster balance on city council. Although he is stepping aside in favour of Andrew, he says he still wants to continue voicing his opinion on things that he wants to see changed in Victoria.
“I’m saying to my supporters that it’s in the best interest of the community that we vote for Stephen Andrew,” said Heit. “I think that we really need a change in the city council and I think he will bring that change that the city needs.”
Because Heit’s decision to step aside came too late to formally drop out of the Dec. 12 byelection, his name will remain on the ballot on voting day.
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Victoria police issue COVID-19 violation tickets to restaurant-goer
Published Wednesday, November 25, 2020 8:46AM PST Last Updated Wednesday, November 25, 2020 10:10AM PST
Police were initially called to a restaurant in the 500-block of Yates Street for reports that a group had left without paying. (File photo)
VICTORIA -- Police in Victoria say they handed out two tickets for failing to follow COVID-19 safety protocols after a group left a restaurant without paying Monday.
Police say they were called to a restaurant in the 500-block of Yates Street just after 7:30 p.m. for reports that a group had left without paying.
After locating some of the group, police escorted them back to the El Furniture Warehouse restaurant to pay.
Staff then told police that one of the men in the group had been abusive towards staff and refused to follow COVID-19 safety protocols.
Police reviewed surveillance video from the restaurant and say one man was clearly violating the COVID-19 restrictions and threatening staff.
Officers began a search for that man and found him at a nearby restaurant. He was issued two violation tickets for $230 each under the COVID-19 Related Measures Act.
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Share this Story: Canucks, finally, sign Brock Boeser
Canucks, finally, sign Brock Boeser
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Brock Boeser and the Vancouver Canucks have been reunited. Photo by Jason Payne /PNG
Brock Boeser is a Vancouver Canuck once again.
The sniper agreed to a three-year deal Monday evening, just as his Canucks teammates were getting set to face the Calgary Flames.
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Boeser’s deal averages US$5.875 million per season. That average annual value is the second-highest among forwards on the team, after Loui Eriksson, but it’s also a nice number for the team and matches what at least one salary-projection analytics site suggested.
We have his 3 year deal at $5.76MM, 15% chance. Will be interesting to see what the AAV is if it is, in fact, a 3 year bridge. https://t.co/Mv6sz3GpWP
— EvolvingWild (@EvolvingWild) September 17, 2019
The deal is structured so that he’ll make US$4 million this season, US$6.125 million in 2020-21 and US$7.5 million in the final year of the deal.
Canucks general manager Jim Benning said that after off-and-on talks over the summer, he and Boeser’s agent Ben Hankinson finally found some common ground Sunday and finalized the deal Monday.
“Very happy and excited to get Brock in here and up-and-going,” Benning said.
No doubt Chris Gear, the team’s capologist, had a strong hand in sealing the deal as well.
Canucks head coach Travis Green was very happy he can start putting into place his full practice plans as well as having his lineup at full strength.
“You know, as a coach, you’re always trying to plan your lineup, trying to look ahead and it’s in the back your mind. You’re wondering, is Brock going to be here,” he said after Monday’s 4-3 loss to the Calgary Flames in Victoria. “Definitely happy that he’s signed.”
Bo Horvat was delighted that his friend and teammate is on his way back.
Horvat said he texted often with Boeser, though he didn’t want to overwhelm him with questions. He said Boeser kept the situation pretty close to the vest.
“He wasn’t giving us any tips or anything,” he said.
Upon expiry, Boeser will be a restricted free agent (RFA), with arbitration rights. To keep him as a RFA, they’ll have to make a qualifying offer of US$7.5 million; if the Canucks want to keep arbitration as a possibility, they can make him an offer that’s 85 per cent of the salary: $6.375 million.
The Canucks can dodge a $7.5m qualifying offer by electing salary arb in year 4 - in which they can push for a 15% pay cut to $6.375m. Not committed to a $7.5m minimum. https://t.co/quzj0z1IKv
— Rory Johnston (@rnfjohnston) September 17, 2019
Ideally, the Canucks would surely like to have locked Boeser down to a longer-term deal, but to sign such a contract Boeser would have been looking for a higher annual cap hit. The team couldn’t go much higher than about US$7.5 million, though, because of how the rest of their contracts line up. The Canucks could have done that, but they would have needed to do some roster juggling.
The Canucks will still have to demote one skater and place Antoine Roussel on long-term injury relief, but Boeser’s lower cap hit means that shouldn’t be too much of a challenge.
If Boeser performs as well as the Canucks hope he will, it’s likely he’ll now be after a much larger contract in 2022. But that’s also a problem the Canucks will surely be happy to have because it would mean Boeser’s had an excellent three years.
Brock Boeser has the potential to light it up next season with Elias Pettersson. Photo by DARRYL DYCK /THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES
Boeser, 22, scored 26 goals last year, mostly playing on Elias Pettersson’s wing.
In 140 career games, Boeser has scored 59 goals.
When Boeser needs a new deal, the Canucks will have Bo Horvat, J.T. Miller, Micheal Ferland and Tyler Myers signed for US$20.25 million, plus whatever Thatcher Demko, Pettersson and Quinn Hughes will have signed for two years from now, when their deals have expired.
A new deal for Boeser likely won’t be too difficult to fit in, provided the Canucks are smart with the rest of their cap space in the interim.
“These RFAs are looking for shorter-term deals, we looked at trying to do a longer-term deal, but at the end of the day, you know, I guess doing a shorter-term deal puts some responsibility back on him now to come in and have three good years,” Benning said. “Then we’ll try to get them signed long term after that.
“We’re happy with the number,” he said, with a smile.
Boeser will fly to Vancouver on Tuesday, Benning said — though not in time to play that night. He will join his teammates Wednesday.
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Masterminds meet up to solve channel issues
ESTEREL, QUE. – At the ChannelNEXT East Conference, groups of channel partner executives got together with a business coach to discuss issues pertaining to their companies.
The sessions are called Mastermind and the show hosted four groups of eight solution provider executives talking about all aspects of their business.
The intention of the Mastermind sessions is to use the collective strength and knowledge of the group to improve the business practices of channel partners along with cultivating sustainable recurring revenue streams.
One of the advantages of joining Mastermind is the opportunity to be introduced to non-traditional channel partners who are born in the cloud.
But at the heart of each group is collaboration and the desire to solve tough business problems.
Case in point, Nicolas Takacs, the 27-year old president of Koncept Technologies of Prevost, Que., who has challenges with hiring and retaining good staff. Koncept is a born in the cloud solution provider that got started in 2009 and Takacs told EChannelNews that what he valued from the Mastermind group was he was surrounded by similar type businesses.
“This was a great group that made several good points. What I liked was they each have similar yearly sales, so we have no gaps and it provides better, real world problem solving. We are in the same game as the others in the group and we even have the same types of customers,” Takacs said.
He found out that all eight executives in his group were also struggling with the same issues; chief among them human resources. All of Takacs’ Mastermind group members where challenged by hiring and retaining good staff.
“We talked about how we can recruit and keep employees. All of us made good points and some presented strategies on the benefits of staying with your employer. One Mastermind member had a great idea of offering maid services as a perk,” Takacs said.
Koncept is also making the pivot towards becoming a managed services provider and believes his Mastermind group can help him with the transition.
Solution provider executives from the Quebec area at a Mastermind session at the ChannelNEXT East Conference
Pierre Namroud, the director of business development at Namtek Consulting Services of Laval, Que., did not have any expectations of Mastermind but wanted to explore the program. Namrok said he learned a few new tricks from his peer group.
“I learned that I’m not the only one who has my problems. This is big for me because at one point you feel ‘hey what’s going on’ and then you learn it’s a generic issue,” Namroud said.
Similar to Takacs, Namroud is also finding that he has HR issues. “Can’t find good people and when I do there tends to be a clash of generations. There is no more loyalty to the job. People today think it’s only a job and some leave without even saying goodbye,” he added.
One of the ideas he shared with his Mastermind group was hiring people from overseas as project managers, incenting them with parts of the revenue they bring in but managing this workforce remotely.
Channel executives Norm Landry and Michael Marleau at the Mastermind session
Norm Landry, a professional advisor for QITX Inc. in Montreal found his Mastermind session informative and interactive.
“The great thing about my group is that we had great participation, and no one was shy,” he said.
The new thing he learned from the session was predictability and ROI techniques for his online marketing campaigns. “It’s difficult to predict how you get ROI when you do spend money on marketing traditional or otherwise,” Landry said.
Another lesson Landry learned from his Mastermind group was to start small, but not too small that there’s no impact.
Landry plans to keep in touch with his group and is looking forward to being nurtured by the group along with being a strong participant himself.
Hugo Lambert, president of Montreal-based ISL Technologie was encouraged with how open all the partner executives were in his session; even though some of the solution providers compete with each other.
Just like the others in his group, hiring and retaining employees along with the cost of training was a big issue for Lambert and ISL.
One of the things he learned from his peers was too look for people with a good attitude instead of a great skill set or technical know-how.
“Good personal skills and a great attitude instead of knowledge of IT and sometimes it’s better to hire someone with no IT knowledge but has a good attitude and they will become a great employee with some training,” Lambert added.
The concept of the Mastermind program is to provide peer-to-peer brainstorming sessions from solution providers who understand what you are going through. The goal is to help channel partners get to the next level in their business.
The executive coaches for the Mastermind program will help the groups doing multiple live and virtual sessions throughout the year that will discuss topics such as being an independent software vendor, the line of business, accounting, marketing, digital and social marketing, legal, expertise in vertical markets and other business building strategies.
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Big Six Wheel
It is a table game played by people of different cultures, ages, and origins. The game is also known as the game of fortune, the lucky wheel, money wheel among others. It originated from the ancient Greeks. They used their shields by marking points on it and spun it. If lucky and stopped in your selected section, then you won the game. Also, it was used to settle disputes amongst the soldiers in ancient times.
Today, the game pretty much observes the same rules as in the past. Even though it is popular amongst players, the game is primarily a game of chance and therefore has no specific Big Six Wheel strategy that one can follow except staying away from it. Players are advised against playing the game as the winning odds are high for the house. To learn more here is:
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The game comes in the form of a wheel. The wheel is subdivided into 54 sections. Fifty-two of these sections have numbers and other symbols on them. The different 2 parts; one has the house logo while the other has a joker on it. The sections also have monetary denominations attached to them.
To win, you are required to place a bet on whichever of these sections/ denomination that you expect the wheel to stop. Once the wager has been placed, then the dealer spins the wheel. If lucky, the wheel stops at your selected section, and you win. If not, then you lose the entire bet to the house.
House Edge
The game has high house edge percentages. In many cases, the house advantages are different for each of the winning sections on the Big Six Wheel. These range from 11% and can go as high as 24%. In some countries playing different variations of the game, the house edge lower limit can go up to 7% and the highest limit to 25%. The game can be exciting. We advise against playing the game unless in the mood and willing to lose a few dollars to the house. If not, seek a more suitable table game to play while still in the casino or online. For many casinos, the house edge varies according to the table below.
Bet House Edge
$1 11%
$10 18%
Joker 24%
House logo 24%
There are seven types of bets you can play in this game. These bets are associated with the six denominations the wheel is divided into. Betting is done by placing your wager on $1, which is a single bet on its own. Another wager can be placed on the wheel stopping at $2, $5, $10, and $20, the joker or on the house logo. The bets are subdivided into different sections on the wheel add up to 54. These are:
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$1 appears 24 times
$5 appears 5 times
$10 appears 10 times
Joker appears once
House logo appears once
All these have different payouts at the end of the day.
Bet payouts
Payouts for the big six wheel casino games are times one for the wager placed. If you bet on the $1, then the payout is one it to 1. Similarly, the other bets correspond to:
2:1 for waging $2
10:1 for waging $10
40:1 for waging on the joker
40:1 for waging house logo
The objective of this game is to win by allowing the wheel to spin and hoping that it stops in the desired wheel section or denomination selected.
The game has high pay levels. If you win, the game will offer huge pays, especially if you placed your wager in the right denominations.
The game has an enormous house advantage. Therefore, even if you win, they end up taking much more of your money than theirs.
The game is a table game with the wheel mounted on a spinning rod. This allows the wheel to be spun until it stops in a specific area. It has a pointer that indicates where the wheel has stopped at and selects the winning denomination.
The game is a lucky charm, and the winning odds are not in your favor. Therefore, if you are not willing to lose the money, please stay away from the game.
Big six wheels table game provides many attractive opportunities. These dwindle as the wheel spins. It might seem like the best game to bet your money on and win big. However, you have to practice caution as you can end up losing all the money placed on the bet.
What is Big Six Wheel?
It is a gambling game also known as The Big Six, Wheel of Fortune, Wheel of Cash, Money Wheel, Big Wheel or Lucky Wheel. This is a game that is played by spinning a large wheel that looks like a bicycle rim. The player gambles on the number they think the rim will stop at and places a bet on it. The wheel is divided into a number of sections which have different monetary values, a joker and wild card spot. The segments are divided equally by spokes and also consist of a flexible rubber is mounted to rub against the spokes so as to stop the spin.
How many number are on the Big Wheel?
The wheel is made up of a total of 54 Segments, among this 52 are marked by either numbers or symbols, while the remaining two are both jokers and one of them can be a wild card spot. The player gambles on which segment of the wheel they expect the wheel to stop at so as to determine result of the bet.
The Big Six Wheel has six different payoffs available on the wheel and repetition of a number or symbol in different segments increase chances of winning. The payoff is determined by the monetary value of the symbol on each segment, the amount placed on bet, and the odds that appear at different frequencies. The House Edge for this game ranges from 11% to 24% for the Joker and wild card spot bets hence players with financial difficulties are discouraged from playing this game.
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Five days after the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives posted the 15-page notice and request for comments in the Federal Register, igniting a firestorm of criticism, the agency backpedaled and withdrew it. The action mimicked the rapid reversal on the proposed regulation on M855 Greentip ammunition in 2015 that saw a similar outcry.
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Then, as we neared the election, the ATF dropped an October surprise, declaring some braced pistols were actually SBRs — NFA-regulated short barreled rifles — only to later back off that determination under pressure. That declaration was in direct disobedience to the Department of Justice’s edict (which happened, in a big part, thanks to Rep. Gaetz with help from brace manufacturer SB Tactical) that ATF could not pursue any new rulings or regulations on pistol braces without first setting clear standards for the accessories in cooperation with the firearm industry.
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Bureaucrat Militias and the Threat To Freedom
Posted by Brian in News on 26/Nov/2020 07:00
From Law and Liberty:
In addition to the administrative agencies that we would expect to have militias, the Justice Department, Homeland Security, the Bureau of Prisons, and such, some unlikely federal bureaucracies actively train and use militias: IRS, Social Security Administration, Department of Education, Consumer Safety Products Commission, Bureau of Land Management, Department of Agriculture, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a host of other agencies, both large and small. Sensational stories about the Environmental Protection Agency raids to enforce the Clean Water Act have surfaced in recent weeks; the Education Department has used its militia to terrorize citizens suspected of defaulting on student loans; and a few years ago, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, along with the militia from the Fish and Wild Life Service made a spectacular raid on a Miami business suspected of having violated the Endangered Species Act.
These raids were full-scale military operations to enforce administrative agency regulations. Government militias have become so active in the past several years that the rate at which they purchase ammunition for training purposes has caused widespread shortages in civilian markets—at times it has been almost impossible for civilians to purchase the most popular calibers used by government militias. What should we make of this dramatic expansion of the administrative state?
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How The ATF Arbitrarily Creates Criminals
From FEE.org:
What if government agents could, by declaration, make you into a criminal? What if, without legislative change, bureaucrats could decide that what was legal yesterday is a felony today? What if we were governed not by law, but by arbitrary statements telling us what we may or may not do?
Unfortunately, those questions are not merely hypothetical—thanks to recent abuses of power by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), millions of American gun owners are facing them head-on. Even if you hate guns, you should be deeply concerned by the arbitrary power wielded by the ATF against your fellow Americans. If an unchecked executive agency can run roughshod over any of our rights with impunity, all of our rights are in danger.
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ATF Re-classifies Honey Badger Pistol As Short-barreled Rifle
Posted by Brian in News on 9/Oct/2020 07:00
From Firearms Policy Coalition:
ATF has once again unlawfully and unconstitutionally exceeded its authority and changed the law by issuing a new determination that is devoid of logic and reason, contains no explanation as to the manner in which it arrived at its conclusion, conflicts with its prior determinations, and embodies the very essence of “arbitrary and capricious”.
After examining a sample Q Honey Badger Pistol, the ATF’s Firearms and Ammunition Technology Division (FATD) concluded that “the objective features of the Honey Badger firearm, configured with the subject stabilizing brace, indicate the firearm is designed and intended to be fired from the shoulder.” FATD further concluded that it is a SBR as defined by the National Firearms Act (NFA) and Gun Control Act (GCA). Yet, ATF does not explain how it arrived at this conclusion other than vague generalizations that the firearm was “designed” to be fired from the shoulder and by virtue of its barrel length meeting the definition of a SBR.
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The Only FFL In DC Is The Police
From Washington Free Beacon:
In an arrangement unique to Washington, D.C., the local police department is the only federally licensed firearms dealer that is open to the public. Residents tell the Washington Free Beacon, however, that legally obtaining a handgun has become nearly impossible due to the department’s inaction.
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The New 4473, What To Expect
The most notable changes are the inclusion of the firearm information at the top of page one instead of page three, the change of “county” to “county/parish/borough,” and the addition of “non-binary” to the gender.
There are, of course, other changes but they are not as significant as these and they apply mostly to the FFLs. There is a full breakdown of each change, and what it means for FFLs, in the RocketFFL compliance program.
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Bloomberg Group Attacks 80% Lowers
Everytown, a Bloomberg-funded gun control group, petitioned federal regulators this week to change how so-called “80 percent” receivers are handled.
Everytown even supplied suggested language for a proposed rulemaking change to ATF, one that would treat unfinished receivers and frames as regular firearms, with all the red-tape and inevitable FFL transfer fees that come along with it:
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ATF Drops Case Because of Non Existent Rule
From Cam and Company:
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Bureaucrats Making Law, Not Congress
Administrative agencies, like the ATF and EPA, are increasingly encouraged to write their own rules far beyond the scope that the law allows. Hence why you saw “bump stocks” banned without Congress acting, why you saw 7N6 ammunition disappear, why you saw foreign made semi-autos dry up. None of this came with the help of Congress. All of it came at the behest of the executive branch, headed up by none other than whoever was president at the time.
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Will Small Shops Survive Illinois Gun Control?
Posted by Brian in News on 19/Jul/2019 07:00
A new gun control law aimed squarely at gun shops in the state of Illinois takes effect today. The Firearms Dealer License Certification Act requires all gun stores across the state to be licensed by the Illinois State Police as well as the federal government, and in order to get that state license firearm retailers have to navigate a maze of red tape and comply with onerous new restrictions. In some cases, gun shops are shutting down rather than try to meet the new requirements, and other stores are ditching gun and ammo sales completely.
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Case Could Reign In Federal Bureaucracies
Posted by Brian in Law, News on 12/Dec/2018 17:30
Recently, there has been a push from some quarters to reconsider Auer deference, Chevron deference, and other aspects of the modern administrative law state, and overturn them as being inherently unconstitutional; specifically, that such deference to bureaucratic decisions violates the required Separation of Powers.
Were that to happen, the current administrative state would be rocked to its core. While there have been some rumblings from Justice Thomas and others in this regard, there did not appear to be a majority on the Supreme Court interested in potentially unleashing this kind of political earthquake. (Scalia and Kennedy were, at best, squishy on the issue.)
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The Best Films of 2017 So Far
Daniel Rester July 1, 2017
Halfway through the year 2017, there’s been some ups and downs at the movies. From thrillers and horror films to superhero blockbusters to smaller gems, here are the 10 best films of the year so far in my opinion out of the many I’ve seen. These are going by U.S. release dates. Leave your comments down below and let us at We Live Entertainment know what your favorites of the year are.
A few well-regarded 2017 films I’ve yet to see (A-Z): Band Aid, The Beguiled, The Big Sick, Colossal, Graduation
Honorable Mentions (A-Z): Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, John Wick: Chapter 2, The Lost City of Z, Personal Shopper
10. A Cure For Wellness
Director: Gore Verbinski
Cast: Dane DeHaan, Mia Goth, Jason Isaacs
IMDB Plot: An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company’s CEO from an idyllic but mysterious “wellness center” at a remote location in the Swiss Alps, but soon suspects that the spa’s treatments are not what they seem.
The psychological thriller A Cure For Wellness from director Verbinski bombed at the box office and has received mixed reviews from critics. Yet it already feels like a cult film in the making. The cinematography by Bojan Bazelli is beautiful and haunting and the film delivers a fine level of mystery for its first two-thirds, recalling great haunted house and asylum movies from the 50s and 60s. The last third does tumble a bit, but to me A Cure For Wellness is too stunning in parts to fully dismiss even if its reach is bigger than its grasp. Grade: 8/10 (B+)
9. T2: Trainspotting
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle
IMDB Plot: After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie.
T2: Trainspotting was my most anticipated film of the year, with Trainspotting (1996) being one of my absolute favorite films. While this sequel from Boyle and company doesn’t reach the masterful heights of that movie, it still has moments of originality, sting, and hilarity among the flawed characters. Some of the moments of nostalgia are too easy and the basic plot involving revenge and a brothel are disappointing, but the acting and filmmaking style are impressive throughout. There’s also one scene involving a conversation about a baby and mistakes in life that hits you like a punch to the face. Grade: 8.2/10 (A-)
8. Okja
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Cast: Seo-Hyun Ahn, Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Jake Gyllenhaal
IMDB Plot: Meet Mija, a young girl who risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend – a massive animal named Okja.
The latest from visionary filmmaker Bong Joon Ho, Okja, is uneven in tone and not very subtle about its messages involving capitalism and the food industry. However, it’s also unique, funny, and eye-opening, with some moments that feel like a Hayao Miyazaki animated film brought to life. The young Ahn is terrific and the heart of the film, while the supporting cast (including wacky performances by Swinton and Gyllenhaal) and CGI are top-notch. Okja doesn’t always work, but it’s bold, ambitious, and beautiful for the most part. Grade: 8.3/10 (A-)
7. Megan Leavey
Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Cast: Kate Mara, Ramon Rodriguez, Tom Felton, Common
IMDB Plot: Based on the true life story of a young Marine corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq.
Mara gives one of the finest performances of her career so far in Megan Leavey. The film, being a true story about a dog, could have easily been cloying if handled wrong. But director Cowperthwaite and Mara deliver the occasional sweetness while never losing focus of the seriousness of the character’s situations. The film’s look at the military dogs and their owners gives the film a fresh perspective, while the combat sequences are tense and realistic. The third act does become rote and predictable at times, but overall Megan Leavey is a change-of-pace military biopic. Grade: 8.4/10 (A-)
6. Wonder Woman
Cast: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Danny Huston
IMDB Plot: Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained warrior. When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, she leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny.
The best film of the DCEU so far, Wonder Woman is a badass and emotional female-driven superhero film. Gadot and Pine have excellent chemistry and the action scenes are spectacular, but it’s the subtler moments (such as a particular dance scene) that director Jenkins nails that make Wonder Woman shine even more. The film uses the slo-mo-to-fast-mo technique to a distracting degree and the final showdown is a tad messy in its staging. Still, Wonder Woman is a blast of summer entertainment. Grade: 8.4/10 (A-)
5. Split
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson
IMDB Plot: Three girls are kidnapped by a man with a diagnosed 23 distinct personalities. They must try to escape before the apparent emergence of a frightful new 24th.
McAvoy deserves an Oscar nomination for his tricky, complex, and memorable performance(s) as Kevin/his other other personalities in Split. This is an amazing and thrilling return to form for Shyamalan as a filmmaker, who for about fifteen years made less-than-satisfying movies. He has found his footing again, and Split joins the ranks of The Sixth Sense (1999) and Unbreakable (2000) in being among the director’s best works. That ending is a cherry on top too for in-the-know fans. Grade: 8.4/10 (A-)
4. Logan
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook
IMDB Plot: In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X somewhere on the Mexican border. However, Logan’s attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.
The R-rated Logan supposedly features Jackman’s final turn as Wolverine on the big screen. If that is so, then Jackman has gone out on a high note as he delivers on both the rough and vulnerable sides of the character. Mangold treats the material as a road trip/modern Western film more than a superhero picture, and the results feel personal and edgy. The environments feel lived-in, the emotions are layered, and the character decisions are realistic. Logan scores as both a comic book film and a gritty drama because of these things. Grade: 8.4/10 (A-)
3. Baby Driver
Cast: Ansel Elgort, Lily James, Jamie Foxx, Jon Hamm
IMDB Plot: After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
The main last-job-and-then-I’m-out and fall-in-love-with-a-waitress plot mechanics of Baby Driver are pretty standard. But those small gripes aside, the film is another gem from the ever-talented Wright. It’s the spaces in-between here that matter, as Wright puts meticulousness and style into every frame and turns Baby Driver into exhilarating time at the movies. It’s fun, flashy, smart, and terrifically acted summer fare. Grade: 8.5/10 (A-)
2. Raw
Director: Julia Ducournau
Cast: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella
IMDB Plot: When a young vegetarian undergoes a carnivorous hazing ritual at vet school, an unbidden taste for meat begins to grow in her.
Raw, the feature debut by French filmmaker Ducournau, could have easily been a silly cannibalistic horror movie. Instead Ducournau and her cast expertly — and subtly — treat the unsettling subject as a metaphor for sexual awakening and more. The film does have its graphic moments, but it’s more focused on character and atmosphere and is refreshingly intelligent and deep for a modern horror film. Marillier is also a star in the making, delivering an alluring and emotional performance as Justine. Grade: 8.7/10 (A-)
1. Get Out
Director: Jordan Peele
Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener
IMDB Plot: It’s time for a young African American to meet with his white girlfriend’s parents for a weekend in their secluded estate in the woods, but before long, the friendly and polite ambience will give way to a nightmare.
Far and away my favorite film of the year so far is comedian-turned-director Peele’s Get Out. This brilliant satirical horror-thriller has loads of social commentary about racism in modern America, but under the surface it also has subtle symbolism and twists in its writing and presentation — with a few characters struggling with regret. Get Out has white-knuckle suspense, interesting characters, and snappy dialogue. And it gets even better with repeat viewings. Grade: 9/10 (A)
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Giving an unambiguous and satisfactory definition of the placebo effect is difficult: what is certain is that this phenomenon exists, is real and has been measured several times, not without difficulty. Let’s start with the definition of placebo. There are those who define a placebo as a starch or lactose pill that does not contain pharmacologically active substances, or a drip of physiological solution containing only water and salt, or even an ineffective drug to treat the condition for which it is used.
In reality, the placebo is all these things together, as can be understood by retracing the history of its definition. The first use of the term “placebo” is recorded in the fourteenth century, in particular in the Latin translation of the Bible: Placebo Domino in Regione vivorum (I will be pleasing to the Lord in the land of the living). Singing the placebo was a specific task of the “prefiche”, that is, of women who were paid to cry at funerals and praise the dead.
Later it took on a more secular and derogatory meaning: in the 15th century it therefore indicates a pimp, a disgusting person, a parasite. The first time that the term was used in medicine dates back to the eighteenth century, to mean any medicine suitable more to please the patient than to give him a real benefit. In fact, translated from Latin, “placebo” literally means “I will be liked”.
In 1945, placebo was defined as a “totally inert agent”, a definition that was outdated ten years later, on the discovery that it was not inert at all. The placebo, in fact, although it does not contain pharmacologically active substances, is not inactive from a therapeutic point of view, because it is able to provoke responses in humans.
In reality, the placebo, even if more frequently made up of a compound, can be any intervention, any therapy other than drug. This is why the most exhaustive description is probably the one that brings together different definitions given by the scholar of the phenomenon Howard Shapiro between 1964 and 1971: “Placebo is any procedure deliberately implemented to obtain an effect or which, even without having any notion of it, carries out an action on the patient or on the symptom or on the disease, but which objectively lacks any specific activity towards the condition being treated ”.
The placebo effect can only be recorded in the conscious man: in subjects in coma or under general anesthesia it does not evoke any response. Therefore, only in a vigilant subject can the placebo effect be recorded. But what are the responses evoked by the placebo? They can be subjective, that is, reported by patients taking the placebo, and objective, measurable or verifiable from the outside.
The subjective ones are the simplest to detect (for example, the patient is asked if, after taking the product or after surgery, his symptoms have improved, or he is asked to indicate, through a predisposed scale, the intensity of his pain), but they are also those most influenced by external variables and difficult to quantify. The objective responses are the most difficult to refute, as they are reproducible: for example, it is a question of the variation of biochemical or physiological parameters.
First placebo studies
A remedy used in the nineteenth century for many diseases were metal sticks applied to different points of the body (they were supposed to be able to reduce symptoms thanks to the electromagnetic properties of the metal): in 1801 John Haygarth treated five patients with similar sticks but made of wood and found symptom remission in four out of five patients. The next day he treated the five patients with metal sticks and got the same result. In a somewhat rudimentary way, the placebo effect had been measured: Haygarth defined the result as the wonderful power of the mind (and in particular of trust and hope) over the disorders of the body, something often overlooked in the treatment of diseases.
Other similar studies were carried out during the 19th century. In 1938, placebo was used to evaluate the efficacy of an oral flu vaccine. The placebo capsule was exactly the same as the vaccine, but it contained lactose. The results were the same: the reduction in colds was recorded both in the vaccine and in the placebo group and in an overlapping manner. Until about 1950, the placebo was used as a “humble scam”, that is, as an inert preparation that did not cause harm and could give comfort to the patient. In fact, by using it more and more in experimentation, researchers began to recognize its therapeutic value.
Contributing to the placebo effect are: the placebo itself, the patient, the doctor and the doctor-patient relationship, in addition to the external context, each with its own characteristics, peculiarities, variability.
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22 thoughts on “The Placebo effect”
Gloria Hopkins says:
The effect is very powerful, the same more serious scientific studies, in fact, tend to compare a new drug to a placebo.
Rylan Daly says:
Precisely in order not to confuse the effectiveness due to the new molecule with the normal responses of the organism even in the absence of active substances.
Umaima Duffy says:
Yes, however, the mechanisms by which the placebo effect causes a measurable reaction are different (some still mysterious).
Neil Guerra says:
From a psychological point of view, when administering a substance that we consider “active”, our mind puts in place many mechanisms that allow a real effect (pain is better tolerated, stress is reduced …)
Caolan Huff says:
It is called expectation, we expect a substance to do well and this happens, even if the substance does not have a beneficial effect….amazing human brain.
Brenden Frank says:
It should be noted that it is also the physiology that responds to the effect, the expectation of an improvement causes the release in the body of substances that really have a positive action, first of all the endorphins but also very small amounts of adrenaline which allows to better resist stress.
Affan Whitehouse says:
The more we are convinced that something will do us good, the more this will happen.
Abraham Newman says:
Amazingly this effect works on everyone, adults and children, even babies
Bruce Enriquez says:
Not surprisingly, this also happens with “normal” drugs, many of their effects are enhanced by our belief in “doing us good”
Humphrey Nelson says:
Many of our ailments (exclude serious illnesses) have a very high psychic component.
Nikki Cousins says:
Does the placebo effect work in surgery?
Ismael Gilliam says:
I don’t even want to think about getting a surgery and finding out that instead of anesthesia they gave me sugar
Izabelle Hagan says:
It seems incredible, but even in surgery the placebo effect is effective.
Albi Reynolds says:
Today medicine tends to focus on the molecular and biochemical causes of the disease, it looks less at the human and psychological aspect.
Neve Alvarado says:
But we are beginning to understand that the psyche plays an important role in the disease.
Ralph Neal says:
The nothingness which can cure today is an object of great scientific interest and is being investigated by an ever-increasing number of researches.
Hania Guthrie says:
In any case, the placebo effect arises from the combined action of different mechanisms, related to expectations, memory, reward learning, anxiety reduction and more.
Tahir Allen says:
If I know that a round, white tablet is capable of relieving my headache, any tablet of this type has the potential to achieve the same effect.
Eoin Robbins says:
But is it permissible to administer an inert substance by passing it off as an effective drug?
Remi Fitzgerald says:
The patient’s unawareness is the price to pay for it to act therapeutically.
Alaya Rawlings says:
It’s one thing to tell someone we’re injecting them with morphine when it’s actually water, it’s another to say that water will do them good.
Mariya Spencer says:
In any case, to be effective, the placebo must be proposed in a way that is consistent with the patient’s expectations.
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Sahin-Dikmen, M. and Clarke, L. 2018. Transforming the employment relation in construction to achieve energy efficiency: the need for a new coalition of actors. British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA) Conference. Middlesex University, London 27 - 29 Jun 2018
Disparities in Labour and VET in meeting LEC targets
Sahin-Dikmen, M. and Clarke, L. 2017. Disparities in Labour and VET in meeting LEC targets. ILPC . Sheffield 04 - 07 Apr 2017
A Bourdieusian Lens onto Professions, A Case Study of Architecture
Sahin-Dikmen, M. 2014. A Bourdieusian Lens onto Professions, A Case Study of Architecture. PhD thesis University of York
Impact of BIG funding of community enterprise overseas
Smeaton, D., Hudson, M., Deraniyagala, S., Francavilla, F., Ng, M., Phillips, J. and Salis, S. 2011. Impact of BIG funding of community enterprise overseas. Policy Studies Institute and School of Oriental and African Studies.
Migrant workers’ interactions with welfare benefits: a review of recent evidence and its relevance for the tax credits system
Radu, D., Hudson, M. and Phillips, J. 2011. Migrant workers’ interactions with welfare benefits: a review of recent evidence and its relevance for the tax credits system. HM Revenue and Customs.
European migrant workers’ understanding and experience of the tax credits system
Hudson, M., Radu, D. and Phillips, J. 2011. European migrant workers’ understanding and experience of the tax credits system. HM Revenue and Customs.
The role of employer attitudes and behaviour, JRF programme paper: Poverty and ethnicity
Hudson, M. and Radu, D. 2011. The role of employer attitudes and behaviour, JRF programme paper: Poverty and ethnicity. York Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Recession and cohesion in Bradford
Hudson, M., Davidson, R., Durante, L., Grieve, J. and Kazmi, A. 2011. Recession and cohesion in Bradford. York Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) demonstration: delivery, take-up, and outcomes of in-work training support for lone parents
Hendra, R., Ray, K., Vegeris, S., Hevenstone, D. and Hudson, M. 2011. Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) demonstration: delivery, take-up, and outcomes of in-work training support for lone parents. London Department for Work and Pensions.
Jobseekers Regime and Flexible New Deal evaluation: a report on qualitative research findings
Vegeris, S., Vowden, K., Bertram, C., Davidson, R., Durante, L., Hudson, M., Husain, F., MacKinnon, K. and Smeaton, D. 2010. Jobseekers Regime and Flexible New Deal evaluation: a report on qualitative research findings. London A report of research carried out by Policy Studies Institute on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.
50+ back to work evidence review and indicative guide for secondary data analysis
Vegeris, S., Smeaton, D. and Sahin-Dikmen, M. 2010. 50+ back to work evidence review and indicative guide for secondary data analysis. Norwich Department for Work and Pensions.
The EHRC Triennial Review: developing the employment evidence base
Smeaton, D., Hudson, M., Radu, D. and Vowden, K. 2010. The EHRC Triennial Review: developing the employment evidence base. Equality and Human Rights Commission Research Report.
The influence of outcome-based contracting on Provider-ledPathways to Work
Hudson, M., Phillips, J., Ray, K., Vegeris, S. and Davidson, R. 2010. The influence of outcome-based contracting on Provider-ledPathways to Work. Norwich Department for Work and Pensions.
Understanding the worklessness and financial exclusion of Riverside tenants
Francavilla, F., Kasparova, D., Taylor, R.F., Smeaton, D. and Sahin-Dikmen, M. 2010. Understanding the worklessness and financial exclusion of Riverside tenants. London Policy Studies Institute.
People with mental health conditions and Pathways to Work
Hudson, M., Ray, K., Vegeris, S. and Brooks, S. 2009. People with mental health conditions and Pathways to Work. Norwich Department for Work and Pensions.
'Rubbing along with the neighbours': everyday interactions in a diverse neighbourhood in the North of England
Hudson, M., Phillips, J. and Ray, K. 2009. 'Rubbing along with the neighbours': everyday interactions in a diverse neighbourhood in the North of England. in: Wise, A. and Velayutham, S. (ed.) Everyday multiculturalism Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 199-215
Research report 43: Older workers: employment preferences, barriers and solutions
Smeaton, D., Vegeris, S. and Sahin-Dikmen, M. 2009. Research report 43: Older workers: employment preferences, barriers and solutions. Manchester EHRC.
Public officials and community involvement in local services
Ray, K., Hudson, M., Campbell-Barr, V. and Shutes, I. 2008. Public officials and community involvement in local services. York Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Integration and Citizenship of Second Generation Nationals in the UK : Insights from recent research on social cohesion in diverse communities
Hudson, M. 2008. Integration and Citizenship of Second Generation Nationals in the UK : Insights from recent research on social cohesion in diverse communities. British-Hispanic Foundation.
Belonging and entitlement: shifting discourses of difference in multi-ethnic neighbourhoods in the UK
Ray, K., Hudson, M. and Phillips, J. 2008. Belonging and entitlement: shifting discourses of difference in multi-ethnic neighbourhoods in the UK. in: Petersson, B. and Tyler, K. (ed.) Majority cultures and everyday politics of ethnic difference: whose house is this? Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan.
Evaluation of the Pension Increase Pledge: Evidence from the first year of implementation
Sahin-Dikmen, M., Barnes, H. and Wilkinson, D. 2007. Evaluation of the Pension Increase Pledge: Evidence from the first year of implementation. A report of research carried out by Policy Studies Institute on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.
Social cohesion in diverse communities
Hudson, M., Phillips, J., Ray, K. and Barnes, H. 2007. Social cohesion in diverse communities. York, UK Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Race discrimination claims: unrepresented claimants' and employers' views on Acas' conciliation in employment tribunal cases
Hudson, M., Barnes, H., Brooks, S. and Taylor, R.F. 2007. Race discrimination claims: unrepresented claimants' and employers' views on Acas' conciliation in employment tribunal cases. London Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS).
Neighbourhood responses to new immigration
Hudson, M. 2007. Neighbourhood responses to new immigration. JRF and Runnymede Poverty and Ethnicity Event.
Integration of second generation migrants in the UK: insights from recent research on social cohesion in diverse communities
Hudson, M. 2007. Integration of second generation migrants in the UK: insights from recent research on social cohesion in diverse communities. IX Forum British-Hispanic Foundation. Madrid, Spain 07 Dec 2007
A tale of two communities: reframing the debate on social cohesion
Hudson, M. 2007. A tale of two communities: reframing the debate on social cohesion. British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2007: Social Connections: Identities, Technologies, Relationships. University of East London, London, UK 12-14 Apr 2007
progress2work and progress2work-LinkUP: an exploratory study to assess evaluation possibilities
Dorsett, R., Hudson, M. and MacKinnon, K. 2007. progress2work and progress2work-LinkUP: an exploratory study to assess evaluation possibilities. Leeds Corporate Document Services.
Ethnic minority perceptions and experiences of Jobcentre Plus
Hudson, M., Barnes, H., Ray, K. and Phillips, J. 2006. Ethnic minority perceptions and experiences of Jobcentre Plus. Leeds, UK Corporate Document Services.
Using large-scale qualitative research to explore the experiences of jobless ethnic minority men and women
Hudson, M. 2006. Using large-scale qualitative research to explore the experiences of jobless ethnic minority men and women. ESRC Research Methods Festival. Oxford, UK 17-20 Jul 2006
The hidden one-in-five: winning a fair deal for Britain's vulnerable workers
Hudson, M. 2006. The hidden one-in-five: winning a fair deal for Britain's vulnerable workers. London, UK TUC Publications.
Immigration: its effects on housing demand and social cohesion: the latest research findings
Hudson, M. 2006. Immigration: its effects on housing demand and social cohesion: the latest research findings. All Party Parliamentary Group on Homelessness & Housing, House of Commons. London, UK 17 Jan 2006 London, UK
Fairness at work for all: organising, representing and supporting vulnerable workers
Hudson, M. 2006. Fairness at work for all: organising, representing and supporting vulnerable workers. TUC/NGH Fringe Meeting at the 138th Trades Union Congress. Brighton, UK 11 Sep 2006
Ethnic minority outreach: the experiences of ethnic minority women
Hudson, M. 2006. Ethnic minority outreach: the experiences of ethnic minority women. Promoting Gender Equality in Local Labour Markets Conference. London, UK 13 Jul 2006
Pathways to work: qualitative research on the Condition Management Programme
Barnes, H. and Hudson, M. 2006. Pathways to work: qualitative research on the Condition Management Programme. Leeds, UK Corporate Document Services.
Pathways to work - extension to some existing customers: early findings from qualitative research
Barnes, H. and Hudson, M. 2006. Pathways to work - extension to some existing customers: early findings from qualitative research. Leeds, UK Corporate Document Services.
Book review: Development of culture, welfare states and women's employment in Europe, Birgit Pfau-Effinger. Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004, 217 pp., £49.95
Hudson, M. 2006. Book review: Development of culture, welfare states and women's employment in Europe, Birgit Pfau-Effinger. Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004, 217 pp., £49.95. Industrial Relations Journal. 37 (3), pp. 279-281. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2338.2006.00403.x
Tackling the white-ethnic minority employment gap: Jobcentres and ethnic minority outreach
Hudson, M. 2005. Tackling the white-ethnic minority employment gap: Jobcentres and ethnic minority outreach. ESRC/DTI/PSI Research Seminar Series: Ethnicity and Employment in the Private Sector: Seminar One. London, UK 26 Jan 2005
Making research work
Hudson, M. 2005. Making research work. ARVAC Bulletin. 96.
Ethnic minority outreach: an evaluation
Barnes, H., Hudson, M., Parry, J., Sahin-Dikmen, M., Taylor, R.F. and Wilkinson, D. 2005. Ethnic minority outreach: an evaluation. Leeds, UK Corporate Document Services.
Mapping the Terrain of the Private Sector in Relation to Race
Hudson, M. and Parry, J. 2004. Mapping the Terrain of the Private Sector in Relation to Race. Commission for Racial Equality.
Independent living in later life
Parry, J., Vegeris, S., Hudson, M., Barnes, H. and Taylor, R.F. 2004. Independent living in later life. Leeds, UK Corporate Document Services.
Maternity and paternity rights in Britain 2002: survey of parents
Hudson, M., Lissenburgh, S. and Sahin-Dikmen, M. 2004. Maternity and paternity rights in Britain 2002: survey of parents. London, UK Department for Work and Pensions.
Tackling ethnic inequalities in private sector workplaces: progress and prospects
Hudson, M. 2004. Tackling ethnic inequalities in private sector workplaces: progress and prospects. Work, Employment & Society Conference. Manchester, UK 01-03 Sep 2004
Architecture and race: a study of black and ethnic minority students in the profession
Barnes, H., Parry, J., Sahin-Dikmen, M. and Bonjour, D. 2004. Architecture and race: a study of black and ethnic minority students in the profession. London, UK Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.
Disabled people and labour market disadvantage: evolving opportunites, evolving barriers?
Hudson, M. 2003. Disabled people and labour market disadvantage: evolving opportunites, evolving barriers? Employment Group Seminar. London, UK 20 Mar 2003
Phoenix from the ashes?: Labor-management partnerships in Britain
Deakin, S., Hudson, M. and Konzelmann, S. 2003. Phoenix from the ashes?: Labor-management partnerships in Britain. 55th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association. Washington, USA 02-05 Jan 2003
Working with interpreters and translators in qualitative research: issues of quality and equality
Barnes, H. and Sahin-Dikmen, M. 2003. Working with interpreters and translators in qualitative research: issues of quality and equality. Social Research Association Annual Conference. London, UK 03 Dec 2003
Making second chances work : final report from the Qualitative Evaluation of Adult Basic Skills Pathfinder Extension Activities
Barnes, H., Hudson, M., Taylor, R.F., Parry, J. and Sahin-Dikmen, M. 2003. Making second chances work : final report from the Qualitative Evaluation of Adult Basic Skills Pathfinder Extension Activities. London, UK Department for Education and Skills.
Discrimination in Europe: Findings from analysis of EUROSTATS on perceptions and personal experiences
Sahin-Dikmen, M. 2002. Discrimination in Europe: Findings from analysis of EUROSTATS on perceptions and personal experiences. PSI Seminar Series. London
Discrimination in Europe (Report C)
Marsh, A. and Sahin-Dikmen, M. 2002. Discrimination in Europe (Report C). London, UK European Commission Directorate General, Employment and Social Affairs.
Discrimination in Europe (Report B)
Marsh, A. and Sahin-Dikmen, M. 2002. Discrimination in Europe (Report B). London, UK European Commission Directorate General, Employment and Social Affairs.
Discrimination in Europe (Report A)
Marsh, A. and Sahin-Dikmen, M. 2002. Discrimination in Europe (Report A). London, UK European Commission Directorate General, Employment and Social Affairs.
Partnership in practice
Hudson, M., Konzelmann, S. and Wilkinson, F. 2002. Partnership in practice. Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/WorkingPaperNo.239
Disappearing pathways and the struggle for a fair day's pay
Hudson, M. 2002. Disappearing pathways and the struggle for a fair day's pay. in: Burchell, B., Ladipo, D. and Wilkinson, F. (ed.) Job insecurity and work intensification London, UK Routledge. pp. 77-91
Phoenix from the ashes?: Labour-management partnership in Britain
Deakin, S., Hudson, M., Konzelmann, S. and Wilkinson, F. 2002. Phoenix from the ashes?: Labour-management partnership in Britain. 2002 Academy of Management Annual Meeting: Building Effective Networks. Denver, USA 09-14 Aug 2002
Minority ethnic students and practitioners in architecture: a scoping study for the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
Barnes, H., Bonjour, D. and Sahin-Dikmen, M. 2002. Minority ethnic students and practitioners in architecture: a scoping study for the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. London, UK Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.
Disabled People and the National Minimum Wage: an exploration of the impact on therapeutic activity and earnings: final report to the Low Pay Commission's third review of the National Minimum Wage
Hudson, M. 2001. Disabled People and the National Minimum Wage: an exploration of the impact on therapeutic activity and earnings: final report to the Low Pay Commission's third review of the National Minimum Wage. London, UK Low Pay Commission.
Flexibility and reorganisation of work
Hudson, M. 2001. Flexibility and reorganisation of work. in: Burchell, B., Wilkinson, F. and Ladipo, D. (ed.) Job insecurity and work intensification London, UK Routledge. pp. 39-60
Disabled people, disadvantage and (getting into) local government
Hudson, M. 2001. Disabled people, disadvantage and (getting into) local government. British University Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA) Conference. Manchester, UK 05-07 Jul 2001
The limits of statutory trade union recognition
Brown, W., Deakin, S., Hudson, M. and Pratten, C. 2001. The limits of statutory trade union recognition. Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/WorkingPaperNo.199
Brown, W., Deakin, S., Hudson, M. and Pratten, C. 2001. The Limits of statutory trade union recognition. Industrial Relations Journal. 32 (3), pp. 180-194. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2338.00192
Flexible workers and the changing boundaries of work: theory and the practice
Hudson, M. 2000. Flexible workers and the changing boundaries of work: theory and the practice. in: Purcell, K. (ed.) Changing boundaries in employment Bristol, UK Bristol Academic Press.
Job Insecurity and Work Intensification: Flexibility and the Changing Boundaries of Work
Burchell, B., Day, D., Hudson, M., Ladipo, D., Mankelow, R., Nolan, J., Reed, H., Wichert, I. and Wilkinson, F. 1999. Job Insecurity and Work Intensification: Flexibility and the Changing Boundaries of Work. York Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
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The Mighty Handful, ROH Orchestra, Pappano, Royal Opera House
Lively Russian nationalist goody-bag not quite filled to the brim
by David NiceTuesday, 09 February 2016
Antonio Pappano in rehearsal with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera HouseClive Barda
What fun it must have been to attend any of the St Petersburg Free Music School concerts during the second half of the 19th century.
What fun it must have been to attend any of the St Petersburg Free Music School concerts during the second half of the 19th century. Balakirev, idiosyncratic mentor of the group briefly together as the "Mighty Handful", and his acolytes – Borodin, Musorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and the one we usually don't mention, César Cui – would have had orchestral works and sometimes the odd aria from an opera-in-progress on the programme, often alongside music by their western idols Berlioz, Liszt and Schumann. If something wasn't ready, which was often the case, colleagues would help out or offer a replacement.
Balakirev and company might have looked a bit askance at the relatively short measure in the second of Antonio Pappano's annual programmes with his Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, a kind of contextual taster for the forthcoming Boris Godunov, but they would have loved his enthusiasm and energy, which extended to pleasant introductions to both halves of the concert.
From a feast of colourful scores by "the Five", any number of courses could have been selected. Perhaps the only obvious one on Pappano's menu, apart from the minute-long "Flight of the Bumble-bee" from Rimsky-Korsakov's Tsar Saltan, was Borodin's Second Symphony, the real meat of the evening (the composer pictured right by Ilya Repin). Pappano got the Royal Opera strings to dig deep into the leonine offcuts from Prince Igor; at the other end of the scale, principal clarinet and horn wrought magic at the beginning and end of the bardic song in the slow movement.
All the performance lacked was depth to the lyric melodies, both here and in the bird-rich forest and battlefield of Rimsky-Korsakov's Invisible City of Kitezh (we could have done with the wedding balalaika imitations and Straussian apotheosis of the suite from the opera, too). Funny, but I look back with fondness on the heart of dark oak Gergiev used to get in such themes during his heyday at the Mariinsky/Kirov Theatre. But then the Royal Opera House as a concert venue didn't help with warmth or perspective. Enough to make one all the more grateful for the adequate Festival Hall or the Barbican; it's dry and pitiless to the orchestra on the stage, for all the handsome wood surrounds.
For that reason the original, incoherent but exciting romp of Musorgsky's original 1867 St John's Night on Bare Mountain (the composer pictured below by Repin, at the end of his life) came off best. Its bald scoring came across as positively hair-raising, from the first fortissimo skedaddling of the witches – not flying in from a distance as in Rimsky-Korsakov's more familiar 1882 arrangement – to the whole-tone romps of the fierce conclusion. Rimsky arranged it all better as a sequence, of course, but Pappano made a ferocious argument for the rawness of the original.
An interlude in the short second half came in the shape of the Prelude to Act III of Cui's William Ratcliff. A vocal soloist would have been necessary to give a fair portrait of this once-popular operatic composer – he wrote no less than 15 operas – and all the brief setting-up of love music in the midst of the murderous Scottish mayhem Cui drew from Heine's bloody original was to suggest a heart-on-sleeve kinship with later Italian intermezzos. (Mascagni's Guglielmo Ratcliff, of course, has had an airing; Cui's, never to my knowledge.)
Fireworks ended the show with Balakirev's giddying oriental fantasy Islamey, exoticism from the fringes of the Russian empire being a key tenet of the Handful's nationalism. Here there might have been a showing of self-orchestrated genius in the shape of the slow-working leader's Overture on Three Russian Themes or symphonic poem Tamara, but Pappano needed no justification for choosing the arrangement of the fiendishly difficult piano piece by his fellow-Italian Casella. Respighi couldn't have done a more coruscating job on it, and if you didn't travel home singing the gorgeous, cor anglais-led oriental melody at the heart of the work as I did, that wouldn't have been the fault of Pappano's brilliant finale.
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Pappano got the Royal Opera strings to dig deep into Borodin's leonine offcuts from 'Prince Igor'
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As a child, Joyce Crago was captivated by funerals. She play-acted, directing her two younger sisters to lie still while she ran the funerals. She especially liked being the corpse, but that never worked out, because her sisters would run off. Since childhood, death and funerals have held her fascination. In 2018, Crago’s younger sister Hazel died unexpectedly, an experience that brought her childhood fascination back to the surface.
PLAYING DEAD comprises lens-based, multimedia works that draw upon Crago’s compulsion to understand in order to process trauma. The installation presents an open-ended narrative, allowing viewers to confront death—a topic that Western society aims to avoid at all costs—and to reconcile themselves to their own mortality. The centrepiece of PLAYING DEAD is an installation that presents a photo-sculpture of Crago’s naked body, around which are displayed still-life images of both items remaining after Hazel’s funeral and her belongings. This piece engages the physicality of the photograph, inhabiting the liminal intersection of photography and sculpture. Complementing this work are two video-performances, in which the artist gives life to her sister’s clothes.
While PLAYING DEAD is an intimately personal work, it offers viewers space within which to contemplate the broader themes of mourning and mortality.
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For the first time in its 144 years of existence, the Bayreuth Festival, founded by composer Richard Wagner, will have a woman as conductor. This is the Ukrainian Oksana Lyniv, who will occupy the podium at the premiere of the opera The Flying Dutchman, at the opening of the 2021 edition of the festival.
Lyniv considered his appointment special, which was announced last September, since Wagner wrote operas where women, in addition to having outstanding roles, tend to be very independent, as she expressed in an interview with Deutsche Welle.
The debut in Bayreuth, within the festival dedicated to opera since Wagner created it in 1876, highlights the gradual opening to inclusion, not parity, of gender within the performing arts.
One more example of this slow but determined progress was the recent participation of more than twenty Mexican women in the III International Symposium of Orchestra Directors, held on the Zoom platform, from September 15 to 20.
The symposium arose on the initiative of Brazilian conductor Ligia Amadio, had its first edition in 2016 and then in 2018, as a space for reflection on the performance of women in this professional classical music scene, in order to find mechanisms of gender equity.
In this third edition, the need arose to create a common front to fight for equal opportunities in this musical area, according to the composer, Mexican pioneer of orchestral conducting and founder of the New Millennium Women’s Symphony Orchestra, Gina Enríquez Moran.
The discussion tables of this symposium aimed to analyze the proposals that promote and strengthen the participation of women, historically limited, to give a feminine face to music and highlight their talent, hidden for decades.
Conducting is one of the artistic fields where the presence of women is still a minority, but it is not the only one. Gender disparity is also manifested among choir and chamber music directors, among orchestra instrumentalists and traditional band directors in Mexico and internationally.
And that disparity also extends to stage directors and choreographers. Just think of great dance companies named after their creators: Alvin Ailey, Béjart Ballet Lausanne and Limón Dance Company, to name a few.
Although now in the Mexican government there are several women at the head of the institutions, such as Alejandra Frausto as Secretary of Culture, I believe that what is called «positive discrimination» should prevail in public administration and in art and culture.
Historically, decision-making, both within and outside the cultural sphere, has fallen to men and that is why it is logical that some are more prepared to occupy a position. It is, therefore, a question of discriminating a better profile to privilege the arrival of a woman to the position and thus allow him to continue acquiring experience with a view to achieving the much desired gender equality.
Positive discrimination must also encompass black women, indigenous and women of color to aspire to multiculturalism and eliminate the centuries-long exclusion they have been subjected to. Implementing this type of public policy will not be the only solution, but it will be a necessary measure in favor of greater equity.
In this feminist struggle, certainly, an important artistic reference is the International Dance x Identity Festival, which aims to contribute to the search of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo to find their grandchildren who disappeared during the last military dictatorship in Argentine.
This project highlights dance productions that promote work around human rights and broadens the social commitment of both the artist and the spectator for a collective construction of identity based on the principles of «Memory, Truth and Justice», together with the struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, an NGO created in 1977 whose purpose it is to locate the children kidnapped by the military regime and return them to their legitimate families.
The IV edition of the festival took place via streaming from November 6 to 8, 2020. It was free and with open access for the public and it included dancevideos and testimonies of granddaughters and grandsons that have been recovered. Here’s art that transforms society.
We will continue to pursue gender equality in the performing arts. Although much has been said, the pandemic has made inequality and patriarchal oppression more visible than ever. Our work at Contenidos Artísticos implies daily a greater commitment to women’s projects so that they are supported through our alliances and colleagues, and so that they are disseminated with complicit programmers, venues, media and producers.
Cristina Vázquez
Cristina Vázquez, director of Contenidos Artísticos Production and Diffusion, is a cultural manager, programmer and producer. One of her main purposes is to promote the circulation of the Performing Arts.
Mexican, from the city of León, she graduated from the Communication Sciences career and continued her training as a cultural manager with studies from the National Council for Culture and the Arts and in 17, the Institute of Critical Studies, where she obtained the Cultural Management Certificate from the Critical Entrepreneurship.
Cristina Vázquez has the strong conviction that going to meet new viewers, both in Mexico and in the United States and other countries, contributes to fighting stereotypes, opening new communication channels and forming communities.
Her quest is to create lasting relationships between audiences, artists and institutions. The expansion of audiences, she thinks, generates knowledge and understanding among the inhabitants of this global village.
In 2012 she founded Contenidos Artísticos, a firm dedicated to the programming, production and dissemination of artistic and cultural projects, based in Mexico, which is complemented, since 2015, with Contenidos Artísticos INC, based in Chicago, Illinois.
With the multidisciplinary collaboration of important allies, Cristina Vázquez advised the Municipality of Zacatecas in the elaboration of its Cultural Development Plan and coordinated the National Book Fair (Fenal) from 2006 to 2009. Since 2016, she has been collaborating permanently with the Cultural Institute of León in various programming and production projects.
She was a programmer at the Teatro del Bicentenario in León, has worked with the Teatro Juárez in Guanajuato and developed and operated the urban meeting “Todo sobre Ruelas” in Zacatecas.
In addition, in 2012 and 2013 she produced and programmed the José Alfredo Jiménez International Festival, which pays tribute to the great Mexican icon and singer-songwriter, in Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato.
Since 2013 she works for the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL). She has produced and coordinated important projects with the Mexican National Ballet Company having as headquarters the Palacio de Bellas Artes and the Juárez Theater, during the Cervantino Festival, as well as with the National Opera Company and the National Theater Coordination. In 2019, she began a collaboration with the National Center for the Arts (CENART) by producing the International Black and White Piano Festival.
In 2018, she made alliances with agencies in the United States for the circulation of the performing arts in Mexico. This is how she presented Fuse, a group based in Italy, with its multimedia performance Dökk and the Colombian company Sankofa Danzafro with its acclaimed show La ciudad de los otros.
Through Contenidos Artísticos INC, the production agency, for the past five years she has focused on bicultural work between Mexico and the United States. Her work has been to find spaces for Mexican artists to present themselves on the other side of the border, while contributing to the construction of an image of Mexican culture and art that transcends the folkloric.
In 2017 she introduced the Mexican poet Rojo Córdoba, who worked with Spoken Word groups, in Chicago. And the following year she promoted three Mexican bands: Troker, electronic jazz; Doble Redoble, contemporary cumbia, and Sonido Gallo Negro, a psychedelic cumbia group for which she organized a tour in the United States. This in conjunction with various Latino festivals and organizations in Chicago, such as the Mole de Mayo Festival. Thanks to these alliances, she has produced tours for artists from Chicago and other cities in the United States in Mexico.
During November 2018, she invited Mexican programmers to see, both in Chicago and New York, the work of Manual Cinema, a multidisciplinary company that combines cinematographic techniques with shadow theater, sound and music to create immersive experiences.
She co-produces the Tania Pérez-Salas Company since 2018. During 2019 she worked on the organization of their tour through Mexico, the United States and Canada, which would take place in the following year.
As of January 20, 2020, Vázquez is the first Mexican woman to be part of the Board of Directors of the Association of Professionals for the Performing Arts (APAP), which emerged in 1957 in the United States and is a world leader in this cultural field. One of their main tasks is to participate and promote REDI (Racial Equity Diversity and Inclusion) policies.
The great pragmatism and permanent professionalism of Cristina Vázquez has allowed her to contribute to the artistic and cultural development of Mexico and its international projection.
Cristina Vázquez, directora de Contenidos Artísticos Producción y Difusión, es gestora cultural, programadora y productora. Uno de sus propósitos principales es fomentar la interculturalidad a través de la circulación de las artes.
Concibe la interculturalidad como el encuentro, la interacción y reconstrucción de las distintas culturas locales. En palabras del experto argentino Carlos Moneta, permite comparar formas de vida y establecer comunicaciones portadoras de imágenes, valores y contenidos que afectan las identidades más allá de la nacionalidad.
En 2012 fundó Contenidos Artísticos, firma dedicada a la programación, producción y difusión de proyectos artísticos y culturales, con sede en México, que se complementa, desde 2015, con Contenidos Artísticos INC, con sede en Chicago, Illinois.
A través de Contenidos Artísticos INC, la agencia productora, se ha enfocado desde hace un lustro en el trabajo bicultural entre México y Estados Unidos. Su labor ha sido la de buscar espacios para que los artistas mexicanos se presenten del otro lado de la frontera, aportando a la vez la construcción de una imagen de la cultura y el arte mexicano que trasciende lo folclórico.
Esa apertura de espacios permite visualizar, en ambos países, que las artes escénicas son una herramienta indispensable para construir un intercambio artístico de calidad permanente y atender a la diversidad de públicos.
Originaria de León, Guanajuato, Vázquez es egresada de la carrera de Ciencias de la Comunicación y
continuó su formación como gestora cultural con 17, Instituto de Estudios Críticos.
El gran pragmatismo y la permanente profesionalización de Cristina Vázquez le han permitido coadyuvar
al desarrollo artístico y cultural de México y su proyección a nivel internacional.
A partir del 20 de enero de 2020, Vázquez es la primera mujer mexicana en formar parte del Consejo Directivo de la Asociación de Profesionales de las Artes Escénicas (APAP por sus siglas en inglés), surgida en 1957 en Estados Unidos y líder a nivel mundial en este ámbito cultural.
Recientemente organizó la gira de la Compañía Tania Pérez-Salas por México, Estados Unidos y Canadá, pero debido a la pandemia derivada del coronavirus el grupo de danza contemporánea únicamente alcanzó a dar un par de funciones, el 13 y 14 de marzo, en el Teatro Juárez de Guanajuato con el apoyo de EFIDANZA.
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TikTok’s Benadryl intake challenge caused the death of a 15-year-old girl from Oklahoma
Probably the most recent challenge across TikTok, which includes taking an unnecessary measure of Benadryl, may have caused the demise of a 15-year-old young lady from Oklahoma. The perilous online challenge requests members to take enough of the hypersensitivity drug to hallucinate and afterward to share their experience on TikTok.
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The most recent affirmed casualty, a 15-year-old from Oklahoma City, passed on a month ago from a Benadryl overdose. It’s not satisfactory the amount of the medication she devoured, and family are persuaded she didn’t deliberately end her own life. The high schooler’s demise comes after Cook Children’s Medical Center in Texas had to give a notice to guardians about the social media challenge.
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Everything you need to know about Mulan 2020
Disney decides to release the live action remake of Mulan despite its challenges.
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Cassie Santella, Staff Reporter
Despite having pushed back the release date more than once, Disney is moving forward with the release of the live action Mulan remake on September 4th. There are lots of fans excited for the release, some confused on how to get access, and some boycotting the movie all together due to Chinese politics.
There is lots of anticipation surrounding the film and lots of questions fans are waiting to get answers to. Will there be musical numbers? What will happen to the character Li Shang and Mushu? How similar will it be to the original?
The movie is centered around female empowerment, telling a story of a woman who disguises herself as a man to fight in place of her father in order to save his life. With this, the producers were uncomfortable with the character Li Shang. The dynamic of a commanding officer as the love interest didn’t fit the narrative they were trying to create of a powerful independent woman. This means instead, they “split Li Shang into two characters. One became Commander Tung, who serves as her surrogate father and mentor in the course of the movie. The other is Honghui who is equal in the squad,” Producer, Jason Reed, Said.
Unfortunately, there will also be no beloved Mushu. The original story of Mulan is actually Hua Mulan, a 6th-century Chinese folk tale and Mushu was invented as a comic relief for the film. In honor of making this version of Mulan bigger and better, producers decided to take out the character entirely and to “tell this story in a way that is more real, more relatable,” Reed said.
“I wish they were in the remake because Mushu added a comedic appeal to the movie and was a classic sidekick in the original; and though Li Shangs part was small I felt it was important and still should have been in the remake,” Sydney Goldsmith (‘23) said.
Not only was there controversy due to a few of the characters in the film, there is also a movement to boycott the entire movie itself. This began last march when pro-democracy protests broke out. At this time the police met the protesters with batons, pepper spray, tear gas, and rubber bullets. Mulan’s star Liu Yifei took to social media, resharing a post that said “I support the Hong Kong police. You can all attack me now.” Her post received an outpouring of support and backlash. With many across the world who support the protests, #BoycottMulan quickly became trending on Twitter.
“Shouldn’t it be free if it’s on Disney Plus?” asked Goldsmith.
Regardless of the setbacks and controversy around this film, it is predicted to still have millions of viewers. Disney is selling access to the film on Disney Plus. A Disney Plus subscription costs $7 a month and subscribers will be able to purchase Mulan for an extra $30 payment. Once that payment is made you will have it for as long as you are a Disney Plus subscriber. It is also known that eventually this live action remake will be available to regular Disney Plus subscribers, but it is not known when exactly that will happen. On the same day, it will be released in some countries where cinemas are open.
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The Game Shelf Reviews:- Chronicles of Crime: 1400
Game: Chronicles of Crime: 1400
Publisher: Lucky Duck Games
Designer: David Cicurel, Wojciech Grajkowski
Chronicles of Crime had a hugely innovative first release in 2018, following a successful Kickstarter campaign. It is one of just a handful of story-driven crime-solving board games out there and really stood out from the crowd with it's use of technology. It introduced VR to our board game table for the first time, with the ability to look around crime scenes using just your smart phone and some 3D glasses, but what felt most innovative was its use of QR code technology.
Chronicles of Crime: 1400 is the first of three standalone sequels, known as the millennium series. In the 1400 edition you'll be transported to 15th century France where crime and backstabbing are rife. A further two games in the series, 1900 and 2400 will be released next year.
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Thoughts from the Yellow Meeple:- Troyes Dice
Game: Troyes Dice
Publisher: Pearl Games
Designer: Sébastien Dujardin, Xavier Georges, Alain Orban
Troyes is one of those older euro games that we've still not got around to playing. I select it in every math trade I participate in, but so far, we've never matched and received it in trade. As a result, this review will be a straightforward review of its latest incarnation as a roll and write game. The momentum behind roll and write games does show a few signs of slowing recently, but new titles and implementations linked to a larger board game version are still being released and we still have a high level of excitement for all of them. Troyes Dice edges towards the heavier end of the roll and write spectrum and it's unlikely to become part of my Skype gaming rotation, but it could do if your Skype gaming is with a more gamerly crowd.
Troyes Dice is a game that takes place over 8 days, each with a morning phase and an evening phase. Over the course of the game you will draft 16 dice and use them to build a city on your player board in order to gain end game victory points. After a couple of days, invaders get wind of your city and twice a day they will try to invade and destroy different areas of your city. The greatest city with the greatest population and collection of buildings will win.
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Build a Wall, Let the Invaders Pay for it:- Troyes Dice
Troyes Dice is a 1-10 player roll and write game in which you'll be using dice to upgrade your civilization for the good of all. Will you build walls to fortify the city, or focus on economic or religious development? Whatever you decide you need to be prepared for the invaders that will start to attack from day 3 onwards. While they won't burn down any already built buildings, they do spoil the land preventing future construction. Unless, of course, you have built strong enough walls to keep them at bay, but those walls aren't doing much else for your development...
Troyes Dice is a game of 8 days, each of which consists of 2 rounds, a day and a night round. Each round has a player rolling the four dice and placing them in numerical order along the coloured round tiles. Three of the dice are clear, representing that they are of the colour of the tile they are placed on, while one is black, marking that tile as blocked for this round. Blocked tiles flip over a the end of the round, usually causing them to change colour as the game progresses. Once the dice are rolled each player independently chooses one of the three available dice to use, with fees needing to be paid for the higher numbered dice. They then choose to either build one of the two buildings in the section of their player sheet that matches colour and number with the die they chose, or to use the die to generate resources.
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Thoughts from the Yellow Meeple:- Wingspan Digital
Game: Wingspan
Publisher: Stonemaier Games
Designer: Elizabeth Hargrave
Digital Edition By: Monster Couch
I could name only a few board game releases from the last 5 years that have really broken through to gain 'modern classic' status. With a wife who works in a board game store, modern classic, for me, means a game that will be an evergreen, there is no board game store that shouldn't have this game in sock because people will be buying it for years and years to come. I'd put Azul in that category, along with Codenames and perhaps a few others, but one of the heavier games to make it is Wingspan.
Wingspan is not the most simple game, it has relatively advanced engine building mechanisms and yet its theme is so refreshing to modern board games that it really caught people's attention, and for most people it was a real winner. For me personally, I did not get into the game. I respect it immensely, but the engine building just never quite clicked for me. No matter what I did, the game always felt like a grind that only rarely resulted in a satisfying engine. However, the Wingspan Digital Edition looked so beautiful that I had to try it. It had an early preview release for a couple of days and I was hooked, and now it's available on Steam and soon to be on Nintendo Switch.
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The Game Shelf Reviews:- Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun
Game: Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun
Designer: Daniele Tascini, Dávid Turczi
Publisher: Board & Dice
If you enjoy heavy euro games, then you will have been hard pushed not to notice the series of games that seems to be never ending from designer Daniele Tascini and publisher Board & Dice. Teotihuacan was first on the scene, and much loved, then it was Trismegistus which didn't seem together the same enthusiastic response. Tekhenu is the third game beginning with the letter T to hit our table, with a fourth following later this year. We don't find a huge amount of time for longer games and so Teotihuacan is a game we played once, loved and purchased and have not played since, and we followed the crowd on Trismegistus, enjoying the game somewhat, but deciding it did not need a space on our shelves.
Board & Dice got us excited for Tekhenu quite early by releasing a print and play roll and write game as a teaser, which is still available on their web store. We enjoyed that quite a bit and are still excited to see how much Daniele Tascini can melt our brains with just a few super important dice drafting decisions over the course of a game. Tekhenu is, once again, a game where every dice counts and every dice has a huge amount of different meanings in its number, colour and position on the board. If you too are looking to melt your brain in the blazing sun of ancient Egypt, then let's try to explain the gameplay of Tekhenu.
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Thoughts from The Yellow Meeple:- Magic Maze on Mars
Game: Magic Maze on Mars
Publisher: Sit Down Games
Designer: Kasper Lapp
Magic Maze was a really revolutionary cooperative game for us. Long before the mind, Magic Maze was a game that asked you to work together as a team without talking to each other. The best chance of communication you were given was the passive aggressive, "do something" pawn which you could slam on the table in front of your friends. Magic Maze is a game that we've played countless times. It's tutorial-sytle rulebook means that every time we introduce it to a new audience we can start with the easy missions and the game essentially teaches itself. What's amazing is that we don't get bored of that first mission either - Magic Maze isn't a game you can get really good at and carry the team - it really levels the playing field.
After a couple of expansions to Magic Maze, which we've not fully explored, Sit Down Games have now taken the concept to space with their new, standalone game, Magic Maze on Mars. We're definitely excited for more Magic Maze content, but we were intrigued to see what has been changed in the new game and see if we needed to add it to our shelves.
A Maze, in Space, How Sweet the Sound:- Magic Maze on Mars
Mars is popular. That rust-coloured orb that floats throughout the night sky, our closest neighbour in the solar system, with such potential for life, if only we can learn the technology to inhabit it. Magic Maze on Mars takes the frantic, silent action of the original game and takes it to space! Instead of being thieving adventurers after free weapons you play as Robots, busying themselves creating the infrastructure needed for Humans to come to Mars. In order to do that you'll need resources, and the right ones in the right place at that, for humans have the strangest need for metals, crystals and bananas.
Of course in Magic Maze things are never easy. The game starts simple with only a time limit and no restrictions on speech, Over time the game adds rules to each new play until the full game is unveiled. The essence of the gameplay is that you have a sand timer tracking your time, should this ever run out you will all lose. In order to win the game you'll need to generate and move resources around the surface in order to unveil new locations, build habitation domes and manage waste. Eventually all the habitations domes will be complete and people will arrive, who also need to be moved around the roads to get them to their domes. All of this is done with each player being restricted to only using certain colours. That means you can only generate resources of those colours, used roads of those colours and spend resources on exploration spots of that colour to reveal a new map. To top it off you have to do this all in silence, with only a passive aggressive token to place in front of someone if you think they should do something.
The Game Shelf Reviews:- Tokyo Sidekick
Game: Tokyo Sidekick
Designer: Yusuke Emi (江見祐介)
Publisher: Japanime Games
Tokyo Sidekick had an initial small print run from Japanese publisher Little Future, and now Japanime Games have successfully funded a second edition on Kickstarter. Having won awards at Tokyo Game Market, this is one to take notice of, and for some gamers, a great opportunity to get hold of those rarer Japanese games that are sometimes rather coveted.
Tokyo Sidekick is a cooperative game for 2-4 players in which each player plays a superhero and their sidekick, to take on all manner of villains whilst trying to spin plates and take care of all of the incidents happening around town. You're very much a Spiderman-type character when it comes to handing anything from a slight misdemeanor, all the way up to a plane crash, but then you need to switch it up and become Iron Man to take on the bad guys with full force. Can you defeat your adversaries in time to save the city?
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This first-of-a-kind effort is a key component of the U.S. and India’s commitment to improve energy access and promote low-carbon growth by facilitating joint research and development of clean energy technologies. Teams of scientists and engineers from the U.S. and India will initially focus on research in three priority areas – building energy efficiency, second-generation biofuels and solar energy.
“Developing and investing in new technologies is a key component to meeting the goals of a clean energy future,” said Secretary of Energy Steven Chu. “This innovative approach to collaborative research is a testament to the special relationship shared by the two countries. By working with our partners in India and sharing a strong commitment to building a clean energy economy, we can get further, faster, than by working alone.”
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CareshaRomeka Brownlee aka Yung Miami was born on February 11th in the year 1994. Yung Miami is a rapper from Opa-Locka in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Yung Miami is best known as an individual from the rap couple, City Girls, alongside JT. Yung Miami experienced childhood in Opa-Locka and moved toward becoming companions with JT through shared companions. They went to Carol City Middle School in Miami Gardens, Florida. They turned out to be dear companions and would go to youngster clubs in Miami together. Yung Miami’s back up parent is Trina. Yung Miami’s mom has been long time companions with Miami rappers including Trina and Trick Daddy. Her mom is presently in jail and is set to be released in 2021. Her dad has likewise served time in jail. At the point when Yung Miami was 14, her dad gave her one of his vehicles. City Girls recorded their introduction studio track “Screw Dat Nigga” in August 2017, and advanced it through online life and clubs. Soon thereafter, the track was incorporated into Quality Control Music’s series album Control the Streets Volume 1. In May 2018, they released their presentation studio album, Period. In November 2018, they released their second album titled Girl Code, which highlights music craftsmen Cardi B, Lil Baby, and Jacques. City Girls contributed with visitor vocals to Drake’s tune “In My Feelings”, with Yung Miami showing up in the music video.
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‘Ridiculous in every sense’: Jim Molan tears down Clive Palmer’s latest lies
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Retired Major General Jim Molan has taken apart Clive Palmer’s latest deceitful political ad.
The self-proclaimed billionaire businessman is bombarding Australians with TV, radio and billboard ads in a desperate attempt to return to politics.
His latest one claims communist China has access to an airport in Western Australia where it could launch a military “takeover of our country” and our resources.
The two-minute ad, posted on YouTube, sees retired Royal Australian Airforce squadron leader Martin Brewster warn of the impending invasion via a tiny regional airstrip 30km inland from the Port of Cape Preston.
“Australia could not repel military aircraft if they landed from carriers offshore.
“A superior military air force could, in effect, control all of Western Australia’s resources in the Pilbara and the North West Shelf gas reserves.”
But it turns out Mr Brewster is also Clive Palmer’s nephew and a former manager at Queensland Nickel which owes workers millions of dollars.
Senator Jim Molan tells Ray Hadley the claims have no basis in fact and are “ridiculous in every sense”.
“We’ve got half-truths, untruths and just straight out ignorance.
“I’ve done a lot of military exercises up there… and this is just ridiculous in every sense.
“The scenario that the squadron leader puts up is just quite silly.
“It is simplistic in the extreme and that annoys me.”
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Rani West with her mother, Joanne.
The Kathleen McCredie scholarship was initiated through a generous gift from the Abbotsleigh Old Girls’ Union and honours the dynamic and positive influence of Miss McCredie during her time at Abbotsleigh (1970-1987).
Recipients of the scholarship directly benefit by immersing themselves into life at Abbotsleigh, and in the case of recent Kathleen McCredie Scholar, Rani West, taking what they learn out into the world with a goal to serve others.
Rani described her time at Abbotsleigh as a boarder and scholar as “one of the best opportunities and experiences of my life.”
“When I first moved to Abbotsleigh in Year 10, the boarding community ensured my transition was seamless and enjoyable, which made it a lot easier to move away from my home in Newcastle. No matter who you were or where you came from, you were accepted as part of the boarding family, which encourages you to really be yourself and work hard towards what you want to achieve. I have immense gratitude for my time as a boarder at Abbotsleigh,” said Rani.
Rani pictured with her father, James.
During her years at the School, Rani was an active participant of the community and excelled in several of her pursuits. In Year 10 she was awarded a CSIRO Silver Crest for a science experiment she created on the impact of drag force on swimmers. She took part in the House Choir; went on a trip to Walgett in Year 10 for Applied Learning Experience working with a large population of Indigenous children in a small primary school. “I met some very driven and inspiring people that motivated me to continue giving service to our community and work towards a better world,” said Rani.
Swimming is a big part of Rani’s life and she recalls her Abbotsleigh swimming carnival and IGSSA championships as some of her highlights - in particular winning IGSSA in 2015 and her role as Swimming Captain in 2016.
Rani receiving a medal at a Swimming NSW event.
“Playing sport at Abbotsleigh is unlike anywhere else. It teaches you friendship, sportsmanship, appreciation, heathy competitiveness and passion. My role as a Prefect in 2015/16 allowed me to be involved with many fundraising opportunities that worked towards making a significant difference. In particular, our service project ‘Reach for Refuge’ and prefect theme ‘G-Up’ (Grace, Gratitude and Generosity) created awareness of others that are less fortunate and the importance of compassion and giving to the community,” said Rani.
Now out in the world and having graduated from Abbotsleigh in 2016, Rani says her passion lies in helping others. She has been awarded a scholarship to Bond University on the Gold Coast for her academic, sporting and leadership performances. She plans to study Exercise and Sport Science and continue into further studies to someday be involved with high-performance sport. And of course, her swimming will continue to be a priority.
“The Kathleen McCredie Scholarship opened endless doors of opportunities for me that I could never have had or imagined. It changed my life. It was inspiring to be recognised for my hard work, and to be offered an all-round education is something for which I am endlessly grateful. Abbotsleigh is not only driven by its academic focus but also the areas of sport, music, theatre, spiritual and service. This scholarship has broadened my understanding of what I am capable of and exposed me to new and incredible experiences. To me, it means passion, determination, empowerment and humility. It has taught me the importance of grace, gratitude, generosity and grit, and through both intellectual and emotional growth, you become awakened to so many new understandings,” said Rani.
If you'd like to learn more about this scholarship or to make a tax-deductible donation, please visit our Giving pages on the website.
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PRELUDE TO OPERATION DYNAMO
The Phoney War & Battle of Britain.
The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) moved into France in September 1939.
During the next eight months,
nicknamed the phoney war, most of this time was spent digging field defences.
This period ended with the invasion of France and the Low Countries known as the Battle of France - this lasted less than six weeks- Allied forces highly underestimated Nazi Forces,
Germany attacked in the west on May 10th, 1940. British and French commanders had believed that German forces would attack through central Belgium as they had in World War I, and rushed forces to the Franco-Belgian border to meet the German attack.
The main German attack however, went through the Ardennes Forest in south-eastern Belgium and northern
Luxembourg. German tanks and infantry quickly broke through the French defensive lines and advanced to the coast.
By mid May Hitler’s Armies had swept West from Germany through Holland, Belgium and France forcing the
British & French to retreat.
THIS COUNTRY IS AT WAR WITH GERMANY
I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room at 10, Downing
This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin, Nevile
Henderson, handed the German Government a final note
stating that unless we heard from them by 11 o'clock, that
they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from
Poland, that a state of war would exist between us.
I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been
received, and that consequently, this country is at war with
(Neville Chamberlain)
"THE ADMIRALTY HAVE MADE AN ORDER REQUESTING ALL OWNERS OF SELF-PROPELLED PLEASURE CRAFT BETWEEN 30' AND 100' IN LENGTH TO SEND ALL PARTICULARS TO THE ADMIRALTY WITHIN 14 DAYS FROM TODAY IF THEY HAVE NOT ALREADY BEEN OFFERED OR REQUISITIONED"
EVACUATION OF DUNKIRK MAY 27 - JUNE 5 1940
May 27th -30th, the BEF consolidated around Dunkirk with half of the French First Army.
Five French Divisions set up roadblocks at Lille, they held out for four days against German Panzer divisions.
This allowed allied forces to set up a defensive perimeter and wait for evacuation.
The first possibility of an evacuation was considered on May 19th and given the code name Operation Dynamo. Vice-Admiral Ramsey maintained secrecy whilst scouring British docks for vessels to transport troops from French shores to waiting larger transporters.
By May 27th these vessels were consolidated and on their way to France.
BACK IN FRANCE
By May 24th German forces had made tremendous progress however Hitler ordered German Panzer units to halt. Air raids were to continue and the Luftwaffe were to defeat trapped Allied Forces.
May 26th Hitler ordered his Panzer groups to continue their advance.
Many theories behind Hitlers choice to halt advances. It is claimed by many historians as his most critical mistake. This delay however gave Allied forces time to prepare much needed defences.
THE DUNKIRK LITTLE SHIPS
Douglas Tough of Tough Brothers based at Teddington collected many of the Thames based vessels.
The Boats were towed by tugs to Sheerness where they were fueled and checked over then taken to Ramsgate where Naval Officers, ratings and volunteers were boarded and directed to Dunkirk.
The majority of Vessels were requisitioned by the government, some were taken without the owners knowledge, a small percentage were taken over by owners themselves as they volunteered for the rescue mission.
THE WORST DAY - 29th May 1940
Luftwaffe concentrated attacks on the Mole. The most effective day of loss of British Ships
Over the nine days of Operation Dynamo, the RAF flew 2,739 fighter
sorties, 651 bombing raids and 171 reconnaissance flights. Fighter
Command claimed 262 enemy aircraft, losing 106 of their own.
WE SHALL FIGHT ON THE BEACHES
30th May Belgium Army had surrendered - applying increased pressure on the evacuating troops.
Docks were by now rendered unusable by German attacks, the Admiralty withdrew their eight best destroyers for
the future defence of the country.
Evacuation was now to proceed via the beaches.
The Luftwaffe also now concentrated air attacks on the waiting troops.
3rd June German forces were 2 miles from Dunkirk and the last of the British Army was evacuated - signal made - Operation Complete.
4th June Churchill insisted the Royal Navy return in one last attempt to rescue as many French rearguard
4th June German forces hoisted the Swastika over the docks.
DUNKIRK IN PHOTOS
The object of the Association is to keep alive and preserve for posterity the memory and identity of those ‘Little Ships’ that went to the aid of the British Expeditionary Force in 1940 and took part in Operations Dynamo, Cycle and Aerial. The members, committee and archivist have gathered photos documenting the events surrounding Dunkirk 1940
Picture Gallery of Dunkirk 1940
Approximately 850 private boats sailed from Ramsgate, over 250 were lost.
Churchill and Admiral Ramsey hoped to rescue between 30,000 and 40,000 troops.
The combined efforts of RAF, Navy and the Little Ships rescued 338,000.
For every seven soldiers who escaped through Dunkirk, one man was left behind as a prisoner of war. The majority of these prisoners were sent on forced marches into Germany and Poland. Prisoners reported brutal treatment by their guards, including beatings, starvation, and murder.
The rescue operation turned a military disaster into a story of heroism which
served to raise the morale of the British.
The phrase "Dunkirk Spirit" is still used to describe courage and solidarity in the face of adversity.
For the complete History of the incredible events surrounding the DLS - click here
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