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BBB offers consumer tips following 7 On Your Side Investigation into long term parking lot near JFK
NEW YORK (WABC) -- The Better Business Bureau is offering tips to consumers following a 7 On Your Side investigation into a long-term parking lot near JFK Airport accused of leaving customers with vehicle damage and parking tickets even though they had paid to park in a secure lot.
Claire Rosenzweig, president & CEO of the BBB Serving Metropolitan New York, said the agency has also received several complaints about Airlot JFK Longterm Parking, which is currently located at 133-98 142nd Street in Jamaica, Queens -- but the agency's attempts to contact the owner, Markens Nicolas, have gone unanswered.
The BBB has given Airlot an "F Rating" as a result.
"If you are not responding to customer complaints, what does that say about your business?" Rosenzweig asked. "You are slamming the door on consumers' faces. It sends the message that this business is not upholding an important standard for trust."
Rosenzweig added that it's the responsibility of the consumer to fully research any company before signing contracts or engaging in business.
She suggested consumers confirm a business has the proper licenses before making reservations, check the company's reviews, and thoroughly read any terms and conditions. She also suggested consumers be extra vigilant in researching the company providing the service when using a third party online booking site.
Additionally, Rosenzweig encouraged customers dealing with parking lots specifically to document the conditions of a vehicle thoroughly, with photos prior to leaving.
"Especially when dealing with something like a car, you want to be sure you can trust that business," Rosenzweig said.
The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs said Airlot is operating without a required DCA license and a New York City judge fined the company $500. DCA has also sent a cease and desist letter to the landlord of the property on which Airlot operates, demanding the landlord terminate the unlicensed activity.
In Eyewitness News' initial report, several customers complained that Nicolas, the owner of Airlot, refused to compensate them for illegal parking tickets and damage to their vehicles, which at times surpassed $1,000.
Nicolas told Eyewitness News he would compensate customers with legitimate claims and while one customer said they had been reimbursed, several other customers said Nicolas continues to ignore their calls and messages despite his promise to Eyewitness News.
Nicolas has refused to talk in person or by phone to Eyewitness News and has only made comments by text.
In some cases, he has denied vehicles were damaged on his lot despite photos of the vehicles undamaged, timestamped the date of customers' travel, and geotagged to the location of his lot along with video, and in one case a police report, of the damaged vehicles at Airlot, on the date customers returned.
When Eyewitness News pressed Nicolas about his failure to obtain a business license and whether he would follow through on compensating consumers for damages, he threatened to block Eyewitness News from contacting him.
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Nullifiers of Islam – Shaykh Ibn Baaz
by AbdurRahman.org June 12, 2011 March 19, 2015
All praise is due to Allah Alone. Peace and blessings be upon the Last Prophet, his family, Companions and those who follow his guidance.
A Muslim should know that Allah (may He be Praised) enjoins all the creation to embrace Islam, hold it firmly and avoid what contradicts it. Allah sent His Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) to call for that, informing them that whoever follows him will be guided and whoever turns away from him will be misguided. In many Ayahs (Qur’anic verses), Allah warned people against causes of apostasy and all forms of Shirk (associating others with Allah in His Divinity or worship) and Kufr (disbelief). Under the topic of the rulings of the apostate, scholars (may Allah be merciful with them) mentioned that a Muslim may abandon Islam by committing one of the nullifiers that make his blood and money violable and turn him out of the fold of Islam. The most dangerous and common ten nullifiers are mentioned by Shaykh and Imam Muhammad ibn `Abdul-Wahhab and other scholars (may Allah be merciful with them). Here we will list them in brief so that a Muslim can keep away from them and warn people against them in hope for safety and wellbeing. We will briefly elaborate on them.
First: Shirk in the worship of Allah. Allah (Exalted be He) says: Verily, Allâh forgives not that partners should be set up with Him (in worship), but He forgives except that (anything else) to whom He wills He (Exalted be He) also says: Verily, whosoever sets up partners (in worship) with Allâh, then Allâh has forbidden Paradise to him, and the Fire will be his abode. And for the Zâlimûn (polytheists and wrong-doers) there are no helpers. This includes invoking the dead and seeking relief, vowing or offering sacrifice for them.
Second: Whoever takes intermediaries between him and Allah, invokes, and asks them for intercession with Allah and puts his trust in them has committed Kufr (disbelief) according to the Ijma` (consensus) of scholars.
Third: Whoever does not hold the polytheists to be disbelievers, has doubts about their disbelief or considers their ways and beliefs to be correct has committed disbelief.
Fourth: Whoever believes that some guidance other than that of the Prophet (peace be upon him) is more complete than his guidance or that someone else’s judgment is better than his judgment, such as those who prefer the judgment of the Taghut (false gods) over his judgment, then he is a disbeliever.
Fifth: Whoever hates something that the Messenger (peace be upon him) came with, even though he may act on it, has disbelieved. Allah (Exalted be He) says: That is because they hate that which Allâh has sent down (this Qur’ân and Islâmic laws, etc.); so He has made their deeds fruitless.
Sixth: Whoever mocks or ridicules any part of the Messenger’s religion, its rewards or punishments has committed an act of disbelief. Allah (Exalted be He) says: Say: “Was it at Allâh (عز وجل), and His Ayât (proofs, evidence, verses, lessons, signs, revelations) and His Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم) that you were mocking?” Make no excuse; you disbelieved after you had believed.
Seventh: Sorcery, which includes magic spells that cause a person to hate or love someone/something. Whoever practices it or is pleased with it commits disbelief. The proof for this is the saying of Allah (Exalted be He): but neither of these two (angels) taught anyone (such things) till they had said, “We are only for trial, so disbelieve not (by learning this magic from us).”
Eighth: Supporting and assisting the polytheists against the Muslims. The proof for this is the saying of Allah (Exalted be He): And if any amongst you takes them as Auliyâ’, then surely he is one of them. Verily, Allâh guides not those people who are the Zâlimûn (polytheists and wrong-doers and unjust).
Ninth: Whoever believes that it is permitted for some people to be free of (implementing) the Shari`ah (Islamic law) brought with Muhammad (peace be upon him), then he is a disbeliever. Allah (Exalted be He) says: And whoever seeks a religion other than Islâm, it will never be accepted of him, and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers.
Tenth: Turning away from Allah’s religion, not learning it or implementing it (is an act of disbelief). The proof for this statement is the saying of Allah: And who does more wrong than he who is reminded of the Ayât (proofs, evidence, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of his Lord, then turns aside therefrom? Verily, We shall exact retribution from the Mujrimûn (criminals, disbelievers, polytheists, sinners).
There is no difference in committing these nullifiers between the utters them in humor, seriously, or even out of fear except for a person who says them under coercion. All of these (ten) matters are the gravest nullifiers that most often occur. A Muslim must beware of and keep away from these acts. We seek refuge with Allah from the things that entail His anger and severe punishment. May Allah’s Peace be upon the best of His Creation Muhammad, his family, and Companions!
The Fourth Nullifier includes those who believe that man-made laws and constitutions are better than the Shari`ah of Islam, equal to it, or that it is permissible to resort to them for judgment even if he believes that the judgment of Shari`ah is better. Likewise, whoever believes that it is not correct to implement the Laws of Islam in the twentieth century, that this is a cause for the fall of Muslims, or that it is limited to relationship between the servant and his Lord and should not interfere in the other affairs of life. The fourth category also includes those who hold that carrying out Allah’s laws, such as cutting off the hand of a thief or stoning a guilty adulterer is not befitting for this modern era. This category includes those who believe that it is permissible to rule by something other than the Laws of Allah (Shari’ah) in matters of transactions, Hudud (prescribed penalties) and so on, even if he does not believe that it is better than ruling by the Shari`ah. This is because, by doing that, he makes lawful that which Allah forbade, according to the consensus of scholars. Similarly, whoever makes lawful that which Allah has prohibited and this prohibition is indisputably established, such as adultery, Khamr (intoxicant), Riba (usury/interest) and ruling by anything other than the Shari`ah, then he is a disbeliever according to the consensus of Muslim scholars.
May Allah guide all of us to what pleases Him. May Allah guide us and all Muslims to His straight path! He is All-Hearer, Ever Near. May peace and blessings of Allah be upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and Companions!
Source for above : Shaykh Ibn Baaz – alifta.com
Aqeedah (Creed), Nullifiers of Islam, ~All alifta.com, Shaykh Ibn Baaz
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Unity, Groups and Parties : Sh bin Baaz & Sh Saalih al-Fawzaan
by AbdurRahman.org January 29, 2014 January 19, 2015
source: From Al-Istiqaamah
SHAYKH ‘ABDUL-‘AZEEZ BIN BAAZ
[Q]: What is the obligation upon the Muslim Scholars with regard to the large number of jam’iyyaat (societies) and jamaa’aat (groups) in many of the Islaamic lands and elsewhere, and with regard to the differences that exist between them, to the point that each group declares the others to be misguided. Do you not hold that it is fitting to enter into explaining the like of this matter, and to clarify the truth concerning their differences, for fear that these differences will increase and lead to evil consequences for the Muslims?
[A]: “Our Prophet sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam made clear to us a single way which it is obligatory upon the Muslims to follow and traverse, and that is Allaah’s Straight Path and the methodology of His upright religion. Allaah – the Most High – said: “And this is My Straight Path, so follow it and do not follow other paths that will separate you from His Path. This has He ordained for you, that you may become pious.” [Soorah al-An’aam 6:153]. Just as the Lord of Might and Majesty warned the Ummah (nation) of Muhammad sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam against splitting and disunity, since that is one of the greatest causes of failure and of the enemy taking control, as occurs in the saying of Allaah – the Mighty and Majestic’s: “And fold fast altogether to the rope of Allaah and do not be divided.” [Soorah Aal-‘Imraan 3:101]. And His – the Most High’s – saying: “He has ordained for you the same religion which He ordained for Nooh, and that which We revealed to you, and that which We ordained for Ibraaheem, Moosaa and ‘Eesaa ‘alayhimus-salaam, saying: that you should establish the religion by doing that which you are ordered with, and make no divisions in it. Intolerable for the Pagans is that to which you call them.” [Soorah ash-Shooraa 42:13]. So this is a Divine call to unity and for hearts to be harmonised. And in any Islaamic land, if there are many groups for the purpose of good, aid, co-operating in righteousness and piety between the Muslims – without their being differences between the desires of the companions and followers – then this is good, is a blessing, and produces great benefit.
However, if each of them declare the others to be misguided and attack their actions, then this harm is very great and its evil consequences very serious. Then what is obligatory upon the Muslims is to clarify the true state of affairs and to discuss with each group and to sincerely advise all of them that they should proceed upon the way laid down by Allaah for His servants, and upon that which our Prophet Muhammad sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam called to. Then those who ignore this, or continue in their stubbornness, due to personal benefit or goal – known only to Allaah – then what is obligatory upon those who know the reality is to make this known about them and to warn against them, so that the people may avoid their path, and that those who do not know the reality of their affair may not fall into it and be led astray, and that they are not turned away from the Straight Path which Allaah ordered that we follow, as occurs in His – the Mighty and Majestic’s – saying: “And this is My Straight Path, so follow it and do not follow other paths that will separate you from His Path. This has He ordained for you, that you may become pious.” [Soorah al-An’aam 6:153]. And from that which there is no doubt about is that the multitude of sects and groups in the Islaamic society is, firstly something desired by Shaytaan, and secondly something desired by the enemies of Islaam from amongst mankind. Since agreement and unification of the Muslims, and their being aware of the dangers which threaten them and their ‘aqeedah (beliefs), will make them active in refuting and rebutting it, and acting in a unified manner for the benefit of the Muslims – thus repelling the danger from their religion, their lands and their brothers. And this is something which the enemies – from amongst mankind and jinn – are not pleased with. Therefore they are very eager to split-up the Muslims, destroy their unity and to sow the seeds of enmity and discord between them. We ask Allaah that He unites the Muslims upon the truth and that He removes from their society every type of misguidance and every cause of discord. Indeed He is the One Who is able to do that, and He is the One having full power over it.” 1
[Q]: … and the students of knowledge refer back to you and to the other major Scholars and ask them. So what do you advise them? Do you advise and approve of entering (i.e. joining) the likes of these groups; such as Jamaa’atul-Ikhwaan, Jamaa’atut-Tableegh, Jamaa’atul-Jihaad, and so on, or do you advise them to remain upon seeking knowledge with the students of knowledge from those who call to the way of the Salaf (the Pious Predecessors)?
[A]: “All praise is for Allaah and may Allaah extol and send blessings of peace upon His Prophet. We advise them all to unite upon a single way and that is the way of seeking knowledge and attaining understanding of the Book and the Sunnah, and to proceed along the manhaj (methodology) of Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah. I advise them all that their goal should be to follow the Book and the Sunnah and to proceed upon the manhaj of Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah, and that they should all call themselves Ahlus-Sunnah or the followers of the Salafus-Saalih (Pious Predecessors). But as for tahazzub (bigotted partisanship) for the Ikhwaanul-Muslimeen, or Jamaa’atut-Tableegh, or so on, then I do not advise that. That is a mistake. Rather we advise them that they should be together upon a single way, a single jamaa’ah, advising one another with the truth and having allegiance to Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah. This is the correct way to prevent differences. But if there are various groups upon that same way (i.e. of following the Salafus-Saalih) – a group in such and such a place, and another in such and such a place – but all of them are upon the Salafee2 way, following the Book and the Sunnah, calling to Allaah and having allegiance to Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah – without tahazzub (partisanship) and without ta’assub (bigotted blind-following) – then that is not harmful – even if there are a number of groups – as long as their way and their goal is one.”3
SHAYKH SAALIH AL-FAWZAAN
[Q]: Noble Shaykh, with regards to the serious state in which the Ummah of Islaam lives – a state of confusion in peoples’ thoughts – particularly in matter relating to the Religion. For the Islamic Jamaa’ahs (groups) and sects have become many, and each of them claim that their manhaj (methodology) is the correct Islamic methodology which must be followed. So the Muslim is left in a state of confusion as to what he should follow and which one is upon the truth.
[A]: “Splitting up is not from the Religion, since the Religion commands us with unity and that we should be a single Jamaa’ah and a single Ummah upon the ‘aqeedah (belief) of Tawheed (i.e. to single out Allaah alone for worship) and upon following the Messenger sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam. Allaah – the Most High – said: “Indeed this Ummah of yours is a single Ummah and I am your Lord, so worship Me alone.” [Soorah al-Anbiyaa 21:92]. And Allaah – the Most High – said: “And hold fast altogether to the rope of Allaah and do not become divided.” [Soorah Aal-‘Imraan 3:103]. And Allaah – the Most Perfect – said: “Indeed those who split-up their Religion and become sects, you have no part with them in the least. Their affair is with Allaah who will tell them what they used to do.” [Soorah al-An’aam 6:159]. So this contains a severe warning against splitting and differing. Allaah – the Most High – said: “And do not be like those who split-up and differed after the clear evidences came to them. For them is a tremendous punishment.” [Soorah Aal-‘Imraan 3:105].
So our Religion is the Religion of al-Jamaa’ah, and the Religion of agreement and unity. Splitting is not from the Religion, since the Religion orders that we are a single Jamaa’ah and the Prophet sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said: “The Believer to the Believer is like a building, one part supporting the other.”4 And he sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam also said: “The example of the Believers with respect to their mutual love, mercy and affection is like the example of a single body.”5 And it is known that a building and a body are a single cohesive thing, not disunited and fragmented – since if a building splits then it will collapse; and likewise a body, if it splits, then life will be lost. Thus, there must be a unity and we must be a single Jamaa’ah whose foundations is Tawheed and whose methodology is the da’wah (call) of the Messenger sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam; and which proceeds upon the Religion of Islaam. Allaah – the Most High – said: “And this is My Straight Path, so follow it, and do not follow other paths that will separate you from His Path.” [Soorah al-An’aam 6:153]. So these groups, and this splitting which is present today, is not approved of by Islaam. Rather, Islaam forbids it severely and commands uniting upon the ‘aqeedah (belief) of Tawheed and upon the methodology of Islaam, a single Jamaa’ah and a single Ummah, just as our Lord – the Most Perfect, the Most High – ordered. And splitting and their being many (differing) groups and parties is from the plots of the devils – from the jinn and mankind – against this Ummah. So the kuffaar (disbelievers) and the munaafiqs (hypocrites) have never ceased, since olden times, introducing their poison in order to split the Ummah. The jews said previously: “And a party of the People of the Book say: Believe in the morning in that which is revealed to the Muslims, but reject it at the end of the day, so they may turn back.” [Soorah Aal-‘Imraan 3:72]. Meaning: that the Muslims will leave their religion when they see you leaving it. And the Hypocrites said: “Do not spend on those who are with Allaah’s Messenger until they desert him.” [Soorah al-Munaafiqoon 63:7]. “And as for those who erect a mosque by way of disbelief and seeking to harm and disunite the Believers …” [Soorah at-Tawbah 9:107].” 6
[Q]: What is the ruling with regards to those who align themselves with those jamaa’ahs, particularly those that are established upon secrecy and giving bay’ah (pledge of allegiance to the party leader)?
[A]: “The Prophet sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam informed us that splitting would occur and he ordered us, at that particular time, to come together and to be upon that which the Messenger sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam and his Companions were upon. So he sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said: “The jews split-up into seventy-one sects and my Ummah would split-up into seventy-three sects. All of them are in the Fire except one.” They said: Who is it O Messenger of Allaah? So he replied: “That which I and my Companions are upon this day.”7 And he sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, when his Companions asked him to advise him: “I advise you to have taqwaa (fear and obedience) of Allaah and to hear and to obey, even if an Abysinnian slave is a leader over you. And those of you who live long after me will see many differences of opinion. So hold fast to my Sunnah and the guidance of the Rightly-Guided Khaleefahs (Successors) after me; cling to it tightly …”8 So this is the manhaj (methodology) which is obligatory for all the Muslims to follow, until the Day of Resurrection. So when disagreements occur then they must return back to that which the Salaf (the Pious Predecessors) of this Ummah were upon, with regards to manhaj, bay’ah (pledge of allegiance), and other matter connected to the Religion.”
1. Majmoo’ Fataawaa wa Maqaalaat Mutanawwi’ah (5/202-204).
2. Imaam as-Sam’aanee (d.562H) said in al-Insaab (3/273): “As-Salafee: this is an ascription to the Salaf and following their ways, in that which is related from them.” Ibn al-Atheer (d.630H) said in al-Lubaab fee Tahdheebul-Insaab (2/162), commenting upon the previous saying of as-Sam’aanee: “And a group were known by this ascription.” So the meaning is: that the term Salafee, and its ascription to them, was a matter known in the time of as-Sam’aanee – the sixth century – or before him.
3. From a series of taped questions asked by Shaykh Abul-Hasan al-Misree in the house of the noble Shaykh ‘Abdul-‘Azeez bin Baaz – hafidhahullaah – on the 6th day of Dhul-Hijjah 1416H (equivalent to the 24th of April 1996CE).
4. Related by al-Bukhaaree (no.481) and Muslim (no.2585), from Abu Hurayrah radiallaahu ‘anhu.
5. Related by al-Bukhaaree (no.6011) and Muslim (no.2586), from an-Nu’maan ibn Basheer radiallaahu ‘anhu.
6. From a series of questions put to the noble Shaykh – hafidhahullaah – between the 13th and 15th day of Dhul-Hijjah, in the year 1413H. The questions have been reproduced from the book: Maraaji’aat fi Fiqhil-Waaqi’ (pp.44-45).
7. Hasan: Related by at-Tirmidhee (no.2792) and al-Haakim (1/128-129), from ‘Abdullaah ibn ‘Amr radiallaahu ‘anhu. It was authenticated by al-Albaanee in as-Saheehah (no.204).
8. Saheeh: Related by Ahmad (4/126) and Abu Daawood (no.4607), from al-‘Irbaad ibn Saariyah radiallaahu ‘anhu. It was authenticated by al-Haafidh Ibn Hajr in Takhreej Ahaadeeth Mukhtasar Ibnul-Haajib (1/137).
9. Maraaji’aat fi Fiqhil-Waaqi’ (pp.46-47).
Splitting up - Differing, Ummah, Unity of Ummah, ~All Al-Istiqaamah Magazine, Shaykh Ibn Baaz, Shaykh Saalih Fawzaan
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The AC360° study results indicate exposure to diversity is key for children, and young African-American kids are more optimistic about race than white kids.
Learn more about "Kids on Race: The Hidden Picture"
Post by: Anderson Cooper, Soledad O'Brien
Filed under: Kids on Race • Race in America
The commercial for this show includes the words "what we should be teaching them" referring to what we "should" be teaching our kids about race implying that "we" are not up to the task. So, CNN is now the great, judgemental, all knowing guru that will show us how to raise our kids and what to teach them?
April 6, 2012 at 8:47 am |
That episode with the parents listening to their children was amazing. More of that type of dialogue could be the key to solving a tremendous amount of sadness and misunderstanding.
April 5, 2012 at 10:55 pm |
wendell boulware
Children learn behavoir from conscious and unconscious cues at home. Race is not a predictor of behavior. Its that simple.
April 4, 2012 at 11:31 am |
My kids learned more about race at school than at home – we never talked about "race" just about Susie, Joey, Robert, etc. By middle school the kids were all self-segregating and culteral differences were dictating things – the Jewish kids were all hanging out together, the Catholic kids (who were likely to go to a Catholic high school), the black kids, etc. Then in high school the black kids all wanted to go to the "black school" and the Jewish kids the "Jewish school" and my kids came home with definite sterotypes – JAPS, ghetto, the black kids calling each other the N word. We have to stop blaming the parents and the teachers and get the kids to take responsibility – we're in an upscale, highly educated diverse area FYI. Kids can't perpetuate ethnic racial stereotypes and expect a different outcome.
Acts of racism occur everyday in this nation. What sets it apart, like the Trayvon matter, is the official sanctioning of racism. by officials in a position of authority. Denial of racism and discrimination is a inherent part of this nations racial history. For 8 years I have tried to expose "State Sponsored Racism" by the NH Judicial Branch where white court officials used my son's race and skin color t0 violate the law, rule of law, equal protection clause and Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by ordering him to attend high minority, high poverty, de facto residentially segregated persistently failing school system in the midst of an area of high drug, crime and gang related activities yet the medial isn't interested because it implicates the NH Supreme Court Justices, Governor and the former Attorney General now Senator of racial and gender bias, first amendment retaltion and color of law violation. This is how society works. Had it not been for my extensive background and education in law enforcement/criminal justice I could easily be sitting behind bars because of a retaliatory first amendment arrest due my outspoken opposition to "State Sponsored Racism" in New Hamsphire where Black children are not allowed to live in a white middle class state. We all know racism when we see it. What's Up Anderson and CNN, why the medial bias and blackout. My son is the modern day example of Unlawful Court ordered racial segregation in education perpetrated by the NH Judicial Branch and affirmed, without opinion, by the NH Supreme Court. This is the kind of injustice African Americans routinely suffer at the hand of a corrupt and biased criminal justice system. I've repeatedly challenged the Justices and the Governor to an on-air public debate about racism in tsociety and the court system. As long as there is no national public debate on racism and bias, incidents like mine will continue to happen.
Unfortunately, as a white substitute teacher at racially diverse schools, I have an almost daily behavior problems with black male students. The problems start as soon as they enter the classroom, inappropriate language, disrespectful toward other students and me, unable or unwilling to focus on what the class is doing. Even before I have said a word to the class. It has gotten so stressful, because I don't want to feel racist. And there are plenty of great black male students too. But day after day seeing the same problems surface with this population is so distressing.
Rhope
Are these high school/middle school or elementary kids/
The study shows that at about 13 years, the attitudes of the kids change quite some
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Devotee Farmers Discuss Ahimsa Milk Logistics at Czech Farm Conference
By: Lalitanatha dasa for ISKCON News on Oct. 11, 2019
The participants of the 2019 European Farm Conference in Czech Republic.
For the past 13 years ISKCON’s Ministry for Cow Protection and Agriculture (IMCPA) has organized a European conference for ISKCON farmers and anyone interested in agriculture and cow protection. The idea is to create networks and unite everyone towards Srila Prabhupada’s goals for cow protection and simple living. This year, 2019, the conference was hosted at the Krishna Dvur community in the Czech Republic between the 30th of August and the 1st of September. The participants were made up of the European regional representatives of the Ministry and many other key players with a committed interest in the realms of agriculture, cow protection, horticulture and rural development.
Everyone was treated to an exciting weekend in this ideal rural setting southeast of Prague where ISKCON has been running its farm community since 1977. About a dozen devotees directly live on or spend their day on the farm itself while another 80 devotees reside in the surrounding area and take part in the activities of the community including the Deity worship, festivals and spiritual programs.
The participants were given a guided tour of the farm to its 40 hectars of fields of which 20 hectares are arable and 20 hectares are pasture and grass lands, and the barns, where 16 cows and bulls are being cared for. Premadatta Das told how the cows are mostly Jersey with some Hungarian grey oxen. Two cows are currently giving 30 litres of milk per day between them. This is used by the temple from which they make butter, cheese and yogurt; milk products from outside are only bought during festivals.
The cows are rotationally grazed on 1 hectare strips which are changed about every 15 days. The farm grows its own hay and produces 100 round bales on 10 hectares of land plus their own straw for bedding (around 20 round bales per hectare). Each year the devotees also grow 25 tonnes of grains such as wheat, spelt, rye, buckwheat and peas; in addition there are also potatoes. The arable work follows a low till system where a covering crop is always planted to avoid bare land. The rotation systems consists of peas, wheat, rye and buckwheat.
Next, Radhavallabha Das told about the vegetable growing in the vegetable garden of 500m2 which yields 1.5 to 2 tonnes of vegetables per year. This very productive patch of land only takes 300 hours of work per year and supplies the temple kitchen with most of its needed produce. Radhavallabha went on to tell how they specialize in drought resistant vegetables or at least grow the crops with little irrigation. Mulching plays an important part of their system to keep in moisture.
The tour also included a visit to the flour mill which has become a big business for the farm. In addition to the grain grown on the farm, 75 tonnes is purchased from outside to be made into flours and other ground products. Some of it is used in the bakery and the temple kitchen but most is sold at the market. The mill business is a main source of income for the farm. Five stone mills including the largest stone mill anywhere in middle Europe that can grind 500 kg in one hour are being run by two devotees who have milling and packing the flour as their full-time services. The devotees are producing quality flour which is in high demand around Czech. The bran left over from the milling business is fed to the cows.
Over the years the project has also developed other businesses so they are not dependent on donations. A bakery is producing a variety of products that are sold at farm markets as well as at the farm’s two restaurants, one in Prague and one in a local nearby town that the devotees are operating. There is also a honey production of about 1000 kgs per year and a fruit plantation that is planned to increase to 150 to 200 fruit trees.
On winding up the tour, Varnasrama Das, temple president of Krishna Dvur, recognized that he doesn’t find the project complete; most of the labour in the fields is done with tractors and machinery. Much is to improve in order to come to the actual standard of self-sufficiency and reliance on the products of the cows and the land and the work of the oxen. This requires more devotees, however, so for now the farm is simply maintaining a stable situation which can then be upgraded whenever more devotees are ready to be part of the project.
Aside from relishing the scenery and quietude of the farm and the wonderful late-summer weather that graced the conference, the about 30 participants had talks on different farm related topics. At the opening session Kalakantha Das, ISKCON’s minister for cow protection and agriculture, gave an overview of the work of the international ministry. He told how the continental farm conferences that started in Europe have been adopted in other parts of the world such as the USA, South America, India, Ukraine and the Baltic Region and Russia. Africa and Australasia will also soon hold such farm conferences.
An important GBC resolution from this year was especially the focus of a lot discussion:
“Resolved: By Janmastami 2022 all ISKCON centers should develop a plan whereby all milk and milk products – butter, ghee, yogurt etc. – offered to the Deities are procured from protected cows. The centers may approach the International Ministry of Cow Protection for assistance.”
The discussion targeted two audiences – the producers/farmers and the consumers/temples/devotees. As far as the farmers are concerned, Premarasa Das, who himself is heading up New Mayapur, a big farm community in Ukraine, explained how to establish good business plans for cow protection. Of course, devotees are not motivated by commercial interest. Still a business plan is needed to help avoid mistakes and make the service more efficient. Thus it is a plan for Krishna and the devotees and how to serve the cows and Krishna better.
Cow protection means a plan for life. Things needed to be considered include a description of the project with clear goals and purposes, sources of funding (voluntary donations or/and income from selling products), the schedule of the steps of the project, defining all the parameters such as land and cows, understanding the production process, the required manpower, equipment needs, legal issues, market possibilities, risk analysis, worst case scenarios and much more.
He also informed that as part of the mission in ensuring that cow protection is conducted with a long term view of sustainability the Ministry had the following resolution passed with the GBC:
“Resolved: In order to start a cow protection project that will be accredited within ISKCON and accepted as an ISKCON supported project, a “Cow Protection Certificate of Readiness” needs to be obtained.”
In Ukraine they are 100 km from the nearest big market. They decided that berries are a very effective use of land. They are organic and have a premium in the European market. The berries are picked, preserved by refrigeration and freezing and shipped to Europe.
Next, Syamasundara Das from the UK had an exercise with the participants to understand how much milk is required to cover the yearly needs of Deities at an ISKCON temple or centre. The group went through the logical steps to understand how dairy product needs are calculated into required milk yields and herd size of cows. For instance, if a Deity department requires 5 kg of ghee every week it becomes 260 kg per year. If 3% of the milk is pure butterfat, then 8.667 litres of milk are required to supply 260 kg ghee. If it is assumed that a cow will give 10.000 liters of milk over 4 years for each calf she bears, then about four actively milking cows will be required to supply this particular Deity department.
However, for the farmers to supply like this, the second audience, namely the consumers, i.e. temples and devotees, must pay a proper price for the milk. That was next discussed. A proper price may be somewhere around 5 euros per litre. This means that temples or whoever the consumers are will have to understand the value of milk. Of course, the first reaction will often be, ”But this is too expensive! In the stores you can get organic milk for one or one and half euro for one litre.” One participant brought up the point that this all a matter of a mental adjustment. If we are convinced about the value of milk then a proper price is not a problem. An example is the price that people are willing to pay for alcohol such as whiskey or vodka. A price for less than a litre of 20, 30 or 50 euros is not unusual – and that is for something that is harmful, gives you headaches and basically makes you unhappy and miserable! Still, some people are convinced of the value and therefore ready to pay such an exorbitant price. So what is the problem with paying a proper price for milk which is sattvic, healthy, produces fine brain tissue and makes one spiritually inclined? Milk is dharma in a liquid form; according to Vedic logic, artha or wealth comes from protecting dharma, so why should one be afraid of bankruptcy by paying a proper price for milk and supporting dharma?
Sitarama Das from the UK then shared his experiences with running an actual ahimsa dairy farm. He outlined the starting and funding of the ahimsa dairy foundation. Initially he was working with an existing organic dairy farm but gradually took steps to be self-sustaining with his own land and own management system. Now he and the devotees of the Ahimsa Foundation have 48 acres of land in the village of Wing in Midengland near Leicester. A further 24 acres are being rented with an option to buy in 18 months.
It was a big endeavor to raise the funds to buy the farm. At first the devotees tried to get a bank loan, but as the bank wanted the cows as collateral Sitarama did not want to risk the cows so he preferred to loan from private individuals. Some of the funds were also provided by supporters on the promise of receiving a return in the form of milk in the future. Now the farm is run by milk sales that pay for the running operation whereas membership donations are used to pay back the loans and improve the infrastructure and development of the project which is a practical proof of how it is feasible to run a farm centered on the protection of cows.
Supplying milk from protected cows took up ninety percent of the discussion. But other presentations were also there. Devotees from New Vraja Dhama in Hungary explained how they are exploring self-sufficiency in cloth-making. They are growing flax and hemp and making material from it and also planning to get sheep for wool. At the conclusion of the conference Lalitanatha Dasa from Denmark gave a presentation about urban farming, making the point that farming, small-scale horticulture and self-sufficiency the whole year around with vegetables, fruits and herbs are not limited to big farm projects in rural areas but is achievable for anyone with even a few square meters plot of land.
At the conclusion the participants voted on the conference for next year. An overwhelming majority took up Premarasa Das offer to host the conference in Ukraine in 2020. Thus the European farm conference in 2020 will be held at the New Mayapur Ukrainian farm.
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Thomas Fitzgerald returns to Bruff
– July 6, 2017
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Patsy, Mikey Hannah Punch and Catherine Connolly with their relation Thomas Fitzgerald, cousin of John F Kenndy at the Thomas Fitzgerld Centre , Bruff. pic Declan Hehir
It was with a considerable sense of pride that the town of Bruff last week welcomed a very distinguished visitor in the person of Thomas Fitzgerald, first cousin of John F. Kennedy, grandson of two-time Mayor of Boston Honey Fitz, and grandson of Thomas Fitzgerald, who left the area for the new world in the 1800s. Thomas called at a number of locations in Bruff and Lough Gur which held fond memories for him.
He visited the Honey Fitz Theatre, enjoyed afternoon tea in the Thomas Fitzgerald Centre, saw an exhibition of hurling skills at the GAA grounds, took in the ancestral burial plot at Kyle, and marvelled at the magnificent views of the lake from Lough Gur Visitor Centre. Bruff, Grange and Meanus Community Council presented Tomas’s four grandchildren with hurleys which were handmade locally by Willie Bulfin and Sons.
The Fitzgerald visit marked a memorable occasion and further strengthens the bond between the parish of Bruff and the Fitzgerald Kennedys that will surely endure for generations to come. The success of the visit is all the more significant in a week when Travelmag.com voted Bruff as one of the ‘20 Most Charming Towns in Ireland,’ marking a great week all-round for the area. See full coverage and pictures on page 23.
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Minister Welcomes Public Consultation on Fracking Research
#CoastalNotes - Minister for Natural Resources Fergus O’Dowd has welcomed the launch of a public consultation by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the proposed terms of reference for more detailed research to be carried out on the potential impacts of unconventional gas exploration and extraction on the environment, especially for inland and coastal fisheries.
Speaking last Friday, Minister O’Dowd said that he is particularly pleased that all interested parties, including individual members of the public, will have an opportunity to comment on the scope and objectives of this further research, thereby facilitating consideration of the broadest possible range of views.
Minister O’Dowd went on to say that “the detailed research to be commissioned by the EPA will build on other studies and research in this area and will inform future decision-making on any application that proposed the use of hydraulic fracturing in Ireland.”
Minister O’Dowd reiterated that until the EPA study has concluded and there has been time to consider its findings, the use of hydraulic fracturing in exploration drilling will not be authorised in Ireland.
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Draft Net Season Won't Be Brought Forward Says Minister
#ANGLING - Minister for Natural Resources Fergus O’Dowd has confirmed that there is no proposal for the extension of the salmon draft netting season.
In response to concerns expressed by the angling community and highlighted by Derek Evans in The Irish Times last week, Minister O’Dowd emphasised that conservation and management of salmon and sea trout is key to protecting our valuable natural resources.
“Recent reports that the commercial season will be extended in certain rivers are untrue and I can confirm that for the 2012 season, the commercial fishing season remains as it was in all areas, with the River Suir still on a reduced season for snap fishing," said the minister.
"I am aware that confusion can arise due to the necessary extent of regulations in place. However, I am not considering any proposal for the extension of the commercial season."
The minister reminded that Inland Fisheries Ireland is the body that enforces Ireland's "extensive" fisheries legislation.
"IFI has offices throughout the country where advice can be sought. There is also a comprehensive and regularly updated website and information is also disseminated on Facebook and Twitter," he said.
Meanwhile, IFI chief executive Dr Ciaran Byrne said that the legislative code is regularly updated to ensure that Ireland's fisheries continue to be protected on the basis of information from IFI’s Standing Scientific Committee and IFI management advice.
“Only rivers with exploitable surpluses are open during the spring season and no fishery is open for commercial exploitation during this time," said Dr Byrne. "Fisheries that are classified catch-and-release or closed for salmon are now protected under bye-law 897 which prohibits the use of worms and the use of any fish hooks other than single barbless hooks.
"IFI’s priorities are maximising the return to Ireland, protecting sustainable jobs in isolated rural communities and promoting our wonderful angling resources," he added.
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Management Plan for Galway Bay Fisheries On Track
#GALWAY BAY - Galway Bay FM reports that the National Parks and Wildlife Service is to work with the Marine Institute towards completing a management plan for Galway Bay.
It comes two weeks after a group of oyster fishermen met Minister for Natural Resources Pat Rabbitte at Leinster House to voice their concerns over a cap on oyster dredging licences.
As previously reported on Afloat.ie, local fishermen in the inner Galway Bay-Clarinbridge area are concerned that their livelihoods are at risk after the European Union ruled that there is over-intensification of fishing at the oyster bed.
Only 13 dredging licences have been issued this year, and EU Directives prevent their further issue until a fisheries management plan is introduced.
Galway West Senator Fidelma Healy-Eames says steps are being made to get the management plan on track.
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Galway Oystermen Meet Minister Over Licence Cap
#FISHING - Fishermen from Galway met Minister for Natural Resources Pat Rabbitte at Leinster House yesterday to voice their concerns over a cap on oyster dredging licences, Galway Bay FM reports.
Local fishermen in the inner Galway Bay-Clarinbridge area are concerned that their livelihoods are at risk after the European Union ruled that there is over-intensification of fishing at the oyster bed.
Minister Reaches Settlement Over Clondulane Weir
#INLAND WATERWAYS - Minister for Natural Resources, Pat Rabbitte has announced that a settlement has been reached ahead of a court case over the removal of Clondulane Weir on the River Blackwater in Co Cork.
http://www.afloat.ie/inland/inland-waterways
Lismore Realty Ltd and Lismore Trust Ltd has brought judicial review proceedings against the then minister over the department's direction in 2006 requiring the removal of the weird to allow for the free passage of migratory fish in line with national and European legislation.
The removal of the weir will now proceed folliwng the settlement, which terms that the parties will bear their own costs and Lismore Realty Ltd and Lismore Trust Ltd. will pay all reasonable costs of the removal of the weir, set to take place next summer.
Inland Fisheries Ireland will act as agents of the minister and manage the removal of the structure so as to minimise the impact on flora, fauna and habitat in the river, which is in a designated Special Area of Conservation.
#INLAND WATERWAYS - Minister for Natural Resources Pat Rabbitte has announced that a settlement has been reached ahead of a court case over the removal of Clondulane Weir on the River Blackwater in Co Cork.
The removal of the weir will now proceed folliwng the settlement, which terms that the parties will bear their own costs, and Lismore Realty Ltd and Lismore Trust Ltd will pay all reasonable costs of the removal of the weir, set to take place next summer.
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First Meeting of National Inland Fisheries Forum
Seasonality, climate change and the environment were the hot topics discussed at the inaugural meeting of the National Inland Fisheries Forum in Athlone last Thursday.
http://afloat.ie/inland/
Inland Fisheries Ireland chief executive Dr Ciaran Byrne hosted the forum, whose 60 voluntary members - drawn from various stakeholder groups - are is set to meet twice annually.
The day saw TV personality and keen angler Derek Davis installed as chairman of the forum, following his appointment by the Minister for Natural Resources.
Davis noted that the forum "can influence policies for the protection, management, development and conservation of this valuable resource now and for the generations to come."
In his own address to the forum, Dr Ciaran Byrne highlighted the members' collective experience in fisheries management on Ireland's inland waterways.
http://afloat.ie/inland/inland-waterways/
“A number of you have served as members of the central and regional fisheries boards, some for over 20 years," he said. "As members of the forum you have the opportunity to discuss and advise on the future of inland fisheries in Ireland. IFI looks forward to receiving your considered views on the various issues.”
In a message to the meeting, Minister Pat Rabbitte stated his belief "that the forum will provide a meaningful channel of communication between the stakeholders and management of the inland fisheries resource".
National Inland Fisheries Forum
Derek Davis
Fishing to be Reopened at Castlemaine Harbour
Minister for Natural Resources Pat Rabbitte has announced plans to reopen licensed commercial fishing in Castlemaine Harbour in Co Kerry, following the results of last year's pilot fishery.
“I am satisfied, based on scientific and fishery management advice... that it is safe to reopen this fishery under closely controlled conditions," said Minister Rabbitte. "The trial fishing conducted in the harbour last year establishes that this can be done without impinging on threatened stocks."
A statutory 30-day public consultation has now commenced on the required amendment to the Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme 2011 to provide for the fishery's reopening.
"The consultation period will give those who disagree with that conclusion to put forward their views and I will pay close attention to what they say before reaching a final conclusion on the matter," the minister added.
Minister Rabbitte has also tasked Inland Fisheries Ireland with ensuring full enforcement of relevant quotas and conservation by-laws.
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Bye-Laws for Wild Salmon Fisheries Approved
The Minister for Natural Resources, Conor Lenihan T.D., has approved a suite of regulations and bye-laws that will govern the wild salmon fishery in 2011. These will come into effect from Friday, 1 January 2011.
On receipt of management and scientific advice on the current status of Irish salmon stocks from Inland Fisheries Ireland and having considered submissions received through the public consultation exercise, the Minister of State introduced conservation measures for the management of the wild salmon and sea trout fishery in 2011.
Having signed the regulations and bye-laws the Minister remarked:
"I am cautiously optimistic about our native salmon stocks given the performance of stocks over recent years. The 2011 season will see 20 rivers which were closed in 2010 being opened because of an improvement in salmon stocks. 5 rivers which were previously closed for fishing, the Castletown, Suir, Glenamoy, Kerry Blackwater and Eske, will open with an identified surplus number of fish for harvest. 18 additional rivers will be open to angling on a "catch & release" basis."
"My caution is founded on the knowledge that 3 rivers which previously had been open will be closed on conservation grounds in 2011 (the Sheen, Screebe and Srahmore)", added the Natural Resources Minister.
In all the Standing Scientific Committee assessed 141 rivers and have advised that:-
· 52 rivers are open as a surplus of fish has been identified in these rivers (i.e. 2 more than in 2010);
· 29 rivers have been classified as open for "Catch and Release" only (i.e. 18 more than 2010 (see list below); and
· 60 rivers are closed as they have no surplus of fish available for harvest in them (i.e. 20 less than 2010).
The Minister also announced that in 2011 the cost of a one-day salmon angling licence (often used by tourist anglers) will be reduced by €12 (37.5%) on the recommendation of Inland Fisheries Ireland. "The purpose of the initiative is to give as much encouragement as possible to visiting tourist anglers to come to Ireland and experience the excellent game angling product being developed around our improving stocks" said Minister Lenihan.
With the exception of a proposed change to the number of blue (angling) tags applicable to a one-day salmon licence holder, the Wild Salmon and Sea trout Tagging Scheme Regulations for 2011 are in essence unchanged from the Regulations which were introduced following the establishment of Inland Fisheries Ireland in July, 2010. A number of minor amendments to the Regulations, recommended by Inland Fisheries Ireland, will provide for more effective administration of the tagging scheme regulations in 2011.
Summary of main changes to the management of the wild salmon fishery in 2011
19 Rivers which were closed in 2010 will open for angling on a "catch & release" basis in 2011:-
Ø Glyde (Dundalk fishery district)
Ø Slaney (Wexford fishery district) (note; river is closed until 12 May 2011)
Ø Bride (Lismore fishery district)
Ø Glengariff, Adrigole (Cork fishery district)
Ø Kealincha, Lough Fada, Behy, Owenascaul, Milltown, Feohanagh (Kerry fishery district)
Ø Grange (Sligo fishery district)
Ø Oily, Owenwee (Yellow River) (Ballyshannon fishery district)
Ø Bracky, Glenna, Tullaghobegley, Ray, Glenagannon (Letterkenny fishery district).
5 Rivers which were "catch & release" in 2010 and will open for harvest in 2011
Castletown (Dundalk fishery district)
Suir (Waterford fishery district)
Kerry Blackwater (Kerry fishery district)
Glenamoy (Bangor fishery district)
Eske (Ballyshannon fishery district)
3 Rivers which were open in 2010 will be limited to "catch & release" in 2011
Sheen (Kerry fishery district)
Screebe (Connemara fishery district)
Srahmore (Bangor fishery district).
8 Statutory instruments/Bye-Laws give effect to the decisions made by the Minister of State for management of the salmon fishery in 2011:
Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme (No. 2) Regulations, 2010 provide for, among other things, the total allowable catch of fish that can be harvested by commercial fishing engines and rod and line from identified rivers.
Salmon Rod Ordinary Licences (Alteration of Licence Duties) Order 2010 and Special Tidal Waters (Special Local Licences) (Alteration of Duties) Order 2010: prescribe the licence fees payable from 1 January 2011.
Conservation of Salmon and Sea Trout (Catch and Release) Bye-law No. 873, 2010: specifies the rivers in which angling is permitted on a catch and release basis and associated conditions.
Conservation of Salmon and Sea Trout (Bag Limits) Bye-law No. 874, 2010: provides for the annual, season and daily bag limits for the 2011 season and also provides for fishing methods.
Conservation of Salmon and Sea Trout (Closed Rivers) Bye-law No. C.S. 306, 2010: prohibits angling for salmon and sea trout over 40cm in specified rivers.
The following bye-laws make provisions in relation to specific rivers:
Conservation of Salmon and Sea Trout (Newport River) Bye-law No. 875, 2010.
Conservation of Salmon and Sea Trout (River Bandon) Bye-Law No. 876, 2010.
Conservation of Salmon and Sea Trout (Garvogue River) Bye-Law No. 877, 2010
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Public Consultation For New Salmon Fishing Rules
MINISTER for Natural Resources Conor Lenihan has opened a 30-day public consultation process on the Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme Regulations for the 2011 season, the Irish Times reports.
Under the latest draft egulations, 51 rivers out of 141 will open for salmon fishing, with 30 classified as catch-and-release only. Sixty rivers will be closed, which is 20 fewer than the 2010 season, due to "an improvement in salmon stocks".
“Four previously closed, ie Castletown, Suir, Glenamoy and Eske, will open with an identified surplus for harvest,” said the Minister.
Some minor changes have also been recommended "to provide a more effective administration" of the tagging scheme for one-day salmon licences.
Conor Lenihan
Public Consultation on the Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme Regulations for 2011 Season
The Minister for Natural Resources, Conor Lenihan, has announced the start of a 30 day public consultation process on the Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme Regulations for the 2011 season.
Regulations are made each year, after public consultation, for the management of the wild salmon and sea trout fishery, based on the scientific and management advice provided to the Minister by Inland Fisheries Ireland.
In launching the public consultation process the Minister remarked,
"The 2011 season will see 20 rivers which were closed in 2010 being opened because of an improvement in salmon stocks. Nineteen rivers will be open to angling on a 'catch & release' basis and 4 rivers which were previously closed, Castletown, Suir, Glenamoy and Eske will open with an identified surplus number of fish for harvest."
In all the Salmon Standing Scientific Committee assessed 141 rivers and have advised that:-
· 51 rivers are open (a surplus of fish has been identified in these rivers) i.e. 1 more than in 2010
· 30 rivers have been classified as open for "Catch and Release" only i.e. 19 more than 2010 (see list below) and
· 60 rivers are closed (no surplus of fish available for harvest) i.e. 20 less than 2010.
With the exception of a proposed change to the number of blue (angling) tags applicable to a one day salmon licence holder, the draft Tagging Scheme Regulations for 2011 are in essence unchanged from the Regulations which were introduced following the establishment of Inland Fisheries Ireland in July, 2010.
A number of minor amendments to the Regulations have also been recommended by Inland Fisheries Ireland, which will provide for more effective administration of the tagging scheme regulations in 2011.
Glyde (Dundalk fishery district)
Slaney (Wexford fishery district) (note; river is closed until 12 May 2011)
Bride (Lismore fishery district)
Glengariff, Adrigole (Cork fishery district)
Kealincha, Lough Fada, Blackwater, Behy, Owenascaul, Milltown, Feohanagh
(Kerry fishery district)
Grange (Sligo fishery district)
Oily, Owenwee (yellow river) (Ballyshannon fishery district|)
Bracky, Glenna, Tullaghobegley, Ray, Glenagannon (Letterkenny fishery district).
4 Rivers which were "catch & release" in 2010 and will open for harvest in 2011 Castletown (Dundalk fishery district)
Eske (Ballyshannon fishery district).
The Minister is giving statutory notice of his intention to make the Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Scheme (No. 2) Regulations, 2010 to provide for the management of the wild salmon and sea trout fishery by Inland Fisheries Ireland in 2011 following the 30 day public consultation.
Any person may submit objections to the draft regulations at any time during the period of 30 days commencing on 20 November 2010 either in writing to the Department or by e-mail to [email protected]
Details of the conservation proposals for 2011 and the draft regulations are available on the Department's website http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/Natural/Inland+Fisheries+Division/Consultation+Process+Wild+Salmon+and+Sea+Trout+Tagging+Scheme+Regulations+for+2011+fishing+season.htm
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Will Heritage Bill Destroy Navigations it Should be Protecting? – IWAI
The Inland Waterways Association of Ireland (IWAI) will appear today before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Culture Heritage and the Gaeltacht which is examining the Heritage Bill 2016 Part 2 Canals. In a long running campaign, the IWAI will be calling for legislation that puts user requirements, tourism development and local communities at the centre of the regulations.
'How ironic it would be that a Heritage Bill rather than protecting the future of the Grand and Royal Canals and the Barrow Navigation enables legislation for Bye-laws that end up creating waterways with no boats on them' says John Dolan of the IWAI.
On Tuesday December 5th the Inland Waterways Association of Ireland (IWAI) will appear before the Joint Committee on Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht which is examining the Heritage Bill 2016 Part 2 Canals. The is renewing its call to elected representatives to support the IWAI campaign for further revision to the proposed legislation.
The main areas of concern relate to
• new complicated legal licensing, - rather than the need to legislate for a simple permitting system that is customer friendly, easy to use, and fit for purpose
• Adequate provisions - so that boats of dimensions for which the canals were built to accommodate are protected and can continue to do so into the future
• appropriate charging structures - that matches the provision of services available
• fixed payment notices and fines with no independent appeal mechanism other than the courts, that will not encourage use of the canals and are not in place on the other Irish inland waterways
• proposed provision and powers of Authorised Officers
• legislation that will facilitate the introduction of a complete different set of rules, charges, regulations and fines that are not in place on the adjoining Waterways, and will make these canals less attractive to potential boating tourism
Ireland’s canals as beautiful linear waterways have the potential to attract both domestic and International boating visitors who will relish the tranquil opportunity of slow tourism cruising at walking pace as people move faster than the canal boats on the system, while experiencing the associated industrial heritage, peat lands, small villages and towns that have interdependence with the canals and our capital city.
To achieve this potential it is vital that the Heritage Bill 2016 preserves and enables the development of the canals for the current and future generations and communities. Over regulation and excessive charges are not the answer to developing these waterways, they deserve proper legislation that put user requirements, local communities and tourism at the centre of the regulations.
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Shannon Cruiser Crash
A man at the upper controls of a cruiser on the inland waterways jumped to safety just before his vessel hit a bridge in Co Tipperary on Friday last.
The man was believed to be attempting to moor the vessel close to the bridge at Ballina on the Shannon when he lost control. The boat hit one of the bridge arches causing extensive damage to the boat’s upper-level console. It is believed that only for the water level at the time and his quick actions he could have been seriously injured.
There were six people on board the vessel all of whom were in the lower deck and uninjured.
The incident was witnessed by a member of the Killaloe unit of the Irish Coast Guard, who raised the alarm. Rescuers went to the scene and discovered that the cruiser had been extensively damaged.
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RS 200: the 'ideal' next step for Irish Youth Sailing?
Questions over the next step for juniors after the RS Feva point to the bigger RS200 writes Feva sailor Ciara Byrne
The RSFeva has become the world's best selling two-person dinghy in recent years with fleets also growing in clubs all over Ireland. It is fast becoming the most popular and widespread choice for teenagers and youth sailors who enjoy competitive, active and exciting sailing.
However many questions were being asked recently at the RSFeva Nationals, held in Crosshaven, Co. Cork, regarding the next step for young, talented sailors who wish to continue racing in large fleets without the difficult transition of transferring from the Feva into a larger, unfamiliar dinghy. This uncertainty has led to many sailors dropping out of sailing altogether, while the remainder have split the fleet into Lasers, the 420/470 or moved on to cruisers.
However these dinghies require a lot of time and effort of getting used to, leaving some sailors frustrated and also, less motivated. To avoid this altogether, there is one simple solution: the RS200.
The RS200 is a spacious, one-design, double-handed, hiking, high-performance dinghy which has developed a huge following at club, circuit and championship level in the UK with a growing fleet in Ireland. A pivoting centreboard and rudder allow easy launch and recovery with a thwart giving the crew a comfortable position for light winds. With the asymmetric spinnaker, similar rigging and a similar design, it can be considered as a larger and faster Feva which makes for an easy changeover and the most logical and simple step up.
The ideal weight for an RS200 is 115-145kg (18-23 stone) which allows people of all ages to sail and race effectively in this dinghy. Ideal for teenagers emerging from the Feva, parents, youths, couples, friends and relatives can also come together which enhances the family and social scene.
Even though the 420 has a larger total sail area, the RS200's asymmetric spinnaker of over eight square metres, with a smoother single line hoist and drop system, similar to the Feva's. makes for a faster boat and requires greater tactical and more exciting downwind sailing. This encourages competitive racing and enhanced racing skills.
An RS200 at full speed off Greystones. Photo: Fiachra Etchingham
A maintenance free hull, made of lightweight polyester GRP ensures a long competitive life and second hand boats can be in very good condition so that older hulls are without the disadvantage experienced in fleets such as the 420. Furthermore, every hull comes from the same manufacturer giving no subtle advantage to any one boat; therefore racing just comes down to the sailors' tactics, boat handling and general knowledge of sailing and racing.
While the RS200 is not an Olympic class, there are large UK and Irish fleets which are active and competitive. Johnathan Lewis, a UK Feva coach and RS200 sailor, strongly encourages Feva graduates to move into the RS200 as it is an easy transition and makes for fun and exciting sailing. RS200 fleets are strong in Irish clubs such as those in Northern Ireland including Ballyholme, Newcastle and Cushendall as well as Greystones Sailing Club in Co. Wicklow.
Greystones Sailing Club boasts probably the largest asymmetric dinghy fleet in Ireland with fifty five asymmetric dinghies, twenty one of those being RSFevas and the majority of the remainder being RS200s. Recognising the RS200 as the natural progression from the Feva, ages range from fifteen to fifty five across the RS200 and RS400 fleets in the Club, with most of these boats competing in national events in Ireland, and some in the UK and further afield.
Rounding a mark in the RS200. Photo: Fiachra Etchingham
As fleets build in Dún Laoghaire and Howth yacht clubs, the RS200 is gradually becoming a popular progression from the Feva, and with the RS400 as a follow on boat for larger crews, young sailors can remain involved and spirited in asymmetric racing. The RS200 satisfies a thirst for speed and pace which generates more exciting, competitive and enjoyable sailing for those emerging from Feva fleet.
A Dublin Sailor (who has asked not to be named) has sent us comments on this story:
As one involved in junior and youth sailing at club level, one of the big decisions that faces youths is where to go after junior classes such as Optimists, Toppers, Fevas. Like any other sport, there is a high attrition rate after the age of 14 / 15, especially among girls which is an even greater shame as they can compete on a par with the guys.
We need a class that will keep youths engaged. The 420 & 29er are great boats but require higher levels of boathandling, are much more competitive and tend to attract the top sailors. They also suffer from an inability to match up crews who will stick together - teenagers chop and change all the time and its difficult to race a boat like a 420 / Fireball / 29er wihout a constant crew partnership.
We need a boat/class that:
Enables swapping around of crews without a major impact on the boathandling / teamwork. A sailor's plans for the weekend / event / season are not scuppered because of crewing issues.
Does not need a highly competent crew (e.g. ability to trapeze and fly / gybe a kite etc.) so that sailors can sail with their mates who may not necessarily be top-notch sailors but who can acquit themselves well in a slightly less complex boat.
Has a good mixed social scene which is the most important element of any class, youth or otherwise.
Does not cost the earth in terms of purchase price, is easy on wear & tear on kit (hence replacement & upgrade costs) or does not go soft and become uncompetitive needing a new hull after three to five years etc
Has international competition that is closeby (UK, FR, Bel, Ned etc) for those aspiring to a bit more
Has a motiviated class structure to help grow the class.
The fear is that we are starting out another class that will dilute the current youth class efforts. However I believe that the 420 and 29er will hold their own and continue to attract top sailors with ISAF ambitions.
On the other hand, if we continue to support these we will continue to lose the middle ground (and majority) of young sailors from our sport. Youths are fickle enough and if its too much hassle to deal with all the challenges of getting afloat they just won't bother - sad but true.
The ISA needs to take a lead in this and while its Olympic ambitions are great to see, it will fail the sport as a whole if it does not tackle this gaping need in its portfolio of support.
I believe that the RS200 and R2400 provide the best solution to these challenges. They appear well-built and the manufacturer certainly appears well organised and gets involved.
Looking from outside and without any vested interests (other than the health of junior and youth sailing) the RS's get my vote as a class that can make a radical difference.
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Start Over You searched for: Subject Women authors -- 20th century ✖Remove constraint Subject: Women authors -- 20th century Subject Authors and publishers -- Correspondence ✖Remove constraint Subject: Authors and publishers -- Correspondence Collection Anne Tyler papers, 1958-2016 ✖Remove constraint Collection: Anne Tyler papers, 1958-2016 Names Tyler, Anne -- Digging to America ✖Remove constraint Names: Tyler, Anne -- Digging to America
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Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Accidental Tourist, Breathing Lessons, Celestial Navigation, Ladder of Years, and other popular novels. Collection includes manuscript drafts, printed material, holograph manuscripts and typescripts of Tyler's novels and short stories, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant; clippings of articles about Tyler and her writings; serials containing articles by or about Tyler and her work; correspondence between Tyler and her publishers; and materials regarding adaptations of her novels, including the movie The Accidental Tourist. Later additions include holograph manuscripts of A Patchwork Planet and Noah's Compass; an advance uncorrected proof of Back When We Were Grownups (2001); drafts for Digging to America, The Amateur Marriage, Back When We Were Grownups, The Beginner's Goodbye, A Blue Spool of Thread, Vinegar Girl, and Clock Dance; correspondence between Tyler and her editors and agents; publicity materials; some Tyler family correspondence; book reviews; and book covers.
The collection includes manuscript drafts, printed material, holograph manuscripts and typescripts of Tyler's novels and short stories; clippings of articles about Tyler and her writings; serials containing articles by or about Tyler and her work; Tyler's work-related and personal correspondence; and clipping and other materials regarding adaptations of her works, including the movie The Accidental Tourist. Later additions include holograph manuscripts of A Patchwork Planet and Noah's Compass; an advance uncorrected proof of Back When We Were Grownups (2001); drafts for Digging to America, The Amateur Marriage, Back When We Were Grownups, The Beginner's Goodbye, A Blue Spool of Thread, Vinegar Girl, and Clock Dance; correspondence between Tyler and her editors and agents; publicity materials; some Tyler family correspondence; book reviews; and book covers.
The Writings series contains novels, short stories, essays, and book reviews written by Tyler. The novels are all in draft form, with the exception of one advance uncorrected proof. Arranged in folders by date of publication, the Novels subseries includes drafts of all novels Tyler wrote between 1961 and 2016. Most of Tyler's initial drafts are handwritten, as are all of the editing marks. She also made notes for herself regarding the characters and locations in her novels. Her notes include character details and hand-drawn house floorplans. This subseries gives insight into Tyler's writing and editing process. The Short Stories & Other Writings subseries includes published and unpublished short stories, clippings, and a booklet of student essays from Tyler's time at Duke University. Oversize writings can be found in the Miscellaneous & Oversize Materials series.
The Correspondence series contains letters received or written by Anne Tyler, though the majority of the correspondence was written to Tyler. She received mail from a wide range of people, including reporters, fans, friends, publishers, editors, and event coordinators. The majority of series is arranged chronologically and provides insight into the relationships that Tyler built due to her writing, and the friendships forged through continued correspondence. One folder in this series is restricted.
The Printed Materials series contains a wide variety of materials related to Tyler and her writings. A substantial portion of this series is comprised of clippings from newspapers and magazines. Either Tyler herself or a friend or colleague subscribed to a clipping service; many book review and publicity clippings were clipped by Durrant's, an international clipping service. This series also contains materials from Eudora Welty and Tyler's speaking engagement at Duke University in 1982. This was one of the few public appearances that Tyler has made. She does not generally give interviews or go on book tours. Oversize jacket art and publicity materials can be found in the Miscellaneous & Oversize Materials series.
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Art of Hosting
What is AOH?
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Train how to host co-creative and participatory conversations that matter
October 23- 26, 2019 / Vejle, Denmark
Go beyond surviving to thriving
Art of Hosting conversations that matter - Training
We invite you to join us in Denmark on October 23 - 26, 2019 for an international training in collaborative and participatory hosting and practicing the skills of navigating, thriving and standing tall in challenges as they occur.
We invite you to join us and to connect with other practitioners, leaders and innovators seeking to build their capacity.
This training is open for everyone, especially individuals and groups who want to mobilize others to be part of sustainable changes that work for all. It is for those who want to be able to ‘walk-the-talk’ in challenging times. Come and join us for a 3 day training in The Art of Hosting & Harvesting Conversations that Matter, a practice that shows us how to bring the potent collective intelligence into play whenever we are inviting others to a project, meeting, workshop or conference. You will gain a deep insight into the mindset behind hosting participatory gatherings and practice participatory skills while exploring the concept of how to use 'cracks' to create wise and peaceful transformation.
Our calling question is inspired by the Leonard Cohen song “Anthem” where it says: “There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
How do we act wisely on the 'cracks' in systems and relations for new sustainable patterns to emerge?
What did this philosophical poet intend to say with such a powerful analogy as a crack? Is it a reminder of opportunities in the potent interplay of darkness and light in our lives? Is it to remind us of the imperfect and that in every relationship and system lies the opportunity for beauty and change? Is it an encouragement to act on the cues we get to create new paths? What cracks do you experience in your own life and work and on a global scale? We will be investigating these questions in a lively heartful and hands-on atmosphere through our learning journey together.
This AoH training will help you stand in the ‘cracks’ or even meet the ‘crisis’ with stamina, knowing how to invite, how to host meetings that get results and how to plan the next steps in a collaborative way where all voices are heard.
Cracks appear in our personal and professional lives all the time - between individuals, in smaller groups and on a systemic, even societal, scale. We don’t always notice them. Sometimes we consciously ignore them. But when we have the courage and power to explore and work with them instead of against them, they can lead to small shifts that hold the seeds for powerful transformations and become an invitation for others to start joining in.
Although, English language is a requirement for participation in the course, then do not hold back if you are not 100% confident in the English language, as our team will be happy to accommodate and support people with Danish, German, Swedish and Dutch assistance and translations.
Calling Question:
How do we act wisely on the 'cracks' in systems and relations for new sustainable patterns to emerge?
What will we learn & Practice?
This 4 day residential training will introduce you to simple yet powerful practices that build community, activate collective intelligence and foster individual and collaborative leadership practices that give us the capacity to navigate the complexity of our world as it is today. Read more about this in 'Resources'.
During the training we will explore a range of participatory tools, concepts and methods, including:
The Four Fold Practice
Circle practice
Open Space Technology
The Chaordic Path
The 8 Breaths of Design
The Art of Harvesting
Designing for Wiser Action
Workshop Design
Who should come?
Whether you come from the private or public sector, you are self-employed or are coming as an individual, this training is for you. Meeting across a diversity of workplaces, ways of working and focus creates a vibrant learning space, which we can build on in our work. If you work in a team, it is most valuable to come as a the team to the training -- it will be much easier to integrate new ways of working afterwards. We’re inviting:
Those interested in creating a more sustainable future for all
Managing directors & senior leaders
Project Managers & team leaders
Changemakers, artists, storytellers and journalists
External & internal Consultants
Those working in NGOs or community
Teachers & school administrators
Students and youth leaders, especially those working for a sustainable future
Anyone involved in the green transition movement
Do you recognise these?
Meetings that lead to no action?
Conferences that have too many talking heads and not enough real engagement and wisdom?
Cross-functional teams that are more loyal to their function than to their team – or vice versa?
Silo thinking and political infighting?
Decisions made too far away from those impacted by them?
NGO’s who work for their own purpose and forget the common good, the whole picture and collaboration with others?
Learning situations where both teachers and students are unhappy or unfulfilled?
Communities that are marked by consistent lack of dialogue, tension and difference of opinion or fall into apathy or indifference?
If so, then the training is for you
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Join the collaborative practice. See you there!
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The Joyful Table
Create, Family and Legacy, Friendship, Holidays, JOY, Mentoring | 2 comments
The clink and clunk of hammering ricocheted around the Bonsack Methodist Church gymnasium. Approximately fifty women gathered in November for The Joyful Table’s monthly craft party hosted by Jennifer Houf. Jennifer is momtrepreneur (mom + entrepreneur) of a craft business called The Joyful Table. Jennifer and her husband Jeremy use their creativity and profits of The Joyful Table to foster children into their home.
As soon as Jennifer and Jeremy Houf tied the knot, seven-years ago, they wanted to adopt from Russia. “However, eight-days before our marriage, Russia closed the door to outside adoptions, and have remained closed since,” remarked Jennifer. God’s plan for a family took the traditional path and shortly after the wedding, Jennifer became pregnant.
Birth of The Joyful Table
Jennifer desired a side job that allowed her to work from home and contribute to the student loan payoff. Inspired by an idea from a home décor magazine, Jennifer created her own version of a huge wall growth chart. “I sold over 300 growth charts in my first year. I worked as much as I could with babies at home and had a full-time employee and we could never stay ahead of orders.” Back then, Jennifer and Jeremy lived in Texas. Looking back on the early years of their marriage Jennifer reflects, “I know God had us in Houston, in the greatest grossing zip code in Texas, so we could be blessed to make enough to pay off our $35,000 debt in one year.”
Foster Parenting
Two years into their marriage, the burden to adopt never left their hearts. “We felt led to foster as it would cost less than straight adopting, so we opened our home to children almost five years ago,” reminisced Jennifer.
Since then, Jennifer and her husband moved to Virginia for a full-time position and we could turn the focus of The Joyful Table income onto our foster children. “We have spent thousands of dollars on beds, mattresses, and home decor as our rooms for kids have changed and changed over the years with each placement. We purchased a 12-passenger van that we needed in order to transport our large crew. We have taken our foster children on big trips including three trips to the beach, trips on planes, and trips to NFL and NBA games in different states. The income that I make allows us to continue fostering without the added stress of finances that having extra kids in the house can bring.”
The Houf’s have a large crew including, five biological children and have welcomed 13 children into their home over the course of the last five years. “We have had up to ten children at a time and currently have eight (five biological and three foster children).
As if being a mom of five, and a foster of three, and a business owner isn’t enough, Jennifer and Jeremy flip the homes they live in. Jennifer says, “Our kids have enjoyed the chaos of knocking down walls, removing kitchens, and putting them back together. I try to allow these new experiences to challenge our kids and give them confidence that they can do anything. All of our older children know how to do vinyl work, how to build signs, and how to use most hand tools.”
Jennifer hosts The Joyful Table craft parties every month. Over the past five years, she has hosted over 120 parties in Virginia and Texas. Jennifer loves combining her love for teaching, crafting, and spending a night out among other women.
“All of our kids fight over who “gets to work” when I have a party. They all love crafting with me, seeing all the ladies, and getting messy with the paint. The older kids really love getting to help make the actual signs and assist with the classes. So many of our older foster children have never earned and saved their very own money, so it is very rewarding allowing them to work by my side.”
The next party will be December 10, 6 pm-9 pm at Bonsack Methodist Church. The feature project will be a 42-inch wooden sled. Don’t worry, it does not require craft skills at these classes. Jennifer offers step-by-step instruction with a plethora of supplies and assistants to lend a hand or advice.
Foster Kids Need Families
“These kids need families,” says Houf. “They may need a family for one month or for two years, but nothing happening to them is their fault. They are just kids, and kids need families to keep them safe until they can return home. I pray the church will rise up and do what we are called to do; to love on these kids in their distress.”
“I hope our story shows people there is no such thing as ‘the perfect time to start fostering.’ I have been pregnant, given birth to kids, moved, redone houses, and so much more, all while fostering these kids. We have five young kids of our own and a very small home, but our hearts and our table are never full. We are so humbled and grateful to be a small part of the story for all the children we have had the pleasure of fostering.”
November is National Foster Care Month. Please consider your role in supporting area foster children or foster families.
You can follow The Joyful Table on Facebook or shop online at The Joyful Table’s Etsy site.
~April Dawn White
© 2019 April Dawn White| Images courtesy of The Joyful Table
God’s blessings upon The Joyful Table and the difference they are making in so many lives. Children don’t need everything in the world; what they do need, what we all need, is love, caring, and encouragement. Thank you Houf family for showing us the example we should all endeavor to follow, as God leads.
April Dawn White on January 7, 2020 at 10:47 am
This family is an fabulous example of honoring the “least of these” and loving well.
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Casio G-SHOCK are the latest exhibitor to be coming to AWE2018. They are bringing the new G-SHOCK RANGEMAN which is the World’s First Solar-Assisted GPS Navigation and designed for the Ultimate in Survival Toughness!
The new GPR-B1000 features the world’s first* solar-assisted GPS navigation and will be available in two models. * Based on a Casio survey as of January 9, 2018.
The RANGEMAN is part of the “Master of G” series of watches designed for use in the most extreme conditions. RANGEMAN watches incorporate Triple Sensor to measure compass bearing, atmospheric pressure/altitude, and temperature, based on the concept of “Survival Toughness.”
In addition to Triple Sensor, the new GPR-B1000 is capable of GPS navigation—a first for a G-SHOCK watch. The watch collects location data from GPS satellites to display the current location on a route or bearing to a destination, in real-time. The watch also saves track and point data (including longitude/latitude, altitude, and temperature) in memory.
Using Bluetooth®, the watch pairs with a smartphone to connect with the G-SHOCK Connected app, allowing the user to create routes or manage log data in the app. Tracks and point data saved in memory are displayed on a 3D map or as a timeline. The watch also receives data from time servers to keep accurate time anywhere in the world.
The GPR-B1000 features dual wireless and solar charging systems. The GPS functions are usable for up to 33 hours on a wireless charge of about five hours. Even if the battery level drops below a usable level for GPS while outdoors, solar charging can be used to resume GPS functions for a limited time. The time display is kept powered at all times using solar charging, regardless of the status of GPS functions.
The GPR-B1000 delivers toughness in construction and materials, with a dust- and mud-resistant structure and carbon fiber insert band. Designed for the ultimate in survival toughness, the GPR-B1000 is the latest evolution of G-SHOCK.
Main Features of the GPR-B1000
Navigate and Log - the watch collects location data from GPS satellites to display the current location on a route or bearing to a destination, in real-time. Turn on GPS navigation to automatically record tracks with either four-second or one-minute interval recording. (Save up to 20 tracks in memory)
Backtrack - the watch helps users navigate back to where they started, using track data to display the route back to the starting point and bearing
Point Memory - the user can save point data (including date/time, longitude/latitude, altitude, atmospheric pressure, and temperature) by just pushing a button. Set point icons to indicate the type of point. (Save up to 60 points.)
Bluetooth Smartphone Pairing to Connect with G-SHOCK Connected App
Receive data from time servers to keep accurate time anywhere in the world. When paired with a smartphone, the watch receives data from time servers to keep accurate time anywhere in the world. Easily configure world time cities, alarms, and timers from the G-SHOCK Connected app
Start/End Point, Route Setting - Set the start/end points to use GPS to navigate to a destination and create routes
Display Tracks on 2D or 3D Maps - Display saved tracks on a 2D or 3D map in the G-SHOCK Connected app
Timeline display of waypoint data - display saved waypoint data in a timeline. View photos taken with the smartphone while using GPS navigation, in the timeline
Solar and Wireless Charging
The GPR-B1000 is equipped with dual wireless and solar charging systems to support activities in the outdoors. GPS navigation is usable for approximately 33 hours on a wireless charge of about five hours. If the battery becomes depleted, GPS functions can be resumed by charging the watch in bright light. (GPS functions are usable for one hour on a solar charge of approximately four hours in 50,000 lux conditions.) Regardless of the status of GPS functions, solar charging keeps the time display powered at all times.
Ceramic Case Back—A First for G-SHOCK
The watch uses a ceramic case back to support wireless charging and high-sensitivity GPS reception. The case back uses a 2.0 mm thick ceramic material, making the watch shock-resistant and waterproof down to 200 meters.
Tough Construction to Withstand Harsh Conditions
The watch is designed to withstand harsh conditions with dust- and dirt-proof, mud-resistant construction, low-temperature resistance down to -20°C (-4°F), a carbon fiber insert band, and sapphire crystal.
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How to Create an Irresistibly Superior Culture at Work
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What's your biggest challenge at work?
Getting employees to behave in accordance with the company’s desired culture.
— Sales Manager
In the last two posts, How to Keep Staff Happy So Customers Have More Fun and How to Use Employee Engagement Secrets to Skyrocket Sales, we’ve been talking about customer service. Whether you’re trying to improve this or another part of your business, you may have come to the conclusion that these sorts of things don’t happen in a vacuum. Inevitably, it becomes a question of culture.
Business forums are swimming in advice on how to change corporate culture. It’s easy to get the impression that a winning culture is a matter of top execs getting together with HR and hammering out a few values. Next, they hand off the values to Corporate Comms to be plastered all over the inter- and intranet. And voilà! Work culture transformed!
Have you heard the term “employee branding?” I don’t know about you, but it sounds a little creepy to me—as though you could take a red-hot iron and burn corporate rhetoric into people’s brains. But it’s not such a far-fetched idea in some circles. I get regular requests for demos from communications managers looking to use our software to instill a particular way of thinking in their employees.
As one Director of Communications put it, she wanted to “drench” her employees in corporate language. She asked if she could turn off the social features and use it strictly for top-down communication. Uh..… um… actually, we designed Communifire to help people voice their opinions and focus on what’s important to them. But, yeah, okay… sure, why not let the corporate have free reign of the intranet?
Give it a go and see what kind of return on investment you get. Any success on the front lines? Ask your frontline managers, like this Sales Manager, whether your employees are behaving in accordance. I am skeptical. And I’ll tell you why.
But first, I am not necessarily against bombarding employees with corporate propaganda. Think of advertising. It has been proven time and again that advertising works. In fact, advertising is an excellent analogy for what the Sales Manager and the Director of Comms are trying to accomplish; they want their employees to buy into the company’s message.
So, how does advertising work? Is it just outspending the competitors that delivers market share?
If anyone has the exact answer to this question, it’s the household goods conglomerate, Procter & Gamble. If you haven’t heard of P&G, you sure know its products: Crest, Tide, Scope, Tampax, Pampers, Febreze, Gillette… P&G sells hundreds of big-name consumer brands all over the world.
The reason you recognize and probably use these products is simple. P&G is the uncontested world leader in ad spending—over $7 billion a year. In 2017, P&G announced its plans to cut $2 billion in advertising costs, while at the same time becoming “irresistibly superior” in the eyes of consumers.
Wouldn’t you, HR and Comms strategists, like your company to achieve an “irresistibly superior” standing in the eyes of your employees? Indeed, you would. How else can you expect them to mend their ways and conform to your “desired culture?” And just like it is for P&G, lots of hype is a logical way for you to go about your business.
But what kind of hype? Here’s P&G’s plan:
“[Irresistibly Superior advertising] makes you think, talk, laugh, cry and smile, act and of course buy, and is a voice for good by expressing views on points that matter, and where the brand matters…. advertising that clears the bar for creative brilliance, sparking conversations, affecting attitudes, changing behavior and sometimes even defining popular culture…”(Jack Neff, P&G Will Cut $2 Billion in Marketing but Spend Some Back to Become ‘Irresistible,’ AdAge, April 26, 2017)
That was Jon Moeller, P&G’s Chief Financial Officer, on the earnings call with investors. If you didn’t know the guy was selling tampons and dish soap, you’d think he was a Hollywood producer pitching his next blockbuster. But he is right; to change behaviors, the ad must resonate with the audience on many levels. And the same is true for your company’s internal communications.
Even with $2 billion slashed from its budget, P&G still has its pick of advertising talent—a far cry from an average employer’s internal comms outfit. But your comms and HR may have more in common with P&G’s marketing force than you realize. The ideas for any winning campaign, regardless of scope and budget, come from the same source: intimate knowledge of the target audience. For P&G, it’s families who buy and use the products. For you, it’s your employees.
P&G has promised the shareholders to do its homework. To become irresistibly superior, the company is shifting resources toward better understanding consumers:
“Instead of tracking ‘weighted purchase intent’ scores in surveys, P&G is now weighing a ‘a body of evidence’ that ‘integrates technical tests, blind tests, [tracking call and online contacts], household panel tests, and in-market product reviews. It adds behavioral data, which is more reliable than attitudinal data, which is what we’ve historically used.’…” (Jack Neff, P&G Will Cut $2 Billion in Marketing but Spend Some Back to Become ‘Irresistible,’ AdAge, April 26, 2017)
Apparently, P&G used to track purchase intent through surveys, which is similar to tracking Net Promoter Score among employees. Now, instead of asking consumers what they might do (attitudes), P&G is going to find out what they actually say and do (behaviors). Clearly, it’s a move in the right direction, and employers can do the same.
The best way to know what your employees say and do is to be there when it happens. That’s precisely what social intranet software is for. They work equally well for small companies like Axero (my company) and giants like P&G. In fact, P&G was among the early adopters of the social intranet technology.
Back in 2009, P&G employed more than 138,000 people in 160 countries. The company was already using an enterprise social networking tool.
“The platform, called PeopleConnect, is akin to Facebook, with profiles and status updates, discussion threads and activity feeds. Employees use it to form and join groups and to interact through blogs, wikis, forums and document stores. According to Michael Fulton, P&G’s enterprise architecture capability manager, “Until now, wikis, blogs, podcasts—they felt like the place for the techno-elite. This platform makes it easy for everyone to participate.’” (Rick Swanborg, How Procter & Gamble Got Employees to Use Social Networking at Work, CIO, Aug 24, 2009)
In those days, P&G had plenty of cultural hurdles to overcome. Two consecutive CEOs, A.G. Lafley (2000-2009) and Bob McDonald (2009-2013), took on epic turnarounds. To achieve top-line growth, the 160-something-year-old company was to become one of the most innovative businesses of its time and a force for global good.
So, how did P&G leverage its advanced and costly internal communications technology? Instead of using PeopleConnect as a mandatory brainwashing tool, the company wisely let employees opt in:
“P&G is deploying the tools with groups that demand them and integrating them with the ways people work. For instance, the enterprise search tool, where P&G employees go first for information, indexes and returns Web 2.0 content. P&G is also adopting some Web 2.0 development and security approaches by testing through use (called ‘the perpetual beta’) and by keeping access to data open by default.” (Rick Swanborg, How Procter & Gamble Got Employees to Use Social Networking at Work, CIO, Aug 24, 2009)
I can only imagine how slow to change and technophobic a big old company could be. However, it looks as though P&G avoided resistance by allowing the platform to prove its value and become a trusted tool, instead of an annoying distraction.
We could take a cue from P&G in this regard as well. Don’t rush to occupy the intranet with corporate agenda; let your people show you how they want to use it. Let them get hooked on it first.
Next, listen before you speak. Culture change happens from within. You need to understand the existing culture to change it. (For more on how culture works, see Chapter 16, Got Culture?, in Who the Hell Wants to Work for You?)
Once you decide it’s time to drench your employees in corporate ideology, have a process for checking back with them. No feedback means no communication. You may think you’ve spread the word when in reality you’ve been talking to yourself the whole time. No wonder your employees are not responding.
P&G has a rigorous testing process for both its products and its ads. “Irresistibly Superior” strategy makes it even tougher to pass the test:
“Measuring this will go way beyond conventional copy testing to a similar ‘body of evidence.’ Ads deemed ‘effective’ must raise awareness, increase household penetration and share growth for at least one year and be judged so by a ‘panel of experts,’ which Pritchard last month said include P&G executives not affiliated with the brands being evaluated. Always, Tide, Dawn and SK-II are brands currently with ads deemed effective, Moeller said. Only 30% of P&G efforts currently are deemed Irresistibly Superior, so there’s work to do.” (Jack Neff, P&G Will Cut $2 Billion in Marketing but Spend Some Back to Become ‘Irresistible’, AdAge, April 26, 2017)
A similar strategy may work for internal comms. Did you set goals for your campaign? Did you hit them? Did your campaign raise awareness? Change behaviors? And who are the judges? Are they the same people who designed the campaign?
As you set out to make changes, find out what matters to your people. What criteria do they use to judge the company and themselves? The new way of thinking that you want them to adopt must make sense in their world. It must be irresistibly superior to all others. Or else, they won’t buy it.
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From Pooling and Sharing to Pulling Apart
At 7pm on Sunday May 10, Boris Johnson effectively ceased to be the prime minister of the UK and became prime minister of England.
— Martin Kettle (@martinkettle) May 10, 2020
The extent to which the whole functioning of the UK (not just Scotland and England) is diverging has been revealed in the past few days. Johnson’s shambolic communication and desperate urge to “release the lockdown” has left the devolved governments holding their own positions as the idea of a united coherent thing called ‘Britain’ just falls apart before our tired eyes.
Nor was this a process initiated by resurgent forces of Celtic Nationalism. Nicola Sturgeon has been, if anything, bending over backwards to be reasonable and hold together the (largely mythical) four nation approach. Even Arlene Foster refused to align with the English approach. Although politically she would have liked to align with England, practically she knew Northern Ireland was better off remaining in step with Ireland as the Northern Irish coronavirus figures are more similar to the republics than England. So her message remained: stay at home. First Minister Mark Drakeford was forced to assert: “In Wales, it is Welsh law that applies” and say you cannot travel to Wales from England to exercise.
But this is more than the devolved nations being forced to flex their constitutional muscle. Even Andy Burnham and his Liverpool counterpart, Steve Rotheram, are warning the Prime Minister that the highest number of new cases last week were in the North West, arguing ‘we are not yet on the clear downward trajectory seen in other parts of the country’.
In a letter to the Prime Minister they also point to the latest report from the ‘Independent Sage’ group of scientists, set up as a ‘constructive alternative’ to the government’s official advice, which says changes to national guidance is ‘dangerous’ and will lead to further localised outbreaks.
Both mayors are now calling on the government to urgently publish regional – and sub-regional – figures for the ‘R’, the rate of coronavirus transmission within the general population.
Burnham insisted that the ‘Stay at Home’ message was therefore still right for Manchester, in line with the approach taken by Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
This is not just as sign of the rolling constitutional crisis taking a new form, no its what happens in a pandemic when the leader of a country loses the trust of a significant part of the population.
Nicola Sturgeon says if you’re coming from England to Scotland for reasons not deemed essential purposes you may be breaking the law.
— Ciaran Jenkins (@C4Ciaran) May 11, 2020
Travelling into Wales ‘becomes an offence’ https://t.co/3qjjPCe1np
— BBC Wales News (@BBCWalesNews) May 11, 2020
Nor are these new measures just guidance, they’re law.
But behind these palpable and sudden changes and fractures are deeper issues of political culture. As the virus rages we teeter on the brink of the catastrophe of Brexit, the fiasco that’s only been eclipsed by mass death but will re-emerge at Britain’s funeral.
In an excoriating article John Harris (‘We can’t hide behind the bunting – let’s face up to what’s happened to Britain’) writes:
“In England in particular, there is a strand of the national culture expressed by the mixture of hectoring optimism and insularity of the rightwing press, and reducible to the idea that the supposed British way of doing anything is necessarily the best. Even now, 21st-century politics is still less about hardened matters of success and failure than these expressions of culture and history, and the sides they force people to take. Britain was led into the disaster of Brexit by people successfully sowing the ludicrous idea that subjecting ourselves to self-harm would somehow awaken the Blitz spirit and revive past glories. Amid Friday’s juxtaposition of the 75th anniversary of VE day and a deepening sense of national crisis, as well as solemn remembrance, there was inevitably some of the same stuff. These things play into deep elements of the English psyche, shot through with the lingering traces of deference and always ready to be manipulated by Tory politicians.”
Put in this context, the question becomes, whether a survival instinct will kick in and through off the ‘lingering traces of deference’ amid the chaos of Johnson’s misrule?
But an important aspect of this to notice is that it is not Wales and Scotland that are asserting their difference, it is England. The idea, put to us in 2014 that cleaving to the Union was a matter of survival for Scotland has been turned on its head.
Harris points to Matt Hancock’s striking use of the verb “wean” as an expression of how people might be removed from furlough. He cites the Tory backbencher Graham Brady who had claimed that “in some instances it may be that the public have been a little bit too willing to stay at home”.
There is a new narrative of “covid” shirker as the economic crisis deepens.
“Here was a familiar Tory voice of impatience and condescension, once again breaking through the patina of solidarity with the public. There were echoes of an infamous passage of the free-market manifesto Britannia Unchained, written by five Tory MPs, four of whom are now ministers: “Once they enter the workplace, the British are among the worst idlers in the world.” Whatever its recent feints towards communitarianism and economic activism, the Conservative party seems unable to shake off its attachment to a vision of go-getting utopia, and its resultant contempt for a public that looks to the state for help and fails to match up to its ideal.”
The relationship between the citizen and the state is being redefined. But, as we tire of repeating, you can either be a Scottish citizen or a British subject.
The slogans that the Conservatives are clinging to reveal their priorities and their contempt. The idea of framing the notion of collective action for public health against our “freedoms” is deeply cynical and manipulative.
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson
Andy Anderson says:
Interesting article Mike.
When people like Martin Kettle recognize that the break-up of the Union is now being progressed by the UK Prime Minister then we need to look at the policies they are pursuing.
The huge gamble of the attempt to lift the lock-down in England while attempting to avoid responsibility for his actions is one thing, but linked in time with Brexit and the refusal to contemplate delay on this; is building a real train-crash on a massive scale for himself. Nicola and the SNP Government do not need to plan an independence strategy for Scotland, all they need to do is continue to Govern competently. Boris it seems will do the rest. He will create such a mess that the Scottish people will be entirely convinced we have nothing to gain by continued membership of the Union.
Colin James says:
My mind got thinking whilst reading this article when it mentioned about the blitz spirit and all that nonsense. That’s exactly where we should attack and sow the seeds of doubt.
Brexit, corona, tax evasion and a thousand other reasons really why Britain (UK) no longer works for Scotland.
No amount of British jingoism is going to deliver a country worth living in in ten years time. Make people question whether they think English rule of Scotland will deliver for our future.
Richard Easson says:
If any of Johnson’s new utterings on Sunday are now law as you say then surely they should have been passed under the auspices of EVEL since they only apply to England.
He is not the First Minister of a devolved England, they do not have an assembly or parliament to deal with devolved matters.
He is not the prime minister of England.
A large can of worms has been opened for all to see and perhaps for some to learn.
https://twitter.com/andywightman/status/1260246407761534976?s=20
Personally, I thought Kettle’s comment was mischief-making…not uncommon in the Guardian when it comes to Scotland.
The issues under discussion were not ones where Johnson had the authority to dictate how it would be throughout the UK. They were devolved matters on which his decision (well, ok, Cummings’ decision) could only apply in England. Everyone knew that. Did Kettle not?
So, in reality, no big deal but Guardian journalists love to do hyperbole… especially Kettle.
The coolest head around was Sturgeon and, I have to say, I don’t know how she doesn’t lose it with the shower of vermin in the press group who attend her daily briefings…and that includes Sev Carrell and Libby Brooks of, yes, the Guardian. They are forever being corrected btl for misrepresenting her at every turn. They are against her and the SNP even while Number 10 is inhabited by lunatics.
Legerwood says:
It is interesting how rarely any opinion piece in the Guardian relating to Scotland is open for Comments by readers. They, the journalists, editors and opinion writers on the Guardian know full well that these pieces are full of holes, bias and distortion and would be shown to be so in the btl Comments. Thus they are rarely open for comments.
Legerwood
Couldn’t agree more. They’ve reduced comments right across the board. The Opinion section usually only has a few comments enabled pieces these days. “Comment Is Free…. just not allowed!” It’s ridiculous.
The Live Blog is comment enabled. I’ve lost count of the number of times misinformation has been put on there via Libby Brooks or Carrell from the Scottish daily briefing but mostly they get called out below the line. Today, for example, the live blog claimed that Thewliss, the SNP MP, had said Scotland was entitled to furlough money for as long as necessary. She did not say that. She spoke about Scotland, Wales and NI.
The poison in the Guardian isn’t new and it’s not just about Scotland. They played a huge role in backing the Blairites in the Labour Party. Again, the opinion pieces churned out by many of their columnists were a gift to the Tories.
It’s as rotten, editorially, as the Herald.
Perhaps by way of protest and recognition of the scale of WM Tory incompetence . Today 13 May wil mark the day that England’s population ignored the advice and continued to stay at home.
I live in hope.
Wul says:
So, Tory ministers think that : “Once they enter the workplace, the British are among the worst idlers in the world.”
Generations of British workers have known, with absolute certainty, that their job is to make their master obscenely wealthy at the expense of their own health, family life and financial security. Any attempt to level the playing field, with trades unions and collective bargaining are smashed and dismantled. Not a great motivator.
Here is a link which shows a map of the “deescalation” phase of lockdown measures in Spain:
https://elpais.com/sociedad/2020/05/07/actualidad/1588852756_386639.html
You can see that the areas in red are in phase 0 – preparation for easing of restrictions – while the areas of the country in a kind of vague beige colour are now at phase 1, which allows for the lifting of some restrictions. The territorial units which the map divides up are “provincias”, a little smaller than regions in Scotland. The result is that the map of Spain looks like a checkerboard today, with some regions in phase 0 and some in phase 1 .
There are a total of four phases before “normality” is resumed – in July hopefully according to the government. Each of the phases lists a specific set of restrictions which can be lifted when the R number allows for this. So, at phase 1 some small shops can re-open and the outdoor terraces of bars, limited to 30% of capacity, too.
So, the Spanish government have set out very clear stages of the long and slow return to normality, which will be dependent on the R number in each region, not just of Spain, but parts of Spain. So, in Catalonia, Taragona is at phase 1 but Bacelona remains at phase 0, which would be like lockdown lifted in Dundee say but not Glasgow.
Contrast with Britain where Martin Kettle, apparently indifferent to saving lives / businesses, makes a political headline out of a health practicality…
Another contrast is that in Johnson’s speech the other day, his 5 phases were about the prevalence of C19 in each part of the UK on some new app. The R number has been published on a region by region basis every day in the Spanish papers. What we need from govt are very detailed instructions about what restrictions exactly can be lifted and when, a criteria that can be applied at the local level.
In Spain, there is now clarity and detail. In Britain we have no clarity and no detail at all.
It’s also worth mentioning that Spain begins to return to normality with 400 new daily cases and around 150 deaths yesterday. In the UK, we still have 4000 odd new cases a day – ten times the number in Spain – and over 600 deaths…
Obviously, anybody who can avoid going back to work should do so. The UK’s numbers are nowhere near as encouraging as Spain’s, and exactly what can and cannot be done under the easing of restrictions has not been made clear by a government in London which is only “advising people”…
For those who said Johnson’s brush with death would change him, sorry, you were wrong…
Tom Parkhill says:
This is not controversial (or it shouldn’t be). The UK Government’s own pandemic advice plan (developed for influenza, in 2011) says:
“Whilst any pandemic can be expected to exert effects across the UK, at any one point in time the outbreak will almost certainly be associated with regional and temporal variability. Therefore, it may be appropriate to deploy certain mitigation strategies in one region, but not others, at any one particular time during the pandemic”.
See https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/215666/dh_125333.pdf (page 7)
Obviously no-one senior in government has bothered reading the plan…
We have a big nationalist problem in the UK, it’s this same English exceptionalism every time. The appeal on Johnson’s last outing is to “British common sense”. Instead of a very concrete and detailed plan we get this appeal to a bogus national character trait exclusive to the British as a remedy to the situation….It’s truly unbelievable that senior politicians are still making policy (or not making it on this case) based on a 19th idea like “national character”, an idea which was discredited as far back as the Scottish Enlightenment in these very isles…
And we get guys like Martin Kettle, and so many other journalists like him, who are basically from the same kind of private school background as Johnson, and who just sing from the same hymn sheet.
It is really desperately bad this current British government. It is going to claim the lives of tens of thousands of UK citizens…especially the poor, the vulnerable and those form BAEM communities… Johnson makes all the other PMs in my lifetime seem like great statesmen in comparison…
Was Boris putting a marker down, after which any claim for Covid compensation can be disputed or becomes discretionary by H.M. Gov. & HMRC?
Perhaps he deliberately didn’t mention the devolved “Family of Nations”, so that demands for restitution from Scotland, Wales & Ireland can be plausibly denied later? “You were still off work beyond mid-May 2020? Not our fault mate! Go speak to your FM, we told you to get back to work on 11th May and we ARE the UK”
Maybe I’m over thinking it and we didn’t get a mention because we don’t matter. Even the North of England doesn’t matter.
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Home Business Economy & Politics Joe Biden gaffe: VP forgets that Barack Obama is the president
Joe Biden gaffe: VP forgets that Barack Obama is the president
VP Joe Biden, who has previously misremembered what state and what century he was in, now seems to have forgotten that Barack Obama is the president.
Speaking to a crowd of 1,200 people at a high school in Lakewood, Ohio, Joe Biden was slamming a “pernicious” Mitt Romney ad claiming that Jeep will move jobs out of Ohio to China.
The vice-president said that the ad claimed that “President Clinton bankrupted Chrysler so that Italians could buy it to ship jobs overseas to China”.
Bill Clinton was the 42nd president of the U.S. and left office in January 2001. Barack Obama became the 44th president in January 2009 and for the past nearly 4 years Joe Biden has served as his vice-president.
In Joe Biden’s defence, there was perhaps a Freudian element to the slip. Bill Clinton, who previously enjoyed testy relations with Barack Obama, has been mobilized by the current president to be his most prominent campaigner and the two men made joint appearances in Virginia on Saturday and New Hampshire on Sunday.
Joe Biden’s gaffes are numerous and legendary in political circles. He recently referred to Tim Kaine, a former Democratic National Committee chairman and the current Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Virginia, as “Tom”.
VP Joe Biden, who has previously misremembered what state and what century he was in, now seems to have forgotten that Barack Obama is the president
On a previous stop in Ohio, Joe Biden complained to an audience in the town of Marion about television ads “here in Iowa”. In Danville, Virginia, he declared: “We can win North Carolina!”
In August, Joe Biden asked a Blacksburg, Virginia crowd: “Folks, where’s it written we cannot lead the world in the 20th Century in making automobiles?”
The 20th Century ended on December 31st 1999, nearly 27 years after Joe Biden first took his seat in the U.S. Senate and almost 9 years before he became vice-president.
Last week, Joe Biden joked about his gaffes while at the same time putting a slightly more favorable gloss on his mixing up Ohio and Iowa.
Speaking to campaign volunteers in Davenport, Iowa, Joe Biden said: “I’ve been living in Ohio like I used to live in Iowa. As a matter of fact, I got in trouble [with] the press, which never points out any mistake I make. I was in Ohio talking about it and saying <<it’s good to be here in Ohio>> and then I said <<and in Iowa>>.”
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Readers Write In #83: Would Puthiya Paathai really be a minefield today?
(by Madan Mohan, recreational tennis hack in the early morning, chartered accountant by day and wannabe writer by night.)
In his interview with our BR saar, filmmaker and actor R Parthiepan mentioned that he did not think a Puthiya Paathai could be made today and it was owing to the innocence/ignorance of the times that it was accepted then. I was piqued by this statement and took full advantage of my long commute to work and back to watch the film on the device in the approved fashion of the times.
So, first of all, let’s examine why he suggests it would be a minefield today. The answer, at a very simplistic level, lies in the premise or the conceit, if you will. A ruffian rapes a woman for money and she decides to reform him and marry him. There, there, I should really have included trigger warnings but I presumed the title Puthiya Paathai itself would be a trigger warning. However, this was not by itself a premise that would have been easily accepted even back then. The misogyny of Tamil cinema (or Bollywood for that matter) has usually been of the ‘benevolent’ manner. Of somebody suggesting pengal should be adavadakam in the name of spreading a socially responsible message. Telling the woman what to wear and what not, what to say and what she should not speak, when not to venture out and so on. So what made the conceit of Puthiya Paathai work?
The answer also lies in something Parthiepan said in the interview. That it lies in how the tale is told. This is where Puthiya Paathai also distinguished and indeed distinguishes itself. Parthiepan makes the effort to account for circumstances as best as he can. So, now, consider this. The similarity between Puthiya Paathai and modern misogynist films of Tamil cinema is unkempt dark skinned boy and rich, fair skinned girl. And that’s where the similarity ends. Seetha, playing a character bearing her own name, is no empty headed loosu ponnu. Rather, she has a tragic if somewhat cliche backstory. She lost her mother many moons ago and her father has married and divorced over and over until she is disgusted with him. All her wealth cannot give her happiness or peace of mind.
Her first encounter with Parthiepan is brutal. As a ruffian, he is contracted to rape her in order to ruin her wedding scheduled for the day after. He is completely unapologetic about the deed. There is no excuse made by the film on his behalf to glorify the act. It is depicted as vile and unscrupulous to the core, which is exactly what it is. In a somewhat unrealistic turn of events, her fiancee actually believes her when she says she has never met the person who raped her and insists they ought to still carry on with the wedding, overruling his parents’ threats to disown him if he does so. It is she who pleads that she would not be able to bear the lifelong guilt arising out of such a marriage and wants out. At this juncture, she decides that she would, in her words, rather be a good wife to the bad man who raped her than be a bad wife (burden) to a good man. Again, the character played by Manorama also tries to counsel her against this as she is well aware of the violent ways of this mercenary slumlord. It is by evoking Manorama’s own unhappy tryst with marriage that Seetha convinces her that she is right to try this. That is, the film recognises that her choice is unconventional and controversial and makes an effort to account for this. Now, we may or may not agree with her reasoning but the film at least attempts to make it plausible that a particular character, a particularly remarkable woman has undertaken this endeavour.
More importantly, it is she who pursues this ruffian who thwarts her efforts again and again. It is not he who lusts for her fair skin. It is she who attempts to soften the heart of this otherwise cruel creature who is barely thought of as human by the neighbourhood. Agency. The choices Seetha makes may come across as unrealistic but those are her choices as an independent adult. She is not bowled over by a ‘lover’ who relentlessly stalks her nor swayed or enchanted by masculine charm. She is simply placed in extraordinary circumstances which push her to make extraordinary decisions.
With time and through many acts of kindness that initially stupefy him and eventually warm his heart, she wins him over and marries him. She also persuades him, gradually, to behave better with the people around him and especially with her, to make love to her and to give up his career as a successful criminal and take up hard labour instead. He is deeply grateful to her for giving him dignity and for helping him earn the respect of others which he had never had all his life. In a dramatic scene, he falls to her feet as if seeking her blessings. Once again, the conceit may be fundamentally unrealistic and very filmi but it is also deeply respectful towards the power of the character essayed by Seetha to reform a person once thought of as the devil incarnate.
Very importantly, at no point does the film indulge in giving out morality lessons in the way Tamil films often do. Seetha’s example is not held up as something other women ought to follow. Parthiepan seems to have been aware that doing so would have been construed as placing the burden of reforming rapists on women as the victims. It transcends broad identity considerations by building strong characters so that we identify with these individuals and buy into their story as opposed to extrapolating their behaviour on men and women in general. At its heart is a very positive message (though, again, there is no annoying voice over or monologue to spell it out to us) – that redemption is always possible, no matter how much beyond redemption a person may appear to be. By delivering this message through masterful orchestration of conflict, Parthiepan makes it all the more poignant.
Rather than identity, though, there is an undercurrent of class conflict throughout the film. And in this sense, it is arguably a cousin of Aboorva Sagotharargal (which was also released the same year). In AS, Appu is a humble lilliputian of the underclass who turns to rebellion when he learns of his backstory. Here, the backstory has turned Parthiepan into a rebel who then mends his ways at the prodding of Seetha. On doing so, he runs into the issues that others of his class (who are not ruffians) do and has to watch helplessly as a bomb explosion takes his wife’s life. He memorably pulls out of killing the villain (played by Nassar) when he remembers that doing so would render their child an orphan, just the way he was. By nevertheless killing off Nassar in a road accident, the film attempts to make the import of its climax more palatable and offers karmic retribution as a balm.
Having watched it, I do not know that the film is particularly flagrant or insensitive so as to ‘disqualify’ it as a proposition in today’s times. What I saw was a film that worked hard, uncommonly so for 80s non-art cinema, to make its rather unusual story sound plausible.
It is possible that the very premise may evoke such outrage that the director would baulk at making such a film and decide he would rather not bother. And perhaps that is why Parthiepan feels it would not be possible to make such a film today. But there is one more reason why a Puthiya Paathai may not be made today and that has to do with a much more fundamental change in our cinema. That is that films about the forgotten people (to loan a phrase used by Donald Trump!) are few and far between today. The people represented in Puthiya Paathai still have poignant tales to tell. But there’s nobody to tell them on the big screen anymore.
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Great piece, Madan.
BR: Thanks, means a lot to me.
I agree with BR , this is a terrific piece. Probably an extrapolation of your post on the other board. I know Arjun Reddy is not mentioned here, but I think it will be a while before this blog is exorcised of the ghosts of that film. In my opinion Benam Badshah is more problematic and regressive than AR (purity of woman etc.) , but it is more honest as well. Anil Kapoor’s character is a rapist. But Arjun Reddy , despite being a violent sexual predator is a “troubled genius”.
Anyway coming back to BB , what is this logic – good wife to bad guy vs bad wife to good guy.
I also am not sure what to make of this line –
“It transcends broad identity considerations by building strong characters so that we identify with these individuals and buy into their story as opposed to extrapolating their behaviour on men and women in general”
I think it is unfair to your article, but I am talking about the Hindi version since I have not seen the original, Anil Kapoor was probably a big star at the time of release of this movie. It is hard to imagine that he would have been seen as a character and not as an archetype / hero. This was not an off mainstream movie like Eswar for instance. What I agree as I have earlier noted that an unapologetic depiction of the male lead as a rapist is rare if not the first such instance.
But still , I find the central conceit of the movie, the rape victim wanting to marry and reform the rapist, unpalatable, for the lack of a better word.
vinjk
Wonderfully argued, Madan! I haven’t seen the film but I’m pretty sure this piece and the film wouldn’t pass the test of #MeToo 2019.
Rahul: I have not watched Benam Baadshah and cannot therefore comment on how it was remade into Hindi. As for Arjun Reddy, no, not really and I haven’t watched either that or KS. It was Parthiepan’s interview itself which provoked me to watch and then write about it. Perhaps, we can say the ghosts of AR haunted the interview itself!
“what is this logic – good wife to bad guy vs bad wife to good guy.” – She means the man who is, rightly, willing to look past her rape and still marry her will have to bear the cross all his life. I take that as more an indictment of society than of furthering a patriarchal narrative as two separate people tell her or opine that she has made a mistake by not going ahead with the marriage. It is also a realistic position circa 1980s. Why 1980s, even today I suspect most middle or upper class grooms would run away from such a bride as if she were a time bomb.
What I mean by the line that the film transcends broad identity considerations is it makes us look past our expectations of what a man or a woman should do in these situations and come to accept these unconventional characters for what they are. That can only be achieved by investing time in giving them a backstory. Which many mainstream films neglect to do these days. It’s like set up the dark urchin roaming around with college ATKT gang, setting his sights on a loosu ponnu and then showing how he has this heart of gold that was concealed beneath heaps of sewage all this time. Then how can you, as in the filmmaker, feign surprise that women find this set up offensive.
“It is hard to imagine that he would have been seen as a character and not as an archetype / hero.” – Yes, this was Parthiepan’s first significant performance as actor as well and that definitely made a difference. While Seetha had been around, she was still fresh enough for the audience to accept her without pre-conceived notions induced by type-casting.
“What I agree as I have earlier noted that an unapologetic depiction of the male lead as a rapist is rare if not the first such instance.” – Sure but – and I don’t know if this scene featured in Benaam Badshah – PP features a scene where Seetha openly confronts Parthiepan in front of the rest of the residents of the slum neighbourhood and shames him over his rape. By contrasting it with how he harshly punished a woman who sought to abandon her child born out of wedlock to salvage her upcoming marriage, she puts him on the defensive and weakens his position in the slum as the ‘dada’. I for one thought it was a very interesting discourse on balance of power and how she pushes it in her favour by calling out the bluff on him seeking refuge in his being an orphan to justify all his misdeeds. To me, the difference in the title itself speaks a lot. At no point is the Parthiepan character a badshah in the Tamil original, though he does strut around with helluva swagger.
“But still , I find the central conceit of the movie, the rape victim wanting to marry and reform the rapist, unpalatable, for the lack of a better word.” – Sure but this is exactly what prompted me to watch it. I was curious as to how he could possibly make such a conceit work at all because it sounded extremely risky for his time, for any time per se for that matter. And I had to come away with the conclusion that he did make it work well beyond my expectations. PP is a good demonstration of what is possible in art and that after all is what art exists for. Good art takes risks and then makes the risks work by inventing a logic universe where it fits. I THINK that approach to narration is lost somewhere and that is why our films these days swing from the safe to the wildly outrageous. And the risky propositions that work are usually found to be official or unofficial remakes of foreign films (Badla, for eg).
vinjk: “I’m pretty sure this piece and the film wouldn’t pass the test of #MeToo 2019.” – Possibly so and as an amateur, wannabe writer, I am willing to take that risk as I have no skin in the game. However, to be clear, my write up is really addressed to the defenders of casual, unaccounted misogyny in our cinema. It is a sad commentary on the state of our films if after all these years, the conceit of Mr ATKT vagabond lecturing well educated girls on womanhood is not only tolerated but applauded while Parthiepan has to openly wonder whether he could make a Puthiya Paathai today. Because, notwithstanding the gruesome premise, in terms of sensitivity, PP is miles ahead of these films. The Paathai, verily, is still under construction, just like Indian roads.
“Anil Kapoor’s character is a rapist. But Arjun Reddy , despite being a violent sexual predator is a “troubled genius”.” – Missed this and this line nails it. It is the fact that PP makes no bones about who the male protagonist really is that I appreciated and is what makes the conceit work. After all, in real life, nobody thinks of the Shakti Mills or Nirbhaya rapists as troubled geniuses. So why should cinema play by different rules? If anything, by unabashedly bringing home the reality of rape, PP places our sympathy firmly on the side of the victim, the woman, and that’s as it should be. In a sense, the real narrative of PP is of Seetha fleeing her troubled existence to embrace anonymity as her new identity. In a stable family, she would have received the emotional support she needed after her being raped. But as things stand, the rape probably makes her existence in this household even more unbearable. While the film doesn’t openly say so, this can be reasonably inferred as her motive in taking the unconventional decision that she does.
Well written, Madan. Have to disagree with the ending, though.
“The people represented in Puthiya Paathai still have poignant tales to tell. But there’s nobody to tell them on the big screen anymore.”
Oru kuppai kathai, Kakkamuttai, Merku thodarchi malai are some that come to mind.
Varsha : I did think of them and still went ahead with my conclusion as such films remain indie and no longer attain the critical mass that PP could. You’re right in that such films are being made so I should amend it slightly to say we don’t want to listen to these stories anymore.
Madan: I get your point, and I also hope things will improve with the casual moviegoers, but can it be generalised? For instance, Kakkamuttai and Vazhakku Enn 18/9 were well received by the general public, along with high critical acclaim.
Varsha : It is indeed a generalization so there are bound to be exceptions that prove me wrong. I am looking at the overall change in the industry rather than outliers. Parthiepan also alludes to this in the interview when he says C centre is gone.
Madan, The title of your piece piqued my curiousity, because I’d watched Benaam Badshah with appalled horror. From what you write about the Tamil original, all I can say is that much was lost in the translation. The Hindi version was crass, totally misogynistic and had such gems as: Aurat ke izzat par ek baar daag lag jaaye to woh kabhi nahin dhul jaata (I’m praraphrasing so it might not be the exact order of words, but the sentiment is there) to justify the Seeta character going to be the ‘good wife to the bad guy’. In other words, she had agency.
I can agree with your premise that in the original film, there is a sense of this particular woman taking this unconventional step to turn her life around. The Hindi version was a daag that will not be dhulo-fied on both Anil’s and Juhi’s careers.
And I do think, in a country where a judge still orders a rape victim to be married off to her rapist (case happened in 2017, if I remember right), it would be criminal to bring out a film that seems to endorse this.
But I thoroughly enjoyed reading this article – congrats.
Edit: In other words, she had agency. should have come after the next sentence – ‘there is a sense of this particular woman taking this unconventional step to turn her life around.
Anu Warrier : Thanks for the encouragement. I will check back that scene again where Seetha recalls how she got raped and opted out of marriage. But I don’t remember her using the aurat -mard/aan-pen vocabulary there. Only referred to her own self. This is what impressed me about the film and what I was trying to convey when I said it transcends broad identity considerations. It doesn’t say the character is behaving like this because that is what the aan/pen is supposed to do. And by thus focusing on the individuals, it avoids coming across as encouraging marrying off rape victims to the rapist which indeed is a terrible idea as a form of justice.
Madan: Hmmm. But isn’t it also the case that the total number of such movies, at least in the tamil industry, are so low that which side the exceptions lie itself is debatable?
As I head back from a super late day at work, I checked the portion and indeed, it avoids this aurat izzat discourse completely.
You can check out the portion from around 1:04 to 1:07. Here, as elsewhere in the film, it takes pains to discuss her motive.
I mean 1 hour 4 min to 1 hour 7 min mark.
One of the best Readers Write In article that I have read in this blog. It is not easy to take a stand that seems to go against popular opinion and publically write an article lucidly explaining your opinion. As someone who often tends to do the former and wants to do the latter, I am quite impressed. Congratulations Madan.
Good art takes risks and then makes the risks work by inventing a logic universe where it fits – Madan Saar, Super Saar!
Totally agree. An example off the top of my head – Oldboy. How do you justify keeping a man captive for 15 years for (what appears to be) no reason?
I have not watched any of these films (Puthiya Paathai, Arjun Reddy, Kabir Singh) so this post is just extra reading material for me. Keep ’em coming.
Madan, thanks for that link. Yes, the Tamil version is definitely clear about the choice being hers. The Hindi version had that crappy dialogue I mentioned earlier. Not sure that I would watch this movie since I really have no liking for the subject matter, but I have bookmarked the link just in case I do watch someday. But I will keep your excellent arguments in mind when I do watch. (And see if I agree. 🙂 )
Isai: Thanks. Perhaps the point of both this movie as an example and my write up is that PC need not be a minefield if we think through what we are doing. While Parthiepan attributed innocence to his conviction in making the film and it getting accepted, from the way he wrote it, it would appear that he ACKNOWLEDGED the potential for outrage and worked out a way to contextualise the outrage rather than leave it unexplained and invite criticism. In the same way, if I may flatter myself with a parallel to Parthiepan cough, when I wrote this, I acknowledged the potential for outrage and therefore made sure I explained myself well. Which, going by the reactions thus far, I seem to have achieved. As opposed to self censoring and diluting what I wanted to express. Somebody said this about Bill Burr in an article that he will acknowledge it beforehand when he is going to make a joke that has the potential to offend. It is when the creator says, “No, I never intended to offend and it’s all in your head and you should grow a pair” that there’s an issue.
therag: Thanks. And thanks for the heads up about Oldboy.
Anu Warrier: It is indeed baffling why BB chose that direction as that was clearly not Parthiepan’s intent. Such a shame too coming on the heels of the parallel cinema movement, which Parthiepan acknowledged as an influence (at least going by his reference to Akrosh). I did not know of the existence of this Hindi remake but you and Rahul have convinced me I shouldn’t touch it with a barge pole. But the contrast perhaps help make my point as what PP got right that other films did not.
shaviswa
I remember watching Puthiya Pathai when it was released. I came to know about the plot before I saw the film and seeing Parthipan on the film posters did not convince me how good the film was going to be. But it came as a pleasant surprise. It was very well made, the plot engaging, the characterizations pretty good and more importantly you did not feel disgusted at the turn of events in the story. You actually felt for Seetha who was trying to reform a disgusting rowdy into a mellowed hero.
The sad part however was how Parthipan took the film’s success. Puthiya Pathai was a huge hit not just because of how the film was made. A good part of the success was also how Parthipan’s character was lapped up by the young Tamil crowd. There used to whistles and hoots for the crass dialogues that he spoke. And that IMO was the seed to films like Ullae Veliyae. He realized that there was a market for crassness and he cashed in on those.
rmahalik
Madan Saar, pretty solid read. Like your comments. Do you have your own blog page?
rmahalik: Thanks, do have a blog, but haven’t posted in a long while.
sachita
I was 10(definitely pre-tween) when I watched the movie when it was telecasted on TV i,e I had no idea what the movie was about except probably thought seetha looks good, parthiban is usually funny etc. I was horrified even then about the movie. And as a child Iliked reformist story – that part the movie does well.
” she decides that she would, in her words, rather be a good wife to the bad man who raped her than be a bad wife (burden) to a good man.”
Why does Seetha consider herself to be a bad wife for no fault of hers???? I was never able to get out of this line.
I guess sakala kala vallavan was also similar line – get married to a rapist. you might say but that is masala but how can ignore the prominent plot line of the movie? This was such a strong trope of 80s/90s – get married to the rapist. If you are just following the popular trope of the times how is it revolutionary? Yeah it didnt have the usual beat up the villain and get him married to the victim. but it isnt even one step in any positive direction.
To me the fact she would be a bad wife to a good man is worst line ever. That is what drives the plot of the movie.
Indira was the only movie I could think of which dealt with this well. I was so relieved when he called arvindswamy speaks to an anu haasan and treats the incident as it should be. ( damini – i dont remember much of it so cant comment but it does register the true horror of physical assault aspect).
I had to wait for so long to get movie like Pink.
Glad if all the #metoo makes people stop from making movie like that today.
@sachita : Because she can already hear the sniggering from the groom’s family. She can see a life of ostracization ahead. Of always being told behind her back that she was a kettuponava and her husband is saddled with her. She cannot even expect support from her own family because of how her father is. This is the very reason the devilish father character exists. To make such a decision plausible. Had she had a supportive family, her martyrdom wouldn’t have rung true. The point here is rape pushes her to a point of no return from which she makes this otherwise strange, to say the least, decision. There is no suggestion she is subjecting herself to this to prove her ‘purity’ because rape is always the woman’s fault, which is how other films of the time would have handled it. Which is how, I dare say, many would to this day if there was no outcry from the media or the people.
I agree that marrying the rapist was a common theme in the 80s but perhaps reform starts with acknowledging how unfair that is to the woman and IMO this film achieves that. In that sense, the film distinguished itself from the pack by showing sensitivity that was only there in parallel cinema in Hindi or some of Mahendran or Mani’s films. What COULD have been a much bolder film though would have been to show the Indian panchayat /nattamai justice system marrying off the raped to the rapist and showing us how gruesome that turns out to be. Either that film has never been made or I am not aware of it. It is unfortunate if it is indeed the latter.
I will add here that Seetha’s decision isn’t shown as being reasoned and logical and instead as the withdrawal of one in severe trauma. When her groom says her decision is wrong, she says she doesn’t know if her decision is right or wrong but that she knows she is not in a state to marry him now. She later tells Manorama that most girls in her place would have taken their own life and intelligent ones would have taken the rapist to the police. She admits she did neither.
Madan,
“acknowledging how unfair that is to the woman and IMO this film achieves that.” Based on tamil film logic, the next film that followed on this line would have had a dialogue that would say if you are a true woman you need to reform the rapist like seetha did there. So it obviously could never achieve that.
Thought Parthiban said in the interview to baradwaj that he wasnt aware of this thought process ( /issues) against marrying a rapist. And even then there was widespread criticism against this angle. Today he would start the movie where she shoots him. He isnt defending the movie as far I saw. ( He is quite cool actually).
I am glad things have moved in a better direction.
Also, in your following lines.
” She is not bowled over by a ‘lover’ who relentlessly stalks her nor swayed or enchanted by masculine charm. She is simply placed in extraordinary circumstances which push her to make extraordinary decisions.”
Rape and rapist have always been portrayed mostly negative in that era movies except for sagala kala vallavan. Most films even then didnt show victim marry the rapist because they got swayed/enchanted. Like seetha here, in all those movies, this was the option that they were all pushed to.
” Based on tamil film logic, the next film that followed on this line would have had a dialogue that would say if you are a true woman you need to reform the rapist like seetha did there. So it obviously could never achieve that.” – Ha! Thank God for that. But on a serious note, I don’t think you can hold it against Puthiya Paathai if the films following it did not take the lead from it. As shaviswa said, Parthiban himself stooped to the low of double meaning dialogue in Ulle Velliye. The film has outlived its creator. Probably comparable to Mahesh Bhatt making Arth and then taking a different direction from there than what people perhaps expected.
“Thought Parthiban said in the interview to baradwaj that he wasnt aware of this thought process ( /issues) against marrying a rapist. ” – I am not convinced about that and interpret it as him playing it safe. The film he made shows he did realise he was wading into dangerous waters and made efforts to account for it in his script. If he was actually so blissfully unaware of it, he would have gone down the pombla-maanam route that was in any case seen as acceptable in that era.
“Like seetha here, in all those movies, this was the option that they were all pushed to.” – Ah but Seetha isn’t pushed into it. There’s no nattamai telling her she ought to do this and forcing the rapist to marry her. This is what she seeks out herself. Even if the decision is unconventional to the point of being unpalatable, it is at least better to show her opting for it, so she retains agency, than for people around her pushing her into it. If anything, nobody around her thinks this is a good idea. She doesn’t either; she says that a smart woman would have simply complained to the police. That is the logical thing to do but this is art. I don’t see the problem as long as neither the act of rape nor that of victim marrying the rapist are glorified.
PP wasn’t revolutionary. I am not sure if it was meant to be. It is more like teaching a tiger to go fishing. It works only in that individual movie’s particular universe. If the storyteller made you buy the story, then he is a good story teller and that is that.
Yes, the marrying someone off to the rapist was shown as a valid solution for a pressing problem. The victim will look like “Oh good, As my brother/brother-figure is such a hero, he resolved my rape problem by getting me married to my rapist. How I admire my brother/brother-figure”.
The rapist will look like “Oh shit! I thought I could get away. Now I got my due punishment. DAMN”
The problem of rape isn’t her consent or her trauma or her right to own her body. It is her “dirt”. You can’t use underwear and expect to return to the seller. This was much the same thing. You used it. Now pay for it.
Of course, the hero should first save his sister/sister-figure from a suicide attempt. For in the 80s, that was the logical thing any woman would do once she is raped. In fact, if a woman jumps out of the window of a skyscrapper and becomes dog-food BEFORE the act of rape happens, then there would be a line that goes “Oh she saved herself with death”.
And it wasn’t just the movies. From what I am given to understand the novels and short stories weren’t different. Most importantly, this is how the general public was too. This was evident to me when someone narrates the story to another. Like when I ask someone what the story of PP or Sakalakala Vallavan or Pannakaran(?), the way they narrated the story convinced me that this “Rape is dirt” trope is not something that they questioned at all.
There was this novel with the “he only raped so that no one else would marry her, he is actually quite nice” thing going on. It was a huge hit in my PG hostel. Goodness knows how alone I felt in a world that just did not understand. This was 2002. Not very long back.
PP’s first premise is not exactly redeemable. But the taming the beast part is done well enough. Parthiban’s personality changes very slowly and very clearly. He becomes more and more human. IIRC, He lives in a house that has only one wall. He builds it up step by step to give her privacy when changing her clothes. He himself did not need privacy when he changed his clothes. So the presence of a woman make him live in a way he did not do before. When she dies, the house is blown up and so is his life. So this movie made us see things in a “See, how she can build a man from scratch” theme.
But that theme itself is problematic in its own angle. I can be kind to a dog that bit me. But I will make sure he is in a very dignified kennel for the rest of his life. He maybe redeemed with lots of pure love. But hey! These redeemer complex stories are strictly a one-time watch for me.
Also did you hear the “Hey! He is not a beast. He did not do it for the sex. He did it for the money. So he can’t be seen as all bad” argument? — Head to desk —
Can PP be made now? I do believe that it can be. But it will be subject to more scrutiny than it was then. Big deal. If you write a story and direct it, then you should have the what-do-you-call-it to stand up on a twitter bench and explain yourself. People who want to tell stories of brave women who tame dangerous beasts should have the bravery to take a little twitter-storm. It will last for a week or two.
PP can be made out of a non-rape scenario, no? A man broke into a woman’s house and robbed her and killed her parents, she decides that it is her calling to marry the burglar/killer. Because she is a savior. She saves. She is like that. Admirable and all that. She will teach him that life can be happier when you aren’t a criminal.
“Yes, the marrying someone off to the rapist was shown as a valid solution for a pressing problem.”- I didn’t get that anywhere from the film but I will not deny that the potential for it to be interpreted in that way exists and remains to this day.
“Also did you hear the “Hey! He is not a beast. He did not do it for the sex. He did it for the money. So he can’t be seen as all bad”” – Where was this line in the film, sorry? If anything, it makes him even more of a beast since he was prepared to commit such a violent act just for the money with no consideration for the woman, who, as she herself tells him, had never done any harm to him.
“Ah but Seetha isn’t pushed into it. ” Seetha’s choice would have been the guy she was originally going to marry. Due to the rape, she is left with no choice.
This is going back to bad wife to a good person statement. The statement isnt true but that is the how she has perceived the scenario as.
TBH, if he was even a stalker/ gangster she had fallen for that wont be a force because she fell for him, it was her choice. That isnt the choice seetha had here. I mean hero’s thangachi’s went crying to the hero to get them married to their rapist, a lot of them were making this ‘choice’ then. Panchayat wasnt the driving force in lot of those movies.
Indira was revolutionary in that aspect.
Madan, I meant the overall tone of most marry the rapist movies like Sakalakala Vallavan and Panakaran, where the hero saves his sister by ensuring the rapist marries her,
Where was this line in the film, sorry?
Not in the film. It was made in a debate in one of the channels. Sorry I missed mentioning it. There was a program in JJ TV with the formal pattimadram style naduvar. One movie was chosen with a “for team” and “against team”. And this argument was made in so many words there. Around mid 90s.
Rahini David: drops jaw Head desk indeed.
“I meant the overall tone of most marry the rapist movies like Sakalakala Vallavan and Panakaran, where the hero saves his sister by ensuring the rapist marries her”- OK, fair enough. My argument was only that PP took the same essential material but rose above its problems. That does not prevent misinterpretation of the film but then, people watched Wall Street and got inspired to become like Gordon Gekko, which is the exact opposite of what Oliver Stone wanted.
I want to clarify for the sake of removing any doubt that the write up is not an advocacy of marrying the rapist as a solution or a condonation of misogyny in any form. It is simply an exploration of how ONE film can take an incendiary subject and defend itself if only the writing is not lazy in the way it usually is in Tamil cinema. I have already written a version of this clarification before in this thread but it bears repetition.
“I mean hero’s thangachi’s went crying to the hero to get them married to their rapist, a lot of them were making this ‘choice’ then. ” – But do you not see the difference between that scenario, where the woman is bringing in a white knight in shining armour to save her (i.e. reinforcing patriarchy) and this one where she decides to handle it all by herself? To be clear, the concept isn’t revolutionary indeed but the handling is.
Really enjoyed this Madan! You made some excellent points. ‘Agency. The choices Seetha makes may come across as unrealistic but those are her choices as an independent adult. She is not bowled over by a ‘lover’ who relentlessly stalks her nor swayed or enchanted by masculine charm. She is simply placed in extraordinary circumstances which push her to make extraordinary decisions.’ Nailed it!
I saw this movie a really long time ago and it was hugely troubling and made such a powerful impression that I haven’t really forgotten any of it. I absolutely loathe the concept of a naatamai/savior type marrying off the rape victim to her rapist and yet in this particular movie as you pointed out, it somehow seemed believable that the Seetha character would do this.
She is so strong, dignified and compassionate you can’t help but root for her. I am not really a fan of the belief that women need to make men their charity projects and reform them, yet the gradual transformation of Parthi from a scumbag to a decent human being was strangely moving.
Love that this film worked so hard to explain the thinking behind the characters seemingly batshit crazy notions. More importantly, it is amazing that Parthi had the cojones to make a film like this back then. I also put Rajini’s Engeyo Ketta Kural in this category. It was a film that was way ahead of it’s time and so progressive.
Nowadays it is unfortunate that the same old regressive crap is being churned out with Jo and Nayan doing whatever it is they do in the name of feminism.
Well written Madan!
On the stream of interesting arguments made above:
Sirai (1984) had a similar concept and PP is a what-if scenario of that movie combined with VandiChakkaram (1980) – both successful movies. Thala BR has written a piece on this where he mentions Rahini’s point.
https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/Crime-does-pay/article14401230.ece
While reading on Sirai I came across this, which talks of the problems of making a movie against the conventional norms:
https://cinema.dinamalar.com/tamil-news/55461/cinema/Kollywood/Flashback-:-Sirai-movie-screened-60-times-in-preview-show.htm
Afterall, his guru made the famous, “enda kaadhali unga manaivi aayitu varum.. unga manaivi enda kaadhali aayittu varadhu” 🙂
Ofcourse now you have Puthiya Niyamam (2016), malayalalam, in which the husband helps the wife in killing her rapists concealed and leads a life with her without telling her that he knows.
But yes, PP works because of the way it is narrated…
Anuja Chandramouli: Haven’t seen Engeyo Ketta Kural. Thanks for the heads up.
bart: Ditto about Sirai.
Engeyo Ketta Kural was a movie that stayed true to the traditional views – however it was presented well. Rajinikanth does not try to bring Ambika back to normal life within the society. She is banished and made to live like an outcast for the mistake she did. However, Rajinikanth gives her the dignity of a decent death. It is a good movie but definitely not something that dared to question old mores in society.
“What COULD have been a much bolder film though would have been to show the Indian panchayat /nattamai justice system marrying off the raped to the rapist and showing us how gruesome that turns out to be. Either that film has never been made or I am not aware of it. It is unfortunate if it is indeed the latter.”
The movie Valli, written by none other than our Superstar Rajinikanth, does it beautifully, no? In fact, that is the major twist in the story. Valli kills her rapist and marries the one who truly loves her, after serving time in jail. This movie released in 1993, just four years after Puthiya Paathai. It was a box office failure, but for all those who lament about a rapist marrying the victim, this film must be a cause for celebration. To me, this film was more of a Puthiya Paathai in this sense and this alone! (not the reformist part, or the plight of orphans. Those are the real good points in Parthiban’s film, IMO).
Also, 10 years later, actor Vivek brings up this injustice in the famous minor kunju comedy in Kaadhal Sadugudu. Although admittedly not as effective as Valli, the fact that Vivek had a reputation for strong social messages through his comedy at that time, prompts the audience to look beyond the laughter it evokes.
There could be more. Needless to say, I have given only what I could remember.
Eswar
Nice write up, Madan.
Slightly off-topic. Sorry Madan about the digression. How do you folks view ‘Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal’ compared to Puthiya Pathai and other similar movies mentioned in the comments section. Is it really revolutionary for its time or its the usual depiction hiding behind a revolutionary facade.
I don’t remember watching the full movie. But I have read the book seven-eight years back. Then, I felt it was pushing the norms. The book was published in 1970. But now, listening to all the discussions in this blog, I am not so sure. So just wanted to hear your thoughts.
@Rahini David: From what I am given to understand the novels and short stories weren’t different .
Any particular titles that you could recollect? I am not refuting your statement. Just interested to know what kind of books and authors it came from.
On that topic, I was also wondering if anyone has read Thi.Janakiraman’s ‘Amma Vanthal’ and Ambai’s ‘Amma oru kolai seithal’ which, I think, touches upon some of the topics discussed in the recent posts.
To add to my previous comment, Valli is even bolder than the scenario you have mentioned, Madan. Instead of marrying off to the rapist AND THEN showing how gruesome it is, Valli shows the rapist and others how grave the crime is!
@ Varsha IMO Valli still doesn’t go far enough because revenge is not a form of justice available to most women. A woman cannot be expected to murder her rapist in retaliation. Showing how terrible marriage to the rapist is would expose the flaws in the conveniently accepted solution of marrying the rapist. Unless she does marry him at first. I don’t remember that she did but my memory of the film is hazy.
Also the whole idea of playing a romantic song in the background as the act of rape is depicted (Ennulle, and Ilamayenam Poongatru is the same) makes me uncomfortable. Like the Dracula Lucy love scene from the 1979 film but there were know it’s Dracula and fear what he’s doing to Lucy. In these films, playing these beautiful songs to accompany the act introduces undesirable ambivalence IMO. I love both songs but cannot watch the scene.
Valli probably had a good premise but was a shoddily made movie. The message was not hard hitting and was actually hidden in the farce of a Rajinikanth guest role.
Madan: It’s interesting you call it rape, and now that I think about that VALLI seduction scene, I wonder…
It is consensual. But the woman’s consent is obtained by conning her (i.e. the man makes her think he loves her).
I guess that does qualify as rape, but I wonder how others see it!
I mean, I am asking if the word “rape” can be used here, or is there another word?
“here she decides to handle it all by herself?”
Seetha makes the same decision like all the female characters did of that time. To get married to the rapist. She ‘decides’ isnt even right. Because without the crime she would have even chosen parthiban. She feels tainted and that is why she chooses him – how is she revolutionary.
I cant/wont settle for that settle as path breaking in this aspect.
If he had shown that seetha continued with original groom and trauma she faced after that, that would be path breaking. Or Again Indira was path breaking. It treated as the way it should be looked at by the girl.
PS: I keep thinking of sila nerangil sila manithargal too, but I havent read the book. So dont know enough of the complexity jayakanthan explored there.
Eswar: Wrote about SILA NERANGALIL here…
https://baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/2005/03/27/sila-nerangalil-sila-manidhargal/
Eswer: Sorry, I did not read the novels. Some of my friends narrated them to me and I don’t recollect the names. But what shocked me was not even the content of the novels themselves, but the attitude of the girls who narrated these stories to me.
Perhaps the more reputed writers had a better take on these topics.
BR: In an earlier version of my comment, which I lost when my connectivity disappeared, I had in fact describing conning the woman and later disappearing without a trace as tantamount to rape.
BR: I was about to comment on Valli being classified under rape situation too. This article comes close to my take on it.
http://seemagoswami.blogspot.com/2014/09/sex-lies-and-threat-of-rape.html
sachita : There is some confusion here as I never called the film pathbreaking. I did say it is different, which it is, in terms of the treatment.
“IMO Valli still doesn’t go far enough because revenge is not a form of justice available to most women. A woman cannot be expected to murder her rapist in retaliation.”
One can equate the Valli-rape scenario with the Indian-corruption situation. The point of both movies is not that the solution is murder. The message is that the solution is lawful harsh punishment. They both send a strong message to the viewer about the seriousness of rape/corruption which, IMO, is more effective than marrying a rapist and then punishing. That act(marrying a rapist), in itself, is disgusting to any self-respecting woman, no matter what happens next!
Rahini David : Interesting you say you agree with Seema Goswami’s take on it. Whilst the point is valid as far as women taking responsibility for their choices goes, as a man, I do not accept that men have the right to first promise the moon and then turn around and say I never knew ya. Consent is also subject to the conditions of consent, right? If I accepted to buy a product from a company for a price doesn’t mean I am a customer don’t have the right to take them to task if the product performance is grossly below promise, right? Why would the brave men who battle for men’s rights with the ‘feminazis’ on Twitter even dream of offering caveat emptor as a defence? How is it any different from the patriarchal “girls, stay safe and don’t step out alone after dark ” shtick? For a man’s consent to be valuable at all, there must be a framework that punishes him for not keeping his word. Don’t call it rape if you so wish, I for one don’t get fussy about the exact terminology but it is still horrible if a man makes a promise to marry and then deserts the woman after ‘consensual’ sex. That is deceitful to the core. If you cannot own up to your act, you’re not a man at all. That there are men who do get falsely implicated in rape cases doesn’t change that the problem arises BECAUSE there are, equally, men who seduce and use the woman with no intention of having a relationship with her.
@BR – The Valli seduction is not rape. It was consensual. The boy cheated her and ditched her. Morally wrong, but legally not rape. However, in Tamil movies, sex before marriage is also “kuduthuttaan” and rape is also “keduthuttaan” – so very often consensual sex gets conflated into rape.
“It’s interesting you call it rape, and now that I think about that VALLI seduction scene, I wonder…
Reminds me of Mayanadhi (Mal movie) dialogue “Sex is not a promise”.
The situation you describe is cheating. But does it classify as rape? I’m not sure because sex is consensual on the condition that he loves her. Hmm…what if there is a change of heart later in their relationship? I think that is the same as “making her think he loves her”.
At the end of the day, people (adults) should behave as adults. Take responsibility for your words and actions.
BR,Shaviswa: The following case may help put things in the right perspective.
Click to access 48211_2018_Judgement_09-Apr-2019.pdf
I have given below separately the most important paragraph in the judgement.
It appears that the intention of the accused as per the testimony of PW 1 was, right from the beginning, not honest and he kept on promising tha the will marry her, till she became pregnant. This kind of consent obtained by the accused cannot be said to be any consent because she was under a misconception of fact that the accused intends to marry her, therefore, she had submitted to sexual intercourse with him. This fact is also admitted by the accused that he had committed sexual intercourse which is apparent from the testimony of PWs 1, 2 and 3 and before the panchayat of elders of the village. It is more than clear that the accused made a false promise that he would marry her. Therefore, the intention of the accused right from the beginning was not bona fide and the poor girl submitted to the lust of the accused, completely being misled by the accused who held out the promise for marriage. This kind of consent taken bythe accused with clear intention not to fulfill the promise and persuading the girl to believe that he is going to marry her and obtained her consent for the sexual intercourse under total misconception, cannot be treated to be a consent. …….19
The judgement concludes that this is indeed rape!
I for one doesn’t see it as rape. I think rape and marriage should be kept totally separate, at least in cases involving mature adults and without pregnancy. But unfortunately Indian Supreme Court looks at it as: if a man never intended to marry a woman but if he promised marriage and had sex, then it is rape. The problem with such a view is that it is somewhat difficult to ascertain if the man NEVER intended to marry a woman or if he had a change of mind later. Thus, the law restricts the man from walking out of a relationship after having sex but a woman can easily do the same without any consequences.
It is even more diffuclt to ascertain if marriage was PROMISED before sex. The traditional view is that a woman wouldn’t have had sex otherwise and hence her word is taken as the truth. IMO, this is unrealistic and unfair and is yet another example of gender biased judgement/laws. IMO, sex is to be considered as rape only when it is done without the victim’s VALID consent. The validity does get nullified if the consent was obtained under coercion or using physical force or by abusing one’s authority or if the victim was not in a state to give consent. But, just as marriage alone can’t be considered as a lifetime consent pass to the wife’s body, a promise of marriage alone can’t be used to nullify the validity of consent given by the woman. Karan Oberoi’s case leading to the #MenToo movement is an example of the damage that is caused by such a biased law. Another example :
https://amp.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/feb/11/spare-innocent-men-anguish-india-ruling-aims-to-end-false-claims
Unfortunately, most of the Indian Intelligentsia are uninterested/unwilling to speak about such issues. Even the coverage given by foreign media is not given by Indian media unless women close to the accused come forward to defend him.
Varsha: Thanks. It is definitely a grey area, but I am inclined to see it this way. It may not be physical coercion but there’s an element of mental coercion / manipulation here.
No Madan, conflating consensual sex with rape is terribly wrong. It is not actually similar to that “Well, you were drunk and in room” argument. Not even if the man is saying words like “I love you” and “I will marry only you” etc. with zero sincerity and is doing it only for the OK signal to go ahead with sex on that particular day.
It is deceitful? Is it deplorable? Is it wrong? Well yes. That should NOT be classified as rape. Because it dilutes the meaning of “Rape”. You can’t use the same word for something because you feel it is equally deplorable.
Refusing to acknowledge that any relationship was ever taking place is wrong. Using the word “love” to get what you want is deplorable. But tantamount to rape? Absolutely not.
It is rape if,
1) She was refusing clearly and he uses physical force.
2) She was drugged.
3) She was mentally ill.
4) She was physically trapped and consents out of fear.
4) She was not old enough to give consent and he knew her age. It is rape even if she was literally begging for it.
Refusing to acknowledge that any relationship was ever taking place actually takes place as this attitude of equating romantic break ups with rapes. Men should be permitted to break up with a GF if things are not working out. It is clearly connected to the “used goods” concept.
Valli says it is even ok to kill a man over disappointed love over this.
@”That there are men who do get falsely implicated in rape cases doesn’t change that the problem arises BECAUSE there are, equally, men who seduce and use the woman with no intention of having a relationship with her.”
This looks as if sex is gratifying only for men and women have it only so as to get a man to provide for her. And that women don’t use men and desert them when they find a better provider.
“If I accepted to buy a product from a company for a price doesn’t mean I am a customer don’t have the right to take them to task if the product performance is grossly below promise, right? ”
You have given something (money in this case) and hence inherit a right to demand performance. But, in case of sex, there is no actual give and take unless you subscribe to the provider view that I mentioned above.
” If you cannot own up to your act, you’re not a man at all.”
What about women? Does this principle apply to them or do they get a free pass?
IMHO, expecting higher standards from men means assuming that men are inherently superior species.
Isai:The following article addresses some of the very poignant issues you have raised.
https://www.bbc.com › news
Why India sees sex on false promise of marriage as rape – BBC News
It speaks of the problem from both sides, and also shows that the judges are well aware and concerned about the issue you have raised.
Rahini David : I am certainly not conflating rape and break up after intercourse. But what then is a breakup? It’s a breakup when the partners have had a conversation and one partner has made it clear he/she cannot proceed with the relationship. Is there a difference to my mind between that and the Valli /Tamil movie situation where the whereabouts of the boy cannot be ascertained after the act? Avowedly yes. The latter is simply not acceptable and my reasoning is not unlike that given in the judgment quoted by Varsha. Consent obtained under deceit is no consent at all. I am not talking about the couple breaking up before marriage and the girl then accusing the boy of cheating her. In that scenario the boy has shown bona-fide intention of going through with the promise. But if that intention flies out of the window with no action on the part of the girl to induce such a change of mind and purely because the boy had no intention ever of keeping his promise, it tantamounts to rape IMO. I don’t see the difference between a stranger coercing sex out of you and a guy who pretends to be stranger the day after sex.
@Isai : But men cannot be impregnated. So there will always be a dual standard. Historically this standard came down against women and these days it swings against men. There will be a rebalancing again but let’s get to what you said in the first paragraph.
You are talking about driving gratification from sex. If it was only about that, there would be no issue. No, let’s look deeper into why obtaining consent under the promise of marriage even happens. It is because of the obsession with virginity. Why do Indian men think they are entitled to virgin women and any woman who has has sex is a kettuponava? I am not saying all Indian men think this way but many do and this expectation continues to inform the institution of marriage. If men can get adult and grow up, both partners in the act could have casual sex with no expectation of anything more. In such a scenario, even sex in a potentially long term relationship that happened to break will not be construed as rape. But the obsession with virginity puts an impossible burden on women and any man who deceives a woman into sex in such an environment has committed a wanton crime in my eyes, period.
Varsha, thanks for sharing the judgement. I think the judgement is correct, considering the facts of the case. The key facts IMO are that, there was a public promise of marriage by the accused in front of their families BEFORE sex, the victim was a student (not financially independent and hence bound to parental pressure/social norms regarding marriage alliance) and the fact that it had happened only once, makes me believe that it was an hurried instinctive/impulsive decision by the girl based on fears like what if I refuse and he calls off the alliance etc. Hence, I think this decision was correct mainly because by inviting the girl to his house and then asking for sex under such circumstances, the man put undue pressure on her and didn’t give her sufficient time to take an informed decision.
But the scenario of an urban independent couple getting into a physical relationship where the woman ASSUMED that this is going to lead to a marriage or where there is no evidence to show a formal/public acknowledgement of intent to marry, sex should not be treated as rape.
A part of my mind asks me if I would be okay if this woman became unhappy with the sex and had decided to call off the alliance. When the answer is yes, why should a man be deprived of the same right? But, as someone who has seen how marriages are solemnised in such societies, I feel the circumstances of this case should be considered for arriving at this judgement.
Rahini: As Madan says, the Valli movie scenario and the judgement case I have quoted are different from the romantic breakups that you are talking about. I may just be repeating what Madan has said, but even then I think this bears repetition. There are actually two, similar-on-the-surface, but very different scenarios here. The nature of the relationship is a very important consideration here. If a couple is in a long-term relationship involving sex, with or without the mutual understanding of an eventual marriage, and they break up over differences and the girl cries foul play, then it should not amount to rape. But the cases where sex on false promise of marriage are equated to rape are mostly(not all, surely, though the situation gets complicated when the relationship is long-term) one-day affairs with the guy eloping very soon after sex. I think it is only unfair on the girl to not call it rape in that case. Also, in the judgement case, the prosecution was never denying that a relationship existed. But, of course, proving the nature of a relationship in a court of law can, more often than not, get mighty complicated. But then, when was justice ever an easy affair?
Madan, Consent obtained under deceit is no consent at all. But that is deception. Not rape.
I am not saying that people who conceal their prior relationships or other current relationships or many other aspects of their life should go scot-free. Only that they should be charged with deception. Not rape.
I am not downplaying the emotional trauma or even the social implication to the said woman. Only that it is not rape.
We may think that deception does not sound strong enough considering the offence and its implication. But that thought is wrong. Emotional deception is extremely traumatic and people who undergo this should be treated with the sensitivity they deserve and due justice should be served too. But not under the bracket of rape.
If I met a woman who was threatened and raped. And met another woman who was cheated into a sexual relationship, I’d not for a moment decide that the first woman’s trauma matters and the second woman’s trauma does not matter. The second woman should also sue the perpetrator. No question about it. But not rape.
Now let us say a woman goes to a lawyer and explains what happened and the lawyer says she can sue for rape and not for deception? Can that happen? I don’t know. But if a woman can’t sue the man for the right offence, she will have to sue under the wrong section. That is terrible.
I have no clue what the law is on this differentiation. But the differentiation is important. Words and labels do matter a lot. Pushing different offences under the same bracket definitely dilutes the meaning. And that is never good.
Agree with all that Rahini and Isai have said. Such a scenario warrants a case under deception/cheating and not rape.
Rahini : But rape under threat is only one type of rape. How about a girl’s drink being spiked and her being raped without her being aware of it? I agree that it would still not be exactly like the marriage hoax scenario but it would be closer. The woman would not have suffered the trauma of having tried to forestall the act and still endure rape but she would have still suffered sex that she did not consent to. The question comes down to consent and where we differ is in how we see fraudulently obtained consent. But I understand your motivation in pushing back because we already have this video where a girl is shown claiming she was raped because she saw her father assaulting her mother and other such incidents which brought her no harm directly and your point is well taken that we should not dilute the essence of the word such that it stops being taken seriously.
Madan: I already mentioned drugging in this comment
I hope Anchor hashtag linking works in wordpress. Or search for “She was drugged” in this page.
@Madan, the obsession with virginity was not restricted to Indian men alone. Since it would take a lot of space to elaborate on it, I will share some articles on how virginity was/is perceived by other societies.
https://en.qantara.de/content/virginity-in-egypt-double-standards-and-hypocrisy
https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/life/relationships/article/2018/01/10/historic-tradition-wedding-night-virginity-testing
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_female_sexuality
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umhlanga_(ceremony)
I believe it goes back to the times of hunter-gatherer, when the male started acting as a provider. Then, the female had an advantage in that she would definitely know that her child is actually hers. Hence, men demanded fidelity, so that they don’t get ‘duped’ into providing for a child that is not actually theirs (Even today, the word adultery is closely related to adulteration.) Since women didn’t have this problem, they didn’t demand the same exacting standards and instead many women were willing to marry the same man, say a king, provided he was able to provide for all of them. As this society evolved, it started following the hereditary tribal system. Here, since the eldest son was considered the heir, a virgin bride was demanded for the heads of tribes so that there was no issue related to paternity. Also, in small close tribes, when a woman has sex with someone else before marriage, it was considered that she is more likely to have sex with the same person after marriage. Hence, the demand for female virginity strengthened. I think this is what evolved into the Catholic notion that sex is only for procreation purpose.
I believe that as more women become financially independent, with increase in literacy and employment levels, the tendency to see man as a provider would decrease and so would the obsession with virginity.
Curiously, I just stumbled upon this article:
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/health-46794269
Rahini: From what I could piece together through a google search, there does seem to be a separate name for it, though not something as plain as deception. It is called sex by deception or rape by deception. As far as I personally am concerned, whatever be the technical/legal name for it, the punishment should be no different from or more severe than that of rape, since the emotional trauma and social implication are the same, if not more. Just to show how heinous such a crime can go, and how people can escape from law if this sex by deception is not given due attention, consider the two cases recorded in California in the following Wikipedia link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_deception
If diluting the meaning is the issue, by all means, give different names, but not at the cost of reducing the punishment. As far as I am aware, deception is a lesser offense than rape, but sex by deception is no lesser a crime than rape.
Isai: “But the scenario of an urban independent couple getting into a physical relationship where the woman ASSUMED that this is going to lead to a marriage or where there is no evidence to show a formal/public acknowledgement of intent to marry, sex should not be treated as rape.”
I agree with you there as I have already stated in a previous comment, except that the acknowledgement need not necessarily be formal or public. It could even be between the couple, with the guy having promised marriage to the girl. Now, whether such a private acknowledgement can be proven through evidence in a court of law is indeed problematic, but at least, when defining rape, I think this clause should be included.
Isai : I am not singling out India. I am specifying Indian men as my first hand experience is limited to India. I agree that other countries that are more advanced today have also been through this at some point. And yes, financial independence should gradually reduce and eventually obliterate the obsession with virginity. But it’s a long way for the majority. Your and my experience centred around urban middle class seems far removed from rural India or the urban poor.
Thanks BR for the link. I will check it out.
@Rahini David: No worries, thanks.
Regarding Valli, I see it more as a deception rather than rape. I agree with Rahini David’s comment on the definition of rape. Especially the point Words and labels do matter a lot . I remember listening somewhere how a group, I think it’s the Marxists of Tamil Nadu, was particular about using the right Tamil word for rape. They thought the usual ‘கற்பழிப்பு’ (Karpazhippu – literally means virginity destroyed) is a bad choice as the emphasis is on the virginity and came up with வல்லுறவு/வன்புணர்வு/வன்கலவி (valluravu/vanpunarvu/vankalavi) or something similar where the emphasis is on வன் meaning force.
Valli is deceived but the intercourse happened with her consent which I think is a key factor. By consenting one is actively taking part in it. It is that consent and non-coercion that is the key irrespective of whether it is based on a future or past promise. For example, would it be still a rape if a man marries and just disappears after consummation? But it is still a rape if a married man forces himself on his wife but continues to honour a past promise i.e the contract of marriage.
Eswar: “For example, would it be still a rape if a man marries and just disappears after consummation?”
There is a marked difference between this and sex by deception, provided the marriage is registered and/or public. The social implication, especially in a country like India, is less pronounced if the marriage precedes sex. The society will support the girl more in this case. And, there is a very strong legal stand to get a divorce. In sex by deception, proving that a relationship exists, especially in one-day affairs, itself can be hard, not to mention proving that the guy promised to marry before the girl consented to sex.
Filistine
All these discussions bring to mind something I read online – marriage is the price men pay for sex; sex is the price women pay for marriage.
@Filistine – which saying presupposes that men don’t like marriage or that women don’t like sex, thereby doing no favours to either gender. 🙂
Varsha: I see your point. If we exclude this social implication, would sex-by-deception still equate to rape? For instance, in an evolved society, where sex and virginity has no special meaning, sex-by-deception would not be a thing. Even in that society, rape would be a crime as today. Because rape is not about losing virginity and social support but the fundamental violation of one’s right on their body. An evolved society, like mentioned above, might be more supportive of rape victims. But that support, in anyway, would not change what the individual has gone through.
Eswar: I think, even removing the social implication does not make sex by deception any different from a rape. The fundamental violation of one’s right on their body is still very much present in sex by deception too. The only difference is that the victim does not feel she has been violated until the deception holds. Once the truth is revealed, all hell breaks lose in the victim’s mind, just as in rape. In this sense, it is similar to drugged rape. As long as the victim does not regain consciousness, all is fine, at least for the victim. But once she regains consciousness, which she definitely will, unless the rape leads to death/murder or loss of memory, she will definitely feel violated. So is the case with sex by deception. The deception is the mental “drug” that the perpetrator gives to the victim. Instead of tablets or drugs, here it is words. Trust also plays a part in both cases, followed by guilt in addition to the feeling of being violated. If sex by deception is not rape(or worse), drugged sex is also not so. But we have no problem categorizing that as rape. A dis-evolved society only makes the situation even worse. Even in the case of the married man absconding after consummation, in a society where marriage is not given much importance, it is indeed sex by deception. All said, it all finally boils down to the mindset of the victim and the people around her. Nevertheless, I think we can safely assume some things as a given when discussing such sensitive issues, lest these crimes get glossed over.
A lot has been discussed on this thread about sexual assault, and in the heat of the debate, I have talked so much on the side of women and the laws supporting us that I feel a clarification is in order, even if only for my own satisfaction. To use a done-to-death quote from Spiderman, with great power, comes great responsibility. All these issues, all over the globe irrespective of culture, must surely have started with the misuse of power(physical strength) by some irresponsible and unscrupulous men. This is the simplest and most physically violent form of rape, which can be called hard rape(no pun intended 🙂 ), as opposed to drugged rape or sex by deception(soft rape, if you will). This, over a period of many years, has inevitably led to the empowerment of women through laws of the land. If the recent judgements are any indication, this empowerment is still growing, with marital rape, by far the most complicated form of the offense getting increasing attention. And already, one hears of misuse in the opposite direction, with unscrupulous women trapping innocent men using these very laws empowering them. As vinjk said, the situation today warrants responsible behaviour from both genders. On the contrary, we are discovering and naming newer and worse variations of a horrible crime. The relationship between a man and a woman can be so beautiful and elegant that it pains to see it smeared with something as ugly and deplorable as the misuse of both sex and the laws against such misuse. If left unchecked, we may not be able to redeem ourselves from some of the most evil deeds that only a human mind can think of!
@Easwar: Amma oru kolai seidhaal by Ambai, is about how a mother-daughter relationship changes when the girl starts menstruating: Her mother who was a ‘Goddess’ to her becomes a ‘demon’, because she says “enna ezhavukkudee unakku avasaram, idhu vera oru baaram”. This, coming in the heals of the child longing for her mother’s emotional support in such a time. It is a wonderful, sensitive story and the writing is magical. But, it does not have anything to with rape 🙂
Varsha: 👍 for that last comment
Madhu: 🙂. I should have been clearer when I said touches upon some of the topics discussed in the recent posts. . I meant the topics and comments in other posts as well. Also when I mentioned ‘Amma oru Kolai seithal’ I should have specified that I meant the collection edited by Anar, titled under the same name. This particular collection had a number of moving, memorable stories, including ‘Amma oru kolai seithal’, about sex, sexuality and gender imbalance. And yes, I agree. That particular story was very moving.
‘Engeyo Ketta Kural was a movie that stayed true to the traditional views – however it was presented well. Rajinikanth does not try to bring Ambika back to normal life within the society. She is banished and made to live like an outcast for the mistake she did. However, Rajinikanth gives her the dignity of a decent death. It is a good movie but definitely not something that dared to question old mores in society.’
Shaviswa: The movie did question traditional mores IMO. It made the case that Ambika’s plight was unfair and a character says that women pay a heavier price for milder transgressions while men get away with just about anything. (She admits that while she did not betray her husband physically she did so mentally and has opted to punish herself for it. The film makes it clear that this social conditioning favors men while punishing women unnecessarily) As for Rajinikanth he could not really do anything about her situation can he? Her father is the headman and hates her for tarnishing the family honour. But Rajini handles his wife’s rejecting of him and elopement with a grace that is rare not just then but even now. It’s not like he lives for revenge which would have been the traditional approach and the fact that he keeps his word to her despite knowing that he and his family will be ostracized for the same makes him one of the classiest characters of all time.
Madan regarding your thoughts on men who promise marriage in order to have sex being guilty of rape , I couldn’t disagree with you more. On that note, Rahini I couldn’t agree with you more. I wrote about this sometime back and am sharing the link below:
http://www.newindianexpress.com/magazine/voices/2019/apr/28/a-supreme-screwup-1968574.html
@Anuja Chandramouli
I opined that Engeyo Ketta Kural did not really question old social mores is precisely because of what you have mentioned.
Ambika runs away from home and then feels guilty, returns home. She returns home only having sinned mentally and not physically. (Why was this needed? Because the director chickened out of saying that she returned after a few days despite having an affair with someone else. The heroine has to be pure.)
Rajinikanth promises her a decent last rites…..and sticks to his promise. So the hero – despite being wronged by his first wife – stays true to his character.
“Kudumba maanam” is more important than the life of a daughter. Did they even try to understand why she may have wanted to run away from the life they chose for her?
Ambika was forced into a marriage with Rajinikanth – and there is nothing in the movie that says what they did with her was wrong.
The only change in the film was like what you said – the way Rajinikanth handles her pre and post her running away.
Madan: Not sure how I missed this earlier but, this is a fantastic piece which opens newer gateways for us to “enter into” this film. I saw Benaam Baadshah as a kid and was quite repulsed by it. Saw the original much later (when it became available with subs) and while I can’t say I liked it, it was clear that the original was much better mostly due to Parthiban’s performance but also because it remained true to milieu in ways how Benaam Baadshah didn’t. Also Parthiban is simply a more persuasive storyteller. But I have never thought of the film this way till I read your piece. Thank you for writing this and thanks to BR as well for posting it.
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Jump Training: Injury Prevention
This article was provided by Training and Conditioning
By Dr. Ryan MiznerRyan Mizner, PhD, PT, is an Associate Professor in the School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science at the University of Montana. He is a past recipient of the Margaret L. Moore Outstanding New Academic Faculty Award from the American Physical Therapy Association. He can be reached at: ryan.mizner@umontana.edu.
With roughly 200,000 instances nationwide each year, ACL tears are an ever-present concern for athletes, coaches, and sports medicine professionals. Despite their frequency, nearly 85 percent of athletes who undergo ACL reconstruction surgery expect to return to their pre-injury level of sports participation. Many point to success stories as the source for these high hopes. A popular example is Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, who won NFL MVP honors for the 2012 season that started a mere eight months after his ACL reconstruction.
However, one downside of cases like Peterson’s is that they can spark unrealistic expectations that don’t hold up in the literature. Recent evidence has revealed only half of athletes who tear their ACL will return to their sport following reconstruction surgery. Further, only two-thirds of all patients get back to their preoperative level of physical activity. Even when athletes do return, they still face a high possibility of reinjury, as athletes who have torn their ACLs are 15 times more likely to experience a subsequent tear.
These results have left many wondering: What is the cause of these shortcomings? While the answers are complex, there are two primary factors that deserve attention. The first, and perhaps most common, reason for limited return to sport is psychological, including fear of reinjury or a lack of confidence in the reconstructed knee.
Second, patients often exhibit mechanical deficits in their injured knee that persist for years after surgery. It’s common to see athletes avoid using their repaired knee to cut or control their bodyweight during jump landing. Many also limit bending and joint torque across their knee during these tasks, which inhibits their chances for successful return to sport.
Several years’ worth of biomechanical testing in the Movement Science Lab at the University of Montana suggests these two factors are interrelated. Since most ACL tears occur when an athlete places excessive stress on the ligament during jump landing or cutting, it’s not surprising that these same types of movements can evoke apprehension during recovery.
This brings us to another question: What can be done to help athletes overcome these issues and return to sport successfully? Our desire to answer this question led us to create the Bodyweight Reduction Instrument to Deliver Graded Exercise (BRIDGE) system. As its name implies, the BRIDGE was designed to facilitate the transition for athletes from ACL injury to safe return to sport. Combining unweighting technology via a suspension system and sports-specific jump training, it provides an unrestricted environment where athletes can refine their movement mechanics and build confidence in their injured joint.
Don’t get the BRIDGE confused with common rehabilitation protocols that incorporate high-intensity bodyweight jump training as part of ACL reconstruction recovery. Although both methods recognize the benefit of building proper jump training mechanics, the physical abuse that jumping at full bodyweight puts on the body can be detrimental. For instance, the loads and ground reaction forces on the operated limb are considerable even at low jump heights.
Adding to the issue is newly published research that suggests high-intensity bodyweight jump training during ACL rehabilitation could negatively impact articular cartilage health. These findings are particularly disconcerting, as nearly half of patients who undergo ACL reconstruction will exhibit early signs of post-traumatic knee osteoarthritis within 10 to 15 years of surgery.
And as mentioned, mental factors can further restrict the efficacy of bodyweight jump training. Patients recovering from ACL reconstruction will often self-limit the force borne by their operated knee due to insecurities surrounding its ability to withstand the rigors of landing.
The BRIDGE hangs from the ceiling of the Movement Science Lab on Montana’s campus. It uses 50-foot lengths of elastic tubing stretched out to 150 feet through a pulley system. The tubing ends on a sliding connection that travels across an eight-foot rail in the ceiling.
The BRIDGE system differs from traditional bodyweight jump training because its unweighting environment allows athletes to safely practice sport-specific tasks that may otherwise induce fear, such as jumping, hopping, and cutting. This encourages them to explore new movement patterns with their rehabbing knee in a safe setting. Instead of provoking feelings of apprehension and anxiety common in standard ACL reconstruction programs, athletes who have used the BRIDGE system describe it as fun and exciting.
In addition, the BRIDGE’s bodyweight support provides a natural range of motion and reduces the amount and rate of limb loading during retraining tasks, which allows us to use higher repetitions than the 20 to 120 ground contacts per session range commonly recommended for athletes recovering from ACL tear. The more reps athletes complete, the more likely they are to develop muscle memory and retain good jumping form.
The BRIDGE system is not the only treatment aimed at improving standard bodyweight jump training. Rehab specialists have tried many alternative methods that reduce loads and allow for a greater volume of training, such as upright bodyweight support systems and plyometric leg presses. Yet unlike the BRIDGE, these tools often restrict the area in which athletes can work, limit the athletes’ range of motion, prevent athletes from performing movements at normal speed, and inhibit their ability to interact with the surrounding environment.
So how does the BRIDGE work? Built as a suspension system, it hangs from the ceiling of the Movement Science Lab on Montana’s campus. It uses 50-foot lengths of elastic tubing stretched out to 150 feet through a pulley system. The tubing ends on a sliding connection that travels across an eight-foot rail in the ceiling.
Athletes using the BRIDGE stand under the rail, where the tubing attaches to a custom harness of neoprene shorts. Two nylon straps connect the harness to an aluminum yoke just above the athlete’s head. The straps enable the athlete to smoothly slide back and forth on the yoke during exercise. In total, the BRIDGE allows for movement over 50 square feet on the floor and a vertical space capable of accommodating everything from a lunge to a three-foot vertical leap.
Each tubing element in the BRIDGE carries a different weight load based on its thickness and amount of stretch. The level of unweighting is adjusted by adding or removing tubes to the harness. We can check the amount of bodyweight support provided during training with a miniature load cell placed in the rigging.
Between five to 90 pounds of bodyweight support can be supplied by the BRIDGE. Once the desired load is set, it will not vary more than five percent during training. For example, if a rehabilitation specialist is targeting 20 percent bodyweight reduction for a 200-pound athlete (40 pounds), the system will stay within 38 to 42 pounds for all movements. Such smooth and consistent bodyweight support creates a feeling of reduced gravity.
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A typical training session with the BRIDGE lasts about an hour. It begins with an active warm-up on a treadmill and preparatory tasks like high knees, cariocas, etc. Then, athletes strap into the harness, and the rigging is adjusted to the desired amount of unweighting load.
After a brief accommodation period to the day’s bodyweight reduction, athletes will complete 25 to 40 minutes of jump training exercises. Some common movements include stationary or forward triple hops, split jumps, 180-degree repetitive jump turns, broad jumps, hops for distance, and three-step cuts.
When athletes first start training with the BRIDGE, we often see them adopt a stiff leg posture with limited knee flexion during landing because they are unsure of their knee. This increases the amount and rate of limb loading, which places greater stress on the ACL. Our rehabilitation specialists use positive feedback, extrinsic cueing, mirrors, and demonstrations of desired techniques to change these habits.
Typical verbal instructions to athletes include using greater flexion with their operated knee to soften and quiet their jump landings. A flexed leg posture reduces the rate and amount of landing forces, helping to protect against subsequent ACL injuries. Further, greater knee flexion improves the line of pull of the quadriceps and hamstrings to work synergistically with the ACL to limit anterior translation of the tibia on the femur.
We also emphasize vertical alignment of the hip, knee, and ankle during landing while keeping the head up and bottom down. This prepares athletes for the posture needed in a sports environment. Combined, these tips result in softer landing patterns, greater peak knee bend during landing, and a desirable pattern of thigh motor control.
As athletes progress in BRIDGE training, we provide less instruction and feedback. Instead, we promote intrinsic cues so they become aware of what it feels like to complete the desired techniques. We’ll encourage them to focus on the way impact affects their feet and legs or judge their body position during landing.
At this point in rehab, we typically add external elements and distractions—like catching or heading a ball—while instructing the athlete to maintain desired landing techniques. For instance, we had a volleyball player practice passes, hitting, and serving while set up at 20 percent bodyweight support. These sport-specific activities can make training a fun challenge and help promote lasting movement patterns.
Sessions generally conclude with a five-minute walking cool-down off of the BRIDGE so athletes can acclimatize to normal bodyweight load. To end the treatment, we complete static stretching of the major lower-extremity muscle groups.
We tend to prescribe the BRIDGE for eight weeks and start with no more than 30 percent unweighting. Each week, we use two treatments, with at least a 48-hour break in between to ensure proper recovery. The amount of unweighting is reduced by about 10 percent every two weeks.
From our testing and experience using the BRIDGE in patient care, we believe the ideal time to start training with it is at three to four months after ACL reconstruction surgery. This is typically when athletes are cleared to start running, jumping, and cutting drills in preparation for return to sport. We have some confidence in this recommendation from the success found in our initial proof of concept trial completed this year.
We started the trial by screening more than 30 athletes who were between six and 48 months post-ACL reconstruction and had been cleared for return to normal activities. We invited 19 athletes to participate in the study who had either performed below average in their clinical outcome scores or showed poor biomechanical performance during jump landing, as we felt they would benefit most from intervention. On average, they were 18 months out from surgery.
The two arms of the study were jump training with or without bodyweight support. We used a double-blind randomized trial design of two training sessions each week for eight weeks. The trial started with 30 percent bodyweight support, and the level of support was reduced every two weeks—from 30 percent to 20 to 10 to none. Both groups focused on sports-specific training with high intensity.
The bodyweight support participants performed more repetitions throughout their training than the non-bodyweight support group to help encourage improved motor learning. For instance, the first two weeks had a target of 120 to 200 contacts per treatment session. The training volume peaked in weeks three and four when the target was 250 to 500 contacts per session, and it decreased to 200 to 350 contacts in weeks five and six. Both groups had the same training volume of 120 to 200 jumps over the final two weeks.
Many jump training programs used in healthy, uninjured athletes last for six weeks, but an additional two weeks was needed in our trial so the athletes could transition to jumping under different bodyweight conditions. Also, since we chose athletes who had difficulties in landing, adding two more weeks to ensure success seemed a reasonable adjustment to the treatment length.
Overall, the BRIDGE training group saw comparable results to the group that didn’t use the device in areas like self-reported knee functional ability scores, altered landing styles, increased knee flexion, and reduced peak ground reaction forces. However, the BRIDGE participants achieved a greater safety advantage, as the relative risk of swelling within the knee joint from training was four times greater in the standard group than the BRIDGE group.
These benefits were sustained at the retention test completed two months after training. From this, we concluded that the results would last for at least a season’s worth of sports activity.
The enhanced safety factor seen with the BRIDGE athletes in the clinical trial suggests that we should be comfortable taking the next step with testing. This would include implementing the system four months post-ACL reconstruction as a means to smoothly transition athletes into practice.
We are confident that the BRIDGE training protocol will continue to provide a safe opportunity for additional training and early implementation of jumping practice for the recovering knee. The changes induced with the BRIDGE should help address current shortcomings in outcomes in ACL rehabilitation. We also hope to reduce risk of second ACL injury and improve rate of return to preinjury levels of sports participation.
This article first appeared in the April 2017 issue of Training & Conditioning.
To view the references for this article, go to: Training-Conditioning.com/References.
Development and prototyping for the University of Montana’s Bodyweight Reduction Instrument to Deliver Graded Exercise (BRIDGE) has been ongoing for five years. Montana’s Office of Technology Transfer recently applied for a patent for the current setup.
Although still in prototype phase, the university is also seeking commercial partners to consider licensing agreements and clinical development of the BRIDGE system. In a few years, it may be packaged for distribution to outside entities.
We are optimistic about the BRIDGE’s commercial potential. The closest comparable system on the market now utilizes a motorized device mounted on a track in the ceiling that shadows the patient as they move. It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the speed of movements used in jump retraining protocols exceeds the limits proposed by its manufacturers. We foresee the BRIDGE system being a less expensive, more effective alternative.
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Ingénieur, Chimie
Produits Chimiques Magnus Ltée June 2013 - Present
Produits Chimiques Magnus Ltée May 2011 - June 2013
Produits Chimiques Magnus Ltée May 2010 - May 2011
Produits Chimiques Magnus Ltée February 2000 - May 2010
Gaches Chimie Specialites June 1997 - November 1999
Analytical Chemistry, Chemicals, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Product Development, Water Treatment, Cleaners, Corrosion, Electrochemistry, Environmental Management, Product Management, Corrosion Inhibitors, Legionella, Sustainability, Organic Chemistry, Additives, Environmental..., Coatings, Génie chimique, Additifs, Chimie, Conception de produit, Traitement des eaux, Substance chimique, Stratégie commerciale, Durabilité, Revêtements, Chimie organique, Systèmes de gestion de..., Planification..., R&D, Gestion de projet, Chimie analytique
Julien Touchette
Team Lead, Engineering
Maîtrise en génie mécanique, Mécanique vibratoire
Université du Québec - Ecole de Technologie supérieure 2000 — 2004
Baccalauréal, Génie Mécanique
Collège de Sherbrooke 1991 — 1994
Technique, Génie Mécanique
Teledyne DALSA June 2014 - Present
Astronics 2007 - June 2014
Astronics 2005 - 2007
SIEMENS 2003 - 2004
MI Integration 1994 - 2001
Product Development, Product Design, Project Management, CAD, Solidworks, Catia, ERP, Failure Analysis, FMEA, HALT, Aerospace, Automotive, Mac OS, Microsoft Office, Photography, Testing, SolidWorks
Ludovic PASQUEREAU
Product Line Director Zodiac Aerospace
Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering - Project Management, Engineering Degree
Classes Preparatoires, Janson De Sailly 1996 — 1998
Zodiac Aerospace September 2013 - Present
Zodiac Aerospace May 2009 - August 2013
Zodiac Aerospace August 2005 - May 2009
Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance June 2003 - August 2005
Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance February 2000 - June 2003
Aerospace, Aviation, Program Management, Project Management, Aftermarket, Business Development, Knowledge Management, Marketing Strategy, Aircraft, Account Management, Training
Martine Javelas
Engineer at Ericsson
Université de Sherbrooke 1983 — 1985
M.Sc., Génie Electrique
Bachelor's degree (Diplôme d'Ingénieur), Génie Électrique
Ericsson January 1991 - Present
Consortel 1989 - 1990
Videoway 1986 - 1989
Pierre Mourot
Independent Biotechnology Professional, SR&ED tax credit specialist
Ph.D., Biochemical engineering
Université de Montpellier 1980 — 1982
M.Sc., Microbiology
SR&ED, R&D, Lifesciences, Biotechnology
Pierre- Olivier Therrien
Superviseur R&D, stratégie industrielle et plans manufacturier
B.Ing, Mécanique/Aéronautique
Baccalauréat, Génie Mécanique
École nationale d'aérotechnique 2000 — 2003
DEC, Conception aéronautique
Bombardier Aerospace November 2013 - Present
Bombardier Aerospace February 2011 - Present
Bombardier Aerospace December 2008 - January 2011
Heroux Devtek 2007 - 2009
Aerospace, Catia, Aircraft, Aeronautics, Composites, Aircraft Design, Aviation, Engineering, Avionics, Lean Manufacturing, Stress Analysis, Continuous Improvement, Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Management, MatrixOne
Rodrigo Lezama, M.Eng
Avionics Integrator at Bombardier Aerospace / Aviation Management Graduate Student
McGill University 2015 — 2016
Integrated Aviation Management
M.Eng - Aerospace, Avionics and Control Systems
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey 2002 — 2007
B.S. - Mechatronics Engineering, Automation and Control Systems, Graduated with Honors
International Exchange Program, Département d'Automatique, Électronique et Informatique
Bombardier Aerospace January 2013 - Present
CAE (on behalf of Techno5) May 2012 - January 2013
Rolls-Royce Canada May 2011 - August 2011
General Electric - Aviation July 2007 - July 2010
DO-178B, Gas Turbines, Control System Design, Software Verification, Software Validation, Aircraft Performance, Matlab, Simulink, Simulation, Control Systems Design, Six Sigma, Avionics, Testing, Aerospace, Manufacturing, Simulations, Aerodynamics, Aircraft, Integration, Engineering, Propulsion, Systems Engineering, Aircraft Design
Principal Research Scientist chez Honeywell Process Solutions
Ph.D., Physics
DEA, Solid State Physics
Engineer, Engineering Physics
Honeywell Process Solutions May 2003 - Present
The University of British Columbia January 2001 - April 2003
The University of British Columbia July 1998 - June 2001
Product Development, Optics
badreddine hadji
Algeria area
Chef d'entreprise, beccai
LYCEE TECHNIQUE DE GARCON RUISSEAU ALGER 1976 — 1978
BAC TECHNIQUE, FABRICATION MECANIQUE
INGENIEUR, GENIE CIVIL
beccai October 1995 - Present
EPE ECRA March 1993 - September 1995
BET Wiaya Tissemsilt September 1985 - May 1992
Project Management, Water, English, Project Planning, Microsoft Office, Management, AutoCAD, Business Strategy, French, Change Management, Microsoft Excel, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Negotiation
TOUFIK AHMED SAADI
INSA Toulouse
Self-employed February 1990 - Present
AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, Construction, Project Management, Construction Management, Microsoft Excel, Engineering, Project Planning, Microsoft Word, Contract Management, Concrete
Namory Dosso
Chef de projet / Directeur de la Succursale hongroise de Cegelec
MIAI, Mastère d'Ingénieur d'Affaires
Ingénieur, Ingénieur en Génie des Systèmes Industriels
Lycée Berthollet (Annecy) 1992 — 1994
Maths sup, maths spé, Classes préparatoires
Lycée français Blaise Pascal d'Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire) 1991 — 1992
Baccalauréat série C (mention bien), Mathématiques, physiques, sciences
Cegelec (Groupe Vinci) January 2005 - Present
Cegelec June 2004 - December 2004
ALSTOM Contracting / Cegelec Sud Ouest January 2001 - May 2004
Ambassade de France en Hongrie September 1998 - December 2000
Project Engineering, Export Development, Business Management, Branch Management, International..., Technical Management, Project Execution, Subcontracting, Team Management, Team Leadership, Foreign Languages, Contract Negotiations, Supplier Negotiations, Tunnels, Mechanical Ventilation, CFD, Operational Execution, HVAC, Fire Protection, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Fluid Mechanics, Low Voltage, International Project..., Metro, Mechanical Systems, Electrical Equipment, Electrical Contracting, Project Planning, Design Studies, Project Management, Operations Management, Commissioning Management, Project Coordination, Transportation..., Infrastructure..., Profit Center Management, Subcontractor..., Tender Management, Tender Preparation, Tender Submissions, Cost Management, Business Development, Technical Presentations, FIDIC, Electro-mechanical, Budget Monitoring, Engineering, Procurement, Commissioning
Barbara Bbs
Ensenada Centro, Baja California, Mexico
Ingeniero Civil
CETYS Universidad
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Alta Direccion
UABC
Ingenieria Civil
Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Administración y..., Microsoft PowerPoint, Investigación y..., Gestión de proyectos, Liderazgo, Inglés
Adrien Haage
Audio Electrical Engineer at Apple
Master's degree, in Electronics Engineering, Automatic Control, and Computer Science.
Lycée Déodat de Séverac, Toulouse, France 2002 — 2003
Preparatory Class, in Physics, technology and engineering science (PTSI)
Lycée P.P. Riquet, Toulouse area, France 1999 — 2002
Baccalauréat, Sciences, With honors
Wisdom Audio November 2012 - October 2014
TESA S.A. June 2012 - September 2012
ABC PCB October 2007 - January 2012
Siemens VDO Automotive February 2007 - June 2007
Tahoe-Truckee Sanitation Agency July 2006 - September 2006
LESIA July 2005 - August 2005
Freescale Semiconductor June 2004 - September 2004
Microcontrollers, Firmware, PCB design, Debugging, C, Signal Processing, Analog Circuit Design, SPICE, Schematic Capture, Digital Signal..., Orcad, Sensors, VHDL, Sound, Critical listening, Digital Design (DSP,..., Acoustic measurement, Prototyping, Test Bench Design, Altium Designer, EagleCAD, Electronics Hardware, Audio Engineering, D/A Conversion, A/D Conversion, Analog Signal Processing, Amplifier design, SMPS Design, Linear Power Supply..., Customer Relations, Assembly (PIC), MPLAB IDE, User Interface Design..., I2S, CD/SACD, Benchmarking, PrismSound dScope, Production Management, REW, Praxis, Audio Precision, SPI, I2C, USB
Anas Mouti
Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne 2006 — 2010
PhD, Physics
Masters of Engineering (Diplôme d'Ingénieur), Applied Physics
Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III) 2005 — 2006
Master of Science (Master de Recherche, formerly DEA), Nanoscale Physics
UK- ORNL January 2011 - Present
EPFL September 2007 - December 2010
Arizona State University July 2008 - September 2008
CNRS-CEMES January 2006 - September 2006
Altis Semiconductor (IBM-Infineon joint venture) May 2005 - September 2005
Physics, Research Project..., Electron Microscopy, Aberration Corrected..., Trasmission..., EBIC (SEM and STEM), High Resolution..., Electron Energy Loss..., Energy Dispersive X-Ray..., Scanning Electron..., Light Spectroscopy, Optics, Photonics, Semiconductors, Nanotechnology, Nanomaterials, Group III nitride, Dislocations and..., Blue (Laser) Diodes, Electrical..., Instrumentation, Instrument Design, Mathematica, Programming, C++, Java, PHP, Labview, LabWindows/CVI, EDX, Experimentation, Simulations, Characterization, Design of Experiments
Anthony Da Cruz
Summer Associate at Deloitte Consulting Strategy & Operations
Master Degree, Systems Engineering
Study Abroad, Management & Engineering
Yale School of Management July 2014 - Present
Arnaud Gleises
Business Analyst at Teamtrade
Teamtrade April 2007 - Present
Teamtrade November 2004 - April 2007
THALES AVIONICS January 2004 - November 2004
EXANE February 2002 - December 2003
EXANE NEW YORK June 2001 - February 2002
Exane June 2000 - June 2001
Arne Joris
Edmonton, Canada Area
Practical Software Engineer
Hogeschool voor Wetenschap & Kunst 1992 — 1996
M. Sc. Electronics-ICT, Electronics, Computer Systems
Masters of Science in Industrial Science, Electronics engineering
College Essen 1986 — 1992
High school diploma, Math and Latin
LegacyX August 2010 - Present
EMC September 2008 - May 2010
YottaYotta December 2005 - September 2008
YottaYotta August 2000 - December 2005
HiQSoft Inc. April 2000 - August 2000
Icos Vision Systems NV October 1996 - April 2000
Interbrew September 1995 - October 1996
.NET C# development in..., User interface design..., web service design..., Business requirements..., Data modelling and..., Legacy database system..., Certified SCRUM product..., Database Systems, Prototype, Scrum, Visual Studio, C#, Software Development, Agile Methodologies, Software Documentation, Embedded Systems, SQLBase, Enterprise Software, Test Automation, Agile Project Management, Databases, Project Management, Software Engineering, Unix, Testing, Linux, Distributed Systems, SAN
Carine Bossard
Scientist II at Samumed
Biocom Institute 2012 — 2012
Life Science Immersion Program (LSIP) Certificate
PhD, Molecular and Cell Biology
Engineer, Molecular and Cell Biology
Samumed August 2013 - Present
Salk Institute March 2009 - July 2013
INSERM January 2008 - December 2008
UCSD September 2003 - December 2007
INSERM September 1998 - August 2003
Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Cancer, In Vivo, In Vitro, Transfection, Immunohistochemistry, Cell Based Assays, qPCR, Protein Purification, Western Blotting, Cell Culture, Immunofluorescence, PCR, Molecular Cloning, RT-PCR, ELISA, Fluorescence Microscopy, Immunoprecipitation, Protein Expression, RNA isolation, Stem Cells
Carine Manileve
Austin, Texas Area
Water Engineer/Consultant
BS & MS
University of Birmingham 1999 — 2000
Carollo Engineers March 2001 - Present
Carla Fischer
Madison, Wisconsin Area
University of Wisconsin-Madison 2000 — 2005
AECOM June 2014 - Present
Rani Engineering January 2011 - May 2014
Rani Engineering June 2005 - January 2011
Microstation, Geopak, AutoCAD, Stormwater Management, Project Management, Civil Engineering, Drainage, Railway, Transportation..., Hydraulics, Rail, Site Plans, Engineering
Carl Javier
Design Engineer at New Business Solutions
University at Buffalo 2005 — 2010
Bachelor of Science, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
System Dynamics, Aircraft Structures, Linear Algebra, French, Independent Studies
New Business Solutions Inc. May 2011 - Present
MYT Works December 2010 - May 2011
Align June 2008 - August 2008
Long Island Rail Road June 2007 - August 2007
Solidworks, Photoshop, illst, AutoCAD, proE, Matlab, Aerospace, CAD, Engineering, Finite Element Analysis, Leadership, Linux, Manufacturing, Maple, Microsoft Excel, Modeling, Pro Engineer, Product Design, Project Management, PTC Creo, SolidWorks, Mechanical Engineering
Cattalen Pelard
Technical Marketing Engineer ASIC Products Division at Avago Technologies
MS, Microelectronics
MS, Applied Physics
Avago Technologies November 2012 - Present
Leoni Cables and Systems LLC May 2010 - November 2012
Intersil August 2009 - May 2010
Quellan May 2008 - August 2009
Quellan May 2007 - May 2008
Quellan Inc. January 2004 - June 2007
Quellan Inc. August 2001 - January 2004
Luxcore Networks January 2001 - June 2001
JDS Uniphase June 1999 - January 2001
Georgia Institute of Technology March 1998 - June 1999
Cédric Figarol
Team Leader / Engineering Project Manager
IUT Cachan/Talence 1996 — 1997
Mechanical institute of technology
AKKA GROUP NORTH AMERICA March 2014 - Present
AKKA GROUP NORTH AMERICA October 2012 - Present
AKKA GROUP NORTH AMERICA August 2010 - Present
Aeroconseil France December 2000 - August 2010
Aircraft, Aerospace, Aeronautics, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, System Testing, Project Management, Training Delivery, Hydraulic Systems, Flight Control Systems, Ice Protection System, Landing Gear, Braking Systems, Catia, Continuous Improvement
Clarisse Baudot
Senior Oracle DBA, my favorite challenge is to improve the performance of your applications
Oracle University (Chicago, IL) 2011 — 2011
MySQL for Database Administrators
Educacentre 2009 — 2009
Successful Consulting and Contracting 2009 — 2009
Start your own consulting business
STARFISH technologies July 2006 - Present
CGI, Québec (QC) 2004 - 2006
Harfan technologies, Pont-Rouge (QC) 2002 - 2004
DIAF - Transiciel, Toulouse (France) 1989 - 2002
Data Modeling, SQL, Performance Tuning, oracle, Databases, Database Design, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Database Administration, PL/SQL, Data Warehousing, Data Migration, SQL Tuning, ETL, Oracle RAC, Software Development, MySQL, Shell Scripting, Requirements Analysis, Oracle SQL Developer, Consulting
Damien Clergue,PMP, PRT en génie
Gestionnaire de projet / project manager
Ingénieur, Génie Civil
Universitat de València 2006 — 2006
Ingénierie de la construction
ORPEA March 2012 - August 2013
EIFFAGE February 2007 - February 2012
Construction, Construction Management, Contract Management, Civil Engineering, Project Planning, Project Management, Procurement, MS Project, Contract Negotiation, Engineering, Subcontracting, Contractors, Project Engineering, Management, Change Management, Microsoft Office, Inspection
Damien Nozay
Empowering developers with shiny tools @ LinkedIn
Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Lyon 2006 — 2007
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Engineering and I.T., Real Time Software, Project Management, Software Design
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Engineering and I.T.
DEUG MIAS, Computer Sciences and Applied Maths
LinkedIn August 2015 - Present
PernixData July 2013 - July 2015
VMware July 2013 - July 2013
VMware June 2010 - June 2013
VMware Inc. November 2008 - June 2010
VMware Inc. April 2007 - November 2008
EADS TEST&SERVICES June 2006 - September 2006
LESIA - INSA June 2005 - September 2005
Python, Django, AngularJS, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, C, Testing, Bash, Perl, Jenkins, Continuous Integration, Release Management, Release Engineering, SASS, CSS, Git, Agile Methodologies, Software Development, Software Engineering, Software Quality...
Daniel Feau
Bolingbrook, Illinois
Architecte EBusiness Suite
Master’s Degree, Génie Informatique et Industriel
McDonald's Corporation May 2015 - Present
Versalium Inc. January 2012 - Present
Oracle US January 2006 - February 2012
Oracle France February 2001 - December 2005
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young June 1999 - January 2001
Univers Informatique April 1997 - May 1999
SAGEM Hong Kong September 1995 - November 1996
Oracle E-Business Suite, PL/SQL, Testing, GL, Business Process..., Data Conversion, End User Training, Sla, Purchase Orders, Fit/Gap Analysis, Business Process, Integration, Business Analysis, Oracle Applications, Oracle, ERP
Emeline Maillet
Senior Scientist at DemeRx
Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg I) 2000 — 2003
University of Geneva 2001 — 2002
European Doctoral College 2000 — 2002
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.)
DemeRx October 2012 - Present
New York University July 2011 - July 2012
Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epiniere January 2012 - April 2012
New York University Medical Center July 2010 - July 2011
Mount Sinai School of Medicine July 2009 - June 2010
NeuroResonance LLC March 2008 - 2010
Mount Sinai School of Medicine April 2004 - July 2009
Ecole Superieure de Biotechnologie Strasbourg September 2000 - December 2003
Louis Pasteur University 2003 - 2003
Biozentrum Basel June 1999 - September 1999
Emre Ersin Ozer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance
The University of Texas at Dallas - School of Management 2010 — 2013
Master of Science (MSc), Finance, General
MS, Structural Engineering
Boğaziçi University 2002 — 2006
BS, Civil Engineering
Galatasaray High School 1994 — 2002
inCode, a Division of Ericsson May 2014 - Present
Ponce-Fuess Engineering, LLC August 2013 - March 2014
decimalplus October 2012 - December 2013
The Structural Alliance July 2007 - August 2013
TURANT March 2012 - January 2013
Humanatolia September 2010 - January 2012
Steiner+Associates July 2007 - August 2007
Project Management, Management, BIM, Team Leadership, Leadership, Feasibility Studies, Project Planning, Engineering, Start-ups, Intercultural..., Construction Management, Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Primavera P6, Management Consulting, Organizational..., Non-profits, Project Control, Financial Analysis, Financial Modeling, New Business Development, Business Process..., Business Intelligence, Access, Business Analysis, Analysis, Business Planning, Consulting, KPI implementation, SQL, Financial Reporting, Business Modeling, Manage Client..., Conflict Resolution, SAP ERP, Hyperion Financial..., Microsoft Excel, Databases, Project Coordination, Valuation, Utility Industry, Telecommunications
Pierre Calmes
Application & System Engineer at Freescale Semiconductor
Master's degree, Automatics and Electronics
Ecole spéciale de Mécanique et d'Electricité 2003 — 2005
Master's degree, Electronics, Computer science
Freescale Semiconductor March 2014 - Present
Freescale Semiconductor July 2008 - Present
Freescale Semiconductor February 2008 - July 2008
University of Illinois at Chicago July 2007 - October 2007
Centre National d'Études Spatiales January 2007 - June 2007
C++ Language, Labview, Microsoft Office, Visual Basic, Cadence, Oscilloscope, Laboratory Equipment, ISO 26262, VHDL, Statistics, Software Development, CodeWarrior, Semiconductors, Analog, Mixed Signal, IC, Electronics, ASIC, Analog Circuit Design, Test Engineering, Microcontrollers, Hardware Architecture, Pspice, Electrical Engineering, Debugging, C, PCB design, Product Engineering, Validation, Pareto, Characterization, Systems Engineering, Test Equipment, R&D, Microelectronics, Testing, Silicon, Semiconductor Industry, Yield, Verilog, DFT, Circuit Design, Power Management, SystemVerilog, Integrated Circuit..., CMOS, RTL design, LabVIEW, PCB Design
Gonzalo Iribarren
Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area
Property Manager at Akam On Site, Inc.
IESA 1985 — 1986
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1975 — 1978
Institut Le Rosey 1969 — 1973
St. Andrews of Miramar Condominium Assn. Inc. November 2011 - October 2014
Promotora 50004, C.A. 2008 - 2010
Real Estate Development; Investment Management; Strategic Marketing 2002 - 2009
Desarrollos Proislas 55-I, C.A. 1988 - 2002
Industrias Quimicas Carabobo, C.A. 1985 - 1999
Real Estate Development, Project Management, Marketing, Property Management, Strategic Financial..., Strategic Planning, Management Consulting, Budgets, Due Diligence, Business Strategy, Mergers, Financial Analysis, Negotiation, Contract Negotiation, Entrepreneurship, Real Estate, Team Building, Team Leadership, Business Planning, Analysis, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Development, Start-ups
Guillaume Paumier
Senior Analyst at Wikimedia Foundation
Ph.D, Design of microelectronic devices and microsystems
MSc, Solid Physics & Nanotechnology
Wikimedia Foundation October 2014 - Present
Wikimedia Foundation January 2011 - October 2014
Wikimedia Foundation October 2009 - December 2010
Wikimedia Foundation September 2006 - May 2010
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. January 2009 - April 2009
LAAS-CNRS October 2005 - September 2008
CEA-LETI May 2004 - September 2004
Wikis, Blogging, Semiconductors, Photography, Internal Communications, Science Communication, Open Source, Nanotechnology, Wikipedia, French, Information Architecture, User Generated Content, Microsystems, Technical Communication, Interdisciplinary..., Usability, MediaWiki, Community Sites, Editing, Project Management
Gregory Lajon
Analyste en sécurité de l'information conformité chez SAQ
SANS Institute, GIAC 2005 — 2005
GCIH
GCIA
college montpezat 1984 — 1989
SAQ December 2013 - Present
Guillaume Mialane
VP, Trader Natural Gas Options
HEC School of Management 2008 — 2009
Specialized Master, International Finance
"Erasmus" Exchange Program, Financial Mathematics
MSc in applied Mathematics, Finance, Probability, Statistics
Societe Generale October 2010 - Present
Societe Generale November 2009 - September 2010
Societe Generale May 2009 - October 2009
Philippe HELAL
Albany, New York Area
Univertsite de Toulon Var
GLOBALFOUNDRIES January 2014 - Present
GLOBALFOUNDRIES October 2012 - Present
Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Management, Semiconductor Industry, R&D, Engineering, SPC, Physics, Diffusion, Metrology, MEMS, Manufacturing..., IC, Silicon, CMOS, Microelectronics, Thin Films, Design of Experiments, Process Integration, Yield
Ismael Cadjee
Director at Information Builders
TRIUM Global Executive MBA 2013 — 2015
New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business 2013 — 2015
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), TRIUM Global EMBA Program of NYU Stern (New York, NY, USA), LSE (London, UK) and HEC (Paris, France)
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 2013 — 2015
HEC Paris 2013 — 2015
Engineer's degree, Computer Science
Information Builders
Strategy, Business Intelligence, Business Strategy, Business Development, IT Strategy, Pre-sales, Solution Architecture, Enterprise Software, Business Analysis, Start-ups, Leadership, Management Consulting, Project Management, Management
Jean-Paul Armache
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich 2007 — 2011
Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.), Chemistry (Biochemistry, Bioinformatics), 0.7 (Summa cum laude)
Technical University of Lodz (Politechnika Lodzka) 2001 — 2006
M.Sc., Computer Science. Artificial Intelligence and Programming
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Python, Linux, Bioinformatics, Structural Biology, Digital Image Processing, Computational Biology, Perl, Matlab, Unix, Eclipse, Molecular Biology, Image Processing, Physics, Biochemistry, Fortran, C#, Machine Learning, SQL, C, C++, Java, Bash, Science, Data Mining, High Performance..., Programming, Software Engineering
Julian Aschieri
Design Manager, Power Management & Audio at CSR
Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of Business 2011 — 2012
Master EE, Microelectronics
CSR June 2012 - Present
CSR January 2011 - June 2012
Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited January 2009 - December 2010
Freescale Semiconductor January 2006 - March 2009
Motorola January 2002 - January 2006
Semiconductors, Microelectronics, Mixed Signal, Analog Circuit Design, Electrical Engineering, Product Development, System Design, Business Management, Business Strategy, Financial Analysis, Team Management, Team Leadership, Financial Markets, Simulations, RF, ASIC, Verilog, Analog, Management, Project Management, Integrated Circuit..., CMOS, IC, Cross-functional Team..., Wireless, EDA, Power Management
Laure Tessier-Delivuk
National Director, Services at GE Healthcare
GE Global Leadership Institute - Crotonville 2011 — 2011
Executive Leadership - Manager Development Course (MDC)
Cornerstone Leadership
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management 2008 — 2008
Université de Technologie de Compiègne 1996 — 1997
Master, Medical Imaging
Engineering (5 years program), Automatic, Electronic and Computer Sciences
Lycee Emile Zola 1988 — 1991
GE Healthcare March 2014 - Present
GE Healthcare July 2011 - March 2014
GE Healthcare January 2008 - July 2011
GE Healthcare September 2001 - December 2007
Philips Healthcare 1999 - 2001
Program Management, Integration, Healthcare Information..., Project Management, Change Management, Project Portfolio..., Six Sigma, PMP, PACS, Cross-functional Team..., Process Improvement, Healthcare, HL7, Resource Management, Testing, DICOM, Medical Imaging, Software Documentation, MS Project, Negotiation, Communication, Quality System, Influence Others, Managed Services, ISO 13485, P3, Management, Strategic Planning, Strategic Leadership, P&L Management, Revenue Cycle Management, Revenue Forecasting, Revenue Growth..., Revenue Recognition, Organizational Design, Organizational..., Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Performance Management, Quality Management, Continuous Improvement, Contract Negotiation, Influence At All Levels, Decision Making, Problem Solving, Customer Service, Customer Retention, Customer Experience, Customer Relations, Acquisition Integration
Lucas Araki
Sr Systems Engineer at Thales Raytheon Systems
Master's, Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin 2005 — 2009
Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Academy of Science and Technology 2001 — 2005
THALES RAYTHEON Systems July 2011 - Present
iCRco February 2011 - June 2011
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory June 2010 - July 2010
CORES Lab - UCLA 2009 - 2010
Applied Research Laboratories at the University of Texas at Austin August 2008 - January 2009
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées February 2008 - June 2008
Applied Research Labs June 2007 - January 2008
ECE Department of the University of Texas at Austin September 2006 - May 2007
BioTX Automation, Inc. August 2004 - August 2005
McLeodUSA Network Services June 2004 - July 2004
Java, C, Perl scripting, MATLAB, Fluent English and..., Android, IV&V, Programming, Matlab, MySQL
Lucas Esclapez
Postdoctoral research fellow at CTR
Institut national polytechnique de Toulouse 2012 — 2015
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Energetic and transfer
M2R, Energetic and transfers
5th Year, Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University July 2015 - Present
CERFACS October 2011 - May 2015
University of Melbourne February 2011 - August 2011
LAAS-CNRS July 2010 - September 2010
CFD, Fortran, Abaqus, Finite Element Analysis, CAD, Large Eddy Simulations, Combustion, MPI, Scientific Computing, Direct numerical..., Fluid Mechanics, Gas Turbines, Two-phase Flow
Ludovic Ferret
Engineering diploma, Computers, Electronics
MSCI - msci.com July 2007 - April 2012
DHAP Digital - dhapdigital.com October 2004 - May 2007
Errigal - errigal.com September 2001 - October 2004
Netcentives October 1998 - July 2001
Sage IT Partners June 1997 - September 1998
Ericsson - www.ericsson.com/ca September 1993 - May 1997
Capgemini - www.capgemini.com November 1989 - July 1993
Tomcat, Java Enterprise Edition, JUnit, Spring, JSP, Java, XML, JDBC, Subversion, Design Patterns, Servlets, Eclipse, AJAX, UML, Linux, Software Development, Struts, Spring Framework
Matthew Cannella
Propulsion Components Engineer at ULA
University of Colorado at Boulder 2010 — 2012
Graduate, Aerospace Engineering Sciences- Fluids & Propulsion
Aerospace Engineering & Mechanical Engineering, Engineering
United Launch Alliance (ULA) August 2013 - Present
We Want Our Future Initiative January 2010 - Present
Busemann Advanced Concepts Laboratory May 2013 - July 2013
AIAA April 2011 - May 2013
University of Colorado at Boulder 2010 - May 2013
Busemann Advanced Concepts Laboratory August 2010 - September 2011
NASA May 2010 - August 2010
Masten Space Systems January 2010 - May 2010
NASA June 2009 - August 2009
Zodiac Aerospace- Air Cruisers June 2008 - January 2009
Spacecraft, Aerospace/Defense, Aerospace, Rocket Operations, Commercial Spaceflight, Rocket Propulsion, Networking, Propulsion, Simulations, Engineering Management, French, Testing, Engineering, Research, Matlab, Program Management, Management, Analysis, Systems Engineering, Project Planning, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, System Design, Labview, Integration, Space Systems, Technical Writing, Aerodynamics, Solidworks, Proposal Writing, Simulink, Mathematica, Experimentation, Baking
Joel Mione
Représentant technique des ventes chez Famic Technologies Inc.
Mastère Spécialisé Ingénieur d'Affaires Industrielles - MSIAI, Business management
ENSEEIHT - Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electrotechnique, d'Electronique, d'Informatique, d'Hydraulique et des Télécommunications 2009 — 2012
Diplome d'ingénieur, Hydraulique / Mécanique des fluides
Gestion et management de l'environnement
Famic Technologies Inc. September 2015 - Present
DIMENSION EXPORT September 2014 - June 2015
Egis Eau April 2012 - April 2014
UC Davis June 2011 - August 2011
International Business, Customer, supplier and..., Industrial marketing, Business Strategy, Negotiation, Project Management, Environmental..., Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulics, Risk Analysis, Water Management, Négociations, Gestion de projet, Stratégie commerciale, Hydraulique
Moris Simson
President at Wavenet Consulting
Harvard Business School 1991 — 1991
ISMP, General Management
IAE FRANCE - Écoles Universitaires de Management 1976 — 1977
MBA, General Management
Ecole nationale supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace 1975 — 1976
M.Sc, Computer Engineering
M. Eng., Electronics & Control
Wavenet Consulting July 2003 - Present
Optenia January 2001 - March 2002
Mitel January 1999 - January 2001
C*Quest Consulting June 1996 - January 1999
BCE Mobile June 1995 - June 1996
Nortel Networks April 1978 - June 1995
Entrepreneurship, Business Development, Strategic Partnerships, Strategic Planning, Product Management, Product Development, New Business Development, Marketing, Telecommunications, Venture Capital, Start-ups, Mergers, Business Strategy, Wireless, Executive Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy, Leadership
Nicolas Falliere
Mountain View, California
Founder and CEO at PNF Software
MS, Computer Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology 2005 — 2005
PNF Software April 2014 - Present
Symantec October 2013 - August 2014
Google February 2012 - August 2012
Symantec February 2006 - February 2012
Reverse Engineering, Application Security, Cryptography, Computer Security, Malware Analysis, Web Application Security, Information Security..., Security, x86 Assembly, Vulnerability Assessment, Penetration Testing, IDS, Intrusion Detection, Network Security, Internet Security, Security Research, Information Security, Computer Forensics, Firewalls, Linux, Antivirus, Python, Incident Response, IPS, Software Engineering, Encryption, Security Architecture..., Android, PCI DSS
Director, Procurement at PROS
The University of Texas at Austin - The Red McCombs School of Business 2010 — 2012
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University 2004 — 2008
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Aerospace Engineering
Other, Aerospace Mechanics Study Abroad Program
PROS 2015 - Present
PROS 2013 - 2015
Hewlett-Packard 2011 - 2013
United Space Alliance 2008 - 2011
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University IT Department 2007 - 2008
Dell via Spherion Temporary Employment Agency 2006 - 2006
Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Consulting, Operations Management, NASA, Space Systems, Team Leadership, Strategic Leadership, Situational Leadership, French, International Operations, Marketing Strategy, Product Marketing, Market Planning, Market Analysis, International Relations, International Management, Forecast Modeling, Demand Planning, Product Management, Marketing Research, Creative Writing, Creative Problem Solving, Public Speaking, Management, Testing, Aerospace, Business Strategy, Business Development, Leadership, Forecasting, Management Consulting, Troubleshooting, Cross-functional Team..., Systems Engineering, ENTP
Ngoc Thu Hang Pham
Research Assistant in Biomedical Engineering (Master degree in Biochemical Engineering )
Master's degree, Biochemical Engineering
Semester Abroad, Biotechnologie
Boston University December 2014 - Present
Boston University April 2014 - August 2014
LISBP-INSA Toulouse April 2012 - October 2013
FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTEURS FRANCE SAS June 2011 - August 2011
FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTEURS FRANCE SAS June 2010 - September 2010
PCR, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Cell Culture, Microbiology, Matlab, Research, Microsoft Office, Gel Electrophoresis, Tissue Culture, DNA Extraction, Flow Cytometry, In Vitro, Transfection, Sequencing, Molecular Cloning, Mammalian Cell Culture, Gibson, DNA ligation
Philippe Lemoine
Folsom, California
Software Manager at Intel Corporation
Intel Corporation June 2012 - Present
Intel October 2009 - June 2012
Symbian Foundation June 2009 - August 2009
Freescale Semiconductor March 2008 - June 2009
Freescale January 2002 - March 2008
Motorola January 2002 - July 2004
Lucent March 1998 - December 2001
Bull CP8 1996 - 1998
Secmat NT July 1994 - December 1995
Open Source, Software Licensing, People Management, Continuous Integration, Global Management, Management, Integration, Software Development, ClearCase, Debugging, Embedded Software, Embedded Systems, Firmware, Mobile Applications, Mobile Devices, Perl, Project Management, SoC, Software Engineering, Testing
Quang Tuan NGO
Développeur iOS à Soluteo
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) 2010 — 2011
Master 2, Informatique Industrielle, Image et Signal
Master 1, Information, Signal, Image et Instrumentation
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology
Soluteo April 2015 - Present
Travailleur autonome August 2013 - Present
InterCore (ICOR) Inc December 2014 - April 2015
Prosodie March 2012 - July 2013
FORCE-A December 2010 - October 2011
INNOPSYS July 2009 - September 2009
Nexans July 2008 - September 2008
Objective-C, Swift, Xcode, iOS, Mac OS, SQL, Linux, JSON, XML, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, C, C++, C#, Java, Image Processing, Matlab
Sami Sultan
Drilling Engineer at Shell Oil Company
BS, Mechanical Engineering
Shell August 2014 - Present
Shell June 2013 - August 2014
Shell May 2012 - August 2012
The University of Texas at Austin, MADLab November 2009 - August 2011
Friends of Alec September 2009 - January 2011
Drilling Engineering, Horizontal Wells, Engineering, Matlab, Solidworks, Microsoft Office, Upstream, NI LabVIEW, C, C++, Materials, Windows, Java, Linux, Energy, Pro Engineer, Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Oil & Gas, SharePoint
Vincent Chalufour, PMP
PMO Analyst at Bombardier Transport
ESCP Europe 2008 — 2009
Master, International Management
Master, Systems Engineering
Bombardier Transportation July 2013 - Present
TES - The Employment Solution May 2013 - June 2013
BCD Travel June 2010 - February 2013
Barclays Bank December 2009 - June 2010
ESCP-Europe January 2009 - December 2009
Premier Farnell June 2009 - August 2009
Vodafone February 2009 - April 2009
Alstom Transport March 2008 - September 2008
SNECMA June 2007 - September 2007
Mairie de Toulouse July 2006 - September 2006
Excel, PowerPoint, Problem Solving, Analysis, Adaptation, Flexible Working, Employee Relations, Search, Data Analysis, Virtual Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, Market Analysis, Presentation Preparation, Business Process..., Project Management, Business Strategy, Teamwork, Management, Customer Oriented, Microsoft Excel, Interpersonal Skill, Creative Problem Solving, Management Consulting, PMO, Requirements Analysis, Market Research, Finance, Strategic Planning, Software Documentation, Governance, Change Management, Process Improvement
Oussama Zaki
Murrieta, California
Software Engineer Intern at Search Initiatives
Master's degree, Software Engineering
BIG DATA AND SOCIAL PHYSICS
Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées - Marrakech 2012 — 2014
CS50 - Introduction to Computer Science
Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquée - Marrakech 2010 — 2012
Preparatory cycle, Engineering
Collège-Lycée International ELBILIA 2007 — 2010
Baccalauréat, Sciences Mathématiques B
Search Initiatives March 2015 - Present
Google July 2014 - July 2015
STMicroelectronics July 2013 - August 2013
STMicroelectronics July 2012 - July 2012
ENSA Marrakech March 2012 - May 2012
Java, Développement Java/JEE, Web Design, JavaScript, Développement mobiles, C++, Agile Software..., Social Media Marketing, Game Development, Python, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Conception d’algorithmes, Business Development, management relationnel, Programmation web, Object Oriented Design, Database and Business..., Infographies et..., Unit Testing, Design Patterns, Version Control, Software Quality..., User Experience Design, CSS, jQuery, C/C++, PHP, Linux, SQL, AngularJS, XML, HTML, UML, Android, HTML5
Abe Endrias
Scientist II at Bayer Pharmaceuticals
Adrien Moreau
Hydraulics Expert at Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies North America
Delft University of Technology 2006 — 2010
PhD, Sanitary Engineering
Engineer, Process and Chemical Engineering
Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies North America September 2013 - Present
Veolia Environnement Recherche & Innovation September 2012 - July 2013
Veolia Environnement Recherche & Innovation March 2010 - September 2012
Delft University of Technology January 2006 - December 2009
Wastewater Treatment, MBR, Water, Water Treatment, Desalination, Process Engineering
Agathe Ceppe
Biostatistician
Engineer's degree
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill October 2013 - Present
bioMerieux January 2012 - September 2013
BioMerieuxInc June 2010 - December 2011
French National Institute of Agricultural Research August 2009 - December 2009
Institut National de Recherche Agronomique (INRA) February 2009 - June 2009
Matlab, SAS programming, R, Minitab, Jump, Maple, Java, C++, Fortran, HTML, PHP, CSS, SQL, Ada programming, Unix
Alban Damour
Boise, Idaho Area
VP Manufacturing and Purchasing at Lactalis American Group
Master's degree, Biochemistry and Food Industry
ENSIA Massy
Master Total Quality Management
Lactalis VP Manufacturing and purchasingLactalisOctober 2013 - Present
Food Industry, HACCP, Food Safety, Manufacturing, Food, GMP, Dairy, Cross-functional Team..., Supply Chain, Lean Manufacturing
Alejandro Avellaneda
Electronics and Mechanized Systems Engineer
University of California, Irvine 2014 — 2016
Certificate, Project Management
Engineering Institute of Technology 2015 — 2016
Advanced Diploma, Electrical and Instrumentation (E & I) Engineering for Oil and Gas Facilities
Bachelor’s Degree, Automatic Control and Electronics
Universidad de Los Andes 2001 — 2007
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Los Angeles Pierce College 1999 — 2000
Weatherford February 2015 - Present
Weatherford December 2011 - January 2015
Weatherford January 2008 - December 2011
LAAS-CNRS July 2006 - January 2007
Field Operations, Automation, Engineering, Electronics, Mechanized Equipment, Mechanics, Hydraulics, Project Management, Energy Industry, Sales, Team Management, PLC Programming, Project Coordination, Oil & Gas, Energy, Instrumentation, Troubleshooting
Alexandra Gillard
Vice President Supply Chain EMS at Schlumberger
IMD (International Institute for Management Development) - Business Programs
-, Strategic Finance program
INSEAD 2009 — 2009
-, International Manufacturing Program
Michigan State University 2008 — 2008
-, Lean Manufacturing Program
MIT Sloan School of Management 2007 — 2007
-, Strategic Innovation Program
DESS, Manufacturing Systems Management
Schlumberger September 2011 - Present
Schlumberger March 2011 - August 2011
Schlumberger July 2009 - February 2011
Schlumberger February 2008 - June 2009
Schlumberger February 2006 - January 2008
Schlumberger September 2005 - January 2006
Schlumberger July 2002 - May 2005
Schlumberger July 2001 - June 2002
Schlumberger April 1998 - June 1999
Supply Chain Management, Supplier Management, Newsletters, Manufacturing, Planning, Customer Service, Cooking, Demand Planning, Manufacturing Planning, Master Scheduling, Manufacturing Strategy, Project Planning, Supply Management, Strategy, Global Sourcing, Lean Manufacturing, MRP, Gas
Alexia Tchakaloff
Reunion area
architecte ingénieur
Ecole d'Architecture de Paris-la-Villette 2006 — 2008
Architecte, Architecture & Urbanisme
Ingénieur, Génie Civil & Urbanisme
Antoine Perrau Architectures December 2012 - Present
Franck Boutte Consultants January 2009 - November 2011
AAD October 2008 - January 2009
Visual Architecture July 2007 - January 2008
AutoCAD, SketchUp, Photoshop, Renewable Energy, Rhino, Architecture, Energy Management, Energy Efficiency, Engineering, English, Energy, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Illustrator, Code for Sustainable..., Project Coordination, Sustainable Communities, Ecological Design, Environmental Analysis
Aline Vidal
National Logistics Manager
Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering
The Institute of Technology at Linköping University 2006 — 2006
Exchange Student for 6 months (Erasmus), Mechanical Engineering
SDV September 2014 - Present
SDV January 2012 - September 2014
SDV January 2011 - March 2012
SDV May 2009 - December 2010
SDV August 2007 - May 2009
Renault Group January 2007 - June 2007
Airbus Group June 2006 - September 2006
Logistics & Supply Chain, Aerospace spare part..., Cosmetics Distribution, WMS Implementations, Manhattan WMoS, Logistics Tender RFQ
Alizée Blanchin
Passionate marketer showing talent for thinking different
IAE Toulouse 2013 — 2015
Master, Management stratégique de l'innovation, mention bien
Ingénieur, Biochimie, Avec mention
Claude Fauriel 2010 — 2012
Classe préparatoire, BCPST
bioTAP connection April 2015 - Present
InvivoGen March 2015 - Present
Indépendante September 2010 - February 2015
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute June 2014 - September 2014
HSBC July 2013 - July 2013
Laboratoire LISBP May 2013 - May 2013
Buzzeo Agency January 2010 - December 2012
Labofill June 2012 - June 2012
Marketing, Project Management, Innovation Management, Biochimie, Management, biologie moleculaire, MS Project, Microsoft Office, Biotechnologie, Google Analytics, SEO, Product launch, Event organisation
Anahita Yazdi
Mechanical Engineer at Lam Research
University of California, Davis 2009 — 2014
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
Spring semester, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
Lam Research December 2014 - Present
EVAOS, Inc (Electric Vehicle Add-on Systems) July 2014 - November 2014
UC Davis Eclipse Rocket Club September 2013 - September 2014
GridSense Inc. April 2014 - July 2014
UC Davis Undergraduate Research Center September 2013 - June 2014
ETM Electromatic June 2013 - September 2013
Green Transportation Lab, UC Davis September 2012 - August 2013
SiGNa Chemistry Inc. June 2011 - September 2012
Davis Senior High School September 2009 - December 2009
Engineering, Fluid Mechanics, Matlab, R&D, Microsoft Office, Labview, Finite Element Analysis, Mathematica, SolidWorks, Fluid Dynamics, Nastran, AutoCAD, Mechanical Engineering, Thermodynamics, Manufacturing, Lathe, Chemistry, Milling, Hydrogen, Electrochemistry, PowerPoint, Research, Characterization, I-DEAS, Fuel Cells, Machining, CAD, Data Analysis, Simulink, Inventor, Microsoft Word, Simulations, Technical Writing, Geometric Dimensioning..., NX, Autodesk Inventor
Anas Oualha
CEO, GPSCheap, Inc.
Edgewood College 1997 — 2000
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing/Marketing Management, General
Master of Engineering (MEng), Civil Engineering
GPSCheap, Inc. September 2005 - Present
MobilePlanet (now eXpansys US) 2000 - 2005
Antoine Lesuffleur
Optics scientist and group leader at 3M
Universite Paris Sud Orsay 2002 — 2005
PhD, Physics / Optics
Master's degree, Nanotechnology
Master's degree, materials science and physics
3M September 2014 - Present
3M August 2014 - September 2014
3M July 2010 - July 2014
University of Minnesota November 2006 - July 2010
University of Victoria November 2005 - October 2006
Physics, Optics, Nanotechnology, Sensors, Spectroscopy, R&D, Team Leadership, Materials Science, Biomedical Engineering, Nanomaterials, Experimentation, AFM, Scanning Electron..., Photolithography, Polymers, Nanoparticles, Surface Chemistry, Plasmonics, Surface Plasmon..., Quality Measures, Metrology, Characterization, Problem Solving, Laser, Thin Film..., thin films, manufacturing, Project Management, Science, Optical Microscopy, Materials, Fiber Optics, Thin Films
Anton Gagne
Waco, Texas Area
Test Engineer at Space Exploration Technologies
Kungliga tekniska högskolan / KTH Royal Institute of Technology 2012 — 2014
Master of Science, Aeromechanics
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 3.23
Spring Semester Exchange Program, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
Space Exploration Technologies November 2014 - Present
Space Exploration Technologies June 2014 - November 2014
von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics June 2013 - September 2013
ARES Corporation June 2010 - August 2012
University of Texas at Austin September 2009 - May 2010
Baker Hughes June 2009 - August 2009
Baker Hughes December 2008 - January 2009
Baker Hughes May 2008 - August 2008
Anadarko Petroleum April 2006 - August 2006
Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Technical Presentations, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Visual Basic, CAE, CAD, Finite Element Analysis, CFD, Matlab, Labview, Simulink, Engineering, ANSYS, Simulations
Armand Adande
Subsidiary Manager at Socomec Inc.
MBA, Business Engineering
Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Rouen
BS, Thermoenergetics Systems
Socomec Inc. July 2013 - Present
Socomec Inc. August 2009 - June 2013
Socomec June 2007 - July 2009
FERRAZ SHAWMUT November 2003 - May 2007
FERRAZ SHAWMUT INC. February 2002 - October 2003
FERRAZ SHAWMUT July 2000 - January 2002
JA DELMAS EXPORT January 1999 - May 2000
Adaptability, Team work, Perseverance, Negotiation, Microsoft Office, Sales Management, Market Analysis, Customer Relations, New Business Development, Teamwork, Key Account Management, Business Development, Competitive Analysis, Business Strategy, International Sales, Team Building, Customer Service, Contract Negotiation, Solution Selling, Sales, Marketing, Leadership, Analysis, Product Development, Product Management, Product Marketing, Marketing Management, Account Management, Process Improvement, B2B, Channel Partners
Arman Moussavi
Causal Links
University of Maryland College Park 2008 — 2012
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Minor: French Studies
Semester Exchange, Automatique et Electronique
Causal Links August 2015 - Present
Manhattan Associates January 2013 - July 2015
Motorola Solutions April 2012 - August 2012
University of Maryland August 2011 - December 2011
Math Success: University of Maryland January 2010 - December 2010
Schlumberger May 2010 - August 2010
Matlab, Visual Basic, Microsoft Office, C, Pspice, Microsoft Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Simulink, Supply Chain..., SQL, Logistics, Warehouse Management
Audrey Diano
Sacramento, California Area
Scientist at Novozymes
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet 2002 — 2006
PhD, Biotechnology
Novozymes PhD studentBioCentrum-DTUNovember 2002 - August 2006
Fermentation, Biotechnology, Microbiology, Life Sciences, Biochemistry
Aurelien Sanchez
Validation Engineer at Freescale Semiconductor
Graduate School of System Design and Management - Keio University - Tokyo 2012 — 2013
Master's Degree, System Design and Management, graduated - 3.8 GPA
Engineer's Degree, Electronics & Automatics / System Engineering, graduated - 3.5 GPA
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical Engineering, graduated - Valedictorian
Freescale Semiconductor August 2014 - Present
Freescale Semiconductor February 2014 - August 2014
NI LabVIEW, Cadence, Cadence Schematic..., Allegro, Cadence Virtuoso Layout..., Pspice, Java, Android, CodeWarrior, Eclipse, Matlab, SQL, Assembly Language, Microcontrollers, ADCs, Project Management, Communication, Management, Entrepreneurship, Systems Engineering, Requirements Analysis, Requirement..., Hardware Development, Analog Circuit Design, Digital Electronics, System Verification, Debugging, Test Stand, PXI, Kanban, Kaizen, Lean Management
Bastien Talgorn
Postdoctoral fellow at McGill University
Airbus / Université Paul Sabatier 2007 — 2011
Paul Sabatier University 2006 — 2007
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Applied Mathematics
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Engineering
McGill University April 2013 - Present
Université de Montréal - GERAD (Group for Research in Decision Analysis) December 2012 - February 2013
Altran Sud Ouest September 2011 - November 2012
AIrbus - Aircraft Performance Department December 2007 - April 2011
EADS Astrium, Modeling Tools & Simulation Department March 2007 - August 2007
Airbus - Engine Performance Department June 2006 - September 2006
Laboratoire Phase June 2005 - September 2005
Optimization, Derivative Free..., C++, Python, Matlab, Mathematical Programming, Object Oriented Software, Trajectory Optimization, LaTeX, Clarinet, Stochastic Processes, Stochastic Optimization, Signal Processing, Image Processing, Teaching, Musical Direction, Aeronautics, Applied Mathematics, C, Java, Mathematics, Numerical Analysis
Ben Blankenship
Application Engineer of Process Gas Centrifugal Compressors at Ingersoll Rand Engineered Centrifugal Compression
State University of New York at Buffalo 2004 — 2012
Masters of Science, Mechanical/Biomedical Engineer
SUNY at Buffalo 2004 — 2010
Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Toulouse / INSA Toulouse
Study Abroad, Aerospace Engineering
Ingersoll Rand Engineered Centrifugal Compression April 2012 - Present
Steve Schmoyer Construction January 2000 - August 2012
University at Buffalo September 2010 - February 2012
Engineering Design..., Biomaterials Surface..., French, Applied Mathematics, Knowledge of FDA..., Confident Public..., Design Team Skills, skilled..., Engineering Problem..., Engineering Design
Ben Hanna
Cape Canaveral, Florida
Flight Controls Analyst at a.i. solutions
Master's, Aerospace Engineering, 3.75
Bachelor's of Science, Aerospace Engineering, 3.73
a.i. solutions April 2013 - Present
ThermoTek, Inc. October 2012 - March 2013
The University of Texas at Austin: Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics August 2009 - January 2011
Air Force Research Laboratory May 2010 - August 2010
The University of Texas at Austin: Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics August 2008 - August 2009
Jet Propulsion Laboratory May 2008 - August 2008
Jet Propulsion Laboratory July 2007 - December 2007
United States Gypsum Co June 2006 - August 2006
Solidworks, Dynamics, Matlab, LaTeX, Fortran, C++, Simulink, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, LabVIEW, C#, Red Hat Linux, Microsoft Office, Testing
Benjamin Potau
Master, Civil Engineering
MMM Group Ltd February 2009 - Present
Groupe GA Entreprise July 2008 - August 2008
AutoCAD, MS Project, Bentley InRoads, Chaussee 2, Road, Highways, Construction, Concrete, Inspection, Feasibility Studies, Project Planning, Microsoft Project
Bernard Sery
Chef d'entreprise chez C KARÉ
Ingénieur, Ingénierie mécanique
C KARÉ March 2013 - Present
SRPP (Société Reunionnaise de Produits Pétroliers) May 2005 - October 2010
SRPP September 2001 - April 2003
SRPP November 1993 - August 2001
Construction, Management, Project Management, Contract Negotiation, Project Planning, Budgets
Bob rechman
Process field engineer chez Ramboll Engineering Consultants
International Master, Fluids Engineering for Industrial Process
GE Power & Water September 2012 - October 2014
Ramboll Engineering Consultants December 2011 - September 2012
KBR, Inc. December 2010 - September 2011
Piping, Construction, Engineering, AutoCAD, Project Engineering, Construction Management, EPC, Inspection
Bowornsak Wanichkul
New Operations Advisor at ExxonMobil Production
Doctor, Engineering
Asian Institute of Technology 1990 — 1991
Master, Engineering
Chulalongkorn University 1987 — 1990
Bechelor, Engineering
ExxonMobil Production January 2013 - Present
ExxonMobil January 2008 - Present
ExxonMobil October 2005 - October 2008
Petroleum, Upstream, Oil/Gas, EPC, Business Strategy, Gas, Energy, New Business Development, Refinery, Natural Gas, LNG, Refining, Primavera P6, Process Engineering, Oil, HAZOP, Safety Management..., Project Control, Energy Industry
Bruno Dareys
Ottawa, Canada Area
Test/Development Engineer at Epocal
Doctorate (Ph.D, Solid State Physics
PhD, Solid State Physics
M. Sc, Electrical Engineering
Lycée du Couserans 1978 — 1985
Epocal January 2010 - Present
JDSU September 1997 - June 2009
Lexitech International June 2003 - June 2005
INSA Toulouse June 1991 - June 1996
Testing, Manufacturing, Labview, R&D, Product Development, Process Improvement, Troubleshooting, Fiber Optics, Automation, Data Analysis, Medical Devices, Technical Writing, Engineering
Butour Nathalie
French Guiana area
Directrice Opérationnelle GEOTEC Guyane
Génie Civil Batiment et Ouvrages d'Art
Cédric Abbezzot
Recherche active d'emploi Docteur Ingénieur
Université de Corse Pascal Paoli 2011 — 2014
Research Doctorate
Ecole nationale supérieure d'Arts et Métiers 2008 — 2009
Post-Master Professional Certificate, Renewable Energies and Production Systems
Engineer's Degree, Automatique Electronique
CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives January 2011 - December 2014
Self-employed May 2010 - December 2010
SCE 2009 - 2009
Flywheel Energy Storage..., Matlab/Simulink, Photovoltaic Energy, Smart Grid, Electrical Engineering, Real-time Control...
Cappia Jean-Marc
VP marketing at Sartorius Stedim Biotech
Carmen Ovejero Redondo
Chemical process specialist, Speciality: Water treatment at Veolia Water
Institute of Formation and Employment, INFOREM (Madrid, Spain) 2013 — 2014
Master in International Relations and Foreign Trade
School of Engineering and Architecture at the University of Zaragoza, EINA (Zaragoza, Spain). 2009 — 2012
Master Degree in Chemical Engineering
Process Engineering (5th year) Study Abroad Program.
School Of Industrial Engineering University Zaragoza, EUITIZ (Zaragoza,Spain) 2003 — 2008
Bachelor's degree, Industrial Technical Engineering specialized in Chemistry
Veolia Water Technologies Canada September 2014 - Present
Acerchem International Inc. 2013 - 2014
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) drinking water chair 2011 - 2012
Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA) January 2011 - September 2011
Highway & Street Construction Mariano López Navarro S.A. (MLN) February 2009 - September 2009
Tertiary - Desalination Plant of Benidorm's May 2007 - September 2007
Water, Chemical Engineering, Energy, Environmental Awareness, Project Management, Renewable Energy, Environmental Impact..., Microsoft Office, Solar Energy, Energy Efficiency, Microsoft Excel, Wastewater Treatment
Caroline Le Moigne
Bioprocess Manager
Master of Science in biochemical and microbial genetics - Industrial microbiolology
IUT Quimper 1996 — 1998
DUT, Applied Biology
Sartorius Stedim Biotech August 2015 - Present
Amyris August 2013 - July 2015
Fermentalg May 2012 - December 2012
Sartorius Stedim Biotech September 2011 - April 2012
Greenlight Biosciences Inc. August 2011 - September 2011
SEDERMA November 2004 - December 2010
Institut Gustave Roussy, CNRS UMR 8113 August 2004 - September 2004
KURIOS October 2001 - June 2004
Beghin-Say February 2001 - July 2001
Denmark Technical University May 2000 - August 2000
Fermentation, Cell Free Reaction, Centrifugation, Experimental Design, Filtration, Cell Culture, Biotechnology, Protein Purification, GMP, HPLC, Technology Transfer, Purification, R&D, Lifesciences, Biochemistry, Microbiology, SDS-PAGE, ELISA, Protein Chemistry, Biopharmaceuticals, Process Simulation, Microbiologie, Biotechnologie, Transfert technologique
Celine Cyr
French teacher at French American school of RI
Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maitres. IUFM de Toulouse Haute Garonne 2001 — 2002
Professeur des Ecoles, Enseignement
Master of mechanical engineering, mechanical energetics
French American school of RI August 2010 - Present
Classes du Soleil LLC August 2008 - July 2010
ISA International School of Arizona August 2006 - June 2007
Ecoles élémentaires September 2000 - June 2006
Tutoring, Curriculum Design, Lesson Planning, Curriculum Development, Teaching, Educational Technology, Classroom Management, Differentiated..., Educational Leadership, Teacher Training, Enseignement, Salle de classe, Planification..., Développement de..., Conception de..., Tutorat
Celine Leroy
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid 2007 — 2008
Université de Marne-la-Vallée 2003 — 2005
DEUG
Scivantage November 2011 - Present
Société Générale October 2010 - October 2011
Société Générale May 2010 - October 2010
Sopra January 2010 - April 2010
Sopra June 2009 - January 2010
Sopra January 2009 - May 2009
Sopra March 2008 - December 2008
Software Project..., Business Analysis, Project Management, ITIL, Management, SDLC, SQL, Requirements Analysis, Change Management, Requirements Gathering, Quality Center, Agile Project Management, Quality Assurance, Scrum, Oracle, CMMI, CRM, Testing, Project Planning, Databases, Analysis, PMO, Software Development, PMP, Agile Methodologies, Infrastructure
Charlotte Bessiere
Proposal manager at Veolia
University of Toulouse 2007 — 2010
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemical Engineering & Environment
Master of Science (MS), Chemical Engineering & Environment
Lycee Sabatier
Veolia Water Technologies April 2014 - Present
Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies North America August 2011 - April 2014
Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies North America September 2013 - March 2014
Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes de Biologiques et des Procédés (LISBP) September 2007 - December 2010
TOTAL January 2007 - July 2007
TU Delft July 2006 - September 2006
Evaporation and..., Industrial Water..., SAGD Industry, Research & Development, Intellectual Property, Oil & Gas, Presentations, CFD, Aeration MBR, Chemical Engineering, Energy Industry, Filtration, Membrane, Water Treatment, R&D, Water
christelle POMIES
Adjointe Administrative at Anges Québec
CEGEP LA POCATIERE 2013 — 2015
Attestation d'Études Collégiales AEC, Gestion des Affaires
Université Laval 2005 — 2008
CERTIFICAT SCIENCES ET QUALITÉ DES ALIMENTS, BIOCHIMIE ALIMENTAIRE
DESS in plant biotechnology
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Biochemistry
Anges Québec January 2015 - Present
IRIC-UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTREAL January 2005 - January 2015
Aegera Therapeutics Inc. January 2001 - December 2004
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique INRA March 2000 - August 2000
CNRS FRANCE April 1998 - August 1998
SOCIÉTÉ CARIF June 1997 - August 1997
Ecole National Supérieure d'Agronomie ENSA July 1996 - August 1996
Research, R&D, Qualitative Research
Christophe Bornand
P.E., Associate at KPFF Consulting Engineers
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning
KPFF Consulting Engineers August 2010 - Present
St. Mary's College of Maryland July 2008 - June 2010
Civil Engineering, Construction, Stormwater Management, Construction Management, AutoCAD, Structural Engineering, Green Building, Highways, Sustainability, Revit, BIM, Drainage, LEED, LEED AP, Sustainable Design, Concrete, Structural Analysis, Submittals, Land Development
Christophe Courcimault
Greater Salt Lake City Area
Sr Engineer at BD
PhD, Microsystems and Semiconductors
BD May 2010 - Present
CardioMEMS February 2007 - December 2009
CardioMEMS April 2005 - February 2007
Christopher Rouxel
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Mechanical Engineering
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering
itRobotics February 2013 - September 2014
Robotics Research Group September 2010 - December 2011
Air Liquide Process and Construction June 2008 - August 2008
I.A. Naman+Associates May 2007 - August 2007
James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy - Rice University June 2005 - August 2005
Clément Mur
Ingénieur Consultant chez SII Canada
Ingénieur Génie Mécanique, Mechanical Engineering
Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd 2010 — 2010
Cardiff University, School of Engineering
Loiretech Canada May 2015 - June 2015
Altran February 2012 - January 2015
Actemium June 2011 - September 2011
Altrad July 2008 - July 2008
Aeronautics, Aircraft, Engineering, Simulink, Matlab, Modeling, CATIA, Cosimulation
Damien Hallet
Senior Director, CMC
Heat Biologics November 2014 - Present
UCB Pharma November 2011 - October 2014
UCB Pharma January 2008 - November 2011
sanofi-aventis June 2004 - January 2008
Sanofi, Gencell S.A.S. July 2001 - June 2004
Pharmaceutical Industry, Biopharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, CMC development, Project Management, Technical Project..., R&D, Monoclonal Antibodies, Cell Culture, Virus Culture, Adenovirus, Fermentation Process..., Plasmid Isolation, Chromatography, Purification, Protein Production, Protein Expression, Technology Transfer, GMP, HPLC, Change Control, Project Planning, MS Project, Regulatory Documentation, FDA, Resource Management, Budget Forecasts, Budget Monitoring, Biochemistry, Biochemical Engineering, Biotechnologie, Culture de cellules, BPF, Secteur pharmaceutique, Biophamarceutique, Transfert technologique
Damien TOURRET
Postdoctoral Director's Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory
MINES ParisTech 2006 — 2009
PhD, Materials Science and Engineering
M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering
Engineering Degree, Mechanical Engineering
Los Alamos National Laboratory May 2015 - Present
Los Alamos National Laboratory July 2014 - May 2015
Northeastern University February 2011 - July 2014
German Aerospace Center - DLR January 2010 - January 2011
Ecole des Mines de Paris October 2006 - October 2009
EDF R&D March 2006 - August 2006
Faurecia March 2005 - August 2005
Design office 3B June 2003 - July 2003
Materials Science, Metallurgy, Thermodynamics, Mechanical Engineering
DANG HAI AN
Google Summer of Code 2015 Student at FOSSASIA
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science
FOSSASIA May 2015 - Present
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Home > Journals > Biology of Reproduction > Volume 65 > Issue 2 > Article
1 August 2001 Semenogelin II Gene Is Replaced by a Truncated LINE1 Repeat in the Cotton-Top Tamarin
Åke Lundwall, A. Yvonne M. Olsson
Åke Lundwall,1,* A. Yvonne M. Olsson1
1Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, University Hospital, Malmö, S-205 02 Malmö, Swed
*Correspondence: Åke Lundwall, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital, Malmö, S-205 02 Malmö, Sweden. FAX: 46 40 33 70 43; ake.lundwall@klkemi.mas.lu.se
Biology of Reproduction, 65(2):420-425 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod65.2.420
The human seminal vesicles secrete two proteins, semenogelin I and semenogelin II, at very high concentrations. It has previously been shown that the cotton-top tamarin (Sanguinus oedipus), a New World monkey, is lacking the semenogelin II gene. We have now determined the nucleotide sequence of DNA located 5–13 kilobases (kb) downstream of the tamarin semenogelin I gene—a region that in man is occupied by the semenogelin II gene. Two regions with homology to the human semenogelin II gene were identified in the tamarin DNA. The first region, of 3.5 kb, is homologous to DNA upstream of the human gene, and the second region, of 0.6 kb, is mainly derived from the second intron. Between these regions, equivalent to 594 base pairs (bp) upstream of the transcription initiation site to 12 bp downstream of the stop codon in the human semenogelin II gene, the cotton-top tamarin DNA carries a truncated LINE1 repeat. In another set of experiments, the tamarin DNA hybridizing to the mouse semenoclotin gene was investigated. It was concluded that hybridization is with the second intron of the semenoclotin gene, but very likely, the material does not represent a cotton-top tamarin semenoclotin gene. Thus, a mammalian ancestor probably carried a single gene that in the rodent lineage developed into the semenoclotin gene and in the primate lineage into a progenitor of the semenogelin genes.
Åke Lundwall and A. Yvonne M. Olsson "Semenogelin II Gene Is Replaced by a Truncated LINE1 Repeat in the Cotton-Top Tamarin," Biology of Reproduction 65(2), 420-425, (1 August 2001). https://doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod65.2.420
Received: 19 January 2001; Accepted: 1 March 2001; Published: 1 August 2001
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Åke Lundwall, A. Yvonne M. Olsson "Semenogelin II Gene Is Replaced by a Truncated LINE1 Repeat in the Cotton-Top Tamarin," Biology of Reproduction, 65(2), 420-425, (1 August 2001)
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1 year after Pulse, the vulnerability (and strength) of queer people of color is more apparent than ever
by Hari Ziyad
Featured, News, Politics
One year ago yesterday, a gunman snatched away the lives of 49 dancing souls at a gay nightclub in Orlando, FL. This tragedy became known as the Pulse Massacre, the largest mass shooting (that was not a military operation) in American history.
As a few queer people of color pointed out amidst the predictable rush to deracialize the incident, the shooting took place during the club’s Latino night, with Black and Latina transgender women as the headliners.
Amid the “progress” boasted by largely white, cis gay men in the aftermath of the SCOTUS ruling for marriage equality, this brutal incident highlighted the particular vulnerability that Black and Latinx queer people continue to experience. Regardless of motivations behind the killings, for many the attack was yet another reminder that even the safe spaces we valiantly carve out for ourselves––despite the queerantagonism of the world and racism of the white queer community––are still never fully protected.
This vulnerable existence of queer people of color, and particularly Black queer folks, has persisted in the year since the massacre. So far in 2017, there have been seventeen reported murders of trans people in the United States, all of whom have been women of color (and most likely many more have not been reported, or have been misreported using incorrect genders).
Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predict that if current rates continue, one in two Black gay and bisexual men will be infected with HIV in their lifetime. This is largely because, now that the disease is “under control” in communities of white men, fighting it is no longer a priority for mainstream health organizations. For Black and Brown queer folks, it is clear that the historical conditions that led to uprisings like Stonewall remain deeply entrenched, and celebrating our pride today should not come at the expense of continuing to fight for our lives.
Go to a Gay Pride event this June, and, true as it may be, this isn’t the story that many queer organizers and organizations want you to hear. On Thursday, No Justice No Pride organized a protest of D.C.’s Capital Pride parade exposing “the continuing divisions within DC’s LGBTQ2S community.” The group wanted the parade’s organizers to remove organizations that profit off the destruction of Black and Brown queer communities, including the Metropolitan Police and corporations invested in war and pipelines poisoning Indigenous water supplies such as Wells Fargo and Lockheed Martin.
According to No Justice No Pride, many white people attending the parade, some presumably queer, threw bottles at protesters, yelled at them to “go home,” saying that “this {pride} is not for them”––despite the group being queer-led itself––and encouraged the police to arrest and commit other acts of violence against the demonstrators.
Employee of @LockheedMartin giving the middle finger to #NoJusticeNoPride protestors. pic.twitter.com/84rux6mxqZ
— Drew Ambrogi (@DrewAmbrogi) June 10, 2017
Meanwhile, as Philadelphia unveiled the addition of Black and Brown stripes to its Pride flag in a largely symbolic show of support for queer people of color, once again white queer people let Black and Brown queer folks know that “this {pride} is not for them.” When Out Magazine covered the unveiling, the predictable storm of white tears poured in, with comments like “why not add a white stripe as well”? and “The rainbow flag has nothing to do with race” garnering the majority of likes under the post of Facebook.
As the responses to No Justice No Pride in D.C. and the unveiling of added Black and Brown stripes to the rainbow flag in Philly demonstrate, rather than acknowledge the urgent realities facing Black and Brown queer communities, many white gay folks would prefer to be absorbed into the very society that maintains and enforces those oppressive experiences.
These responses support the need for exclusive spaces for Black and Brown queer people, where we can strategize and heal from the violence of non-queer people and white queer people. Acknowledging this necessity is not what creates division, it is simply paying attention to a fracture that is already there––the fracture of white supremacy that is not content with just being broken itself, but that also wishes to continue to break the bodies and spirits of Black queer and trans individuals as well.
Cases like those of Bayna El-Amin––a Black queer man who is serving nine years in prison for defending himself against a white gay man after a smear campaign mislabeled the incident a hate crime, and the judge agreed that the drunk gay white man who hit first was a victim because he was seen as a “girly (man)” (prosecutor’s words)––show us the danger of not paying particular attention to this division within the queer community.
The fact is: because white supremacy relies on oppression, “progress” under it is designed to leave some of us behind––usually us Black and Brown queer people––for the sake of the rest.
To be clear, Black and Brown queer folks are not defined by our trauma alone. We have not taken the violence facing us lying down. We have started movements, led resistances, and protected one another when no one else would. The way we rallied around and supported the survivors of the Pulse massacre was a conglomeration of remarkable feats. Even more remarkable are stories like those of Pulse survivor Keinon Carter, who went from being declared dead at the hospital to opening a center for black LGBTQ youth.
Many of us have done this remarkable work despite the persistent violence we face. And some of us are still waiting for our white queer “allies” to reach back out to us after we have lifted them up, consistently on the frontlines of issues that affect all of our communities.
But what would happen if we refocused our attention away from those who would rather reach toward the structures that harm the least of us? What if we used our energy to build and reinforce our own strengths, instead of trying to mend a divide the other party has no interest in fixing? What if we––Black and Brown queer, trans, and gender non-confirming people––are enough? Even if we refuse to cater to allies? If we have learned anything in the past year, it should be that those who care for us will find a way to show it, without us breaking our backs for them. There are far too many of us breaking already.
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Hari Ziyad is a cultural critic, a screenwriter, the editor-in-chief of RaceBaitr, and the author of BLACK BOY OUT OF TIME. They are a 2021 Lambda Literary Fellow, and their writing has been featured in BuzzFeed, Out, the Guardian, Paste magazine, and the academic journal Critical Ethnic Studies, among other publications. Previously they were the managing editor of the Black Youth Project and a script consultant on the television series David Makes Man. Hari spends their all-too-rare free time trying to get their friends to give the latest generation of R & B starlets a chance and attempting to entertain their always very unbothered pit bull mix, Khione. For more information about the author, visit: www.hariziyad.com. Pre-order BLACK BOY OUT OF TIME: cutt.ly/BlackBoyOOT
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Home Football betting English Premier League: Weekend Review – Matchday 16 of 38 – Man City Finally Lose!
English Premier League: Weekend Review – Matchday 16 of 38 – Man City Finally Lose!
Categories: Football betting | Published by: Andy Nelson
English Premier League: Weekend round-up – Matchday 16 of 38
Manchester City after all are human. Pep Guardiola's men succumbed to their first Premier League defeat of the 2018-19 season when they went down to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge 0-2 on Saturday and slipped to the second place behind Liverpool on the points table.
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The Citizens lacked the ruthlessness normally associated with their games, allowing Chelsea to gain the upper hand of the proceedings after a period of brief domination in the first half.
The hosts came to life at the stroke of interval when N'GoloKante slammed in a Eden Hazard pass high past City custodian Ederson.
The Blues put the match beyond the visitors' reach with just 12 minutes of play to go when David Luiz's glancing header found the far post and bounced in.
Chelsea with Saturday's win helped them hang on to a slot in the Top Four with 34 points from their 16 games identical to 5th placed Arsenal but a notch up on the table thanks to a better goal difference than the Gunners.
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Arsenal began the proceedings at the Emirates in their customary shaky fashion against an unfancied Huddersfield Town, failing to create any chances against the visitors in the first-half despite Alexandre Lacazette having a goal disallowed for offside shortly before interval.
Coach Unai Emery replaced Lacazette and Stephan Lichtsteiner with Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Alex Iwobi after half-time. Arsenal were in the attack mode now but were unable to find a way through the Huddersfield defense.
Just when the match was disturbingly petering towards a draw, Lucas Torreira scored from a spectacular bicycle kick in the 83rd to break the visitors' resistance and secure a win and three points for the hosts.
Coach David Wagner's Terriers have now slipped to the 18th spot and into relegation territory after Saturday's Emirates defeat.
Liverpool powered their way to the top of the table, thumping Bournemouth 0-4 away at Dean Court. Mohamed Salah helped himself to a hat-trick, taking his tally to 10 Premier League goals and equalling that of Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. Jurgen Klopp's men now have 42 points, one ahead of Manchester City's 41.
Bournemouth are fortunate to find themselves in the Top 8 despite a horrendous six-match spell in which they have lost as many as five.
Manchester United moved to their best ranking since September when they edged up to the 6th slot on the back of a 4-1 drubbing of a hapless Fulham who just can't seem to get out of the bottom of the table.
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The Red Devils made merry of the visitors' defense with Ashley Young, Juan Mata, RomeluLukaku and Marcus Rashford contributing to the goal-fest.
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Incidentally, this was United's biggest League win this season.
Everton are in the 7th spot with 23 points and it could be status quo for them irrespective of the outcome of their forthcoming game against Watford on Monday night.
Tottenham Hotspur seem to have cemented their position in the Top Four with a convincing 0-2 win over Leicester City away at the King Power stadium on Saturday.
Son Heung-Min and Del Alli continued their sublime form from previous games finding the back of the net in the 46th and 58th minute respectively.
Mauricio Pochettino's Spurs are now on the 3rd spot with 34 points, 2 ahead of Chelsea and Arsenal.
The Foxes after their home defeat are still in the 9th spot with 22 points from 16 games.
Coach Manuel Pellegrini's West Ham United are on a roll and are a far cry from the side that begun the season on such a dismal note.
The Hammers edged closer to the top half of the EPL table with a 3-2 win over Crystal Palace, accumulating 22 points in the process from the 16 games played so far. Saturday's win over Palace was their third in a row taking them to the 11th spot and on equal points with 10th placed Wolverhampton who in turn recorded an impressive 1-2 away win over Newcastle.
Southampton's woes continued as they languished in relegation zone post a humiliating 0-1 loss to Premier League debutantes Cardiff City.
Meanwhile the Welsh club climbed to a respectable 14th after their Saturday's win over the Saints while 17th placed Burnley were able to stave off relegation with a facile 1-0 home win over Brighton at Turf Moor.
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Peter's Tips
Aston Villa vs. Liverpool
Friday 8 January
Both teams to score & over 2.5 goals
Second string sides to serve up a spectacle
FA Cup Betway
Author: Peter's Tips @PAJTaylorWriter
High-flying Aston Villa and current champions Liverpool have a shared distraction in form of the third round of the FA Cup to contest on Friday evening in Birmingham. It's likely that both managers will ring the changes from their all-too recent league exploits, which will allow fringe players to impress and more key figures minutes to regain match fitness on their roads to recovery. As a consequence, it should be a competitive game played at a quick pace... and that means goals. Read our preview here:
That's a Traoré!
Villains manager Dean Smith can take huge heart from his side's performance in the narrow 2-1 defeat at Old Trafford. Far from cowed by a resurgent Manchester United in their own backyard, the match should instead serve as a barometer for how far they've come in six months. Whilst it would be churlish to expect anything like a repeat of the remarkable 7-2 annihilation of Liverpool to repeat itself ever again, they will go toe-to-toe with more vaunted opposition once again. The likes of Jack Grealish, Ollie Watkins, and Ross Barkley will almost certainly be rested, which should free up space for Burkina Faso right-sided forward Bertrand Traoré to figure more prominently. Whilst the 25 year-old has featured regularly in the last month, his eye-catching and productive displays have rarely grabbed the headlines. Whether he'll come up against Andy Robertson is anyone's guess, but either way, he'll be at the heart of most of Villa's work in the final third.
Takumi's sun must rise
Jürgen Klopp must continue to contend with a slew of absences, most notably in defence. Despite this, he's adamant that no additional centre-back will be signed in the January transfer window; instead, he'll continue to put his faith in Fabinho coping admirably out of position, who will possibly be partnered by Nat Phillips on Friday. Elsewhere, there's little need to start his favoured front three, which will hand starts to Divock Origi, Takumi Minamino, and possibly Xherdan Shaqiri. The versatile Japanese forward will likely play as a false nine in the middle of the trio, and will need to convince his head coach and the Anfield faithful of his credentials. It's been a relatively slow start to his career in red, which is now a year old, having gone from the main focus at perennial Austrian champions RB Salzburg to bit-part player at Liverpool. His playing style is markedly different from anyone else at the club, and he needs to start making more of the scant opportunities he receives.
The winners are the losers?
With threats of suspending elite football looming because of the ongoing (and worsening) pandemic in England, both sets of coaching staff would be forgiven for wanting an early exit from the oldest cup competition in the world, especially Liverpool. The packed schedule leaves no room for replays or rescheduling, and the incentives are just not there for a prolonged tilt. That obviously won't prevent either them or Villa doing their best to win the tie, but don't be too surprised if there's a wave or sigh of relief in the losing camp after the game. betway are offering odds of 1.90 for both teams to score and over 2.5 goals in the process, which looks nailed on.
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By JP Fallavollita Posted on September 3, 2014 September 3, 2014
Duck And Weave Your Way To The Magical Mr. Punch On The Wednesday Run
Has it been twenty years already?
I was already familiar with Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed work through his monthly Sandman series, published by DC Comics. Of course, the brilliant artist Dave McKean painted, sculpted, photographed, and photoshoped each of those covers, so I was quite familiar with his work as well.
But it was the hardcover graphic novel of Mr. Punch, first published in 1994, that opened my mind, even more broadly than it was, to the types of stories that sequential art – that comic book storytelling – could celebrate.
Follow me after the jump for a twenty-year continuation of that celebration.
Mr. Punch 20th Anniversary H/C Edition
Written by: Neil Gaiman
Illustrated by: Dave McKean
Published by: Vertigo Comics
Mr. Punch, otherwise known as The Comical Tragedy or The Tragical Comedy of Mr. Punch, was a brilliant story, so unlike all of the mainstream superhero, fantasy and science fiction tales that percolated through the comic book store shelves in the early nineteen nineties. When multiple covers and a plethora of sales gimmick were quickly destroying the comic book industry, Mr. Punch was a breath of fresh air.
Under the auspices of editor extraordinaire, Karen Berger, and published by Vertigo Comics (one of the few publishers who believed in a different storytelling sensibility and still had the means to bring that sensibility to a wide audience), Mr. Punch was, at its heart, a story about adolescence told from a very adult perspective.
Through an adult narrator, readers are transported to a Grandfather’s summer English seaside resort, where a young boy gets caught up in a mysterious Punch and Judy exhibit and the puppeteer who showcases it. Memory, and the unreliability of childhood recollection, is brought to the fore, as the adolescent is embroiled within the story of the stage show and real life family mysteries, half-truths, and violence.
Mr. Punch is a beautiful story, but it’s the fully painted artwork of Dave McKean that elevates such a good story into a piece of literature that transcends the confines of its format. The twentieth anniversary hardcover edition, released today, also includes sketches and prep work from McKean.
If you’ve already got a copy, re-read Mr. Punch and remember the magic you felt when you first turned those beautiful pages in your hands. If you don’t have one yet, make the run to your local comic book shop today, pick up Mr. Punch, and be part of the magical feeling that the rest of us have for such a wonderful story.
Categories: 2014, comics, JP, JP Fallavollita, neil gaiman, the Wednesday run, VertigoTags: 20th anniversary, comics, Dave McKean, graphic novel, hardcover, JP, jp fallavollita, Mr. Punch, neil gaiman, The Comical Tragedy or The Tragical Comedy of Mr. Punch, the wednesday run, Vertigo
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By JP Fallavollita Posted on April 15, 2015 April 15, 2015
Endings & Beginnings With AVENGERS #44 On The Wednesday Run
EDITOR’s UPDATE: It looks like time hasn’t run out on our heroes just yet! Although listed as a release today on their website, Marvel is actually releasing Avengers #44 on Wednesday, April 29. Our multiverse and your local comic book shop have a few days of life left to them- enjoy all they offer today!
Wow! Are we here already?
Issue number forty-four of Marvel Comics’ flagship title, Avengers, and it’s the last issue of the series!
For just over three years, writer Jonathan Hickman has been regaling readers with his Marvel Universe-spanning, epically heroic, science fiction tale – and it’s all coming to an end right before this year’s sure-fire-blockbuster, Avengers: Age of Ultron, comes out in theatres!
What gives? Well, in comic book land, every ending is but a new beginning, isn’t it?
Let’s first take a closer look at the must-read end, shall we? Follow me after the jump for more on Avengers #44!
Avengers #44
Written by: Jonathan Hickman
Illustrated by: Mike Deodato
Look, I’ve been a DC Comic book reader all my life. But I hit upon Avengers #1 a few years back because I had read good stuff from Jonathan Hickman in his Fantastic Four run. That, and I got caught up in all the global Avengers hoopla because of the series of films – like a lot of other people. Mainly though, Avengers #1 was a chance for me to read up on Marvel’s greatest heroes from the ground floor via their Marvel NOW! initiative.
It was a starting point for a series that promised to be epic in scale. And Jonathan Hickman and his cohort of artists have not disappointed.
Avengers, under Hickman, has been a science fiction yarn that’s had heroic moment after heroic moment, shock after shock, and thrill after thrill. Best of all (for this newly-minted voracious Marvel reader), it was often published more than once a month – along with its companion series, New Avengers, a series which delved into the universe-spanning locales (and the main protagonists and antagonists) more thoroughly than one title alone ever could.
Just when you thought the main story was over (collected in the Infinity hardcover after two years of single issues), readers learned about the threat of the Mapmakers, the Beyonders, the Black Priests and Rabum Alal, the mysterious figure who would bring about the destruction of the entire Marvel multiverse.
The first two mind-blowing years of Hickman’s story, you see, was just prologue.
And that’s what brings us to Avengers #44, the final issue of the series. Marvel Comics has been counting down the last few months to a place where “time runs out” – and this final story serves that specific moment up: Secret Wars.
Secret Wars is Marvel’s contribution to the 2015 summer comic book crossover blockbuster, and is set to premiere with a first issue next month. But to get there, you should first go through Avengers #44.
And of course, with the film Avengers: Age of Ultron set to break box office records, and Secret Wars due to conclude Hickman’s once-in-a-generation run, Avengers as a comic book, you know, will soon begin again. But it’ll be much different than this special series.
Make the run to your local comic book shop today and pick up Avengers #44. Get in on the end and the beginning!
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The mystery material that can survive 75 nuclear blasts
Recipe for awe: Coat one egg with Starlite. Blast it with a ridiculous amount of heat until charred black. Crack it open.
Starlite in action, played at 32x normal speed.
(Miodownik/BBC Reel)
A professional hairdresser and amateur chemist invented an unbelievably heat-resistant coating called Starlite.
Military applications brought governments running, but the inventor's odd negotiating style ruined discussions.
Was Starlite lost when he died, or had it already been stolen?
Maurice Ward was a ladies hairdresser and amateur chemist from Hartlepool, Yorkshire, England, and in 1986 he invented a startling plastic coating he called Starlite. Demonstrated on BBC's Tomorrow's World in 1990, Starlite was immediately recognized as a game-changing substance scientists and military personnel had been dreaming of: A material so heat-resistant that it could provide a shield from the heat of nuclear blasts. Up to 75 nuclear blasts, according to Ward. Convinced Starlite could make him rich — and paranoid about his ability protect his formula — Ward never patented his invention so as to avoid publishing its secrets. Alas, however, Ward proved impossible to negotiate with, continually changing his asking price and being extremely difficult about loaning samples for testing. The governmental agencies and industries that rushed to acquire the rights and formula for his mysterious invention all failed, ultimately taking with them the massive payday Ward anticipated. Ward died in 2011.
Starlite’s introduction to the world
On that long-ago Tomorrow's World episode, a Starlite-coated egg was subjected to a ridiculous amount of heat and, though it became charred, it was eventually cracked open to reveal a completely pristine yolk utterly unaffected by exposure to heat. BBC has recently released a set of videos about Starlite, reported by Lee Johnson, called Searching for Starlite. The first segment includes a clip of the material's momentous debut and talks a bit about Starlite's eccentric inventor.
Stumbling into Starlite
Ward's daughter, Nicky Ward McDermott, says Ward got involved with scientific experiments at home as part of his work producing his successful and unique line of women's wigs.
He'd begun working on Starlite in response to the British Airtours Flight 28M air tragedy in 1985. Many of its 55 victims had been trapped in a burning wreckage, and Ward started experimenting with heat-resistant compounds, setting test fires in his back yard to try them out. At some point, he noticed one mixture that just wouldn't burn and he refined it further into a material able to withstand temperatures of 10,000 degrees Celsius without burning, melting, or producing toxic fumes of the sort that proved so lethal onboard Flight 28M.
Ward's claims for Starlite were impressive and subsequently verified in tests:
Cables coated in Starlite were unbothered by heats of 10,000° Celsius — about the same as a nuclear blast — when tested by the British Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE)
Starlite-lined eggs were unharmed by the equivalent of nuclear flash and a full-scale explosion when tested by NASA at White Sands New Mexico.
The UK Royal Signals and Radar Establishment found it impervious to lasers.
As retired British Ministry of Defence scientific officer Keith Lewis is careful to specify to the BBC, Starlite's strength is against heat, non concussion. In other words, it would have no issues with the heat from a nuclear blast, but an object it protects could still be blown apart by the explosion's force.
Maurice Ward
How Starlite worked
Ward was understandably cagey about exactly what comprises Starlite, though he did say it was a mixture of 21 polymers and copolymers along with some ceramic material.
When struck with heat, Starlite chars and instantly produces a carbon foam that pushes forward toward the heat source. This low-density foam is made of an extremely high-melting point material. Heat is then pushed away from the coated object's surface, and the greater the heat, the thicker the foam layer. "It's a kind of magical material. It's a thin paint, but then it becomes quite a thick, chunky insulating material," says materials and scientist and engineer Mark Miodownik to the BBC.
Starlite today
At least as recently as of 2013, Ward's daughter, Ward McDermott, in partnership with her late father's associate Chris Bennett, operated Starlite Technologies. With a ".org." — that is, non-profit — internet address, they promoted Starlite for use in firefighting, and secondarily in aviation, home protection, space, and the oil and gas industry — Ward senior had offered to help out in response to the BP Deepwater oil spill in 2010. The largest section of the site is devoted to an exhaustive history of Starlite's travails, replete with documentation of inquiries, partnerships, conspiracies, partnerships gone bad, lost life-saving opportunities, and proposals left unexplored. (The site's pages don't seem to have been updated in the last five years, though there's a note saying it's in the process of being re-designed.)
For now, whatever it is that Starlite really is must remain a bit of a mystery, as is the question of whether or not the aerospace industry and military organizations have quietly continued to work with Ward's invention.
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Fahmi confirms Azmin scheduled to launch PKR Women’s wing congress in Melaka
PETALING JAYA: PKR deputy president Datuk Seri Azmin Ali has been invited to launch the PKR Women’s wing national congress on Dec 5 in Melaka, says PKR communications chief Fahmi Fadzil (pic).
Fahmi said Azmin has been invited but he has not confirmed whether he would open the women’s wing congress.
“I have not received any information on whether he would officiate it. This is under the secretariat for the Women’s Congress,” he said in a press conference here Friday (Nov 29).
When asked separately whether Azmin will be launching the women’s wing congress, his press secretary Woon King Chai confirmed that he would.
This year’s PKR National Congress is the 14th and will coincide with the party’s 20th anniversary. It will be held at the Melaka International Trade Centre.
Azmin was earlier dropped from opening the PKR Youth congress on Dec 6, as PKR advisory council chief Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail will launch it instead.
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Dream Rock & Noise Pop in Videos: A.R. Kane – “Baby Milk Snatcher”
Track four from volume one. This one is a pretty crappy fan video with the audio taken from a skipping vinyl copy of 69. There’s no official video for this on YouTube but surely one was made, back in the day? Any insight into this would be much appreciated.
Entry filed under: avant rock, videos. Tags: avant rock, videos.
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1. cregan | March 12, 2011 at 10:59 am
the only videos they made were for Green Hazed Daze and for Pop. havent seen the one for Pop since 1989. itll appear on youtube at some point surely. Rudy called it “Alex’s little ego trip” !
2. Biggie Samuels | March 12, 2011 at 4:17 pm
Could swear I saw a video for “Baby Milk Snatcher” back in the day. Weirdly, though, I may be thinking of the video for “Pump up the Volume”.
3. Nick | March 16, 2011 at 3:58 pm
Pretty sure that Baby Milk Snatcher was featured on the BBC show Snub TV, can’t quite remember what the visual component was though.
Wow, I’d love to see that. Actually, I’d be ecstatic to have the entirety of Snub TV on DVD. I know there were a couple of VHS collections back in the day and there have been discussions about releasing a “best of” DVD but I’d like to have the whole thing, frankly.
Yeah, it was kind of a great visual supplement to what the Melody Maker were writing about at the time: House of Love, Cranes, Ultra Vivid Scene, AC Marias, Loop, Sugarcubes, Butthole Surfers etc
AC Marias, now that I’d love to see! The Buttholes clip was a classic too.
Is my memory playing tricks on me or was Snub broadcast back-to-back with Rapido? That show had some pretty good features too – MBV, Pixies etc.
Hmm, not sure about that!
AC Marias clip is here though (not their best song imo)::
oops, maybe you wanna clean that up…
10. Biggie Samuels | March 16, 2011 at 4:51 pm
Beat you to it, didn’t I? Don’t worry about the clean up. This here comments box is allowed to be a mess. 😉
11. Utreat | March 22, 2011 at 4:13 am
There was a video for Baby Milk Snatcher, I recorded it from The Indie Chart section of “The Chart Show” on Channel 4 in ’88. It’s probably still on a VHS tape somewhere…
12. Biggie Samuels | March 22, 2011 at 9:23 am
Where’s Rudy Tambala when you need him? He could sort this controversy out in a second.
13. Rudy | June 20, 2011 at 1:02 am
There was no bms vid made.
Possible u saw the when you’re sad vid, a hanheld super8 jobbie with scratchy projections and schollgirls in a playground?
Other vids were for lfos and pop
14. Biggie Samuels | June 23, 2011 at 9:55 pm
Hmmm… The “When Your Sad” clip isn’t on YouTube, sadly. Also, this makes me realise that I don’t own a copy of that 12″. Have to find one, preferably one with a “Featuring members of M.A.R.R.S. sticker! =]
15. Torgny Koren | July 13, 2011 at 5:09 pm
I’ve still got a 1990 VHS recording of what I suppose is the official “Baby Milk Snatcher video. It basically consists of a headshot of the singer + images of various stylized “icons” and female pin up silhouettes. I’d love to download it to YouTube but don’t know how.
16. Biggie Samuels | July 18, 2011 at 11:14 pm
But how can this be when Rudy himself says there was no “Baby Milk Snatcher” video? (Scratches head and looks perplexed.)
17. Torgny Koren | July 19, 2011 at 12:16 am
Yeah, weird, isn’t it?
Alex Ayuli 😉
Yeah but that really was Rudy!
19. Torgny Koren | July 20, 2011 at 7:07 am
Curiouser and curiouser… What can I say except I do have a recording of what seems to be an official Baby Milk Snatcher video.
I want to believe! Anyone got the wherewithal to upload this alleged vid?
I’ve now uploaded the BMS video to YouTube. The quality is awful but now at least you can have a look at it.
New version with better audio here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wes8tT2_YG8
23. Biggie Samuels | July 21, 2011 at 9:05 am
Well, that seems pretty definitive! I wonder what Rudy would have to say about it now.
24. More A.R. Kane Videos « Bubblegum Cage III | July 30, 2011 at 9:03 am
[…] interested in the subject of A.R. Kane videos, so here’s a reminder that – despite very well-founded claims to the contrary – there really was a video for “Baby Milk […]
25. cregan | August 5, 2011 at 5:20 am
its probable that Alex made the video by himself without any involvement with Rudy. as is the case of the “Pop” video. i dont think Rudy was interested in making videos. youd think he’d have at least TOLD him he made it though.
Rudy didnt mention it in 91 when i was plying him with questons about such matters. just Green Hazed Daze and Pop. Love From Outer Space is from later when the Americana compilation came out.
what about “Pop”? i saw it on TV at least twice. and an interview with Gary Crowley.
26. Biggie Samuels | August 5, 2011 at 8:52 pm
“and an interview with Gary Crowley.”
Oh man I’d like to see that!
AC Marias though. excellent.
I’d honestly never heard of AC Marias until people on the UK Post-Rock Group started going on about them. Same with Dif Juz.
29. cregan | August 6, 2011 at 12:25 am
did you know that Dif Juz’s drummer Richard Thomas was in Butterfly Child?
No, that’s interesting. How did that happen? Wasn’t there a member of Modern English in Bark Psychosis for a while? Makes sense that UK post-rock would be a sanctuary for members of unpopular 4AD bands. Dif Juz, though… great band.
i think he just audtioned. he’s playing on the second album and the second peel session. fantastic drummer.
He was a great drummer but I prefer my Butterfly Child with the robot drummer.
33. cregan | August 11, 2011 at 8:34 pm
absolutely. but major record companies insist on a “real” drummer.to the detriment of many a band. Curve being a glaringly obvious example. also the reason why you see the Cocteaus with a drummer after signing to Fonatana. america dont like robot drummers.
34. Biggie Samuels | August 15, 2011 at 7:46 pm
I once saw Ladytron play live. They had a bass player and a drummer with them. It was like listening to the Ladytron album with a bass player and a drummer playing along.
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2020 Holiday Season: Most Wonderful, or Most Stressful Time of the Year for College Students?
The COVID-19 pandemic is putting significant stress on college students. Mental health researcher shares how to support the well-being of college students this holiday season.
By Molly Gluck and Sari Cohen
Image credit:Noah Silliman on Unsplash
Traditionally, the holidays are a time to gather with friends and family to indulge in quality time together, delicious meals, and festivities. This year, the pandemic has stripped away the joys of gathering with loved ones, while also intensifying many stressors. For college students, this holiday season will be especially difficult as they cope with academic pressure, travel plans, isolation, and more.
Dr. Sarah Lipson, assistant professor in the Department of Health Law Policy at the Boston University School of Public Health, laser-focuses her efforts on understanding and addressing mental health concerns facing college students. Her recent research uncovered that the rate of depression among college students has increased since the start of the pandemic, and 60 percent of students report that the pandemic has made it more difficult to access mental health care.
How can we support the mental health and well-being of college students as they navigate the holiday season compounded with a global pandemic? Read on to learn more.
Why is the holiday season especially stressful this year — and what unique stressors are college students facing?
It’s important to consider the months leading up to the holiday season as the backdrop for why this holiday season feels especially stressful. We’ve all been forced to make calculated decisions about how to minimize risk to ourselves and our loved ones. We have been weighing these risks every day for months and months. It’s exhausting. Any time there is a dramatic shift in the conditions that shape these decisions, it’s even more stressful.
Image credit: Maria Brauer on Unsplash
For many college students, this holiday season introduces a much more complicated risk calculation with decisions about travel, accommodations, expectations, and the health of family members, especially older parents, grandparents, and relatives. There’s a long list of costs and benefits, pros and cons, and ifs to consider. For college students who stay on campus, especially first-year undergraduates, this fall may be the longest period of time they’ve gone without seeing their families. Some students may be experiencing homesickness and trying to weigh that against the very real fear of contracting or spreading the virus. Financial stress has also increased as a result of the pandemic, and many students are facing the reality of how they and their families can afford college in light of widespread unemployment, evictions, and other economic consequences.
Also, reflecting on the months leading up to this holiday season, college has been a very different experience this semester than ever before. Many students are grieving the loss of their previous experience and are feeling isolated from campus life. What hasn’t changed is the stress and pressure students feel about academics and grades. We need to remember that the holidays coincide with final exams and all of the stress that brings.
So, to the question around unique stressors that college students are facing, it’s really a confluence of factors related to the pandemic, academic pressure, the psychosocial development of adolescents and young adults, and the complicated interplay therein.
How can higher education institutions best support students who are staying on campus for the holidays?
This is a question that I know to be on the minds of many campus leaders across the country. I don’t think there is a one-size-fits-all approach, either for all institutions or all students at an institution. That said, I think there are some common things that colleges and universities can do to support students before and during the winter holidays/intersession. To the extent possible, minimizing academic stress during finals is an important step to promote student well-being moving into the winter break. Some campuses are allowing students to select pass/fail grading options, for example.
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Next, thinking about the students who will remain on campus during break, their needs will differ depending on a range of factors. That said, all students who remain on campus should be made aware of the resources available to them, including mental health and wellness services. It’s really difficult for anyone, especially many adolescents and young adults, to be isolated, but that is the likely reality for students who remain on campus. Establishing some sort of regular interaction within the community of on-campus students will be important, whether that be peer wellness checks by phone, virtual get-togethers, safe outdoor gatherings, or other creative opportunities to build a sense of belonging and combat inevitable loneliness. Colleges and universities should seek student input and design resources based on the needs and preferences that students express.
For additional commentary by Boston University experts, follow us on Twitter at @BUexperts. Follow Dr. Sarah Lipson on Twitter @DrSarahLipson. For research news and updates from BU’s School of Public Health, follow @BUSPH.
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Blue Nights
Joan Didion (Author)
A New York Times Notable Book and National Bestseller
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter.
Richly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion is an intensely personal and moving account of her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness and growing old.
As she reflects on her daughter's life and on her role as a parent, Didion grapples with the candid questions that all parents face, and contemplates her age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept. Blue Nights--the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, "the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warning"--like The Year of Magical Thinking before it, is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profound.
Incantory....A beautiful condolance note to humanity about some of the painful realities of the human condition. --The Washington Post
5.23 X 0.63 X 8.01 inches | 0.5 pounds
Joan Didion was born in Sacramento, California, and now lives in New York City. She is the author of five novels and eight previous books of nonfiction. Her collected nonfiction, We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, was published by Everyman's Library in 2006.
"Incantatory.... A beautiful condolence note to humanity about some of the painful realities of the human condition." --The Washington Post
"Heartbreaking.... A searing inquiry into loss and a melancholy mediation on mortality and time." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Joan Didion is a brilliant observer, a powerful thinker, a writer whose work has been central to the times in which she has lived. Blue Nights continues her legacy." --The Boston Globe
"Exemplary...provocative.... [Didion] comes fully to realize, and to face squarely, the dismaying fact that against life's worst onslaughts nothing avails, not even art; especially not art." --John Banville, The New York Times Book Review
"A beautiful, soaring, polyphonic eulogy.... What appears on the surface to be an elegantly, intelligently, deeply felt, precisely written story of the loss of a beloved child is actually an elegantly, intelligently, deeply felt, precisely written glimpse into the abyss, a book that forces us to understand, to admit, that there can be no preparation for tragedy, no protection from it, and so, finally, no consolation." --The New York Review of Books
"Profoundly moving.... This is first and last a meditation on mortality." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Ms. Didion has translated the sad hum of her thoughts into a profound meditation on mortality. The result aches with a wisdom that feels dreadfully earned." --The Economist
"For the great many of us who cherish Joan Didion, who can never get enough of her voice and her brilliant, fragile, endearing, pitiless persona, [Blue Nights] is a gift." --Newsday
"Exquisite.... She applies the same rigorous standards of research and meticulous observation to her own life that she expects from herself in journalism. And to get down to the art of what she does, her sense of form is as sharp as a glass-cutter's, and her sentences fold back on themselves and come out singing in a way that other writers can only wonder at and envy." --The Washington Independent Review of Books
"Ms. Didion has created something luminous amid her self-recrimination and sorrow. It's her final gift to her daughter--one that only she could give." --Wall Street Journal
"Didion's bravest work. It is a bittersweet look back at what she's lost, and an unflinching assessment of what she has left." --BookPage
"Yes, this is a book about aging and about loss. Mostly, though, it is about what one parent and child shared--and what all parents and children share, the intimacy of what bring you closer and what splits you apart." --Oprah.com
"Haunting." --Entertainment Weekly
"Breathtaking.... With harrowing honesty and mesmerizing style, Didion chronicles the tragic death of her daughter, Quintana, interwoven with memories of their happier days together and Didion's own meditations on aging." --Newsweek
"Darkly riveting.... The cumulative effect of watching her finger her recollections like beads on a rosary is unexpectedly instructive. None of us can escape death, but Blue Nights shows how Didion has, with the devastating force of her penetrating mind, learned to simply abide." --Elle
"In this supremely tender work of memory, Didion is paradoxically insistent that as long as one person is condemned to remember, there can still be pain and loss and anguish." --Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair
"Didion's latest memoir unflinchingly reflects on old age and the tragedy of her daughter's death."
--Best New Paperbacks, Entertainment Weekly
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Last updated: 26/11/2016 — new information in italics
These cheat sheets summarise what we know so far about the world of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. Click here for a round-up of BDB-related posts on Book Thingo.
Paradise (heroine of Blood Kiss)
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(Blooded daughter of Abalone, son of Abalone, First Advisor to Wrath, son of Wrath, sire of Wrath)
The only daughter of Abalone, son of Abalone, First Advisor to the King, Paradise grew up as the apple of her father’s eye and without her mother, who passed away when she was young.
She has survived her transition and is thin, long-legged and blonde, with an ice princess kind of beauty.
Paradise gets a call from her aristocratic stoner friend Peyton (who is also being considered as a potential future mate for her) about the reopening of the training program, now open to civilians and females. The idea to sign up takes root as Paradise realises she wants an identity beyond running a household, being a hostess, and being kept in the dark about the practicalities that affect her, such as finances.
Peyton tells Paradise she would never be accepted into the training program because she isn’t athletic and is far more valuable to the race as a wife and mother to the upper classes who don’t want to lower themselves to mate with a civilian. She has a duty as a rare surviving female of a Founding Family. She tells him to fuck off, but find pushups harder than she expected.
Her father present her with an opportunity to live and work (yes, have a real job!) at the audience house (Darius’s old place where Beth and Wrath stayed in Dark Lover before moving everyone to the mansion). It has nothing to do with their sudden visitor. Nope, not at all.
On her first night on the job as the king’s receptionist, Paradise does her best to be a good hostess by offering refreshments and conversation, while keeping on top of the admin, but there’s a lot to be done. She improves and streamlines some processes, making her father proud and impressing her king, but Abalone will not allow her to join the training program and the war.
One night, she meets a young male asking for an application to the training program. He won’t give her an email address; he needs one that’s already printed out. It’s pretty clear that he isn’t rich, but doesn’t want to advertise that fact.
She hands him the one she would have submitted, forgetting that she had start to fill it in. As she prints him a new copy, he says it makes sense for her to learn how to protect herself.
He takes off his cap and she likes his deep blue eyes and his lips. His cheeks are a bit hollow due to his slightly too lean build, but she thinks that just makes him more masculine.
He introduces himself as Craeg and leaves.
Although the application does not require female applicants to obtain male permission, Paradise finds it hard to rebel against her only living relative. Once Throe leaves, Paradise is asked to move back home, but after the first day of missing her father, Paradise finds that she enjoys having her own space and freedom. She also tells Abalone that joining the training program isn’t about fighting in the war but being able to defend herself.
She ultimately moves back home, and Abalone completes her application to the training program.
Paradise quits her job as the King’s receptionist to take her place in the training program and spends months working out and training her cousin to take over her role.
Paradise recognises a distant cousin, Anslam, in the group, as well as Peyton, and she finally sees Craeg again. He has nice dark hair without his baseball cap, a big nose, hard jaw, and deep set eyes. Although she is aware that his features may not be everyone’s cup of tea, she’s attracted to him.
Everything on their first night is a trap, from the canapes to the exercise equipment and the doorways. And there are lots of rubber bullets.
Craeg, son of Brahl the Younger, is a strategist and soon proves himself to be a natural leader. He gives Paradise some good advice before leaving her to fend for herself. They’ve only met once, so he owes her nothing. But he notes patterns in the timing of sensory assaults.
As they leave the gym, Craeg and Axe take the lead, with Novo and Boone bringing up the rear. The recruits are forced to keep walking a circuit until they can’t continue and drop off one by one. 60 recruits are reduced to 7, who have made it this far.
Anslam drops first. Paradise wants to help the fallen, but Novo tells her to keep walking. Novo eventually tires, leaving Paradise competing against Craeg. When he collapses, she tries to help him up and almost offers her vein (a very big deal for an aristocratic female). He tells her to keep going and pushes her by telling her she doesn’t belong. She can see that he’s trying to help in his own way, just as he had by checking the water and energy bars for tampering just before the walk.
She gets up and keeps going and going, even though she’s the last competitor. The Brotherhood applauds her and named her the Primus, which doesn’t seem to mean much of anything in later exercises.
She asks Anslam and Peyton to keep quiet about who she is. Peyton apologises for being a sexist dick.
While they’re recovering, Paradise and Craeg acknowledge their connection, but he is determined to keep her at arm’s length. After the death of his family in the raids, the program is all he has left, so he can’t afford distractions. And he feels that he has nothing to offer, without any money or position.
Peyton picks a fight with Craeg for checking out Paradise, bu ultimately knocks himself out. Craeg was winning the fight, but was holding back in case he killed Peyton.
This means that there’s now an even number for combat, and he is paired up with Paradise. He refuses to fight her, so she kicks his arse. He’s pretty damned turned on by that, so for her safety, Butch takes her place against Craeg.
Just as Craeg held back with Peyton, Butch holds back with Craeg. It’s a long fight, beginning with hand-to-hand and culminating in daggers. Craig doesn’t stand a chance, but fights as long as he could before collapsing in a pool of his own blood. To demonstrate the honour in Craeg’s defeat, Butch slices his palm before offering his hand to help the trainee up.
Craeg turns down the blood of a Chosen, so Paradise insists on feeding him, which is a sexual experience for them both. He holds back because he knows she’s a sheltered virgin, but she wants to watch him get himself off.
He dismisses her, ostensibly to save her virtue, but she calls him a coward for being a dick when he feels threatened. He apologises and says that rough edges are all he has to offer.
Paradise returns to a home that feels foreign to her. Peyton rings her instead of smoking weed because he feels the same sense that his home feels different now, and she can feel their old friendship returning.
Butch confronts Craeg about living in a crappy tenement and tells him he’s moving into the training centre. Craeg doesn’t want charity, but the Brother says they’re protecting the investment they’re making in him.
Peyton asks Paradise to the ball and she says yes.
Craeg is turned on by watching Paradise train and excuses himself to take care of business. When Tohr relieves V from supervision, Novo sends Paradise to the bathroom as well.
Paradise is ruined if she has sex before mating, especially with a commoner, but most aristocratic males would not want a female with her training anyway. She decides never to get mated, which is a very freeing thought.
Lash’s raids took place six months after Craeg’s transition (could he have been in the same classes as JM, Blay and Qhuinn if they were open to civilians?), where his father, along with all the servants working at the Endelview estate that night, was locked out of the safe room while the aristocrats hid. The family left footprints in the servants’ blood as they made their escape after the danger had passed. The lessers had found his father’s ID, so they knew where to hunt his family. His mother and sister were killed, and he was left for dead.
Craeg buried the bodies not burned by the sun on the estate, but had to take his father home. Someone else notified the other families.
Paradise lost seven cousins in the raids and had heard from Peyton about a family that was apparently away from home when the lesser came, and returned home to carnage. She believes Craeg. After phone sex with Craeg, he tells her he hates aristocrats for what they had done to him and has sworn revenge. Paradise tells him that his bloody revenge is the same as cold-blooded murder.
Paradise finds a red and pink stripes Polaroid. She thinks Peyton dropped it, but he dematerialises to smoke weed with Anslam before she can return it.
She’s so distracted by watching Craeg train that she trips and falls while on the treadmill. He checks on her and their argument over whether or not she needs medical attention lets everyone around them know something is happening.
Peyton enjoys telling Craeg that he had bonded with Paradise; Craeg is in denial because he doesn’t notice when he snarls at males around her. Peyton also warns Craeg to treat her well.
Paradise gets twelve stitches in her face, and although she’ll heal quickly and without a scar, she doesn’t want her father to see her. This means spending the day with Craeg.
Paradise finds her phone in a pocket of her bag that she never uses, but notices nothing missing from her bag.
During the day, Craeg ensures that Paradise has pleasure, but refuses to take her virginity. He does, however, mark her with his scent as he gets off.
Paradise tells her father that she wants to improve things for the race, without fighting in the war. He wants her to be mated to someone she loves as much as he grew to love her mother. He’s hoping for a match with Peyton, but I think she’s mistaken when she interprets his words as him wanting to arrange her mating with another aristocrat.
Most of the trainees are partying at shAdoWs, and Craeg takes Paradise to one of the private bathrooms where she takes control of her fate and demands sex. He wants somewhere better for her first time, but she’s more concerned with who she’s with than where.
She wants to do it again, but her phone keeps ringing. It’s Peyton. He’s at his cousin Allishon’s place and found it covered in blood and she’s missing.
Craeg and Paradise arrive, and when she sees the scene, she calls her father. Craeg says they need to call the Brotherhood, and Peyton says that since her father is the King’s First Advisor, she pretty much has called them.
Paradise takes photos of the scene.
Craeg is distant in his goodbye to Paradise, and after she dematerialises, he uses her blood to follow her home. He discovers that she lied to him in a massive way about who she really is. As a commoner, he could be executed for taking the virginity of the daughter of one of the Founding Families.
When she doesn’t from Craeg, Paradise calls him. They fight over her omission. He lumps her in with the same kind of aristocrats who caused the deaths of his family, which hurts and insults Paradise. She tells him about how restrictive her life is and how she only got the receptionist job because her father was desperate. She also had to lie about not fighting in the war to appease her father. Then she tells Craeg he is just as close-minded and judgmental as the glymera, before ending their relationship.
Instead of joining the other trainees at Sal’s, Paradise tells Peyton she found another Polaroid at Allishon’s apartment, just like the one she found on the bus, and that she now realises was stolen from her bag. Anslam is hanging with Peyton at the time.
Anslam picks Paradise up from her house and she thinks about how strange it is that he has this reputation for aggression against females.
He attacks her to get his photo back. She’s faster, but he’s stronger. He almost wins, but Craeg pulls him off Paradise before he could kill her, and Craeg kills Anslam with Abalone’s ceremonial dagger.
Abalone embraces him for saving his daughter.
Peyton outs their relationship to Abalone.
Craeg asks why him, when she could have anyone. He apologises for comparing her to the aristocrats who caused his family’s deaths because he saw how she tried to look out for others on the first night of training.
Craeg takes Paradise to the ball. Abalone gives his blessing to Paradise and his dagger to Craeg, who also receives the King’s Award of Valour, so he is now a titled aristocrat.
Abalone, son of Abalone
Abalone the elder distinguished himself as Abalone the Redeemer in his youth for his service to Wrath the Fair, when he reported an assassination attempt. For his loyalty, he was rewarded with the wealth and status enjoyed by his son.
The current Abalone is loyal to the current king, Wrath; however, he is facing enormous pressure from the glymera and the Band of Bastards, who are only too willing to threaten his life and his daughter’s future to get their own way. He would most want his daughter to mate with a good male first and foremost, with position and wealth as a lower priority. He found love in the glymera, so is unwilling to deny her the same chance.
He is by far the wealthiest aristocrat, thanks to the current king’s father and some savvy investments in the human world, but does not flaunt it, and prefers to stay under the radar.
As the no-confidence motion in the king must be unanimous, a verbal vote was taken. Abalone did not vote yes, but was too afraid to be the lone dissenting voice as much as he wanted to quash the vote of no confidence. He neither voted nor abstained and the motion went ahead. He was the last to sign the document and did so very grudgingly.
After resigning from the Council, Abalone emailed Wrath, apologising for not living up to his father’s legacy and having participated in the coup. He told the former king that he works with a group of civilians as an emissary within the glymera and wants to continue doing some good to make up for the vote.
When Wrath regained the throne, Abalone was named his chief cleric and helped the king get in closer contact with his people.
His daughter was unofficially adopted by the Brotherhood, and when she returned from a date before curfew, having decided the male was not for her, they decided he could continue living.
Shortly before dawn one morning, his very distant cousin Throe, son of Throe, appeared on his doorstep to beg a place to stay, bartering knowledge of the Bastards to sweeten the pot.
Abalone is struggling to keep up with all the admin of scheduling appointments at the audience house, but can’t trust anyone to help, because the only people he knows are the same aristocrats who tried to overthrow the king.
He feels uneasy over harbouring Throe, but actively does not want to know where the BDB lives and can therefore give Throe nothing useful. He tells Wrath, who wants to visit Throe at Abalone’s place immediately.
Throe says all the right things and is very convincing, but is still not to be trusted. So that Wrath would know where he is, Wrath asks Abalone to continue putting the Bastard up. For her own safety, Paradise can stay at the audience house, where she will be guarded.
Abalone dresses up her evacuation as an opportunity to work with him and not because of Throe’s arrival at their home. Not at all. Perish the thought.
He is appalled and terrified to learn that his only daughter wants to learn to fight. He is afraid of her being injured or killed in the war and cannot lose her the way he lost her mother. He’s convinced her mother could have talked some sense into Paradise, had she lived.
He inadvertently leads Throe to the audience house via a hidden GPS unit the Bastard hid in his coat.
Abalone asks Wrath if he could have his daughter back and his guest out. The king agrees and sends Phury and Z to help with the eviction, but Throe has already left, having written a letter thanking Abalone for his hospitality. He already had what he wanted, after all.
Paradise decides she prefers having her own space now that she’s been on her own for a little while, and although he doesn’t go so far as to say it, Abalone would prefer to keep her protected. There has to be a balance between ensuring her safety and holding her back.
She moves back home and he completes her application to the training program.
Butch, V and Wrath have a private meeting with Abalone on Paradise’s last night as their receptionist, to ensure that he is okay with her taking part in the training program. His position as First Advisor comes first, so if he can’t do his job because she’s in the program, she’s out. He both hopes it will be very difficult for her and that she gets cut early, but also does not want her to be disappointed.
It is hard for him to let go and let Paradise live the life she wants to because he sees a lot of danger and wants her to stay safe, especially since he lost his shellan. He wants her to find love and is hoping she could find that in a match with her friend Peyton, just as Abalone did with his arranged mate.
He embraces the male who kills to save his daughter, uncaring of his common blood, even when Peyton outs their relationship without Paradise’s knowledge.
When Paradise finally comes clean about her feelings for Craeg, Abalone is overjoyed and tells her he’s been waiting for her to tell him. He gives his dagger to Craeg, at least for the ball.
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G7 pledge to cut out fossil fuels by 2100
Leaders of the G7 group have pledged to fully decarbonise their economies by the end of the century in a bid to tackle climate change. They also agreed to provide climate finance for the people that will be the most affected by the changing climate.
The leaders of the G7 countries, which include Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan the UK and the US, met in Germany to discuss economical and political issues. Environmental issues, ranging from energy to protecting the marine environment, dominated the agenda.
UN climate talks, set to be held in December in Paris, are also fast approaching. It is hoped that the meeting will result in a universal treaty that will limit global warming to 2C above preindustrial times.
In a release, the leaders of the G7 said, “The G7 feels a special responsibility for shaping our planet’s future. 2015 is a milestone year for international cooperation and sustainable development issues.“
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Bad cases make bad law.
I’m beginning to wonder if one day we’re going to look back on this year’s BCS title game, aka The Rematch, as sort of college football’s Bush v. Gore equivalent. Check out this comment from Andy Staples:
This season’s Alabama-LSU national title game was the tipping point for the anti-playoff crowd. Several leagues were already leaning in the direction of a four-team playoff — strategically called a “plus-one” so dim bulbs won’t realize it’s actually a playoff — but when voters passed over Oklahoma State for an all-SEC rematch, the momentum finally swung in the direction of a bracketed tournament, even if it is a small one… [Emphasis added.]
If there is some form of SEC backlash involved in the playoff movement – and I’m not saying Staples is wrong to suggest there is – boy, are some people going to be disappointed when the SEC puts three schools in a plus-one tourney. (Unless, of course, they limit the number of schools one conference can place in a plus-one, which would speak volumes about Andy’s point.)
Then there’s this from playoff proponent Matt Hinton.
… For the sake of argument, let’s say Alabama beats LSU in another generally competitive game, by a margin of anywhere from one point to two touchdowns. In that case, the Crimson Tide will finish the year 12-1 with two or three wins over teams ranked in the final polls (give or take Penn State). LSU will finish 13-1 with four or five wins over teams ranked in the final polls (give or take West Virginia). They’d be be 1-1 against one another, with LSU’s win coming at Alabama. LSU will still be the SEC champion.
Under the circumstances, that’s a formula for a split championship, at worst. (The Coaches’ Poll is contractually obligated to vote the winner of the BCS title game No. 1; as LSU fans are well aware, the Associated Press poll is not.) That wouldn’t be the case if the rematch came as a result of the Tigers and Tide eliminating the competition head-to-head, on the field, leaving no questions and no alternatives. If there happens to be a rematch at the end of a playoff, it’s between two teams who have decisively earned it in a way that Alabama, in the current system, has not. [Emphasis added.]
Don’t you just love that? It’s not the rematch that’s bad; it’s the system which delivered it that’s bad. Nifty bit of circular reasoning there.
Of course the real problem this season isn’t that there’s a rematch in the title game. As Matt backhandedly acknowledges, the real problem is that there’s a debate over which team is the second best.
… That’s not to suggest that Oklahoma State or anyone else has earned a stronger claim on a second chance, either. But as long as that opportunity exists for some teams at the expense of others, the current system belongs in the scrapheap.
And because we can’t decide that issue (and because, let’s not forget, the schools want that TV/BCS money), the solution is to make the clear number one team in the country play more games so that we can all feel better about which school is the runner-up. We’re supposed to take an illogical situation and make it even more illogical.
You can see the slippery slope coming a mile away once this rationale is sanctioned, can’t you? This time it’s about #2 vs. #3. With the plus-one, the next debate will come when the argument is over which team is the nation’s fourth-best and the pressure will return to expand again to solve that debate (even if, say, it comes in a season à la 2005, when there was a clear consensus on the top two teams in the country). In other words, a playoff won’t solve this particular concern any better than what we’ve got now.
My point here isn’t to argue against a plus-one format (even though I expect most to question me on that). I’m okay with one that’s constructed with an eye towards being resistant to further expansion. There’s a convincing case to be made that there should be a better way to deal with the way the 2003 and 2004 seasons played out. But those were situations where the debate centered on more than two teams with a legitimate claim to being considered the best going into the postseason. Now we’re being urged to replace that standard with one that merely asks which teams deserve to show up in a postseason tourney, and that’s a very different animal.
Which means that if this season truly and finally provides the impetus for a D-1 playoff, either the movers and shakers embrace a new, flawed metric for inclusion, or (what I suspect) give it to us with a nudge and a wink that while it’s about what happened in 2011, the facts are unique and they promise with all their hearts that it will never, ever be a factor again. We can believe them, right?
Hey, if you can’t trust the folks who were pushing to expand the basketball tourney to 96 schools until they couldn’t find a broadcast partner willing to pay for the privilege, whom can you trust?
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126 responses to “Bad cases make bad law.”
If we are now pushing to go from a two-team playoff to a four-team playoff without changing how the entrants are determined, then what is to stop an 8, 16, 20-team playoff in the next decade?
Btw, I’ve been pushing for a “conference champs only” rule for the two-team playoff since 2001.
We assume that you took off from that position in the 2007 season.
Exactly. The larger the field, the more teams get left out too. A couple of teams can argue for the two spot, but there are probably eight teams tht would get left out of a sixteen team bracket. Few will admit that college comes closest to getting it right.
I disagree with this sentiment. “Oh, we shouldn’t have a playoff, because while we’ll definitely get teams #1 – #10, people might be unhappy with our selection of teams #11-#16. And because of that, we shouldn’t have a playoff.”
The reason few will admit that college comes closest to getting it right is because they don’t. That would be like me saying, “Hey, few will admit it that Hitler came closest to getting it right.”
So I’m a Jew hater if I’m against a playoff? Well damn, I guess I want a playoff. You win. Great point. I never thought about it that way till now, but wow. What an eye opener. Thanks.
Yes, if you don’t want playoffs, you hate Jews.
Honey Do!!
Didn’t understand that ‘Jibberish’; talk English, man; and btw, give us a playoff with 8 teams, and pick from the 12 top teams from AP & CP; no computers..
I think Adolf would have been a wishbone man, but aside from that what’s the use of bringing all that up on a college football blog?
To point out the absurdity of the statement in reference by making a similar, but exaggerated claim, to bring attention to and further elaborate my point.
I didn’t find it that exactly. But you brought the Hitler stuff into the football blogosphere, not this Dawg.
You right, Lone. Indian Rights much better topic.
Sorry. “Signed, Tonto”.
The whole point is there is rarely a season where more than 3-4 teams deserve a chance at the National Title after the regular season has been played. Teams 5-?? don’t need to be involved. Ever.
Thanks – that a better way of putting my comment above.
really? Hitler? 3 posts into a discussion? You must not be old enough to buy beer.
That’s my opinion on the issue and ought to be Topic #1 — a prerequisite for a national champ should be a regional championship. Sort of a football pyramid, of sorts.
I read this blog a lot and generally agree with what you have to say, but your anti-playoff stance is becoming increasingly dated. Hinton, who I read and respect, makes great points and I imagine 90% of the people out there would agree with him.
Alabama did not win their league, Alabama had a less impressive resume of wins than OSU, Alabama already lost to LSU at home, and the only thing Alabama had in favor over OSU was their loss was more respectable, but its hard to consider that when their loss is to the very team we’re deciding who Alabama or OSU would play.
The people freaking out about having a 4 or 8 team playoff turning into a NCAA style tournament come off to me as the same people who were scared to give women the right to vote, because whats next, the blacks?! (this is made in jest, but the point remains is you come off as outdated and paranoid).
As Hinton points out had Alabama gone through a playoff and ended up matched with LSU, it is what it is, but that would have left other teams (such as OSU) with good claims to that coveted #2 spot the opportunity to play for it. I’ve increasingly lost interest in the bowls as 8-4 teams, with coaching staffs having been fired, go through the motions. I’d rather see playoff football.
I’d rather see playoff football.
I can respect that. But it means the rest of your comment is irrelevant.
– I like your blog (how is this irrelevant?)
– I think your anti-playoff stance is outdated (how is this irrelevant?)
– Alabama does not deserve to be in national title game, though should be in a playoff with OSU (this relates directly to what I said)
– Not wanting a playoff because you’re afraid of playoff creep is paranoia (this is relevant)
I’m not sure what is not relevant.
You state a personal preference for playoff football. That’s cool. It’s also purely subjective. So turning around and telling me that my fear of playoff expansion is mere paranoia is an opinion on your part, not a factual subject for debate.
It’s pretty much the same for the rest of your commentary. For example, I don’t have an anti-playoff stance, but if I did, it’s outdated only in the sense that you prefer something else. After all, there is no playoff now (unless you consider the BCS title game a one-game playoff).
Though I’ll admit your blog praise isn’t irrelevant. 😉
No, I love your blog. #1 Fan.
I just wish you fell in line with my opinion on this issues.
Jordan – you’re simply blinded by preference. Every argument you make can probably be similarly turned around on you. For example, team A is 13-6, team B is 18-1 and they are 1-1 against each other. Team A is the champion. This is obviously absurd if the question is “Who had the better season”. But in a playoff, Team A is the champ. End of story. And like the Senator says, that’s cool if you prefer that.
But to sit here an call people who prefer the current format over a larger playoff out of date is pretty lame. Simply say “I’m a bracket buy” and you’ll find a lot more respect. Logically, both sides of the argument are reasonably compelling. I personally find the 2 team playoff more compelling simply because it places so much importance on almost every game in the regular season, which I personally favor. Those two last second pass plays broke Wisconsin’s heart this year. And the fans will still talk about it 20 years from now. I like that. This is an odd year where we really don’t need a playoff because LSU is the best team. A playoff wouldn’t change that if LSU and Bama met in the finals. One bit. Of course, playoffs seem to have a lot of odd years lately in the NFL with the wild cards winning it all. Might explain why I skip most of the regular season in the NFL and watch the playoffs.
I believe anything more than a 4 team playoff would severely dampen regular season importance of almost every game. I’ll never know for sure since I haven’t figured out the whole alternate universe thing yet, but looking at almost every other sport, it’s hard for me to argue otherwise.
Again, note I simply state personal preference.
That’s good. So was Jordan. His comments were to the point and no more inflammatory than the Senator’s. For all the reasons you seem to think a playoff has so many holes, I can rip off a littany of reasons why the present BCS system is straight BS, embraced by those who simply want to play a game of who can outbitch the other.
When you lay all the pros and cons end to end, a playoff seems more reasonable than preferential treatment to decide the top two teams to play for a championship out of 120 teams (which is absurd). If we can all get over ourselves, we should proceed as fans who give a shit, to embark on playoff planning.
Fans… playoff planning… wait, what?
You’re not seriously suggesting that we have any input in the process, are you? That would be crazy talk.
If it’s just a “+1” or 4 team playoff, it definitely expands. And it also will assuredly not allow 3 SEC teams out of the 4. It may not even allow 2 and be restricted to just conference champs. At most, I’d see it requiring 3 conference champs with 1 “at large” selection, but no more than 1.
So much for “settling it on the field”, then.
Right – and which conference championship will Notre Dame win?
But how can you be national champ if you’re not a conference champ? That’s settled on the field, right?
Although from past back and forth, I’m thinking you and I are both pretty much lock step in thoughts on this stuff.
By that rationale, Notre Dame could never be a national champ.
Your point?
Like they were ever gonna be anyway.
Switch on your sarcasm meter…
Fair enough, although they’d try and throw their weight around in the process, and maybe make themselves guaranteed as the at large when they win 10 games. Because you know, there is so much interest nationally in the Notre Dame brand.
I got them “Lockstep Blues”. {(one word. ;-)}
Yeah, you haven’t stalked me enough lately.
Goodness are we cross again? Are things slow over there at the shock blog? Nothing to poor mouth about?? Too much time on your hands? Reaching out? Let me lift up up your spirits.
There … now we can be friends again.
AthensHomerDawg; That really U doing that picking? If so stop fussing bout futball & go out pickin.. Come on & lets get something going rather than what we’ve got, it does not work neither, i cannot decipher just what would be best, but i think most everyone on these “BlogSpots” will agree with me that we need some kind of change; And who said he was going to “Bring About Change”; though it was ‘NOT’ in the realm of ‘Football’; it was about “Government”. And not seen any better; only worse!!.. There i’ve got onto another irrelevant subject.. BTW– Answer– Husan Obama..
And of course that “at large” team would be Notre Dame eight years out of ten.
I could absolutely agree with up to an 8 team playoff. I think that is a bit much because I can’t think of anytime in the history of CFB that 8 teams have “deserved” to be in consideration.
My concern is that 8 will become 12 or 16 because playoff addicts are just like alcoholics. Their motto is MORE IS BETTER. It never stops. MLB going down that path now. It is a mere matter of time before the NCAA Basketball Tourney goes to 90 plus teams. The NHL and NBA are a joke…the regular season is nothing more than extended Spring Training for both.
If we take the step on the playoff, I would want the absolute strictest rules in place to prevent this type of mindless expansion.
I don’t think a concern that an 8 team playoff would turn into a 12 or 16 playoff is adequate reason for adopting a better (in many people’s opinion) system. Sure, it could happen, and if it does, its because the market (the people) demanding it. Would we not be stoked at playing Michigan State right now for the right to move onto the next round of the playoffs? I would love that. I would be there. As of now, while I want UGA to win, I’m apathetic to the game. Its just a bowl game, a glorified scrimmage.
And lets not compare NCAA Basketball to NCAA Football. NCAA basketball has 350+ teams, football has what, 120? Also, NCAA basketball also does not have a lot of disparity. A school like Butler or Gonzaga can compete with schools like Duke or Kentucky, unlike football where there are maybe 2-10 teams that could win the national title each year.
Also, the ADs and conferences have a lot of say in what goes on in college football it appears, whereas the NCAA controls college basketball. It appears the ADs and conference officials all have the same fears as you Bob (and the Senator) and they would most likely check your fears with those rules and regulations to prevent mindless expansion.
But I reiterate, to not move towards a better system that would allow the best 4-8 teams to play for the national title on the field, simply because you’re afraid of what might happen is unjustifiable. Progress can’t be stopped because of fear.
As a card-carrying member of the anti-playoff crowd, I’m willing to listen to the other side.
But I will tune out any argument made by someone who is apathetic
about a UGA football game.
That proves a fundamental difference in the way we view college football, and it’s a gap that won’t be
bridged by any postseason system.
So how should I feel?
You’re telling me you wouldn’t have more invested in a game in which if we win we would move onto the next round to play another game for the opportunity to play for the national title? I’m sorry, but as you said, if you prefer a post season scrimmage than you’re right, there is a fundamental difference in the way we view college football.
I see no reason to set up college football in a way that attempts to crown a national champion. That’s what the NFL is for. Same reason I don’t get worked up when Walton High doesn’t
get to play Mater Dei for a national championship.
That’s the fundamental difference.
And the only good one I’ve seen in this now-volatile discussion.
Jordan has good points and is not trying to be overwhelming in his preferential statement. Others come from an opposite standpoint. We all should be able to subscribe one way or the other and reason past unsubstantiated points. It’s all good. When we have to examine our reasoning, most often we learn.
Careful Brad
In an 8 team playoff UGA-Michigan State would still be a “glorified scrimmage” because we would not be in the top 8. Do you really think that the number 8 team in the country, Kansas State, has a legitimate claim to the national championship? If not then including them in a playoff makes it just as much of an exhibition as a bowl game.
Careful Brad,
I understand, I’m just trying to address a UGA crowd by using relevant examples. Unfortunately, we wouldn’t be in the playoffs this year.
And Brad, that’s the great thing about a playoff. If Kansas State made the playoffs they don’t need a “claim” to the national championship. They just have to play well and win their games and they’ll be given the national championship. No one needs to make “claims”, they just need to get into the playoffs (by whatever measures are set in place) and then win.
And no, including them in the playoffs is not as much an exhibition as a bowl game. The MSU / UGA game is a post season exhibition game. The Kansas State versus whomever game is a playoff game in which the winner would go on to play another team for the right to play in the national title.
So Kansas State beats LSU and now Kansas State has the opportunity to move on and LSU stays home? After the season that both of those teams have had I don’t see how that seems logical. LSU beat Oregon, Bama, WVU at Morgantown, UGA, and Arkansas while K-State lost a game 56-17. If you think that makes sense then I hope you have no complaints about our home schedule next year. If I’m an AD I am not putting a team on my OOC schedule that does not start with either Eastern, Western, Northern, or Southern, it does me no good. I can beat cupcakes and get at least a number 8 seed, then I’m in!
I appreciate your response.
Yes, if Kansas State beats LSU, they deserve to move on. How could they not? Kansas State is a good team and having beat LSU in a game clearly, and irrefutably, they deserve to move on.
I have no complaints about our schedule this year. I would like to see a marquee out of conference game, but we can’t help what Georgia Tech has become ;-).
If you’re an AD you can schedule how you’d like out of conference, but you’d still (most likely) have to win your conference and in Georgia’s case beat teams like South Carolina, Florida, Auburn, etc. If UGA finished #8 I’m sure they would’ve deserved it, regardless of who they played.
Thanks for the civil debate Jordan. I don’t think either one of us will change the other’s opinion but it’s good to hear some different opinions. The college football regular season is the best and most important of any sport and a playoff would cheapen that. The great thing about college football is you have to be good throughout a four month regular season, not a three week tournament in the post season.
+1, +1
There is the truth. A playoff of too many teams will definitely dilute the CFB season. CBB used to be great. And it still is…in March for 16 days. From December to early March it is a snorefest of utterly unimportant games. #1 plays #2 and no one pays any attention at all. Believe me, it did not used to be that way before every team with a pulse made the tourney.
Be very careful for what we wish for. The CFB season is by far the best regular season going. The ending is like a whimper some times, but we have 3 plus months of great drama in MOST years. There is absolutely none of that in basketball.
+2 – see Bob’s reply above as well. Jordan wants killer post season matchups that he believes will “irrefutably” crown a champion. I still think the Patriots were better than the Giants in 07, but I guess that’s just me. The rest of us like the fact Vandy can ruin someone’s season. It’s really that simple.
Jordan’s case is better than the BCS, no matter the word differences. A playoff champions the best team at that end of the season. Isn’t that what we are discussing? If LSU loses it before the season is over, then they no longer are the best team. Pretty simple with a playoff. When we were relegated to playing Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl instead of playing for the NC at that time, can you honestly not feel we were the best in the country at that time? And wouldn’t you have given anything for the chance for that team to prove it? The BCS rooked us and as long as snarky insinuations by ESPN are taken into consideration, the BCS will remain an indeterminate method of crowning a “NC”. I personally don’t like my alma mater playing in that shitty pool. A playoff deprives the sobs of exercising decisions and provides them with only a minimum amount of power over our great University.
I’m probably being pedantic, but this:
“No one needs to make “claims”, they just need to get into the playoffs (by whatever measures are set in place) and then win.”
Could be describing the BCS. Minus the ‘s’ at the end of playoffs, it’s the entirety of the argument for the creation of the BCS championship game in the first place 13 years ago. You’re just arguing that it should be 4 teams, or 6 or 8 instead of 2. Count me in the camp that doesn’t want that, and that would be fine with scrapping the whole thing. Make the SEC championship and a trip to New Orleans the ultimate goal of Georgia and every team in the SEC. The game I grew up watching and came to love can’t support a huge playoff.
DarrrenRovelll
So if Butler had won the national title in basketball the last two seasons then they would not have had a legitimate claim to the NCAA title?
They were not seeded in the top 8 in either tournament.
Are you really making a basketball-football comparison as if it is apples to apples? Are you advocating a 65 team football playoff? Are you going to put the Horizon League champion in your playoff?
No but your argument is flawed. Are you saying that no team below the 8th seed has any hope of beating a team ranked 8 or higher?
You nailed it Jordan. The anti’s arguments are not just dated and tiring, they are flawed with the “you can’t do what is right to fix it because we would then screw it up”, as if that has ever been a reason for man not striving to make things better. We would never have had cars or planes because someone might use them unsafely. A plus one is a half-assed solution that says we know we don’t have enough entrants with two teams yet doesn’t allow just one more round, to insure the major conferences have representation. It is destined to fail because a plus one would cry out for immediate expansion because it doesn’t solve the problem of legitimate inclusion. 8 teams would do that for all but the weird.
The Senator summarily dismisses Hinton’s point about the rematch, but Hinton’s comments are irrefutable. If Bama could earn their way back to a rematch, more power to them, but to just be awarded another shot is pitiful. We have 120 teams scattered through all geographies, most all of which have not interacted,so it is pretty myopic to think the best way to determine the top team in 2011 is to replay a game we have already seen. Even worse, should Alabama win, they would still have a lesser pedigree than the vanquished LSU. How hollow will that title, or ring, be? I doubt it would bother the Tide fans at all, but who else would recognize them? They are the butt of many jokes about this already.
But this isn’t about the lack of cred of Tide fans, this is about how CFB has gone a century without finding an adequate way to have one team earn it’s way to a title bigger than a regional one. No sport, at any level, does that. But if we are going to ignore that need/desire for a true champion, let’s win it on the field and stop pretending we have a true method of identifying a champ. Let’s just stop at conference titles, they are the highest earned achievements in CFB. As silly as I think that is, I could support that ahead of the disastrous system we currently have in post season play.
Has America gone completely to preferring handouts to actually earning something?
Mac, needless to say I think your argument is overwrought, but one thing in particular stands out:
… it is pretty myopic to think the best way to determine the top team in 2011 is to replay a game we have already seen. Even worse, should Alabama win, they would still have a lesser pedigree than the vanquished LSU. How hollow will that title, or ring, be?
Isn’t that an argument that we don’t need a playoff at all?
As I have said many times before, I would rather have no claims of having a champion than this phony process we now have. I am cool with everyone having their conference champion and nothing beyond…certainly nothing as contrived as what we have now. It is the falseness of it that bothers me most.
How so? In what way does his quote argue that we don’t need a playoff?
He clearly states:
“If Bama could earn their way back to a rematch, more power to them, but to just be awarded another shot is pitiful. We have 120 teams scattered through all geographies, most all of which have not interacted…”
At this point the anti-playoff crowd is like the old man resistant to change, not because of actual, sound reasoning, but because he’s afraid of change itself.
I know you’re an educated man Senator, but I can’t help but feel you’re anti-playoff stance is simply a rabble-rousing maneuver to draw page views. Fess up.
If LSU is the best team, regardless, what’s the point of a playoff?
Also, I’ve got better things to do than write merely to draw page views. That’s Mark Bradley territory, thanks.
In reality, this is a year where LSU deserves the pre-1995 system. The best system for college football is a variable system that is flexible according to the state of things after the regular season. For this year, the pre-bowl alliance system would work as we have one clear top team. For years like 2005, 2006, or 2010, the current regular season plus BCS model is great. For years like 2003, 2004, or 2007, a 4, 6, or 8 team playoff may be needed – though I’ve never seen a season where 8 teams had a legitimate argument that they were number one.
Any playoff should be limited to teams that have a legitimate argument that they are number one. If it’s just one team, nothing is needed. If five teams, then the 4 and 5 play and the winner advances to a 4 team playoff. To determine what is needed, you would need a set metric that qualified all teams within a certain point ranking or score of the number one ranked team. Ideally, this system would contain record, strength of schedule, and a component that gave additional credit to schools from conferences that had won recent national championships.
Although this would only result in at most 3 additional games, I doubt such a system would ever be accepted due to the uncertainty at the end of each year- despite the fact it may be the best way to determine a true national champion and still keep emphasis on the regular season.
Dawgaholic;
I think you may B forgetting about the inclement weather we have at ‘Bowl Playing Time’. If all wining teams playing in Bowls could play in Domed Stadiums, then that would be grand; but reckon that could B the case? Hardly..
Note that the title is ambiguous as to what the subject matter of the post might be, thus negating any chance of increased page views from people who might be “roused” enough to click through to it simply because they disagree with it.
WVMtnDawg
I think its supports the argument that there are too many FBS programs out there. 120 is too many, we should have less, and let conference champs settle it on the field against each other.
It really is that simple WV, If we can just get those mid-majors to step back. That was close to what the BCS founders tried to do but they left the door ajar. The 4 Super Conferences could accomplish this in the next few years but it would be cleaner if there were different divisions established for the have and have-nots.
“No sport, at any level, does that.”
Not true. High school football.
I understand that the money and the stadiums and the TV contracts of CFB resemble the NFL, and that’s great, because it puts UGA on my TV every Saturday. I just don’t want it to copy the NFL on the field, because I find the NFL very boring.
Don’t think Mac’s argument is “overwrought” at all. That would make yours “overbought”, Senator.
The words “National Champion” should be dissected. Some of us put different meanings to the words than do others.
Yeah, I see exactly what you mean.
It may be a leap (but not overwrought) to compare Bammers with the entitlement mentality spreading from the Leftist movement, but the whining and begging for another shot is annoying for similar reasons. Of course, there are those who don’t see a problem with either.
And , as sharp as your vision is with all matters football, I really don’t think you “see exactly” much at all when it comes to what is going on outside the game. JMO.
From Jordan:
Yeah – not overwrought at all…totally logical – after all this isn’t an opinion it is FACT that a playoff will be better for every single person!
I’m a Saints fan, and I hate that the Saints are probably going to have to play the Falcon’s in the first round of the playoffs, for the 3rd time in 8 games. Talk about watering dwon the regular season.The worst the Saints can be this season against the Falcons is 2-1, but if that’s the case, the Falcon’s will have had a better playoff run than the Saints. Nobody has ever complained about the fact that teams that already played in the regular season play again in various playoff formats until the BCS did it.
See the Senator’s circular reasoning in the post.
That’s just a bit over the top. Where do you get off attaching some nasty label on someone who doesn’t agree with you and then ask for a pardon for rude statements because it was supposedly done “Tongue in Cheek”. “One day climate change skeptics will be seen in the same negative light as racists, or so says former Vice President Al Gore.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/28/gore-global-warming-skeptics-are-this-generations-racists/#ixzz1i2oK49tk
Now this from the guy who invented the internet and you both concern me.
I may be outdated but I do enjoy the long standing traditions of college football. The bowls are one of those traditions and I would like to think the athletes enjoyed playing in them as much as I enjoy watching them. It was something we always looked forward to and they do too!
“The BCS was not designed to award the national title to the most deserving team; it was designed to make money for the top-20 or so programs in Division 1.
Football programs need cost certainty; the business model of D1 athletics depends on it. The “revenue” sports (men’s football and basketball) generate millions of dollars in profits that are re-invested into “non-revenue” (Olympic and women’s) sports, as well as various facilities to enhance/solidify recruiting.
Why exactly are poor inner city kids sacrificing their bodies to subsidize suburban kids playing country club sports in college anyway? **
So it doesn’t matter that a playoff system will bring in more money to college athletics. That’s money the NCAA would get its hands on; money that would be spread much more equally around the 100+ Division 1 programs. The big-time programs would rather have bigger cuts of a smaller pie than smaller cuts of a larger one.
That’s the fundamental problem with playoff proponents’ – they think they are talking to a business when they are actually negotiating with a monopoly.
And like all monopolies, the six BCS conferences aren’t looking to give up their power.
The way the system is set up now, if you go undefeated in a BCS conference, you will play for a national title. Except in a rare occasion like 2004, when USC, Auburn and OU all finished undefeated.”
Now unless you are a racist, sexist, Nazi homophobe wife beater…. I’m sure we can agree. (Just kidding..it’s all good!)….right?
or “overwrought”.
I am all for a plus one as long as the College Administrators fix it as a long term contract to stem the voracious appetite that exists for playoff addicts. And make it a requirement that you must win your conference. We know Alabama is inferior to LSU. I would like to KNOW that Oklahoma State was.
And yeah, I am hoping against hope that LSU beats the ever living hell out of Bama just so I can see Herby tell us how this was the right match up. That alone would be worth it.
I like the cut of your jib, Bob … and in a football way. ‘Special interests’ have that certain special habit of nibbling at the edges of issues and exploiting the idea of a utopian solution to common inconvenience. Once the lid is off the ‘playoffs bottle’ the result will be a stampede for profit. And, I think, the inherent unpredictability of semi-amateur football will be gone down the drain.
As opposed to the current state of football where conferences and broadcasting companies ink billion dollar deals and we have 30+ bowls simply because they rake in profit. Yea, playoffs are really going to ruin college football and cause a stampede for profit.
To be a playoff opponent simply because the bowls have existed and that’s “how we’ve always done it” is absurd. Doing something wrong, even if you’ve been doing it wrong all along, is still wrong.
Well, that’s just like your opinion, Man…If and when there is a movement toward a playoff it will only be about one thing —- DOLLARS (or yuan)! Profit is what has proliferated these Belk/Meineke/San Diego Credit Union(?) Bowls and should sponsors be presented with a business plan that increases revenues faster they’ll jump on it like Chuck Berry on a honky girl.
I think you may be confusing what is best for a marketplace of jackal advertisers vs. the maintenance of the most meaningful regular season on the American sports landscape.
I’m not confusing anything. A playoff might be best for the marketplace, but that’s irrelevant, its whats best for college football. The regular season would still be meaningful and please spare me that line when Alabama, who did not win the SEC and lost to LSU at home during the regular season, was selected to rematch LSU for the title game.
Again, I don’t understand why the regular season would all the sudden lose its meaning. Look at this year. In an 8 team playoff, there would only be 8 coveted spots. A single loss could knock you out of the running, just like now. The regular season would maintain its importance. The whole “the regular season would lose its importance” argument is old and holds no water.
I don’t like the prospect that Bama gets another crack at LSU, but sell those goods to the voters. Those Harris Poll grandpas and the Coaches Poll sycophants are the responsible agents for elevating Alabama above OSU.
Strength of schedule, in some form agreeable to every conference, must be sprinkled into this BCS formula or else all manner of subjective bias can creep in.
We think it’s hard deciding who the second best team in America is, wait til we have to decide who the 8th or 16th best is.
But they rake in the profit because the large BCS schools also control the power too.
If they opt for a football in the FBS division, we will see a major shakeup in the NCAA. There will be a big fight and it will be bloody. Non-BCS schools have reasonable representation and revenue sharing from the basketball and they will demand the same from a football playoff.
This probably why the BCS conferences floating the “plus one” are calling it such. Labeling it a playoff will open the Pandora’s box with the potential to completely destroy the NCAA as it is currently structured.
Ty Webb
By your reasoning, we KNOW UGA is inferior to South Carolina. Why did UGA make the SECCG? Because of how the rest of the season played out for those two teams and others. Same reason Bama was able to slide into the NCG.
If Bama beats LSU an LSU is voted #1 in the AP, will they claim a national championship? Anybody remember 2003? That would be fun to follow on the LSU boards!
Yeah, I just thought about that. I would really enjoy hearing them debate themselves. I might just start cataloging some of their arguments from 2003 for fun.
Having seen both Bama and Okie State play several times this season, I can tell you I don’t need to watch LSU play Okie State to KNOW LSU is better.
I don’t even need to spend the night at a mid priced motel to know it.
If you don’t KNOW LSU is better, well…maybe you should find some other sport to be interested in.
Scorpio,
I think I have been around long enough to know something about this sport. Do you really know that LSU is better? For fact? I think they are better. Hell, I THINK Alabama is better that OSU. But I do not know that they are not better than Alabama. Don’t need to see that show again.
And no matter how smart you think you are, you don’t know either. Did you assume Utah was better than Alabama? Oh, I thought so. 😉
Bob;
I think we “ALL” should wait until 1/09/12 to see who wins “THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES”;
Alabama OR
LSU ?
If Bama comes up and wins!! Well stranger things have happened.
Wasn’t it not 2 many years ago when LSU was undefeated and came time to play (was it Kentucky, or someone else) whomever? And that whomever beat them handidly. I say “Don’t count your ‘Chicks’ B4 they hatch”. If LSU goes into that game “OverConfident”; well don’t B suprised if BAMA pulls out a win; I Said; “Stranger Things Have Happened”..
The only reason I’d like to see Okie State play LSU is to watch LSU destroy them. Alabama is the only team that has a chance (and a good chance) to beat LSU if they’re both on their games. Ok State, not so much.
As long as the number of SEC teams are not limited in a playoff system and just based it on rankings of some sort. I still can see the SEC dominating and other conferences unhappy.
You can already see the dilemma coming for UGA next year (yes, that’s premature I know but we do have a very easy SOS, i’ve heard…)
Undefeated UGA wins East
Undefeated LSU wins West, beating one-loss Alabama (or vice versa)
West winner beats East winner in SECGC.
Two 1-loss SEC teams remain, both losing only to #1 ranked LSU.
who goes to the BCS CG? The divisional winner? But we just demonstrated that isn’t a criteria this year. Is it the one with the higher ranking? that will likely be the one that lost earlier in the year.
I think this year’s rematch sets bad precedent, and sort of upturns previous precedent from 2007 when some Eastern division team didn’t deserve to go to the Championship because they didn’t win thier division. I forget who that was…
reipar
Did I actually see a slippery slope argument?! When I was in school it was not against the conduct code to punch someone for making a slippery slope argument in crim pro.
The bcs is designed to get the two best/most deserving teams in. You can’t make the argument that Osu is better or more deserving than Alabama. Moreover, you can’t justify LSU having go win 2 games to claim the national title when they shouldn’t have to play one. This is ahead in which the old system of choosing a national champ before the bowls makes the most sense. Instead, you have a system where the most accomplished regular season team has to beat a team it beat on the raid to claim a trophy. Rather than acknowledge the stupidity of that process most want to aggravate it by making LSU beat two undeserving opponents. I just can’t make any sense out of that.
so much of this season’s anti-BCS argument seems to be summed up in the following sentence: “We dont like seeing LSU play Alabama again.”
Well, I dont like it either, but anyone who thinks these arent the two best teams this year just hasnt been paying attention. If your point is “Alabama shouldnt be in this game because they already had their shot at home and lost,” I can’t argue against that; however, the BCS rules dont prohibit it. Does anyone really think OK St’s O would do much against the Bama D? Does anyone think a mediocre OK St D would do much to slow down Bama’s O? Substitute Stanford or Oregon for OK St, same conclusion.
I can see the argument that a second place team in its division shouldnt play for the title. Fair enough. But if your goal is to put the two best teams in the title game, this year is your dream game. Makes no sense to me to make LSU play MORE games to get to the title game.
If the BCS title game is to determine which is the best team in the country, everything such as conference titles, affiliations, schedules, who Corso is in love with, who Herbstreet is trying to screw, great traditions, and so on and so on need to be put aside. Let a computer program decide who’s stongest. If it’s two teams from the same conference who have already played….so be it. BUT if it’s about making every region and conference feel needed and building the biggest national audience, figure out a playoff system. Pandora can help arrange it. It will give a lot of people the warm fuzzies to think that their team is “going to the big dance”, or is “on the bubble” (just to use the more boring sports’ tourny lingo).
Just think of the possibilities. If you think the a-holes at espn (just for instance, not to be picking on that wonderful cast) are sickining in their partiality now…just wait until you have a playoff system. Game day will have to start at midnight on Thursdays just so they can get their politicing in….
Keeping it like it is sucks.The subjective, human element has to be removed and this is the time in history where, thanks to technology (computers) it can actually be done. Just don’t let GT write the program.
But even if we finally got it all perfect….with computers or playoffs or whatever, one bad call by a biased referee could sink the whole thing….again. And it WOULD happen…again. Or someone would sue that the computer program wasn’t written perfectly and some quirk left their team out.
Oh, well. It never hurts to try.
Bottom line here…this year the two best teams are playing for it.Next year maybe not…one of them might get stuck playing Hawaii becase Corso says so.
What if you had three polls at the end. If they disagreed, any of the teams could challenge one of the others to a playoff game. They would have to be willing to put up one million dollars and forfeit it and every cent they made on the extra game to charity if they lost. They’d have to be pretty confident, as would the opposing team to accept the challenge. You think OSU would do this against LSU? KSt against Bama?
Yes…I’m crazy. Just fun.
I think you would have the same problems with a play off system that you do now. Somebody’ s going to be left out and will start whining about the unfairness of it all. What if 4 of the top ranked 8 teams are from the SEC? You would again hear how the system is rigged to favor the SEC from all those other conferences that don’t know how to play defence.
Yeah, but the differences in selecting the 16th team (I just used that number because it will piss someone off) are so close that you may settle for a raffle system. Now there we go! Select the top 8-12 teams and throw 8-16 in a pile to raffle off the next placements. These would be called The Future Incoming National Games Raffle and by acronym would be known as the FING Raffle, shortened by some to FING R. By having this Fing Raffle, we can stipulate we are giving the BCS the FING R.
I’ll have to check with corporate to determine the use of the FING R logo since that conflicts with the next model name for Fing Scooters.
surely!
Dear 4 Team Playoff Advocates,
Please explain how the argument of Bama vs. OSU is not the same, if perhaps not even more intense, between #4 Stanford and #5 Oregon?
Oregon beat Stanford, Oregon is the Pac (whatever) Champion. Oregon lost to LSU. Stanford has arguable a weaker schedule. Stanford beat USC in triple OT, Oregon lost to USC by 3.
And if you want conference champs only, Bama’s out and Whisky is in (as well as Oregon, so you’ve got #5 and #8 in the playoffs, while #’s 2, 4 , 6, and 7 are out)?
I’m not sure what that would be, but it’s not “progress”.
It’s a clarion call for 8-16 teams in a playoff! Outstanding, AusDawg.
It’s called the pros. They play on Sunday. Check it out sometime.
Every year, without fail, a four team playoff is messier than the two team BCS. Every year. The argument I get is that people won’t care about who is 4 or 5 as long as they ‘know’ that the best teams are in the playoff. But you won’t know that. Look at this year. No one is arguing that LSU shouldn’t be in there. And no one is arguing that Bama or OSU are better than LSU. The quest is whether or not Bama is better than OSU. Move it back, is Stanford Better than Oregon? Move it back, is Kansas State better than South Carolina? Is Michigan State better than UGA? I guess we’ll find that one out, but I assure you if we just got the spot and they were left out (they’re currently 17th in the BCS to our 16th) they’d be screaming mad.
I doubt anyone will be able to give a serious answer to this. Any takers?
The lone voice in the wilderness. I am against the BCS as it now stands.
I am against any team playing in more than 2 bowl games.
I like the bowl system in place now EXCEPT: I am a proponent of a PLUS ONE (4 TEAM PLAYOFF).
That would settle the National Championship issue for me every year.
all great points made by the senator….
I find the most irritating element whenever someone attempts to examine the DI FBS “Champion” is that they do so in a vacuum, completely isolated from causation and rationale. We have a current system in place for post-season play that by-and-large is irrespective of the polls (save the BCS bowls) and is settled by conference ranking. We have large scale exhibition games geared at pitting equal conference opponents against each other.
If we introduce a “+1” system of a 4-team playoff scenario, it would be honest for us also to actually address how the rest of the bowls will be impacted. No, it won’t be “just an extra game”. It will essentially become two post-season seasons; the “haves” and the “have nots”. I think what gets lost in all of this is what bowl games represent to college football. These really aren’t “just games”, they are winter vacations for both the schools and fan bases that travel. Its a big deal and an event (even when teams lose the bowl game). The perspective of the spectator that actually takes part and attends the game is missing from this discussion. The “playoffs or bust” is mainly coming from people who are just casually watching on the tube.
What is ‘broken’ in the current bowl series? Is it JUST determining the National Champion? If thats all it is…then I suppose we have to ask if something could help weight these teams to create a consensus of a team’s ability. We already have it – its the BCS score combing several polls and computer formulas. The “National Champion” isn’t endorsed by the NCAA (it is completely a concoction of the ‘BCS’ collective), so whatever we’re attempting to do here is simply for TV and sponsor revenue.
It would be nice the next time some sportswriter brings up this argument, that he does his homework and actually illustrates what would happen from all perspectives. Is the current bowl system profitable for the bowl, for the hosting city, do the teams actually profit, what impact does being a bowl winner (no matter how trivial the bowl) have on a program – instead of just how making a change to satiate ESPN ratings?
Hilarious to see all the “regular season is so sacred” crowd defend a system that completely ignores the November 5 game between LSU and Alabama. No requirement to earn it, let’s just hand them a do-over. I understand that some prefer no playoff at all, but at least be consistent. If you aren’t gagging about this, then you weren’t sincere about the sanctity of the regular season. This is the worst of all scenarios. It knocks out the “regular season” argument in a way a playoff never could.
And I am a “regular season is sacred” guy who supports a limited playoff because it would enhance the regular season.
This again? It doesn’t ignore the November 5 game. LSU is 1 and Alabama 2 because of that game. The nice thing about the system is that it also factors in the other 11 weeks of the season in arriving at the matchup. In those other 11 weeks Alabama didn’t play a game closer than 16 points. They were also the only team to stay within 13 of LSU. I don’t like the rematch, and I’ve always thought they should have a conference championship requirement for participation (with exemptions for independents). However, Alabama has no embarrassing losses and pretty clearly looks like the second best, if not the best, team in the country by any metric you want to use.
Beyond my other argument, even if I concede that in this one particular instance the regular season is somewhat diminished by this rematch, why in God’s name would I want to switch to a system that would ensure multiple instances of regular season matchups between top teams being only determiners of seeding?
Bogus.
If LSU beat Bama 27-3 on Nov 5, I guarantee you OSU is in the title game.
Bama rightly gets credit for playing LSU very close.
The regular season matters.
Patrick..very important point. The closeness of that game begs for the rematch.
Also, I came away thinking that Alabama was a little better overall. That may no longer be the case with Jefferson playing QB. He certainly gave the LSU offense a spark when he entered that game.
Guys, having a playoff whether it is 2,4 8, 16, or 32 teams does not guarantee you will identify the best team…ever. Each match-up is unique and results are for that day only. We can all make extrapolations based on interwoven five-off game results, but you never really know who is the best…that will always be argumentative. Only the intensity of the argument will vary. You can have a NC though, if you have a representative playoff.
If anyone using the “regular season” stuff isn’t disgusted by what the rematch says about the importance of the regular season results Biggus, I don’t guess we are discussing the same thing. It couldn’t be a more direct assault the foundation of the regular season’s significance.
And a playoff is not an even more fierce assault on the regular season? Seriously, if LSU having to play Bama is a travesty, what is LSU having to play Stanford and then Bama, or K State, Stanford, then Bama? You can’t make an argument that the BCS harms the regular season’s sanctity and argue for a playoff at the same time.
Dude – rematches happen ALL the time in the pros. Giants/Pats anyone? Yes – smaller population granted. We’ve had 2 (that I can remember) maybe 3 rematches in the BCS history. Guarantee playoffs it happens as well. This is a tired argument. A playoff won’t prevent rematches. A 2 team playoff (which the BCS really is when you get down to it) won’t as well. Your first paragraph, with the exception of the last sentence, is the most coherent thing you’ve written on this post. You “can” have a NC either way. But it means different things to different people.
But the regular season will get diminished the larger the playoff gets. Go look at revenue distribution of most (if not all) playoff sports and then look at what we have. Not too difficult to figure that one out, but it’s not something the playoff advocates tend to address.
Dave, first of all I am not a “dude”, nor have I ever been referred to as one unless I traveled from the East to the Old West in another life. Just cannot recall that far back.
Secondly, if you honestly don’t see how a playoff of 8 teams from a group of 120 differs with what the NFL does (or the NBA, NHL, NCAA Basketball, etc) there is simply no way to have a conversation with you on this subject. You seriously don’t think they are relevant do you? I have always said I opposed the 12, 16, 32, or more playoff proposals for many reasons. And, a well designed playoff of 8 would most definitely enhance the regular reason by making each game precious and a step to something very significant, something earned, something never accomplished before (beyond the Conference title, of course, which is actually earned.)
If Oklahoma State had lost twice in the regular season, would you still exclude ‘Bama from the title game?
Yes, if presented with the current “vote them in” option, I would have taken the next best team from a different region of the country….Stanford probably. Let’s face it, Bama is really only in because of a small plane crash involving OSU coaches.
Stanford didn’t win their Conference, or even Division, either. You’d have to take Oregon, right? Wait… they already lost to LSU too.
Oregon 53, Stanford 30. ‘Course, that would be a rematch, too. 😉
That is why I wouldn’t take Oregon. Keep in mind, I am not in favor of a 2, or 4 team playoff…was just answering what I thought would be the best choice if OSU were not available with the resume they have.. I would choose to not pretend that would be a NC at all until we really have a playoff.
While respecting all opinions on a college fotball playoff, have to say we begin to take on fake expertise when we argue points we have conjured up from media info. It just creeps into all our arguments. It all begs for a study of playoffs that are already set in college football transposing over to study such a large number of interests that reside in college ball.
I confess that most of my interest in a playoff comes from negative aspects of the BCS and all the self-serving interests from afar who try to and sometimes impact my alma mater negatively and in a poor spirit of competition. And sometimes what I write as attempted humor somehow begins to look more and more plausible.
It’s time to up the FING R plan for the BCS.
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We’re gonna need a bigger Process.
Jeez, four games into the season, and I’m already typing one of those existentialist posts about Georgia football that I loathe. Not a good look, Dawgs.
I’m sure there is a temptation on the part of some who thought a coaching change was unnecessary to point to yesterday’s crushing loss as a certain form of vindication. Since I was a Richt agnostic by last season, while I can understand the sentiment, I can’t say I share it.
And I’m not gonna even touch this one:
Four games into the season and I'm seeing some fans ready to fire Kirby Smart
— Anthony Dasher (@AnthonyDasher1) September 25, 2016
The problem with jumping to conclusions after four games is that you’re relying on a small sample size to justify a big picture argument. Even so, I do think there are certain takes that are justified early on.
This team has some serious structural flaws in personnel. Georgia doesn’t appear to have an offensive tackle. It certainly doesn’t have a reliable place kicker. (Auburn got a school record six field goals in its win yesterday; it’s legitimate to question whether Georgia will exceed six field goals for the entirety of the 2016 season.) It’s starting a true freshman quarterback who’s never played in a pro-style offense before this spring. The defensive line is both green and thin. Some of these issues will likely be addressed through more experience, but some don’t stand a chance of being fixed this year.
Jacob Eason isn’t the only rookie in red and black. I don’t know if you heard what Greg McElroy said during the broadcast, but it really stuck with me. Basically, he noted that he came out of a similar high school shotgun passing attack as Eason did, but whereas he got to learn the ropes on Alabama’s scout team for a season, Eason is getting his baptism by fire in live SEC play. That’s understandably rough. The same thing, relatively speaking, can be said about his head coach. Smart may be a Saban clone — at least that’s what we’re hoping — but he doesn’t have Saban’s history. Saban was a head coach at three other college programs and on the NFL level before taking the Alabama job. By the time he got there, he’d had plenty of time to learn what did and didn’t work running a program. Georgia, on the other hand, is OJT for Smart. Once again, we’re seeing that working for a great head coach and being a great head coach aren’t the same thing.
The team hasn’t bought into Smart’s vision for the program. Small sample size arguments can cut both ways and, like it or not, it’s noteworthy that in four games, Georgia hasn’t shown up to play in half of them. Yes, it’s true that Mark Richt had his share of humiliating losses. So that’s nothing new… except that Richt had a few years under his belt before we started seeing those. You want an even nastier comparison? Kirby Smart’s fourth game was a 31-point loss to a conference opponent that for a while was on pace to be an epic disaster for the program. Richt’s fourth game led to Munson’s Hobnail Boot call. Sure, it’s not like Georgia didn’t lose a few more games that year after the Tennessee win, but it was clear that the team had bonded with the coaching staff in a way that made them believe. The mindset of this year’s squad is nowhere in the same vicinity of the 2001 team. The question yet to be determined is when the players will buy in. (Using “if” in that last sentence is too depressing for me to consider.)
At the time of the events leading to Richt’s dismissal and Smart’s hiring, you will recall that my misgivings centered around the athletic administration’s inept track record in hiring/firing. If the stories we heard at the time were true — the fig leaf of hiring a search firm to cover a decision that McGarity had already reached and the panic that hit several big boosters from the news that Smart, one of “our guys”, was speaking with South Carolina about becoming the head coach being just a couple of those — I think my concerns were certainly valid.
I mention this not because I’m seeking my own form of vindication here, but because if Kirby Smart does have a vision in the sense of a concrete plan on how to take the Georgia program to the next level, he’d best realize he’s on his own on implementing it and bringing it to fruition. The people he answers to don’t have a clue. (I’m betting McGarity has begun honing his “remember what Saban’s first season in Tuscaloosa was like” marketing pitch to the fan base and Mark Bradley for next offseason. That should work like a charm.)
I assumed Smart went into this season trying to have his cake and eat it, too, by transitioning the program into his model while remaining competitive enough to be a factor in the divisional race. There’s a very good chance a week from now that approach will have been blown to shreds. Tennessee may or may not be as good a team as Ole Miss, but that won’t matter in the slightest if Georgia doesn’t show up for the game next Saturday.
If that is what happens, that’s when things really start getting interesting around Athens. Kirby may know where he wants to go with Georgia football, but that doesn’t mean he knows the best way to get there, or maybe even any way to get there. Regardless, I expect him to try and stand by his convictions in that regard. Where this all goes in 2016 if his team never buys in to it, for whatever reason, could get pretty ugly. For a lot of reasons, I hope things never reach that point. But I can’t say I’m not a little uneasy this morning in that regard. Piling up bad efforts in a very short time can do that to a person.
UPDATE: I see from some of the comments in response to this post that I’ve created some confusion with regard to the terms “buy in” and “show up”.
Let me just say there’s more than one context for those terms. Sure, both can be taken in a purely psychological sense. But I was also thinking of that post of mine from several years ago about how Georgia’s biggest problem on defense in Martinez’ last year or so was the lack of trust the players had in the coaching staff’s approach to mechanics and game planning, which in turn led the staff to lack trust in the players’ ability to play.
There’s a similarity in my mind between that and Georgia’s 2016 secondary. Smart and Pruitt both come from the Saban coaching tree, but their approaches are different. Pruitt played a lot of zone and dropped the linebackers into coverage a lot to help protect a secondary that had its share of shortcomings on the talent/experience side. Smart is all in with what worked at ‘Bama: much more man coverage and pattern matching. That’s a big change and his defensive backs, based on what we saw yesterday, aren’t even close to being on the same page. Are they buying into what Smart’s preaching? I can’t read their minds. But it was obvious yesterday that they might as well have been invisible on most of Kelly’s touchdown throws, because they offered zero resistance in coverage. In my mind, that meets a definition of not showing up.
I’ll leave it for you to describe the team’s mentality for the Nicholls game.
My apologies for not being clearer with my meanings.
198 responses to “We’re gonna need a bigger Process.”
I went to the UGA/Ole Miss game in 2012 (37-10 and it wasn’t even that close). How did Ole Miss get to where they are now and how did UGA get to where it is now? I was shocked at how UGA was so physically overmatched. Wow…
Because Ole Miss pays their players.
And we don’t have any, paid or otherwise, it would appear.
Did I see Maurice Smith on a milk carton? Where was he the last 2 games? Witness Protection?
I know our players are getting used to a new staff, new signs, new process, etc., but our secondary looked like they had never covered a receiver before. It looked like they were new to the game of football.
GATA 72
#7 Carter makes Ray Drew look like LT in his NFL prime
How long can we go in this thread before Richt is mentioned (aside from that one)
T-Minus 3…2..
Great post Senator and right on the money. I also wanted B-M to hire an experienced HC with a proven track record of winning. But instead we have Kirby Smart as our HC whether we like it or not. We have no real alternative except to get behind him. He’s going to make mistakes, some we can see and others we can’t see. It is painfully obvious that this team hasn’t bought in to what Smart is selling–yet. Let’s hope they do. Nothing is worse in football than a team foundering on the rocks like a rudderless ship. Things could get really ugly if they don’t.
Saban coached at 10 or more stops as an assistant, including 2x in the pros before he landed as HC for Michigan.
Everybody has that first time shot.
Michigan State when Sparty sucked and was the Wolverines’ whipping boys
Yes. There is that.
He beat a number 3 Michigan abd number 10 Florida his last year as Michigan’s whipping boy. He finished in top 10 and moved to Louisiana.
Absolutely – my point was that Sparty had to go the career assistant route at the time Little Nicky was hired
Ahhhh….fair enough. But the career assistant blossomed. Not as an NFL coach. Are you thinking Smart moves on ….after 3 or 4 years then.
I don’t know. I guess my point is that we weren’t in the situation that Sparty was when they hired Saban. Other than Saban, Corch, Jimbo, Big Game Bob and D’Antonio, we could have had any college head coach we wanted.
I hope Kirby is wildly successful and retires as the winningest coach in Georgia history by wins, winning percentage, and championships.
I whaaaa
Other than Saban, Corch, Jimbo, Big Game Bob and D’Antonio, we could have had any college head coach we wanted.
Name a few.
Herman, possibly Shaw, Strong (although his star has fallen), Petrino(!), among others …
Don’t forget Jason Fuentes who went to VT.
And Bronco Mendenhall who went to Virginia. Even South Carolina hired a HC with prior HCing experience even if Boom’s past experience is questionable at best LOL. I think Jim Mclewain will prove that he’s done more with less in his first two years than Kirby once he makes it thru 2 years and JM inherited a mess at Florida.
All the talk was that Herman pulled his name out at USCe when Richt was relieved of his duties in Athens. If we had conducted a search, names would have lined up for the opportunity to coach at UGA. Everyone says it’s a top 5 or 10 job. Why wasn’t a national search conducted? If Kirby got through that, we would have known we got the best guy.
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I want Kirby to be wildly successful because I don’t want to get into the “Hire, Struggle, Fire” cycle we’ve seen elsewhere or that we went through between 1989 and 2001.
Don’t forget that Clay Helton was the interim coach at USC. My point is that virtually every major P5 football power that’s hired a new HC over the past few years hired someone with prior HC experience whether it was at an FCS or FBS school with UGA being a notable exception.
Kirby speaks often on “imposing your will” on an opponent with physical, relentless, tough, knock-you-back play.
This approach can be successfully implemented if you have invested years in recruiting this kind of size and depth into the roster and have developed them with a consistent strength-and-conditioning program.
This program has done none of this, opting instead for smaller, faster athletes who have bounced between several strength-and-conditioning programs. In our league, this is why we are starting over.
Similar to the final five games of last season, we have to adjust our coaching strategy this season to leverage the strengths we have.
In our case, it is a more mobile offensive line, with tough blocking backs and tight ends and a receiving corps with quickness and moves. Playing a speed game, with more sweeps, traps, and counters instead of trying to straight drive-block opponents 30 pounds larger and stronger than us may lead to some success. Running shorter routes with more protection may lead to some success if our line has difficulty handling a straight bull or speed rush one-on one.
Defensively, we cannot feature as our base defense a one-on-one man coverage scheme against larger, stronger receivers if we do not have the size and depth to generate a consistent pass rush.
Finally, this program has long shown that players’ coaches cannot generate the consistent motivation and focus needed to perform at a championship level. At the end of the season, drop the first-name-basis and build into the newcomers the respect and discipline needed to perform at this level.
Just my two cents.
Your third point is the one that troubles me the most. As I watched that debacle unfold yesterday, any delusions I had that the 4th and 10 touchdown against Mizzou was Kirby’s “hobnail boot” disappeared quickly. That whole game was so discombobulated, with 12 defenders on the field called at least twice, players stating the defense was playing “different coverages”, the lack of fire in the players, dropped passes, missed blocks, etc. that I just felt this isn’t Kirby Smart’s team yet. Will it be? I sure hope so, or else this will be a long painful journey.
As for Eason, I think most of us accepted he would have a game or two (maybe more if he is under siege like that all season) in which he would look like a true freshman. I had anticipated this game as a loss partly for that reason. The Ole Miss defense can play and put pressure on a QB and he had not faced that yet. I think he overall stood in there and took his lumps. I didn’t see too much panic or frustration even when his receivers let him down with dropped touchdown passes. He will grow from this.
Senator, I won’t blame you if you decide to not watch this game a second time and report on further review. I already deleted it from my DVR.
As for Eason, he still looks worlds better than Stafford did as a freshman (until the light bulb went on at halftime of the Auburn game for Staff).
I mean, even after Stafford got the hang of it and beat 3 ranked teams in a row (Auburn, Tech, Virginia), he still finished the year with 7 touchdowns and 13 interceptions. And don’t forget the losses to Vanderbilt and Kentucky.
So, yeah, it could be a lot worse (and still might be–UGA lost to UT and Florida that year as well).
Let the man play, and FFS quit trying to mold him into a pure Pro-Style QB as a freshman and let him operate out of the shotgun more…
I think Chaney and Kirby is trying to fast tract Eason. Unfortunately with a weak OL failure is inevitable. They also tried to balance run and pass which further worsened the games result. I think the team is better served this season to have more pass like the Mizz game and at least have a better chance of winning.
You know, the third point is where I’m at, too. From my perspective, CKS has been dawgrading these players and the program from the moment he set foot on campus. He was also subtly criticizing CMR often, although he never mentioned his name, with comments like “turn a battleship around”.
It’s a poor carpenter who blames his tools. But beyond that, it’s really bad leadership. He’s been defensive and paranoid since he got here, and I don’t think this team is behind him because he’s always bitching about what they’re not.
+100….far different to “lay out your vision for the team” and call out the current players and former staff for everything they’re not
“Yes. Tools matter. Good tools won’t bring you to your optimum peak performance on your own, but bad tools will guarantee you’ll never get there. Bad tools typically take longer to work with, and typically teach bad habits to get around their deficiencies.
Da Vinci with a mop and a bucket of mud may be a better painter than you, but he would never beat Da Vinci with quality tools.”
Gurkha Dawg
I like your term ” Richt agnostic”. That’s where I was last year also. I didn’t really like the KS hire mainly because I like an offense guy as HC. In the game today you have to score points in bunches to keep up with teams like Ole Miss no matter how good your defense is. Bama has a great defense but you saw what OM did to them. I wish KS the best but don’t feel real good right now. If we can recruit like Bama we’ll be fine, but that remains to be seen. Also, Saban may have had a poor first year at Bama but IIRC he went into the SECCG ranked #1 his second year. If Smart can do that, I don’t care what happens this year.
You are 100% right about Saban’s first year at Alabama. Plus, he already had a BCS championship under his belt, so everyone knew he could be a winner.
Im tired of hearing there’s no talent.
http://247sports.com/Season/2016-Football/CollegeTeamTalentComposite
I’m not saying that.
But if you insist, perhaps you can tell me who should be starting at left and right offensive tackle. I’m all ears.
Ham and Blankenship?
I kid.
That comment was the only fun I got out of the entire game this week.
You didn’t say that. Everyone else has.
The problem is your number 3.
There is a talent problem, whether anyone wants to admit it or not. And unfortunately, the deficit lies primarily along the line of scrimmage. You’re welcome to point to recruiting rankings all you’d like, but then I’ll just remind you of such 5-star duds as John Theus. Not all 4- and 5-star recruits are really good enough to compete in the SEC. And we’re learning the hard way what that really means.
Thankfully, we’ve finally got an OL coach who knows what the hell he’s doing. But we’re all going to have to be patient while he rebuilds the OL from scratch, trusting that he can tell the difference between a 4-star who looked great at his private school with no competition, and a 4-star who actually has what it takes to block an SEC-caliber DE.
People for some reason think that the recruiting services actually do a thorough evaluation of High School prospects and are actually qualified to do so. Look people, the ratings come after the offers. Part of the reason our recruits are rated as highly as they are is because they were offered by Georgia. The spread of “non-committable” offers has led to even more screwed up rankings.
The recruiting services do not specialize in evaluating recruits; they specialize in getting grown men to pay for information about children.
And yet, recruiting rankings correlate with college success and the pro draft. Curious.
The top programs, to whom they give the best rankings, are also able to recruit the best players. I’m not saying that the information that comes from the recruiting services in worthless. I’m saying that it is only useful in the aggregate. The rating for an individual recruit, though, is almost meaningless.
While I concede that the margin of error increases with smaller sample size, it’s also true that the aggregate is made up of individuals.
Basically, UGA is a team with SEC talent. Yes, there are holes. But this team is talented enough to wax FCS teams and compete with good SEC teams.
Five stars doesn’t mean that a player is what you need. If you think that offensive line is talented then I’ve got some great beachfront property in Valdosta to sell you. Hell our starting tackle is an FCS transfer and most of the rest are either just bad or playing out of position.
As I said in a comment yesterday. Our OL consists of an FCS Left Tackle (i.e. he should be a career backup in the SEC), 3 Guards, and a 3rd string Nose Tackle. Will Friend was a quality coach but a shite recruiter. Rob Sale apparently screwed up any good that Friend had previously done. Sam Pittman has a hell of a job ahead of him.
Also, some freshman need to step up. We need to get Sims and Galliard off of the field. The TEs can help the Tackles on the outside. The Guards are allowing people to come in unblocked as they are not releasing from combo blocks.
SAtownDawg
No, we need to move Galliard to center and get Kubanlow off the field…hard to run up the middle when our center is blown up on a regular basis
Kublanow was the Left Guard for the 2014 team. You know, the one that set the record for most points scored by a UGA offense. He played great. The key is that he was playing LEFT GUARD and not Center. Playing Center is not the same as playing Guard but with snapping duties. Kublanow was great at taking on a 3 technique, helping on a combo for a 1 technique, and pulling as a lead blocker. All things that a Left Guard does. He is not equipped for handling a 1 technique solo. If you read my comment from yesterday, part of our OL problem is that we lack a natural center. If we had one, we could kick Wynn back out to LT, move Catalina to RT, move Kublanow back to LG, and move Pyke back to RG. At that point, our OL problem would only be that we do not have natural Tackles. That is a problem we can fix with TE help. Right now, the only person playing their natural position is Wynn.
We have lots of talent. We have perhaps the most talented freshman QB ever. We have great running backs, plural. We have great TEs, very good LBs, some really good DLs, and a decent – sometimes very good -secondary. The OL has some pieces but as a group, it’s a weak link. We may have some big recruits on the OL, but if there’s anything more dangerous than a freshman QB, it’s a freshman OL. So when Sam and Kirby say they are playing the best, they probably are. We also have glaring deficiencies at receiver. And the kicking game is a mess. I saw a bit recently showing that having to kick a field goal is essentially a failure, but that failure is eclipsed by having to kick one and not being able to do it successfully.
So yeah, we have talent, but it’s not spread out particularly well, yet. If we’re honest, we knew that coming in. A 3-1 record puts us on pace for the 8-4 or maybe 9-3 record most of us predicted before the season began. We lost to a team that has been prolific against really good defenses even in losses and it happened at their house. It’s too early for us as fans to wet the bed. Some things will get better as the season develops, I hope, and others I think we’re going to have to wait a year or two. Let’s see what happens next week.
AMEN, when you stop a team on the 8 etc., and they get 3 it feels like a wash or a win, but when you fail and then miss the FG inside 30, it is a shot to the nuts.
Those of you writing that 4 and 5 stars don’t mean anything….rofl. This team has talent deficiencies in certain areas, but the recruiting services are more often right than they are wrong.
We grouse about CMR not recruiting enough talent then we move the goalposts by saying the universally accepted measure of talent isn’t actually a good measure after all.
EVERY team has deficiencies. The OL has its issues, but it’s not as bad as it’s being made out to be. Coach Pruitt had this same personnel group at secondary ROCKING – with half the game-ready players and when the whole squad was a bunch of freshmen.
Under Richt, everybody said we had a lousy OL coach when the OL didn’t perform. Under Smart, we have a genius OL coach, he just doesn’t have the players. Gotcha.
A better QB situation and a now-healthy 3-4 juggernauts at RB offsets the loss of Theus and Mitchell, in my opinion.
Who exactly tested the secondary last season though? Final ranking was nice, but I recall Vandy nearly hitting 300 yds passing, and Dobbs shredding the secondary. Beyond Dobbs it wasn’t exactly a murder’s row of passers.
Great post. We now see what 5 years of administrative foot dragging and a coach on the hot seat did to recruiting.
Or a coach who seemingly didn’t place emphasis on recruiting on the OL. Don’t give me the fans hurting recruiting straw man argument. Plenty of top ten classes in the last five years. Just perhaps misevaluation of needs at best or negligence at worst.
This is it…KS wants to play a way that doesn’t suit the talent at hand, it would seem. I guess we’ll see where that gets us: 1. KS changes, for this year at least; 2. the team changes; 3. nothing changes, and we go 5-7 or something.
Baitstand
Is it too early, or too late, to start the “could’ve had Tom Herman” meme??
Hey BR549….that started yesterday!
If you don’t catchem the first time we will re bate you…we sell worms, crickets and minnows!
budlite
For all of the “cupboard half full, half bare folks”, I’d like to paraphrase Bear Bryant’s definition of a good coach. “He’s somebody that can take his’n and beat yor’n and then turn around and take yor’n and beat his’n”.
I fear that our new coach’s world view has been shaped by his Alabama experience to the point that he hasn’t learned to win without an overwhelming talent edge. It is hard to imagine UGA gaining that talent edge while Saban is still alive. I hope I’m wrong, on both counts.
DawgsFan1
Anybody else watch TA&M v ARK last night? ‘Hogs played a smash mouth, “impose my will on you” kind of offense against a defense stocked with a number of Sunday players soon enough and it got them beat (my english is terrible there). Kinda like our game yesterday. It has taken four years for Sumlin to get where he is with these Aggies. I suspect it will take Smart that long as well.
“For us, it was all about playing the Georgia way, the Georgia brand of football. Which is physical, relentless, tough, knock you back. I think we did that.” — Kirby Smart, Dawgs247, 9/5/16
For some reason, I can’t quit that quote.
I look forward to the game that he can say it again.
G-Day?
You should put up his quote today where he calls out players by name.
Did he actually do that??
“Because I’ve seen them do it,” Smart said when asked why he has confident his UGA can turn the page and respond against Tennessee. “I’ve seen Jayson Stanley make that catch. I’ve seen Isaiah McKenzie make that catch. I’ve seen Malkom Parrish make those plays. He made one against a 6’5″ guy against North Carolina. I’ve seen them do it. We’ve just got to do it when we need to do it. We didn’t do it today. Like I said, it’s not all on them. We’ve got to do a better job as coaches to help them. At the end of the day, the thing snowballed and we didn’t have anybody step up and make a play. Lorenzo Carter, go make a play — go make a tackle for a loss right there. Go make a play on the perimeter out there, Malkom, and it possibly changes the game. We didn’t do that.”
http://georgia.247sports.com/Bolt/Rowe-These-things-take-time-47761434
He just broke the Golden Rule of coaches, never call out the players especially by name unless it is to praise them. He very well may lose the team especially the seniors and juniors.
It is to me like he is praising them. Hes saying that he’s seen what they CAN do and he knows they can do anything they set their minds to.
*sounds to me
I think Carter for instance needs to be called out. Maybe not in the press though.
sectionzalum
i think that may be a source of our problem. kirby is a manball, pro-style evangelist, and our qb is not yet ready to be effective under center. big cognitive dissonance from january to today for college kids to absorb. physical-physical-physical sermon, pass block-passblock- pass block in games. our most effective offensive player thus far is 5’8, 165.
and it elevates my appreciation of theus.
I’ve been impressed with Smart’s grasp of meaningful upstream factors that contribute to success, such as offensive line recruiting and accountability. I’m equally troubled by the recent vacuous refrains of “effort,” “compete,” “wanting it,” and “hustle.” Those are inputs in the formula of winning on the same level as “playing well” – which is to say, they’re much closer to the result than to root cause. I am not encouraged that Smart has not given much time at his podium to talking about where effort comes from while giving so much time to the need for effort. He’d better have some good ideas on where motivation to play hard comes from other than experiencing success on the field and/or getting yelled at.
Do we have any sports psychologists on retainer? For consultation with Kirbs, not for meeting with players.
Not a sports psychologist but:
We assume football players are competitive. At a place with Alabama’s depth, you are reminded every day that, if you don’t play your best, there is someone as talented as you just waiting to take your place. If a program doesn’t have that kind of depth. . . Well, I think you may have what we’ve got. I suspect the guys played often hard for Mark Richt because they loved and respected him. I have no idea what the players think about Kirby. Maybe you have some thoughts.
This, exactly.
Great post. I feel like Smart needs to show his players that he can make the changes necessary to be competitive this week. Otherwise he is going to lose them.
I am most disappointed in the lack of offensive creativity. Have we thrown a screen pass? Why don’t we use the toss sweep more? Still missing the tight ends. I know we have had a lot of drops. But I am 100 % sure Bobo and Richt, even Lilly could have done more with this talent.
You do realize that, with the exception of bubble and smoke screens, screen passes rely on Offensive Linemen blocking in open space, right? They have a hard time blocking a guy 18 inches away who was standing still.
Why not throw to the TEs? The tight ends have having to stay in help the Tackles against the pass rush. Eash can’t throw a pass to a TE while laying on back with a concussion.
I don’t think you, along with a lot of people on this board, understand how bad of OL is. The lines from the 2009 and 2010 teams were much better than this, and they were less than mediocre.
Good post, Senator. As disappointing as yesterday’s result and effort were, I’m not ready to conclude that the players haven’t bought into the process. While the 4 game sample size is sufficient to show the glaring personnel issues (kicker, tacker, receiver), in my view it is not large enough to gauge whether the team is buying into Kirby. I find myself thinking back to the aftermath of the Carolina game, when the consensus was that the team had bought into the process by showing a resilience and toughness that we hadn’t seen in recent years. Only 7 days ago, we commented on how the team kept their composure and pulled out a win on the road. And maybe Ole Miss is just that good.
That said, I have no clue at all which team shows up this Saturday. I have a feeling that we’re going to see our fair share of both the teams we saw in Oxford and at the Dome before the season is over.
I just keep reminding myself that I said over the off-season to expect bumps in the road with a rookie HC and freshman QB. I just didn’t expect us to look this clueless. We have talent (and holes, obviously). But a good coach should be able to figure out some way to use the talent at hand. That was Kirby’s reason for hiring Chaney and Pittman. But the offense shows very little creativity and our WR play has been abysmal.
Defense, Kirby’s forte, has been disappointing as well.
The comebacks earlier in the season gave me hope, but yesterday makes me wonder if those were a fluke. The Tennessee game will tell us a lot, and I’m really afraid of what it’s going to tell us.
I’ll go further to offer a caution of my own on the talk of effort, speaking as someone who has studied psychology at the doctoral level. The most dangerous thing he could do to undermine morale (and subsequently, effort and buy-in) is to accuse those who are trying their best of not trying their best. I’d be willing to bet there’s a fair amount of that going on. The culture will change in response to intense pressure, but while you hope it compresses into something stronger, it could just crumble instead.
Excellent – he’s been doing that publicly with his comments since January about the roster. I think he has crushed the offensive line’s confidence in particular.
I’ve been concerned a about that as well. He seems to have gone far over the line of calling out a player to encourage greatness (i.e. see what Yoculan did with that freshman class that went on to win 4 straight NCs!) into just knee jerk negative as a “on the other hand” they can get better line. I don’t think I’ve ever heard him simply compliment a guy without the other “he could get better” shtick. maybe he did it about Chubb’s rehab, but then he even the week before the game acted like he didn’t know if he’d play despite everyone else knowing he most certainly had a great camp and was fine. There is Dooley esque gloom about how good the opponent is as a general commentary vs, how bad we are individually.
tmflibrarian
Having someone who is a fine example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect make this hire was always going to have some issues with it, especially when that decision was made in a panic by some big money boys over hiring rumors somewhere else.
We shouldn’t be surprised that McGarity, who worked for a successful AD but hasn’t been able to translate that level of success to his own AD career, would think an assistant from a successful program like Kirby would do fine, and Georgia didn’t deserve or need a new coach with head coaching experience. (Though he was going to pay him like one.)
But it just breaks my heart for the players. We’ve lived a couple blocks from Butts-Mehre for nearly 20 years, and there isn’t energy around here like in a normal football season. Some of that is the rotten September schedule, perhaps. But after watching the second half of UT-UF, with UT knowing they can essentially cinch the East next week, I’m definitely worried that things are going to get worse, and we won’t have a coach with the experience to keep it from happening.
I’m sure the kids love taking a bus every day to and from practice. Something to consider when considering attitude and “buying in”… man I hate that term.
The problem as I see it… and it’s the only thing I see… is what happens when the ball is snapped. On offense we clearly have a lack of talent on the line and at receiver. But for the life of me I can’t figure out how professionals making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year can’t see what is and is not working. Toss the damn ball. On defense we can either sit back and cover or be aggressive and blitz. We clearly have chosen the former. And it doesn’t take a “rocket scientist”… love that term… to see which works and which doesn’t.
If Kirby wants to be successful like Saban then he needs to copy Saban and get in the face of his two coordinators during the game and tell them to change what isn’t working.
I put the over/under in Cola at 23 and Lexington is gonna be a barn burner. This weekend will be ugly.
Fortunately for me I have other hobbies that aren’t as painful as watching the Dawgs. Hobbies like cutting myself, drinking lye or shoving knitting needles into my eyeballs.
I see my Tennessee fan neighbor has his flag back up, this one satin I think. He also has the “Next are the _______!” With the coming opponent in the blank. He has “Puppies” currenty.
When we left this morning I mention he wasn’t suppose to have that sign in the yard.
“I rather not go through that again…. concentrate on the house please.” Was all the support she offered.
A David Wiggins plan. L’Atessa de vita! Indeed.
They stock sheetrock on Wednesday. Cabinets are ready. Exterior is finished. Preliminary grading done…..topsoil and double ground mulch stockpiled. Won’t be long.
LOL, careful, they are everywhere now. Don’t think any of us will be able to escape them until Sgt Carter gets slapped back into reality. What a horrifying half that was after they were booed loudly leaving the field just 30 minutes earlier. I think they drugged the Gatorade in the FU dressing room. Looked like a different team that came back out.
Mac I chuckled at your earlier post when you sugggested i consider making a move to a new neighborhood. 😉
Firing Kirby Smart would be the stupidest possible move we could make. Kirby is what he is: probably not a very good coach, but it’s only 4 games, so who knows? All that matters are (1) pretending everything is fine so that Kirby can continue recruiting like gangbusters and (2) firing Greg McGarity so that he has zero influence over hiring Kirby’s replacement.
I remember well the hiring of an Assistant Coach as HC in Athens back in 1964 and a similar outcry from what spawned today’s Instant Gratification Fan Generation. Just as it was then, Dooley inherited what Griffith left him and managed a 7-3-1 season. The next was a 6-4 effort marked by the thrilling upset of Bama on the flea-flicker but marred by back to back 2 loss stretches (FSU, UK & UF, AU) before vengence upon the nats.
The History lesson is intended to introduce a little reality into what is not much more than a bunch of whining over team issues all knew existed back in August.While the Bear’s homily is quaint, such as is the game today he too would struggle matching up with today’s superior distribution of talent.
Four games in, I believe it’s obvious that the first Year HC has not yet captured all 105 players into functioning as a Team. This Saturday we shall all discover whether that 2×4 strike in Oxford brings more of them around to the Process.
Didn’t we go up north and win a big game in year 2? CKS has a chance to repeat that but in South Bend this time.
That with year one. And Notre Dame lost to Duke yesterday.
Dooley’s first year was 1964. We beat Michigan in 1965.
Dooley inherited a smoldering dumpster fire from Johnny Griffith. The program was an absolute disaster from the end of the Little Round Man’s era.
I disagree that we didn’t show up yesterday. We showed up. We are just lacking in a lot of areas and for now, we just aren’t very good. I’ve seen posted here more than once that we are and still will be feeling the affects of the disaster that was the 2013 recruiting class. Why do people think this transition is going to happen without us getting our noses bloodied a few times? Did yall honestly think that game yesterday was goi g to look like anything other than what it looked like? If so, why? Ole Miss gave Alabama all they could,handle. What made any of our fans think that four games into a season with new coaches who have a new approach, a freshman qb, and a bad offensive line, we were going be able to give ole miss a game? They nearly beat Alabama. Go ahead and get ready for a few more games like this. It ain’t got a thing to do with players not buying in. They can buy in til the cows come home and it won’t make up for a talent disparity. I think it will be two more seasons before we start to really see things take shape. My phone blew up all day yesterday and I was just shocked at how shocked people were. A buddy of mine even said he thought the players are mad because Richt was fired and are taking it out on the new coaches. Come in off the ledge folks.
chilidawgnv
Good post Mike
BarneyDawg
Agree, good post
Well said Mike
Blutarsky – Your key phrase is this… “small sample size…”
It’s waaaaaaay too early to push the panic button! We knew going into the season the OL would be an issue. They’re undersized, Kublanow IMO has never been able to live up to either of his two predecessors, Wynn is not big enough to play Guard, Gaillard is a converted DT, Catalina is transfer from… well you know and lastly Pyke was playing Guard last year and was a 3 star in HS. Additionally, we all knew the WR corp was weak on depth and their lack of consistency is proving what we feared. The QB situation is playing out exactly how we anticipated, both good and bad. On the defensive side of the ball, in fall camp everyone was worried about the front 7 and our inability to get pressure on QBs, so that’s also playing out as feared. The true bright spot has been our ILB play. The DB situation is worse; however, than we anticipated and Briscoe is proving to be the new Prince Miller of this bunch. If the guy behind him is worse, then we’re in really, really bad shape!
The real story here is a lesson in Red & Black coke bottle glasses. Our fan base drank the talent Kool Aid, when in reality there’s a significant separation between our players and the upper tier SEC programs.
Blutarsky, for some reason you’ve either forgotten Kirby’s vision for the future or are ignoring it. It’s quite simple: Get bigger, faster, stronger, deeper and more talented. It will take 3 recruiting classes to get the type of high caliber players Kirby’s use to coaching. Making a silk pillow out of a sow’s ear is impossible, so everyone’s going to have to alter their 2016 expectations in line with REALITY!
DB, for some reason, you’ve misunderstood what I posted. I’m in no panic over Smart. I think he knows what he wants and how to get there.
But I am a little uneasy over the possibility that things don’t head in a positive direction this season, not because of Smart per se, but because there will be unrest in the fan base, and B-M isn’t doing fan unrest too well these days.
You’re looking through some funky colored glasses of your own, though, if you can pretend that the Nicholls and Ole Miss results are merely the consequence of a talent gap.
Nicholls is certainly not the result of a talent gap. That was straight coaching combined with all the flaws everyone has noted.
BTW, I posted a very similar concern to your #3 this morning on BI. Your #3 with what appears to be a lack of player confidence can breed a cancer that’s worth keeping an eye on.
FWIW, I don’t think you’re pushing the panic button. You’ve written a thoughtful analysis of what you believe are root causes of this teams problems, along with your usual spy novel tangents. It makes for entertaining reading.
If things don’t improve, there have to be some people who are chewing their fingernails to a nub about the impact on the increased minimum giving levels and the ticket price increases. That with a downright awful home schedule is a perfect storm. It may require a withdrawal from the AA’s 401k.
As I said back in December, I’ll wait until 2018 to form any lasting conclusions about Kirby’s ability to coach winning football. I gave Richt more than a dozen years. I’m willing to give Kirby more than a few weeks.
Until then, the rational among us will be patient and enjoy whatever few highs we’re given on what is going to be a roller-coaster of a couple years.
I get that the “well look at Saban’s first year at Bama” excuse can come across as a bit of a cop out, but that doesn’t mean it’s completely invalid either. I mean, I doubt if anyone was under the impression that their players were totally bought in while they were watching them lose to U-La-La. I concede the point that Saban had a history backing him up that Kirby doesn’t have, but I’m not getting too concerned just yet. For me it’s always been that this was going to be a rebuilding year, and I’ll judge Kirby on 2017 & 2018 results.
This is gonna sound weird, but I think in some ways, the UNC victory has impaired our growth. The win was not as impressive as it looked – we got a LOT of breaks in that game that even just 2 or 3 of them going the other way would have changed the result of the game. I told my buddies afterwards that we weren’t as good as everyone thought – if we played that UNC team 10 times, I think both would win roughly half, that’s the level of team we are right now. Whatever your expectations are for UNC, that’s what your expectations should be for us right now. Of course most of them thought I was crazy, they were caught in the euphoria of the media praise, the top 10 ranking, etc. And I think the players thought that too. Instead of realizing how far they still had to go, I think that game and all the love right after it made them feel as if they had already arrived.
I know you never want to sacrifice wins, but I would be happy if the rest of the season was focused on getting the young guys built up and experienced. We have a ton of talent but it’s young talent. Let them make their mistakes this year so we can have a kick-ass 2017 & 2018. And yeah, that’ll mean some less than desirable results this year, but our future is still very bright, in my eyes.
It sure feels like 1990 doesn’t it?
Will McGarity give me a rebate on the Hartman Fund contribution and season ticket check it sent to see UGA do its best to win every game in 2016?
The “let’s sacrifice to make 2019 better ” stuff is easy to say when one isn’t spending any money to see them play.
Well said Gaskill. It also assumes that 2018 or 2019 will be “the year”, which is anything but a given. I think Kirby or any new, unproven HC for that matter has a 3 year window to show significant progress in terms of making it to or winning a conference championship, winning 11 games or making it to the CFP. Otherwise, the fan base and athletic department are very likely to make a change because the expectation level is so high now-a-days. That leash becomes even shorter if a HC essentially decides to take program used to winning 10 games a season and throw in the towel to settle for a 5-6 win rebuilding season. This team has talent issues, but not to the point where they can’t win 8 games unless the team completely quits on the coaching staff.
I’m with Charles in being inherently suspicious of psychological explanations of why a team is not doing well at a physical game. Frankly, I don’t know precisely what it means for Kirby’s players to “buy into” his approach to the game. They presumably want to win. So unless he’s tormenting them physically or psychologically and they’d rather lose than support him, why would they not cooperate? There’s nothing about his game-planning that seems radically different from what Georgia was doing last year, but maybe I’m missing something.
He’s been telling everybody who will listen how badly his players suck since he got here. You don’t think that has an effect?
Some professionalism would go a long way. 1. Do the easy stuff (fundamentals) really really well. 2. Practice the hard stuff while still doing the easy stuff perfectly. 3. Do the hard stuff only when necessary and don’t let it affect the easy stuff. 4. Success is making the hard stuff look like the easy stuff.
The mental side of things was my passion as I went through grad school. Inner game of tennis type stuff was where I lived. I imagine Kirby to be the micro manage to a fault type. For example, when someone asks you to stand up, you just flash the action in your head, and you’re standing up. You did not look at your legs and identify each muscle that needed to contract and extend, you didn’t reach your hands out to try to balance. Single thought drove many actions and it all works smoothly. The team needs to work on details, but they can’t play the details. Perhaps some “get out of their own way” would help em out.
Eh. A 7-5 season this year, which looks very possible right now, would be a somewhat worrying sign, but ultimately there’s not much difference between 9-3 and 7-5. If there’s no step forward next season, that’s when major concern should start to kick in.
I beg to differ … There’s a lot of difference between 9-3 and 7-5.
Besides the fact you’ll be happier on two more Saturdays, there’s really not.
Better record means higher rankings, better publicity, and likely better bowl game. It would also mean we beat a couple of rivals during the regular season. If the record doesn’t matter, why keep score?
I don’t particularly give a shit about being ranked 18th vs. unranked or publicity. As for rivals, as I said, you get to be happier on two extra Saturdays. That’s nice, but in the end, Kirby Smart is not going to be any better off if he goes 9-3, especially considering how ugly that 9-3 will look based on the first third of the season, if he doesn’t show substantial improvement next year.
So you think recruiting and overall direction of the program would be exactly the same at 7-5 as it would be at 9-3.
Losing to Florida, Auburn, Tennessee, and tech or USCe –> no thanks
Yes, he will be better off at 9-3 than 7-5. To say there’s no difference makes absolutely no sense.
After his first year, yes, I absolutely think 7-5 is the same as 9-3 when it comes to recruiting. The overall direction of the program is up to Smart, and an ugly 9-3 or an ugly 7-5 is not going to make a lick of difference. Either they improve in year 2 and contend with a 10-2 type of season or they don’t and the hot seat talk begins. That’s when you’ll see problems in recruiting.
You have a different impression than what I got from it. You see a team that hasn’t bought in. I see a team with glaring deficiencies that simply can’t be covered up against a team like the one we played yesterday. Our offensive line is garbage. We have few good receivers. We’re asking a true freshman QB to save us on offense but he can’t do it if 15% of his passes are dropped. And the defense can’t recover five turnovers every game.
I don’t think it has anything to do with “buying in.” They just don’t have the players.
Strange how we got worse at virtually every position right around the same time Miami got better. No accounting for college kids, I suppose.
Miami is Greatness….v. Fla Atlantic, Fla A&M & ApSt. Richts done an outstanding job in only 3 games. Turnaround job I’d say.
Receiving talent is a problem, but I’m not as sure about the offensive line. It’s not great by any means, but blown assignments seem to be an issue as often as being physically beaten. If they were to cut down on mental mistakes, they wouldn’t look quite so bad.
This would be a theory except we can point to position groups with almost the exact same personnel as last year that are underperforming relative to last year.
As someone mentioned above, if talent is the problem, then what happened against Nicholls State? If talent is the problem, why did it take five turnovers and 4th quarter heroics to defeat Mizzou, with whom we are at least equal to in talent?
This years team has more talent than last year by a long ways Las t two years with no QB and no healthy RB’s won 10 games. This staff not getting it done first 4 games.
Nobody should think we had no chance against Ole Miss because of the talent difference. That’s BS. There was a far greater talent difference between UGA and Nicholls State than between UGA and Ole Miss. Nicholls certainly was competitive against us. The team was not ready and played like shit. That’s on the coaches.
No offense, Ghurka, but I think you are wrong. I think our talent level over the last 4 years has degenerated to a bottom tier SEC level at best. outside of a brand new QB, a couple of stud backs, and the odd DL player, we are not at the level of the teams we wish to compete against.
But ya gotta start somewhere, and here we are. 2 to 3 years for sure before it gets better.
David Pinson
Amen. There is one common feature of every great team at UGA (and elsewhere). Very high quality players man the line between the skill players and the opponents. When was the last time you could say of a Georgia team that our offensive and defensive lines (including linebackers) are superior to quality opponents and can and do dominate the rest.
And yet the recruiting services have ranked our signing classes in the top ten each year. It’s interesting how those guys can be so right about Alabama and Ole Miss and so wrong about UGA.
What’s really going on with the fans is their wishes and wants does not jibe with reality. Those that are very upset about yesterday’s result are refusing to accept what had always been a possibility at the back of their minds since the beginning of Smart career with Georgia. I think the best scenario for Smart is to win enough to go and limp into SECCG(by default) just like FU last season with expectation to get whip again by the West Conf. champ.
Count me in with those that think the explanation is as simple as “we don’t have the horses” this year. I really don’t think it’s as complicated as the players not “buying into the process”. Kirby just doesn’t have the RIGHT players for what he wants to do. UGA is no better than a decent Div 2 squad as we stand currently. We are staring down the barrel of an 8 – 4 season at best I’m thinking. Maybe 9 wins if we can squeak past AU. Consider the following:
Kirby has been saying all spring that the kicking game scared him to death.
Kirby has been saying all spring the secondary was not as good as their numbers from last year had advertised.
We all know the risks of starting a true freshman at the QB position.
The O line is a mess thanks to lackluster recruiting by Richt & Co. Kirby can only do so much this this bunch when the talent ceiling is so low in this group. I don’t think any of us expected it to be this bad but could CMR done any better if he were here this year? I’m inclined to say not.
A 4-star D-lineman by the name of Ledbetter is still riding the bench. Who would have thought UGA would have had to deal with his addiction?? So a young and think D line is made even thinner by this.
I’m not saying that Kirby has no fault here. Obviously the dropped passes are a coaching issue. Did these kids forget how to catch balls out of high school? Of course not. This is a coaching problem. The special teams miscues (sans field goals) are also a coaching issue. This is the most maddening part since UGA has a ST coach now which we have been screaming at CMR to hire one for years.
The fans calling for Kirby’s head have no idea what they are talking about. I’m betting they are young 20 something year olds who have nothing better to do that call into Finebaum and tweet all day long.
I think we just all need to adjust our expectations this year. Kirby isn’t a miracle worker. The players at some of the skill positions just aren’t that good. It’s a simple as that…
UGA is no better than a decent Div 2 squad as we stand currently.
I don’t think Bigger realized how damning to Smart that comment is. Smart gets paid a lot of money to produce an SEC team that is a lot better than a Division 2 team.
I do not want to fire him; that would be the worst thing UGA could do. However, if there was any truth to the statement that Smart took a team that was better than beat 7 Power 5 teams and reduced it to the level of a decent Division 2 team he should be fired immediately.
I was overzealous with that Div 2 remark. Obviously, UGA is better than the average Div 2 team…
…But by how much? Hanging on to beat Nicholls seems to make me think not much.
Doubling down on your condemnation of Smart? If he has taken a team that was better than 7 Power 5 teams last year and coached it down to being not much better than a Division 2 team, then he still should be fired immediately.
I disagree with your assessment that we are not much better than a Division 2 team. Your benchmark was Nicholls State, which is a Division 1 team (albeit in the FCS subdivision of Division 1.) Any FCS team ought to be better than a Division 2 team. After all, Division 2 teams can give no more than 36 football scholarships. You really can’t, with a straight face, say we are not much better than Shorter College, or Valdosta State or West Georgia.
I’m curious what the score would have been had Valdosta St. played Ole Miss last Saturday instead of UGA. It’s conjecture of course but the butt whipping I’d guess would be about the same. When a Power 5 teams pulls its starter against another Power 5 team in the 3rd quarter that is a pretty piss poor team they are playing.
My point is that I do believe last year’s team is better than this year’s team. It’s still early in the season but 4 games in, I don’t think you can say with a straight face we will win 10 games this year like we did last year.
“but he doesn’t have Saban’s history”
…or his players, or the experience coaching real-world players… Coaching Saban’s players, it should be patently obvious, is more like coaching pro players than coaching college players.
Christ in a red corvette, folks we had to throw the fucking football 55 times to beat Missouri cause we could not run the damn ball against MISSOURI!!! What exactly did you expect to happen in Oxford?
Kirby, I hope to ever-loving God almighty, may turn out to be the greatest coach in Georgia history, I just hope I am sentient when it happens.
“I think the best scenario for Smart is to win enough to go and limp into SECCG(by default) just like FU last season with expectation to get whip again by the West Conf. champ.”
I don’t know what he is smoking, but I sure am going to need some of it by November.
Eason’s footwork is just terrible.
The worst thing that could have happened yesterday did not happen in Oxford, it happened in Knoxville.
“The people he answers to don’t have a clue. (I’m betting McGarity has begun honing his “remember what Saban’s first season in Tuscaloosa was like” marketing pitch to the fan base and Mark Bradley next offseason. That should work like a charm.)”
And neither, if I may, do the fine folks who led the charge to fire Mark Richt.
Bluto this may be your finest hour…I hope you are wrong, but there’s a voice in my head telling me you are not.
UGA85
As I look at the schedule, 8 – 4 is certainly doable. Why did we expect more from a first year coach? I was disappointed yesterday, but we are 3 – 1, with several cream puffs left on the schedule. At this point, to me, I am hoping for one win this season over a good team, like Florida or Auburn. I am fine with UT going to ATL; we clearly don’t need to be there.
Very disappointing outing. Glad they took Chubb out. It seems that the enemy D is keying on Chubb so much that playing all the backs would open things up. I am concerned about his injury. Anyone have any idea how serious Chubb’s injury could be?
Brian Van Gorder
Guys, let me know if I can help. Experienced head coach here with a great defensive mindset and extensive resume.
Yeah, right…your Notre Dame defense is simply awesome.
Actually…see above, I should have said “the defense at Notre Dame formerly belonging to Brian Van Gorder.”
Lol, that was funny
You forgot “and always-innovative choices in facial hair.”
I guess I thought that these new coaches might do some of that “coaching up”. You know take a 5 star kid and turn him into an All SEC player and an NFL draft pick.
It’s hard to find any players on this teams that look better than they did last year.
Saban’s style of coaching does not appeal to everyone.
Kirby Smart wants to be Saban, without all of the advantages.
The offensive line is a liability. I’d like to know what sort of playcalls or scheme would turn them into assets or even significantly less liabilities.
The game reminded me of our high school team. They beat the snot out of other 2As because their skill position talent is top-notch. Ranked Top 10 in the state. They lose to 4As badly because the 4A lines are just bigger and faster.
Nothing you can do when the other team is just better on the line on both sides of the ball. Given a month to prepare for a bowl game, maybe you can scheme around those weaknesses and hope for a couple of breaks.
The wins haven’t been as aesthetic as we would like and the L was ugly. But did anyone here think this team was 4-0 material? I didn’t.
Screen pass and toss sweep. Jet sweep and tunnel screen. Essentially anything where they can block someone much smaller than them.
Stop trying to play smash mouth against opponents that outweigh you by 50 lbs.
At this point my biggest worry is that the offensive tackles are going to get our future star QB killed. At one point in the game I feel Eason was justified to seek out Pike on the bench and kick him in the nuts. I am not joking here. Other than that, I am a little concerned that we should be more fundamentally sound than what I am seeing. Kirby has much work to do.
The results were to be expected. Ole Miss Is much better than any
Team In the East. How good, or bad. will the Dawgs be this year?
That question will be answered this week against the Vols.
The “buying in” comments are confusing as hell to me. Most of these athletes started playing football when they were around 8 years old. That means they have all had 10 years or more to become decent players. These guys just need to go back to the basics and DO their job….block, tackle, catch, throw, kick, etc…
While performing above duties, showing passion and hustle is a must. These are the things coaches can demand from our players. If they do not perform then they sit the bench.
I saw such lackluster efforts out of players yesterday that it made me question their passion for the game of football, much less the Old Piss game.
We have a long row to hoe this year…..
blands
Everyone just be patient. The worst thing that can happen is that these coaches get run out of town and Georgia becomes an unstable program hiring and firing coaching staffs every 2-3 years. Stability is really important.
Our lines stink, we have a true Fr QB, and no kicker. Receivers are shaky.
Our best hope was to catch Ole Miss with a Bama hangover and we got their best game.
We need to do some real recruiting and roster management.
8-4 is somewhat realistic and maybe that will include a victory over Tech and someone else decent.
Perhaps this game will turn out to be a “teachable moment” and hopefully we will be a serious SECC threat in 2018.
And let’s kick Notre Dame’s ass next season.
Why are the fan expectations for this team so high?
Why was this team even ranked 11 in the polls.
This is a very young inexperienced team with a freshman QB starting his second game in the SEC, and on the road. As well as a few others on that team
Granted the play was not there at all times. They did do some good things.
The bad. Well, to me they looked like a team that had been on the road for three of their first four games. They had a short week after getting back from a late night game on Saturday and arriving back in Georgia on Sunday. Not good for a team this young and inexperienced. More so playing a team that had tested FSU and Bama, and on both of those teams put up the points. But the Dawgs are nowhere near a Bama or FSU re experience and players.
Now the defense had a very rough game yesterday. I will let up on the offense a little. No pass rush, but hopefully they get an interior D lineman back this week. Ole Miss pretty much did to them what they did to the Tide and Noles. Kelly racked them up.
The D faired about as good as those two teams did in the first half. Now UF is alleged to have the best and deepest D in the SEC. Can thank the current USC coach for that senior and junior laden roster. But the Vols put up 35 unanswered points on them and could have put 7 more in that second half.
The Dawgs do not have the defensive linemen and offensive linemen they need. It will come. Be patient. The roster was set before Smart and company got there, and for all purposes that was February. In any recruiting classes there will be hits and miss.es
A former TECH grad and now sideline reporter / SEC NOW commentator told Freeze post game that Eason is “not an athletic QB”. I guess he means mobile. In fact one of those other game announcers for SEC, former Bama QB, said many times this week [as did others] that Dobbs at UT will not be able to pass on UF.
My point here. Well, Eason is an athlete. Want to check those throws in the end zone that were dropped. Hell, Kelly can not make those throws. Nor Dobbs when freshmen or now. The kid can flat out throw the damn ball. He can put a freaking dime in mason jar at 25 yards and splash out the JD on the rocks.
Look folks, lighten up. For me they are ahead of the pace. Looked for them to drop these games at the beginning…UNC, Ole Miss, UT, UF, and Auburn.
Before this season is over they will start more O line rotation and player rotation. Give them a break and some time.
If your idea of high expectations includes the team taking an FCS opponent reasonably seriously, I guess you have a point.
Easy folks. It’s early
OrlandoDawg
“I’m a patient man, and willing to take a wait-and-see approach until Saturday.”
–Georgia Fan
Unfortunately that’s a common mindset.
Bet at Ole Miss they were saying fire Freeze if we put up 30 points on Georgia and get beat.
Bet at old Rocky Top they were saying fire Butch Jones [man will have a heart attack on the sidelines like some Dawg folks] if he drops another to UF. Hell some of that 102,000 thought they were on the way and left the game at half time.
Now UT comes in. With an experienced three year starter at QB and TB. UT is a team sitting at high expectations for half a decade. Same with Ole Miss. Same with Arkansas. Same with South Carolina. How many times did the old ball coach beat our butts badly. Want to revisit that Clowney game. And yet not one SEC championships team from those teams. What Spurrier went one time to the Dome at USC before he just simply quit in mid season
Dawgs are a team in heavy transition. Want to check the coaches and players who have revolved off that team the past three years. Not one dab of continuity.
Georgia does not have a quality solid roster yet.
Recommend you folks give the current staff a little break and understanding.
Plus we would like to thank the idiots who set this team up at 11 in the polls.
No doubt the man to man coverage is killing the secondary. UNC missed a couple of wide open receivers that would have lead to TD’s and mizzu, Nichols burned the sec, but what Oke Miss did to them was just man among boys kind of stuff. They just scored at will. Easily could have put 60-75 points on us.
We all knowOle Miss had been cheating every sense freeze got there and he will probably be gone sooner rather than later, and ole miss will be on probation, but boy he sure can cheat!
Am I the only one who was wanting to see more Michel and Herrien in place of Chubb? I think Chubb is the best we have, but he is not getting the looks the others are getting. Not saying that would have made all the difference in the game, but let’s go with the back who is “hot”. Bring Chubb in more in the second half until we can get a more balanced attack. When he is in there, the defense is teeing off on this terrible O Line. He is going to get hurt because they are not able to give him ANY space. It’s maddening to watch.
You are not the only one. It seemed our running game was more effective without Chubb in the game.
His long run was a toss sweep….which we promptly abandoned. Boy, that crappy OL sure calls some stupid plays!
Somebody explain how Pruitt gets a top 5 secondary out of this crew last uear and Kirby doesn’t.
Thought I did that. Scheme change.
Let me point out a point that addresses most of the discussion. The defensive backfield this year contains the same players that were back there last year. Now I know that Ole Miss is a special case because they air it out. How does this back field go from being one of the best against the pass to being a hot mess when the only thing that changed was the coaches. Pruitt, love him or hate him knew how to coach the whole defense to adjust for it’s weaknesses. Kirby has them playing like Bama and that is exposing the things that Pruitt had to deal with. Kirby is willing to put his player in a position to fail just because it’s the Alabama way. We are screwed. The players are getting a weekly dose of negative reinforcement from getting beaten and I’m not sure if Kirby GAS. We may in the next few years become the Alabama of the East but I wouldn’t bet the farm on it.
You did. I looked for it and couldn’t find it. My question is rhetorical, really. It doesn’t appear that Kirby believes he can get that that kind of production out of this secondary due to the lack of a pass rush. It doesn’t appear he had tried, either.
Sorry, 69, that was for Blutarsky. You asked what I have been wondering. I’ll hang up and listen now.
Let’s also no forget the Mel Tucker affect. I told you he was a complete flop here in Chicago for the Bears and people couldn’t run him off fast enough. Same story at other NFL teams before he was the DB coach for one year at Bama. He could turn out to be a great DC or he could turn out to be a real bust. For our sake, I hope it’s the latter and not the former.
I really think the biggest issues right now are at OL and DL. If either line was better at least you might be able to hang with a really good team, but having both sides dominated consistently almost assures you of taking the L. It seems basic to break it down that way, but it has been that way for a while. The years UGA has had decent play on both lines it has won a majority of the games. This year is looking pretty bleak unless these guys can gel and start dominating the opponent to an extent. I have seen none of that this year with the exception of Trent Thompson in the Nicholls game. I think the UNC game was a bit of a misleading game. They suck defending the run.
Please take down the “quote of the day”.
Not the feature….just that particular quote.
Mad Hatter gone at LSU….
JUST WIN BABY!
How long till some dope here want to hire him?
Mr Herman call for Mr Herman!!!
Jt (the other one)
I am hearing that many simply aren’t buying in…so you get our players showing up and going through the motions or half stepping. This wouldn’t shock me and would explain why we seem like we are sleepwalking in all or parts of our game…
As others have said coaching is harder when you do not have the Alabama benefits. You have to inspire them and they don’t seem inspired. I saw a quote from Kirby that said Eason needed to take better control of the huddle. He is a freshman they need to support him not lay blame at his feet. The team lacked chemistry this week. They had it the first game and against Mizzou but it was gone yesterday. His job as coach is to bring them together as a team. They are stronger when they work together. It is too soon to call for anybody’s head. LSU is stupid to fire now. Kirby needs to start building up his team not by saying things that are untrue but praising.their strenghts and scheming to use those strenghths. We are who we are and we need to be behind our team and our coach.
junkyardawg41
I really have to look at some of the things we are doing and wonder about the buy in and whether we are doing the square peg in the round hole. I had a couple of thoughts and take aways from yesterday. Most have pointed out the defensive struggles and what it reminds me of most is the Grantham years. We all love Pruitt’s players talking about being able to go out and make plays. Yes Pruitt was protecting the defensive backfield but the last two years our defense was in the top 15 (including 7 last year). I am not sure how you lose a few players and drop to 59th nationally without a confusing playbook/technique.
With the offense, several people talk about Chubb and his lack of production. I have seen a loss of a step versus last year but I have also seen what I will call coach focus versus player focus. Chubb had excellent vision and would go out and find the daylight. If you look at how he runs, he follows the play exactly. If the hole is not there, he hits it anyway. Same with Michel. I think we are seeing the effects of run the ball here and be consistent. I don’t think that is where Chubb’s strength lies. Personally, I think that is a CKS thing.
Also, I have to wonder about all the focus being placed on blocking and if it is bleeding over into the receivers focus on catching the ball. I understand CKS’s comments about catching the ball is the easiest thing a receiver can do… but if you aren’t practicing it enough, it ceases to be the easiest thing.
Kaaya leads No. 25 Miami over Appalachian State 45-10
Brad Kaaya threw for 368 yards and three scores, Mark Walton ran for 130 yards and two touchdowns and No. 25 Miami rolled to a 45-10 win Saturday over Appalachian State in front of a record crowd
The Old Jeffster
No one should be shocked at defeat at Oxford and no one should be shocked at a number of other “L’s” along the way this season. I wish Smart could have worked the freshman into his QB rotation a little more gradually but he had no better choice. Clearly the win in Atlanta raised everyone’s expectations a tad too high on this group. They whys of how it seems so fouled up will come out in time; the good ole-fashioned eyeball test says we don’t have the caliber of players to adapt to a new system and win big in the SEC. But I’m far from writing off the season after one loss.
We knew going into the year that lacked experience and/or depth at QB, WR, DL, and OL. Four games in, it is readily apparent that the Rhode Island transfer is not Anthony Munoz in disguise, and that the OL is just five guards thrown out there indiscriminately because it wouldn’t matter if thought were given as to where they should play. We have eight guards, and the last I checked only two should play at a time. We have zero offensive tackles. The WR’s, despite their promise, are undersized, lack any consistency catching the ball, and aren’t good blockers. The DL is like Trenton Thompson and a few body doubles. Our DBs are asked to cover for an eternity because the front is not generating any pass rush. Aside from that, the team is just chock full of All-SEC performers.
There is no amount of coaching that will turn a guard into a tackle. Either you can play in space or not. None of our guys can. They also can’t push anyone around, so playing tight formations to avoid a speed rush is also a failure. How do you formulate any sort of offensive identity when your OL can’t play in space or in tight formations? What plays would you like for them to call? What identity do you want them to have? So far this year, they’ve had more success slinging it around a little bit. If you don’t think that is Kirby trying to adapt to what he has on his roster, then I’m not sure you really are being honest with yourselves.
The problem is that UGA can’t be a power running team. The OL can’t do it. They can’t pass block either, but we try to get them help with a RB or TE on the edge rushers. That typically gives Eason enough time to throw it, but the WRs aren’t holding up their end of the bargain. If you can’t run it like you want to, and you can’t pass it because the WRs won’t catch it, and you can’t kick it because your kickers are basket cases, then what do you have left? A 7-5 team… maybe. Unless this team turns into something it hasn’t shown it is capable of to this point, it is going to be the rebuilding year that UGA was destined to have under Richt anyway (similar to 2006, 2010). Next year will be better, and 2018 should be even better. If things haven’t changed by then, it may be time to revisit the topic. Otherwise, enjoy the wifi.
Installing his players and his system aside, this team looks as poorly disciplined and coached as I’ve seen. Then he throws the players under the bus and promises more effort next week. Lmao. I didn’t see effort being much of an issue this week. I saw bad penalties and guys acting like they’d won the game after finally making a play while we were down 3-4 touchdowns.
At some point he’s gonna have to stop pointing fingers and talking about the process and actually show it.
Looks like we got Coach Mus-smart
First tee Hazeltine….Arnie’s red, white and blue wing tips as tee markers….can’t get any better than that!
Long live The King!!
Yesterday was going to happen whether the coach was Smart, Saban, Richt, Bryant, or Lombardi. Maybe not against Ole Miss, but it was absolutely going to happen.
Kirby’s biggest challenge is cleaning out ten years’ worth of Richt’s chronic tolerance of half-ass.
Kirby’s second biggest challenge at UGA is recruiting. The 2013 class had 33 players. There are 8 left. THREE ARE STARTERS. Three senior starters from a signing class of 33. A grad transfer from Virginia started at QB last year and a grad transfer from RHODE FREAKING ISLAND starts at LT this year. This DL has to be in the bottom half of the SEC. The OL, LB, DB, and WR are in the bottom third. At best. How Lorenzo Carter was a five star is beyond me. Outside of QB, RB, and TE, Kirby has exactly d**k. Give him time.
Okay, Pruitt had exactly the same dick in the secondary (actually, worse dick since we added Maurice Smith this year) and he coached far better results from the secondary. Four of the five dicks on the o-line last year are back. We had a 1,100 yard rusher and another runner who averaged 150 yards per game before his injury. The new LT’s problem is pass blocking, not run blocking. Think the same dicks this year will produce a 1,000 yard rusher?
Stan, even if we trotted out 11 dicks from a Class A high school to play against Nicholls State and Ole Miss good coaching would result in those 11 knowing what coverage to run, even if they are overmatched. By contrast, we could have suited up the Denver Broncos defense against Ole Miss but if our coaches cannot get them all running the same coverages then that talent can be exploited.
12 men on the field, missed assignments, stupid penalties and lack of focus are coaching issues, not talent issues.
Pruitt had a pass rush last year in Floyd and Jenkins. A pass rush makes a secondary much better.
Georgia also played practically nobody who could throw the ball effectively. They’ve faced three better passing teams in their first four games this year than they saw all last season, with the possible exception of Alabama.
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Now that the first year is in the books…
I’m curious to hear from you about something.
If the spectrum of expectations for Georgia’s 2017 season runs from “another throwaway season” at one end to “great leap” at the other, where do yours fall?
185 responses to “Now that the first year is in the books…”
“Regression to the mean” is a phrase in use here a bit recently. I’d think that in year 2, regression to our 15 year mean of 10 wins is a reasonable expectation.
VoxDawg
I’m cautiously optimistic, expecting 10-2 and winning the East not being off the table.
Better be a great leap. Don’t the metrics all indicate if the new guy doesn’t have it going by year 2, he probably will never get it going? Either way, next year UGA will have 2 stellar recruiting classes in the bag, almost 2 years of The Process, continuity at QB and with the staff (it appears). As Big Ed Bookman says in Texas, “It’s time to stop talking about the picture of the dog.” I don’t expect a national championship next year, or even an SEC title, but I expect to see something a lot better than what I saw this year.
I’m with you. If it’s not a great leap, we did not get our man, IMO.
Dabo would disagree, but yes, for the most part he who doesn’t win early in his tenure doesn’t stay long enough to right the ship.
You mean Deshaun would disagree with you. 😉
Tahj Boyd got Clemson to 11-2 and beat Ohio State in the Orange Bowl. People keep sleeping on Dabo like he’s some chump…the dude can build a staff and recruit. Clemson isn’t good because of Deshaun alone.
How good can he be? After all, that bum Mark Richt beat the pants off of him in Athens, and nearly did the same at Clemson.
I will admit that Dabo has built a pretty strong team around Watson. It wouldn’t surprise me to see them win tonight.
A10Penny
Todd Gurley did a lot of the heavy lifting in those games
Who recruited him again? eh oh yea Mark did.
Yes, he did. CMR recruited his share of incredible players. Depth of recruiting was an issue though, and Kirby fixed that in a hurry (assuming the class signs and doesn’t implode once it gets to Athens).
in fact, didn’t MR beat Dabo for Gurley? Dabo seemed to think they were getting him right up to the end, or pretty close.
No, but if Watson and Venebales left after this season, I’d be very skeptical of Auburn with a Lake next year.
Venables isn’t going anywhere as nothing is open worth his time. And Clemson might dip to 9-3 next year, but that’ll be because they’re in between QBs. If 9-3 is a bad year you’re doing something right.
You could maybe say that about Jimbo too. His 2nd year was pretty underwhelming. Then he got rolling downhill and smoked fools.
Agree Parrish. I don’t understand the reluctance to give credit where it is due where Dabo is concerned. I also don’t understand the tendency people have to or the need they seem to have to characterize him as buffoonish and not to be taken seriously. They can do that if they want t to but they do it at their own risk of being made fools of themselves. I don’t have real strong feelings about the guy either way but dude is legit as a coach. Some of the self styled intellectuals may not think he’s cool enough for them but he did t trip and fall into the success he’s had. Clemson was a perennial “close but not quite” sort of team for what seemed like forever. Dabo has made them into the real thing.
Dabo seems to be an outlier, metrics wise, which I guess goes to show that metrics aren’t everything. For the record, I think Dabo is a hell of a good recruiter and coach, and it wont surprise me one bit to see Alabama go after him when Saban decides to hang it up. A school could do (and has done) much worse than to hire a guy with a proven track record as a head coach at a Power 5 school if they want to be a national power.
A school could do (and has done) much worse than to hire a guy with a proven track record as a head coach at a Power 5 school if they want to be a national power.
I see what you did there.
Can you imagine a guy like Dabo with the unlimited resources and administration support he’d get at Alabama? Me, I hope they hire another Mike Shula or Ray Perkins.
Saban has transformed the culture. They’re more likely to hire Bill Belichick than Mike Shula for their next coach.
well, Belichik is a great coach, but he’s getting old, isn’t he? Can Bama boosters offer him eternal youth or something? Talk about attention to detail.
How good was UGA the last time Clemson made a run at the national title?
Perhaps the Dawgs can get something going next season?
Georgia was not a good team in 2015.
But they won 10 games
Yeah – but the question was how good was Georgia the last time Clemson contended for a national title which was a whole year ago.
FWIW – that 2015 team was better than this 2016 team by nearly any objective measure you want to use.
I don’t argue that. 2015 had 2 5 year SR tackles, Malcom Mitchell, Leonard Floyd, and Jordan Jenkins. It was still the worse 10 win team you’ll ever see.
You must have missed that Iowa team that went to the Rose Bowl last year. Absolutely mediocre team that got lucky it missed Ohio State, Michigan, and Michigan State in the regular season. Hell – Northwestern won 10 games last year and got obliterated by Tennessee in its bowl game. There’s plenty of average as grits 10 win teams in the modern era of CFB with 12 game schedules. You keep acting like Georgia 2015 is unique in this respect.
bing good call on Iowa last year.
In all seriousness – there’s like 3 Power 5 teams that finished with 10 wins last year that fell below Georgia’s #32 in S&P+. I just don’t see why people feel the need to continuously shit on the 2015 team. As far as I’m concerned, 2016 was a far more unenjoyable viewing experience. At least that 2015 team put Spurrier in the retirement home. That’s a redeeming quality for an average season in and of itself.
To each their own. I’m not saying 2016 set the world on fire, bc God knows it didn’t, but 2015 was the most miserable season I had as a UGA fan since the 2000 disappointment. Probably just me.
Tri, you have a warped perspective. How much did you like the 2010 6-7 team? ’09? The ’09 team looked all season like a it would have a losing record but pulled the fat out of the fire at the end to go 8-5. The 2015 team was a decent albeit not great team that actually could have won the SEC East if Chubb hadn’t gotten hurt in the UT game and CMR had not made the biggest game-planning blunder of his career in the FU game.
OK, you got me…I was referring to early 1980s. My attempt was making a correlation between Clemson national title run and UGA national title run. Just looking for a silver lining to UGAs benefit from the CU run. Their QB is special, it will be interesting to see how they look next searon.
I was just being a smartass, but I knew what you meant.
As would Mike Macintyre.
Agree. Not winning the East, considering the schedule and the state of our division, would be a colossal failure
Grathams replacement
10-4,11-3. Defense improves to 17-20 ppg, even more improvement if a dominant pass rusher emerges. OL,WR, and Eason improve as the season goes on. Kicker is the wildcard with the Blankenship drama.
Kicker has been the wild card for the last two years, and not just because of the befuddling situation with Blankenship. For a program with a long long history of great kicking and punting to have come to this is some kind of existential bitch-slap. Its like we done pissed somebody off, there.
Well.. since you asked.. Our weakest points were first, an undersized and out maneuvered O line who had difficulty run blocking. And if we can run with Chubb, Michel et al in the backfield we are in trouble. Second, Eason wasn’t quite up to the hype he came with. He is a great talent and a nice young man. But, he overthrew a lot of open recievers or didn’t see them at all. He did show some promise in the Liberty Bowl by running when flushed out of the pocket instead of getting sacked or throwing the ball away. We have a favorable schedule next year, but we had that this year too. If we get the O line organized and BEAT FLORIDA who knows?
Derek Dooley 2.0
You mean an undersized and improperly coached Offensive Line. I see improvement coming in with this new OL class. I’m not certain we have the coaches in place to capitalize. Let’s hope so.
Be in the SEC championship game. That is the bar for me and anything less would be a disappointment. No reason to not run the table in the East with the amount of talent returning AND coming into the Fall.
+1 agree completely!
yep better compete for the big prize this year not be out of it in October
I don’t know how it will go, but it better go to the SECCG and an east division title.
9-3. Losses to Notre Dame, UF and Auburn.
Auburn. If you had said any other team, I could be on board. But AU.
I like how we just chuck up a loss to Florida, naturally (I do too)
But hey, frat beach! Barbara Jean’s in October! Good times, I guess.
Well he is saying Losses and naming teams, losing to ND at their house, could see. Losing to UF, 50-50 ok. But in the last 10 years, UGA has owned AU. So there I draw the line.
I would consider the program being on schedule the East coming down to the WLOCP win or loss in a 4Qtr game. Smart needs to get the program to a point where is .500 or slightly better against UF.
The UF QB situation will be interesting to watch. McElwain catches flack for the QB situation but he was having a solid 1st yr before the QB was ruled ineligible, and a good 2nd yr when the starter was injured. They red shirted a QB who was ranked just behind Eason and Del Rio is back. UF should be favored to win the East again.
GT is a must win or Smart hot seat talk starts. UGA coaches don’t start 0-3 to the nerds.
Year 3 is the big year. Smart recruited OL heavy this year, Hopefully they sign and then develop in year 2. Chubb and Sony are great but they can’t create miracles with a mediocre OL.
I was thinking ND but I’ll take a SEC loss over a non conference loss any day.
Middlin
Heyberto
If anyone says Kirby will succeed, they’re lying. No one knows. Any throwaway season will only be excused in hindsight… if he actually builds something. The caveat I’ll give is that I’m not going to bitch too much about his 1st year, despite some real head scratching moments (games). 2nd year doesn’t get a pass. I can’t put a number on that, but all I can say today is I need to see significant progress
rchris
If you look at raw athletic talent on hand, the only teams that will be remotely close to us are Notre Dame (coming off a losing record), and Auburn (who we beat). Unfortunately we have to play them both on the road as well as Tennessee, and we play the Gators in Jax. If Kirby can get as much out of his talent as the opposing coaches do theirs, then we should win at least 2 of those 4. 10-2 in the regular season is a reasonable expectation.
Also, if Kirby & Co. weren’t killing it on the recruiting trail, I think there’d be a lot more restlessness amongst the natives.
He better recruit well. To compensate for coaching.
Win the east, beat Florida, lose pretty handily in the champ game, but not by five TDs
I think that all the indicators will point to an East title or 9-3, 10-2 a top 15 type of team.
What I would be more interested in is being able to pull up Bill C stats at the end of the season and seeing 2+ games in 90+ range, 5-6 games in the 75-90 range and maybe 4 games in the 60-75 range. No games in the single digits. No game below 50th percentile.
Regardless of the wins and losses that would indicate that this team was moving towards being a competitive national title team. Maybe a team that ends the year better than they started.
My guess is that we see something a little better than a throwaway season, but the drive home is still nothing but guys telling you that we just dont have the players and talent in athens to beat Mizzou.
So , basically, get back to where CMR / Bobo left us
Year 2 yes, Year 3 I would want a WLOCP W, and a SEC CG trip playing closer than our last meeting with Bama.
…and by Year 2 yes I would say 2011-2012 Richt/Bobo not ’13+ Richt/Bobo.
I was let down because Smart was so rigid in his philosophy that he didn’t go after the wins. I think he learned a lot though, and I bet we see more out of the offense next year. I expect there to be changes in the OL if someone gets beat like Catalina, I expect Eason to be under center as much as he can handle, I expect to see Mr Chubb and M Michel to get the ball more often.
I still think Smart will be successful. His recruiting is incredible, the East sucks, and I’m an eternal optimist.
Starbreaker
Looks like I’m on the same page as most others…win the East and be competitive in the SEC championship game, at least. It’s not as much about our team, but the competition and next year is looking like an even more down year for the SEC East (if that was even possible). Also, the offense is going to have to pass the eye test and appear more in sync and fluid in Chaney’s offense. No doubt there will still be struggles with a new OL, but I need to feel better about the offense and see improvement.
I feel like 2017 is going to have a lot of similarities to 1997. So I’ll go with 10-2. Whether that’s good enough to get to Atlanta or not, idk. Obviously it depends on how the rest of the conference shakes out.
I want to see two things (drastically) improve next season.
1: Eason has to get better and take advantage of the gimme plays. I don’t need him threading the needle 25 yards down the field with regularity, but I need him to hit the open receiver for the big play. He failed to do so far too often this year, but since he’s a true freshman learning a complicated system I’ll give him a one-year pass. That pass expired Dec. 30th, however.
2: Kirby’s in-game coaching has got to get better. I expected there to be some issues and he didn’t disappoint. His time out usage is awful for the most part and truth be told his demeanor is too up and down. I know we all wanted Richt to be a little bit more emotional, but Kirby seems to be a classic overcorrection to that. He needs to settle himself down a bit while keeping some of the emotion that makes him who he is. That’s not an easy thing to manage but it’s part of the gig.
As for the season outlook, it’s just so hard to tell this early. Players will be hurt. Players will transfer. While I’m somewhat bullish on the offensive line, I still think UGA is one year away before contending for anything special. That doesn’t mean UGA can’t win the SEC East. In fact I would be disappointed if it didn’t. But it could very well be a sacrificial lamb should Bama find itself in Atlanta again a la Florida the past two years. I think 10-2 is a very real possibility with 9-3 being more realistic. Road games at Auburn (who will be much better next year), Tennessee and Notre Dam plus Florida in Jax isn’t an easy 4 game deal. Then you have to worry about losing to a team you shouldn’t, because UGA showed it was more than capable of doing that this year.
The first team to 15-0 ever!
(See what I did there?)
I’ll second that. LOL.
As many have pointed out, if a new coach doesn’t win big by Year 2, they usually don’t end up winning big at all. I’m not saying I’m expecting it, but anything less than an East title isn’t going to look good for the future. And I would add at least being competitive in the SECCG too. Barely winning a weak East division then getting blown out in the SECCG wouldn’t be a huge step forward in my opinion.
I mean… UGA went 7-5 this year, so winning the East and playing in Atlanta would most definitely be a major improvement. Doesn’t matter if UGA gets blasted in Atlanta or not.
I see your point……I’m just saying that let’s say we swapped places with UF this year – I wouldn’t feel drastically more optimistic about the future if we’d had their season instead of ours.
I think thats why so many people here see getting to Atlanta as the baseline. UF has been a very bad team and still won the east two years running. We should at least be able to do that.
Bulldog Gemes
A great throwaway season
Win the East or have compelling reasons why not. Demonstrate a willingness to use our talent to their best advantage.
Bill Glennon
I look at Kirby this year like I would a true freshman QB in the SEC. I think he will make good progress this year, and the game will slow down for him. However, he might not yet be seasoned enough.
Kirby is absolutely lights out in the “off the field” coaching aspects like recruiting and building enthusiasm. He has experience in these areas. His “on the field” coaching has been bad, although the D has been OK. His media and press dealings have been bad. His bad coaching areas are those that that he never handled under Saban.
Kirby has the right personality. He is a motivated, intelligent grinder. A gym rat. Those types of people are resourceful and learn from their mistakes. They figure out how to win over time. I expect we will see steady progress but not a championship for a few years.
He won’t get a “few” years
7-5 gets him at least 3-4, IMHO..
He better because no other SEC team may win a championship while Saban is still coaching. I don’t consider the SECE a championship. UGA might go to the SEC Championship game but lose to Alabama. If they do that, I will accept it till Saban retires.
Cpark58
Improved with flashes of greatness, hitting on all cylinders by whatever Florida bowl we go to. SEC East Champs or missed by a thin margin and added depth another top 5 recruiting class.
The O-Line could be a liability as it will be super young but with leadership in the RB position, more experience at QB and a more talented receiving corps, we should be much improved on offense. Next year’s line will have more upside but still be mighty young to motor-grade but now that Eason is possibly 1/3 through his career, the game should be slower for him so playbook should open up and its reasonable to expect he have the command of the offense and be better able to make changes at the line away from doomed plays.
No one is asking for an all shotgun, 5 wide, air raid spread attack. UGA can still be the pro-style, run first, wear down the defense, play action team it wants to be but Mr. Cheney will have no excuse but to adapt or die until the motor-grader is ready.
I guess I’d ask what’s going to be different? Our OL was a huge problem, will freshmen from this lights out recruiting class be enough to fix that problem? As this blog has noted, our general offensive approach has been… undynamic. Is there reason to think that will change? Is there someone in-house who can help develop Eason into the QB we all want to see? For everyone calling for the 10/11 win season this year, I’d ask why specifically you think you’ll see improvement?
Because we won’t be playing a true freshman, 18 year old QB?
it’s reasonable to expect an improvement between year 1 and 2 as everyone becomes more comfortable with everything. It ain’t like UGA’s offense was prolific or dynamic before Cheney got there and he wrecked it.
FarmerDawg
So yur sayn there’s a chance?
RCBRick
Talent improves, but Chaney is still calling the O and Kirby is still in over his head. 50/50 shot we win a bad east, and could win anywhere between 4 and 11 games, because that is just how football is, but it would be surprising if UGA finishes top 15 in S&P+. I’m guessing somewhere around 30th.
I don’t expect anything. If they take a leap forward, Smart may end up being a good hire. If not, he’ll probably be fired a year or two later.
Tronan
SEC East champs and at least nine wins in the regular season. Anything less is going to put Kirby and staff on the hotseat – and considering the 2017 schedule, rightfully so.
I think we need to see some dramatic improvement. Having said that, we could easily still lose three games while playing vastly better than last year. We need to see the things we were promised THIS year: no face plants, attention to detail and a team that gives it’s best effort on every play of every game. It would also be nice NOT to see the coaches stubbornly insisting on pounding square pegs into round holes.
There’s not a loss on that schedule, but there are 5 tough games. We would have expected not less than 10 – 2 with an East Division title pre-Kirby. Given all of the issues this coaching staff needs to overcome, I think they come up one game short at 9 – 3 and miss winning the East again.
I don’t expect an SEC championship next season because (1) Jim Chaney will still be calling the plays and developing the offensive game plan and (2) I’m not bullish on the offensive line play being championship quality. After saying that, I expect what we got in year 2 of the previous guy … an appearance in Atlanta and a team that fights like mad and lets the chips fall where they may. If there’s not an appearance in Mercedes Benz Stadium on the first week of December, someone’s seat is going to be hot entering 2018.
I think with our talent and schedule 9-3 would the expectation given a perfectly average coaching job. So I expect we’ll go 8-4. I expect we’ll be unhappy with that.
Beat Tech and don’t ruin my trip to Chicago.
We are going to ND as well. I sure hope the restaurants aren’t the highlight of the trip.
Ditto. Already booked our house in South Bend for the weekend.
Have you been to South Bend? It’s not Athens.
We’re flying to Chicago Thursday, Cubs day game on Friday, partybus to and from ND on Saturday, Chicago fun until Wednesday. Is there a Ferris Bueller tour?
We’re staying in Chicago as well. South Bend is a beautiful campus but rather isolated.
I’ve not been to South Bend, but have a few alumni friends here in Atlanta recommending things to do. If nothing else, we’ve got a large enough crowd to have a good time in our house before and after the game.
We’re flying into Chicago on Thursday and thinking about catching that Cubs game on Friday as well. Haven’t decided if we’re renting a car or taking a train to South Bend from Chicago. I’m certain there’s got to be a Ferris Bueller tour if you search for it. The wife and I are heading back to Chicago later that month for a wedding so not planning on spending much time there after the game other than to fly home.
More Arizona, Less Colorado.
To you South Bend Travelers, I am looking to go in on a house for my UGA Junior son and myself.
Saltwater Dawg
Beat Florida
Win the SEC East.
Beat Tech
Competitive game in SEC Championship
Seems like most folks would be happy if we got to the SEC Championship game…and got beat.
If that’s the happy spot, wtf did we go through all this drama and pain for?
I more or less understand the process, that next year should be better than this year and I can almost guarantee that next year will be better than this year.
But that’s hardly the point, is it?
I will not be happy next year or any year we are not playing in the national championship game and winning it.
Oh, silly Scorpio, don’t you know Smart needs to time to purge the losing mentality that Richt instilled in the program for all those years?
Its not a losing mentality Kirby is trying to correct, it’s a mentality of doing just enough to get by is what he’s trying to root out of program.
Yep, fourth-most wins in the nation from 2001-2015 = just barely scraping by. Kirby has indeed put a stop the mentality that produced those results, whatever it was.
How many championships of any kind do we have to show for all of those years?
Two SECS, five east titles, but yeah, no rings.
About the same as any team not coached by guys named Meyer or Saban
2 SEC titles in 15 years while sitting in the 4th best recruiting state in the country. Yeah that’s really lighting it up there champ. Keep dancing to that 10 win drumbeat.
Yeah I’d take 10 wins in a heartbeat right now. You?
Most of them wouldn’t. For a lot of people, an 11 win season with a 3-1 or 4-0 record against rivals that doesn’t result in a title might as well be a 0 win season. I don’t get it personally, seems like a miserable way to live your life, but they’re calling the shots for our program now.
Tim in Sav
Rick……he’s gone, get over it. He had 15 years to get the job done and he didn’t(notice I didn’t say couldn’t) Mark Richt is a great man and a good coach but he’s gone. Lets give Kirby at least three or four years and see what he can do.
Of course we can and should give Kirby time, but I don’t see a point in faking optimism for a situation that looked bad when the staff was hired and has only gotten worse (other than recruiting, which is going gangbusters). We’re likely to be looking for a new coach in a couple years, so we might as well remember how monstrous of a fuck-up this was and who is responsible. If that means I am not ‘letting it go’, so be it. It will be great if Kirby defies the odds, otherwise I am stoked about the guy we hire after McG is sent to the un-hireable purgatory he so richly deserves.
Not all championship game appearances are created equally. If they go 9-3 and squeak in only to be blown out, that’s a far different thing from going 12-0 or 11-1 and losing a competitive game. The latter will still only get him to a fifth year (barring a dropoff of Muschampian proportions) if he doesn’t follow it up with anything.
losing a competitive game in the SECC? You mean like 2012?
I see you didn’t read beyond that to my pointing out it wouldn’t buy him much time.
Your last sentence would make for a pretty miserable year most of the time. You’re not very happy are you? 🙂
No I am pretty happy most of the time because I don’t have unrealistic expectations about my football team.
To want any other result than a national championship for my football team is kinda stupid, no?
I am bored with all this bullshit about what is acceptable.
If 10+ wins a year for 15 years is not acceptable, then by God I want the big enchilada, the glass do hickey, the confetti bath…
To want, or expect, anything else is stupid.
It is possible to develop the right strategy, coach players to be great and play great as a team, to have the right game plan, and still lose. Consistently playing down to or losing to teams with inferior talent has been the UGA way recently. I believe we all expect that to change quickly, and starting next year.
I have seem many teams in many sports get to a championship game for the first time (players and/or coaches – not ever), play extremely well, and not quite have that secret sauce to win while playing under that pressure. I’ve also seen those teams and coaches come back the second time and kill it.
From my own comment, that’s what I meant by competitive in the championship game.
Guess we will know more about the secret sauce tonight, huh?
Looks like they found it.
MDDawg
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.”
-Jean Luc Picard.
Picard was the defensive coordinator at one of those Mississippi junior colleges, right?
Picard was no James T. Kirk! And he had drenched accent. Not that there is anything wrong with that. 🙂
Well, we were in the driver seat for that in 13 14 and 15 but flunked even that test.
If we could get a little improvement along the O line, I don’t see why we shouldn’t be able to beat anyone on the schedule. I expect we lose a game or two but get to Atlanta and play a competitive game. I don’t “expect” to win in Atlanta, but even if its Bama we play, it should be competitive into the fourth quarter.
Compete in every game. Beat Florida. Win the SEC East. Finish the year looking like 2018 will be special. This is what I expect.
Those are pretty reasonable expectations. Well stated.
We really, really have to get back to beating Florida on a regular basis. The importance of that cannot be overstated.
Totally agree … 1990 was a long time ago.
I think that is the key as well. Not only do we need to beat them, but we need to kick the shit out them and get used to doing it. The road to Atlanta for us always runs through Jacksonville.
Absolutely … The OBS brought that mentality to Gainesville when he showed up. We need to kick them in the teeth. I’m still not sure Kirby gets it based on his team’s performance in Jacksonville this year, but it was a throwaway year.
All of you predicting or wanting big years forget we play at UT this year and you can expect some devastating injury to come out of that,
We should take a forfeit in K ‘Ville, either that or refuse to play anyone on the two deep. They’ll be fighting hard to defend their 2016 Life Championship and we can’t risk the knees of our kids.
I expect UGA to be a strong favorite to win the East, and would be disappointed if they don’t make it to Atlanta. While I don’t expect any/many more votes for us to be in the Top 10 next year, we should start somewhere around 15th as a consensus rating, and could be competitive with all teams by the end of the year. Biggest question marks are OC deficiency, whether Eason makes good strides, and whether we get better with in-game management issues (timeouts, challenge communication issues, and personnel groupings.)
Last year I was overly optimistic at 8 1/2 wins, but next year I see 10-2 as the most likely record, assuming no surprise changes before September. This is based on returning personnel, and a soft schedule of opponents, more than us having closed the gap from a team rated in the 60s last year to a Top 15 team by September.
What is a ‘great leap’? I don’t know, but I fully expect us win the East. Can we compete with the West in the SECCG? If compete means not get embarrassed then I think we might be able to do that. Win it all the next year (2018). By the way, if we can get tickets, we’re going to South Bend – I actually think we are going to win that one.
The mythical Year 2. Key juniors on offense a defense returning, coupled with a slew of talented, experienced freshmen & sophomores who have shown great early promise. Back-to-back elite recruiting classes to add depth. A weak division and a relatively easy schedule. Everything is set-up to make this another in a long line of national championship caliber “Year 2’s”.
Given the uninspiring performance of the coaching staff and the fact that this is Georgia, I’m certainly not predicting that it will be, merely thinking that the ingredients and environment dictate that it should be a SEC-title / BCS playoff type of year. Anything less will be a disappointment. Anything less will be what Mark Richt delivered for 15-years.
Unfortunately for Kirby, he is the victim of expectations raised not by his own hand, but by the way in which he was hired and the man he replaced. Another 10-2 season where we wind up on the outside of the national championship race and again pointing to next-year might be realistic, but it is not what Kirby was hired to deliver. He was hired to be better than CMR, not simply a younger, more irritable version with very, very good, but not elite, results.
In short, 2017 is exactly the type of year, and the type of team that Kirby was hired to turn from really good-to-great. Anything less should be viewed as a huge disappointment and the cause for many tough questions to be directed at not only Coach Smart, but also our beloved AD and his cronies in the hydration business.
With next year’s schedule? Win the East is the bar.
drewh07
10-2 and an SEC Championship game appearance. If Kirby doesn’t deliver that then I don’t think we have our guy.
I personally want to see the coaching staff focus on winning games over “establishing an identity”. I want to see reins loosened on Eason so he takes a few more chances, like throwing a deep ball that his receiver can catch rather than worrying too much about a turnover. I want to see CPJ make excuses of why he can’t beat Georgia in Mark Richt field. I want to see Gator tears after the Cocktail Party. I want to see Auburn smoked so badly that Gus has to answer lots of hard questions about his leadership. And I want to see the Fighting Irish get their asses whipped by the Dawgs (I hope to witness that one personally). They’ll still be a top ten team after the loss by the way. If those things happen I am pretty secure in thinking that would mean a good season.
My heart: We’ll beat Florida, Auburn and Tech, plus Notre Dame at South Bend, win a weak SEC East and give Bama all it can handle in Atlanta.
My head: this is CKS’s second year, following a spotty first season, and nobody should expect miracles. But it would be nice to get back at least to where Richt left us. I truly felt we regressed last season. That was a major disappointment. A repeat of that will portend a short stay in Athens for CKS.
Another throwaway. Btw, no former Saban assistant has beaten him head to head. Still.
Keep beating that drum while ignoring that Jimbo is a badass. Saban hasn’t played an assistant that has had the time, support, recruiting, etc. to build a program that can complete with him. That certainly doesn’t mean it’s not possible. It means he hasn’t run into it yet.
Season opener in 2017. Dome christening.
I doubt there is any school in the known universe that supports its football program with the gusto of the University of Ala by God Bama…really. What other school would have the consummate gall to put “having championship football” in its mission statement?
Hell, Jimbo can’t even get out of the ACC.
Except in 2013 when he won an NC with a team where every single starter was drafted. All 22.
Gawd, yer right, how quickly I chose to forget. I am suitably chastened.
Georgia is one of 3 teams in the East that expect to compete for the SECE Title most every year. Next year is no exception.
Kirby’s going to get it done.
You’re being optimistic PTC, seems like that’s not a very popular view to have around here nowadays.
Medium leap tripped up by occasional coaching learning curve events:
-Clock management trip up
– ‘Impose your will’ mentality that ends up playing against personnel strengths
– Critical bad call on offense
– Over coaching on D that leads to a devastating penalty
I expect an SEC east championship, but with perhaps some needed help from other east teams.
I expect a loss to UF until I see the rise of a game changer like Jarvis Jones. UT will be a shootout and I’ll be left wondering what happened to the high octane offense a few weeks later when they struggle due to the ‘impose your will’ mentality.
We will see flashes of greatness from the new kids that will leave us wanting more in 2018.
That’s what I expect. Would be ecstatic to be proven wrong on any or all of the above statements (except the SEC east prediction of course).
Let me add that a Group of Six Bowl would be a nice touch..we haven’t been to a bowl of that magnitude since the 07 Season…unless my memory is failing me.
Expecting a step in the right direction. The main concer being that, yes we have some awesome recruits coming in on the O-Line….but does anyone really expect them the perform at an elite level until year two?
The defense will be as nasty as we’ve seen in 10 years.
Eason will make a significant jump in year two.
Chubb and Michel are an obvious advantage.
Receiving corps will have more experience.
But that O-Line????
Expect 9-10 wins with a good shot at winning the East and a close loss in the SECCG due to a nasty Defense and an Ine that just can’t push us over the finish line. 2018 will be the year I expect a slot in the playoffs.
South FL Dawg
Max 1 loss
Win the weak SEC east
Don’t get embarrassed in the Dome
Squatch
Expect much improvement and making it to Atlanta unless there’s some major implosion. I still think Kirby’s model will yield results so I won’t be jumping off the wagon though if this doesn’t happen.
The wild card is Eason. I want to see him improve on accuracy and check downs. I can do without another season of Sony and/or Chubb jumping up and down in the flat waiving their arms with nobody with 30 yds of them.
No expectations or opinions until Jacksonville 2018. We’ll know for sure by then. As far as getting to Atlanta and losing this year or any year, there is no bigger screwover in college football than to be the loser of the SECCG. If you don’t play in it and are the next highest ranked team, you get a New Year’s 6 bowl. The SEC gives no shits about teams that aren’t from Florida or Alabama. Thus I give no shits about any teams that aren’t UGA.
dawgtired
The suspense of the season is one of the things that makes college football so great.
I believe we should be equal or better in all areas of the team.
QB – will be more experienced and possibly pushed by the next guy.
DL – will be more experienced and should be better
DB – many coming back with experience and pushed with new talent coming
WR – see DB
RB – needs no comment
OL – here is the big question and concern – we would have to expect to be better just because we stuck so bad this year. Pittman will have another year with the current players and the influx of all the new-improved talent coming. This will be were the offensive coaches prove they earned their pay.
K – who knows. it’s such a fickle part of the game.
We should be able to claim wins against App St and Samford now (hope I don’t regret saying that)
The trip to South Bend could be tricky but they didn’t have the best year themselves. Their best win was against Miami.
I won’t claim a win at UF until I see one.
Even though we struggled with UK and Mizzu and lost to Vandy this year I expect us to be MORE improved than they will ber next year.
USC and MissSt had bad years and I didn’t see anything to make me think they’ll improve by more than UGA.
Auburn, GaTech and UT seem to be the 3 games that could make or break the season…although I expect UT to struggle with the change at QB and we seem to have Auburn’s number. Tech is Tech.
I will go with a 10-win season but don’t know which 2 to pick as losses. All are winnable but many are lose-able. September can’t get here quick enough.
Ken Dorfman
•SECE
•SECC
•NATTY
•Heisman
•Bronko Nagurski Trophy
•Chuck Bednarik Award
•Dave Rimington Trophy
•Davey O’Brien Award
•Dick Butkus Award
•Doak Walker Award
•Fred Biletnikoff Award
•Jim Thorpe Award
We should win the east. We didn’t fire a 9-10 win/coach, and excellent human being, for a 4-5 year rebuilding job. Considering the state of the east, winning the division isn’t expecting too much, either.
We were in a rebuilding job either way.
artful codger
If offensive philosophy and offensive line play jell, and if better supported by sideline management, I would expect to play in the new dome in early December. And that would suit me just fine heading into ’18.
wewoof
If we lose to any team from the State of TN next year ,I’m going to be harder on Smart than I already am. (2) I thought we hired Smart so we could compete with the Process not just concede that we’ll never beat them in the Championship game. (3)The goal is to win the SEC and let everything else take care of itself…that has been the goal since Dooley.
lightbud
right now the SEC East pecking order is:
Until Smart starts beating those guys, he’s third tier.
9-3. It takes time to develop an OL, and the verdict has not yet been rendered regarding Chaney/Pittman.
9-3 would be great, I’d take it.
But how do we go from 7-5 to 9-3 with largely the same coaches, same schedule, and same players?
doiknowu
We won’t have to, Consider that UF, UT, and UGA won’t be returning their 2016 lineups intact.
Sorry, hit “enter” before adding that our returning players look to be better than UF’s and UT’s, and our entering class appears (on paper) to be better than theirs.
If UT gets Helfrich for OC, they’ll be the favorite for sure.
I’m surprised the Viles haven’t fired Booch to hire Chip Kelly.
Waiting on Gruden and Peyton to sign on.
I feel we are looking at a 6-6 or 7-5 season. Here’s why I say that.
We are a non-championship team trying to change the entire culture
without any Championships since 1980.
1- Saban struggled at Mich St to do that going 6 or 7 wins for 4 years.
2- Sweeney went from 9 wins down to 6 wins in 2nd year at Clemson.
3- Dantonio went from 7 wins down to 4 in his 2nd year.
4- Harbaugh won 9 games in his first 2 years at Stanford.
My point is it’s tough changing a culture used to non-championships, even for great coaches.
Here’s how most see it:
Top 25 finish in 2017
top 10 in 2018
Win Natl Champ in 2019
Sorry, show me a list of coach’s with that 3 year pattern.
More likely will be like:
6-8 wins in 2017
I don’t see how the heck we could lose the sec east in 2017. It would be a fail of epic proportions.
fu lost their best coach (Collins) and much of their talent. ut lost their entire offensive backfield and a few of their best defensive players. We have 7 returning starters on O, 10 on D, all the ST players except Imac, most of the backups return, and we have a huge recruiting class.
If any other team in cfb was this stocked they’d be in the top 5. But at underachievement U the nation has come to expect screw ups. If we don’t win 10 the whole organization should be scrapped.
Returning players don’t mean a lot if they don’t win but 8 games together.
Saban lost his DC and went undefeated the next season.
Oklahoma, FSU, Michigan, LSU, has good recruits every year and rarely wins a Championship.
It depends on whether Kirby Smart is the HC B-M thought he would be when they hired him or if he is the bozo he looked like during certain games this season. I am hoping for the former but I fear the latter. The former is 10-2 regular season next year. The latter is 6-6.
6-6, yep.
The losses to Vandy, Tech, and Tenn are puzzling, as were some of the close wins.
Could have easily gone 5-7.
Smart did not achieve anything in his first year in wins, for sure.
I don’t know what his record should or would be in 2017 but I do know that any UGA coach that starts his career 0-2 to Florida and 0-2 to GT will not have a long career. If by some total freak of the fates he should also lose to Vanderbilt again, he will not get to 2018. He took a team that lost some good players and was 10-3 and managed to totally waste the best backfield tandem we have had since Worley and Henderson and through stupid play calling on offense and the worst red zone defense in college football win 8. Tell me when the damn OC finally called the right runs for our offensive line in the TCU game it didn’t make you slap your forehead. 2015 and 2016 were the worst offenses since Ray Goff but at least 2015 won 10 and beat Tech.
Kirby is a stubborn guy with the sideline demeanor of Will Muschamp but apparently not the vocabulary. He better take self control lessons or he will continue to be a great assist coach for somebody sooner rather than later. He can’t continue to “coach the defense” it confuses the players. Why are we paying Tucker?
I know he’s a great recruiter but if he can’t win damn games he is just insuring that his successor will have a great lineup.
By the way Fromm has a better touch on his passes than Jacob. He does not try to knock the receiver down with the ball. Chaney better go back to QB school because I was not impressed with Eason’s matriculation of the ball down field.
I’d say with this AD, Smart could survive a 6-6 season with losses to UF, Tenn, GT, and Vanderbilt.
It’s not an AD who really knows what he’s doing.
Agree on recruiting, so what, 7-5 sux.
Agree on Fromm, hope he gets a real chance, those Stafford/Eason types get a lot of drops trying to impress people with their arm.
The AD will do what the money says do.
Senator, when are you going to post a post-mortem on the entire season?
Sometime in January.
Don’t lose to tech. Ever.
Never ever lose to Tech!
2016 we averaged 3 touchdowns and a field goal per game. In 2017 if we average 4 touchdowns and a field goal per game we should win the east and have a good year. With the talent we have coming back on both sides of the ball and the easiest schedule in memory, anything less will get Chaney fired and put Kirby on the proverbial hot seat in 2018.
I’m not overly optimistic.
I thought they should have gone 9-3 regular season. Should have won 2 of these 3 home games(UT,Vandy,GT). 10 wins should be doable next year.
Regular season expectation is 9-3 with a good bowl bid.
I will be pretty disappointed if we don’t win the east.
I will be satisfied if nick and Sony have noteworthy success, they deserve to be treated to quality football.
I will be surprised if we win the east being undefeated, but honestly, there is no reason to lose any of our conference games looking at our roster. Kirby needs to embrace the pressure.
The oline will be worse, losing 3 starters and special teams will be worse without IMac.
Same QB, RB’s, TE’s, and WR’s (No All SEC winners this year) who only went 7-5 and average 24 points a game.
Nothing I saw showed me Kirby knows how to play defense in the red zone. Virtually no improvement there all season.
Here’s the 6 potential losses:
Notre Dame,UT, Vandy, Auburn, UF, GT.
And that assumes you get through App State, Miss St, Mizzou, and South Carolina.
Pit Dawg
I know I’m late to the game here, folks, but we need to come to grips with a few things. As I type this, I’m watching Clemson get theirs for the first time in 35 years- and here we collectively sit- still waiting.
I am so sick and tired of the “CMR and the 10 win season argument”. Wins and losses do not tell the whole story here. Since 2008- his teams to put it mildly-underperformed and to be completely honest-sucked with the exception of one year (2012) and he chose not to spike the ball-thus losing all of his capital with the majority of constituents. His teams failed to finish in the top 25 in 4 of his last 7 seasons in Athens. The numbers of players drafted before 09 and after 09 are staggering. The 2013 recruiting class has one NFL player and he went pro in 2015. There’s this incredible misconception that the program was in good shape. It wasn’t. I know The Senator may rip me for this, but we need more realism in our fandom. Most likely another throwaway year may be headed our way- only because what we EXPECT as fans and what the players and coaches are CAPABLE of at this moment are not parallel. This team lost to Vanderbilt and Tech at home, and almost lost to Missouri, Nichols St and Kentucky. Realism stings sometimes. But what I have seen for the last 4-6 years is a collective team that was not all that good. Yes, we’ve had some great individual players who have won us some games. But generally speaking I saw nothing that gave me a confidence in our overall ability to win games we are supposed to, put inferior opponents away early, and compete with superior opponents and occasionally steal a win against them.
I get that there is a glimmer of optimism to hold onto (19 returning starters- easy schedule- the clown circus that is the SEC East to name a few olive branches). But a realistic win total for 2017 is 8-9. In other words, more football purgatory.
The Smart hire is about a total reconstruction of the football program- not some magical quick fix. There were just too many massive deficiencies to expect an immediate turnaround. How fast the program improves is going to be based on how well he accumulates talent and develops the talent into elite players. He learned this “process” from one of the best. If he can’t perform, he will be excused and we will find another poor sucker to try to get us back to the glory days. But the further I grow away from the 10 year old who watched us play on that glorious New Year’s Day I become less and less convinced that it’s possible. Nevertheless, it ain’t next year.
I know The Senator may rip me for this, but we need more realism in our fandom.
Quite the contrary. I’ve noted the “we’re Georgia” attitude that a substantial portion of the fan base subscribes to and found it unrealistic.
That being said, I think you’re overcompensating. Richt certainly had his flaws, some of which were of a magnitude that justified a change, but “massive deficiencies” over the past 4-6 years? Come on, man, there were two trips to the SECCG in that time period and the 2013 team would have made a third but for the rash of injuries on offense.
Unless you mean by that phrase “not in the same league as Alabama”. But it’s not like Georgia was alone in that regard.
Don'tStandSo
Next year will be a disappointment and the year after and the year after that and so forth and so on until Kirby is fired. Kirby has no clue what he is doing. Hopefully, we will hire a proven head coach from a smaller school next time, not another untested coordinator.
RLJ
Improvement–possibly an Eastern Division title–but no conference title. At least 10 wins. It is year 3 of the Kirby era that I say championship or bust.
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← You realize this means war.
And now for something unexpected →
Without a doubt, in my lifetime as a college football fan (as opposed to a Georgia football fan), there’s no season I have enjoyed more than the 2007 one. It was absolutely and unpredictably nuts from start to finish, with plenty of stops along the way.
So, it is with great pleasure that I share with you SBNation’s tribute to that season. Check out the following pieces in particular:
Bill Connelly, on CFB’s 11 wildest seasons (2007 being #1)
ULM 21, Alabama 14
Les Miles, ladies and gentlemen
How would a four-team college playoff have looked?
The Celebration, and Corch’s “stunning pettiness“
Steve Spurrier reminisces about 16-12, and Georgia in general
The end result: the only national champion to lose two regular season games in multiple overtimes.
Crazy as hell. But great. I doubt we’ll see another season like it again.
Filed under BCS/Playoffs, College Football, Georgia Football, Nick Saban Rules, The Evil Genius, Urban Meyer Points and Stares
94 responses to “My favorite year”
It’s like a Boston fan declaring the 1986 World Series as the most exciting. It’s like a surviving member of the crew of the USS Indianapolis saying, “well probably not see a day this chock full of intrigue again.”
It was “interesting times” in the most painful meaning of the phrase. The long, all day lead up to the kick in the balls on the Sunday after the seccg to top it off. You knew it was coming. You knew it was gonna hurt. You just had to sit and wait while Herbie made everybody comfortable with the idea that we deserve to have our nuts kicked. All the while seething that the smug fuck face had taken the exact opposite position in 2006.
Then we get friggin’ Hawaii. I hated 2007. I don’t even like thinking about it.
Really? You thought there was a chance Georgia was going to play for the national title in 2007? I knew that ship sailed when Tennessee eked out their wins over Vandy and Kentucky. I just enjoyed the ride of those final 6 games.
We were sitting at four. WVU and Missouri lost ahead of us and LSU was ranked 7th. If it had been week three or week seven or five, we would have moved to 2. Instead then jumped no. 7 LSU five spots to 2 and we went to four.
Yeah we had a chance to get in that year. It was so realistic that they talked about it all fucking day on both Saturday and Sunday….dick.
You’re right. ESPN would never talk up something that would never happen to keep ratings up for their bullshit selection show. Anyone could have predicted that they would jump LSU to 2 after they won the SEC title game.
I said I saw it coming. Are you stupid?
Then why were you so pained?
Because we were at four and I watched two teams ahead of us lose on the last day of the season. Then I watched herbie change his story from 2006 that division titles were meaningless and that it’s really about getting the best teams together.
It’s really pretty simple for those with functioning cerebral cortexes.
The Russians stole it when they hacked into herbies headset
There’s an email that says the equivalent of: “This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump?”
I doubt it. People take football too seriously to collude with Russia to influence the outcome of a natty.
But I get your point. Treason. Funny.
An email that says. Was it one of hillarys 30k that were destroyed. You Dems used to love the Ru skies till ya lost . Maybe run a candidate that doesn’t scream at the camera , can walk 10 feet , and at least visits Wisconsin one time and doesn’t hate the white working class. .even ole Alan Dershowitz is laughing at you Der. Treason. Take a pill in addition to deep breathing and turn on CNBC
I would think that any American would be disturbed by a foreign adversary interfering in an any election. Not only does that not bother you, you think it’s ok to go along with it and then to lie about it and then to cover it up.
There’s a name for people like you: traitor.
Maybe she just lost Der get over it gonna be a long 8 . Keep up the good work . Stick to football . At least you can carry on a conversation
So it’s ok if it didn’t work? Attempts to commit treason isn’t treason?
Stick your head back up your ass. The extra oxygen isn’t helping.
Yep, screwjob for sure. There weren’t any teams without flaws and until Herbie comes up with his new rule, we’d have been there beating the crap out of OSU instead of LSU.
I disagree with the screwjob, LSU never lost in regulation, and UGA lost tiebreakers to make the SECCG. LSU had the better resume with the SECCG win.
I agree that LSU had the better resume. And I acknowledge that UGA had no God-given right to play in the championship game. The sour taste simply came from the obvious tail wagging the dog effort required to get LSU to jump UGA by the poll voters. This was made even worse when the Herbstreit Doctrine was abandoned to justify Michigan and Alabama playing for the championship.
We were told that the bcs was designed to choose the “best” teams not the most “deserving” teams. By any measure we were the better team. Vegas would have favored by 6.5 in the seccg had we made it.
If anybody thinks that if Missouri or WVU wins that we finish lower than 3, I have some beachfront property in hahira for sale.
It was a manipulation of the process so that the regular order of things would not be followed. If you can point out one time where a team dropped a spot when two teams ahead of them lost, I’m listening.
We got fucked. You can say we deserved it. You can say we should have never been rated ahead of LSU to begin with. You can say that late season losses weigh too heavily. Whatever your story is is fine with me but the idea that we didn’t get jackhammer fucked is simply wrong. We did.
We didn’t UT abused that that team. LSU was never out of a game.
Man, why are you obsessively angry and bitter over something that happened 10 years ago? Especially considering it’s something (UGA football) that’s totally outside of your control and has no real bearing on your life whatsoever? I can only imagine how insanely preocupied and passionate you are about things you actually have control over, otherwise I’d say your priorities are just slightly misaligned.
I’m guessing (or assuming) you’re a big wig pulling in 750k+ annually with 6% body fat, a smoking wife, and hobbies galore that you excel at.
Call it Irish Alzheimer’s. I forget everything except my grudges.
“Best” and “most deserving” can be interchangeable terms depending on who is using them in the context of the BCS.
It’s subjective to be sure. However, herbie was willing to forego application of the same objective standards in 2006 that he felt were so important in 2007. It’s blatant hypocrisy, plain and simple.
I disagree…but I respect your opinion….even though it’s wrong. 🙂
You certainly make a compelling argument in support of your contrary position.
It reminds me of the Erasmus vs. Luther debate in which Erasmus argued for several hundred pages in support of the existence of a free will. Luther came back with a stunning retort: “you’re wrong.” A very convincing argument I must admit.
The good thing about subjectivity is that you could debate whether the sun rises in the east and walk away thinking that both sides views should be respected. Some would say that truth matters. But does it?
Derek’s right. UGA got screwed over by the nattering nabobs of ESPN. If you examine who the talking heads were it is even worse as all of them had conflicts of interest: Granny Holtz, who Georgia owned while he was at South Carolina; Herbie, who Georgia beat like a drum in a bowl game and who, like SOS, never got over it; Jesse Palmer, a GayTurd. UGA beat LSU by about 2 TDs the next season so we have some empirical reason for saying the Dawgs were better, too. (I know, I know–a different season, a different team. But we still beat ’em 5 games after the BCSNCG.) We had the best team at the end of the season and we got screwed out of the Big Game. Just ask previously undefeated Hawaii how good the Dawgs were.
Oh Mayor, year after year we continue to dance this little dance. We just view the 2007 season from opposing lenses. You see a team primed and ready for the BCS title game only to be left out. On the other hand, I see a team that lost to an awful Carolina squad and to Tennessee and failed to even win their half of the division. I believe winning your division and conference means something…and no, Alabama did not earn the right to a rematch vs LSU in the title game a few short years later in my opinion. Sure LSU soared past us in the polls. Sure ESPN and their “nattering nabobs” (well done with that name by the way! I will certainly use that in the future. Giving you full credit of course.) spoke poorly of the Dawgs. But all deservedly so. Don’t lose to the Gamecocks and/or the Vols and problem solved. We can agree to disagree and move on.
Actually, give former vice president Spiro Agnew credit. Mayor was quoting him with the “nattering nabobs.”
Actually it’s Bill Safire’s quote. He just lent it to the soon to be disgraced former VP.
Skeptic, I understand and respect the opinions of others–including you–on this issue. What I don’t get is that you always seem to hold UGA, your supposed alma mater, to a higher standard than you hold other teams. You do that consistently. For example, you and others who espouse your view that the Dawgs weren’t “good enough” and LSU was “good enough” completely ignore the fact that LSU lost to Kentucky explaining that Kentucky “was ranked as high as #7 in the nation” during that season. Well, Georgia didn’t lose to Kentucky–Georgia BEAT Kentucky that year. Some how is it that you think LSU (also a team with 2 losses) was better when the Dawgs beat one of the teams LSU lost to?
Eventual MNC, two loss LSU lost their final regular season game to lowly, unranked Kentucky…at home. That’s pretty much all that needs to be said.
I remember James Carvell getting on every and any tv program after that game screaming that LSU deserved to play in the BCS title game because they were undefeated in regulation play. And basically OT rules were stupid anyway and shouldn’t really count.
Kentucky was ranked 17th, the game was played on 10/13 and it was in Lexington. Other than that, you nailed it. 🙂
Seriously, you’ve got that loss confused with Arkansas.
Kentucky was also ranked as high as 7th that season.
Well I feel like an idiot. You’re right…I did confuse UK and Ark. On second thought, f it…I’m going to take the Hugh Freeze approach here: you’re wrong and I’m right on this. You also are responsible for my recent IRS audit too. Furthermore, if you find any proof that I’m wrong, email me. Otherwise, shut up and go away. Oh yea, lat but not least — God gives us the ability to be humble and faithful and stuff. Thank you Lord!
I have a hard time with 2007. In principal it was a great season but as a Georgia fan, I just can’t look past some stuff. That was the year I lost any respect I had for ESPN and Kirk Herbstreit in particular. A mere year year after Herbie was shouting for the rooftops, “Who are the two best teams RIGHT NOW?!” trying to get a national title game rematch between Michigan and Ohio State that jackass turned the Big 12 title game into a 4 hour infomercial on how LSU should leapfrog Georgia in the polls because of LSU’s body of work during the regular season. I get that Georgia had no right to be in that game. We lost to Tennessee and an inferior 6-6 South Carolina team. We made our own bed, but the hypocrisy was a bit much. I still to this day don’t get my sports news from ESPN. I just watch the games I’m interested in that they televise.
I was also not happy about the Sugar Bowl that year. I felt like we got shafted in 2003 when we ended up playing a 3 loss Florida State team that was only there because the ACC was terrible that year. But that was nothing compared to seeing what was a red-hot Georgia team get saddled with showing Hawaii they don’t belong in big boy college football instead of getting to play a real team.
Southernlawyer11
And if misery wants some company, I’ll add that the other Sugar Bowl during the Richt era wasn’t even a real Sugar Bowl. You were given dried up ground up peaches, thrown in a bowl, and told it was sugar. Not to mention, we once again had the distinction of being an upstart’s signature win. Guarantee you some WVU blogger perpetually lists that as his favorite win in school history.
/thanks a lot Katrina
ALL WVU bloggers list that as their favorite win in school history. It’s the only game against a big-time opponent that they ever won.
TomReagan
Not to mention that a 2001 Nebraska team that was blown out by Colorado in its final regular season game and that didn’t win its division either and a 2003 Oklahoma team who had been beaten 35-7 in the Big12 championship had already played in the BCS championship game.
I’ve also always wondered what the difference in the “hottest” team in the country and the best team at the moment is.
I disagree on UGA being red hot or being a great team at seasons end. Along with the two losses, we had an ugly, 3 point win over Vandy late in the year where they were driving late to win only to fumble it away. Then we turn around and give up 34 points to Troy and barely beat them as well. Yet, most only seem to remember the Hawaii thumping which proved just how dominant we were that year. Instead, IMO that was a very overrated team with many flaws. A lot of internal cracks were present too which really opened up in the years following.
I think that team had flaws but after a disappointing Troy game Georgia won their 3 final regular season games by double digits. Two of those wins were against ranked teams. The 2008 team was certainly overrated early on but I think the way Georgia was playing at the end of 2007 they could’ve at least been competitive with anyone.
I remember going to Jacksonville after the Vandy scare and beating the shit out of Florida and Timmy Tears. After that, that team was completely different and would have pounded OSU like LSU did.
That team had the perpetual flaw of CMR coached teams of playing to the competition. Troy and Vandy didn’t inspire the team, so lackluster performances resulted. You can bet your ass that, had they played in a championship game, they would have come out revved up like they did in the Sugar Bowl.
And I disagree that the sky is blue. That team was unbelievable after the Vandy game. The defense relaxed and let them have some points but the Troy game was never, ever in doubt. Get out of here with that trash.
And that Troy teams only regular season losses were to Florida, Arkansas, and Georgia.
Ok, interpret that season as you wish, but the numbers say otherwise. BTW, internally there were all sorts of issues with that team as well — it certainly wasn’t a focused group, I’ll assure you of that
No, the numbers say exactly what everyone has always said about that season; that the team lost two bad early games, then got their shit together and dominated after Vandy. There is absolutely no argument against that. Please, please show me some numbers that dispute that.
The UT game occurred in the middle of the season, not early, in which we were humiliated and never in the game. Both the Troy and Vandy games were ugly (Vandy was driving for winning score before fumbling, a game they had led throughout) and we stuggled to put away a mediocre at best, 6 loss GT team, in which the game was in the balance until late.
UK also was a 5-6 loss team, and I think we were losing to them in the 3rd quarter before finally going ahead to win by 10 or so. You’re acting as if that team got off to a slow start, then steamrolled the rest of the way, but that was far from the case. It was anything but a great team and had many flaws. Hell, WillieMart alone as DC should pretty much silence anyone who feels otherwise.
That U.K. Team lost 4 games, beat the eventual national champion, and averaged over 36 points per game.
31-17 ain’t a struggle.
Georgia was number 12 in total defense in 2007, to say nothing of the second half of the season. I don’t care who’s coaching that d, 12 in the country is a good d.
You keep bringing up coaches and “internal problems”. Those guys are gone, you can quit trying to get them fired.
Again, yes they did catch fire the second half of the season. You only argument is “well Kentucky”. “Well coaches”. Still waiting on those numbers.
I’ll save you some time. They don’t exist.
I already highlighted everything for you; if you refuse to ascertain, then there is nothing else to say. Please go back and look at the box scores, and show me a dominating team. I see a two loss team that trailed Vandy until the final minutes, a team that was losing to a 5 loss on the year UK team in the 3rd, and a team that trailed a 6 loss GT team in the 2nd half as well. Pray tell, where are your so called numbers that show otherwise?
…and a team that trailed a 6 loss GT team in the 2nd half as well…
Not sure what box score you’re looking at, but Georgia only trailedtwice in that game and both times were in the 2nd quarter and totaled only about 4 minutes of game time. They held the halftime lead and never looked back.
In the first week of the BCS rankings that season, there were two SEC East teams in the top 10. Neither of them were Florida, Georgia, or Tennessee. They knocked off #1 LSU in OT and should have knocked off a top 15 Tennessee in OT. I believe Andre Woodson broke Danny Wuerrfel’s SEC record for TD passes in a single season that year. Bill C’s S&P rankings have them as a better team than Auburn that year. Kentucky was legit in 2007.
Puh-leeze about Troy. They scored a garbage TD with 5 seconds left on the clock against back-ups that made it a 10 point game.
Like MGW says, y’all can keep trying to fire coaches from 2007, but that equine specimen has been dead for a long-ass time. There’s no arguing that they shit the bed with two bad losses in the first half of the season, but the team was hell on wheels after the Vandy game.
The Auburn game is the loudest Sanford Stadium has ever been. The WLOCP was awfully fun.
On the other hand.. the South Carolina game saw Knowshon ripping it up between the 20’s only to have the ball taken out of his hands, and the team never got off the bus in Knoxville.
Truly a roller coaster season.
Stafford was really bad against South Carolina that day.
I still see the wheel route Stafford threw 10 feet too far ahead of a wide open knowshon in my nightmares. Ironic that we missed a wheel route given willie’s trouble defending those in other games.
Regardless of the BCS issue, it is still my favorite year of Georgia football. (Says the guy who was born 3 months after we beat Notre Dame)
I’ll take 2002 every day.
1980, of course, was the best season. 2002 was incredible. The end of 2012 was pretty damn awesome even with 5 yards away.
The best team of the last 40 years may be a team that came up just short … 1981. That team was nasty on defense and pretty much manhandled its SEC schedule.
If Erk stayed UGA would have another title or 2.
’92 and ’07 were frustrating years so close but so far away. The ’92 team ended with a win over Ohio St and the final play was a Herbstreit INT. Good times.
Personally, I thought the ’82 team was the best, which made the heartbreak in the Sugar Bowl that much harder to take. That team pretty much dominated all season long and I couldn’t believe that PSU could even hang with us, much less win.
That team was flawed at QB, but really good everywhere else.
Any SEC Championship year for UGA was better…
Corch
Always liked Moreno shaking his hands as he ran back to the sidelines after the second score in the Sugar Bowl, signaling that Hawai’i didn’t belong on the same field with him. Despite what Mark May, Thom Brennaman, and other assorted halfwits were saying.
2007? Wasn’t that the year some no-name QB from TN ran the same damn wheel-route play on Willie’s D over and over again? Fond memories.
Yes and Bobo was running the ball with the safeties giving up the middle of the field.
I think that was ’09…UT was coached by Kiffin, which made it worse.
I must be getting my beat downs confused.
CMR’s motto…close…
Good thing Bama nor UT never hired him there would be no cigars on the 3rd Saturday in October.
*or
Maybe I am not really a general football fan; maybe I am mainly a Georgia football fan, because lots of 2007 was frustrating for me. We played well for most of the season, but then there the times when we just inexplicably shit the bed. In a way, looking back, it was the beginning CMR’s inability to win games he was supposed to win (South Carolina) all the while looking great on other (Florida comes to mind). This when I recall fan frustration start to develop even if we didn’t realize it yet. I agree it was a crazy, and it gave a lot sportswriters good copy, but I am too close to UGA to consider it my favorite year. I’ll take 1980, and not just because we won but because of how we won: Undefeated year, sweet, sweet win in Jacksonville, Tech helps us get the #1 ranking but doesn’t get a win in doing so. Ahh, the schadenfreude!!
Interesting observation. ’07 seemed liked the promised land was just a fortunate season away. I do admit I wanted Cox’s redshirt burned in ’05 for the national title hunt. ’08 I wasn’t that let down as I thought the OL turnover would let us down. ’10 however with UCF loss followed by ’11 with the losses to Boise St, and Michigan St really set in for me that the program couldn’t be what I knew it could be, and Richt’s best years seemed to have Jekyll and Hyde games.
My biggest disappointment was not getting to go to the Rose bowl to play USC.
That I agree with…should have happened
I can see the point but I was so tired of the MWC and WAC talk I wanted to pummel them out of the national discussion.
I think even Illinois would have at least won.
Lets not get carried away here
At least we beat the pants off of Hawaii. Anyone else remember hearing idiots saying they thought Hawaii deserved to be in the BCSNG game because they were undefeated? pffffft
http://tucsoncitizen.com/morgue/2007/12/10/71015-hawaii-deserves-more-than-it-received-from-bcs/
“For the second year in a row, the unbeaten champion of the underrated WAC (Western Athletic Conference) has been snubbed in the college football Bowl Championship Series title game.
Last year it was 12-0 Boise State. This year it is 12-0 Hawaii, which deserved better alohas than it got in the BCS selections.
Sure, twice-beaten LSU and once-beaten Ohio State played tougher schedules than Hawaii. But their Jan. 7 title game doesn’t excite many fans beyond Ohio and Louisiana, even though it might be a barn-burner. Unbeaten Hawaii vs. Ohio State would have had national appeal.”
I emailed Al Neuharth about once a week for half a year asking him to follow up on this after the Sugar Bowl, but he never responded. And he never will now, seeing how he’s dead.
He must have been HIGH, or reading from a script….I think the latter.
Or hung up on Pitt not getting their chance in 1980.
I gotta admit I took pride in UGA’s winning in such a way that it showed Hawaii didn’t belong. The WAC was what the American Conference is today a good mid major that didn’t belong in the national title discussion.
My lasting memory of that game was June Jones telling his team before they came out on the Superdome turf to play like they belonged. I knew at that moment we were going to absolutely smoke them because Jones knew his team was stepping into a buzz saw.
That was awesome, and the other was Martinez for his faults had a defense that showed up to rattle Brennan from the opening snap.
I remember Fran Tarkenton laughing his ass off after he saw our opponent in the pregame warmups and telling everyone, while on national TV, that Georgia was going to destroy them. At the time I was worried that he was a bit over confident, but later I realized that he knew a thing or two about football.
I remember that. I think Jimmy Johnson said something similar before the game in a bit more diplomatic way. Pretty much said Georgia was a completely different animal from anyone Hawaii played during the season … good times. Hope to see those again soon.
This will always remain my favorite college fooball season. I’m a fan of the sport outside my alma mater and this season was just so batshit crazy from start to end that it’s hard to see something like it happening again.
Fartwok
I remember telling a buddy before the 2007 season that the SEC would never win another NC because there were now three coaches in the league with a natty since Saban went to Bama.
I was so so wrong.
Damn you can tell it’s July. 2007 was 10 years ago WGAS.
Minnesota Dawg
Amusing comments and reflections here.
The biggest culprit in screwing over Georgia in the last 25 years has been Georgia. In 1992, 1997, 2002, 2007, 2012 (seeing a pattern here?), we’ve had teams, seasons that could have been magic, could have been great. But we manage to let it slip through our hands by simply playing very poorly in games where we can’t afford to.
1992 (a heartbreaking year): UF
1997: Auburn
2002: UF
2007: UT
2012: S. Carolina
Here’s hoping 2017 breaks the trend (in a good way).
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That would include establishing a climate and environmental justice division within the Justice Department. Biden says he would support climate lawsuits targeting fossil fuel-related industries. ___ EDUCATION Biden has proposed tripling the federal Title I program for low-income public schools, with a requirement that schools provide competitive pay and benefits to teachers. He wants to ban federal money for for-profit charter schools and provide new dollars to public charters only if they serve needy students. He opposes voucher programs, in which public money is used to pay for private-school education. He also wants to restore federal rules, rolled back under Trump, that denied federal money to for-profit colleges that left students with heavy debts and unable to find jobs. Biden supports making two years of community college free, with public four-year colleges free for families with incomes below $125,000. His proposed student loan overhaul would not require repayment for people who make less than $25,000 a year and would limit payments to 5% of discretionary income for others. Among the measures in his COVID-19 response plan, Biden calls for extending current freezes on student loan payments and debt accrual. Long term, Biden proposes a $70 billion increase in funding for historically Black colleges and universities, and other schools that serve underrepresented students. ___ ABORTION Biden supports abortion rights and has said he would nominate federal judges who back the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision. He's also said he'd support a federal statute legalizing abortion if the Supreme Court's conservative majority strikes down Roe. Biden committed to rescinding Trump’s family planning rule, which prompted many clinics to leave the federal Title X program providing birth control and medical care for low-income women. In a personal reversal, Biden now supports repeal of the Hyde Amendment, opening the way for federal programs, including his prospective public option, to pay for abortions. ___ SOCIAL SECURITY Biden's proposals would expand benefits, raise taxes for upper-income people and add some years of solvency. He would revamp Social Security’s annual cost-of-living adjustment by linking it to an inflation index tied more directly to older Americans' expenses. He would increase minimum benefits for lower-income retirees, addressing financial hardship among the elderly. Biden wants to raise Social Security taxes by applying the payroll tax to earnings above $400,000. The 12.4% tax, split between an employee and employer, now applies only to the first $137,700 of a worker's wages. The tax increase would pay for Biden’s proposed benefit expansions and extend the life of program’s trust fund by five years, to 2040, according to the nonpartisan Urban Institute. ___ GUNS Biden led efforts as a senator to establish the background check system now in use when people buy guns from a federal licensed dealer. He also helped pass a 10-year ban on a group of semi-automatic guns, or “assault weapons,” during the Clinton presidency. Biden has promised to seek another ban on the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Owners would have to register existing assault weapons with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He would also support a program to buy back assault weapons. Biden supports legislation restricting the number of firearms an individual may purchase per month to one and would require background checks for all gun sales with limited exceptions, such as gifts between family members. Biden would also support prohibiting all online sales of firearms, ammunition, kits and gun parts. As with his public option plan for health insurance, it's not clear how Biden will prioritize gun legislation, and the prospects of getting major changes through the Senate are slim, at best. ___ VETERANS Biden says he'd work with Congress to improve health services for women, the military’s fastest-growing subgroup, such as by placing at least one full-time women’s primary care physician at each Department of Veterans Affairs’ medical centre. He promises to provide $300 million to better understand the impact of traumatic brain injury and toxic exposures, hire more VA staff to cut down on office wait times for veterans at risk of suicide and continue the efforts of the Obama-Biden administration to stem homelessness. ___ TRADE Biden has joined a growing bipartisan embrace of “fair trade” abroad — a twist on decades of “free trade” talk as Republican and Democratic administrations alike expanded international trade. That, and some of his policy pitches, can make Biden seem almost protectionist, but he's well shy of Trump's approach. Biden, like Trump, accuses China of violating international trade rules by subsidizing its companies and stealing U.S. intellectual property. Still, Biden doesn’t think Trump’s tariffs worked. He wants to join with allies to form a bulwark against Beijing. Biden wants to juice U.S. manufacturing with $400 billion of federal government purchases (including pandemic supplies) from domestic companies over a four-year period. He wants $300 billion for U.S. technology firms’ research and development. Biden says the new domestic spending must come before any new international trade deals. He pledges tough negotiations with China, the world’s other economic superpower, on trade and intellectual property matters. China, like the U.S., is not yet a member of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the multilateral trade agreement that Biden advocated for when he was vice-president. ___ TRUMP Biden won't escape Trump's shadow completely, given the many investigations and potential legal exposures facing the outgoing president. Biden said as a candidate that he wouldn't pardon Trump or his associates and that he'd leave federal investigations up to “an independent Justice Department.” Notably, some of Trump's legal exposure comes from state cases in New York. Biden will have no authority over any of those matters. ___ Associated Press writers Will Weissert, Kevin Freking, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Ben Fox, Deb Riechmann, Collin Binkley and Hope Yen contributed to this report. Bill Barrow, The Associated Press
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Sexy Older Attorney
What country and/or city do you live in? New York
What’s your occupation? Management Consultant
Religious affiliation: Jewish
How many sexual partners have you had in your life (including oral sex)? Around 30
How long ago did this hookup happen? 3 Years Ago
Tell us about your PARTNER(S). What did they look like? How well did you know them, had you hooked up before? How/Where did you meet them? How did you feel about them before the hookup? I met Amanda (not her real name) while I was out for happy hour with some friends from work. Amanda was in town on a business trip and was hosting a professional event at the bar we were at. She was in her early 30’s, average height, black hair, with a fit build. She looked fantastic naked.
How/where did the hookup BEGIN? What led to it? Was planning involved? Who instigated it? Her work event at the bar was wrapping up when we first started talking to each other. I was with a friend from work who happened to be really drunk and made a rude comment to her which I apologized to her for which she appreciated. Once the event was wrapped up on her end, we started talking more and eventually started making out. She was staying at a hotel nearby and invited me to come back with her for a drink. We got to her hotel and had a quick drink before she suggested going up to her room.
What happened DURING the hookup? What sexual behaviors took place (e.g., oral, vaginal, anal, kinky stuff)? How did you feel during it? How did they behave toward you? Were they a good lover? What did you talk about? How did it end? After leaving the hotel bar for her room, we started making out again in the elevator. Once we got into her room we continued making out while trying to take our clothes off. Once we were naked, I started fingering her while she played with my penis. After a while, I started teasing her by sucking on her breasts/nipples which were absolutely beautiful. She had a firm B cup, perfect for a handful with perfect, pink nipples.
After sucking on her nipples for a while, I started slowly kissing her entire body until I got down to her vagina. At this point she was absolutely begging me to fuck her but I held off and started eating her out which made her go absolutely nuts. I ate her out for about 10 minutes until she had an orgasm. By now, I was rock hard and she was eager to please me, so she pulled me towards her face and started blowing me. I didn’t want to cum so after a few minutes I pulled out, and I slowly entered her missionary style.
While on top, I grabber her ass cheeks and started picking up the pace. She was so wet that her asshole was well lubricated as well and I started playing with her hole while we continued to fuck. Eventually she took my hand and indicated that she wanted me to finger her asshole. A few minutes later we switched positions and I started fucking her from behind while continuing to finger her ass. I asked if she had ever had anal sex and she said no but really liked how my fingers felt and was willing to give it a shot.
I got up quickly and grabbed some hand lotion from the bathroom, and lubed up my penis and her asshole even though she was absolutely soaked down there. I slowly, but easily entered her ass from behind and she absolutely loved it. For the next few minutes I fucked her in the ass in a few different positions until I couldn’t take it anymore and shot a huge load deep into her ass.
We both freshened up a bit, and cuddled/talked for a while and smoked a cigarette out the window. When we got back into bed, we were both horny and started fucking again. This continued for hours, we’d fuck, take a break, and went at it again. We woke up at least three times in the middle of the night to keep fucking.
She had a flight the next morning and I had work, so we had sex one more time, then I showered and rushed to work.
What happened AFTER the hookup? How did you feel about it the next day? What are/were your expectations/hopes for the future with this person? How do you feel about them now? In the morning I was super hungover so I called out of work. She had a flight in the afternoon so we ordered breakfast, had more sex and chilled until she had to leave for the airport. Her car service came to pick her up, I left with her and the driver dropped me off at my apartment.
Despite being hungover, I felt great about the previous night and great about her. The sex was absolutely mind-blowing and she was really cool/smart. We exchanged numbers and kept in touch. I traveled a lot to her city for work and would always see her and stay with her.
What precautions did you take to prevent STIs and pregnancy? (Check all that apply) Birth control pill / patch / ring / injection / implant
What were your motives for this hookup? Fun, pleasure, horniness, Attraction to partner(s), Intoxication, It was easy / convenient
How intoxicated were you? Drunk/high but not wasted
How intoxicated was your partner? Drunk/high but not wasted
What was the BEST thing about this hookup? Everything. We had amazing sexual chemistry, continued to hook up, and became friends.
What was the WORST thing about this hookup? Being hungover the next day. Other than that, nothing.
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Microtransactions Return to Star Wars Battlefront 2 in Next Update
April 13, 2018 May 3, 2018 Categories Newsbattlefront 2 lootboxes, star wars battlefront 2 crystals, star wars battlefront 2 microtransactionsLeave a Comment on Microtransactions Return to Star Wars Battlefront 2 in Next Update
Microtransactions are returning to Star Wars Battlefront II on April 18 alongside a new Ewok Hunt mode.
Star Wars Battlefront 2’s new update, Night on Endor, brings with it the return of Crystals which are purchased with real-world money. Crystals can only be exchanged for cosmetic Appearances, although the Appearances can also be acquired for credits which are earned in-game. Over 50 Appearances are included in the update, including Endor Leia and Endor Han, which will let players add a touch of personalization to their characters.
The update also includes limited-time multiplayer mode Ewok Hunt, which features a battle on Endor as Ewoks ambush a group of Stormtroopers. You can choose to play as either the Ewoks or the Stormtroopers. Ewoks are limited to spears and Wisties whereas the stormtroopers have access to the vastly superior firepower of the Empire. However, every stormtrooper killed spawns another Ewok, stacking the odds increasingly in the Ewok’s favor. The stormtroopers must hold off the ambush until an extraction team arrives. EA has not stated how long the Ewok Hunt mode will remain available.
Microtransactions were pulled from Battlefront II shortly before the official release of the game following an angry response from fans who were concerned about pay-to-win elements in the competitive multiplayer modes. By restricting Crystals to cosmetic only purchases, EA will hope to avoid a repeat of the headlines that prompted a global conversation about the links between lootboxes and gambling.
The return of Crystals is part of a larger revamp of Battlefront II’s progression system. From April 18, Star Cards and Parts will no longer be available in crates. Players will keep all the Star Cards they have earned to date, however Parts will no longer be used to craft Star Cards. Instead, players will be able to convert Parts into Skill Points which can unlock and upgrade Star Cards. Skill Points will be earned by playing multiplayer and will be unit specific. Going forward, crates will only be earned by logging in daily and completing milestones and timed challenges. EA published an FAQ which explains how the microtransactions change the in-game economy and what you should do to prepare.
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Home Trucking News Truck drivers are still accidentally being caught in protests
Truck drivers are still accidentally being caught in protests
Sierra Alley
Nightly protests in Portland, Oregon have continued to put semi-truck drivers in danger as they deliver loads to the city.
Portland has experienced almost 70 consecutive nights of protests in the wake of George Floyde’s death and the Black Lives Matter movement. In many cases, protesters have lined busy city streets, which blocks access to trucks trying to make deliveries.
On August 5, a @KOINNews reporter captured video of a semi-truck getting caught in the middle of a protest. Unable to turn around, protesters can be seen helping direct the truck through the crowd. With hazard lights on and its horn sounding the way, the truck cautiously drove through the roadblock at Lombard and Concord as the protesters cleared the road.
This semi-truck couldn't turn around when it hit the demonstrators' roadblock at Lombard and Concord. So they cleared the street enough for it to drive through. pic.twitter.com/6Gu5fjz5Px
— Hannah Ray Lambert (@TheHannahRay) August 5, 2020
According to police, the city has seen more than double the amount of shootings than this time last year. With 15 of those resulting in death, the most in one month in more than 30 years, heightened violence in the city could be a major concern for truck drivers.
The Portland City Council also voted to pass a budget last week cutting $15 million from the police bureau. The budget for the upcoming fiscal year includes $4.8 million in funding for Portland Street Response, a proposed alternative to traditional policing.
Portland, and many cities across the country, have actively taken steps to defund police departments, something truck drivers have already voiced their concerns to CDLLife about.
A recent poll showed that 79% say they will refuse loads to cities with disbanded or defunded police departments.
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Home » Lifestyle » Mum pulls daughter out of school after 'worst case of online bullying'
Mum pulls daughter out of school after 'worst case of online bullying'
Girl, 12, has to change schools after TikTok scammers turned classmates against her in ‘worst case of online bullying’ police have seen – but her mother claims site won’t identify bullies to protect THEIR human rights
Shelley Dale, 46, from Essex, took her daughter Talia, now 13, out of her school
Comes after TikTok account with Talia’s photos turned classmates against her
She received mean comments after fake account called fellow student names
Shelley got Essex Police involved but found it hard to close the account down
A desperate mother has been forced to change her daughter’s school after cyberbullies who set up ‘hate’ TikTok accounts using her name and photos turned her classmates against her.
Shelley Dale, 46, from Essex, feared for daughter Talia’s life after the now 13-year-old received months of abuse from school friends who were convinced she had created the profiles to pick on another girl.
Talia claimed she was sent abusive messages on TikTok, including being called an ‘ugly b***h’ and telling her to ‘kill herself’, after the fake accounts – made to look as though the Year 7 student had set them up – called a classmate ‘a pig’, ‘fat’, ‘ugly’ and a ‘s**t’.
Despite Talia protesting her innocence, and complaining to TikTok, she claimed the social media site refused to remove the profiles, leading to Shelley reporting it to the school and the police – who called it ‘the worst case of online bullying they had seen’.
But they later dropped the investigation, and Shelley claims police told her that TikTok had refused to give out any personal information on who had set up the fake profiles, because they said it was against the account holder’s human rights.
A TikTok spokesperson said: TikTok was built to provide a positive place for creativity, and we prioritise the safety and wellbeing of our users. Bullying & Harassment is strictly against our Community Guidelines and content of that sort is removed. We have taken action in this case, banning one account and removing content from another that violates our Guidelines.’
Shelley Dale, 46, (left) from Essex, was forced to change the school her daughter Talia, 13, (right) went to after she became a victim of cyber bullying
‘When Talia came to me back in May and told me what was happening, I was shocked and angry as I couldn’t understand why anyone would want to do this to her,’ explained Shelley.
‘Talia had been added to the TikTok accounts and when she saw them, and realised they were pretending to be her, she commented “who is this?” – but then she was instantly blocked.
‘That has been her defence as you can’t block yourself from one of your own accounts – but her so-called friends wouldn’t listen.
‘These fake accounts were posting awful messages about one of Talia’s friends – calling her terrible names and making horrendous videos.
‘Then Talia started to receive so many awful private messages from school classmates because everyone thought it was Talia behind the accounts.
‘Things like “everyone knows it’s you, just own up”, “you’re a jealous b***h” and “go kill yourself”.
When she was 12, a fake ‘hate’ TikTok account was set up using her name and photos which started sending mean messages to her classmates
‘It was very hard seeing Talia so upset knowing I couldn’t fix it. All I could do was keep telling her that I’ll fight to find out who did this to her.
‘But it was totally out of our control. She was so shocked, upset and very lonely as the nasty messages kept flooding in.’
Talia initially told her mother about the fake TikTok profiles during the first coronavirus lockdown in May, telling her she was getting the blame for the ‘hate’ accounts that were making abusive videos about one of her friends.
The footage called the classmate, who doesn’t want to be named, a string of derogatory names including ‘a pig’, ‘fat’, ‘ugly’ and a ‘s**t’.
Shelley said the account went to ‘great calculating lengths’ to make it look like it was Talia who had set it up, including leaving a photo of the teenager as a ‘draft’ – which made it seem like she had posted it ‘by mistake’.
The worried mother said this convinced Talia’s classmates it was her behind the accounts because they felt they had ‘proof.’
Talia’s friends then set up groups on other online platforms such as Snapchat to send abusive messages about her.
Despite protesting her innocence, Talia’s classmates didn’t believe her and started sending nasty comments her way
This spread to include students from all year groups in Talia’s school, as well as students from another local school – who all sent her abusive messages.
Shelley reported the accounts to TikTok but they allegedly failed to respond, so she reported the site to Talia’s school, which she does not want to name, and Essex Police.
‘TikTok was ignoring my messages when I tried to report the accounts and only took one of the fake profiles down but it took five days,’ Shelley claimed.
‘One of the other accounts is still active as the social media site has ignored my plea to remove it – even though I have told them that the police are involved.’
MailOnline understands that one of the abusive accounts posted a single video which removed for violating TikTok’s guidelines on Bullying & Harassment, and the user then cancelled the account themself.
A second hate account, posing as Talia, was banned in November for violating Bullying & Harassment rules.
‘The police have taken it very seriously and said it was one of the worst forms of online bullying they’d seen.
‘Both the Met and Essex police were involved and a report was taken from my daughter and we gave them all the evidence we had as we had videoed everything from both accounts.
‘We were informed the police would contact TikTok to find out who set up the accounts and criminal action would be taken against them.’
It was only when Shelley (right) got Essex Police involved that the mean comments being directed at Talia started to stop coming in
Shelley said once Talia’s classmates heard the police were involved, the student received fewer abusive messages – but Talia had already lost all her friends.
Shelley thought getting the ‘hate’ account closed down would be straight-forward, but she was told by the police that her daughter’s case had to be closed.
She claimed she was informed that TikTok had refused to give out any personal information behind who had set up the fake profiles, as they said it was against the account holder’s human rights.
Talia was so upset about having to go to school and being an ‘easy target’ for bullies, her mother took the drastic action of changing her school.
‘Talia’s confidence was so low and she lost all her friends, including the ones she’d attended primary school with,’ she explained. ‘After a week of the bullying, Talia said to me that she wouldn’t be able to go back to school as they won’t leave her alone.
‘At first I said it’ll be fine and all forgotten about, but I could see the effect it had on her and there was no way she could have gone back in September without the culprit being named.
‘So she left happily in March after the lockdown announcement with lots of friends including the one the account was about and then never went back or has seen them since. But her new school is amazing and she has some lovely new friends.’
Shelley posted the details of the suffering her daughter went through on Facebook and has also set up a petition to put pressure on social media sites to put an end to cyber bullying
Shelley has now started a petition against cyberbullying as she believes the law needs to change so that bullies ‘lose their human rights as soon as they do things like this’.
The family wants the law to impact social media platforms, and believes the law needs to be changed.
She added: ‘Talia now wants to help try and stop this happening to anyone else. The police asked my daughter what she wanted the outcome of this to be and all she said was “I just want to know who did this to me.”‘
‘It’s such a common problem; there are other kids going through this that are feeling so lost, angry, depressed and lonely and too embarrassed or frightened to tell anyone.
‘In an ideal world we could keep our kids off these social platforms until they’re all 18 but this isn’t the time we live in.
‘It’s how they communicate with their friends, arrange meet ups, discuss any problems and do school work etc.
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Control Systems and Signal Processing; Robust and Optimal Control, Positive Dynamic Systems, Fault Detection, Observer Theory, Robotics and Distributed Control of Multi-Agent Systems, Control of Biological Systems
Professor Bahram Shafai received the BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland, in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from George Washington University in 1985. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern in 1985 and served as the director of the university’s Communications and Digital Signal Processing Center from 1990 to 1992. Since 1996, he has been the director of the ECE Capstone Design Program and its associated laboratory. He has served as associate editor of two major journals. Currently, he is the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems and serves on the conference editorial board of the IEEE Control Systems Society. Professor Shafai has also been a member of the organizing committees for various international and IEEE-sponsored conferences, such as CDC and ACC. He has published one book and more than 150 journal articles and conference papers, and has been the recipient of several honors and awards. His research interests include robust stability and control of multivariable systems, observer theory, identification and estimation, fault detection, time-delay systems, distributed control, robotics and motion control, adaptive signal processing in control, and communications.
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B. Shafai, S. Nazari, A. Oghbaee, Positive Unknown Input Observer Design for Positive Linear Systems, Proceedings 19th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), Cheile Gradistei, Romania, 2015, 360-365
B. Shafai, M. Saif, Proportional-Integral Observer in Robust Control, Fault Detection, and Decentralized Control of Dynamic Systems, Control and Systems Engineering, Springer International Publishing, 2015, 13-43
S.M.M. Alavi, M. Saif, B. Shafai, Accurate State Estimation in DC-DC Converters Using a Proportional Integral Observer (PIO), Proceedings of 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Industrial electronics (ISIE), 2014, 1304-1309
R. Ghadami, B. Shafai, Distributed Observer-Based LQR Design for Multi-agent Systems, Proceeding of ISIAC, World Automation Congress, Kona, HI, 2014, 520-526
P. Brunet, B. Shafai, Identification of Loudspeakers Using Fractional Derivatives, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 62(7/8), 2014, 505-515
B. Shafai, A Oghbaee, Positive Observer Design for Fractional Order Systems, Proceeding of ISIAC, World Automation Congress, Kona, HI, 2014, 531-537
B. Shafai, A Oghbaee, Positive Quadratic Stabilization of Uncertain Linear System, Proceeding of IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control, CAA, Antibes, France, 2014, 1412-1417
B. Shafai, A. Oghbaee, T. Tanaka, Positive Stabilization with Maximum Stability Radius for Linear Time-Delay Systems, 2014 IEEE 53rd Annual Conference on Decision and Control, 2014, 1948-1953
R. Ghadami, B. Shafai, Decomposition-Based Distributed Control for Continuous-Time Multi-Agent Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 58(1), 2013, 258-264
Shafai Awarded WAC Lifetime Achievement Award
ECE Professor Bahram Shafai received the Lifetime Achievement Award from World Automation Congress (WAC) 2018 for Outstanding Contributions to Robust Stability and Control of Multivariable Systems and Observer Design for Fault Detection.
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Relationship repertoires, the price of parenthood, and the costs of contraception
Monica C. Bell, Kathryn Edin, Holly Michelle Wood, Geniece Crawford Mondé
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Drawing on 150 in-depth interviews with African American male and female youth who have spent much of their lives in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty, we explore the structural and cultural underpinnings of the elevated rate of unplanned childbearing among disadvantaged youth. We find that gender asymmetry in perceived opportunity costs, shared social meanings associated with condom use, and perceptions of health risk associated with hormonal and other female forms of birth control such as intrauterine devices—perceptions that may be rooted in a generalized distrust of the medical establishment—are promising explanations not usually considered in the literature on unintended fertility. These findings offer additional insight into how disadvantaged youth calculate the opportunity costs of childbearing and raise additional considerations for policies surrounding family planning and reproduction in the context of urban poverty.
Social Service Review
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Bell, M. C., Edin, K., Wood, H. M., & Mondé, G. C. (2018). Relationship repertoires, the price of parenthood, and the costs of contraception. Social Service Review, 92(3), 313-348. https://doi.org/10.1086/699159
Bell, Monica C. ; Edin, Kathryn ; Wood, Holly Michelle ; Mondé, Geniece Crawford. / Relationship repertoires, the price of parenthood, and the costs of contraception. In: Social Service Review. 2018 ; Vol. 92, No. 3. pp. 313-348.
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Virginia Woolf in Cornwall
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Here we are on the verge of going to Cornwall. This time tomorrow we shall be stepping onto the platform at Penzance, sniffing the air, looking for our trap and then driving off across the moors to Zennor. Why am I so incredibly and incurably romantic about Cornwall? – Virginia Woolf, 22nd March 1921
Some places get under our skin. They become part of us, not just part of our history but part of our souls too. They influence and inspire us. From Virginia Woolf’s diary entry above it’s clear to see she had a long standing love affair with Cornwall. And throughout her often troubled life she was drawn back time and again to the place where she had been most happy. The place which had cast a spell over her in childhood and where she first began writing stories. The place that eventually became a refuge for her and a balm.
Adeline Virginia Stephen was born in South Kensington in London in 1882. She was the seventh of eight children. Her family were highly educated, well off and spent every summer in St Ives in Cornwall. From the time Virginia was just a few months old, until her mother’s death when she was 12, the whole household would decamp, escape the constraints of London life and take the train west.
‘In retrospect nothing we had as children made as much difference, was quite so important to us, as our summer in Cornwall.’ – Woolf, A Sketch of the Past, 1940
The family always rented Talland House in St Ives. And this spacious house still exists, though it has now become a bit crowded in by modern development and has been seperated into flats.
Talland House stands on rising ground above Albert Road, high up on the hill overlooking the famous seaside town. In those early days it was an peaceful and idyllic haven.
Virginia’s father, the renowned literary critic and historian, Sir Leslie Stephen described the house was “a pocket paradise with a sheltered cove of sand in easy reach.”
The children spent their days playing in the garden and running wild on the beach. They fished and searching for seashells with salt on their skin. In those days the garden of Talland house was extensive. Full of nocks and hidden corners for imaginative exploring. Terraces, divided by high hedges, led all the way down to the sea.
Virginia later described that time in Cornwall as her ‘most important memory’.
‘Lying half asleep, half awake, in bed in the nursery at St Ives. It is of hearing the waves breaking, one, two, one, two . . . It is of lying and hearing this splash and seeing this light, and feeling, it is almost impossible that I should be here; of feeling the purest ecstasy I can conceive.’
Godrevy Lighthouse
Wherever you are in St Ives the white vertical dash of Godrevy Lighthouse is always on the horizon. This iconic lighthouse became imbedded in Virginia’s mind. An image which she recreated in her contemplative book To The Lighthouse:
“For the great plateful of water was before her; the hoary Lighthouse, distant, austere, in the midst . . .”
Cornwall seeped in to much of her writing. In her diary in 1936, more than 40 years after those childhood summers Virginia, while pondering her passion for writing, wrote:
“I think it’s been absorbing ever since I was a little creature scribbling a story, in the manner of Hawthorne, on the green plush sofa in the drawing room at St. Ives, while the grown-ups dined.”
The End of Summer
Those hazy summers of freedom and sunshine came to an end with the death of Virginia’s mother, Julia Stephens. Julia was a beautiful and loving mother who had been a Pre-Raphaelite model before her marriage to her first husband.
She was just 49 years old when she died from influenza in 1895. Her death was a turning point, a tragic loss, that Virginia would struggle with for the rest of her life. It caused the first of her mental breakdowns at just 12 years old and the Stephens never returned to St Ives as a family again.
Lelant
Virginia came back to Cornwall many times during her adult life, sometimes as single, independent woman and then later with her husband Leonard. Cornwall features, like a hazy shadow, in several of her books. The county drew her back time and again. An example of this pull can be seen from a letter that her sister Venessa Bell received in December 1909. Without warning or luggage Virginia had taken the 1pm train from Paddington to Cornwall and was writing from The Lelant Hotel (now the Badger Inn). Virginia explained:
“I went for a walk in Regent’s Park yesterday morning and it suddenly struck me how absurd it is was to stay in London with Cornwall going on all the time . . .”
She arrived at Lelant station late on Christmas Eve, without her glasses, chequebook or coat, and made her way up the steep hill to the nearest accomodation. The Badger Inn. But she seems just content to be there.
“I am so drugged with the fresh air that I can’t write, and now my ink fails. As for the beauty of this place, it surpasses every other season. I have the hotel to myself – and get a very nice sitting room for nothing. It is very comfortable and humble, and infinitely better than the Lizard or St Ives.”
The landlords at the time, Thomas and Sarah Dunstan, had no other guests and must have been surprised at their late, unannounced arrival. Lelant is a small village a few miles from St Ives. It overlooks the same sweeping bay she knew from her childhood holidays and the same endless stretch of golden sand that runs for three miles to the Godrevy Lighthouse. Virginia wrote:
“Then there is the lighthouse seen through the steamy glass, and a grey flat where the sea is. There is no moon or stars but the air is soft as down.”
Trencrom
Virginia seems to have spent that impromptu Christmas break in 1909 walking alone in the Cornish countryside.
“After dinner is a very pleasant time . . . as one sits by the fire thinking how one staggered up Trencrom in the mist this afternoon, and sat on a granite tomb on the top, and surveyed the land, with the rain dripping against one’s skin . . .”
Trencrom is a hill topped with an Iron Age hillfort close to Lelant with extensive views of both St Ives Bay and Mounts Bay. It is a place full of history and legend and unchanged as it is, it is easy to imagine Virginia sitting there in the rain.
She also wrote to her friend Violet Dickinson on the 27th December:
“I have been tramping about the country, and dabbling in the Atlantic. It is as soft as spring and at ten at night I sit with my window open. Old farmers are saying good night and calling the weather dirty beneath me. How anyone with an immortal soul can live inland I can’t imagine. Only clods and animals should be able to endure it.”
Another return visit was under less free or festive circumstances. Just a year after her spontaneous journey to Lelant Virginia was back in Cornwall. This time staying near the village of Zennor.
She had been finishing her first novel, The Voyage Out, when she suffered a serious mental breakdown. It was so severe that she was taken to ‘Burley’, 15 Cambridge Park, Twickenham. A specialist home for women Virginia was to receive treatment here on three different occasions. In 1910, when she had recovered a little, it was decided that she should go to Cornwall, accompanied by a nurse, to recuperate. Virginia and Ms. Jean Thomas spent nearly a month at Lower Porthmeor, from 16th August until 6th Sept. They occupied their time by taking long, invigorating walks across the moors.
Virginia later wrote of the area:
“This is the loveliest place in the world. It is so lonely.”
From then on she returned to Zennor often. In 1919 with her husband Leonard Woolf, renting the same cottage used by D H Lawrence at Tregethen. And again in 1921 and 1926, sometimes staying the writer’s haunt the Eagles Nest. They also stayed at Carbis Bay in 1914 for a while too. This time Virginia was recovering from a suicide attempt and another of her recurring bouts of depression. Cornwall it seems was always a safe and comforting haven for her.
Her last visit
In May 1936 Virginia and Leonard set out on a road trip of the south west of England. This holiday was to be Virginia’s last visit to Cornwall and the couple again stayed at the Eagles Nest near Zennor.
They took a day trip to St Ives and visited Talland House one final time. Leonard poignantly wrote that “Virginia peered through the ground floor windows to see the ghosts of her childhood.”
She died in 1941.
Tracking Down Virginia
It is relatively easy to see some of the places that Virginia Woolf stayed in Cornwall. You could pop into The Badger Inn in Lelant and have something to eat in the same lounge area that Virginia used. Talland House is within walking distance of St Ives railway station.
* But it is important to remember however that the houses she staying in are privately owned now, so not really tourist attractions!
Both Tregerthen and the Eagles Nest can been seen between Zennor and the Carracks on this scenic circular walk. You can also ‘visit’ Lower Porthmeor, where Virginia stayed with her nurse, on a walk from Rosemergy to Gurnards Head. This route actually passes through the cottage’s garden.
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Chez l'abeille says:
I know just how she felt in Regents Park! Sometimes I also get the urge to just keep driving until I reach the sea! Really interesting read.
esdale77 says:
Me too!! And I live here 😆 And thank you!
Great post. As ever 🙂
Really enjoyed your post, great fan of To The Lighthouse and I always treasure my glimpses of Godrevy.
Thank you for this extended piece about Woolf’s connection with Cornwall. It’s funny that my knowledge of Woolf and my interest in Cornwall hadn’t really connected in my mind until I read your essay.
Like you, I am a keen follower of Cornish Bird’s wonderful blog, Elizabeth. This post was particularly timely for me, having so recently written about Flush 🙂
She is such a thoughtful and detailed writer.
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How the men who built Infosys are directing their talent and money towards India's newest startups
The Bengaluru-based software services company has a market value of nearly $42 billion—more than the combined estimated worth of India’s startup ‘unicorns’.
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Infosys, founded by seven engineers in 1981, is still India’s most successful startup. The Bengaluru-based software services company has a market value of nearly $42 billion—more than the combined estimated worth of India’s startup ‘unicorns’— and its founders know a thing or two about turning an idea into one of India’s, and indeed the world’s, most respected companies. Over the last few years, the people who built Infosys have been putting their money to work by investments in startups and entrepreneurs seeking to emulate their success.
And it is not just the founders alone—some of its senior alumni have also taken to the startup game, too. Together they are contributing with money, mentorship, ideas and the middle class values that made Infosys—integrity, transparency, quality and winning big and fair.
The common philosophy in the Infosys cohort is to promote entrepreneurship as “a marathon and not a sprint,” says N R Narayana Murthy, the founder, who famously started his company with Rs 10,000 from his wife Sudha.
The Infosys founders began the way most entrepreneurs do. They had fire in the belly, but little money. Times have changed since then. The world is more connected, technology has improved leaps and bounds and backing for entrepreneurship is stronger than ever before. What’s missing in the young entrepreneurs is lack of industry experience and that’s where the Infosys cohort is playing its part.
While most money has been directed towards consumer-oriented ecommerce businesses, ventures backed by the Infosys alumni tend towards technology companies in diverse areas and having a product rather than service orientation. Their investment style, cofounder Nandan Nilekani says, is geared towards an “entrepreneurial explosion.”
In addition to directly investing in startups and mentoring founders, the Infosys group is deeply involved in influencing the environment favourably for entrepreneurship. They invest, and they also support philanthropic causes strategically, making them role models.
“With Nandan’s involvement in India Stack, (former CFO) Mohandas Pai’s roles in policies and (cofounder) Kris Goplakrishnan’s investment in science and innovation, they have definitely created an impact for the larger ecosystem,” says Sharad Sharma, the cofounder of software products think-tank iSpirt.
Having an Infosys alumnus as an investor or a mentor is certainly not something that is easily substitutable, says Kartik Hosanagar, professor of internet commerce at The Wharton School of Business. “After all, how many Indian entrepreneurs can claim to have built truly global companies and have taken their startups all the way to an IPO? They have all been having a massive impact on India in their post-Infosys lives,” he says.
NR Narayana Murthy, Founder, Infosys; Catamaran Ventures
“Ialways believe younger people are smarter than older people,” says the doyen of India’s IT industry and founder of Infosys, adding that today’s entrepreneurs are possibly “creating companies much bigger than Infosys.”
Narayana Murthy founded Infosys in 1981 and built it into a software giant that heralded India’s growth as a global technology hub. After stepping down in 2006 from his first stint as the company’s chairman, he started Catamaran Ventures in 2009 with a view to back early-stage startups.
The venture capital firm has made eight publicly known investments, including in online store Yebhi, payments firm Innoviti, flower delivery startup Bloom & Wild, messaging app Lookup, online insurance startup Coverfox, and Hector Beverages, owner of the Paper Boat brand.
Murthy believes today’s entrepreneurs come with a lot of enthusiasm and energy and high aspirations. “And, therefore, they need the complimentary wisdom of people who have had some experience in facing difficult situations, moral dilemmas and unforeseen circumstances. That is where, I suppose, venture capitalists have to go beyond pure money. And that I believe is perhaps what an institution like Catamaran would be best suited to do,” he says. Murthy says he likes the current breed of startup entrepreneurs—people who are constantly innovating; who understand the importance of austerity; who realize that entrepreneurship is a marathon, and not a sprint.
He is positive that given the quality of ideas coming from Indian entrepreneurs, proper implementation could see companies bigger than Infosys emerging from the Indian startup ecosystem.
Acknowledging the social, financial and technical differences from the time when Infosys was built, Murthy says if there’s one ingredient of success that hasn’t changed it is values. “Whether it was 1981 when we founded Infosys or 2016, values cannot change,” Murthy emphasizes, adding that an entrepreneur needs to have competence and character to be able to make it big. “Hard work, fairness, customer focus, transparency, integrity, leadership by example, excellence, and corporate governance are all a must and time-invariant attributes.” Murthy’s ideology echoes across his portfolio companies. “The value system in our organisation is a reflection of (Murthy’s) personality,” says Neeraj Kakkar, CEO of Hector Beverages, one of Murthy’s major investments.
“Whenever there is a hardship, we think about him, and think how he built (Infosys). We might compromise on talent but never compromise on values.”
S ‘Kris’ Gopalakrishnan, Cofounder, Infosys; Cofounder, Axilor Ventures
The mission closest to Gopalakrishnan’s heart is to bring research out of laboratories and into the mainstream. His financial commitment of Rs 225 crore to the Indian Institute of Science’s brain research is testimony to that.
“Science out of laboratories is definitely in India’s interest,” says Gopalakrishnan. The former CEO left Infosys in 2014.
“Of the two areas that I picked, one is computational brain research, where the question is what are the next models in computers by looking at the brain,” says Gopalakrishnan. “The second area is ageing of the brain and neuro-degenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease. It’s a huge problem for every country in the world. If India participates in the research, the number of people doing this research increases globally, and that means faster solutions.”
If research is one passion, the other is being an investor and mentor to startups, both in his personal capacity and as a cofounder of Axilor Ventures. Through Axilor, Gopalakrishnan wants to create an ecosystem that can help ecommerce, healthcare and clean-tech startups grow. “If I step back, the odds of success depends on the idea, the team, luck, and it also depends on the environment and the timing. What I mean by environment is, do you have the support system specific and relevant to you? That’s extremely important. You need people who can help you,” says Gopalakrishnan. He was also involved with Kochi’s Startup Village as its chief mentor. “The purpose of Startup Village was two: One, change the perception of startups in Kerala; and two, to say that it’s okay to startup even while studying...
The goal was to actually create a massive mould,” says Gopalakrishnan. While investing in his personal capacity, Gopalakrishnan keeps it simple. “I do not have a personal office or anything. Somebody usually calls up,” he says.
“Kris always asks us to provide true value to our stakeholders, be it employees, customers or shareholders,” says Karthik KS, CEO of ed-tech startup Avagmah. “As per him, if we put our stakeholder in front of us at all times and just think of his requirements, then the business plan would automatically swerve and adjust itself. In building the company, Kris insists on the highest level of integrity and governance. He does not support shortcuts and always pushes us to believe in thinking very big, real big.”
Nandan Nilekani, Cofounder, Infosys; Ex-Chairman, UIDAI (Aadhaar)
After resigning from Infosys in 2009, Nandan Nilekani spearheaded the country’s most ambitious task of linking billions of Indians with unique digital identities, known as Aadhaar. It was the world’s largest such project and finds uses in a host of transformational applications such as transfer of government benefits and financial inclusion.
As the person who oversaw its implementation, Nilekani has first-hand experience of the disruption happening as a result of Aadhaar. But as an investor, Nilekani says he prefers to steer away from domains he is involved in. That rules out financial technology and personal identification projects.
He does not invest in education technology startups either, preferring to only do philanthropy and not profit from education.
The former Infosys CEO’s investment profile complements his maverick resume that boasts of investments in some exciting areas. From the moonshotaiming Team Indus to mobile publisher Juggernaut, Nilekani’s interests lie in future-focused ideas that are focused on building products.
But after seven investments in the past few months, Nilekani says he has slowed down. He tries to spend an hour or so every month with his portfolio companies.
“My time is my constraint, not my capital,” says Nilekani, who works with a host of other bodies. These include the government’s National Payments Corporation of India and Unified Payment Interface, software products think-tank iSpirt, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, and EkStep Foundation, an education venture founded by his wife Rohini Nilekani and him. While his areas of investments are diverse, the Infosys cofounder seems to have an inclination towards business-to-business startups.
Nilekani also advises and offers strategic guidance to a number of startups in which he has no financial stake.
“Nandan has been a source of tremendous inspiration and insight. We see him not just as an investor but a social-impact visionary,” says Vivek Malhotra, cofounder of 4TiGO, a logistics startup Nilekani has invested in. Nilekani’s involvement, insight and mentoring have been critical in defining the company’s vision, strategy and solutions for some of the most complex aspects of the platform, Malhotra said. Nilekani’s advice to these startups is to focus on unit economics, or the revenue and cost associated with a business model on a per unit basis. In other words, the business fundamentals.
“First you have to be unit-economics positive, gross-margin positive and then net-margin positive,” he says, “You don’t want a situation where you sell on credit and buy in cash.”
Mohandas Pai, Former CFO, Infosys; Chairman, Manipal Global Education Services
The outspoken former Infosys employee is one of the most prolific early-stage investors in the country.
Having built his career in a company that set the tone for technology services in the country, it is a no-brainer that Pai places most of his bets on technology-based startups in the education, financial and health sectors.
Pai and former Infosys colleague V Balakrishnan, who was also its CFO, co-invest in many startups. “We come from technology, we have worked in technology, so we understand technology. After we completed our stint in Infosys, it was natural that we do something in (the startup) area, as it is fast-growing and the future will be a digital economy,” says Pai, who left Infosys in 2011.
He also invests in life-sciences startups along with Ranjan Pai, CEO of Manipal Education and Medical Group. “(I do) lifesciences because Ranjan has expertise in lifesciences and he has bet on many. He understands it much better than I do,” says Pai, who also works with software products think-tank iSpirt to influence policies.
For startups, Pai emphasizes on core values such as openness and an ethical approach, which he traces to his days at Infosys. “Infosys is a role model. Infosys stood for value, stood for excellence, Infosys executed flawlessly and did it right. It led all the way. Everything Infosys did, Infosys led. It was because of very many people and not just two or three,” he says. Byju Raveendran, CEO of one of India’s most prominent ed-tech startups, Byju’s, in which Pai has invested, says his relationship with the former Infoscian has been more than merely that of founder and investor.
“He has been a strong partner who has seen us grow from a 10-member team with Rs 4 crore revenue to a 900-member fastgrowing organisation with Rs 120 crore revenue in a short span of 3 years,” says Raveendran. “His energy and enthusiasm is so infectious that it increases your aspirational levels. He is someone you can look up to and yet is easily accessible. This has made it possible for us to move ahead fast.” Pai’s interest in startups stems from his belief that these ventures can solve “India’s problems.” He says: “We are at the heart of a digital revolution. This revolution will be disruptive. Some of us understand a little bit of it and we aim to profit by investing in it.”
V Balakrishnan, Former CFO, Infosys; Chairman, Exfinity Ventures
V Balakrishnan, or just Bala, quit Infosys in 2013 amid a spate of high-profile exits at the IT giant. Bala’s exit was a surprise to many as the former CFO and member of the executive council at Infosys was seen as a frontrunner to succeed then CEO, SD Shibulal.
But he headed out for a more meaningful journey. Soon after his exit, Balakrishnan joined hands with former colleague Mohandas Pai to found Exfinity Ventures to invest in early-stage technology startups.
Through Exfinity, Balakrishnan has invested in a number of startups across domains, with a focus on backing product IT companies.
The startup ecosystem has no dearth of great entrepreneurs with brilliant ideas, says Balakrishnan. They understand technology and entrepreneurship. But they lack business sense and marketing skills. “And that’s our strength,” he says, adding that Exfinity Ventures was founded on that premise.
Balakrishnan’s major investments include digital security provider Uniken Systems, internet-of-things startup Cannykart, tax information website TaxSutra, IT services company Avekshaa Technologies, and compliance provider Clonect Solutions. What Bala looks for before investing in a startup is a promising entrepreneur or founding team with a disruptive idea. He is all for encouraging ventures launched by fellow ex-Infoscians—Avekshaa and Clonect were both founded by former Infosys employees. Many of the technologies and solutions built by Indian entrepreneurs can find global markets, says Balakrishnan, and having industry veterans like the Infosys cohort involved can be of great help to such startups.
“Bala’s strategic inputs are of immense aid while taking important business decisions,” says Arun Giri, cofounder of TaxSutra, in which Balakrishnan has invested. “He contributes actively in board meetings, both on what the vision of the company ought to be as also on specific product ideas.”
Having Balakrishnan on board also challenges and inspires the promoters to think big, he says.
Balakrishnan believes India is charting the same path as the United States, where small-scale industries create more jobs, through its fast-growing startup ecosystem. Like his industry peers, Balakrishnan, too, is betting on the business-to-business sector. The rigor of buying technology is very high in enterprises, says Balakrishnan.
Also, enterprise solutions are focused on solving core business problems and not grabbing market share. Also, such startups allow their investors easier exits and two or three ideas can coexist in an enterprise environment, he adds.
NS Raghavan, Cofounder, Infosys; Chairman, advisory council, NSRCEL, IIM-B
Raghavan was the first of the founders to begin investing in startups after he retired from Infosys in 2000. The same year, he set up Nadathur Holdings and Investments, which has put money into at least 25 deals in sectors as diverse as IT, healthcare and real estate. Raghavan’s corpus funds also help run the N S Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at IIM-Bangalore. The incubator, set up in 2002, invests up to Rs 25 lakh in select startups. Raghavan is a part of the advisory board and the screening committee as well. “He has been helping us set the agenda for the centre,” says Suresh Bhagavatula, chairperson, entrepreneurial ecosystem development, NSRCEL. “Thanks to his support, we have now incubated 80+ companies.”
NS Raghavan was the first of the founders to begin investing in startups after he retired from Infosys in 2000. The same year, he set up Nadathur Holdings and Investments, which has put money into at least 25 deals in sectors as diverse as IT, healthcare and real estate. Raghavan’s corpus funds also help run the N S Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at IIM-Bangalore. The incubator, set up in 2002, invests up to Rs 25 lakh in select startups. Raghavan is a part of the advisory board and the screening committee as well. “He has been helping us set the agenda for the centre,” says Suresh Bhagavatula, chairperson, entrepreneurial ecosystem development, NSRCEL. “Thanks to his support, we have now incubated 80+ companies.”
SD Shibulal, Cofounder, Infosys; Cofounder, Axilor Ventures
The former Infosys CEO, who left the company in 2014, cofounded Axilor Ventures along with S Gopalakrishnan and others the same year. Axilor has three distinct programs—accelerator, scale up and early-stage funding—and provides infrastructure, mentoring and capital for India-focused ecommerce, healthcare and cleantech startups. Shibulal, though, is more known for his hundreds of real estate investments in the United States through his family office.
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Kidney Community Executes Rapid Response to Help Dialysis Patients Affected by Hurricane Harvey
Sep 8, 2017 | Business
Washington, DC, September 08, 2017 –(PR.com)– As thousands of dialysis patients in the Texas Gulf region face the reality of being stranded without access to vital health care treatments, Kidney Care Partners and its community of dialysis providers, patient advocates, physicians and product manufacturers are working to provide immediate, essential care to those impacted by Hurricane Harvey.
Members of Kidney Care Partners – a coalition of patient advocates, dialysis professionals, care providers and manufacturers dedicated to working together to improve quality of care for individuals with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) – are drawing upon previous partnerships amid natural disasters to ensure the thousands of dialysis patients in the Texas region continue to receive routine, life-sustaining care.
“After coming together during the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and in subsequent large-scale natural disasters, the dialysis community has learned how to work quickly and efficiently to make care available where it’s needed most, help patients access it, and put financial resources where they can truly help,” said Frank Maddux, Chair of Kidney Care Partners. “Our patients don’t have the luxury of missing their scheduled treatments as Houston and surrounding areas recover from this storm. Without dialysis, their bodies will not function properly.”
In addition to the heroic efforts of individuals – like Dr. Michael Braun, chief of the pediatric nephrology center at Texas Children’s Hospital, who worked with the National Coast Guard to save dozens of dialysis patients who were stuck in the storm and unable to seek treatment – the larger dialysis community has joined forces.
Two of the country’s largest dialysis providers, Fresenius Medical Care (FMC) and DaVita (DVA), have undertaken coordinated efforts to keep as many facilities open as possible, and to assist with patient transportation.
Fresenius Medical Care, with 48 clinics in the Houston area, rented boats, duck boats and high water vehicles for transporting medical supplies and supplies for displaced employees, as well as rescuing patients and making sure they are able to get to a treatment center. They also brought in fuel tankers and generators and rented RVs and vehicles for their employees. From across the country, FMC employees came together to support patients and colleagues in the Texas Gulf region, on the ground to provide direct patient care, at the multiple command centers and coordinating resources.
With more than 100 facilities serving 7,500 patients in the Houston area, DaVita engaged its Village Emergency Response Team (DaVERT) last week to bring generators, water tank, and medical supplies to affected facilities. To date, 98 of 106 clinics are now fully operational. More than 500 DaVita employees traveled to Houston to help local teams locate and treat patients during the days of flooding.
Patient advocate groups, like the American Kidney Fund (AKF) and the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), have established disaster relief resources, call centers, and emergency funds. Any donations made to AKF’s rapid-response Disaster Relief Program or to NKF’s Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund will be used to provide dialysis patients with transportation to clinics, medications, shelter, utilities, food, clothing or any other urgent needs.
Some of the organizations among the kidney community who have contributed to the AKF’s Disaster Relief Program include the National Renal Administrators Association (NRAA), American Society of Nephrology, Amgen Foundation, DaVita, U.S. Renal Care, Keryx, American Renal Associates and OPKO. AKF has so far been able to distribute nearly $100,000 in emergency aid to more than 400 dialysis patients across the Texas region, while continuing to receive dozens of new requests for assistance each day. AKF is also leveraging its large social media network to provide patients and caregivers with resources for how they can help.
Members of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology in the region kept in close contact with patient families to ensure approximately 33 area children with kidney failure – from babies to young adults – were able to receive their dialysis care. Texas Children’s Hospital and Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, both located among the hardest-hit areas, worked closely with the Coast Guard and the Texas Department of Emergency Management to create a map of Houston that pinpointed the location of each child, then coordinated with emergency teams to reach pediatric patients and get them to dialysis. One such rescue involved a medevac helicopter landing in a flooded neighborhood to reach a young girl who was in desperate need of dialysis care.
Manufacturer Baxter, who makes dialysis products, continues to reach out to those affected in Texas by supporting employees on the ground who are working tirelessly to deliver life-saving products to local hospitals and renal clinics. The Baxter International Foundation has also made a financial contribution to several relief organizations, including the American Red Cross, Americares, and Direct Relief to address all recovery needs.
“In spite of the storm’s devastation across the area, dialysis patients have found hope and relief thanks to the quick and coordinated efforts of the kidney care community,” concluded Dr. Maddux. “Without the tireless work of thousands of volunteers and caregivers in the region, including the coordination of call centers and the allocation of emergency funds and resources, none of this would be possible. I am awestruck by our community’s dedication to providing care – no matter the barriers – to the patients we serve. We must continue to come together and dedicate our attention and resources in the face of future natural disasters. I am confident our community will rise to these challenges for the benefit of our patients.”
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Someone Drew Up Chris Evans’ Captain America As Solid Snake And It’s Amazing
By ComicBook Staff - September 5, 2017 02:57 pm EDT
(Photo: BossLogic Twitter)
We’ve seen a lot of awesome stuff at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend, but one of the highlights was a new poster for Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War, featuring all the characters put together in a great collage surrounding the mighty Thanos and the Infinity Gauntlet.
One of those images was Chris Evans as a bearded – and worn – Captain America, and ever since that image went up, people have been having a lot of fun with it, redrawing him as Nick Fury (with the eyepatch) and even as a Hydra-infused Captain America.
But perhaps our personal favorite – and one we can’t really unsee – is an artistic recreation of Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid, using the Chris Evans Captain America imagery as motivation. And the end result is surprising cool.
A Twitter user by the name of BossLogic tweeted out the image earlier today, noting, “This is all I see now @ChrisEvans #SolidSnake #SDCC”, followed by his recreation of a movie poster featuring Evans in the role of Snake. And, no, we can’t unsee it either. And, for that matter, neither can a lot of people on Reddit, who have been talking about the uncanny resemblance Evans has to Solid Snake.
BossLogic has recreated a lot of celebrities in various superhero roles in drawings in the past (check out the gallery above for some of his other artwork), but we have a deep admiration for this one, mainly because Evans looks pretty damn good in the role of Snake. In fact, we’re almost tempted to call up director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, who previously worked on Kong: Skull Island and is about to begin work on the film adaptation of Metal Gear Solid, and go, “Hey, um, so if you haven’t cast Solid Snake yet…”
Check out the poster above and ask yourself, “Wouldn't Chris Evans make an absolutely great Solid Snake?” After all, he did so well in Snowpiercer and over the years as Captain America, so there’s no doubt he would embody the role pretty well…cigarettes and all.
There’s no date on the Metal Gear Solid movie yet (it’s still deep in pre-production), but, hey, at least we’re getting Infinity War on May 5th, 2018, so we can look forward to that. We included the original poster image below for reference.
Oh, and for those that think Evans can't handle a dark, gravely voice, here's a classic clip from Scott Pilgrim vs. the World to prove you wrong...
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Can Colleges Reopen? 7 Questions From Congress As It Considers More Higher Ed Support
With the new semester quickly approaching, and coronavirus cases rising in most states, will colleges and college students have what they need to succeed this fall?
That’s the question members of Congress sought to answer as they gathered virtually on Tuesday to hear from expert witnesses representing community colleges, public universities and online higher ed institutions.
Two federal policy measures set the tone for the meeting of the House of Representatives Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee. One was the proposed HEROES Act, a $3 trillion stimulus bill follow-up to the already-enacted CARES Act, which would send more emergency support money to higher education and offer student loan borrowers additional relief. The House passed the bill in May, but the Senate hasn’t formally considered it.
The other was Monday’s announcement from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that international students studying in the U.S. on certain visas will not be permitted to remain in the country if they exclusively take online courses in the fall. The guidance marks the end of temporary exemptions to this rule that had been in effect since March to accommodate the nationwide shift to remote instruction.
The ICE policy change sent foreign students scrambling and garnered condemnation from higher education leaders, including Mary Sue Coleman, president of the Association of American Universities, who issued a statement calling it “immensely misguided and deeply cruel to the tens of thousands of international students who come to the United States every year.”
To figure out what additional support—if any—the federal government should grant to colleges and students as they adapt to the pandemic, representatives asked questions of Shaun Harper, president of the American Educational Research Association; Sharon Pierce, president of Minneapolis Community and Technical College; Scott Pulsipher, president of Western Governors University; and Timothy P. White, chancellor of the California State University system.
These were the queries on legislators’ minds:
How did colleges spend the first round of federal emergency funding?
Unsurprisingly, officials wanted to know what happened to the government dollars the CARES Act granted to colleges. White and Pierce offered details about how their institutions connected students to emergency assistance grants—one of the law’s main requirements—and spent the additional money they received on shifting their courses and services online.
The Cal State system gave grants of $500 to $5,000, White said, disbursing money first to students whose families are least well-off. The institution used its own funds to support students who were ineligible to receive federal aid, including those who lack citizenship and immigration documentation.
Minneapolis Community and Technical College made more modest grants and spent its additional federal money addressing relevant needs such as technology tools and cleaning supplies.
What financial losses have colleges suffered, and will state budget cuts bring more?
Officials asked the college leaders to share information about their revenue losses and budget cuts and wondered whether some institutions are likely to suffer more than others in the months and years to come.
The Cal State system has lost more than $300 million in the pandemic, White reported. That’s about $100 million for each disrupted month of the spring semester, a rate he expects will continue, especially considering California cuts to education.
Minneapolis Community and Technical College has lost hundreds of thousands of dollars from missed parking and auxiliary service fees alone, Pierce said, adding that if enrollment declines 10 percent, the institution anticipates losing more than $4 million.
State budget cuts will disproportionately harm historically Black colleges and universities, tribal colleges and other minority-serving institutions, Harper argued, adding that offering additional money to these “chronically underfunded institutions” could help the country close its racial equity gaps.
Can a college education be delivered as well online as it can be in person?
In response to questions about how student graduation rates, job placement and levels of debt at Western Governors University compare to outcomes at more traditional residential colleges, Pulsipher made a pitch for online-only institutions like his: They’re affordable, aligned with workforce opportunities and designed to help students make progress quickly by measuring the competencies they gain rather than the hours they spend in classes, he said. Pulsipher added that his university helps people succeed in virtual courses by prioritizing mentoring and faculty interaction with students.
By contrast, Pierce articulated the value that in-person environments have for many learners, who may rely on college campuses to provide basics like food, shelter and child care in addition to education.
“For some of our students, the act of coming on campus and being on campus is what inspires them to persevere,” she said. “Being disconnected from the campus is very difficult for them.”
Not everyone has “a quiet stable environment in which to learn at home,” she added.
How can colleges cut costs during the pandemic?
Some legislators were less interested in sending more federal money to support colleges than in figuring out how to cut their spending.
When asked to identify areas where it might make sense for higher education to tighten its belt, Harper shared his annoyance at the resources some colleges are spending to adapt their football programs to pandemic conditions. The Cal State system has frozen hiring, cut its travel budget and worked with other institutions to procure technology at better rates, White reported. And Pierce said that Minneapolis Community and Technical College has cut programs that simply can’t transition online, such as aircraft maintenance.
To cut costs, colleges could focus less on providing students with an “emerging adult experience,” Pulsipher argued, and instead devote more their operating budgets to improving teaching and learning outcomes.
What lessons did higher education learn from the last recession?
Officials wondered whether the Great Recession a decade ago might offer any lessons about how higher education should and shouldn’t weather the current crisis.
The sector should watch out for the rise of predatory for-profit colleges, which saw big enrollment gains after the last recession, especially among women of color, Harper warned. Pierce echoed that concern, noting that students who come to public community colleges after passing through for-profit institutions often arrive having used up much of their Pell Grant eligibility in addition to carrying debt and credits that don’t lead to a degree.
“They start 10 feet behind the start line,” Pierce said.
The recession had a disproportionate effect on communities of color in general, Harper added, advocating that the government and colleges view the current crisis through a “race-forward, race-salient lens.”
What should happen to international students?
One congressman used his allotted time to address the new ICE announcement and ask the witnesses for feedback. Harper called the policy “xenophobic” and argued that international students make U.S. colleges better, in part because of the opportunity they offer American students to interact with people who have diverse perspectives.
Can campuses really reopen safely?
With virus testing capacity still limited, a few legislators were skeptical that it will be safe to ask students and faculty to return to campuses in just a few weeks.
“We can't just think about classrooms and dorms. Colleges anchor entire communities,” said Rep. Andy Levin, a Democrat from Michigan. “Cases of COVID-19 within a student body or faculty aren’t going to stay within a campus’s walls.”
That’s why Cal State opted to keep classes virtual in the fall, White said, a decision that will prevent the system from having to spend an estimated $50 million dollars a month to continually test hundreds of thousands of students and staff.
Perhaps a federally-supported nationwide testing and contract-tracing program would help institutions reopen safely, Levin proposed.
The college leaders agreed.
"I feel so badly as a member of Congress, which is supposed to govern our whole country," Levin said, "that we're putting these wonderful administrators of our great universities and community colleges into this position of having to deal with pandemic when we're not providing the national infrastructure of public health that we're capable of providing, that would help them so much."
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Wired’s Danger Room November 21, 2012
The U.S. war in Afghanistan is supposed to be winding down. Its contractor-led drug war? Not so much.
Inside a compound in Kabul called Camp Integrity, the Pentagon stations a small group of officers to oversee the U.S. military’s various operations to curb the spread of Afghanistan’s cash crops of heroin and marijuana, which help line the Taliban’s pockets. Only Camp Integrity isn’t a U.S. military base at all. It’s the 10-acre Afghanistan headquarters of the private security company formerly known as Blackwater.
Those officers work for an obscure Pentagon agency called the Counter Narco-Terrorism Program Office, or CNTPO. Quietly, it’s grown into one of the biggest dispensers of cash for private security contractors in the entire U.S. government: One pile of contracts last year from CNTPO was worth more than $3 billion. And it sees a future for itself in Afghanistan over the long haul.
Earlier this month, a U.S. government solicitation sought to hire a security firm to help CNTPO “maintain a basic, operational support cell” in Kabul. Army Lt. Col. James Gregory, a Pentagon spokesman, explains that “cell” doesn’t kick in the doors of any Afghan narco-kingpins. It handles the more mundane tasks of overseeing the contracts of the Pentagon’s counter-narcotics programs, from “training and linguists, and [providing] supplies, such as vehicles and equipment.” The solicitation, however, indicates those services aren’t going anywhere: When all the options are exercised, the contract extends through September 29, 2015, over a year past the date when Afghan soldiers and cops are supposed to take over the war. And the “government preferred location” to base CNTPO? Camp Integrity.
The envisioned Pentagon counter-narco-terrorism staff is pretty small: only two to four personnel. But protecting them at Camp Integrity is serious business. The November 6 solicitation calls for a security firm that can “provide a secure armory and weapons maintenance service, including the ability to check-in and check-out weapons and ammunition,” particularly 9 mm pistols and M4 rifles; and to provide “secure armored” transportation to the CNTPO team — primarily “in and around Kabul, but could include some remote locations.”
CNTPO has a longstanding relationship with Blackwater, the infamous security firm that is now known as Academi. In 2009, it gave Blackwater a contract to train Afghan police, and company employees used that contract to requisition guns from the U.S. military for their private use. Although that contract was ultimately taken out of CNTPO’s hands, the office’s relationship with Academi/Blackwater endures. Last year, Academi told Danger Room it has a contract with CNTPO, worth an undisclosed amount, to provide “all-source intelligence analyst support and material procurement” for Afghanistan. An Academi spokeswoman, Kelley Gannon, declined to comment on Academi’s relationship with CNTPO, or whether it’ll bid on the new contract
November 28, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Afghanistan, Blackwater, Civilian Contractors, Contractor Oversight, Department of Defense, Private Security Contractor | Academi, Afghanistan, Blackwater, Camp Integrity, Civilian Contractors, CNTPO, Counter Narco-Terrorism Program Office, Danger Room, Drug War, Pentagon, Private Security Contractors | Leave a comment
State Department in Bed with Blackwater
Blackwater acted under auspices of US government’
August 10, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Blackwater, Civilian Contractors, Contractor Corruption, Contractor Oversight, Government Contractor, State Department | Blackwater, Civilian Contractors, State Department | 2 Comments
ACADEMI / BLACKWATER CHARGED AND ENTERS DEFERRED PROSECUTION AGREEMENT
TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2012 FBI Version
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*_ACADEMI / BLACKWATER CHARGED AND ENTERS_*
*_DEFERRED PROSECUTION AGREEMENT_*__
RALEIGH, N.C. — U.S. Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced the unsealingof a bill of information and deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) involving Academi LLC, formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide and Xe Services, LLC (Academi / Blackwater). The bill of information and DPA were unsealed today in U.S. District Court in New Bern, N.C., during proceedings before the Honorable Louise W. Flanagan, U.S. District Judge. In the agreement, the company admits certain facts set forth in a bill of information and agrees to a $7.5 million fine. The agreement also acknowledges and references a $42 million settlement between the company and the Department of State as part of a settlement of
violations of the Arms Export Control Act and the International Trafficking in Arms Regulations.
“Today’s proceedings conclude a lengthy and complex investigation into a company which has provided valuable services to the United States Government, but which, at times, and in many ways, failed to comply with important laws and regulations concerning how we as a country interact with our international allies and adversaries,” said U.S. Attorney Walker. “Compliance with these laws is critical to the proper conduct of our defense efforts and to international diplomatic relations. This prosecution is an important step to ensuring that our corporate citizens comply with these rules in every circumstance.”
IRS-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Jeannine A. Hammett stated, “High-ranking corporate officials hold positions of trust not only in their companies but also in the eyes of the public. That trust is broken when such officials abuse their power and commit crimes to line their own pockets. An international fraud of this magnitude requires a coordinated effort among law enforcement agencies to stop those involved from profiting from their wrongdoing.”
“Compliance with the firearms laws of the United States in both domestic and international commerce is essential to maintaining order and accountability,” stated ATF Special Agent in Charge Wayne L. Dixie. “Whether it is an individual or a corporation, we will enforce the provisions of the federal gun laws equally. If violations are discovered, we will move to hold those responsible for the violations accountable for their actions.”
“Blackwater profited substantially from Department of Defense (DoD) contracts in support of overseas contingency operations over the past decade,” commented Special Agent in Charge John F. Khin, Southeast Field Office, Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS). “This investigation showed that no contractor is above the law, and that all who do business with the DoD will be held accountable. With this agreement, Blackwater acknowledged their wrongdoing, and took steps to remedy and mitigate the damage they caused to the United States and the public trust.”
“For an extended period of time, Academi / Blackwater operated in a manner which demonstrated systemic disregard for U.S. Government laws and regulations. Today’s announcement should serve as a warning to others that allegations of wrongdoing will be aggressively investigated,” said Chris Briese, Special Agent in Charge of the Charlotte Division of the FBI.
“This company clearly violated U.S. laws by exporting sensitive technical data and unauthorized defense services to a host of countries around the world,” said Brock D. Nicholson, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Atlanta. “In doing so, company employees were frequently in possession of illegal firearms and aided other foreign nationals in the acquisition of illegal firearms. HSI is proud to have played a role in assisting the investigation to call this company to account for its actions.” Nicholson oversees HSI activities in Georgia and the Carolinas.
See BILL OF INFORMATION
August 8, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Blackwater, Civilian Contractors, Contractor Corruption, Contractor Oversight, Department of Defense, Lawsuits | Academi, Arms Export Control Act, Blackwater, Blackwater Charged, Blackwater Worldwide, Deferred Prosecution, Department of Justice, DOJ, Internatinoal Trafficking in Arms Regulations, Xe Services | Leave a comment
Blackwater admits to facts behind 17 federal charges
By JOSH GERSTEIN Politico August 7, 2012
The government security contractor formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide has admitted to the key facts behind 17 federal criminal charges, including illegal exports and unauthorized possession of automatic weapons, as part of an effort to end a long-running investigation into the firm’s conduct.
Blackwater, now known as Academi LLC, agreed to pay a $7.5 million fine on top of a $42 million settlement it reached earlier regarding civil arms export violations.
“Today’s proceedings conclude a lengthy and complex investigation into a company which has provided valuable services to the United States Government, but which, at times, and in many ways, failed to comply with important laws and regulations concerning how we as a country interact with our international allies and adversaries,” U.S. Attorney Thomas Walker said in a statement. “Compliance with these laws is critical to the proper conduct of our defense efforts and to international diplomatic relations. This prosecution is an important step to ensuring that our corporate citizens comply with these rules in every circumstance.”
Some of the charges relate to Blackwater’s possession of machine guns at a training compound in North Carolina.
“ACADEMI is pleased to reach this important agreement on this legacy matter. It is yet another step in our commitment to fairly resolve past issues and become the industry leader in governance, compliance, and regulatory matters,” Academi spokesman John Procter said in a statement. “The agreement, which does not involve any guilty plea or admit to any violations, reflects the significant and tangible efforts that ACADEMI’s new ownership and leadership team have made in achieving that goal. The company is fully committed to this agreement and looks forward to successfully fulfilling its obligations on this legacy matter.”
More on the company’s deferred prosecution agreement here from the Associated Press.
August 8, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Blackwater, Civilian Contractors, Contractor Corruption, Contractor Oversight, Lawsuits | Academi, Arms Export Violations, Blackwater, Blackwater Worldwide, Federal Criminal Charges | Leave a comment
Company once known as Blackwater settles arms case
MICHAEL BIESECKER | August 7, 2012 05:14 PM EST | Associated Press at Huffington Post
RALEIGH, N.C. — The international security contractor formerly known as Blackwater has agreed to pay a $7.5 million fine to settle federal criminal charges related to arms smuggling and other crimes.
Documents unsealed Tuesday in a U.S. District Court in North Carolina said the company, now called Academi LLC, agreed to pay the fine as part of a deferred prosecution agreement to settle 17 violations.
The list includes possessing automatic weapons in the United States without registration, lying to federal firearms regulators about weapons provided to the king of Jordan, passing secret plans for armored personnel carriers to Sweden and Denmark and illegally shipping body armor overseas.
Federal prosecutors said it settles a long and complex case against the company, which has held billions in U.S. security contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
August 7, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Afghanistan, Blackwater, Civilian Contractors, Contractor Oversight, Lawsuits, Legal Jurisdictions, Private Military Contractors, Private Security Contractor | Academi, Arms smuggling, Arms violations, Blackwater, Xe | 1 Comment
DOJ to seek new indictment in Blackwater shooting
WASHINGTON AP
The Justice Department plans to bring a new indictment against four Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in a 2007 shooting that killed 17 Iraqis.
U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina had thrown out the case in 2009, but an appeals court reinstated the charges last year.
Urbina, who has since retired, said prosecutors built their case on sworn statements the guards had given under a promise of immunity.
A Justice Department attorney told Judge Royce Lamberth on Wednesday that a special team will ensure that prosecutors working on the new indictment don’t have access to “privileged statements.” Prosecutors say they will seek a superseding indictment after gathering additional evidence.
The guards are accused of opening fire in a crowded Baghdad intersection in 2007.
July 26, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Blackwater, Civilian Contractors, Contractor Oversight, Iraq, Lawsuits, Legal Jurisdictions, Private Security Contractor | Academi, Blackwater, Blackwater Worldwide, DOJ, Iraq, Justice Department, killed 17 Iraqi's, Lawsuit, Nisour Square, Xe | 2 Comments
Mercenaries Sue Blackwater Over Fake Gun Tests
Spencer Ackerman at Wired’s Danger Room July 16, 2012
The security firm once known as Blackwater has repeatedly tried to distance itself from its bad old days of wrongful death and corporate misconduct. But a new lawsuit filed by two former employees raises questions about whether the firm’s kinder, gentler rebranding is more than skin deep.
Two former employees of the firm, now called Academi, say that they were fired from their jobs in Afghanistan after blowing the whistle on an attempt by a colleague to falsify dozens of marksmanship tests for security contractors. Robert Winston and Allen Wheeler thought that they were following Academi’s new ethics guidelines, which require employees to report suspected instances of waste, fraud and abuse. But not only were Winston and Wheeler fired, they allege Academi arranged with the State Department to blacklist the two security contractors from finding future work with private security firms.
According to the lawsuit, which Nation reporter Jeremy Scahill first tweeted about on Thursday, Winston and Wheeler witnessed a fellow firearms instructor twice fail to record the results of shotgun and machine-gun training amongst dozens of Colombian employees of Academi. The State Department, which hires Academi to protect its diplomats in conflict zones, requires weapons certification from the guards: If contractors can’t properly fire their weapons, they’re a danger to diplomats in need of protection and innocent civilians nearby.
But on two occasions in March 2012, Winston and Wheeler say that instructor Timothy Enlow informed the State Department inaccurately that Academi’s guards were proficient with shotguns and machine guns. On the second occasion, Enlow failed to bring an M249 belt-fed machine gun to the test range near Kabul, but reported a successful test anyway.
“I know there is a lawsuit about Academi not qualifying contractors properly with the belt fed machine guns,” Enlow told the would-be marksmen, according to the lawsuit, “but I am going to help you guys out.”
July 16, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Blackwater, Civilian Contractors | Academi, Allen Wheeler, Blacklisting, Blackwater, Columbian Employees, Falsifying Marksmanship tests, Lawsuit, Robert Winston, Spencer Ackerman, Xe | Leave a comment
Expansion planned at Academi/Blackwater compound in Moyock
The Virginian Pilot June 25, 2012
Academi plans to build a 235-bed lodge at its Moyock, N.C.,-based compound with plans to expand operations where it trains military and law enforcement personnel how to shoot better under stress, protect officials from terrorist attacks, and storm criminal hideouts, among other things.
The $3.2 million lodge is the largest expansion of facilities on the 7,000-acre compound in at least four years. It comes after a tumultuous period during which the company name changed twice and management rolled over.
Formerly known as Blackwater, Academi is the largest taxpayer in Camden County. With about 250 workers on site, it also is the largest private employer in the county, where most its facilities are based.
June 25, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Blackwater, Civilian Contractors, Xe | Academi, Blackwater, Civilian Contractors, Private Military Contractors, Private Security Contractors, Xe | Leave a comment
Academi Training Center, XE, Blackwater picks up Afghan DoD Security Services Contract
Defense Professionals June 13, 2012
(W560MY-12-C-0006)
Academi Training Center, Moyock, N.C., was awarded a $17,448,051 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the security services in support of Forward Operating Base (FOB) Dwyer, and an option for FOB Delaram II. Work will be performed in Afghanistan, with an estimated completion date of May 22, 2016. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with 12 bids received. The Rock Island Contracting Center, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity (W560MY-12-C-0006).
June 14, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Afghanistan, Blackwater, Civilian Contractors, Contractor Oversight, Department of Defense, Government Contractor, Private Security Contractor | Academi, Academi Training Center, Afghanistan, Blackwater, DoD, FOB Delaram II, Forward Operating Base Dwyer, Private Security Contractors, Security Services, Xe | 1 Comment
ACADEMI — ex-Blackwater — Boosts State Dept Business, Eyes Acquisitions:
AOL Defense June 8, 2012
How confident is the new management at private security contractor ACADEMI — formerly known as Xe and, also, infamously, as Blackwater — that they’ve turned the company around?
Last month, apparently without attracting any public attention (until now), they quietly bought another security firm, International Development Solutions, and took over its piece of the State Department’s $10 billion World Protective Services contract, which then-Blackwater got kicked out of years ago.
And ACADEMI plans on further acquisitions, CEO Ted Wright confirmed in an exclusive interview with AOL Defense.
The company has spent a year rebuilding and is set to grow again, said Wright, who took over in June 2011. (He was hired by a new ownership team that bought out Blackwater founder Erik Prince the previous December). “The things we said we were going to do a year ago, we’ve kind of done,” said Wright, just back from visiting employees in Afghanistan.
Since he started, the company has not only a new name but a new management team, a new board of directors — in fact it didn’t even have a board before — and a new corporate headquarters in Arlington, looking across the Potomac River straight at the headquarters of the State Department. Many of the employees doing security work in the field are new, Wright said, and the core of ACADEMI’s business, its training cadre, has turned over almost completely: Only about 10 instructors remain from the old days, compared to 30 new hires, with another 20 on the way.
Please see the original and read the entire report here
June 8, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Afghanistan, Blackwater, Civilian Contractors, Private Security Contractor, State Department, Xe | Academi, Blackwater, Blackwater Acquisitions, International Development Solutions, State Department, World Protective Services, Worldwide Protective Services, WPS, Xe | Leave a comment
PTSD Casualty- Hidden war zone scars claim another soldier/civilian contractor’s life
Another Defense Base Act PTSD failure.
McIntosh took his own life in February in Harlingen, Texas. He was 35
Doug Robinson at Deseret News June 5, 2012
Dale McIntosh stands with children in Central America. McIntosh did private security work in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Dale McIntosh was no stranger to death. When it wasn’t everywhere around him, it was a constant threat, something that kept him literally looking over his shoulder for months at a time.
A former Marine, he hired himself out as a privately contracted bodyguard in the Middle East, where he lived on the edge and saw and did things so terrible that it haunted him. He survived firefights, ambushes, exploding cars, road mines, snipers and rocket-propelled grenades. In the end, he escaped without any wounds, or at least none we could see.
When he returned, he seemed to be the Dale that his friends remembered — charming, gregarious, warm, outgoing — but inside, he was hurting and disturbed. McIntosh brought demons home with him.
In 2006, I wrote a lengthy profile about McIntosh, then a student at Westminster who took time off from his studies to pursue quick money and an adrenaline fix in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is the postscript: McIntosh took his own life in February in Harlingen, Texas. He was 35
After graduating from Utah State, Dale served five years in the Marines — part of it in special ops — but felt unfulfilled because he never saw action. He compared it to being an athlete who never got in the game. Eager to use his military skills and see action, he signed on to do private security work. At the time, there was a big demand for security firms, the most famous and controversial of which was Blackwater. With a shortage of manpower, the U.S. government hired the firms to protect American interests and personnel in the Middle East. They were largely ungoverned by law, which did not make them popular at home or abroad. McIntosh spent six months in Afghanistan, five months in Iraq, two months in Bosnia and then another two months in Iraq before returning to Utah in the fall of 2005.
Doug Robinson has written at length about his friend Dale. Please read the entire story here
June 5, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Afghanistan, Balkans, Blackwater, Central America, Civilian Contractors, Contractor Casualties, Defense Base Act, Iraq, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Private Security Contractor, Veterans | Academi, Blackwater, Civilian Contractor, Contractor Casualty, Dale McIntosh, DBA Casualty, Defense Base Act, Private Security Contractor, PTSD Suicide, Suicide, Veteran, Xe | 1 Comment
Supreme court rejects Blackwater Iraq shooting appeal
James Vicini Rueters June 4, 2012
Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by four Blackwater Worldwide security guards who argued prosecutors made improper use of their statements to investigators in charging them with killing 14 Iraqi civilians in 2007.
The justices refused to review a ruling by a U.S. appeals court in Washington, D.C., that reinstated the criminal charges against the guards for their roles in the Baghdad shooting that outraged Iraqis and strained ties between the two nations.
The shooting occurred as the guards, U.S. State Department security contractors, escorted a heavily armed four-truck convoy of U.S. diplomats through the Iraqi capital on September 16, 2007.
The guards, U.S. military veterans, responded to a car bombing when gunfire erupted at a busy intersection. The guards told State Department investigators they opened fire in self-defense, but prosecutors said the shooting was an unprovoked attack on civilians.
June 4, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Blackwater, Civilian Contractors, Contractor Oversight, Lawsuits, Private Security Contractor, State Department, Xe | Academi, Appeal rejected, Baghdad Shooting, Blackwater, Private Security Contractors, State Department, Supreme Court, Xe | 1 Comment
Ex-Blackwater executives finger CIA in weapons trial
Several other lawsuits filed by Contractor Employers will expose the extent to which Civilian Contractors were actually working for the CIA and the State Department in capacities that are not known to the public.
It is known that Ronco Consulting has worked for/with the CIA via the State Department .
Blackwater/Academi has banked more than $2 billion from security and training contracts with various federal agencies, including the CIA, since 2002. Several former CIA officials later went to work for the company.
Five ex-Blackwater executives, facing federal firearms charges in connection with a gift of weaponry to a Middle Eastern monarch, have come up with a new explanation for how it occured:
It was a CIA operation.
In court papers filed last month in Raleigh, the defendants say the gift of five guns to King Abdullah II of Jordan during a royal visit to Blackwater’s Moyock, N.C., headquarters in March 2005 was requested, directed and authorized by the Central Intelligence Agency.
Attorneys for the five have filed declarations from two retired CIA officials, including a former Jordan station chief, who say they are familiar with the circumstances of the king’s visit and would be willing to testify about it.
The CIA did not respond to a request for comment.
It’s a new wrinkle in a case that dates to April 2010, when the five security company executives were indicted on a variety of felony firearms charges. One key section of the indictment involved King Abdullah’s 2005 visit to Moyock, during which the monarch was presented a Bushmaster M4 rifle, a Remington shotgun and three Glock handguns.
June 2, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Blackwater, CIA, Civilian Contractors, Contractor Oversight, Ronco Consulting Corporation, Security Clearances | Academi, Ana Bundy, Andrews Howell, ATF, Blackwater, Charles Seidel, CIA, Gary Johnson, John Maguire, King Abdullah, Ronco Consulting, WIlliam Mathews, Xe | 2 Comments
The Defense of Freedom Medal Held Hostage by the Defense Base Act
Crossposted from the Defense Base Act Compensation Blog May 31, 2012
WHY HAVE I NOT RECEIVED THE DEFENSE OF FREEDOM MEDAL?
The Defense of Freedom Medal is an award held to be the equivalent of the Purple Heart and is awarded to Civilian Contractors injured in the war zones.
One question we get here repeatedly is why have I not received the Defense of Freedom Medal? The question comes from severely disabled Civilian Contractors wounded in horrific explosions and insurgent attacks.
WHO IS HOLDING YOUR MEDAL HOSTAGE?
The company you work for is responsible for requesting that you receive the medal and providing the documentation that you have indeed suffered a qualifying injury.
As all Injured War Zone Contractors know the minute you must file a Defense Base Act Claim you are automatically placed in an adversarial relationship with your employer. Your Employer and the Defense Base Act Insurance Company are considered equal entities in the battle you have entered for your medical care and indemnity.
Your Employer is required to assist the insurance company in denying your claim. Under the War Hazards Act the Employer/Carrier must prove to the WHA Tribunal that they have diligently tried to deny your claim.
It appears that your Defense of Freedom Medals could be held hostage by your Employers due to the adversarial relationship the Defense Base Act has created.
When KBR, DynCorp, Blackwater, Xe, et al, provide documentation of your injuries to the DoD they have just admitted that you are indeed injured and to what extent.
Specific information regarding injury/death: Description of the situation causing the injury/death in detail to include the date, time, place, and scene of the incident, and official medical documentation of the employee’s injuries and treatment. The description must be well documented, including the names of witnesses and point of contact (POC) for additional medical information, if needed.
These admissions sure would make it hard for Administrative Law Judges like Paul C Johnson to name them as alleged. ALJ Paul C Johnson has yet to award benefits to a DBA Claimant in a decision based on a hearing.
KBR who can never seem to find their injured employees medical records holds the key to the Defense of Freedom Medal.
Certainly there are other lawsuits outside of the DBA that the withholding of this information is vital too.
For those of you who still give a damn after being abused by so badly simply because you were injured-
The Defense of Freedom Medal may find you many years down the road once an Administrative Law Judge says you were injured.
We recommend that you contact your Congressional Representative or Senator and have them request this Medal if you qualify for it and would like to have it.
If you are still litigating your claim it SHOULD serve to legitimize your alleged injuries.
May 31, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Blackwater, Civilian Contractors, Contractor Casualties, Defense Base Act, Department of Defense, DynCorp, Halliburton, KBR, Lawsuits, War Hazards Act | Blackwater, Civilian Contractors, Defense Base Act, Defense of Freedom Medal, Department of Defense, Department of Labor, Discovery, DynCorp, G4S, Halliburton, Injured War Zone Contractors, KBR, Purple Heart, Ronco Consutling, Wackenhut, Xe | 1 Comment
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Unwrapping – a Christmas freebie
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UNWRAPPING
“Good God, it’s a yeti. Carrying a shopping bag.” Harry opened the front door to his flat and let the bulbous figure shuffle in past him. “Welcome, mythical creature. You are far from home and from your mystical masters in the high mountains of the Himalayas, but I hope that the big, bad metropolis will treat you well this Christmas Eve—”
“Shunh unh, Huuree,” came from the moving mound of thick, red, hooded coat, plus assorted scarves and shawls. It waddled into the lounge and a giant, gloved hand dropped the bag it had been carrying onto the sofa.
Harry followed, grinning. “Are you delivering for Santa? You’re a day early, you know. Not that you’re not welcome, you always are. Especially if that’s a Christmas gift for me.”
The visitor shook the upper part of its body. It was difficult to identify it as a head, because it was wrapped in several scarves that hid where its neck met its body. “Cahhnh fiynn anyhnging guuhd.”
Harry sighed and tugged at the end of one of the scarves. “Matt—because I assume it is you underneath all this clothing—please understand that I can only understand what you’re saying because I am supersensitive, am attuned to your chi, and we’ve been best friends for ages.”
“Muthh be a yuhhhr.”
“Yes. Must be well over a year. Whatever. And of course I talk that same language when I’ve had too many beers and my tongue gets itself tied. But no-one else will work out what you’re saying. Can I remove some layers?”
Two bright blue-grey eyes peered over the top of thick cloth, darting from left to right in the room.
“Yeah,” Harry said, answering the question that hadn’t even been voiced. “The heating’s on at last. The landlord fixed the boiler this morning. I had to offer him a box of mince pies and several sherries, and then when he got too fresh, I had to threaten him with an imaginative and painful use of holly.”
The eyes watching him flashed suddenly angrily, fiercely.
“It was worth it,” Harry continued firmly, “so the repair could be done in time for Christmas Day, right? And my honour is still intact—well, with the creepy landlord, at least. Here, let me.” He started to unwind one of the scarves around Matt’s neck, freeing the forehead as well as the eyes. “This scarf is mine, isn’t it? Thought I’d lost it last year.”
“… duhn the baahk of the suufa…” Matt muttered, his mouth full of woolly ends.
“Yeah.” Harry smiled. “That was a laugh, last Christmas Eve, wasn’t it? I’ve never known Scrabble to be played quite that way, I mean, actually scrabbling for the tiles down the back of the cushions like that. But it was fun, though you were pretty clumsy, hands all over me.”
Matt made a soft coughing noise.
Harry concentrated on a thick, striped shawl that was tangled over Matt’s left ear and nose. “We got this one in the local charity shop, remember? Good thing, too, because the boiler packed up last Christmas Eve, too. You rescued me from hypothermia by lurking with me around the shops, the cinema, the supermarket, anywhere that had decent heating. Then when they all closed, we came here to play games, and huddled up together on the couch, this shawl over our shoulders, sitting in front of that one-bar portable heater for the evening.”
“It was great.” Matt’s voice was clear at last, though his murmur was almost too quiet to be heard. “You were great.”
“Huh?” Harry peeked over the pile of striped fabric, clutched in both his hands. “Sorry, I didn’t catch that.”
“Nothing.” Matt shook his head and stood still while the rummaging around his coat collar continued. Harry tugged out a length of a particularly expensive-looking green scarf, finally opening up his best friend’s face from its swaddling, and releasing a bunch of Matt’s tousled dark hair. “And, of course, this one’s Bernard’s. He called this afternoon to confirm he and his latest squeeze won’t make my usual Boxing Day drinks because they’ve taken an earlier flight. He asked if you’d be round here as usual, said he didn’t reckon we’d notice if anyone else was there or not, and gave an obscene snigger. Not entirely sure what that meant.”
“Unh,” Matt said, or that’s what his awkward swallow sounded like. “He’s always been a bizarre little bugger.”
Harry paused a moment before continuing, “You remember why he left this scarf? He thought he was interrupting something when he came over on Christmas Eve last year. He dropped in earlier than expected, delivering some of his special, excessively alcoholic Christmas cake and I’d left the front door ajar. So when he found us on the couch, all bundled up—”
“—lying down—” Matt said softly.
“Yeah.” Harry nodded, “—yes, sort of lying down, too, well, he got all flustered, dropped the cake on the table and dashed back out. Left his scarf behind, and he never dared ask for it back.” He smiled more broadly at the memory. “Do you remember the shocked look on his face?”
“I wouldn’t actually have called it shock.” Matt’s eyes were brighter than could be accounted for by the table lamp’s reflection. “Besides, I wasn’t looking at his face.”
There was a small, strained moment of silence.
Harry decided to concentrate extra hard on the immensely difficult task of tugging the defenceless scarf completely free. “You think he thought we were making out, or something?”
Matt’s eyebrows lifted. “It must have looked like it.”
“Yes. Um. Well, we… we…”
Matt touched him then, just a gentle press on his arm. “Were, weren’t we? He wasn’t wrong. Maybe not right at that moment, because I was, according to you, pretty clumsy, but over the course of that evening, after I got up the bloody courage, and you’d had too much eggnog.”
Harry’s whole body shuddered for some reason. “That’s when it started, right?”
“Us. We. When we started having…”
“Friendly benefits?” Matt finished for him.
There was no edge to his soft voice, but Harry felt he was missing something in just the words. “Yes, a lot of benefits. That’s fun, isn’t it? You spend so much time here, and we get on so well, laugh and cook and watch TV together, so it sort of just happened that when you started staying over, you know, sleeping over, we made the most of—”
“Yes,” Matt interrupted, a bit tightly. “That’s fun indeed.”
Harry blinked. “And I seem to remember I was pretty clumsy too, that first night.”
“You fell off the sofa.”
“Well, I think you’ll find that was a strategic move to get more eggnog—”
“Twice.”
Harry chuckled. He found his hand lingering over Matt’s, wanting to link their fingers. The feeling wasn’t exactly a shiver down his spine, more like an ache in his throat. It had been around for a while now. “I’m glad. Glad things have continued to be as much fun.” He glanced up at Matt’s face. “They have, haven’t they?”
Matt’s hand twisted, palm upward, catching Harry’s in its grip. “Of course.” He nodded slowly, his pupils dilated. “Though I’m glad to say we’ve grown in… um… experience. And enthusiasm. Yes, definitely enthusiasm. Last Christmas Eve was definitely the start of it. But what we’ve been doing more recently is… Is…”
“Is. Yes. Like you say. Much more enthusiastic.” Harry gave a short, soft laugh at more recent memories. Last night, as an example, when Matt had dropped in on his way home, tipsy after his work’s Christmas party, and adorably stupid with corny snowman jokes, the smell of brandy butter on his breath, the hastily shed clothes on the hallway floor, and warm, uninhibited kisses all the way to Harry’s bed…
“Harry? You okay?”
“Yeah. Fine.” Harry dropped the green scarf on the sofa. That same sofa. “A year ago, eh?”
“Uh-huh. You might even say we’re coming up for an anniversary.”
“Yes, I might.” Harry’s stomach roiled. Funny how it was difficult to meet Matt’s eyes tonight. They’d always been so relaxed together, so easy, as happy with their passion as their banter. Things felt very… different… tonight.
He cleared his throat. “So. Now you mention it, perhaps that’s a good opportunity for me to discuss… whether you… right. Whatever. Let’s talk.” Embarrassingly, his stomach growled. “After supper, anyway. I mean, you’re staying for supper, I hope?”
“Love to. But who has the dense language now?”
Harry chuckled, but Matt went very, very still as Harry’s fingers slid inside his coat collar, releasing the last scarf. He may even have been holding his breath.
“This is a new one, isn’t it?” Harry was puzzled. “It’s gorgeous. Golden, orange, flecks of brown and red, I don’t know what else. Like… the best kind of glow in the sky at night. The maple tree on the street corner in autumn. Your mother’s dear old dog. The best toffee.” He felt warmed from the inside out. “The colour brings out the hazel in your eyes. And it’s very soft, much better quality than Bernard’s—how can you afford cashmere wool, if you don’t mind me asking?”
“Harry, I don’t mind you asking anything.”
Dear Matt. He was Harry’s confessor, his supporter, his partner in crime, his better half. His friend-with-benefits. That set-up didn’t seem to sit so easy now, as Harry struggled to get his thoughts straight. “Well. Yes. That’s what I mean. I think I need to talk to you about… things like that.”
Harry cleared his throat. Again. “The anniversary thing. All last year. Having fun. Making the most of… Well. Actually, not just that. The laughing and the playing football and the grocery shopping stuff. Coming around when I lost that job. When I crashed the car.”
“It was only a small dent. That dog should have been on a lead.”
“No.” Harry knew what he meant, the problem was just explaining it to Matt. He didn’t usually have this problem when they swapped daily news. “It’s more than that. You’re always there. We always share. Thoughts, feelings. Things.”
“Things like the washing up?”
Harry frowned but felt a smile teasing the corner of his mouth. “Stop taking the piss.”
“I’m sorry, I don’t mean to be so irritating. It’s just, that sounds like me. I mean, I feel the same.” Matt moved closer to Harry, his still-frosty breath on Harry’s cheek.
Harry didn’t think he’d ever get his throat clear enough. “Remember we said we’d have a quiet Christmas here, not spending too much on food or presents, just making our own entertainment—?”
“—like last year?” Matt’s voice rose. “But yes! That’s exactly what the label said!”
“Label?”
Matt’s voice tumbled out like a snowball rolling down a hill. “It was on the mat this morning when I got up early—this scarf I mean, elegantly Christmas-wrapped, labelled for me from Secret Santa, with the message that it might bring me a Christmas like last year. And…” He also cleared his throat. Must have been contagious. “And a new year to treasure.”
“Well, it wasn’t from me.”
Matt rolled his eyes. “I know that. You can’t wrap a present for shit.”
They both grimaced at each other, then laughed.
“But where did it come from, then? Where’s the label?”
Matt shrugged. “I left it on my kitchen counter, then it went missing. Not sure how or where. At first, I thought it must be from Bernard—”
“—or that joker Frankie he’s been dating—?”
“—but they’re both in Paris. Bernard’s sister’s getting married there. You said they took an earlier flight.”
“Hm. Yeah. What about that kid in flat 27, below you?”
“Not his MO. He only leaves half-dried dog turds, and his dad stopped that anti-social little hobby when the postman slipped on one last week.”
“Your brother?”
Matt scowled. “Stupid arse has already sent me my gift. A crochet toilet roll holder.” It was a long-running joke in Matt’s family, the contest for the most useless Christmas gift.
“I found you something to send back to him this year,” Harry said gleefully. “Diet cutlery! There’s a hole in the middle of the spoon.”
More laughter between them, comfortable, conspiratorial. Harry began to relax.
“Anyway,” Matt continued. “Whoever sent it, I decided to wear it—plus a couple of others, of course, because I knew the weather was on its way toward freezing tonight—when I went shopping for your present.”
“Look, didn’t I just say—?”
But Matt wasn’t stopping any time soon. His expression was excited, his face flushed now, his words tumbling even faster. “I just couldn’t find anything suitable. I wanted to get you something special this year—something to tell you how much I appreciate your friendship, how it’s been great sharing life with you here in London, how well you looked after me as a newbie from the country all that time ago, how I really like staying over here, I mean, really like… how I’d like more of… more of… you.” His words ran out. He smiled a little ruefully; he blushed more deeply. Then he picked the shopping bag up and held it out to Harry. “Anyway, I failed. This was all I came around with.”
Harry glanced in the bag, barely seeing the contents, his attention fixed on far more important things. Imagine that! Matt thinking all that. Matt wanting more. Of me. Things were suddenly, splendidly easy after all.
“This is all special, Matt.”
Matt also glanced into the bag and frowned. “A new set of Scrabble?”
Harry laughed aloud, the sound warm and happy. “No. I mean having you here with me. That Secret Santa message was pretty spooky—because I’d like a Christmas like last year, too.”
Matt still frowned, but his eyes shone with their own heat and light. “Like—watching A Christmas Carol for the fourth time? Like eating cold pizza because we messed up cooking the turkey? Like wrestling me for the last inch of eggnog in the bottle, and stealing the last slice of Bernard’s boozy Christmas cake?”
“Yeah. Just like last year.” Harry reached out and determinedly popped open the top button of Matt’s coat. Then the next. “I’m really pleased you mentioned our anniversary. You see, the boiler only broke this year because I kicked it. I was trying to set the scene so you’d remember what we got up to last year.”
Matt swallowed heavily, as if some of the fluff from the scarves had got stuck in his throat. “How the hell could I forget?”
“Because I’ve been blundering around, going from one day to the next, without actually stopping to look at what’s happened. To us. About us. How it all started. How we’ve been together, this year. How it should be in the future. The label was right about what I’m seeking for the new year too. I should have found the balls to discuss it with you long before now.”
“You’re not…?” Matt looked quite pale now. “You want to stop the benefits thing?”
“God, no!” Harry could’ve kicked himself, why would he ever shock Matt like that? “I haven’t regretted any of it. Not for a second. I’m so bloody glad it started… you know. Us.”
“Truthfully?”
“Truthfully.” Harry had moved as close as he dared, his hands slipping inside Matt’s coat as he undid the final button. Matt’s shirt front was warm under Harry’s fingertips, Matt’s breath cozy on his neck.
“Be brave,” Matt whispered, and he sounded very serious now. “Be honest. I need that from you.”
Harry had no idea why he’d been so slow on the uptake, but he was catching up now. “I’ve just had this idea, but maybe I should wait until I’ve fed you your favourite pasta—”
“No.” Matt almost growled.
Harry smiled to himself. “Well, when you stumbled through the door, all cold and huddled, I thought—why shouldn’t Matt live here with me anyway? It’s a bigger flat, we can pool our money and have more left over to spend on fun. Then he won’t have to trudge across town in all weathers—”
“I don’t mind. Honest.” Though that didn’t sound completely sincere.
“—and we can spend all our time together without worrying about goodbye’s, and see you hopefully on Tuesday’s, and call me tomorrow about watching the game down the pub’s, sorta things.”
Matt’s voice was shaky. “Just for convenience?”
Harry wondered when his best mate had got so nervous. He was never like that in bed. “Of course not. To make it something more for us, you know. Something permanent.”
“I’d be a permanent… what? Washer up? Picker up of your lost socks? Negotiator of the hallway with that manic cat in number 12?”
“Stupid git.” Harry looked at him fondly. “Poor, dim soul that you are. The cold has frozen your receptors. You want me to spell it out?”
“Bloody hell, yes,” Matt hissed.
“A permanent lover. Boyfriend. Best friend. Partner.” How odd it sounded, to articulate the words he’d never said before to anyone. But what an adventure! “I love you, Matt. Will you move in with me?”
Matt blinked hard. He was grinning now. Really broadly. His jaw must have ached from it. “So, now you find the words? You’ve never said anything about us being official. I was never sure if you just saw us as—”
“Those friends with benefits?”
“No. It was always more. Like I said, I just didn’t listen to how I really felt. But… now I do tonight, for some reason. Must be Santa’s magic.” Harry rubbed his fingers along the edge of the mysterious scarf. “If I believed in that crap.”
Matt slid his arm around Harry’s waist, still padded inside his coat and gloves. “I love you too.”
“Yeah, like I didn’t already know that. Who else would pick up my socks?” Harry scoffed but he felt ridiculously, head-swimmingly, hugely happy. “But have you been waiting for me to admit it, all this time?”
Matt shrugged. “Like you said, it was always more than just fun. But—it is fun, isn’t it?”
“All year long,” Harry agreed, giving Matt his best sexy leer.
“So. Not such a torturous wait for me, I’d say.” And Matt gave him his best lascivious waggly-eyebrows look in return.
Harry burst out laughing. “Can we start celebrating the anniversary soon?”
Matt gave a long, happy sigh. “Yeah. I can always shop for your present in the January sales.”
Harry shook his head. “No. I don’t want you to. You don’t need to. All I want for Christmas is you, Matt.”
Matt blinked hard. “And that you’ve got.”
Harry nodded, letting out a breath of relief, and pushing Matt’s coat impatiently off his shoulders. “So that’s my present to you. And, apparently, you to me. Unwrapped. Or you will be, soon.” He nudged his knee against Matt’s, guiding him back toward the sofa.
“As long as the boiler keeps going, of course. Don’t want my receptors frozen up again, do I?” Matt let himself be guided without any protest at all. His eyes glinted pretty wickedly and with a huge amount of promise. “And do I get to unwrap you, too?”
“You better.” Harry barely recognised the strange growling noise in the back of his throat. “Just take those damn yeti gloves off and get started.”
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Clare London took her pen name from the city where she lives, loves, and writes. A lone, brave female in a frenetic, testosterone-fuelled family home, she juggles her writing with her other day job as an accountant. She’s written in many genres and across many settings, with award-winning novels and short stories published both online and in print. She says she likes variety in her writing while friends say she’s just fickle, but as long as both theories spawn good fiction, she’s happy. Most of her work features male/male romance and drama with a healthy serving of physical passion, as she enjoys both reading and writing about strong, sympathetic, and sexy characters. Clare currently has several novels sulking at that tricky chapter three stage and plenty of other projects in mind... she just has to find out where she left them in that frenetic, testosterone-fuelled family home. Clare loves to hear from readers, and you can contact her here: Website: http://www.clarelondon.com E-mail: clarelondon11@yahoo.co.uk Blog: www.clarelondon.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/clarelondon Twitter: https://twitter.com/clare_london Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/clarelondon Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/author/clarelondon/ Google+ : https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ClareLondon/posts
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28 thoughts on “Unwrapping – a Christmas freebie”
Alex Jane on December 3, 2017 at 7:28 am said:
I’m now 500% more Christmassy having read that! So sexy and sweet ❤ Thank you for posting, Hun xx
bec601 on December 3, 2017 at 7:31 am said:
Oh that was beautiful!
elenilote on December 3, 2017 at 7:46 am said:
Oh this is adorable! Thank you Clare, making me feel all Christmassy now 🙂
ananewfolk on December 3, 2017 at 8:55 am said:
Loved this story. I feel like heading out now for some Christmas activities. Thanks Clare. x
dejamew on December 3, 2017 at 9:04 am said:
Very sweet.
Rj Scott on December 3, 2017 at 9:12 am said:
Awww, this was lovely 🙂 XXXXX
maryd on December 3, 2017 at 10:11 am said:
So sweet for Christmas. Now I’ve got the song ‘All I want for Christmas is you’ in my head 😁 so lovely. Thank you Clare 💝
rubymoone on December 3, 2017 at 10:28 am said:
Sigh…. That was just lovely! ❤️❤️❤️
leeannlovingthebooks on December 3, 2017 at 12:09 pm said:
All goodness wrapped up in this little snippet!
looney589 on December 3, 2017 at 1:11 pm said:
Loved this. It’s was so sweet. Thank you so much for sharing it with us.
Diane Gagnon on December 3, 2017 at 1:30 pm said:
Love it! Very nice Christmas book.
younela on December 3, 2017 at 2:11 pm said:
Now that’s a cute Christmas story. Thank you.
Shirley Ann Speakman on December 3, 2017 at 2:20 pm said:
Great story kind of sweet too.
Yvonne on December 3, 2017 at 3:25 pm said:
Oh, this was sweet and fun. Thanks Clare.
debby236 on December 3, 2017 at 3:55 pm said:
That was wonderful. Thanks so much.
Susana Perez on December 3, 2017 at 3:57 pm said:
So cute! Thank you, Claire!
lillianparkinson on December 3, 2017 at 6:59 pm said:
Lovely. Just lovely.
Felinewyvern on December 3, 2017 at 7:15 pm said:
Heartwarming cuteness 😀
Robert Zimmermann on December 3, 2017 at 10:47 pm said:
Is there more with these two characters? Great story, either way. But I would read more with this two 🙂
clarelondon on December 26, 2017 at 2:29 pm said:
Thanks for asking, Robert. No they’re just here in this little story, though they’re typical of a lot of my clueless chaps ;).
Kat on December 4, 2017 at 12:51 am said:
Sweet Christmas fluff, I love it.
Angelica M on December 4, 2017 at 3:07 am said:
I loved Clair
Renate on December 4, 2017 at 4:47 am said:
Thanks for a sweet story! Happy holidays!
Jenn (not Lily) on December 4, 2017 at 7:35 am said:
So sweet, and nice to have two lovely Christmaes in one! Thank you Clare!
Donna on December 5, 2017 at 7:30 am said:
Cute short story.
Nicole Gillette on December 5, 2017 at 2:43 pm said:
Silly boys, love it!!! HAPPY CHRISTMAS everyone!
Masja on December 15, 2017 at 10:52 pm said:
Aww, sweet!
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Tigers Shatter Three Pool Records on Senior Day Split
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CLEMSON, SC – The Clemson swimming and diving teams took on NC State in McHugh Natatorium in front of a crowd of 700, and came away with a hard-earned split. The Clemson women won 173-126, while the men dropped a 165-135 decision in the final few events. The Tigers honored their sixteen seniors prior to the meet, four men and twelve women. The women improve their record to 5-4 (3-3 ACC), while the men are 2-7 (0-6 ACC).
Junior David Giambra continued his strong diving efforts for Clemson, notching a school-record in the three-meter event for the second consecutive meet. The Yardley, PA native’s 376.05 broke a pool record as well, held by David Ovelson of South Carolina, who had a 360.53 in 2005. The score is the seventh-best effort in the ACC this season, a perennially difficult diving conference.
In the win, Giambra edged the Wolfpack’s Austin Hampton by less than six points. In the same event, Ryan McDaniel put in a career-best 321.00, which qualifies him for NCAA Zone competition. Hampton would edge Giambra in the one-meter event 320.40 to 307.43. McDaniel took third with a 290.10.
The Tiger women were firing on all cylinders for most of the meet, but it wasn’t until the final event that the records came down. Rachel Regone, one of the top sprinters in the nation, led off the 200 free relay with a 22.79, which shattered the old mark for the 50 free of 23.18, a record that has stood since 1988, by Angel Myers of Furman.
The group followed Regone’s lead, as senior Lauren Sindall (22.97), Alexandra Allen (23.52), and Michelle Parkhurst (22.93) combined to swim a 1:32.21, breaking the pool mark in the 200 free relay by more than two full seconds. This foursome is the twp-time defending ACC Champions in the event, and will look to continue that streak this season.
Parkhurst, the reigning ACC Performer of the Week, and Sindall also combined to win the 200 medley relay to start the meet, along with Katrina Obas. Regone, in a separate group, swam a blistering 22.27 on the anchor leg of the third-place relay.
Freshmen Brooke George and Cassie Self notched NCAA Zone qualifying scores of 280.20 and 267.23, respectively, on the one-meter boards. These are career highs for each student-athlete.
The Lady Tigers were able to grab control of the meet early one, as they won the opening relay, and proceeded to sweep 1-2-3 in the 1000 free, 200 free, 200 butterfly, and 50 free. Freshman Kelly Fowler had a very strong meet, putting in a lifetime-best 57.50 in the 100 back to finish second. Her time ranks her third among Tiger backstrokers this season. She also won the 200 back in 2:03.76, less than a second off the all-time top-ten.
The men’s meet was hotly contested for most of the meet, with several lead changes. Each event tested the limits of the student-athletes and coaching strategy, as the meet came down to the final two events.
One of the better races was in the 100 back, where Tom Recko and Jason Chatlosh finished third to complete the sweep. Recko later won the 200 back by over four seconds, notching a 1:47.99.
Freshman Seth Broster and an extremely strong meet. Not only did he win the 100 free in 46.11, but he also edged Harry Foster in the 100 fly by 0.07 seconds, and also swam the butterfly leg of the 200 medley relay group that won in 1:32.77.
The Tigers will return to action on Jan. 31 as they travel to Duke for their final dual meet of the season. The women and all of the divers will then travel to the ACC Championships in College Park, MD on Feb. 18-21. The men will then compete the following week at the same site.
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Materials for Dancing, specifies masques, castanets, and a ladder of ten rounds. I apprehend the ladder-dance originated from the ancient pastime of walking or dancing upon very high stilts. A specimen of such an exhibition is here given from a MS. roll in the Royal Library, written and illuminated in the reign of Henry III. The actor is exercising a double function, that is, of a musician, and of a dancer. 355 visits
Here we perceive a girl dancing upon the shoulders of the joculator, who at the same time is playing upon the bagpipes, and appears to be in the action of walking forwards. 399 visits
The next specimen of ball, taken from a drawing more ancient than the former, a genealogical roll of the kings of England to the time of Henry III. in the Royal Library, presents two players only, and he who is possessed of the bat holds the ball also, which he either threw into the air and struck with his bat as it descended, or cast forcibly upon the ground, and beat it away when it rebounded; the attention of his antagonist to catch the ball need not be remarked, it does not appear in either of these instances how the game was determined. 298 visits
This engraving represents a woman bending herself backwards, from a MS. of the thirteenth century, in the Cotton Library 309 visits
Dominic de Guzman, 1170-1221 A.D. Half-way between Osma and Aranda in Old Castile, Spain, is a little village known as "the fortunate Calahorra." Here was the castle of the Guzmans, where Dominic was born. His family was of high `rank` and character, a noble house of warriors, statesmen and saints. If we accept the legends, his greatness was foreshadowed. Before his birth, his mother dreamed she saw her son under the figure of a black-and-white dog, with a torch in his mouth. "A true dream," says Milman, "for he will scent out heresy and apply the torch to the faggots;" but, as will be seen later, this observation does not rest on undisputed evidence. 494 visits
The most usual foreign pilgrimages were to the Holy Land, the scene of our Lord’s earthly life; to Rome, the centre of western Christianity; and to the shrine of St. James at Compostella. The number of pilgrims to these places must have been comparatively limited; for a man who had any regular business or profession could not[Pg 160] well undertake so long an absence from home. The rich of no occupation could afford the leisure and the cost; and the poor who chose to abandon their lawful occupation could make these pilgrimages at the cost of others; for the pilgrim was sure of entertainment at every hospital, or monastery, or priory, probably at every parish priest’s rectory and every gentleman’s hall, on his way; and there were not a few poor men and women who indulged a vagabond humour in a pilgrim’s life. The poor pilgrim repaid his entertainer’s hospitality by bringing the news of the countries through which he had passed, and by amusing the household after supper with marvelous saintly legends, and traveler’s tales. 609 visits
The Dominicans and Franciscans arose simultaneously at the beginning of the thirteenth century. Dominic, an Augustinian canon, a Spaniard of noble birth, was seized with a zeal for converting heretics, and having gradually associated a few ecclesiastics with himself, he at length conceived the idea of founding an order of men who should spend their lives in preaching. Simultaneously, Francis, the son of a rich Italian merchant, was inspired with a design to establish a new order of men, who should spend their lives in preaching the Gospel and doing works of charity among the people. These two men met in Rome in the year 1216 a.d. 769 visits
The other great invention of this period was that of armorial bearings, properly so called. Devices painted upon the shield were common in classical times. They are found ordinarily on the shields in the Bayeux tapestry, and were habitually used by the Norman knights. In the Bayeux tapestry they seem to be fanciful or merely decorative; later they were symbolical or significant. But it was only towards the close of the twelfth century that each knight assumed a fixed device, which was exclusively appropriated to him, by which he was known, and which became hereditary in his family. 2367 visits
The cut is a spirited little sketch of a mounted knight. The horse, it may be admitted, is very like those which children draw nowadays, but it has more life in it than most of the drawings of that day; and the way in which the knight sits his horse is much more artistic. The picture shows the equipment of the knight very clearly, and it is specially valuable as an early example of horse trappings, and as an authority for the shape of the saddle, with its high pommel and croupe. 6451 visits
The accompanying wood-cut represents various peculiarities of the armour in use towards the close of the thirteenth century. 1910 visits
The convents of friars were not independent bodies, like the Benedictine and Augustinian abbeys; each order was an organised body, governed by the general of the order, and under him, by provincial priors, priors of the convents, and their subordinate officials. There are usually reckoned four orders of friars—the Dominicans, Franciscans, Carmelites, and Augustines. “I found there freres, All the foure orders, Techynge the peple To profit of themselves.” Piers Ploughman, l. 115. The four orders are pictured together in the woodcut page from the thirteenth century MS. Harl. 1,527. They were called Friars because, out of humility, their founders would not have them called Father and Dominus, like the monks, but simply Brother (Frater, Frère, Friar). 1152 visits
The Franciscans were styled by their founder Fratri Minori—lesser brothers, Friars Minors; they were more usually called Grey Friars, from the colour of their habits, or Cordeliers, from the knotted cord which formed their characteristic girdle. Their habit was originally a grey tunic with long loose sleeves (but not quite so loose as those of the Benedictines), a knotted cord for a girdle, and a black hood; the feet always bare, or only protected by sandals. 821 visits
Dominic gave to his order the name of Preaching Friars; more commonly they were styled Dominicans, or, from the colour of their habits, Black Friars—their habit consisting of a white tunic, fastened with a white girdle, over that a white scapulary, and over all a black mantle and hood, and shoes; the lay brethren wore a black scapulary. 626 visits
The Carmelite Friars had their origin, as their name indicates, in the East. According to their own traditions, ever since the days of Elijah, whom they claim as their founder, the rocks of Carmel have been inhabited by a succession of hermits, who have lived after the pattern of the great prophet. Their institution as an order of friars, however, dates from the beginning of the thirteenth century, when Albert, Patriarch of Jerusalem, gave them a rule, founded upon, but more severe than, that of St. Basil; and gave them a habit of white and red stripes, which, according to tradition, was the fashion of the wonder-working mantle of their prophet-founder. 746 visits
Marco Polo, Vespucci's Countryman Marco Polo, the Venetian, exercised a strong and lasting influence upon the minds of Toscanelli, Columbus, Vespucci, and, through them, upon others, although he died in the first quarter of the century in which the first-named of this distinguished triad was born. All these had this birthright in common: they were Italians; and, moreover, it was in Genoa, the reputed birthplace of Columbus, that Marco Polo's adventures were first shaped into coherent narrative and given to the world. 614 visits
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Tristan and the beautiful Yseult.--From a Miniature in the Romance of "Tristan," Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century 994 visits
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Pliny makes mention of several wines of the Gauls as being highly esteemed. He nevertheless reproaches the vine-growers of Marseilles, Beziers, and Narbonne with doctoring their wines, and with infusing various drugs into them, which rendered them disagreeable and even unwholesome. 531 visits
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Linus van Pelt Cosplay Costumes
For a kid, Linus Van Pelt is highly intelligent and philosophical. He can be overheard quoting the Gospels. The only two reasons he is mocked in the Peanuts comics strip is due to his dependence on his security blanket and his firm belief in the Great Pumpkin. His eccentricities, therefore, make him a very likable character to cosplay because everyone is a bit weird.
Don’t cosplay Linus Van Pelt alone. Grab hold of your friends and ask them to dress up as their own favorite Peanuts characters. They can dress up as Marcie, Pigpen, Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty or Snoopy. Or you guys can go one step further and dress up as other comic strip book characters like Archie and Garfield. Costume Wall has lots of different costume guides for cosplay inspiration. Oh, and don’t forget to submit a picture of you Linus costume when you’re finally all dressed up!
About Linus van Pelt
Linus Van Pelt first appeared in the Peanuts comic strips created by Charles M. Schulz in September 1952. He is the best friend of the main character Charlie Brown, to whom he imparts great advice when listening about his friend’s insecurities. He is also the crush of Charlie Brown’s smaller sister, Sally. What makes Linus such a unique character is his incredible wisdom combined with childish tendencies. For example, he doesn’t believe in Santa Claus but believes The Great Pumpkin—a fictional character he believes will rise up on Halloween to give gifts to the good children.
His most notable trait is his always present security blanket that he is always seen with. When without it, Linus gets very distressed. Charlie’s dog, Snoopy, loves to tease Linus by trying to steal his blanket. But Snoopy never does succeed. He also has a troublesome relationship with his sister Lucy, by whom he gets bullied by a lot. Though Linus has weird idiosyncrasies that cause him to be mocked by others, he doesn’t care.
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Sally Brown
Get the cute blonde hair of Sally Brown, the younger sister of Charlie Brown that appears in the Peanuts comic strip.
Dress up Snoopy, the lovable pet beagle of Charlie Brown from the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.
Dress up like the filthy character Pigpen who appears in the Charles M. Schulz comic strips, Peanuts.
Lucy Van Pelt
Dress up like Lucy van Pelt, the bossy and opinionated character from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip Peanuts.
Dress up as Charlie Brown, the lovable failure, and star of the Peanuts comic strip written by Charles M. Schulz.
Peppermint Patty
Get ready to play baseball as Peppermint Patty, the tomboy who bothers Charlie Brown in the Peanuts comic strip.
Get dressed to cosplay as Schroeder, the friend of Charlie Brown who appears in the Peanuts comic strip.
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Knickers…!
There’s an old saying…. “Red shoes and no knickers!” What it is really referring to is someone who’s all for show but has no substance – they are bothered about the ‘flashiness’ of the look – but not the basics – like wearing knickers! We might chuckle at the idea of going ‘commando’ ~ or the slightly less liberated amongst us may raise an eyebrow and think only a loose woman would dare to do such a thing…. But there was a time when it was the complete opposite….until the mid 1800s it was considered improper for a woman to have anything between her legs ~ and that included knickers! (This is why women rode horses side-saddle)….
Fashion in 1898 – original photograph by Leopold-Emile Reutlinger – French photographer : Public domain
Roman men and women wore a ‘shorts’ like garment, resembling a loincloth, called a subligaculum. Women also wore a bandage of cloth or leather around the chest, called a strophium or mamilare – perhaps an ancient equivalent to the modern-day bra. It took until 1913 for the modern version to arrive – and was thanks to Mary Phelps Jacob with her pair of hankies tied together with ribbons….
During the 1400s men began to wear ‘braies’, adopted from a type of trouser originally worn by Celtic and Germanic tribes. Made of wool or leather (and later cotton or linen) they generally hung to the knee or mid-calf, resembling today’s shorts…. Women wore shifts and a chemise – any other form of underwear for the nether-regions was thought unnecessary – as warmth was the main priority and the thicker fabrics of skirts and dresses of the time was deemed sufficient….
Stays or corset. English c.1780 Linen twill and baleen. Hoop petticoat or pannier, English 1750-80 Plain-woven linen and cane. Chemise, English 1775-1800 Plain-woven cotton. All – Los Angeles County Museum of Art Author: PKM via Wikimedia
By 1600 ladies were wearing crinolines or farthingales – a frame of wire or whalebone; an easier, cheaper version was the ‘bum roll’ – a padded roll that was worn around the waist…. Very wealthy women wore silk stockings – (nylon stockings first emerged in 1939 and tights were invented in 1959). Clever ladies may have pinched their husband’s braies to wear underneath their crinolines to combat the droughts….
The first undergarments to become commonplace, emerging in the mid 1800s, were drawers – so named as they were literally drawn on to the body, with lacing at the back to pull in the waist. The legs were then sometimes gathered into a cuff well below the knee. They were basically two separate leg pieces joined at the waist ~ which is how we get the term ‘a pair’ of drawers, knickers or pants…. The seam running from back to front was left open….so those naughty Victorians actually invented crotchless knickers! By the 1850s drawers became more decorative and elaborate, even sometimes being made of silk – and by the end of the 1800s had become part of every day wear – even for poor women (who’s smalls may have been fashioned from scratchy sack cloth)…!
Open drawers. A. Two darts take in the fullness in the front B. Edge of drawers faced with garment bias facing; C. Ruffle sewed on with a receiving tuck. Circa 1919 Author: Celestine Leantine Schmit via Wikimedia
Meanwhile men’s braies had evolved – firstly into breeches, usually stopping just below the knee but in some cases reaching the ankles – and later, by the mid 1800s these were replaced by trousers….
The term ‘knickerbockers’ may have come from the 1809 book by Washington Irving “History of New York” featuring a Diedrick Knickerbocker, supposedly descending from the Dutch settlers of New York. Well-known caricaturist, George Cruikshank, illustrated the Knickerbocker men dressed in loose breeches, tied at the knee…. From the 1820s onwards breeches were often known as knickerbockers – and were especially popular for sporting activities…. It was not unheard of for ladies to borrow a pair of knickerbockers belonging to their husbands to wear under their dresses for a bit of added warmth – perhaps a tip handed down by their crinoline wearing grandmothers…. With the closed crotch seam of knickerbockers a new era arrived in the development of women’s underwear – and is where the name ‘knickers’ comes from….
Queen Victoria became an advocate of knickers. Being a fashion icon in her younger days her style was often copied…her hair, her clothes, her love of tartan and her love of drawers – all the fashionable women started to wear them…. From the 1870s various all-in-one combinations started to emerge ~ in the form of camisole bodices being attached to drawers…. By the 1890s Victorian knickers had grown wider at the leg hem, generally with a width of around 20 inches, with a lace frill at the knee – sometimes as much as 10 inches deep. With the wide skirts and petticoats of the period they were easily accommodated….
Photo credit: express.co.uk
It was the Great Exhibition of 1851 that first introduced the British public to ‘bloomers’ – so named after the publisher of a ladies’ magazine ‘The Lily’ – American Amelia Jenks Bloomer – who was also a devotee of women’s rights…. Fellow feminist Elizabeth Smith Miller had designed a range of clothing aimed at freeing women from the restrictive garments society expected them to wear – namely the unreasonably tight corsets and cumbersome skirts…. She took her inspiration from the clothes worn by Middle Eastern and Central Asian women. One of the ideas she came up with was a pair of loose-fitting trousers that gathered at the ankle, which were to be worn under a tunic-type dress. Amelia Bloomer decided to promote this style and started to wear it in public ~ and by 1849 these ‘trousers’ had become known as ‘bloomers’….
“Bloomer” dress of the 1850s. Public domain via Wikipedia
However, although they were popular amongst the more liberated young women of Britain, they were soon to become undeservedly associated with loose morals and so generally were not accepted in Britain ~ and all because a campaign to promote them went terribly wrong….
On the 6th of October 1851 a grand Bloomer Ball was held at the Hanover Square Rooms in London, to launch and publicise this radical new form of women’s clothing…. Only ladies wearing bloomers were admitted – but unfortunately most of the ‘ladies’ that turned up wearing them were prostitutes…. As the evening wore on it developed into a fracas ~ men were forcing their way in to ‘carry on’ and cavort with the ‘ladies’ – in the end it turned into such an orgy of a brawl that the services of the Metropolitan Constabulary were required….
After this unfortunate event bloomers became condemned by the more refined women of society – they became associated with the loose and fallen…. Amelia Bloomer’s vision of practical, more relaxed apparel – suitable for sporting and leisure activities (such as her mountain climbing outfit – an open skirt reaching the knee, revealing the rest of the leg encased by a frilly legging) – was not for us Brits…. Good job we don’t have too many mountains here in the UK then….
Amelia Bloomer – September 1851. Source: ‘The Lily’. Public domain via Wikipedia
So, ladies’ knickers continued along the road of evolution to become as we know them today…. Brands started to appear – Triumph (have the bra for the way you are) started making underwear in 1886, Silhouette followed in 1887 and Pretty Polly first appeared in 1919…. Our ‘unmentionables’ became more talked about – words crept into our everyday vocabulary, such as ‘lingerie’ – coming from the French word for linen ‘lin’ – things made from linen….
During the 1920s some women were still wearing drawers (those crotchless ones) but most found knickers more comfortable. Wider, shorter ones came into vogue; known as ‘French knickers’ or ‘ skirt knickers’ the style was more suitable for the shorter, closer fitting fashions of the Flapper era…. These replaced the cami-knickers popular in the Edwardian period; by this time much finer fabrics such as lawn were being used….
Image credit: Emma Benitez – DreamDate Art via flickr
Nylon was invented in 1935 by Wallace Carothers. The slinkier clothing of the 1930s demanded undergarments to provide a smoother line – it was early days for nylon but it helped enable this…. Skirts had become shorter and the hemline of knickers rose accordingly…. Around 1924 knickers also became known as ‘panties’….adopting the American term….
True Vintage English Nylon Knickers Image credit: Emma Benitez – DreamDate Art via flickr
With the onset of World War 2 – rationing meant drastic means had to be employed….many women had to resort to wearing knitted knickers ~ or if really lucky a best pair made from parachute silk….
Utility Underwear – Clothing Restrictions on the British Home Front, 1943…. A woman and two girls model utility underwear. Left to right: a woman’s wool vest (costing 4/2 and a half d and 3 coupons), and wool panties (costing 3/11 and 3 coupons; 11 year old girl’s wool vest (costing 4/-1/2d and 2 coupons) and rayon lock-knit panties (costing 3/4 and 2 coupons); 4 year old girl’s wool vest (costing 3/6 and a half d and 1 coupon) and wool knickers (costing 1/5 and a half d and 1 coupon) Date: 1943 Photo D 13088 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums
By the 1940s and 50s most women had started wearing ‘briefs’ and the majority of which were made of cotton and so could be included in the laundry boil wash…. Silk was kept for special occasions…. During the 1950s nylon and elastic became commonplace – and this really revolutionised underwear – more machine-made merchandise meant our smalls were more readily available….
1949 saw the first frilly knickers at Wimbledon. American tennis player Gertrude Moran – “Gorgeous Gussy” – scandalised Wimbledon officials with her saucy outfit – even prompting a debate in Parliament….
“1949 ‘Gorgeous’ Gussy Moran asked the Wimbledon organisers if she could wear coloured clothing. Her request was turned down, so tennis fashion designer Ted Tinling created a dress incorporating lace-trimmed knickers which even triggered a debate in parliament. Photographers lie flat on the ground in order to shoot her knickers”…. Via Mazzeo Construction & Tourism on pinterest.com
In the 1960s totally nylon knickers became the norm….and the double gusset arrived. Full briefs reached the waist – but a lower cut became known as ‘hip huggers’ – later they became cut even lower and were christened ‘bikini pants’…. With more figure hugging fashions VPL became an issue that needed to be addressed…. Elongated pants, known as ‘long johns’ or ‘demi johns’ were still being worn but only as practical pants to keep warm in winter….
1974 saw the invention of the ‘thong’ – which was to become really popular in the ’90s…. The 1980s brought us designer knickers with the likes of Calvin Klein and Sloggi….the name emblazoned across the top so it could be viewed peeping above the top of the waistband of a garment – both men and women were guilty of this….
German model with sixpack Artist Kevin Goerner via Wikimedia
The ’80s also brought us that impractical contraption – the ‘teddy’…. An all-in-one body garment, usually made of silk or satin – but other cheaper options of silky polyesters were readily available ~ with fiddly snap fasteners under the crotch ~ an absolute nightmare if the call of nature needed to be answered urgently…. Teddies offered no support as we’d all supposedly started visiting the gym by then and were well toned and so didn’t need any extra support…. Perhaps it was a garment really designed and better designated to the bedroom – or the bin. Crotchless knickers had also made a come back by then…. The eighties had a lot to answer for….
Nowadays we have plenty of choice….briefs, bikinis, tangas, thongs, g-strings, boy shorts, hip huggers, Brazilians….. We can choose our own comfort…. Wonder what they’ll come up with next….
‘Manikins in Underwear’ Manikins in their underwear in Marks & Spencer in Exeter…. The Local People Photo Archive via flickr
Please…. If you have read this post through to the end – then I assume you have found it of interest and I hope you’ve enjoyed it…. If you have found this via Facebook, a little ‘like’ for the Cottage Capers page would be very much appreciated…. I’m not trying to sell you anything ~ I’m simply a blogger trying to establish myself…. Many thanX….
September 25, 2018 history, Lingerie, Victorians, Women's clothing, women's underwear
2 thoughts on “Knickers…!”
Lynn Derham says:
Another very well written and interesting article. Thanks so much for sharing Hazel xx
Thanks Lynn xx
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Counter Markets
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How Not to Respond to Alarming Social Media Censorship
October 17, 2020 by Counter Markets
Op-Ed by Yaël Ossowski
Call it election interference, censorship, or simple editorializing, but Twitter and Facebook’s throttling of several New York Post articles this week has drawn lots of criticism.
The stories allege that Hunter Biden, former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, introduced Ukrainian energy adviser Vadym Pozharskyi to his father after receiving a cushy $50,000 a month board seat at the company Burisma. (Other outlets have contested the report).
There is no question that the social networks in question made a bad call. Disabling the link on the various platforms made even more people seek it out, creating a “Streisand Effect” of mass proportions.
But the content of the articles isn’t what really matters.
The reaction to the New York Post report reveals just how much pressure is put on social networks to perform roles far beyond what they were intended for. We want them to simultaneously police speech online, keep the networks free for open discussion, and be mindful of “fake news” that spreads rapidly.
So, it is important to understand why Facebook and Twitter felt they had to censor the story in the first place—and why all of us are actually to blame. For the last several years, campaigners, activists, and politicians have primed us all to accept the byzantine expectations and regulations put on social networks.
From Netflix documentaries such as The Social Dilemma and The Great Hack to the criticisms of “surveillance capitalism,” many voices are calling for further regulation of social media networks.
Some on the Right smirk as Sen. Josh Hawley pens legislation to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act or to ban “infinite scrolling” on social media apps. Meanwhile, some on the Left cheer as technology CEOs are dragged before congressional committees and castigated for “allowing” Trump to win in 2016.
This week, it was revealed that the New York State Department of Financial Services wants a “dedicated regulator” to oversee social media platforms. Other states will likely follow suit.
But what we’re all too loath to admit is that these firms do what any of us would do when under scrutiny: they pivot, they engage in damage control, and they aim to please those with pitchforks outside their doors. It’s the same whether it’s Black Lives Matter or President Trump.
Facebook has committed to ending all political advertising online (hurting non-profit advocacy groups like mine) and Twitter already implemented a similar policy last year, lauded by political figures such as Hillary Clinton and Andrew Yang.
I applaud Twitter’s decision to ban political ads. It’s the rare triumph of the public good over the bottom line. I hope Facebook follows suit or at least verifies and stands by the accuracy of political ads on its platform. https://t.co/M9LHRizlY5
— Andrew Yang🧢🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) October 30, 2019
This is the right thing to do for democracy in America and all over the world.
What say you, @Facebook? https://t.co/dRgipKHzUG
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 30, 2019
Of course, when tech giants censor or delete stories that we perceive to advance or hurt our political “team,” we are all up in arms. But protecting a free and open internet means not using punitive regulations or policies to hamstring social networks because of the scandal of the day.
Internet policy remedies dreamed up in Washington, D.C. will almost always end up hurting those of us who don’t have power or deep pockets. It harms the small businesses that use social networks for advertising, and it sets up more roadblocks for ordinary users who simply want to check in with friends and family.
Big Tech isn’t powerful because it has money, but because it has delivered superior products, those that have left platforms such as AOL, Myspace, and Yahoo in their wake.
Social networks have evolved from places to connect and share information across borders to intellectual and political battlefields where we wage digital wars.
Of course, there should be regulation in some respect. But it should be smart regulation that keeps platforms relatively free and open and provides incentives for future innovation. The powerful platforms of today can afford to comply with cumbersome rules, while new market entrants cannot.
That means that with every new proposal to roll back Section 230 protections or require quasi-governmental fact-checking functions around Election Day, we’re depriving consumers of choice and entrepreneurs of the ability to innovate.
Of course, targeted censorship of certain accounts or stories on social media networks is bad. But policy “solutions” dreamed up by technologically illiterate bureaucrats and power-hungry politicians would no doubt be even worse.
Source: FEE.org
Yaël Ossowski is deputy director of the Consumer Choice Center, a D.C-based, millennial activism group that advocates for greater consumer choice.
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JPMorgan to Start Customer Trials of Its ‘JPM Coin’ Crypto
JPMorgan Chase is to start trials of its “JPM Coin” cryptocurrency in conjunction with corporate clients.
According to a report from Bloomberg Japan on Tuesday, Umar Farooq, the investment bank’s head of digital treasury services and blockchain, said that customers would trial the technology with the ultimate aim of speeding up transactions, such as payments between firms and bond transactions.
The trials are being conducted on the assumption regulatory permission will ultimately be granted, according to Bloomberg.
First revealed in February, JPM Coin initially runs on top of Quorum, a private version of ethereum developed by the bank.
JPM Coin will function as a stablecoin, with fiat cash being deposited at the bank in exchange for the token, which can then be transferred via a permissioned distributed ledger. The recipient can later redeem the token for cash from JPMorgan.
Initially linked to the U.S. dollar, the coin is expected to be extended to other fiat currencies in time. Real-world trials were expected in “a few months,” according to a report at the time.
Discussing JPM Coin’s state of development, Farooq told Bloomberg in today’s report: “The technology is very good, but it takes time in terms of licensing and approval. It must be explained.”
As well as inter-firm remittances, he said that the cryptocurrency could be used to settle bonds and commodities transactions. Clients in regions including Europe, the US and Japan have already shown interest, according to Farooq. He would not name any companies involved in the upcoming trials, the report states.
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DX nieuws - week 1 2021
Nieuw jaar. We beginnen met een schone lei. Allemaal veel geluk en vrijheid in 2021!
DX-nieuws van week 1 2021. Ook nu weer verzameld door Henk - PD3H.
3D2/R, ROTUMA (Reminder). Tony, 3D2AG, continues to be active as 3D2AG/p from Rotuma Island (OC-060) until January 8th (leaving the island on the 10th). Most of his activity has been on 160/80/40/30/20/17/15/12/10/6 meters FT8, with some CW. QSL via 3D2AG using PayPal, ClubLog's OQRS or direct. He uses paper logs for CW, and ClubLog for FT8. NO LoTW.
4L, GEORGIA. Peter, G4ENL (9X9PJ, VP2KBV, HB9DVG), who was active as 4L/G4ENL, is now expected to be active with his new callsign 4L1PJ from Svaneti. He is there again working on major hydro-power development high in the Caucasus mountains and is expected to be there for the next few
years. Activity will be on various HF bands using SSB. QSL direct to his Swiss address or via N4GNR.
8Q, MALDIVES. Massimo, IZ5KID, is now active as 8Q7MM from the Maldive Islands (AS-013). Length of his stay is unknown. Activity will be on various HF bands using mainly the Digital modes with low power. QSL via his home callsign, direct, by the Bureau or eQSL.
CN - A team from the Association Royale des Radio-Amateurs du Maroc (ARRAM) will be active as CN1M until 10 January while travelling through Moroccan Sahara. QSL direct to RW6HS.
CQ750, PORTUGAL (Special Event). Valdemar, CT7AQD, will activate the special event callsign CQ750RSI from Coimbra, Portugal, between now and December 31st. Activity is to celebrate the 750th anniversary of the birth of Queen Saint Isabel ("Santa Isabel"). See QRZ.com for more
details. QSL via CT7AQD
D2, ANGOLA (Update). Paulo, CT1FJZ, is now active D2FJZ from Province of Cuando-Cubango until September 2021. He informs OPDX that "he is there for professional reasons as responsible for Safety, Quality and Environment." Activity will be on 80-10 meters using SSB with a TS-480SAT into a DX Patrol EZ-wire antenna. He states to OPDX, "I hope to improve the antenna system with a new directional antenna soon." QSL via CT1FJZ direct. Look for more details to be posted on QRZ.com.
DL - Uwe, DO2PZ will be active as DB100AVUS throughout 2021 to celebrate The 100th anniversary of the AVUS (Automobil-Verkehrs- und Uebungsstrasse, "Automobile traffic and training road"). Located in the south-west of Berlin and opened in 1921, it is the oldest
controlled-access motorway in Europe. Until 1998, it was also used as a motor racing circuit. QSL via DO2PZ, direct or bureau.
DL - Special callsign DR50AGCW will be active throughout 2021 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft CW DL (Activity Group CW DL, https://www.agcw.de/). QSL via the bureau.
GB4, ENGLAND (Special Event). Members of the Bedworth Lions Club (part of Lions Clubs International the largest service organization in the world) and with supporting operators from the Coventry Amateur Radio Society, will be active as GB4BLC from Lion's member Brian, G8GMU, QTH
between now and January 28th. Operations will take place on most bands including the Digital modes. This station is promoting the work of Lions Clubs International. NO QSL cards.
LZ - Once again Radio Club Blagovestnik (LZ1KCP) will use twelve special callsigns throughout 2021 to honour as many different Orthodox saints. Look for LZ21RH to be active on 1-31 January. QSL via the bureau or direct to P.O. Box 36, 4300 Karlovo, Bulgaria. Details
on the "All Saints 2021" award are expected to be published on http://www.lz1kcp.com/.
OE - OE100BL is the special callsign issued to the Burgenlaendischer Amateur Radio Club for celebrating throughout 2021 the 100th anniversary since Burgenland became an Austrian state. QSL via OE4JHW. Individual operators may also apply for OE100 to replace their prefix (e.g. OE4EIE will be signing OE100EIE). An award will be available, see https://hamlog.online/club/burgenland/52/.
OL70, CZECH REPUBLIC (Special Event). Members of the radio club in Roznov pod Radhostem (OK2KRT) are celebrating its 70th anniversary with a special callsign OL70KRT. Length of activity is unknown. QSL via OK2UYU, by the Bureau or direct.
P4, ARUBA. John, W2GD, will once again be active as P40W in February. Activity will be (when time permits) on the various HF bands, with some focus on the 30/17/12 meters and 160 meters mostly on CW (before and after the contest). His activity will also include an entry in the upcoming ARRL
International DX CW Contest (February 20-21st) signing as P44W and as a Single-Op/All-Band entry. QSL via LoTW or N2MM. No bureau cards.
PA - Hans, PA7HPH will be using Covid-19 special callsign PC19HOPE from 15 January to 10 March. See qrz.com for more information about this activity. QSL via PA7HPH (bureau preferred) and eQSL.
RI0, ANTARCTICA (AN-016, WFF RFF-168). Alexey, RX6A, continues to be active as RI0IANT from either the Russian Antarctic Progress (WAP RUS-11) or Vostok (WAP RUS-13) Base Stations until May 30th. Activity will be on 40-15 meters using CW and FT8. QSL via his home callsign.
SP - SP1DPA, SP1EG, SP1MGM, SQ1PSA and SQ3PMX will be active as SQ0MORSE from 1 January to 30 April to commemorate the 230th anniversary of the birth of Samuel F.B. Morse (1791-1872). QSL via SP1EG.
V2 - Randy, WW6RG expects to be active as V25RA from Antigua (NA-100) on 4 January starting around 00.00 UTC until 14 UTC. QSL via WW6RG; he does not use LoTW.
V4, ST. KITTS (Update). John, W5JON/V47JA, informs OPDX about his February 13th- March 5th operation is CANCELED. He states [edited], "Although I will have received my second dose of the Covid 19 Vaccine weeks before my scheduled Feb. 13th arrival, I would still be required to quarantine
for TWO weeks in a government approved hotel. And would not be permitted to return to my St. Kitts home for that TWO week period, therefore this operation is CANCELED....sorry... ONLY the Feb. 13th to March 5th operation is canceled. NO other operations are changed. MY June 12th-July
10th and Oct. 16th-November 12th, 2021, V47JA and PJ5/W5JON operations are still ON and looking good."
VK - Grant, VK5GR (https://vk5gr-iota.net/) will be active again as VK5KI from Kangaroo Island (OC-139) on 11-22 January. He plans to operate holiday style on 80-6 metres CW, SSB and FT8, "possibly with some RTTY and PSK thrown in for fun". QSL via M0OXO's OQRS.
VP8_ant- Seba, SQ1SGB and Will, M0ZXA expect to be active as VP8/SQ1SGB or VP8HAL (QSLs via EB7DX) and VP8DOI from Halley VI Research Station, Antarctica indicatively between 5 January and 4 February. In their spare times they will operate SSB and digital modes (FT8 and JT65) on 40 and 20 metres.
VP8, ANTARCTICA. Will, M0ZXA, will once again be active as VP8DOI from the Halley VI British Antarctic Research Station (WAP GBR-40), part of the British Antarctic Survey in the Antarctica, between January-February 2021. Activity will be limited on various HF bands. QSL via LoTW or eQSL.
Visit the VP8DOI Web page at: https://vp8doi.com
W - Club station W2HRU will be QRV on 2-9 January to mark the 22nd annual Ham Radio University educational conference. Look for SSB activity on 80, 40 and 20 metres, as well as FT8 on multiple bands. QSL via LoTW, eQSL, the W2 QSL Bureau or direct to KA2D. In addition, a printable QSL Certificate will be available starting on 21 January:
https://www.elemcoshopfloor.com/w2hru_cert. Dedicated to the memory of HRU founder Phil Lewis (N2MUN), who passed away in March, Ham Radio University 2021 will be held online on 9 January. See http://hamradiouniversity.org/forums/ for complete information.
ZD8 - Randy, WW6RG expects to be active as ZD8RA from Ascension Island (AF-003) on 5 January between 8-10 UTC and again between 17-19 UTC. He will run 10 watts on 20 and 17m SSB. QSL via WW6RG; he does not use LoTW.
ZF, CAYMAN ISLANDS. Pete, K8PGJ, will once again be active as ZF2PG from the Sunny Isle of Grand Cayman (NA-016) between January 10-17th. Activity will be on 40-10 meters, and include the North American QSO Party SSB (NAQP) Contest (January 16-17th) on 160-10 meters. Pete states, "Look for DX work on 160-40 meters during the evening hours especially on the 15th. I will be trying to motivate 10 Meters." LoTW will be utilized and direct QSLs to his home callsign.
No Info received
EA5GL (now) Qsl manager for: PY2KNK
QSL WP3C & NP4DX ---> Charles, M0OXO is the new QSL manager for WP3C and NP4DX. Alfredo, WP3C resides in Puerto Rico (NA-099) and also runs the Atlantic Contest Station NP4DX from the same location. New QSL cards are being designed and will be printed in due course. Logs are now available on M0OXO's OQRS (https://www.m0oxo.com/oqrs/). Please do not send any bureau cards, as they are not wanted and they will not be received.
QSL YS1AG ---> Still having troubles sending mail abroad, Andy, YS1AG should like to remind DXers that Sid, K3SX is his QSL manager only for "pandemic QSOs" made in 2020. When the postal service in El Salvador returns to normal he will take care of his QSLling again.
4K2GG------Alexander Y. Frolov, P.O. Box 38, Volgograd, 400066, Russia
7C9N--------Kutasi Gabor, Siofok, Koch R. utca 10/A I/4, 8600, Hungary
7X4AN------Mohamed Boukhiar, Apartado Postal 30133, 08080 Barcelona, Spain
DL2020R---Jamie Williams, 41 Overton Lane, Hammerwich, Burntwood, WS7 0LQ, United Kingdom
EL2BG-------I.Richmond W.K. Harding, 6141 Clifton Avenue Ext, Jacksonville, FL 32211, USA
KH0W-------Thomas M. Callas, P.O. Box 1058, Minnetonka MN 55345, USA
LZ2020XMAS-Valentin Kirov, Maestro Atanasov 9, 8802 Sliven, Bulgaria
OA1F--------Elena P. Moran, Rua do Codesal 5-3 Dcha, 15405 Ferrol (A Coruna), Spain
OV1CDX----Frank Fendahl, Svinoevej 2, 4750 Lundby, Denmark
OX3XR------Harry de Jong, Broekdijk 59, 7695 TC Bruchterveld, The Netherlands
OZ30EU----Svend Erik Kofod, Kanegaardsvej 4, 3700 Roenne, Denmark
SN0DUCH--Jerzy Roman Manarczyk, Olszynki Grochowskiej 28, 04-281 Warszawa, Poland
SP9YFF-----Jan Cieslik, Szmaragdowa 7/V/10, 41-943 Piekary Slaskie, Poland
XE2X--------Jorge F. Rios Alvarado, 116 E Coma Ave, PMB #426, Hidalgo TX 78557, USA
YB8BRI-----Munawwarah Chalid, Azizah Residence C-2, Jalan Perintis Kemerdekaan III,
--------------Makassar 90233, Indonesia
YI1SAL-----Antonello Passarella, Via Melchiorre Gioia 6, 20812 Limbiate MB, Italy
ZA/IK2RLM--Marco Corridore, Vicolo del Toro 4, 20060 Cassina de' Pecchi MI, Italy
PIRATE ALERT.
JD1BMH PIRATE. Harry, JD1BMH, reports that someone was using his callsign on 60 meters FT8. He states that JA and JD1 stations do not have permission to operate on 60m.
DO NOT QSL or waste your money.
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New WSJT mode Q65
WSJT-X 2.4.0 will introduce Q65, a digital protocol designed for minimal two-way QSOs over especially difficult propagation paths
On paths with Doppler spread more than a few Hz, the weak-signal performance of Q65 is the best among all WSJT-X modes. Q65 is particularly effective for tropospheric scatter, ionospheric scatter, and EME on VHF and higher bands, as well as other types of fast-fading signals.
Q65 uses 65-tone frequency-shift keying and builds on the demonstrated weak-signal strengths of QRA64, a mode introduced to WSJT-X in 2016. Q65 differs from QRA64 in the following important ways:
•A new low-rate Q-ary Repeat Accumulate code for forward error correction
•User messages and sequencing identical to those in FT4, FT8, FST4, and MSK144
•A unique tone for time and frequency synchronization. As with JT65, this “sync tone” is readilyvisible on the waterfall spectral display. Unlike JT65, synchronization and decoding are effective even when meteor pings or other short signal enhancements are present.
•Optional submodes with T/R sequence lengths 15, 30, 60, 120, and 300 s.
•A new, highly reliable list-decoding technique for messages that contain previously copied message fragments.
Read the new Q65 Quick Start Guide at
https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/Q65_Quick_Start.pdf
CTU PROPAGATION SUMMIT --- > Contest University will host "The 2021 Propagation Summit" on 23 January, from 16 to 20 UTC, via Zoom Webinar. Complete information, including the direct link to register for this free webinar, can be found on https://www.contestuniversity.com/.
DX SOUND CLIPS ---> Tom's (K8CX) DX sound clips for 2020 can be found at http://hamgallery.com/dx2020/. The collection of 146 clips (MP3 format) covers DXpeditions, rare and semi-rare DX. This makes 23 full years of sound clips available.
INDEXA NEWSLETTER ---> The Fall-Winter 2020 issue (#131) of the International DX Association's Newsletter is now available for download on the INDEXA website (https://indexa.org/newsletters.html). This issue includes a spotlight on Bob Schenck's (N2OO) many adventures in amateur radio, "Massive Iceberg Bears Down on South Georgia Island" by John Scott (K8YC), a letter to INDEXA members "From the President", and a tribute to Dani, YB2CW/YB2TJV (SK), who designed the current INDEXA logo as well as the Ham With Hearts
logo.
JIDXM AWARD PROGRAM 2020 ---> "The Japan International DX Meeting Committee, in cooperation with CQ Ham Radio Magazine, is pleased to announce the awards which will be presented to the following DXpedition teams and radio amateurs who have made outstanding contributions to the DX community during the year.
** JIDXM DXpedition of the year 2020:
--- VP8PJ, South Orkney DXpedition Team (February 2020)
--- VP2VB, Yasme Memorial Expedition Team (March 2020)
--- TO0Z, St.Barthelemy Expedition Team (September 2020)
Despite the situations caused by Covid-19 pandemic, these teams overcame all the difficulties and organized DXpeditions successfully with their fine teamworks, and provided pleasure and deep impressions to the world's DX community.
** JIDXM Contribution Award 2020
--- Joseph H Taylor, Jr, K1JT For inventing 'WSJT' Software with cutting edge digital technology, and contributing to the activities of ham radio operators of all over the world with 'FT8' mode.
--- Norman Fusaro, W3IZ
For demonstrating the brilliant leadership in managing DXCC Award Programs during the Covid-19 pandemic.
** JIDXM Friendship Award 2020
--- Oleh Kernytskyy, J8/UR5BCP
For organizing a solo DXpedition from Saint Vincent and Grenadines in November 2020, despite all the restriction caused by Covid-19.
--- Dr. Nader Abd Elhamed Ali Omer, ST2NH
For activating ST2 Sudan, mainly on FT8 mode with his outstanding skill and knowledge in digital technology".
MY DX CONTEST ---> Sponsored by the Malaysian DX and Contest Group (9MDXC), the CQ Malaysia DX Contest (SSB) will take place on 16-17 January, from 12 UTC to 11.59 UTC. Complete details can be found on http://www.9mdxc.com/.
2020 DX SOUND BITES! Tom, K8CX, has done it again. He has provided DXers with 149 memorable rare DX sound clips (now in MP3 format) from Ohio during 2020. This brings the total number of MP3 sound clips on Hamgallery to 2,890. Visit Tom's famous "HAM GALLERY" Web site at: http://hamgallery.com/dx2020
While there, also check out some of the other features on his Web page, such as: 23 years of "Rare DX Sound Clips" of the past (as well as some clips from the 1960's and 1970's which includes all the major DXpeditions and rare DX heard on the bands), QSL Card Museum, Dayton Photo Galleries and Tribute to Silent Key Ham Operators. Tom states, "If anyone has any old HF recordings, I would be interested in hearing from them." (especially sound clips pre-1998 to add to the site) His E-mail address is: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
CARIBBEAN, SOUTH ATLANIC AND INDIAN OCEAN TOUR (Reminder). Randy, WW6RG, is expected to arrive Sunday evening, January 3rd, around 2100z, in Antigua (V25), and hopes to be set up by 0000z to operate holiday style as V25RA until 1400z Monday, January 4th.
Then on Tuesday, January 5th, at 2100z, he will operate from Ascension Island (ZD8) as ZD8RA. His planned activity will be between 0800-1000z, and then again between 1700-1900z. His equipment will be a new Icom IC-705 (10w)and into a AlexLoop antenna. His planned operations will be on 20 and 17 meters SSB only. Randy states, "I am open to setup special times and frequencies for both locations within or close to the times noted above.
All times and dates in UTC." QSL via WW6RG, No EQSL or LoTW. Randy also mentions, "I am 9 months from retirement, and my access to these remote locations will cease, so if anyone needs ZD8 or any other of the locations I will be traveling to, Now Is The Time!"
Randy also informs [edited], "I hope to operate from Diego Garcia (VQ9) later in the month around January 18th. More information is to follow."
REBEL DX GROUP NEWS. The following was posted on the Rebel DX Group's FaceBook page (https://www.facebook.com/rebeldxgroup), December 30th:
Hi Rebel followers...
We wish everyone (including clowns) all the best in 2021... After several months of doing nothing (read preperation) We are going forward. Some of the team members are on the way to South Africa...
And this is not a vacation trip. News will be provided shortly on Facebook and Rebel DX Group web page.
PS. For those who is still waiting for 3D2CR qsl cards, please wait.
All of them are on the way now.
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Claude R. Cornaz newly elected as Director.
Dätwyler Holding Inc. held its 60th Annual General Meeting on Tuesday evening 6 March 2018 at the theater (uri) Tellspielhaus in Altdorf. The shareholders who attended approved all proposals put forward by the Board of Directors.
Given a continued increase in profitability and prospects that look promising, the Annual General Meeting decided on a dividend of CHF 3.00 per bearer share (previous year: CHF 2.20) and CHF 0.60 per registered share (previous year: 0.44). This represents an increase of 36.4% and a pay-out ratio of 41.2% of the net result. The dividend will be paid as from 12 March 2018 upon presentation of Coupon No. 12. On 8 March 2018, the shares will trade without entitlement to dividend (the ex-date).
Long-standing board member Ernst Odermatt no longer stood for re-election due to his age. The General Meeting elected Claude R. Cornaz as his successor to the Board of Directors. Claude R. Cornaz successfully led the Vetropack Group from 2000 until the end of 2017, as CEO and Delegate of the Board of Directors. He will be proposed as Chairman at the upcoming Vetropack General Meeting in April 2018. Since 2002, Claude R. Cornaz has also served as a Director of the listed Bucher Industries Group.
The other Directors were re-elected for another one-year term. The separate meeting of bearer shareholders elected Jürg Fedier as their representative on the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors will continue to consist of seven members. Hanspeter Fässler, Gabi Huber and Claude R. Cornaz were elected as members of the Nomination and Compensation Committee. Finally, the general meeting appointed KPMG as the new auditor.
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SEMESTER FALL 2020
Islamic Studies (ISL201)
OPENING DATE: JANUARY 15, 2021
As per Holy Quran, the human beings are created only for worship and obedience of Allah Almighty. The guided people from human beings are those who know their basic purpose of life and do acts for the sake of obedience of Allah Almighty.
You have to describe eight acts from your daily life/social life (other than worships), which can cause obedience of Allah Almighty.
• Write down your answer in the form of points
• No explanation is required
(Obedience of Allah Almighty
4:59) O ye who believe! Obey Allah, and obey the Messenger, and those charged with authority among you. If ye differ in anything among yourselves, refer it to Allah and His Messenger, if ye do believe in Allah and the Last Day: That is best, and most suitable for final determination.
EIGHT POINTS OF OBEDIENCE OF ALLAH ALMIGHTY:
Respect elders and loves from children. Whoever sees evil in his ruler, let him be patient. Allah does not like lies at all so lies should be avoided. Bow down because even the prophets used to bow down, Allah does not like arrogance at all. When you talk smiling, smiling is also charity. Help the poor, give zakat. This is the command of Allah. Feed the orphans; put your hand of compassion on their heads. Obedience to Allah is also included in removing any problem from the path or clearing the path. Whoever obeys the Prophet (s.a.w) obeys Allah, so let us follow the Sunnah and Hadith of the Prophet (s.a.w).
ISL201 - Islamic Studies
GDB 1 solution
By helping others in time of need.
Obeying our elders and speak respectfully.
Mercy to youngers.
Cleaning our surrounding.
Salam to everyone when we are at home or out.
Spending money for the sake of Allah.
Gaining knowledge and passing it on to others.
Always speak truth.
Fear dealings with others.
Forgive and be kind to others.
Virtual University must hold exams... (Poll)
The objective of this assignment is
o Binary Search trees
o AVL trees
o Rotation cases of AVL trees
o Balancing Factor of trees
CS301 – Data Structures
CS301 Assignment 3 Solution and Discussion
Re: CS301 Assignment 3 Solution and Discussion
Assignment No. 03
CS301- Data Structures Total Marks: 20
Due Date: 21/01/2021
Please read the following instructions carefully before solving & submitting assignment:
It should be clear that your assignment will not get any credit (zero marks) if:
o The assignment is submitted after due date.
o The submitted assignment is other than .doc/.docx file.
o The submitted assignment does NOT open or file is corrupted.
o The assignment is copied (from other student or ditto copy from handouts or internet).
Uploading instructions
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The objective of this assignment is:
For any query about the assignment, contact at [email protected]
Marks: 20
Problem Statement:
You are required to construct AVL tree from the following data:
15 ,18 ,12, 8, 54, 5, 14, 13, 9, 61, 20, 17, 21
Solution Guidelines:
You need to insert these data items one by one starting from the data item 15 in the same order in which they have written above. Show and perform necessary rotations where needed. In Solution show only the final AVL tree and only those steps in which rotation is applied.
Note: If you show only final tree and do not show the rotation steps then your marks will be deducted.
Lectures Covered: This assignment covers Lecture # 15-26
Deadline: Your assignment must be uploaded/submitted at or before January 21 , 2021
5 Tips Super Simple for Sustaining Strong Immune Systems
Your health is one of the most valuable things you have — if not the most important. Today more than ever, people across the world are practicing gratitude for health while being vigilant about protecting it. Pandemics and viruses aside, there are ways to give your health the right priority it needs no matter what age you are.
Strong immunity, while crucial to preventing and fighting illness, is also a key component to living a balanced, happy life. How? The habits and practices you can do to support your immunity all lend themselves to a happy, holistic existence. It’s the best of both worlds; being strong and healthy to combat disease and illness and enjoying your body for the life it’s given you.
What Does “Strong Immune System” Mean?
Your immune system is exactly that, a system. The human body is made up of 11 separate systems that do their independent parts to keep your body running at its most optimal.
The primary purpose of your immune system is to protect against pesky, persistent bacteria that want nothing more than to attack your body, breaking it down to make it more susceptible to injury and illness. Your immune system is the gatekeeper for what gets in and what stays out of your body. When it is working, the viruses and toxins don’t have a chance. When it’s not, the floodgates are wide open.
Your body shows signs of a strong immune system pretty often. One example is when you get a mosquito bite. The red, bumpy itch is a sign of your immune system at work. The flu or a cold is a typical example of your body failing to stop the germs/bacteria before they get in. However, when you recover from the cold or flu, it’s proof that your immune system was able to eliminate the invader after learning about it and reacting to its defense. If your immune system did nothing, you would never get over the cold, or anything else for that matter. When you are sick, your body isn’t able to perform at its full potential.
Depending on the nature of what’s got you under the weather, a prescription or over-the-counter medication may be needed if your immune system isn’t reacting or responding quickly enough. That too is normal; antibiotics were created for this very reason. The good news is there are many things you can do to keep your immune system strong and healthy.
How To Boost Immunity
Living a healthy lifestyle is your single best option to a strong immune system. Every part of your body functions better when it is fueled with healthy foods, a positive environment, and minimal stress. Sound ideal? Here are some easy tips for a stronger immune system that won’t overwhelm you.
Yes, daily. Just 30 minutes.
There are numerous benefits to exercise, including prevention of arthritis, diabetes, heart conditions, and more. Exercise has also been shown to enhance and improve different components of the immune system. Exercise also improves your sleep quality and increases immune function. Go for a walk, become a member of a fitness center, find some fun exercises, and commit to a routine. Exercise also doubles as a mood and mental booster — two benefits in one.
Let the Light In
Enjoy moderate exposure to sunlight a few times each week. Vitamin D is imperative for strengthening your immune system. If you’re not able to get outside, consider a Vitamin D supplement as a substitute. Fresh air is good for everyone and a change of scenery is always a plus. Of course, with exposure to the sun, it’s also equally as important to wear SPF — and wear it daily.
Keep stress minimal; meditate or pray, and allow your brain some down time. Nothing good ever comes from worrying. Your body will be in a more relaxed state and feel rejuvenated with some peace and quiet. Stress can be an inhibitor of immunity for the way it creeps in and likes to settle, affecting appetite, sleep habits, even daily routines.
Promote Gut Health
Your gut knows when you’re happy … in fact, your gut know nearly everything. Keep it in check!
Foods with good bacteria, like yogurt, have positive health benefits. Probiotics can help your digestive system function normal and stay balanced. After all, 80% of your immune system is located in your digestive system, so it’s best to keep your stomach healthy and happy.
It’s a simple thing, really, getting a good night’s sleep. It’s your body’s chance to rest and recover. Aim for 7-9 good hours each night. Removing distractions, going to bed when you’re tired, and eliminating sugary foods late in the day will help you when you hit the pillow.
According to the Mayo Clinic, “During sleep, your immune system releases proteins called cytokines, some of which help promote sleep. Certain cytokines need to increase when you have an infection or inflammation, or when you’re under stress. Sleep deprivation may decrease production of these protective cytokines. In addition, infection-fighting antibodies and cells are reduced during periods when you don’t get enough sleep.”
Little Daily Habits = Long Lasting Effects
Replacing bad health habits with good ones can help you keep a strong immune system. Here are a few little daily habits you can easily incorporate:
Wash your hands frequently — and not just during pandemics!
Eat more fruits and vegetables
Laugh more
Reflect on gratitude
Use sunscreen
Monitor your blood pressure
Take a multi-vitamin
Have dessert!
Use these tips to boost your immunity and be well. These habits will also help you to live a happy, healthy life.
ISL 201 GDB 1 Solution and Discussion
Question Title: Obedience of Allah Almighty
Question Description:
Write down only points, No explanation is not required.
Maximum answer limit is 150 words; more than it would not be considered, Follow it strictly.
Describe the answer in your own words. Cheated or copied material from other students, internet, books or journals etc. will not be accepted.
Microsoft’s Windows 10X takes a lot of design cues from Google’s Chrome OS
Windows 10X was originally meant for foldable and dual-screen devices, but last year Microsoft announced it was reworking the software for single screen PCs. The result looks to be an experience that will provide users with access to Microsoft services in a more affordable package.
We’re expecting the first Windows 10X devices to launch later this year, but an exact timeframe hasn’t been revealed. Similarly, we’re not sure how much these devices will cost, but if we had to venture a guess they’ll be in the $400 to $700 range.
In Windows Central’s video, we get a good idea of what using Windows 10 will be like, from the reworked taskbar to running progressive web apps (PWA). The video demonstrates some of the software’s settings, the process of installing a PWA, and running apps side-by-side. It’s an interesting glimpse at what Microsoft has planned for those who want a more lightweight, tablet-esque experience.
Windows 10X isn’t something you’ll be able to upgrade to. Rather, the software will come pre-installed on new machines similar to laptops that run Chrome OS. If you’ve been tempted by a Chromebook but are embedded in Microsoft’s ecosystem, the arrival of Windows 10X will be exactly what you’re looking for.
YouTube Top Creator Tips for 2021 ft.
Creators, happy new year!
However you felt about 2020, the fact is it’s in the history books. To help you venture into 2021 I asked a few really successful creators for one piece of advice for your channel in the new year.
Here’s what they had to say.
My advice is to pre-film your content. You never know when something unexpected is going to pop up in life.
When things get busy, you’ll be so happy you have a bunch of videos in the bank. One thing that’s really helped Annoying Orange’s longevity is the fact that we stick to a schedule.
Fans know exactly when they can come to the channel and see new videos and that’s really valuable because it creates a trust with the audience. When you build that expectation and deliver it creates trust, and that trust will keep the audience coming back.
But it’s important to be consistent in more than just your regular uploads. Try to be consistent with your editing, your content, your style and your overall brand.
My advice is get others involved. While no one will ever be as passionate or dedicated to your channel as you are
by getting others involved, whether as employees or even just friends it can help improve your content allow you to focus on the things you’re best at and give you somebody else to hold you accountable when trying to achieve your goals.
From what I learned in 2020 myself it would probably be don’t put yourself in a box. I was just trying way too hard
to make sure I was doing exactly what my followers wanted to see exactly what my subscribers wanted to see.
I was afraid that if I did anything different that they wouldn’t like it.
But at the end of the day, I didn’t know that until I tried it.
That risk pays off a lot of times. I watched so many of you put out ridiculous content every single day. However, you take the comments for granted. Get in there, reply, engage, build relationships. This is not just consumption, this is community. You are an influencer. You influence!
So, when you’re creating your content, think not only about yourself but about others and how you want to influence their life.
Make sure you’re inspiring them in a way that you would like to see the world evolve into whether you’re making them happy after a long day of work or maybe you’re turning into creatures and monsters to inspire them to be creative.
That’s what I do! You are an influencer and you will influence the people that watch you.
Be that good inspiration.
My advice is to find balance.
Don’t just work all year.
Make sure you schedule time in to play and find hobbies. because if you show up to work and you’re burned out your audience will sense it and you’ll struggle to create new, authentic, and exciting content that your audience will love and want to keep coming back for.
So, take good care of yourself so that you can take great care of your content and it will continue to motivate and inspire your audience.
My advice is to think big and try not to be discouraged by short-term hurdles. In the long run, the only things that matter are making good content and staying consistent.
Good luck to you.
I’ll see you in the frickin’ interwebs.
I’ll see you out there!
All right, I’m done.
Are the vaccines halal or not?
Gelatin derived from pigs is used as a stabiliser in some vaccines but the consumption of pork is forbidden to Muslims, who make up some 90% of the Indonesian population.And messages have been circulating on social media in Indonesia saying that the Sinovac vaccine contains elements of monkeys.
President Widodo, a Muslim himself, has said it shouldn’t matter because it’s a heath emergency, but some have been looking for religious guidance.
The Indonesia Ulema Council or (MUI), whose job it is to decide such things, held long discussions and after an in-depth audit, it announced that the Sinovac vaccine is halal.
Previously, 30-40% of people surveyed by the Ministry of health had expressed doubts about the Covid-19 vaccine, and 7% said they did not want to be vaccinated.
Concern about whether the vaccine was halal or not was one of the key reasons, said Dr Nadia.
“Praise be to God, that has been cleared up,” she said.
Q: Who was the first woman to discover the Corona virus?
The woman who discovered the first human coronavirus was the daughter of a Scottish bus driver, who left school at 16. June Almeida went on to become a pioneer of virus imaging, whose work has come roaring back into focus during the present pandemic.
:June Dalziel Almeida was a Scottish virologist, a pioneer in virus imaging, identification, and diagnosis. Her skills in electron microscopy earned her an international reputation. In 1964, she was recruited by St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School in London.
VU process model
The term process model is used in various contexts. For example, in business process modeling the enterprise process model is often referred to as the business process model.
software process, software products, e.g. architectural descriptions, source code, user documentation, and the roles of people involved in software engineering. Examples: The waterfall model • The spiral model • “V-Modell (XT)” (dt.)
The Waterfall model is the earliest SDLC approach that was used for software development. The waterfall Model illustrates the software development process in a linear sequential flow. This means that any phase in the development process begins only if the previous phase is complete.
The spiral model is a risk-driven software development process model. Based on the unique risk patterns of a given project, the spiral model guides a team to adopt elements of one or more process models, such as incremental, waterfall, or evolutionary prototyping.
CS619 - Final Project - CS619
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PM. IMRAN KHAN
THE ERA OF PM. IMRAN KHAN IS BETTER THAN OTHER.HE TELLS THE REAL MEANING OF DEMOCRACY TO OUR NATION.HE INCREASED THE INTEREST ADOUT POLITICAL ISSUE IN OUR NATION,ABOUT MY KNOWLEDGE BEFORE HIM NO ANYONE WAS INTERESTED IN THESE ISSUES,KNOW I SEE THE LARGE PART OF OUR PEOPLE ARE POLITICALLY EDUCATED.
ABOUT MY OPINION THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMICAL EDUCATION IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR ANY NATION TO IMPROVE THEIR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AS COPULSORY OTHER KNOWLEDGE IS AS SELECTIVE.
Star Pakistan
Major Highlights of Agriculture Sector of Pakistan in (2019 to 2020)
Agriculture constitutes is the largest sector of our economy.
Majority of the population, directly or indirectly, dependent on this sector.
It contributes about 24 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and accounts for half of employed labour force and is the largest source of foreign exchange earnings.
It feeds whole rural and urban population. Realizing its importance, planners and policy makers are always keen to have reliable area and production statistics of agricultural crops well in time.
Policy makers primarily need accurate and timely statistics for the important crops such as wheat, cotton, rice, sugarcane, maize etc.
Agriculture contributes 18.5 percent to country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and provides 38.5 percent employment to national labour force.
But it remains backward sector of the economy while high performing agriculture is a key to economic growth and poverty alleviation.
Over the last decade, the performance of agriculture sector has fallen short of desirable level, mainly because of stagnant productivity of all important crops.
Cropped area of the five traditional crops has also largely remained unchanged.
Climate change also poses a serious challenge to Pakistan’s agriculture and threatens country’s water availability and food security.
The government of Imran Khan is trying its best to help the farmers by providing agriculture inputs at affordable prices and ensuring better prices of their produce.
To guarantee food security, it is necessary to enhance domestic agricultural production through increased productivity (increasing per acre yield).
Although Pakistan has rich production potential in agriculture, livestock and fisheries, yet for sustainable economic growth and prosperity, the development of these sectors on long-term basis is of fundamental importance for country’s growth and prosperity.
This calls for efficient utilization of production resources by adopting modern technologies and establishment of realistic marketing system.
The Prime Minister’s taskforce on agriculture has taken a holistic view of the issues faced by the agriculture sector and has made some sound recommendations for improving productivity of agriculture sector.
What is motivation?
Motivation is the process that initiates, guides, and maintains goal-oriented behaviors.
Motivation involves the biological, emotional, social, and cognitive forces that activate behavior.
In everyday usage, the term “motivation” is frequently used to describe why a person does something.
It is the driving force behind human actions.
Motivation doesn’t just refer to the factors that activate behaviors;
it also involves the factors that direct and maintain these goal-directed actions (though such motives are rarely directly observable).
As a result, we often have to infer the reasons why people do the things that they do based on observable behaviors.1
Types of motivation:
Different types of motivation are frequently described as being either extrinsic or intrinsic:
Extrinsic motivations are those that arise from outside of the individual and often involve rewards such as trophies, money, social recognition, or praise.
Intrinsic motivations are those that arise from within the individual, such as doing a complicated crossword puzzle purely for the personal gratification of solving a problem.
Pakistan's Feature first “Instant Digital Payment System Raast” launched
State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has introduced system along with Karandaaz Pakistan has developed a new system for processing instant payments, which will address payment system infrastructure-related issues.
Pakistan’s “First Instant Digital Payment System Raast” was launched by Prime Minister Imran Khan as a move to shift Pakistan’s economy from cash-based to digital-based economy.
The system introduced by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) along with Karandaaz Pakistan has developed a new system for processing instant payments, which will address payment system infrastructure-related issues.
Features of Raast Instant Payment system:
Fast- Provide the end-user a near real-time payment experience
Low cost- Operate on a cost-recovery mindset to provide low transaction cost to participants
Interoperable- Allow payments from and to any channel
Simple- Improve adoption and convenience through a Universal payment ID (example mobile numbers, CNIC for an alias may be used in lieu of complex account numbers)
Secure- Provide ample verification options to ensure the funds are safe and the system is also well protected and ensure secure data protection and authentication throughout the ecosystem
Highly accessible- Allow simpler and broader onboarding for payment entities such as banks, payment system operator and payment service providers, merchants, government entities via APIs and ensure system processes transactions 24/7 in real-time
Innovative- Allow participants to design new payment and financial services/products
It is pertinent to mention that the Raast Instant Payment System is an advanced retail payment system developed based on international standards such as ISO 20022 and other digital financial inclusion principles like the Level one Principles.
It will become the core component of Pakistan’s payment infrastructure and will allow every individual to send and receive the payments instantly in a safe, secure manner.
PM Imran Khan chairs federal cabinet meeting country’s economic and political situation.
Prime Minister Imran Khan is Tuesday presiding over the federal cabinet meeting being held at the Prime Minister’s Office to discuss the country’s economic and political situation. The cabinet is discussing a 15-point agenda.
According to sources, a draft bill related to the Auditor General’s Office will be presented for approval in the Cabinet meeting. The appointment of the Director General of the Legal Aid and Justice Authority is also on the cards.
Approval will also be given to declare FIA Commercial Banking Circle Lahore as a police station and to hold elections of National Council for Medicine as well as appointment of an administrator.
The cabinet meeting will also award additional charge of DG Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan and grant permission to build a multi-storey building on railway land in Nowshera.
Sources said that the decisions of the Cabinet Committee on Reforms, the Cabinet Committee on Privatization and the ECC will be ratified during today’s meeting.
The cabinet will also approve the supply of extra wheat to the utility stores of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Azad Kashmir governments. Besides, a budget of more than Rs 400 million would be approved for setting up accountability courts in the country.
Dr. Firdous Ashiq says Children to play responsible citizen's role
Special Assistant to the Chief Minister of Punjab on Information, Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan has urged on Tuesdays the people to play their role in making the children responsible citizens of Pakistan.
Moreover, the special assistant stated that a ban has been imposed on taking labor from the children below the age of 15 years in Punjab.
She said that the beggars will receive a prompt response from the government.
CS609 Assignment No. 1 Solution and Discussion
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Solution://Header Files #include<stdio.H> #include<DOS.H> #include<BIOS.H> void interrupt (*oldint65)(); //To store current interrupt char far *scr=(char far* ) 0xb8000000; void interrupt newint65();//NewInt prototype void main() { oldint65 = getvect(0x65); setvect(0x65, newint65); getch(); keep(0, 1000); } void interrupt newint65() {clrscr(); *scr=8; (*scr)=0x174D; (*(scr+2))=0x1743; (*(scr+4))=0x1731; (*(scr+6))=0x1739; (*(scr+8))=0x1730; (*(scr+10))=0x1734; (*(scr+12))=0x1730; (*(scr+14))=0x1736; (*(scr+16))=0x1734; (*(scr+18))=0x1730; (*(scr+20))=0x1734; }
CS609 - System Programming • solution discussion assignment 2 spring 2020 cs609 • • zaasmi
Please discuss idea solution
CS609 GDB 1 Solution and Discussion
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Defragmentation is the process of locating the noncontiguous fragments of data and rearranging the fragments and restoring them into fewer fragments or into the whole file.
In terms of computer performance File fragmentation directly affects the access and write speed of that hard disk. All computers suffer from fragmentation. We use defragmentation to resolve this issue.Performance of system degraded during defragmentation but improve after it’s completion as compared to previous
CS609 - System Programming • solution discussion fall 2019 assignment 3 cs609 • • zareen
#include <dos.h> #include <conio.h> char st [80]; int SendKbdRate(unsigned char data , int maxtry) { unsigned char ch; do { do { ch=inport(0x64); }while (ch&0x02); outport(0x60,data); do { ch = inport(0x64); }while (ch&0x01); if (ch==0xfa) { puts("success\n"); break; } maxtry = maxtry - 1; } while (maxtry != 0); if (maxtry==0) return 1; else } return 0; void main () { //clrscr(); SendKbdRate(0xf3,3); SendKbdRate(0x68,3); gets(st); }
// Header Files #include<stdio.h> #include<conio.h> #include<BIOS.H> #inlcude<DOS.H> void interrupt (*oldTimer)(*void); // To store current Timer vector void interrupt newTimer(); //New Timer Function char far *scr= (char far *)0xB8000000; //Screen segment int in, t=0; void main() { clrscr(); oldTimer=getvect(8); setvect(8,newTimer); getch(); } void interrupt newTimer(); { *(scr+t)=0x2A; t++; if(t>=126) { for(i=0;i<4000;i+=2) { *(scr+i)=0x20; // Blank screen *(scr+i+1)=0x07; } t=0; } (*oldTimer)(); } }
CS609 Assignment 1 Solution Idea!..
#include<BIOS.H> #include<DOS.H> char st1[80] ={"Virtual University of Pakistan$"}; char st2[80] ={"Washi Ali$"}; char st2[80] ={"Tufail$"}; void interrupt (*oldint65)( ); void interrupt newint65( ); void main() { oldint65 = getvect(0x65); setvect(0x65, newint65); keep(0, 1000); } void interrupt newint65( ) { switch (_AH) { case 0: _AH = 0x09; _DX = (unsigned int) st1; geninterrupt (0x21); break; case 1: _AH = 0x09; _DX = (unsigned int) st2; geninterrupt (0x21); break; case 2: _AH = 0x09; _DX = (unsigned int) st3; geninterrupt (0x21); break; } } }```
CS609 GDB1 Solution and discussion
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@zaasmi said in CS609 GDB1 Solution and discussion:
By increasing the surface area of hard disk there is an increase of data storage. Do you think whether there is any negative impact of increasing surface area as well?
Yes, by increasing the surface area of hard disk there is an increase of data storage negative impact of increasing surface area as well As a greater amount of magnetic media can reside on the hard surface of the disk also because the surface area of the disk is increased by increasing the number of platters.
Increasing the surface area clearly increases the amount of data that can reside on the disk as more magnetic media no resides on disk but it might have some drawbacks like increased seek time in case only one disk platter is being used.
CS609 GDB.1 Solution and Discussion
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CS609 Quiz No.2 Solution and Discussion
CS609 - System Programming • solution discussion spring 2019 quiz 2 cs609 • • zaasmi
@zareen said in CS609 Quiz No.2 Solution and Discussion:
What are the 3 types of viruses?
Resident Virus. Resident viruses live in your RAM memory. …
Multipartite Virus. …
Direct Action Virus. …
Browser Hijacker. …
Overwrite Virus. …
Web Scripting Virus. …
Boot Sector Virus. …
Macro Virus.
CS609 Assignment No. 03 Solution and Discussion
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Another Idea solution
#include <bios.h> #include <dos.h> FILE *fp; unsigned char buf[1024]; unsigned char st[60]; unsigned char headno[10]; unsigned char secno[10]; unsigned char trackno[10]; void main (void) { int i; for (i=0; i<1024; i++) buf[i]=0; gets(st); fp=fopeon(st,”wb”); printf(“Head”); gets(headno); puts(headno); printf(“/nsector ”); gets(secno); puts(secno); printf(“/ntrack ”); gets(trackno); puts(trackno); i = biosdisk(2, 0x80, atoi(headno), atoi(trackno), atoi(trackno), 2,buf); } if(*(((char *)(&i))+1)= =0) { fwrite(buf,2,1024,fp); fclose(fp); } else { printf(“Cannot Read Error# = %x” i); }
CS609 Final Term Solved MCQ's & Quiz With Refernace Moaaz
CS609 - System Programming • cs609 final term moaaz mcqs & quiz • • zaasmi
Question : 1 of 10 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
14h include __________ which is used to send a byte.
►Service #1 (Page 121)
The status register _____ is the main control register.
►B (Page 146)
_________ is used to identify the cause of interrupt.
►Interrupt ID Register (Page 116)
►PC Register
►AC Register
►None of All These
In NTFS, up to ________ characters are used to store files names,
►255 (Page 283)
A cluster is a collection of contiguous _______.
►Blocks (Page 242)
►None of Given
In BPB, root directory is saved in _________.
►Cluster#0
In NTFS, total sizes of MFT entries are _______.
►16-bytes (Page 303)
►20-bytes
In NTFS, _______ store the contents of file.
►Both small & large file Record
►Small record
►Large Record
In NTFS, contents and indexed of file is stored in _____.
Question : 10 of 10 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Total No. of bytes that can be stored in Keyboard Buffer is.
►32 (Page 54)
BIOS support _____________UARTS as COM ports.
►4 (Page 113)
DCE stands for __________.
►Data communication equipment (Page 109)
►Distributed Computing Environment
►Data Communications Equipment
►Data Carrier Equipment
In counter register bit no. 3 changes its value between 0 and 1 with in ____clock cycles
► 16 (Page 69)
In ____________each byte is needed to be encapsulated in start and end.
►Synchronous communication
►Asynchronous communication (Page 106)
The ______ service # is not used in any interrupt.
If we want to send printing on the printer then we have to perform following steps.
►Initialize printer
►Read Status
►Check Error
►All of the given
DTE is ____________.
►Data terminal equipment (Page 109)
►Data transmitting equipment
►Dual terminal equipment
►None of the given.
If printer is _____ then printer sends back the ACK signal to the printer interface
►idle (Page 97)
►Out of paper
►None of the given
DSR stands for __________ .
►Data set ready (Page 111)
►Data service ready
►Data stock ready
At IRQ 7 Interrupt # ___ is used.
► 0x0A
► 0x0C
►0x0F (Page 95)
The memory addresses of COM ports remain same for all computers
In keyboard status byte bit no. 2 and 3 are used for ctrl and alt keys respectively. which of the following
condition is used to check that Ctrl + Alt keys are pressed. Where: unsigned char far * scr = (unsigned char far
*)(0x00400017);
►if (((*scr)&12)==12)
►if (((*scr)&8)==8)
In case of synchronous communication a timing signal is required to identify the start and end of a bit.
►True (Page 105)
The baud rate is set in accordance with the divisor value loaded within the UART internal registers base +0 and
base +1.
Software based flow control make use of -------- control characters
►XOFF
►Both (Page 135)
------------ is used to read time from RTC
►1A\02H (Page 137)
►1A\03H
Int_____________ service 0 can be used to set the line parameter of the UART or COM port.
►14H (Page 119)
►None of the given option
When LBA is equal to zero (0), it means ________.
►First block of the disk (Page 240)
►First block of the logical drive
►First block of the hidden block
In IRQ2 and IRQ3 which one has the highest priority?
►Can’t be determined
►Both have same priority
►IRQ3
►IRQ2 (Page 47)
Following is not a method of I/O
►Programmed I/O
► Interrupt driven I/O
►Hardware Based I/O (Page 4)
It is possible to perform I/O operations from three different methods.
►True (Page 7)
The Function of I/O controller is to provide ____________.
►I/O control signals
►Error Correction and Detection
►All of given (Page 5)
Which of the following are types of ISR __________.
►BIOS (Basic I/O service ) ISR
►DOS ISR
►ISR provided by third party device drivers
►All of the given (Page 13)
Interrupt service number is usually placed in ____________ register.
►AH (Page 26)
NMI Stand for
►Non Maskable Interrupt (Page 46)
►Non Multitude Interrupt
►Non Maskable Instruction
A single interrupt controller can arbitrate among ____ different devices.
►8 (Page 47)
The microprocessor package has many signals for data. Below are some incorrect priority order (Higher to
Lower).
►Reset,Hold,NMI,INTR (Page 46)
►NMI, INTR,Hold,Reset
►INTR,NMI,Reset,Hold
The following command “outportb (0x61,inportb(0x61) & 0xFC);” will
►Turn on the speaker
►Turn off the speaker (Page 75)
►Toggle the speaker
The following command “outportb (0x61,inportb(0x61) | 3);” will ________ .
►Turn on the speaker (Page 74)
►Turn off the speaker
The PPI acts as an interface between the CPU and a parallel ________ .
►I/O device (Page 83)
BIOS DO NOT support ______.
►LPT1
►LPT4 (Page 91)
_____ bit is cleared to indicate the low nibble is being sent.
►D4 (Page 104)
The bit ______ of Line control register in UART, if cleared will indicate that DLL is the data register.
___________ file system is used in NTFS based systems.
Contiguous Chained
Communication between keyboard and keyboard controller is __________.
►Asynchronous serial
►Synchronous serial (P 77)
►Parallel communication
In NTFS, boot sector is stored at
►First and 6th sector
►First and Last sector
►Only at Last sector
►Only at First sector
Standard PC operates in two modes in terms of memory which are
►Real mode and Extended Mode
►Base mode and Memory Mode
►Real mode and protected mode (Page 6)
IVT is a table containing ______ byte entries each of which is a far address of an interrupt service routine.
Each paragraph in keep function is ____ bytes in size.
A software interrupt does not require EOI (End of interrupt).
►True (Page 49)
To store each character in keyboard buffer ____ bytes are required.
Interrupt _____ is empty; we can use its vector as a flag.
►65H (Page 65)
Command register is an _____ bit register
How many bytes can be used to store a file name in NTFS?
____ is the first logical sector of NTFS partition.
►Boot sector
In boot block BIOS parameter block starts from 03H
►0BH (Page 302)
IN NTFS, FAT and root directory is replaced by
►MFT (Page 301)
►Hidden blocks
Block # 2 is the safest block to store the backup of boot block.
The keyboards interface as discussed earlier uses the IRQ0 and the port 64H as data port.
► False
FAT12 will have 12-bit wide entries and can have 2^12=4096 entries maximum
In order to produce the sound from PC internal Speaker we have to load the___bit divisor value at the ___port.
►8, 0x21
►16, 0x42
Some More MCQs and Quizzes
DMA stands for_________
►Direct Memory Access (Page 4)
►Distinct Memory Access
►Direct Module Access
►Direct Memory Allocation
UART stands for_______
►Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (Page 107)
►Universal Adjustment and Realigning Tool
►Unconventional Assisted Recovery Team
Interrupt Vector Table (IVT) in short is a _______ bytes sized table.
►1024 (Page 10)
Hardware Interrupts are __________.
►Preemptive
►Non-Preemptive (Page 48)
►Both Preemptive and Non-Preemptive
Timer interrupt is a ___.
►Hardware Interrupt (Page 28)
►Software Interrupt
►Both of these
The keyboard makes use of interrupt number _______ for its input operations.
Register can be used to divide frequency is _________
►Counter Register (Page 69)
►Accumulator Register
Which port is known as Data Port
LPTs can be swapped.
PPI is used to perform parallel communication
__________is used to control the printer via the BIOS
►Int 16H
►Int 17H (Page 84)
There are two main types of interrupts namely _________________.
►PC based and Window based
►Hardware based and Kernal based
►Hardware interrupts and Software interrupts (Page 10)
To set the interrupt vector means is to change the double word sized interrupt vector within the IVT.
The service number is usually placed in the ________ register.
► 9 (Page 34)
The service _________ is called the keyboard hook service.
►15H/2FH
►15H/4FH (Page 44)
►15H/FFH
The BIOS interrupt ________ can be used to configure RTC.
►1AH (Page 136)
PPI stands for
►Parallel Programmable interface
►Peripheral Programmable interface (Page 76)
►Port Programmable interface
Int ________ is used to control the printer via the BIOS.
Counter register can be used to divide clock signal.
The bit number _______ of the coprocessor control word is the interrupt enable flag.
There are __________ kinds of serial communication.
________ store the base address for LPT1.
►40:08H (Page 92)
►40:1AH
The amount of memory above conventional memory (extended memory) can be determined using the service
_______.
►15H/88H (Page 162)
The output on the monitor is controlled by a controller called __________within the PC.
►Video controller (Page 30)
►Bus controller
►Ram controller
Interrupt 9 usually reads the _________ from keyboard.
►ASCII code
►Scan code (Page 34)
►Both ASCII and Scan code
The microprocessor package has many signals for data. Below are some in Correct priority order (Higher to
The ________function initialize the COM port whose number is passed as parameter using BIOS services.
►Initializecom()
►Initialize() (Page 125)
►Recievechar()
►None of these option
There are two type of communication synchronous and Anti Synchronous
►False (Page 105)
REGS is a Union
Keyboard Status Byte is located at the address
► 0040:0000H
► 0040:0017H (Page 29)
If we use keep (0, 1000) in a TSR program, the memory allocated to it is
► 64000 bytes
Maximum number of interrupts in a standard PC is
► 256 (Page 10)
The -------- function receive a byte and COM port number is passed as parameter using BIOS service
►Receivebyte ();
►Receive ();
►Receivechar (); (Page 125)
------------ whenever receive indicates the start of communication ………… whenever receive indicates the end
of communication
►XON\XOFF (Page 135)
►XOFF\XON
►XON\YOFF
►YON\XOFF
------------ is used to set time from RTC
Set the Interrupt vector means to change the double word sized interrupt vector within IVT.
If keyboard buffer is empty the head and tail points at the same location.
Standard PC can have _____ PPI.
By cascading two DMAs ____ bits can be transferred.
►16 (Page 186)
PPI interconnection _______ bits is cleared to indicate low nibble is being sent.
► D3
► D4 (Page 101)
Display device (Monitor) performs _________ I/O.
►memory mapped (Page 30)
►Both of above
Timer interrupt occurs _______ times every second by means of hardware.
►18.2 (Page 28)
An I/O device cannot be directly connected to the busses so controller is placed between CPU and I/O.
Tail of keyboard should get to get the start of buffer.
____ No. of bytes are used to store the character in the keyboard buffer.
We have set the bit No. 7 of IMR(Interrupt Mask Register) to unmask the Interrupt so that interrupt _____ can
occur at ____ line.
►0xf ,IRQ 7
► 0xa, IRQ 6
► 0x8, IRQ 5
►0x6, IRQ 2
If we want to produce the grave voice from speaker phone then we have to load the ____ divisor values at Port
____.
►high, 0x42
►low, 0x22
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Study: America Hit By Roughly 550 Violent Demonstrations In Three Months
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Jake Dima Contributor
September 05, 2020 2:02 PM ET
Data gathered in a Thursday study suggested that the U.S. experienced nearly 550 violent demonstrations since May 26, the day after the death of George Floyd.
The vast majority of U.S. states have experienced riots in the past three months with Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Mississippi, West Virginia, Hawaii and Alaska being the only ones unscathed by violence, according to data gathered by The Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED).
There were a total of 7,750 Black Lives Matter-linked demonstrations in the U.S. in 2,440 locations across all 50 states, according to ACLED’s data.
Ninety-three percent of these demonstrations were peaceful, but that indicated that approximately 543 events were violent, according to ACLED’s statistics.
Violent demonstrations have largely been contained to 220 locations with Portland being the hardest hit location, the data show.
A person carries a box near a looted Best Buy store seen after parts of Chicago had widespread looting and vandalism (Scott Olson/Getty Images).
There have been 38 incidents where riots damaged or brought down historical statues. Law enforcement deployed non-lethal munitions in 54% of the demonstrations where they were present, ACLED reported. A total of 5% of BLM protests have been met with force from officers, data showed. (RELATED: ‘A Gut Punch,’ ‘We Just Feel Abandoned’: Police Union Execs Sound Off About Lack Of Morale That They Say Is Resulting From Politicians)
ACLED also claimed that 50 incidents across the country in the past three months have featured armed individuals, and BLM protests have been recorded in South America, Africa, Asia and several violent demonstrations have been reported in Europe.
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Home Mirror (1977-2014) Page 1
FairfieldMIRRORV Volume 15, No. 16 Thursday, February 21, 1991 The Image Of Fairfield
Student Reps Propose
Townhouse Keg Policy
Ann Marie Puckhaber
As an answer to the threat of
banned kegs in the townhouses,
student representatives presentated
William P. Schimpf, vice presi-dent
of Student Services with a
proposal last Thursday outlining
alternative suggestions to curb
alcohol abuse on campus.
The proposal's aim is "to
eliminate under age drinking and
the serving of obviously intoxi-cated
individuals at townhouse par-ties"
through a monitoring system
in which wristbands will be re-quired
for those over 21 who wish
to be served.
"I think it is a very sound
proposal," said senior Matt Gal-lagher,
FUTA president. "It's
feasible and I can't see why it
won't be accepted."
The student proposal is as
1. All parties at which there
will be a keg (s) and more than 24
persons in attendance must be
registered with Student Residences
at least 24 hours prior to the start of
the party. Guidelines for register-ing
a party are:
* there must be at least one
member of the townhouse giving
the party of legal drinking age,
* all members of the
townhouse must have attended one
of the alcohol awareness sessions,
* until both of the above
mention guidelines are fulfilled,
the townhouse will be unable to
register a party,
* at the time of registration,
the townhouse will record the
number and size ofthe kegs to be at
the party (maximum - 3 half kegs).
2. At time of registration,
Student Residences will give the
townhouse representative a maxi-mum
of 150 colored identification
wristbands.
3. Before the party, mem-bers
ofthe townhouse will write on
the wristbands using an indelible
marker the number of the
townhouse and the initials of the
townhouse member.
4. During the party, the back
door will be locked and used for
exit only. At the front door, a
member of the townhouse will be
stationed. Any person of legal age
who wishes to be served from the
keg will present valid Fairfield ID.
If the person is not a student, two
forms of ID are required. If ID is
accepted, a wristband will be at-tached
to the person's left arm.
Wristbands from other
townhouses will first be removed
and discarded before a new band is
put on. If a person, regardless of
their age, enters the party intoxi-cated,
the townhouse member will
not give the person a wristband
and beer will be denied to him/her.
5. During the party, a resi-dent
from that townhouse will
serve beer from the keg.
6. It is the student's respon-sibility
to remove the wristband
when leaving the party. The
townhouse will not be held liable
for the actions of the student once
he/she leaves the townhouse.
The responsibilities of the
townhouses members outlined in
the proposal include not giving
wristbands to minors, not serving
minors, and not serving students
who are obviously intoxicated.
Townhouse residents will be
required to sign a contract at the
conclusion of the alcohol aware-ness
sessions saying that they will
comply with these regulations.
Failure to comply with the
regulations will result in revoca-tion
oftownhouse party privileges,
a fine on the townhouse totaling
$100.00 or 100 hours of commu-nity
service for the townhouse (all
fines collected by the University
will be used to help sponsor non-alcoholic
events on campus), and
for the first offense of the semes-ter,
the townhouse will be on pro-bation
for the remainder of the
A second offense in the same
semester will result in a loss of
townhouse residence privileges.
Comments from Schimpfon
the proposal were not available at
this time, however, Gallagher said
Schimpf'seemed optimistic" when
the proposal was presented to him.
IfSchimpfagrees to consider
the proposal, it will be presented
to the University Council and sent
on through the proper channels for
further input.
University Community Voices
Concerns to Committee
Laura Coffey
Christina Hennessy
After two weeks of open
forums, the University Long Range
Planning Committee will begin to
meet to discuss the many ideas and
suggestions introduced by the
members of the University com-munity,
with much of the input
focused on the relationship be-tween
the administration and rest
of the community, the attention to
the athletics program, the role of
students in campus activities, and
the push for more cultural diver-sity.
"I see an emergence of
unbalance because the University
administration has made decisions
without consent or opinions of
students," said Bill Murphy, '92.
Representatives of the fac-ulty
and Jesuit communities also
voiced concern.
"Jesuit education has always
centered on students and my ques-tion
is 'Is Fairfield University stu-dent
centered'," said Rev. Joseph
MacDonnell, S.J., professor of
mathematics and computer science.
"The students have inadver-tently
been pushed to the side and
now have a sense ofpowerlessness
and the student government is
unable to keep the students in the
center," he added.
In addition, he questioned
the level of responsibility given to
the students with the new policies
developed by the administration
and were they "preparing the stu-dents
to face the real world once
they leave."
Dr. George Lang, of the
department, stated "the faculty
voice is indeed a minor one" and
criticized the tendency to let "fac-ulty
turn into deadwood."
The freshman housing pro-gram
policy was used as examples
of the administration not listening
to the other areas of the commu-nity.
The results of an extensive
poll conducted by the Faculty Life
Committee were presented by Rev.
Tom Regan, S.J., Faculty Chair-man
of Student Life Committee
and professor of philosophy. One
major issue he focused on was
putting money into the residence
halls.
He suggested to the com-mittee
that lounges and kitchens
be put in the residence halls. "We
need to allocate space and make a
community atmosphere," he said.
Father Regan also discussed the
topic of freshman housing. He
said,"It is very difficult to find
anyone who supports isolating the
freshman at Dolan Campus. It
would be a disaster to sustain it."
"The freshman are feeling
very isolated with no assimilation
or example setting for them in the
halls," said Daniel Wilmer, '93.
"Dolan campus canbecome
the most positive project for the
committee ifoffered to upperclass-men,
equipped with kitchen facili-ties
and modified to establish a
student union," he added.
Dianne Nolan, the woman's
basketball coach stated to board
members that something must be
done about the basketball court in
Alumni Hall. She stated the floor
has a very hard surface and it fa-cilitates
injuries and hinders reha-bilitation.
"In my twelve years of
coaching here I have witnessed
fourteen knee operations and many
stress fractures," she said.
Harold Menninger, Direc-tor
of Athletics and Recreation,
lobbied for monies to improve
existing athletic facilities, expand
intramural facilities and research
an indoor surface to be used by
teams if the weather is inclement.
"Campus Ministry has its
pride and the fine arts department
has pride, now its our turn," he
said. "We must have athletic and
recreation facilities to compete in
Christopher Darcy, a gradu-ate
assistant, suggested an expan-sion
of Campus Center facilities
for clubs and activities. He also
stated that there be more interac-tion
between student services and
(continued on p. 2)
Tri-Chairs Selected
for Senior Week '91
Miffy Lanosa, Mike Canzano and Ed Hardiman gear up to pre-pare
for Senior Week as all three have been chosen to lead the junior
class as the first ever junior tri-chairs.
"Collectively, they have strong organizational and program-ming
skills and bring high energy and great motivation to the job,"
said Matt Dinnan, Assistant Director of the Campus Center and
member of the selection committee.
Dinnan will also serve as an advisor for Senior Week.
Eight applicants applied for the Co-Chair position, with each
submitting an application and participating in an interview with the
selection committee. This year's tri-chairs were all called back a
second time. •
"We honestly couldn't come up with the best two so we kept the
three best," said Dinnan.
The tri-chairs must now select a theme along with their staff of
roughly 24 sub-chairs, who will be selected by the week before
Spring Break. Ordering of tickets and supplies, as well as breaking
down workers to the different committees should be completed by the
end of March.
The newly selected senior week tri-chairs Ed Har-diman,
Miffy Lanosa, and Mike Canzano.
As for the theme, it should encompass all events for the week.
"We've put some ideas together, but we are still waiting to pick
the sub-chairs and get together to have a brainstorming session," said
Canzano, a management major and resident of Boylston, Ma.
"We'd like to find a theme which is creative and can apply to
all events, like last year's theme Around the World in Five Days,"
said Lanosa, a nursing major of Bristol, Ct. "We would like to hear
from everybody, though, before we make the final decision."
The Senior Week Committee will operate with a "zero-based
budget", according to Dinnan, in that expenses will be absorbed by
ticket sales.
The committee looks towards last years budget to get a rough
estimate of cost and expected ticket sales. A surplus of roughly
$2,000 was left over which goes to this year's fund. The event usually
costs about $75,000.
Events will run from May 15-18 and include a Senior/Jesuit
Social sponsored by Alpha Sigma Nu, the Jesuit Community and the
Senior Week Committee, on the Bellarmine Terrace on the last day
of school, a faculty/senior brunch, a Pub Night, a senior picnic and
dances for both the seniors and parents.
A Baccalaureate Mass is scheduled for the day before gradu-ation
on May 19.
"I thought Senior Week would be a good way to send off my
friends in the senior class, while meeting members of my class and
having a great time," said Hardiman a political science major and
resident of Norwood, Ma.
Roughly 75 juniors will usher out the Class of '91 including the
sub-chairs and the workers. The committee will attempt to assign
workers to their first and second choices, but the workers will help out
all week on the various events.
"Not only is this the last chance for the seniors to have a great
time all together at Fairfield, but it also is a great opportunity to get
to know more members of the junior class," said Canzano.
"I hope to make the event successful and memorable for the
seniors and I hope they can leave having enjoyed themselves," said
Lanosa.
The selection committee was made up of Dinnan, Jeane Di-
Muzio, assistant director of University Activities, and Julie Ford,
Chris Darcy, and Denise Sutphin,, graduate assistants.
Title Mirror - Vol. 15, No. 16 - February 21, 1991
Date February 21 1991
Description The Mirror (sometimes called the Fairfield Mirror) is the official student newspaper of Fairfield University, and is published weekly during the academic year (September - May). It runs from 1977 - the present; current issues are available online.
Notes A timeline for Fairfield University student newspapers is as follows: The Tentative, Nov. 7, 1947 - Dec. 19, 1947; The Fulcrum, Jan. 9, 1948 - May 20, 1949; The Stag, Sept. 23, 1949 - May 6, 1970; The University Voice, Oct. 1, 1970 - May 11, 1977; The Fairfield Free Press & Review, Sept. 10, 1970 - Apr. 24, 1975; The Fairfield Mirror, Sept. 22, 1977 - present.
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SearchData The FairfieldMIRRORV Volume 15, No. 16 Thursday, February 21, 1991 The Image Of Fairfield Student Reps Propose Townhouse Keg Policy Ann Marie Puckhaber Editor-in-Chief As an answer to the threat of banned kegs in the townhouses, student representatives presentated William P. Schimpf, vice presi-dent of Student Services with a proposal last Thursday outlining alternative suggestions to curb alcohol abuse on campus. The proposal's aim is "to eliminate under age drinking and the serving of obviously intoxi-cated individuals at townhouse par-ties" through a monitoring system in which wristbands will be re-quired for those over 21 who wish to be served. "I think it is a very sound proposal," said senior Matt Gal-lagher, FUTA president. "It's feasible and I can't see why it won't be accepted." The student proposal is as follows: 1. All parties at which there will be a keg (s) and more than 24 persons in attendance must be registered with Student Residences at least 24 hours prior to the start of the party. Guidelines for register-ing a party are: * there must be at least one member of the townhouse giving the party of legal drinking age, * all members of the townhouse must have attended one of the alcohol awareness sessions, * until both of the above mention guidelines are fulfilled, the townhouse will be unable to register a party, * at the time of registration, the townhouse will record the number and size ofthe kegs to be at the party (maximum - 3 half kegs). 2. At time of registration, Student Residences will give the townhouse representative a maxi-mum of 150 colored identification wristbands. 3. Before the party, mem-bers ofthe townhouse will write on the wristbands using an indelible marker the number of the townhouse and the initials of the townhouse member. 4. During the party, the back door will be locked and used for exit only. At the front door, a member of the townhouse will be stationed. Any person of legal age who wishes to be served from the keg will present valid Fairfield ID. If the person is not a student, two forms of ID are required. If ID is accepted, a wristband will be at-tached to the person's left arm. Wristbands from other townhouses will first be removed and discarded before a new band is put on. If a person, regardless of their age, enters the party intoxi-cated, the townhouse member will not give the person a wristband and beer will be denied to him/her. 5. During the party, a resi-dent from that townhouse will serve beer from the keg. 6. It is the student's respon-sibility to remove the wristband when leaving the party. The townhouse will not be held liable for the actions of the student once he/she leaves the townhouse. The responsibilities of the townhouses members outlined in the proposal include not giving wristbands to minors, not serving minors, and not serving students who are obviously intoxicated. Townhouse residents will be required to sign a contract at the conclusion of the alcohol aware-ness sessions saying that they will comply with these regulations. Failure to comply with the regulations will result in revoca-tion oftownhouse party privileges, a fine on the townhouse totaling $100.00 or 100 hours of commu-nity service for the townhouse (all fines collected by the University will be used to help sponsor non-alcoholic events on campus), and for the first offense of the semes-ter, the townhouse will be on pro-bation for the remainder of the semester A second offense in the same semester will result in a loss of townhouse residence privileges. Comments from Schimpfon the proposal were not available at this time, however, Gallagher said Schimpf'seemed optimistic" when the proposal was presented to him. IfSchimpfagrees to consider the proposal, it will be presented to the University Council and sent on through the proper channels for further input. University Community Voices Concerns to Committee Laura Coffey Staff Writer Christina Hennessy News Editor After two weeks of open forums, the University Long Range Planning Committee will begin to meet to discuss the many ideas and suggestions introduced by the members of the University com-munity, with much of the input focused on the relationship be-tween the administration and rest of the community, the attention to the athletics program, the role of students in campus activities, and the push for more cultural diver-sity. "I see an emergence of unbalance because the University administration has made decisions without consent or opinions of students," said Bill Murphy, '92. Representatives of the fac-ulty and Jesuit communities also voiced concern. "Jesuit education has always centered on students and my ques-tion is 'Is Fairfield University stu-dent centered'," said Rev. Joseph MacDonnell, S.J., professor of mathematics and computer science. "The students have inadver-tently been pushed to the side and now have a sense ofpowerlessness and the student government is unable to keep the students in the center," he added. In addition, he questioned the level of responsibility given to the students with the new policies developed by the administration and were they "preparing the stu-dents to face the real world once they leave." Dr. George Lang, of the mathematics and computer science department, stated "the faculty voice is indeed a minor one" and criticized the tendency to let "fac-ulty turn into deadwood." The freshman housing pro-gram policy was used as examples of the administration not listening to the other areas of the commu-nity. The results of an extensive poll conducted by the Faculty Life Committee were presented by Rev. Tom Regan, S.J., Faculty Chair-man of Student Life Committee and professor of philosophy. One major issue he focused on was putting money into the residence halls. He suggested to the com-mittee that lounges and kitchens be put in the residence halls. "We need to allocate space and make a community atmosphere," he said. Father Regan also discussed the topic of freshman housing. He said,"It is very difficult to find anyone who supports isolating the freshman at Dolan Campus. It would be a disaster to sustain it." "The freshman are feeling very isolated with no assimilation or example setting for them in the halls," said Daniel Wilmer, '93. "Dolan campus canbecome the most positive project for the committee ifoffered to upperclass-men, equipped with kitchen facili-ties and modified to establish a student union," he added. Dianne Nolan, the woman's basketball coach stated to board members that something must be done about the basketball court in Alumni Hall. She stated the floor has a very hard surface and it fa-cilitates injuries and hinders reha-bilitation. "In my twelve years of coaching here I have witnessed fourteen knee operations and many stress fractures," she said. Harold Menninger, Direc-tor of Athletics and Recreation, lobbied for monies to improve existing athletic facilities, expand intramural facilities and research an indoor surface to be used by teams if the weather is inclement. "Campus Ministry has its pride and the fine arts department has pride, now its our turn," he said. "We must have athletic and recreation facilities to compete in the future. Christopher Darcy, a gradu-ate assistant, suggested an expan-sion of Campus Center facilities for clubs and activities. He also stated that there be more interac-tion between student services and (continued on p. 2) Tri-Chairs Selected for Senior Week '91 Christina Hennessy News Editor Miffy Lanosa, Mike Canzano and Ed Hardiman gear up to pre-pare for Senior Week as all three have been chosen to lead the junior class as the first ever junior tri-chairs. "Collectively, they have strong organizational and program-ming skills and bring high energy and great motivation to the job," said Matt Dinnan, Assistant Director of the Campus Center and member of the selection committee. Dinnan will also serve as an advisor for Senior Week. Eight applicants applied for the Co-Chair position, with each submitting an application and participating in an interview with the selection committee. This year's tri-chairs were all called back a second time. • "We honestly couldn't come up with the best two so we kept the three best," said Dinnan. The tri-chairs must now select a theme along with their staff of roughly 24 sub-chairs, who will be selected by the week before Spring Break. Ordering of tickets and supplies, as well as breaking down workers to the different committees should be completed by the end of March. The newly selected senior week tri-chairs Ed Har-diman, Miffy Lanosa, and Mike Canzano. As for the theme, it should encompass all events for the week. "We've put some ideas together, but we are still waiting to pick the sub-chairs and get together to have a brainstorming session," said Canzano, a management major and resident of Boylston, Ma. "We'd like to find a theme which is creative and can apply to all events, like last year's theme Around the World in Five Days," said Lanosa, a nursing major of Bristol, Ct. "We would like to hear from everybody, though, before we make the final decision." The Senior Week Committee will operate with a "zero-based budget", according to Dinnan, in that expenses will be absorbed by ticket sales. The committee looks towards last years budget to get a rough estimate of cost and expected ticket sales. A surplus of roughly $2,000 was left over which goes to this year's fund. The event usually costs about $75,000. Events will run from May 15-18 and include a Senior/Jesuit Social sponsored by Alpha Sigma Nu, the Jesuit Community and the Senior Week Committee, on the Bellarmine Terrace on the last day of school, a faculty/senior brunch, a Pub Night, a senior picnic and dances for both the seniors and parents. A Baccalaureate Mass is scheduled for the day before gradu-ation on May 19. "I thought Senior Week would be a good way to send off my friends in the senior class, while meeting members of my class and having a great time," said Hardiman a political science major and resident of Norwood, Ma. Roughly 75 juniors will usher out the Class of '91 including the sub-chairs and the workers. The committee will attempt to assign workers to their first and second choices, but the workers will help out all week on the various events. "Not only is this the last chance for the seniors to have a great time all together at Fairfield, but it also is a great opportunity to get to know more members of the junior class," said Canzano. "I hope to make the event successful and memorable for the seniors and I hope they can leave having enjoyed themselves," said Lanosa. The selection committee was made up of Dinnan, Jeane Di- Muzio, assistant director of University Activities, and Julie Ford, Chris Darcy, and Denise Sutphin,, graduate assistants.
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Horowitz to write second Bond novel.
Started by Orion , Oct 04 2016 01:08 PM
#1 Orion
Lt. Commander
Location:Great Britain (rule Britania)
Title says it all. Glad to see continuity in writers returning to the Bond novels.
http://www.thebookse...han-cape-404116
#2 Messervy
Messervy
Location:ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha
Cool! I thoroughly enjoyed TM, so I'm all for a second round!
#3 sharpshooter
It's a welcome surprise to hear this. Trigger Mortis was a pleasure to read. It will be good to have consistency in authors again, and Horowitz deserved the opportunity to write another. They say it's another period piece with unused Fleming content. I wonder if it's set in-between the Fleming timeline again? I'm guessing it will be.
#4 Matt_13
#5 Simon
Splendid. Think he truly deserved it, if it was what he was wanting.
#6 Dustin
Can't say it does anything for me. I liked Horowitz other work but TRIGGER MORTIS was less than satisfying for me, to say the least.
Still, others liked it so it's probably okay that he gets another shot. I shall pass however, much too many other things to read.
#7 TheREAL008
TheREAL008
I'm not happy about it. Given his past remarks about the films and other authors I feel he shouldn't have ben given a second chance.
#8 DavidJones
DavidJones
Sub-Lieutenant
What did he say?
#9 Marcin
Location:Poland
Although I wasn't particularly pleased with Trigger Mortis; it was a fun but somewhat flawed read, I'm glad Horowitz will write another one.
I'd be more pleased if he was offered a contract for more than just one novel. Maybe we wouldn't have to wait two or three years for another one.
#10 saint mark
saint mark
Happy he is writing a second one, less pleased it will take another year. And are getting Donald Westlakes' dismissed Brosnan 007 script in Book release earlier the same year.
#11 glidrose
glidrose
No surprise there. I've know about it for some time. Couldn't say anything.
An acquaintance asked me "Are you still into Bond?" "Yes." "Anthony Horowitz is doing a second Bond novel." "Oh. (pause) That doesn't surprise me." "You don't sound terribly excited." A long-winded speech by yours truly about what I felt about AH's bloodless debut effort. (You can read my review here.) Acquaintance clearly didn't want to hear it and so cut me off. Several other details. None of which I can share. Can't say anything else. No, I'm not connected. Just a fluke I happen to know someone who knows someone, etc, etc in the know as they say.
Still keeping my fingers crossed that it will take more chances, be more experimental just as his second Holmes novel was apparently a lot more experimental than his first Tho' not that experimental, mind you.
#12 Dustin
I just remember some of my gripes...
Let's hope he will improve on his second try. Though I probably will not make reading it a priority, there is still War and Peace, there are some James Ellroys, The Tin Drum, some Stephen Kings. And I could reread some Fleming, too.
#13 DaveBond21
DaveBond21
Location:Sydney, Australia (but from the UK)
Good news. I liked Trigger Mortis.
I also liked his Sherlock Holmes novel, the House of Silk.
#14 SecretAgentFan
SecretAgentFan
Location:Germany
Good choices all around!
While I do like continuity with authors continuing to write Bond I am not sold on Horowitz either. For me, TRIGGER MORTIS was a structural mess that never really took flight, and the use of "a previous Bond girl" did not pay off for me either since it was half-hearted and then abandoned.
Well, as long as anything Bond-related is released next year...
#15 Harmsway
Harmsway
I am interested to see what Horowitz will do with a second novel. This is the first time in a while that a novelist has been given the opportunity to develop what they did in a previous instalment.
TRIGGER MORTIS was a brisk, entertaining read, if altogether kind of messy and disposable. He might make something better of it this time.
The mention of material again that wasn't previously published leaves a bit of an aftertaste. Why not give him free rein to fire away on his own? Horowitz isn't that bad at making up his own stories.
True, though the Fleming material in TRIGGER MORTIS was quite fun.
#18 Orion
I think it's more a good selling point than a comment on Horrowitz as a writer.
I thought it was largely an idea that went into the drawer for good reason; not terribly bad but hardly worth digging it out for the sake of selling this TM-thingy.
I would rather prefer if a writer doesn't have to include 'genuine sentences as lathed by The Holy Fleming' ™ © to sell the tome. It all smacks a bit pseudo-religious, the deposition of relics in a vault of paper - that is then sold for £ 12.99 at Waterstones or £ 9.99 at Tesco.
This continuation business should be a reverence to Fleming, honest or tongue-in-cheek fun or anything in between. I don't think it's really in good taste to turn it into some look-what-we've-found business plan. You get to use the characters created by Fleming - or let's say you get to use the names; seldom in the official continuations do the actual characters turn up - that should be plenty of a head start, especially for somebody who, like Horowitz, however you look at it, already used a big deal more than characters for his own work.
I realize that I come across as probably too harsh with Horowitz; sorry for that if you happen to read this, sir. But I'm serious here, I believe Horowitz can do much better - and the first step in the right direction would be to leave out any 'original material, previously unpublished.' If necessary, let yourself inspire - but write your own book. Let them publish the fragments in its own tome.
#20 Tiin007
Tiin007
I'm with you on that, Dustin, and I really enjoyed Trigger Mortis.
This whole conversation reminds me of how Sebastian Faulks was "writing as Ian Fleming" when he penned Devil May Care-- he even claimed to have been on the same daily schedule as Fleming. All too gimmicky, if you ask me. (And again, I actually enjoyed Devil May Care more than most.)
Fleming was perfect as Fleming.
When I read Faulks or Horowitz, I'd much rather read unadulterated Faulks or Horowitz. Forcing them to be someone or something they aren't, even if they can do a good job at it, just doesn't sit well with me. Gardner and Benson each did a fine job taking Bond in their own direction (even if some of their efforts were subpar)-- it's a mode the literary Bond should return to.
In fact, I'd argue that EON made the same mistake in trying to make Lazenby too much like Connery. (Or maybe it was Lazenby himself who was the driving force behind all this.) It wasn't until Moore that the Bond actors were able to put their own take on the character.
Tbh Horrowitz DOES write as himself, there are many similarities to Alex Rider (the blatant Bond pastiche Horrowitz wrote) and I love that! (giving away my age there) Yes, there is a tenuous quality and occasional temptation to be like Fleming, but mostly he wrote his own novel, using only an idea of Fleming's to write a single chapter, as I'm sure this new book will be.
#22 sharpshooter
I couldn't tell the difference between the Fleming and Horowitz material, which is a credit to him. I don't have a problem with it.
#23 billy007
Location:Delaware USA
So what's the second round of "previous unpublished material"? Per Fine Ounce?
I don't think that was announced yet. One assumes perhaps another piece written for the TV series. As far as we know the main part of Fleming's material concerning Bond was done during his holidays on Jamaica, working on a book at a time. Most of it is published by now.
The TV series COMMANDER JAMAICA - and I believe a second project that fell through - would have called for a lot of smaller pieces, most of them were included in FOR YOU EYES ONLY and DOCTOR NO subsequently. If there was really a lot of publishable material left I'm sure it would have long since been compiled in another short story tome.
Fleming did also some work on the early script of what came to be THUNDERBALL later. Could be there is something left that justifies including it in Horowitz' next book. The early stages of the story were vastly different from what we know.
#25 Single-O-Seven
Single-O-Seven
Location:Toronto, ON, Canada
It could be as simple and minor as Horowitz working in the two short stories that Fleming started, but never completed more than a few paragraphs for. One involved Bond being tutored by a Greek cardsharp, and the other had Bond waking in the morning, dreading the blandness of the average English morning ritual. I think they appeared in Pearson's biography of Fleming, but please correct me if I'm wrong.
Good call on that, could well be. Though I think that would then really leave a pretty clean barrel...
Yeah, there seems to be little else that we know of. Other than some basic ideas that Fleming scribbled in a journal, like the name "Szasz", or Bond battling a villain below Niagara Falls, and line, "she had a proud mouth like a half-healed wound," and "pain is a private address - only those who've been there know how to find it," or something along those lines.
I used to read a bit of Bond fan fiction years back. I enjoyed quite a bit of it, but found that these lines, and the examples I gave earlier, frequently popped up and got absorbed into it. If Horowitz uses any of it then, for me, it will have that recycled fanfic feeling all over again. Otherwise, I enjoyed Trigger Mortis a lot, and look forward to reading more of his take on Bond, just as I enjoyed his takes on Holmes and Moriarty.
It's a working holiday in Sri Lanka this Christmas for Horowitz.
"As always, I'll be spending Christmas abroad - this year in Sri Lanka - which means two long flights and hours on the beach."
http://www.mirror.co...festive-9378251
Sri Lanka (a.k.a. Ceylon) had some juicy conflicts with the UK and the US during the 1950s and 1960s.
https://en.wikipedia...inion_of_Ceylon
Horowitz was also recently in Paris.
http://www.telegraph...ain-with-paris/
And he was in New Orleans last year.
http://www.telegraph...me-in-30-years/
I urge one and all to read AH's article, if you haven't already. Tell me if you don't think it sounds like Fleming, albeit softer.
http://www.anthonyho...raordinary-city
choice excerpts:
"There were people everywhere, enjoying themselves in the street, many of them carrying oversized cocktails in plastic cups. Snatches of jazz, of course, coming from courtyards, from clubs, played by buskers – brilliantly – at every corner. A profusion of wrought-iron balconies. Gas lamps burning above the doorways. Old-fashioned shops full of things you don’t need but will probably buy: masks, voodoo products, bad art, antiques, hot sauces, even sexually explicit cakes. Quirky wooden houses that suddenly give way to mansions, such as the Supreme Court Building, taking up a whole block.
"Inevitably, I found myself in Jackson Square, named after the US president who beat off the British in 1812. There are tarot-card readers everywhere. A magician performs the cup-and-ball trick. Crowds stream in and out of the bars and restaurants. More jazz. Two black kids are tap-dancing on manhole covers. A woman passes me – rolls of fat squeezed into Lycra – wearing a feathered mask. I sneeze and an old guy taps me on the shoulder. 'God bless you, buddy.' The square is grassy. It’s a nice place to be.
"The food is delicious – but trust me, it will kill you. Everything is fried. The two biggest delicacies in Louisiana are “pralines” and “beignets”, the first being fried sugar, the second fried dough coated in sugar for extra heart trauma. Beignets are served under a green and white striped awning at the Café du Monde on Jackson Square; people will queue for more than an hour each morning just for the experience. Tip: go late at night when you can walk straight in. Or better still, don’t go at all.
"Everyone has their favourite bar or restaurant and the lines are long. A few recommendations: fried oysters at Stanley’s, fried chicken at Willy Mae’s in the heart of Tremé, an area considered so dangerous that punters arrive and leave by taxi."
Thanks for pointing to these pieces, glidrose; very entertaining reads that had escaped my attention. You can practically hear Horowitz shaping up for the job:
'Bond often wondered how many divorces must have started with a wet weekend in Paris...'
On a sidenote: it's funny how the Torygraph's website insists that I am a British expat in Germany and could get a better £ 70k pension...
So The Spy Command/HMSS (https://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/) picked up a Horowitz interview on BBC. As some have speculated, it seems the 'new' Fleming material are indeed leftovers (although the meal was never served; can it be called 'leftovers' then?) from TV project(s). Supposedly four remaining storylines have been found recently:
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Horowitz: Four Fleming unused story lines remain
by The Spy Commander
"Sounds like a jolly good time."
007 continuation author Anthony Horowitz told the BBC today there are four remaining unused Ian Fleming story lines from an unproduced television project.
"There were five that were discovered quite recently in a bottom drawer," Horowitz said in an interview. "One of which had to do with motor racing, which of course I used in Trigger Mortis but that left four more."
Trigger Mortis was published last year. It was a period story, set in 1957 and picked up shortly after Fleming's Goldfinger novel. Horowitz incorporated Fleming's auto racing plot. Fleming also included the basic racing idea among notes (written on 11 telegram blanks) he submitted to television producer Norman Felton for The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Ian Fleming Publications has retained Horowitz's services for a new and yet untitled Bond novel, due out in 2018.
Of the four Fleming story lines, "I'm going to use one of them, I haven't decided which one yet, as an opening chapter or second chapter," Horowitz told the BBC.
"There is nothing more exciting in the world than to read something that nobody else has read," Horowitz said of the Fleming storylines.
To read more about the BBC interview, CLICK HERE. It incudes an audio clip running almost two minutes.
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Quaker City String Band From the 2011 Milford Community Parade.
This month, Milford Community Parades, Inc., organizers of Milford’s annual fall parade , announced that this year’s theme will be “Hocus Pocus.” An event that has been a Milford tradition since 1939, the Milford Community Parade marches through Walnut Street of Milford, encompassing 1.7 miles stretching from South to North, through beautiful and scenic downtown Milford. This year’s festivities are scheduled to occur on Wednesday evening, October 15, 2015.
“We encourage all of our participants to adopt the theme and those with the best presentation or adaptation of the theme are eligible for parade trophies,” said Charles Gray, Chairman of Milford Community Parades, Inc. “Participants have been very creative and challenge one another year after year to be the best and most creative.”
The Milford Community Parade was originally themed as a Halloween parade as it began 70 years ago under Ed Evans, who was Milford’s Mayor during World War II. In recent history the Gray family has facilitated the event for the past 25 years. With the help of community members, family and friends, James Gray set out to make the parade a unique experience for those attending. Under the direction of Milford Community Parades, Inc., the parade began as a fall holiday celebration and has since evolved into a fall seasonal parade with changing themes. According to Charles Gray, current Parade Chairperson, attendance has reached 30,000 in previous years with the multiple marching bands as the parade’s signature attraction.
“I wanted the children to hear and see how music is played in unison to create uplifting and harmonious sounds,” said Gray. “Some of us can pick up an instrument and play perfectly, others must learn and practice, practice, practice, to hit the right note. Music makers are performing artists no matter what age.”
In any given year parade goers can listen to between 10 and 20 different bands throughout the evening, including university, high school and community bands. Over the years, the parade has hosted local businesses and non-profit organizations, statewide political figures and even some unique entries including an airplane and an elephant.
Milford Community Parades, Inc., is a not-for-profit organization that raises money for the entire event through community fundraisers and sponsorships. The largest supporter, the City of Milford, began with the former Mayor, Joseph “Ronnie” Rogers, requesting Jim Gray to form a committee to continue the event.
“We are proud of our partnership and the faith Mayor Rogers bestowed upon the committee for accomplishing such a great annual event,” commented Gray. “We equally appreciate the hours of assistance local law enforcement officers from Kent and Sussex Counties have given, and city personnel hours to make this such a community-driven event.”
With this year’s theme in place and already 10 bands scheduled to appear, including a string band straight from Philadelphia, interested organizations, businesses and families are urged to put their thinking caps on, get out the magic wands and volunteers, and start getting ready to participate in the largest evening parade held on Delmarva. Interested groups can find more information online at http://www.milfordparade.com or on Facebook. For sponsorship information, individuals are urged to email milfordparade@aol.com with “Sponsorship” in the subject line.
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Where can I buy the AirShuttle?
A list of AirShuttle distributors can be found here.
What are the main differences between AirBadminton and indoor badminton courts?
The main difference is the design and dimensions of the court. The AirBadminton court has a 2m dead zone at the front of the court. Should the AirShuttle land in that area, it is deemed a fault.
Why does the AirBadminton court have a dead zone?
The characteristics of the AirShuttle make nets shots very difficult to control, therefore, the net area has been taken out to encourage strokes away from the net and to facilitate rally situations.
The player must not step inside the dead zone to hit the AirShuttle; after the hit, the player can step or land inside the dead zone.
Where can I play AirBadminton?
AirBadminton can be played anywhere: in parks, gardens, streets, playgrounds and beaches around the world. AirBadminton can be played on any level, safe surface including on hard, grass and sand.
What is the equipment to set up an AirBadminton court?
Setting up an AirBadminton court is very simple. You will only need a net system and a set of boundary lines. For more detailed information on AirBadminton court set-up and equipment, click here (link).
Can I play AirBadminton on traditional badminton courts?
Absolutely! AirBadminton can also be played on existing outdoor badminton courts.
Can I play AirBadminton with traditional badminton rackets?
Yes. The AirShuttle has been specifically designed to be played with existing rackets. Based on the AirShuttle design and outdoor elements involved during the game, it is recommended that players use a lower tension (between 8-9kg / 17.5-20lbs) and a thicker string when playing AirBadminton.
Can I play AirBadminton with traditional badminton shuttlecocks?
It is possible to play AirBadminton with existing shuttlecocks, but the game and court have been specifically developed based on the characteristics of the AirShuttle. Therefore, we recommend playing with the AirShuttle wherever possible for maximum enjoyment.
Does AirBadminton deliver the same health benefits as traditional badminton?
The data we collected during the testing and game development phase of the project confirms that AirBadminton provides the same health benefits as badminton. In fact, the physical effort required to play competitively on sand is even higher than in badminton.
What are the service rules in AirBadminton?
There is a 3m marker clearly visible on the side line. The player shall serve from anywhere behind this marker within the court, with both feet stationary. The whole AirShuttle should be below net height at the point of impact. Subsequently, the flight of the AirShuttle is upwards from the server’s racket.
Why is the net height set at 1.45m on a sand surface?
Players sink into the sand when playing on a sand surface. Research showed that by lowering the net to 1.45m, errors were reduced and rallies were extended.
Which are the different Events that can be played in AirBadminton?
Men’s Singles | Women’s Singles | Men’s Doubles | Women’s Doubles | Mixed Doubles | Triples
Who can play AirBadminton?
AirBadminton can be enjoyed by anyone, regardless of age, ability, gender and level of experience. It is an inclusive sport that can also be enjoyed by people with disabilities.
How is the triples event played?
Triples is a new fast-paced and exciting play event where good strategy and communication is key between teammates. Players are not allowed to hit two consecutive returns. The player must allow another member of the team to take the next return. This rule creates more movement and increases the strategic element of the game.
What is AirBadminton?
The new outdoor shuttlecock
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Opposition activists fined USD 200 000
TBILISI, DFWatch – Tbilisi City Court Wednesday fined six representatives of the main opposition movement USD 200 000 for donating money to their own political movement, Georgian Dream.
The court made its decision under mediation of the State Audit Service, which determined that the six persons had made illegal donations to Georgian Dream.
The law says that for such violations, a person should be fine five times the amount of the money that was donated. If the violation is repeated, they will be fined ten times the amount.
This time they were fined five time the amount.
The State Audit Service concluded that Roman Kusiani, representing the Free Democrats, illegally transferred 30 000 lari to Georgian Dream, and hence he was fined 150 000 lari.
Giorgi Rcheulishvili, from the Free Democrats, was fined 50 000 lari. Omar and Anzor Shautidzes, both representing the same party, were fined 40 000 and 35 000 lari, respectively.
Martia Chincharauli from the National Forum was fined 25 000 lari, and Teimuraz Kharaishvili from the National Forum was fined 17 500 lari.
Those fined say they were illegally fined and did not violate the law while transferring money. The State Audit Service claims that Bidzina Ivanishvili gave them money to donate this money to the party.
The amended law says that an individual who is a citizen of may can donate 60 000 lari per year to a political party. This is about USD 36 000.
Those who were fined say this is their own money and never violated the law.
After the trial, Roman Kusiani from the Free Democrats said that he has a right to donate an additional 30 000 lari to the party. He says this money is his own savings, but the court didn’t accept this argument. Kusiani also informs that before the court hearing, the property of the donors was seized.
“I have documents which prove that Levan Bezhashvili, head of the State Audit Service, transferred 500 000 lari to the National Movement, but he is not mentioned in these transfers. If we are punished for such donations, why is Bezhashvili not punished?” he said, adding that this happened in 2011.
The press office of the State Audit Service says this is such anonsense that Bezhashvili will not even comment on this.
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CFBA - DEADFALL by Robert Liparulo
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Robert is an award-winning author of over a thousand published articles and short stories. He is currently a contributing editor for New Man magazine. His work has appeared in Reader's Digest, Travel & Leisure, Modern Bride, Consumers Digest, Chief Executive, and The Arizona Daily Star, among other publications. In addition, he previously worked as a celebrity journalist, interviewing Stephen King, Tom Clancy, Charlton Heston, and others for magazines such as Rocky Road, Preview, and L.A. Weekly.
Robert is an avid scuba diver, swimmer, reader, traveler, and a law enforcement and military enthusiast. He lives in Colorado with his wife and four children.
Robert's first novel painted a scenario so frighteningly real that six Hollywood producers were bidding on movie rights before the novel was completed. His acclaimed debut novel, Comes A Horseman, is being made into a major motion picture by producer Mace Neufeld and his short story "Kill Zone" was featured in the anthology Thriller, edited by James Patterson.
Bob has sold the film rights to his second book, GERM. And he is writing the screenplay for a yet-to-be-written political thriller, which sold to Phoenix Pictures, for Andrew Davis (The Fugitive, The Guardian) to direct!
He is currently working on his fourth novel.
Deep in the isolated Northwest Territories, four friends are on the trip of a lifetime. Dropped by helicopter into the Canadian wilderness, Hutch, Terry, Phil, and David are looking to escape the events of a tumultuous year for two weeks of hunting, fishing, and camping.
Armes with only a bow and arrow and the basics for survival, they've chosen a place far from civilization, a retreat from their turbulent lives. But they quickly discover that another group has targeted the remote region and the secluded hamlet of Fiddler Falls for a more menacing purpose: to field test the ultimate weapon.
With more than a week before the helicopter rendezvous and no satellite phone, Hutch, a skilled bow-hunter and outdoor-survivalist must help his friend elude their seemingly inescapable foes, as well as decide whether to run for their lives...or risk everything to help the townspeople who are being held hostage and terrorized.
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"Another brilliantly conceived premise from Robert Liparulo. Deadfall will leave you looking over your shoulder and begging for more."
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A NOTE from Bob: I’d like to give away five signed copies of Deadfall to readers of CFBA blogs during my tour. All they have to do is sign up for my e-mailing list (they won’t be inundated!) by going to my website (www.robertliparulo.com) and going to the “Mailing List” page. Or email me with “CFBA giveaway” in the subject line.
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Winners are selected from my e-mailing list—sign up at my site. If a winner has already purchased what he/she wins, I will reimburse them for the purchase price (or give them another—whichever they choose), so they don’t need to wait to see if they win before buying Deadfall.
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Elysa Mon Nov 12, 10:22:00 PM 2007
Thanks for the heads up, Camy. This sounds like something my hubby would love to read. He's a former green beret so you can only imagine that he's a bit of an adventure junkie...only with 7 kids and a ditzy wife, he has to get his fixes mostly vicariously these days. ;)
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Be a Book Doctor: How to Evaluate Your Own Story
Book doctors are wonderful. A book doctor is someone who isn’t your husband/wife/parent/friend, someone who can be objective toward your manuscript, someone who can dispassionately evaluate the content and structure of your story. And this can be an enormous help, especially at the beginning of your manuscript when you’re working on your story’s overall structure and shape.
But you don’t have to send your story off to someone else. You can be your own book doctor. How? The first step is to put your manuscript in a drawer and try to forget about it for a week or two. When you take the manuscript out of the drawer you’ll be able to see it more objectively.
There are a few stories I wrote so long ago that I no longer remember them. Reading them again was like reading the work of a stranger. It was painful but rewarding! At the time I wrote it I felt that something was off but I couldn’t put my finger on what exactly needed to be fixed. When I reread the story after a period of years I realized that the story had no midpoint, no crisis, no moment of revelation. The good news: as soon as I saw the structural defect it was surprisingly easy to fix.
So, if you don’t want to send your work off to a book doctor then put it in a drawer for a couple of weeks. Reread the manuscript through from top to bottom and ask yourself the following questions:[1]
Scenes:
Does each scene have a goal and stakes? Does the main character want something in every scene, even if it is only a glass of water?
Do you include sequels after the scenes? Or even mini-sequels between scenes (this works especially well if you have one scene per chapter).
Acts:
Does each act have a main overriding goal and are the stakes spelled out?
Overall Structure:
Is there a major turn/twist of the plot at the 25, 50 and 75 percent marks?
Is there a clear Call to Adventure?
Around the middle of the book—the midpoint crisis—the protagonist needs to understand the story world in a different light. Sometimes this information is about one of the characters—the love interest, the protagonist, the mentor, the protagonist’s helper—or about the Special World of the Adventure.
Is the Special World of the Adventure strikingly different from the Ordinary World of the protagonist’s ordinary life?
Is the protagonist locked into the quest by the 25 percent mark.
Does the protagonist have an All Is Lost moment at around the 75 percent mark?
Is there a race to the finish after the All Is Lost point and before the climax?
Is it clear that the climax is a final test, one that at most one character can win?
Are the stakes cashed out and all loose ends tied up before the story ends?
Protagonist:
What state of affairs would make the protagonist happy?
What danger/obstacle prevents the protagonist from achieving this happy state of affairs?
Does the protagonist have a moral compass? Does the climax hinge on a moral issue? That is, does it hinge on a point of selflessness vs unselfishness? (Selfishness: Abandonment of conviction for the sake of personal advantage. Unselfishness: Adherence to principle despite the temptation of self-interest.)
This is just something to think about, it’s not a hard and fast rule: Is the protagonist good but not the brightest penny in the jar or are they brilliant but morally flexible? It doesn’t always happen that the protagonist is one or the other, but there does seem to be a bit of a tradeoff between these two characteristics.
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A few months ago I read The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris. He is a master of telling folks how to make the most of their time. He helped me! In time for the holidays he's come out with another book: Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers. I haven't read it yet, but it's at the top of my to-be-read list.
1. Many of these questions I’ve taken from Janice Hardy’s wonderful article: How to Be Your Own Book Doctor.
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Six Ways To Rekindle Your Enthusiasm For Your Work In Progress
Enthusiasm. Passion. Inspiration.
These words are pale descriptions, gestures toward the drive that causes us to bury ourselves in basement offices and spend hours writing (and then hours more reading).
I feel as though I’ve just come off a bender. For a week I’ve had that white hot passion of creation living inside me, almost like a drunkenness burning me up inside, driving me on.
It was wonderful!
And yes, I let everything else in my life slide and for that my apologies. I was programming, something I haven’t done in years, and it felt wonderful to flex those old muscles.
Now, though, that the program is done the passion has bled away and I woke up today feeling decidedly uninspired.
How To Rekindle Your Enthusiasm
My renewed passion for programming made me think about my WIP and how dispassionate I feel toward it. I was looking for a topic to blog about. I don’t want to saturate you with news about my program and all the cool things I’m discovering, I’ll blog about that often enough in the days and weeks and months to come. But then I thought, well, that’s what I’ll write about, getting one’s enthusiasm back. (And, yes, I do this often; write the blog post I need to read.)
The Great Swampy Middle of Despair
At the moment I’m slogging through the middle bits of a first draft. I’ve adopted Jim Butcher’s terminology for the middle section of a novel: the great swampy middle of despair. (I added the part about despair, but I think it fits.)
You saw or read Tolkien’s “The Fellowship of the Ring,” right? Remember the part where Frodo picks his way through the Dead Marshes. That, right there. That’s the great swampy middle.
So, today, I thought I’d write about how to rekindle one’s enthusiasm, how to fall back in love with your WIP.
1. Don’t get out of bed right away.
Close your eyes. Imagine. What story are you working on? If you’re writing a first draft, or are at the index card/outline stage, the first few moments of consciousness can be pure gold.
Keep your eyes closed. Don’t think about all the meddlesome, anxiety provoking minutia of the day ahead (the day crouching before you like a starving tiger). Don’t think about all the boring things, all the tedious tasks, you have to do. Think instead about the story you’re in equal measures discovering and creating.
Where did you leave off? What is the viewpoint character doing? (Or, alternatively, what is the narrator experiencing?) What do they want? Why don’t they get it?
Use this time of creative semi-consciousness to rev up your muse.
(Yes, you may fall back to sleep but that’s what the snooze button is for!)
2. Keep a writing journal ready to hand.
I never know when inspiration will pounce. I’ll be thinking about a problem, trying to solve it, then as I’m walking to my car with my arms full of groceries, bam! My unconscious births a creative solution.
If you’re anything like me you need to write this down. I can’t tell you how many times I had a revelation, one I was sure to remember it was so staggeringly obvious—and then I forgot!
The journal doesn’t have to be fancy. I have two, and both are plain. One is a simple lined book with a spiral binding. I keep the cover closed with an elastic band—but it works! The book is small enough to live comfortably in my purse. Now when I have an idea I have a place to write it down. I keep another journal with me during the day—I think of it as my RAM. I write everything in there, lists, little reminders, story ideas. It’s where I scribble out rough drafts for these blog posts! I leave it on my bedside table before I go to sleep just in case I have a story idea during the night.
3. Have a support network.
I have people in my life who know me well enough and like me well enough to badger me, to be the two year old in the backseat: Are you done yet? Are you done yet? Are you ...
Yes, you don’t want too much of that but I can’t tell you how many times just knowing there were people who would realize I was slacking off, how much that motivated me to shake off the blahs, the negative thoughts, and keep going. And not only to keep going, it helped fan the fading ember of enthusiasm, of passionate affection, back to life.
4. Have a system.
I almost entitled this point “outline” but decided against it because, while I think everyone would benefit from having some sort of system I don’t think everyone would benefit from outlining. Different strokes and all that.
Take where I’m at right now. As I mentioned, I’m slogging through the middle of my story, poised right between, right on the cusp, of my kick-ass protagonist confronting the Big Bad.
I think what was bothering me about the scene was that she was too passive. But anyway. I turned away from my slog to do something (for me) infinitely more pleasurable—write a simple VB program in an attempt to find an objective measure for whether (given my tastes and predilections) a book is well written.
That has taken me away from my WIP for almost a week, but I’m able to go back and reengage with my material because I made an outline.
Yes, things in the story have changed, have deviated in small and large ways from the outline. And that’s fine. That’s as it should be. A story is a living, breathing, entity that has a will and a trajectory of its own.
Still, though, my outline keeps me tethered to the main themes, it helps me keep in mind the major beats and why they’re there. It tells me where I’m headed.
So, that’s my advice: Have a system. It doesn’t have to be a detailed system. Your system may be to collect images of what your characters look like from the many interesting recesses of the internet and pin them to various boards using Pinterest. Or you may scout the internet for exotic photos that may become the various locations in your novel. Perhaps you even have it worked out that this location, these people, come onstage in the beginning, then we shift to this board of pictures over here for the middle and then ... and so on.
The important thing is to have something that will help you get back into the groove if life calls you away, interrupts your progress, and steals the momentum you’ve build up.
5. Do something you love.
Do something that feeds your soul. Something that, when you hold the image of it in your mind, makes you smile.
6. Imagine something wonderful.
Writing is imagining. Use your imagination to experience how you will feel, not just once you’ve completed the first draft, but once you’ve done the last edit, once you’ve received your manuscript back from your copy editor and, by god, you’re done! Finished.
It’s quite the feeling, quite the high to have not only birthed a story but shared that story with the world.
Our stories are potentially immortal. They carry with them a bit of who we are, a bit of our souls, ensuring that a part of us will live on. If that’s not something to get excited about, I don’t know what is.
Photo credit: "Canon EOS 1N and Kodak Ultramax 400 - Cat shot" by Kevin Dooley under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0.
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Descriptivism and Word Lists
In the next few weeks and months, in addition to looking at the abstract principles of writing I want to spend time examining actual writing. I want to dissect various novels in an effort to understand how they’ve been put together as well as what makes them work.
“Very” is a four letter word
A few days ago I came across this article from litreactor.com: “8 Words to Seek and Destroy in Your Writing.” It’s a good list. I agree with Mark Twain that the word “very” should be used sparingly, if at all, and there are other words and phrases (“it’s a fact that”) which don’t add meaning to sentences. The more unnecessary words a sentence has, the more difficult it is to read.
But one of the lists I came across included “you” as a problem word. Another listed “as.” Yet another advised writers to eschew “fierce” in favor of “ferocious.”
Everyone has their own opinions on these things, and that’s as it should be—it would be intensely boring if we agreed with each other about everything—but in my humble opinion advising writers not to use the word “you” is crazy!
Prescriptivists vs Descriptivists
In linguistics there’s a distinction between those who champion one way of speaking over another—prescriptivists—and those who objectively analyze and describe how a language is spoken—descriptivists.
I’m more of a descriptivist. In that spirit, I wanted to spend time looking at various kinds of books and examining how they’ve been put together. I would like to discover, as much as possible, what makes them great (or terrible).
To start with, I think it would be illuminating to take a look at the words most commonly used in various kinds of books. That way, if I’m writing (for example) a mystery story I could look up what words mystery writers tended to avoid as well as which ones they tended to use.
Note that this exercise isn’t about finding words a writer should use or those they shouldn’t; that’s completely up to the writer. There are no right or wrong words, but I think information about relative word frequency could be interesting and helpful.
I propose to divide books up into two broad categories:
A. Best selling books.
For my purposes I’m going to count any book that has made it onto a national best seller list. For example, the New York Times Best Sellers list. Also, any book that has had a rank of 100 or less in the (paid) Kindle store is a best seller. (These books would be further divided according to genre.)
B. Award winning literary books.
This list would include books that won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Man Booker Prize, the Edgar Awards, the National Book Awards, and so on.
I’m interested in what are the most commonly used words in books in each of these categories and subcategories. Further, I’m interested in whether particular words are unique to particular categories. However, since I do not have a lot of time to spend on this, I’ll initially limit myself to, say, 20 books in all. That is not going to be a representative sample (not even close!), but hopefully it will be enough to reveal an interesting pattern or two.
Weak Words
I’ve compiled a list of words I’m going to call “weak words.” These are words like “very” and “literally,” words that generally don’t add to the meaning of sentences and so serve only to bloat them, making them harder to read.
As a descriptivist it would seem to stand to reason that if there is a certain word every award winning literary book uses then beginning writers shouldn’t be encouraged to steer clear of it (for example, “you”). Similarly, if no literary book uses a certain word (for example, “very”)—or if only a smattering of them do—then it would be interesting to investigate further and see if there’s a reason for that.
I hope that when I’m finished with my investigation I’ll be able to publish an article entitled, “Top 10 Words Award-Winning Literary Writers Never Use.” (It would be interesting if there was a word that literary writers never used that best selling writers always did and vice versa.)
Although Stephen King generally isn’t regarded as a literary writer, I’m particularly interested in seeing the difference between the 100 most common words in Stephen Kings’ “Under The Dome” and Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight.”
While I’m at it, I also want to take a look at the first 300 words of a few novels—novels I’ve loved, novels I would have been thrilled to write. I expect it will turn out that many of these novels communicate a lot of information quickly and in such a way that it draws the reader in.
Specifically, I want to ask the following questions:
1. What is the narrative point of view?
Is it first-person, second-person, third-person? Does the POV alternate between viewpoint characters?
2. If the POV is third-person then:
a. Is the narrator ensconced inside a character (the viewpoint character)?
b. If yes to (a) is the narrator the same entity as the viewpoint character or are they different. For example, does the narrator know things that the viewpoint character couldn’t.
3. Does the narrator float between viewpoint characters?
4. How many of the characters are introduced? What do we know about them from the descriptions given?
5. What are the character’s goals? What is their motivation for pursing their goals?
6. Has the writer set up a time-frame in which the character’s must obtain their goal? (I like to think of this as a ticking clock.)
I believe it will turn out that most novels establish the answers to these questions in the first few paragraphs.
If this goes well, down the road I wouldn’t mind looking at the first 300 or so words of short stories and comparing the amount of information imparted there to the amount given at the beginnings of novels. It would be interesting to see just how much more information is crammed into the first few paragraphs of a short story.
That’s it! I missed a post this week so I’ll blog again on Saturday (tomorrow) and talk about my analysis of J.K. Rowling’s, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”
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Try-Fail Cycles And The Gap
As many of you know, I’m reading Robert McKee’s, Story. It seems like each page—certainly each chapter—he looks at an old concept in a new way, one that reveals fresh and previously unsuspected dimensions of the writer’s craft. Today, I want to talk about a concept McKee introduces, one related to but distinct from try-fail cycles: the gap.
Try-fail cycles
We’re all familiar with try-fail cycles. The protagonist wants something. He tries to get it. A complication is thrown in his way. He circumvents the complication and forges ahead seeking the object of his desire. Another complication gets in his way. And so on until the end of the scene when the character either achieves his object of desire or is denied it.
You see the pattern: desire, action, result. The protagonist desires something, tries to get it several times, fails each time because of a complication he didn’t foresee and then, finally, either achieves his desire or fails to do so.
I think the gap is a part of many, if not most, try-fail cycles. Here’s how McKee explains it in Story:
“The protagonist seeks an object of desire beyond his reach. Consciously or unconsciously he chooses to take a particular action, motivated by the thought or feeling that this act will cause the world to react in a way that will be a positive step toward achieving his desire. From his subjective point of view the action he has chosen seems minimal, conservative, yet sufficient to effect the reaction he wants. But the moment he takes this action, the objective realm of his inner life, personal relationships, or extra-personal world, or a combination of these, react in a way that’s more powerful or different than he expected.
“This reaction from his world blocks his desire, thwarting him and bending him further from his desire than he was before he took this action. Rather than evoking cooperation from his world, his action provokes forces of antagonism that open up the gap between his subjective expectation and the objective result, between what he thought would happen when he took his action and what in fact does happen between his sense of probability and true necessity.”
An Example of The Gap at Work: The Matrix
Mckee uses the script from Chinatown to illustrate the gap, and it is a terrific example, but I’m not going to use it. Why? Because McKee used it in his book of course it’s a great example! Of course it works! Instead, I’m going to look at one of my favorite movies, The Matrix.
There’s a scene at the beginning of The Matrix where Trinity is sitting in a room with police officers encircling her, their guns drawn, ready to shoot. Remember it? That’s the scene I want to talk about.
There aren’t a lot of try-fail cycles in this scene. Police officers try to arrest Trinity (as their lieutenant described her, “one little girl,”) and she kills them. Further, she kills them by doing things like running along walls and using visually stunning martial arts moves. (Later on she discovers that agents—beings who can kill her—are after her, but that’s later in the sequence.)
There are three perspectives we can view this scene from: Trinity, the police officers and the audience.
The expectation of the POLICE:
The police officers assume that, though this particular situation may be a little strange, they can handle it. After all, it’s only “one little girl.”
The reality the POLICE find:
The police find a young woman who has a fondness for black plastic, one who is a killing machine.
The expectation of the police and the reality they find are way off. There’s a huge gap. That’s part of what makes this scene interesting.
The expectation of TRINITY:
Trinity is suspicious that her line was tapped but she believes Cypher when he says it’s clean. She expects to receive the call that will allow her to escape the Matrix.
The reality TRINITY finds:
Not only doesn’t the call come, but police officers surround her, guns drawn. She’s not worried about the police, she knows she can handle them, but now she knows the line was tapped. How is that possible? What does it mean?
The expectation of the VIEWER:
The first time I watched The Matrix this scene was an eye-popper. I suspected Trinity was much more lethal than she seemed, but I had no idea what form that would take.
The entire scene was extreme. First, it is not very often that one of the good guys kills police officers. That was shocking. Second, the way she killed them ... I don’t think anyone had seen anything like it before. The combination of martial arts moves and special effects was cinematic eye candy.
In the end, what matters is the reaction of the audience, but the reactions of the characters feed into this. As we watch, we process the reaction of the police officers. We understand the gap between what they expected and what they found. We also understand the gap between what Trinity expected and what she found. This all goes into our reaction, it adds depth to it.
One of the things I like about McKee’s way of looking at scene building—his notion of the gap—is that it emphasizes the inner world of the character. It focuses the writer’s mind, as well as the readers/viewers, on the character’s thoughts and expectations. In so doing, it emphasizes that this inner world is going to be at variance with the world of the story. After all, if everything was exactly as our characters imagined there would be no story; at least, not an interesting one.
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Spice Up A Boring Scene With Conflict
Have you ever written a boring scene? Of course! We all have. It’s called a first draft. Today, though, I’m talking about scenes that have snappy dialogue and vivid descriptions and yet are better than warm milk at putting readers to sleep.
When presented with a scene like this a writer has two choices: cut it and send it to the great recycle bin in the sky or make it work. One way to make a lifeless scene work is to add conflict.
On Monday, I began looking at how conflict can add interest to what would otherwise be a boring scene by examining a scene from Michael Bay’s movie, "The Rock." Today I’m going to talk about Chris Winkle’s article: “Five Ways to Add Conflict to Your Story."
1. Put the good guys and gals in a jar and shake!
Give the protagonist’s allies deep and abiding differences. Give them differences that can make it impossible for them to work together, even though they're both--theoretically--on the same side.
The classic example here--it even has a trope named after it--is Leonard McCoy and Spock. These characters embodied two opposing states or qualities: Reason/logic versus emotion.
For example, this is a familiar scenario from Star Trek: A member of the away team has beamed down to a hostile world. He is in trouble. If the Captain doesn't intervene, he'll die. The problem: If the Captain uses advanced technology to rescue the team member, then he will violate the Prime Directive. (Like that hasn't happened about a zillion times!)
Spock: You can do nothing, Captain. To interfere would violate the Prime Directive. Logic dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one. The crewman must be sacrificed.
Bones: Spock, you pointy-eared hobgoblin, do you have ice water for blood?! He is our crewman; we can't just leave him out there to rot. It's not civilized, it's not human.
Spock: Doctor, I fail to see what his species has to do with it.
Kirk: Gentlemen!
Or the difference could be more light-hearted, Bones looking forward to the diversions of a pleasure-planet versus Spock's complete disinterest.
2. Ramp up the protagonist’s inner conflict.
Protagonists are just like your average human--even when they’re from another galaxy. They want things that are mutually exclusive. For example, they want their parents to be proud of them but they also want to live their own lives as they see fit. Sometimes these two goals coincide--often they don’t.
Spock’s father wanted him to attend the Vulcan Science Academy but Spock chose, instead, to join Star Fleet. His father was not pleased. It made those rare times when he stayed on the Enterprise especially interesting.
3. Have a strong rivalry between the protagonist and the scene antagonist.
Winkle writes that what is important in an enemy is that “their goals and methods directly conflict with your hero’s.”
For instance, if a scene is dragging but you don’t want to cut it then think about introducing an enemy, one whose goals and methods are opposite to those of the protagonist.
Winkle suggests that to amp up the interest you could make the scene antagonist someone who the protagonist hurt in the past or vice versa.
4. Cripple your protagonist temporarily.
Take a proverbial crow bar to your protagonist’s kneecaps right when he needs them the most. (This is what happens at the Major Setback.)
For example, perhaps the hero has something, perhaps a magical gem, magical powers or perhaps a person (for instance, his mentor) he counts on to help him achieve his goal. Take this away, take away his support system, and take it away at the worst possible moment. (for example, when Obi Wan Kenobi dies in “Star Wars: A New Hope.”)
Or you could disgrace your protagonist socially. Perhaps your protagonist is the CEO of a company that needs the goodwill of its investors to bring her plans to fruition. If she is disgraced, this backing will disappear. Alternatively, perhaps the protagonist is about to sign a lucrative, life changing, contract with a large company when pictures of her posing beside dead exotic animals surface.
5. Bring on the destructor!
Winkle’s subtitle for this point is “Unleash Disaster,” which is a much better subtitle, but I re-watched “Ghostbusters” last week and couldn’t resist.
If you’ve ever played “SimCity,” you know the unholy glee of unleashing a disaster on your unsuspecting Sims. It can be entertaining to sit back and revel in the destruction, comfortable in the knowledge you’ve saved the game.
The same thing goes for your story. Winkle writes:
“There are all sorts of natural disasters waiting to challenge your hero and endanger innocent bystanders. Disasters work well for characters that are traveling. They’re also a great option if you need a conflict that only shows up once, then disappears.”
Well said! And it can be a good way of killing off unnecessary characters.
Natural disasters can transform a setting in short order, mixing things up, introducing multiple sources of conflict: food and water shortages, different and more severe weather patterns and of course all sorts of wild and hungry beasties wandering around.
“Five Ways to Add Conflict to Your Story,” by Chris Winkle is a terrific article, one I highly recommend.
That’s it! If one of your scenes drags, how do you fix it?
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Bayhem And The Importance of Conflict
Today I want to take a look at Michael Bay's movie The Rock and examine how Bay uses conflict to keep our eyes on the screen.
The Importance of Conflict
At the time The Rock (1996) was released several critics were less than kind. Though generally positive in his comments, Roger Ebert pointed out that the movie borrowed from: The Fugitive, Bullitt, Escape From Alcatraz, The Third Man, Alien, Die Hard and Pulp Fiction.
Nevertheless, Ebert concluded his review of the movie by saying:
"No matter. Director Michael Bay ("Bad Boys") orchestrates the elements into an efficient and exciting movie, with some big laughs, sensational special effects sequences, and sustained suspense. And it's interesting to see how good actors like Connery, Cage and Harris can find a way to occupy the center of this whirlwind with characters who somehow manage to be quirky and convincing. There are several Identikit Hollywood action stars who can occupy the center of chaos like this, but not many can make it look like they think they're really there. Watching "The Rock," you really care about what happens. You feel silly later for having been sucked in, but that's part of the ride."
Roger Ebert, to my surprise, gave The Rock 3.5 out of a possible 4 stars.
I agree. I watched this movie to be entertained. Well, that, and to try and understand why Michael Bay's films work. (And, despite what his numerous critics say, they do work, especially at the Box Office.)
Here's why I think Michael Bay's movies work: Conflict. Namely, the expert management of sustained conflict.
(That, and keeping the viewer slightly off-balance, not giving them a chance to look away. This, though, is more about cinematography. By the way, one of my marvelous Google+ contacts, +Chris Pitchford, shared this link to what I thought was a valuable, thoughtful, analysis of what makes Michael Bay's movies work: Michael Bay: What is Bayhem?)
In any case, as I watched The Rock I thought about Winkle's article, Five Ways to Add Conflict to Your Story, and thought about how these tips/tricks could be seen in Michael Bay's work.
For example, Winkle writes: "Conflict is what makes a story interesting."
And I think that the success of The Rock supports that point.
For example (spoiler warning) the last scene of the movie has Stanley Goodspeed (played by Nickolas Cage) running from a chapel towards a beaten up old car. The car has a "just married" sign taped to the back and tin cans have been attached to the bumper via string. Stanley's bride--still wearing her white wedding dress--is behind the steering wheel watching for her husband. Stanley bursts out of the chapel pursued by a cleric who passionately accuses him of filching something. Cage hops in the car and his bride floors it. The car shoots forward, trailing streamers and a host of tin cans. As the car pulls away Stanley examines the package he absconded with: a roll of microfilm. The tiny package holds the governments most guarded secrets: Who shot JFK? Do aliens exist? And so on.
The scene is very short. The needed information is communicated--Stanley found the microfilm--but what could have been a fairly dull scene was turned into a spectacle, something that didn't give the audience the opportunity to look away--not that we wanted to.
And how did Michael Bay accomplish this? Through conflict. Through spectacle. The conflict: the cleric pursuing Stanley. The spectacle: a cleric chasing a groom out of the chapel he was just married him. Their getaway car trails paper streamers and tin cans. That has to be the worst getaway car in the history of movies! But that's just it, the whole thing is over the top.
Cage finding the microfilm could have been dull. It's not like at the end of Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark where we see the warehouse that seems to stretch to infinity, providing another (similar) hint of mystery. It is as though the movie says: here are the secrets worth knowing. And then they are placed beyond our reach.
In my post on Wednesday I'll talk about Chris Winkle's article, Five Ways to Add Conflict to Your Story, and explore how inserting conflict into an otherwise lackluster scene can help make it pop.
- Roger Ebert's review of The Rock.
- Michael Bay - What is Bayhem?
- Five Ways to Add Conflict to Your Story by Chris Winkle.
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Roy Peter Clark Tells Us How To Write Better Prose
Sometimes I make the most wonderful discoveries.
Case in point, two days ago, as I wove my way through the jungle of the Internet I came upon Roy Peter Clark and his book Writing Tools. That would have been wonderful all by itself, but it got better!
Next I discovered Mr. Clark had narrated 50 podcasts, one for each chapter in his book ... and that each chapter's narration was only about 2 minutes each! And it's free! If you'd like to take a look, here's the link: Roy's Writing Tools.
So far I've listened to the first 10 podcasts. At that time I'd been putting the finishing touches on a story and I think it helped polish up my prose.
By the way, I had no idea who Roy Peter Clark was so here's a short bio:
"Roy Peter Clark (born 1948) is an American writer, editor, and teacher of writing who has become a writing coach to an international community of students, journalists, and writers of many sorts. He is also senior scholar and vice president of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a journalism think-tank in St. Petersburg, Florida, and is the founder of the National Writers Workshop. Clark has appeared on several radio and television talk shows, speaking about ethics in journalism and other writing issues." (Roy Peter Clark, Wikipedia)
Enough background, let's jump in.
10 ways to make your prose stronger
1. Begin sentences with subjects and verbs.
This is called a right-branching sentence which is one that has the main clause on the far right. If it were on the far left then--you guessed it!--we'd call it a left-branching sentence.
Here's an example of a right-branching sentence:
"The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years—if it ever did end—began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain." (Stephen King, It)
That's the opening line from Stephen King's It. The core sentence reads: The terror began with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.
Beautiful! We're oriented immediately. What is King going to be talking about? The terror. What about the terror? How it began. Then he goes on to talk about a boat made of newspaper. My reaction: That is a mighty odd way for something referred to as "the terror" to begin. Instantly, I'm interested.
But anyway, that was a digression. A right-branching sentence gives us the subject--the doer--and the verb--the action--right up front so that when we pile on qualifiers there's less of a chance readers will become confused.
Clarity is king! (Yes, that was a little punny.)
2. Order words for emphasis. Place strong words at the beginning of a sentence or at the end.
It's the same with paragraphs. The first word of a paragraph, as well as the last, should pack a punch. Here's an example from Shakespeare:
"The Queen, my Lord, is dead."
There we have the emphasis at the end. Pow!
3. Use strong verbs.
We've heard this advice before but it is so very true. Strong verbs help create interesting, engaging, stories.
Strong verbs:
- Create action
- Save words
- Reveal the players
Ian Flemming, creator of James Bond, was particularly skilled at using strong verbs. Here's the key: we want our characters to preform the action of the verb. For example:
"Bond climbed the stairs."
"Sunlight filtered through the curtains."
Simple. Uncluttered. Clear.
Mr. Clark quotes George Orwell as saying: Never use the passive where you can use the active.
4. Use passive verbs to showcase the victim of the action.
It used to be that when folks stressed the importance of strong verbs I'd wonder: Is there really no place for weak verbs? There is!
Mr. Clark uses this sentence to demonstrate this point, it's from Steinbeck:
"The night was loaded with omens."
Steinbeck could have written, "Omens loaded the night," but Mr. Clark writes that this would have been unfair to both the night, the omens and the music of the sentence. I agree.
5. Use adverbs to change the meaning of a sentence.
When I first heard the advice to forgo using adverbs I was boggled. Why the hate for adverbs? How else should we say something like, "I was not able to go"?
Of course it's not adverbs, all adverbs, so much as it is "-ly" adverbs, adverbs such as justly, enthusiastically, dismally, loudly, and so on.
For instance,
"Turn down the music," she screamed loudly.
Typing that hurt! Why? Well, how else would one scream other than loudly? "Loudly" doesn't add anything to that sentence and so works counter to our over-riding goal: clarity.
But what about,
"Turn down the music," Jan screamed weakly.
That gives us something new. "Angrily" or "desperately" wouldn't have worked as well because often--though not always--when people scream they're angry or even desperate. However weakness isn't part of the concept of screaming so it's adding something new, perhaps even something unexpected. Why is she weak?
Perhaps it would be better if we wrote something like:
"Turn down the music," Jan screamed, or tried to. What came out was an unintelligible sound, a dry rasping, nearly drowned out by the pounding of her heart. She couldn't catch her breath. There was someone in the house, someone else, someone who shouldn't be there, but who could hear anything above the discordant jangling of the music? Clinging to the banister, she gasped for breath and with a trembling hand reached for her asthma inhaler.
Or something like that.
In the last example I used words to try and paint a picture. I wanted to show the reader that Jan was desperate and give him or her a peek behind the curtain, give him or her an idea why Jan was desperate.
Rule of thumb: Use "-ly" adverbs only if they change the meaning of the verb. For example, "She smiled sadly."
6. Take it easy on the INGs.
Minimize ING endings, use "s" or "ed" instead. Why?
a. Adding ING adds a syllable to the word.
b. ING words tend to resemble each other.
Which sentence do you prefer?
i. My friend Kelly likes to walk, run, cycle and swim.
ii. My friend Kelly likes walking, running, cycling and swimming.
7. Don't be afraid to use long sentences.
Mr. Clark writes that length will make a bad sentence worse but it will make a good sentence better.
Here are some tips on making long sentences work:
a. Have the subject and main verb come early in the main clause of the sentence.
b. Use the long sentence to describe something long. For example, a long elevator ride, trip, walk, etc.
c. Let form follow function.
d. Write the action of the sentence in chronological order.
e. Use long sentences alongside sentences of short and medium length.
8. Establish a pattern and then give it a twist.
Mr. Clark tells us to build parallel constructions but cut across the grain. For example:
Parallel: Faith, hope and love. (Each noun has equal impact.)
Parallel with a twist: Faith, hope and being kind and nice to your neighbors even though they're terrible to you.
Pure parallel structure: boom, boom, boom.
Parallel with a twist: boom, boom, bang.
Mr. Clark points out that Superman doesn't stand for truth, justice and patriotism, he stands for truth, justice and the American way. Two parallel nouns with a twist.
9. Let punctuation control pace and space.
We punctuate for two reasons:
a. To set the pace of the reading.
b. To divide words, phrases and ideas into convenient groupings.
A sentence with no punctuation but a period is a straight road with a stop sign at the end.
A paragraph with a lot of periods in it will have a lot of stop signs and therefore a slower pace. This is good for providing clarity, for conveying emotion and for creating suspense.
Comma: Speed bump
Semi-colon: A rolling stop
Parenthetical expression: A detour.
Colon: Flashing yellow light that announces something important is up ahead.
Dash: Tree branch in the road.
10. Prune the big limps then shake out the dead leaves.
Simply put: Cut big then small. Mr. Clark holds that creativity must be moderated by cold-hearted judgement.
Brevity comes from selection not compression. Lift entire blocks from the work.
- Cut any passage that does not support your focus.
- Cut the weakest quotations, anecdotes and scenes to give greater power to the strongest.
- Cut any passage you have written to satisfy a tough teacher or editor rather than the common reader.
- Mark optional trims, then decide whether they should be actual cuts.
- Murder your darlings.
That's it! I hope you found something that could help put a little extra zing in your writing.
Once again, these points have come from Roy Peter Clark's series of podcasts entitled Roy's Writing Tools.
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Kristen Lamb: 5 Steps To Writing Success
Writing Success
Kristen Lamb writes the best posts! I love her writing style; it feels as though just the two of us are sitting together, having a cup of coffee, chatting.
Yesterday Kristen came out with another fabulous post, this time about how to unlock writing success.
1) Passion
Obviously writers need passion, but a lot of the time this ingredient is overlooked. Kristen writes:
This should be a, “Yeah, no duh,” but, sadly, it isn’t. I meet a lot of people who say they want to be a professional author, but the second they face any opposition or criticism they give up. Here is the thing, if we really LOVE it, we won’t give up.
2) Self-Discipline
It may seem counter-intuitive, but my experience has been that the more you write the more you can write. For myself, this has become apparent through blogging. Each weekday I post two blog posts, one per day on the weekend/holidays.
Of course, life happens. But, usually, generally, that's my blogging schedule. And you know what? I've found I can sit down and write more fiction! (* knock on wood *) The blank page doesn't invoke in me the horror/anxiety it once did. Kristen writes:
One of the main reasons I am such a proponent of blogging is that it trains writers for a professional pace. It trains us to meet deadlines. Disciplined people work no matter what, and they finish what they start.
I have a feeling that, compared to Kristen I'm something of a wuss, but she's right: Writer's write.
3) Humility
Kristen says it best:
I used to have a problem with deadlines and self-discipline. I had the attention span of a crack-addicted fruit bat. That was why I began blogging. I knew that those character flaws would always limit me. Even though it was embarrassing to admit I had some deep flaws, it would have been impossible to ever combat that weakness if I hadn’t mustered the courage and humility to recognize where I fell fatally short.
I love that description! "The attention span of a crack-addicted fruit bat." Describes me to a tee! So nice to know others suffer from that particular malady.
My theory is that many writers are held back from writing because they feel they must be perfect, that what they write must be perfect. In my view, as long as someone holds on to that idea the act of writing will be fraught with anxiety. It is when we let go of expectations--those of our parents, those of society and, most importantly, our own--that we can be free to express who we really are.
4) Healthy Relationship with Failure
Kristen writes:
If we aren’t failing, then we aren’t doing anything interesting. Expect failure. Better yet, embrace failure.
Amen! Another person to preach this particular message is Seth Godin, and I couldn't agree more. I think it ties in with what I said above about letting go of the idea that we must be perfect. We need to allow ourselves to fail. Repeatedly. Unless we embrace failure, we'll never succeed.
5) Be Bold: Try Something New
This point is mine, you can't blame Kristen for it! :p If you've been writing mostly in, say, the paranormal genre shake it up and try writing something for another genre, romance for instance. They say that variety is the spice of life, try something new! Often times doing something unusual or uncommon can refresh our daily routine.
To read Kristen Lamb's entire article, click here: Unlocking Your Great Future—5 Keys to Writing Success
Well, that's it! I hope you have a productive writing day. Cheers!
Oh, by the way, Kristen Lamb has set up an archive of royalty free images over at Flickr called, Wana Commons. Nice!
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Radio Nova Interested in Taking Over RTE DAB Frequencies
Radio Nova has expressed an interest in taking over RTE’s national DAB frequencies; the State Broadcaster announced last night that it is to close its DAB network as part of a major cost rationalisation drive at the station. RTE DAB services include RTE Gold, RTE Pulse, RTE Junior, RTE 2XM and RTE Radio 1 Extra.
Radio Nova’s Kevin Branigan said, “We have made no secret in recent years of our desire to bring Radio Nova national. We’ve made weighty submissions, backed up by strong independent research, to the BAI that shows we can bring more choice and diversity to listeners outside the Dublin commuter belt area and create new jobs in the radio indsustry. Unfortunately, current BAI policy is to maintain the status quo. It’s interesting to see that RTE now intends to switch off its DAB services and our message on this is clear – if RTE doesn’t want the national DAB frequencies, we will happily take them over”.
“We intend to investigate the matter in the coming days”, says Branigan.
Radio Nova is licenced as a guitar-based music radio service to broadcast to Dublin city, county and commuter belt (Kildare, Meath, Wicklow). It employs a team of 25 at its based in the Dublin Docklands. The service currently has 142.000 listeners.
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I’m a doctor these are the things I find concerning with Trump’s medical letter
Posted byDr. Jen Gunter August 16, 2016 January 17, 2017
215 Comments on I’m a doctor these are the things I find concerning with Trump’s medical letter
Donald Trump is talking about Hillary Clinton’s health as are two doctors who have never evaluated Clinton. They have apparently diagnosed her with all kinds of ailments using the long disproven Fox-Drudge equation.
This attention on Clinton has renewed some interest in the letter Donald Trump released last year from his personal physician.
Many outlets have picked it apart, but I want to tell you as a doctor exactly how bad it is. I would never write anything this terrible for a Jury Duty excuse or a back to work note, never mind something that half the country (and possibly half the world) might see or could possibly end up one day in a Presidential Library!
There are so many issues with the letter I’m going to just start at the beginning:
The header has a non working web address and doctors don’t include e-mail addresses in letters.
It is incredibly rare for doctors to include an e-mail address in this kind of correspondence because we don’t want the person receiving the letter (e.g. the entire press corps or the place of work or the disability insurance company) to e-mail back with questions about our patient’s health. This could lead to a HIPAA (privacy) violation. Also, gmail is not a secure method of communication, so most doctors don’t want to use it for medical information. We doctors also don’t put our e-mail address in letters because we don’t want patients using unsecured methods of contact. I’m happy to have my patients e-mail me, they just need to do it through our secure server. The e-mail address is really odd, but then again it could be a fancy concierge doctor thing.
Except a fancy concierge doctor would probably have a working website. Really, you’re writing a letter for someone who wants to be President and this is what we get at http://www.haroldbornsteinmd.com, a weird website with a name and links to other services?
2. Lenox Hill has a Division of Gastroenterology not a Section and Dr. Bornstein isn’t listed on the website as a member.
Dr. Bornstein is affiliated with Lenox Hill, but he is not part of their Division of Gastroenterology. There also isn’t a Department of Medicine there is a Division of General Internal Medicine and Dr. Bornstein isn’t a member of that either. Having admitting privileges and being a division member are not the same thing. Many hospitals allow doctors to have admitting privileges and not be department or division members. And what’s with this made up Section?
It is also very odd for a doctor in a private practice to use their admitting privileges address under their signature if it is not the same as their practice address.
3. The letter starts with a typo.
I’m the typo queen so I’m not really one to judge, but if a patient of mine were running for President and needed a letter I’d make damn sure it was typo free.
4. No doctor describes tests as “only positive results” or “astonishingly excellent.”
“Only positive results” is gibberish. Some tests are good if they are positive and some are bad if they are positive. Some results are just not binary. For example a hemoglobin (blood count) is a number and not positive or negative.
What are “astonishingly excellent” laboratory test results? I’m a doctor and I don’t know. Is it astonishing that a 70 year old man has normal results? Are his results all exactly average which is good – but wait, I thought his tests are all positive?
And while we’re at it doctors just don’t say “laboratory test results” that sounds like something on a soap opera.
5. Doctors don’t say “test score” we just give the results
The conventional way to reference PSA would be PSA 0.81 ng/ml (normal < 4 ng/ml). A test score is something that happens at the DMV.
6. How did Dr. Bornstein test Donald Trump’s strength and stamina?
Did he have him bench press in the office? Do a treadmill test? Doctor’s just don’t typically write vague, quasi-medical things in letters. I’ve also never heard of a stamina test.
An internist might test muscle strength as part of a physical exam, but the results are graded 0-5 and 5 is not secret code for extraordinary it’s code for normal.
7. “The healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”
Every news site has pointed out how ridiculous this is. Dr. Bornstein is not a medical historian who runs a Presidential health archives and obviously Washington and Lincoln never had their PSA checked for comparison. The first blood pressure cuff was invented in 1881, so yeah.
8. There is no useful health information.
Someone with Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s could have a normal blood pressure, normal PSA, take 81 mg aspirin and be on a “low dose” (we don’t know the exact dose or type) statin. So could someone with diabetes or someone who had a heart stent placed last year or who had a stroke four years ago.
Things I don’t find concerning
That Dr. Bornstein is a gastroenterologist. Often when internal medicine specialists start out they accept both general medicine and specialty patients. As the years go by they stop accepting general patients, but often hang on to a few favorites or high-profile patients. It’s done less now, but in the 70s and 80s it was more common. Bornstein may very well have been seeing Trump in that capacity. But yes, a healthy man would not need to see a gastroenterologist until the age of 50.
Newsweek pointed out the letter was made on Microsoft Word, but the header on my work letters is generated in the same type as the letter. Sadly, many doctors don’t use lovely heavy bond paper with nice letterhead anymore. But you know when I would? If I were writing a letter for someone who is running for President.
The signature. I hit return a lot for my huge signature and still sometimes scrawl all over the address. Hey, I’m a doctor.
It’s a terrible letter.
Did Dr. Bornstein write it? If so he should be embarrassed. It’s medically illiterate and if he doesn’t know his website doesn’t work or if that he’s not in the Division of Gastroenterology that’s an issue.
Did Trump write it? He’ll never tell. It certainly reads like a letter written by someone with close to no knowledge of Dr. Bornstein’s practice or medicine.
All I can say is typos and weird links and mentions of non existent sections of gastroenterology and nonsensical medical information aside the letter provides essentially no medical information.
After this was posted someone mentioned that Dr. Jacob Bornstein died in 2010.
Was an old doctor’s letter used as a template with the person copying the letterhead not knowing or remembering that the elder Dr. Bornstein had passed away? Is this Dickensian six year old letterhead with the name of the deceased still at the top?
Posted byDr. Jen Gunter August 16, 2016 January 17, 2017 Posted indoctor-patient relations, Politics and medicineTags: electronic medical records, Politics and medicine
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Michael Finfer, MD says:
You have not said this in so many words, but I am thinking that this letter was fabricated.
I hope that I am incorrect, but given Trump’s history, I would no be surprised.
kirienblog says:
Well Dr Jacob’s obituary mentions a son named Harold who, according to the obituary, is a Doctor
xinit00 says:
Sure, but why would the dead elder doctor remain in the letterhead for the next half decade?
That does not mean the letter is legitimate. It could have been cooked up by someone else and used an actual doctor’s name. For that matter, anyone can open a gmail account using any name.
I have been thinking about the PSA. Assuming that the result is in ng/dl, it is awfully low, sort of unexpected in a 70 year old man. It’s the sort of result that you see in someone whose prostate has been ablated, such as after radiation therapy for prostate cancer. Perhaps someone picked a very low number out of thin air thinking low is good and not realizing the possible implications. On the other hand, it is not impossible for a healthy man to have a PSA that low. It is interesting, though.
Finn Nielsen says:
The obituary states that Jacob Bornsteins practice will continue under his name, and that he is survived by a son, Harold Bornstein, who is also indicated as a MD. The letter is consistent with the obituary. The letter is signed by Harold, who is not the one dead in 2010. Dr Gunter should be more careful with her writing.
There are plenty of other reasons to question the validity of the letter. Don’t add careless, unresearched accusations, which can only detract from the validity of the original argument.
Jacqueline Kramer Harris says:
Please note that the word “doctor” is not a proper noun. An adult should know this.
Rebecca M says:
Oh, it was totally fabricated. If you go to this page, http://www.whois.com/whois/haroldbornsteinmd.com, you’ll find the following information:
Updated Date: 03-may-2016
Creation Date: 07-apr-2016
Expiration Date: 07-apr-2017
What this means is that the doctor’s fine domain wasn’t even around in 2015. It was created in April of 2016, and the letter was probably produced after that. Also, if you read some of those words, you’ll notice it’s very Trumponian. He occasionally uses fancy words mixed in with his staccato of short, monosyllabic words and vague ideas.
Arno Neemers says:
Domains can expire and be re-registered. If you check domainhistory.net, you’ll see that the domain was first registered in 2009, expired some time after its fifth anniversary, and was then re-registered by a spammer on April 7th, 2016.
http://www.domainhistory.net/haroldbornsteinmd.com
You can also confirm that the domain was working fine (albeit, it had a hopelessly amateurish and minimally-informative website on it) as of just 18 days after the letter was dated, per archive.org:
https://web.archive.org/web/20151222104028/http://haroldbornsteinmd.com/
The website is a red herring; there are any number of reasons the doctor could have chosen not to renew it, and he can hardly go back and remove it from letters sent before he canceled the domain. 😉
There are plenty of other reasons for concern about the letter, though. The fact that this one was a non-story doesn’t change that.
dmittlem says:
Rebecca, your report from Whois is correct, but your extrapolation the site didn’t previously exist is incorrect.
web.archive.org (AKA the Wayback Machine) is an archive of snapshots of websites over the years. One can easily inspect what haroldbornsteinmd.com looked like on any given date a snapshot was taken. It appears the domain name was created sometime in 2011 and a real site went live in 2013. That site lasted until mid-2015 (near the end the CSS did not work properly), and then ceased to be active late 2015 as the domain name expired.
Decimae says:
Also, if you look at the site via the web archive, you can see that he claims to have The Joint Commission approval, yet the site of this commission does not know a Doctor Bornstein. May be useful for the author to look into.
wzrd1 says:
The page with the adverts on it is a fairly classic domain squatting page. Squatters grab the domain, but don’t actually put a site onto it. They park it and similar pages are presented when one tries to access that domain.
That way, they get ad hits from their presented ads and hit fees from the advertisers.
Terry May says:
Dr. Bornstein claims to have been treating Mr. Trump for 39 years, since 1980. His math skills are as bad as his writing skills.
motherwithoutcustody says:
LoL, that’s right! 😂
thomasthomason says:
Yeah, as others have pointed out, the website was functioning at the time of the letter and has since been taken over by a squatter. Dr. Gunter should probably just update her blog post to edit out the whole section on the website, because it just makes her look ignorant about how the web works. And that just calls into question her credibility on other issues raised.
The original article requires a follow-up. Since the article was written, much additional information has become available. Important questions remain.
Questions about the website seem to have been resolved. The website existed at the time of the letter and was then abandoned. The website seems to be now occupied by a squatter.
Questions about the identity of the doctor seem to have been resolved. The doctor’s first name is Harold. His father’s first name was Jacob. The clinic seems to be continued as a business in the father’s name. Therefore th econfusion, which is now resolved.
Harold Bornstein has been interviewed and he claims to have authored the letter in great haste, while a Trump limo was waiting at the front door. In other words, no examination was done at the time – perhaps not for a long time preceding the letter.
Authenticity of the signature on the letter is still open to questions.
The doctor claims qualifications, which are still open to questions.
It is certainly unusual for a doctor to use a gmail email address.
The letterhead raises questions. Did the limo driver bring a letter to the doctor’s office for his signature. Is this official letterhead.
The verbiage in the letter is very “Trumpish” and causes all kinds of questions to be raised – questions that would not normally be raised over a doctor’s medical evaluation.
Kristi Johnson says:
I doubt the limo story.
Again, a little digging should be able to determine the letterhead and the signature.
Actually, the website sprang into existence shortly before the letter was penned. It was abandoned immediately thereafter, in under a month.
The doctor claims in an interview to have “written the letter in 5 minutes”, I’ve gotten medical letters penned in a similar amount of time and none were ever so unprofessional or shoddy in appearance.
Nicholas Thompson says:
His signature also says FACG, meaning Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology.
I contacted them, he is not a Fellow, not ever a current member.
Dr. Bornstein used a false credential.
https://twitter.com/thompn4/status/765958082652504064
Nicholas, I did referencing in parallel to you. There is a search engine online to find an FACG in one’s area. It is at http://patients.gi.org/find-a-gastroenterologist/
gi.org is the American College of Gastroenterology site.
There is no Bornstein listed in New York City. The only Bornstein listed in the US as an FACG is a Jeffry Bornstein in Orlando. Even if Harold Bornstein retired, wouldn’t he still be listed? [Not sure of answer to this.]
Tuptop says:
Just as a note, you should black-out the name / email address (everything except the domain) of the person you contacted at the ACG, to prevent them from receiving hateful troll-mail. I wish this weren’t the case but this year it is certainly going to happen.
P Stahlhut says:
Spot on, Dr Finfer!
Noah Pen (@npina11) says:
Not vary important cause Trump looks healthy and Hillary does not.
scfp1952 says:
Looks can be deceiving – weren’t you EVER told that as a child ? Probably 90%+ of American children were; I know that I certainly was ?!?
Bob Bench says:
I know, right. His hair looks real and Hilary’s just looks hilarious. Ban 🕋🏗Big wall
That’s OK, I most certainly appear healthier than Trump. I guess that I should be POTUS, as at least, I know what our Constitution says, I don’t accept or solicit members of foreign governments for contributions and have a substantially greater grasp of both policy and the use of the English language.
My overall health scores, when appropriately cherry picked, also would be superior to Trump’s. After all, I’m 20 years younger.
My HDL and LDL cholesterol likely is superior to his ratio, toward the healthy side. My hyperthyroidism forced that to be true. 😉
DocPTG says:
I’ve been practicing medicine for nearly two decades. Outward appearances mean nothing.
Jake A. says:
I’m in my mid 50s, but most people who know me (but not my age) think I look like a healthy man in his 40s. The reality is that I have several health issues that are not obviously apparent, but put limits on a number of the things I can do. So, yes, looks can be very deceiving.
My Grandad looks like a healthy 80 year old, he has terminal bowel cancer, looks can be extremely deceiving.
Very. Not vary.
Deborah Lang says:
JonesMD says:
I am a physician. I am Board Certified. I am on Faculty of a Medical school. I have 25 years experience. That letter is exactly the type of letter that is written to comment on someone’s health. It looks like Dr. Gunter is still young and still has a few things to learn about the practice of medicine. Best Wishes.
Dr. Jen Gunter says:
I have 4 board certifications and too have 25 years experience as a physician. This letter is terrible.
Medical letters state facts and this reads like a letter that starts a romance novel at best.
Lurky McLurkerface says:
You still cannot Capitalize things Correctly. Oh man.
I literally LMAOed.
Doctors don’t write letters to “comment on someone’s health”. I imagine they give their professional opinions.
BronxRich says:
You are lying…and you obviously failed grammar as a child.
I have all the same credentials. And, if one of the residents I teach showed this to me, they’d be in a remediation plan.
Dr. Mossman says:
Hahaha, JonesMD, I’m pretty sure that your medical credentials are as much of a fabrication as this letter.
(Doctor with 16 years experience, also medical school faculty and Royal College credentialed.)
MRLOBTS says:
The letter claims Dr. Harold Bernstein has been Trump’s personal physician since 1980. That’s means he is at least in his mid-60s.
I don’t believe a word you’re saying. Your letter is fictitious, too. Otherwise, why did you not list your name and affiliation? Reason: because you’re not a physician.
Also, learn capitalization. None of the words you capitalized should be so, except for “Dr. Gunter.” A 10-year-old knows better.
I’m guessing that you have difficulties with “American Board of Pain Medicine and by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation” in the “About Me” page.
I know, knowing how to click other links on the page is something that requires a great deal of programming skill and that is likely beyond your capabilities.
Or something.
James Brown says:
I did a street view look at the address and could see no sign of a doctor’s office. Is there someone in NY who could check that too? My guess is that Trump’s PR man John Miller wrote it. 🙂
Dr. Harold B. is real and alive and currently licensed to practice medicine. His father has passed away.
Tuan Bui says:
We need to question trump about this letter. Period. We all know he has the capability of writing his own letter. Unfortunately, we hold a very low bar for him and it’s sad we can think of him as doing such a despicable thing. But hey it’s trump what else should we think?
joatic says:
But .. if this is a temporary fix, if his medical report is under audit?
chris kennington says:
what I find comical is you stated that no Doctor would send a letter from a Gmail account for security reasons..then respond to how Hilary as Secretary of State had CLASSIFIED e-mails on a server LESS SECURE THAN G-MAIL..and this was said by the Director of the F.B.I. clearly you are a Hilary fan, for a Doctor you are not that smart!. she lies constantly, she pander’s to any and ALL groups, and her going after the women who accused her husband of sexual harassment truly shows she doesn’t give a crap about women’s rights! and lastly, have you seen the countless video’s of Hilary’s medical issues?..where she makes huge facial ticks, truly bizarre noises, falling down a lot, coughing constantly..my point….SHE is not physically fit to run for President!. why won’t she get checked out by an impartial Doctor to prove she doesn’t have Dementia. answer that Doctor!
Mrs. Clinton’s letter reveals much more about her health than Trump’s does about his. That is fact.
If you want a discussion about national security and e-mail go elsewhere. I don’t cover that.
When you get a security clearance, we can speak intelligently on what is and what is not classified, the privileges of the executive branch and the infamous inability of our Congress to actually keep classified information undivulged.
Note how no charges were suggested as appropriate.
A hint: Multiple unclassified items can, when collated together, become classified.
Private mail servers can quite frequently be as secure or even more secure than Google’s mail services. I’ve run more than a few e-mail servers in my day, none were breached, although accounts have been breached due to lousy passwords used by end users.
Erm, Hillary Clinton doesn’t pander to *all* groups, she has yet to pander to neo nazis, the KKK and other extremist groups, unlike Trump, who has.
As for any “medical issues”, it isn’t a requirement to pass any physical, health qualifications aren’t part of the requirements for the office of POTUS and we’ve had many a very, very sick POTUS. Suddenly, one idiot, who is incapable of articulating a single policy, tries to pretend that there is such a requirement. That makes sense, as he can’t even get Constitutional law 101 right, to the point of inventing a section of the Constitution!
That said, I fall down a lot, it goes with having a herniated disc. Does that make me unfit for my duties as an information security officer? Nope. That also wouldn’t make me unfit for POTUS.
Remember President Ford?
The author did very poor research on this. The doctor wrote this as a retrospective of his practice’s dealing with the patient. That is why he included his father’s name on the report. His father headed the practice before him. The doctor is listed on Lenox Hill’s website in the specialty that he claims. The doctor did have an active website for many years, that he let lapse sometime after he wrote this letter, you can see see the original on the way back machine fairly easily. It was bought up by some entrepreneur after this article was published and now hawks Teddy Bears. There is no standard on how doctors would write this letter, but knowing many doctors I could see many writing this or something like if for many patients.
I’m a doctor and I would never write a letter like this. Compare it to the letter written by Mrs. Clinton’s doctor. The contrast is incredible.
I’ve had more than a few doctors write notes to my supervisory personnel over the decades, some, military physicians writing medical clearance for me to return to duty after a significant injury.
I’ve *never* saw such a vague, unprofessionally worded letter penned by a physician. Ever.
The wording and prose look more like a political flunky forging this more than any physician writing an endorsement of a candidate.
Frankly, if I had a physician write a letter like this, I’d instantly be finding a competent physician to take care of my medical needs, as I’d be unable to trust that individual professionally.
Charlie M. says:
Is there anything legitimate about Mr. Trump?
I think no
😅😂😁
Bruce388 says:
The bankruptcies and divorces are legitimate.
At least, that’s what his attorney insisted was the case.
I’ll admit, I’m not very understanding when investors get screwed or with frivolous divorces. But then, we’ve been married for 35 years, this December.
And I loathe when someone tries to scam me out of my hard earned money.
When the latter is attempted, I’m always highly tempted to tie the confidence man’s shoelaces together and make a loud noise.*
*The latter, a joking reference to what I’d do to a sleeping sentry, when opposing force in a military training environment. The rude noise being the removal of the blank firing adapter from my rifle and discharging a round while said boot laces were tied around a nearby tree.
Said sleeping ugly would then spring to his feet and kiss the nearby tree, with his Kevlar helmet protecting his face from excessive harm.
In short, a dirty trick designed to teach a life lesson.
jnjshelor says:
There is not anything legitimate about all of the fake posts and biased media reports about Trump for sure. I’m pretty sure most Americans know this though by now. Sigh…
Actually, Trump’s undermined his own credibility via his own mouth and tweets for quite some time now.
Pemnylady says:
His assyness is totally legit.
chickiesgirl says:
Assyness! That is perhaps the most accurate description of Trump’s personality(disorder) I’ve read to date. “His assyness is totally legit.” You have succeeded in distilling the essence of this moron into five beautifully rendered words. Bravo!
Judith Vance says:
Ambulance chaser?
Mon ☠ says:
Oooo this is exciting haha
Conman gonna con.
Laurie A. Duncan (@macsamurai) says:
Dr. Gunter, I’m *begging* you to fix the typo in your post title! “I’m a doctor these are the things I find concerning with Trump’s medical letter” – either add an “and” or make it 2 sentences. Other than that, good job 🙂
Just An Australian says:
As a non-doctor, what I find concerning with Trump’s letter is that you bothered to engage with it. It’s obviously meant to be understood as a fake.
Ah , the #KatrinaMoment , ” Can’t you tell it’s partially sarcastic ? ” 😉
“Wielding the Lasso of Truth”
“It’s a dirty job but someone’s gotta do it”
Correct me if I’m wrong , but with his blood pressure being 110/65 , I would have thought that was on the low side . ( Normally *around* 135 ) .
Tyckmyckna says:
Ok, I will: the “perfect” blood pressure is 120/80. 110/65 is a little low, but not alarmingly so.
Ronald J MacPherson says:
I am 73 and have a blood pressure of 115/70
drbob8 says:
Average BP is 120 over 80.
That’s what I noticed as well. I was an EMT for 11 years. The blood pressure reading seemed low, for the systolic.
has says:
“His physical strength and stamina are extraordinary.”
He lifted a bus once.
Yeah… It was really more of a… a push, really, than a lift.
Well, actually, the driver kinda had his foot on the accelerator… JUST in the beginning; just to get it going. Then it actually was him.
I’m amazed that I would find a reference to Mystery Men here of all places.
heatherclemenceau says:
Sounds like something creatively written by Meredith McIver, Melania’s speechwriter…
LG says:
Fake letter. Doesn’t deserve an analysis. That aside, good analysis. Hilarious in fact, if such a letter was indeed legit.
DrAtticus says:
Written by his stunningly beautiful receptionist or a beauty pageant contestant. Probably the former, beauty pageant contestants want world peace.
Trump could easily (and more likely) have written this letter himself. And by the way, Doc. about “concerning”:
>>> People commonly say of things that are a cause for concern that they are “concerning”: “My boyfriend’s affection for his pet rattlesnake is concerning.” This is not standard English. There are many better words that mean the same thing including “worrisome,” “troubling,” and “alarming.” <<<
http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/concerning.html
Amber Hudson Fend says:
Samuel Johnson wanted “Standard English” to remain static forever, but alas he concluded language is, as always, in flux. Disregard pathetic concerns regarding word choice & style.
Good, standard prose is confined to, and defined by, its era, or course. And sure, this one a matter of diction. The doctor’s choice is not a mistake so much as it is a careless and reflexive adoption of a nonstandard, vogue usage. That is, it’s an affectation, one that betrays her weak abilities as a writer–no big deal, except that, as a doctor who writes, she could use the tip.
You do sound like a picky Internet English teacher but Mr Trump’s doctor does not sound at all like a doctor and writes in Trumpisms full of pointless superlatives. Does the legendary Trump U have a meducator school?
you made me laugh so hard!
Todd W. says:
It does sound like something Trump would have written himself. “You know who’s got the best health? Me. I’ve got great health. I mean, just check out my test results. I’ve got the best test results ever. And these tests, look, I was tested for strength and stamina, I’ve got the best stamina.”
JayHG says:
….believe me….
Heh, I could reference my last stress test.
I had come home for another elective procedure, didn’t like one ECG strip, had primary schedule a cardiac workup.
One problem was, I only brought home my combat boots, I forgot to pack my sneakers. Running in combat boots on the treadmill was unique, nearly breaking the treadmill and not elevating my pulse, priceless. They had to go with a chemical stress test.
The odd result was due to a heat stroke that I had experienced the previous week.
Ah, you guys are killing me! lol 😅😂
Hayley Miller says:
Hi Dr. Gunter, great piece. I’m an editor at the Huffington Post, and I think your piece could really resonate with our readers. Please let me know if you’re interested in re-posting this on our site under your byline. Hope to hear from you! hayley [dot] miller [at] huffingtonpost [dot] com.
Superalias says:
“…doctors’ don’t include e-mail addresses in letters”
Nor do doctors put an apostrophe after “doctors”. WTF?
Anyway, a fine takedown.
I said I was the typo Queen
Deary Darling says:
I’m so curious about something … is this illegal? Actually that’s vague … let me try to be more specific .
If there was no actual doctor involved isnt forgery illegal? And if a doctor lent his credentials as well as the letterhead of Lennox Hill isn’t that illegal if the doctor is just stating whatever a patient wants him to say?
Heh, my queen! I’m known to type around 45 WPM or 70 MPM (Mistakes per minute), all using all ten thumbs.
Add in a healthy measure of dyslexia, which pops out to surprise one and all when I’m fatigued, yeah, things can get downright entertaining when I type something and am tired.
Indeed, if I have no sleep for three days, I can sound as bad as Trump.
Nice picking. She still sounds like a doctor. Bronstein sounds like a Trump U graduate. Sounds like Mr Trump likes his doctors like he likes his accountants.
Karl_ says:
In this case, could MD stand for a chest-stumping “Me, Doctor”? This trumped up medical affidavit reminds me of that possibility.
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Michael Wilga says:
the wayback machine on that website is even more fishy 🙂 love to reach out to “R. Mann Consulting”
https://web.archive.org/web/20151222102018/http://www.haroldbornsteinmd.com/contact.html
VaughnSC says:
FFS lol; have a gander at the good doctor’s pic on the ‘Credits’ page:
Christian Roettger says:
that looks creepy. But compare the good doctor’s Twitter pic, from the Daily Mail – there, he just looks stoned. Which one is worse? Seriously, the doctor let someone in Trump Tower put this out under his name because he needs the money, is my theory.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3361739/Donald-Trump-s-doctor-claims-s-perfect-health-never-touched-alcohol-Twitter-disagrees.html
Barry Gibb from the Bee Gees?
> love to reach out to “R. Mann Consulting”
Here you go: http://www.yellowpages.com/new-rochelle-ny/mip/r-mann-consulting-469446132
No mention Trump has never had a psychiatric assessment. Never had delusions. Never known how to lie. Never been treated for maladaptive behavior. Never had a clue.
He has no history of ever using medication for any reason at all.
Susan Lindenberger says:
ASA, even 81 mg, is a medication.
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His stamina and physical strength are extraordinary? Well how about he back that up by running a marathon or participating in a Spartan race? And also please televise this event for interested viewers. Because I would watch the HELL out of that.
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Invisible Mikey says:
This must be the work of Trump’s alter ego, “John Miller” (Doctor of Thinkology, among many other extraordinary excellent credentials).
John Friedman (@JohnFriedman) says:
Why do I suspect that somewhere in a windowless room in Trump Tower, some poor illegal immigrant is being forced to create equally bogus tax returns?
Deedee Mendoza says:
Emerson White says:
1) Some doctors do include an email address, I would especially expect this of a concierge practice on park avenue. Their stock and trade isn’t especially good medicine (that can be found wherever an exceptionally good physician can) it’s in convenient delivery. Being able to reach him by e-mail (even if it is potentially a HIPPA violation) is convenient.
2) https://www.northwell.edu/find-care/locations/department-medicine-lenox-hill-hospital
Lenox hill definitely has a “Department of Medicine” though I cannot find any information on sections. Just because they aren’t on the website doesn’t mean that it’s part of how the hospital is organized internally.
https://www.northwell.edu/find-care/find-a-doctor/gastroenterology/dr-harold-n-bornstein-md-11356160
Bornstein is listed on their website however.
3) You would also expect Trump or his staff to catch the typo too. Typos happen. You can say “[If I were writing for a potential president I’d up my game]” but that doesn’t make it fish that he didn’t. Typos happen.
4) Agree, super fishy.
5) That would be the conventional way to write a medical note, but this is not a medical note.
6) He could have done an exercise stress test but he is probably relying on Donald’s own account. I ask patients if they exercise and how it goes for them, I expect he does too.
7) I think we can agree that Trump dictated most of this to him. That’s why he is talking nonsense about something he knows almost nothing about.
8) It contains little useful health information, there is a lot that it says nothing about.
Mike Conjalka, MD, MPH says:
The very low PSA value suggests a low testosterone level. Surprised that something hasn’t been made of this.
I heard someone wonder if it was due to Propecia, but the letter claimed only a statin
Yeah, mine was very low as well. So was my testosterone and lipid numbers.
In my case, BP was rather elevated, in the 200/100 range, pulse 128, FT3 and FT4 well over ten times what it should ever read.
Fully explaining all of the other odd numbers.
Fortunately, I have an excellent endocrinologist. 🙂
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Oops. It’s Lenox Hill Hospital in real life, as in the letter, but you spelled it Lennox Hill. But I’m quibbling. Good piece!
First saw this on HuffPost today. Liked the analysis very much. But, you lose credibility when you misspell “Lenox.” It’s glaring because you talk about “Lennox” immediately following the correct spelling (from the supposed website). It also undermines your valid point that the typo in the letter matters. I am admittedly a grammar and spelling geek, for the record . . . so just sayin’. Still, liked the article.
What is the Fox-Drudge Equation you mention? I can’t find anything on it anywhere.
corp lawyer says:
The letterhead is correct, it’s a business letterhead, and the business name is
“JACOB BORNSTEIN, M.D. HAROLD N. BORNSTEIN, M.D. P.C.”
“PC” stands for “Professional Corporation”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_corporation
There can be many reasons why a business doesn’t change it’s legal name so quickly.
You can look it up at
https://appext20.dos.ny.gov/corp_public/CORPSEARCH.ENTITY_INFORMATION?p_nameid=346999&p_corpid=296501&p_entity_name=jacob%20bornstein&p_name_type=%25&p_search_type=BEGINS&p_srch_results_page=0
I don’t trust Trump for President because we don’t know how good or bad this country will get…Just keep praying that God work everything out because either way we still going to need prayer.
Elizabeth Earl says:
What about his medical deferment for Vietnam? Seems like that would be important medical information if it gets you out of serving the country.
harrisco says:
Is this actually a letter put out by the Trump campaign? I cannot believe it is so… what’s the word… shoddy.
Yes, what about those bone spurs?
Is this the same outfit that signed off on the draft?
I don’t believe it was dictated. I believe Bornstein signed a blank page considering where the signature is and someone (Trump) filled in the content… if indeed that is even Bornsteins signature! He should be reported to the NY State Health Dept. because clearly he didn’t write it. And if he did then he should be investigated for incompetance at the very least!!!
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back in 2000 GW Bush released his Dr statement comparing Bush’s heart rate to an Olympic athlete, true his heart rate was low, due to a bad heart not to being physically fit.
That’s odd, as being physically unfit typically raises heart rate. Complete heart block would leave one at the ventricular rate of 30 – 40 BPM.
That said, extremely fit individuals can have a resting pulse of around 50 BPM. I saw a lot of that in the military.
If Mr. Trump is taking a low dose statin, then by definition, his lab reading are not normal. He has high chlosterol. Either that or he’s taking a drug with potentially serious side effects for no reason.
If he’s actually taking a statin, he’s quite fortunate. When my thyroid was operating normally, my cholesterol levels were quite elevated and I was prescribed various statins.
I’m one of those rare individuals who am utterly incapable of taking a statin, even a low dose, once per week will trigger rhabdo symptoms.
Once my thyroid is fully back to normal (or at least, the thyroid hormones are within the normal range for a reasonable period), I’ll have to get with doctor and find a different way of keeping my cholesterol numbers within a healthier range.
Could this be Donald Trump’s doctor? Dr. uses the same prefix in the gmail for a twitter handle: https://twitter.com/hbornst1
Yes, that is the same guy. Trump’s Doctor speaks Italian and the photo matches others on the Internet.
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Dave C. says:
The plural noun “doctors” doesn’t have an apostrophe either before or after the “s” — and this article has both.
Interesting medical information, but Typo Queen needs an editor.
When typo Queen gets paid for what she writes she’ll have an editor.
🙂 My thoughts exactly.
Had a question. Is propecia still absorbed through skin and if so can or does it affect female hormones if they come into contact with it?
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Someone seems to have restyled this article. When it appeared in Huffington Post, “Lenox” is spelled “Lennox.” ….note to “typo queen.”
The message is important… Wouldn’t want your credibility called into question.
No big thing, but since you bring typos, it’s Lenox Hiill, it’s Lennox Hill.
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MDA says:
As someone who has many decades of formal education and experience as a writer and is trained in deconstructing and analyzing texts, you’d have to be living in lala land not to conclude that this letter is 100% fraudulent and, based on trump’s rhetorical style and use of language, was probably written by trump himself.
Dr Gunter thoroughly deconstructed the text in an objective way, which resulted glaring inconsistencies, bizarre narcissistic language & outright lies.
john gury says:
One more thing to find ridiculous is there are absolutely no medical qualifications to be POTUS. In that regard the letter Hillary produced is medical nonsense as well. “She is in excellent physical condition and fit to serve as President of the United States.” Which is interesting as a medical opinion since there are no fitness or any other health criteria to evaluate for serving as POTUS.
Heh, could you picture such a testimonial letter regarding Grover Cleveland’s health?
musicalsaw says:
Trump has a history of pretending to be a ‘Trump Spokesman’ named Baron when he presents glowing tributes of Trump to the press. It is interesting that the name of the doctor (Borenstein) is similar to the fictitious spokesman (Baron)
Funny you mention secure servers for medical information and yet the Democratic nominee used a personal server in her basement for the most top secret information there is to our country.
I write about medicine. If you want someone who blogs on national security and the FBI you need a different blogger.
Now, you’ve proved that you have less than no clue whatinhell you’re talking about.
First, our “most top secret” information is transmitted and stored on the JWICS network.
Second, *some* (read; very few) e-mails had markings of (C) Confidential and one or two might have had (S) Secret. Neither is Top Secret, which is its own classification, just as SCI (Sensitive Compartmented Information) (A sub-classification). There’s a hell of a big difference between each level. SCI can compromise a major operation or information source (such as an informant). Top Secret information, if divulged, could cause major harm to our nation. Secret, less dire harm, Confidential, inconvenience.
You see, I’ve had a security clearance for nearly four decades, so I can speak very intelligently on the subject of classified information, having generated quite a bit of it myself. I’ve generated many documents that began their classified existence as Secret, but when collated together, became Top Secret and I’ve even had documents that became reclassified beyond my level of access and I was the data owner of those documents!
I’ve also ran e-mail servers, both “in my basement” and in US government server rooms and even in corporate environments.
Here is a hint, when classified information is divulged, one ends up in a cell next to Private Manning. When it’s improperly handled, one may be disciplined or one may have nothing happen, it depends upon the level in government that one is and what information was mishandled and how.
Now, when you handle a few thousand classified e-mails and other documents per week, come talk to me. Otherwise, you have no clue what you’re blathering and repeating the words of your betters about.
Matthew Wright says:
Don’t click on the website! It’s MALWARE! RANSOMWARE!
What website are you referring to?
The haroldbornsteinmd link goes to a site that offers to download “Adobe Flash”. It’s pretty clear what it offers is malware.
Robert Allison says:
Where is the NY Medical Board in all this. Out of date stationary would be a very mild slap on the wrist Inaccurately listing the physician’s affiliations is slightly more serious. Making unsubstantiated claims like Trump being the most healthy President ever is getting into really serious. I could see a short term suspension of this guy’s license until he completes an ethics course. A New York resident should consider submitting a complaint to the medical board.
Dave Taft says:
Something else interesting. The doctor claims to have been seeing Trump since 1980 and then talks about “over the past 39 years.” At best he could have seen him for 34-35 years…provided he was still alive in 2015.
The website did exist in Sept, 2013 per the Internet Archives. https://web.archive.org/web/20130914140558/http://haroldbornsteinmd.com/index.html
The prior two captures in 2011 don’t show anything, though at that time the title of the page was Bornstein & Bornstein, MDs.
Has anyone noticed that the doctor said he has been treating Mr. Trump for 39 years, since1980. If the letter was written in 2015, that would be 35 years, not 39.
This Absolutely Incredible that a candidate for President of the United States would publish such a letter, regardless of where it came from.
I feel that there is a deeper story here that has not yet been fully researched. Who is Harold Bornstein? Has any news media outlet attempted to contact him? Will he step forward and enlighten the American public as to how the letter was conceived and written? All of the fact brought up in this article are reason for concern.
The only reason that this story is not receiving more press coverage and deeper background research is that there are so many other new and scary “Donald Trump” stories being discovered each day, the U.S. news media is having difficulty keeping up with the overwhelming tsunami of breaking stories.
Internet, T.V. and Press sources don’t have the money, time and human resources to research and report on all of the breaking Donald Trump news stories and have found themselves in a position of having to perform a sort of “Donald Trump News Triage,” selecting only the most mind-mindbogglingly sad and disgusting stories for further research and letting other stories scoot under the radar. I hope that they pick up this story and run with it, I’m curious to know more!!
Is this typo a Freudian Slip?
“To Whom My Concern”. It leaves the reader wondering whether Dr. Harold Bornstein actually does have some type of concern.
Elizabeth Burda says:
Don’t forget the math saying 1980 was 39 years ago. It was 36. Actually 35 at the time of the letter. I was born in that year so I caught that right away!
That’s not the way I read this. It’s pretty clear to me that means Harold treated Donald for 35 years, and Jacob treated Donald for the four years before that.
Clay Brandow says:
Has. Dr. Born stein ( the living) come foward and identified the the as one he wrote?
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Plus, if you’re only going to report one test result, PSA is probably the weirdest possible choice. It’s essentially meaningless on its own and something most people don’t even test nowadays. That is, unless he’s recovering from prostate cancer, but apparently “he’s suffered no form of cancer.”
Wendell Coleman says:
Another question is why is he on the meds listed if he’s in the most excellent health and has only had positive test results? Since he’s on a statin, apparently he has high cholesterol at least!
Wendell, please excuse the tirade.
I’ve been on many statins, eventually, once per week, then statins were abandoned for me.
I’m one of the rare critters that can’t tolerate the damned things.
Upside, currently, all cholesterol levels are normal(ish), not elevated, just variable, due to hyperthyroidism.
Otherwise, my cholesterol levels were decidedly unhealthy in measurement.
What I worry about is, once my thyroid actually is under control, how to control lipids.
But then, that’s a “science project” for my primary and myself to figure out.
For, to be blunt, rhabdo sucks. A *lot*.
If I’m going to feel like someone beat me with baseball bats all over, I do want to have a fighting chance at defending myself. 😉
Why has a formal medical standard and disclosure never been made part of running for and assuming the office of POTUS? In that regard both the Trump and Hillary letters are both nonsense since there is no “fit to be President of the United States” standard.
@John Gury, why there is indeed a standard of fitness for POTUS.
One must be a born US citizen, who has not committed high crimes or misdemeanors inconsistent with the office. Needless to say, a convicted felon need not attempt to run for the office.
Alas, serial grifters are free to do so.
Medical fitness standard, and there is none. Not even what I have to pass to maintain a private pilot license. Also, I’m not sure what the process is if the POTUS were to become seriously disabled, go berzerk, full dementia, and so on. Given the ridiculous importance we have assigned to one stupid elected position the lack of medical standard makes it even more ridiculous.
Political participation is a right, flying is a privilege. Please don’t conflate rights with privileges, as privileges can be administratively revoked, rights cannot.
Cristi Cave says:
Dr. Gunter, I just really don’t get your blog. I’m not stupid, but I can’t figure out how to access anything else that you’ve written for your blog. Anything at all, except the “About me,” “What,” “Why” etc.. stuff up at the top of your page, as well as the Jacob Bornstein article that a Google search gave me (which is why I’m here on this page). I’ve tried to subscribe to your blog, thinking perhaps that was the key, but all I get is a page full of source code. Obviously all these people commenting on your blog are reading your blog–but how? I’m very interested in your thoughts on pain control–and I enjoyed the one article I could see (re: Bornstein), so I’m hoping you will enlighten me.
Must be your browser. I can access everything not logged on to WordPress. Sorry for the trouble. WordPress is free and I don’t control the platform
But thanks for trying to read everything!
Have you tried clicking on the big “Dr Jen Gunter” heading at the top of the page? That’ll take you to the front page where you can see other posts.
The letter does sound very odd, and no Dr. Would have typos or a dead Dr. Still listed on the letter head. I think the letter is fake, or someone was very sloppy at the Dr office.
Nori Muster (@norimuster) says:
Why hasn’t some smart reporter tried to find this Dr. Jacob Bornstein and talk to him? Or did he die in 2010? A mystery.
Susan Wood says:
Never mind details about letterhead or corporate identity or fonts, and just talk about stylistic analysis. You know, the methods that scholars of literature use to identify characteristic word choices, sentence structures and recurring themes to determine the authorship of a disputed work. This letter has a very characteristic style that reminds me a lot of the speech patterns of a well-known public figure. One who has a history of assuming false identities, posing for example as his own PR agent. You don’t need three guesses.
Amos Zeeberg says:
Thanks for this excellent reply. I was just about to stumble into this conclusion, and you’ve convinced me this is the most reasonable explanation.
I have been a professional editor and writer for over 40 years, and I couldn’t agree more with the excellent comments made by Dr. Gunter. The letter is illiterate, and no professional would think of using letterhead listing a deceased physician. The fact that this letter was written for a presidential candidate makes it all the more astonishing.
In short, it’s a piece of trash . . . and I’m being kind.
freggersjr says:
How can a letter be illiterate? It is people who are illiterate.
Casey Darrah MD says:
I’m a doctor myself, and you’re spot on. Something smells very off about this letter.
Bienvenido Alesna says:
Further catering to the uneducated, who could care less what the educated think or state.
True enough, I remember back when the uneducated actually respected the knowledge and wisdom acquired by the educated and they actually sought the input of the educated.
Now, the uneducated revel in their ignorance, totally free to wallow in their own filth.
kfunk937 says:
One additional point: the signature includes F.A.C.G., which is also not current according to the College. Dr (H) Bornstein has been quoted as saying that Fellowship is a “bought-and-paid-for” credential of dubious value*, and hasn’t paid dues in years. The College indicates that they encourage former members not use the credential (but there’s no method to enforce).
My favourite sentence in this:
They have apparently diagnosed her with all kinds of ailments using the long disproven Fox-Drudge equation.
. Kudos.
*which does not apparently prevent him from continuing to use it
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David Rupel says:
Paging Dr. Gunter: Somebody from the DNC and/or Hillary campaign really should check this out beginning by inquiring with Dr. Bornstein. Did this really go out under his signature?? It smells like a forgery and smacks of the type of language Trump himself would craft.
puddleg58 says:
“absolutely excellent” is Trump talk, not medical lingo. The odd selection of PSA as a marker shows a concern with one’s virility. Trump wrote this fake, and did it so ineptly that if called on it he can argue it was a joke, not a forgery.
Get the quote right, “astonishingly excellent”
Susan Mahler, MD says:
I am also a physician and I think I can speak for the great majority of docs in the U.S. in thanking you for taking the time to write this. The idea that a physician in this country would write such a letter is a terrible reflection on the entire medical profession.
That is what we get for having absolutely no medical standards or disclosure rules for the office of POTUS. Oh, but the medical profession is so ethical we can rely on their honesty and candor for both candidates and don’t need any rules for them to follow since they can’t be motivated by money and power. And I find Hillary’s letter equally absurd since there is no criteria for anyone to declare a medical basis for “fit to serve as President of the US” What exactly does it take to declare anyone is medically unfit to serve as POTUS?
How fascinatingly odd! Both griping that medical professionals lack some standard to endorse a candidate’s health, then griping that such a requirement lacks any existence.
Not only can’t you make up your mind, from what you griped, you entirely lack a mind and are programmed by your betters, who also lack a mind.
Otherwise, they’d have given you a cogent argument, rather than leaving you to your own devices and you create an argument that defeats itself in a single sentence!
Brady Landgren (@snoslicer8) says:
Given this letter, I’m not surprised that Dr. Bornstein isn’t practicing to current standards…but riddle me this: If Trump has no history of hypercholesterolemia, no coronary artery disease, and no CAD risk factors, why is he on an 81mg ASA and a “low-dose statin”? That doesn’t conform to any current USPSTF standard.
I know. Plot thickens
Simple. He could have factor five or Leiden, or simple hypertension that is not severe. Lots of things. Patients don’t always fall.into your very basic general guidelines. And who is to say the letter reflects badly on the medical profession. Way that patients are mistreated, patient rights violated, chemical restraints my, restrained and fatalities, failure to dx and more; reflect very badly, and the doctors sit quiet in corruption and overkill and up code.
Catherine Rerucha says:
I don’t know if anybody here has pointed it out yet, but it appears that this letter is not actually signed by anybody and only has the letters “MD.” And the location of those two letters so far off to the right further indicates that this is missing the actual signature of the doctor and is in the location likely where you would see “MD” written after the signed name.
I can’t believe I haven’t read about anybody in the media noticing this.
I don’t know why my other comment didn’t show up, but let me try again.
I find it interesting that nobody seems to have noticed that this letter doesn’t appear to be signed at all; it only looks to include the letters “MD.”
That it only seems to contain those letters would easily explain why the supposed signature is so far to the right. And that’s because the actual signature has been erased and only the MD after the name has been left. That way, there’s no actual forgery that has occurred and he can’t get in any legal trouble for this bogus letter.
Good catch, Catherine! I think you’ve nailed it. This document is probably an old letter from Jacob Bornstein, that Trump found rummaging through his files. He probably had one of his flunkies (Melania) sitting there using White-Out, removing the actual text of the letter and signature, “look we’re so smart”, Trump is thinking. It’s clearly written by Trump, that is wildly obvious. Thank you to Dr. Gunter, a very wicked takedown of the letter, you’re a great sleuth!
This is an extremely important issue and should be viewed as the “smoking gun” revealing the mental pathology of a candidate for President.
It isn’t just another “funny Trump story.” This is clearly illegal in the context of releasing medical records for a presidential candidate.
It should be fairly easy to tell if this is a concocted letter. We need to see the letterhead the doctor was actually using in 2015. We need to see his signature – does he sign his name M D? It should not be dropped. It is a seemingly small thing that could reveal the extent of Trump’s disturbance and corruption.
Ha, now my previous comment shows up, even though I checked on two devices before leaving a second comment.
They’ve been repeatedly warned, *never* feed them after midnight.
Now, there are gremlins in the works! 😉
Because I curate content and have a job and kids and a life and do this for free. It can take a while to get around to approving.
Thanks for coming back to check though. Appreciate the reading and participating!
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Thanks for this article, you made my day. Greetings from Europe
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Not that those of us with an IQ above the level of stupid needed a Dr to tell us this was a bogus letter, I still thank you Dr. Gunter for spelling it out to those who needed the clarification.
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If people here could get over the partisan attacks the larger problem is obvious:
It’s reasonable to worry about a candidate’s health. There’s an entire amendment to the Constitution that centers on whether a president is mentally or physically able to carry out the duties of the office. And this is an especially pressing question this year, when the two major-party candidates represent the oldest pair in presidential election history. But, even in more mainstream outlets, the reasoned speculation you might expect seems to have been replaced by untamed conjecture.
One reason for this is that there’s a vacuum of information about our candidates. That problem is largely preventable, medical ethicists say. “If people care about health—and they don’t, they care about politics—if they did, they’d have an independent panel of doctors checking out the candidates,” says NYU bioethicist Art Caplan.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-health-conspiracy-theories-214194#ixzz4IZ3CXtXV
I find it fascinating that some people think this is an issue (the age of the candidates), while everyone alive ignored the hell out of Saint Reagan’s advanced age when he was running.
I guess it was his sainthood or something.
Age is in fact an issue but that is fully disclosed unlike health issues. There is also a minimum age standard for the office, again unlike health where there are absolutely no standards. If Trump wins the election in November, he would be the oldest newly elected president in U.S. history, putting him ahead of Ronald Reagan, who was just shy of 70 on Inauguration Day 1981.
If Hillary Clinton were elected, she wouldn’t be far behind. She will turn 69 in October. Come Inauguration Day 2017, that would put her not far behind Reagan when he was inaugurated, making her the second-oldest president.
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Diane Miller says:
Why isn’t anyone turning him into the State Board for saying he is Board Certified when he isn’t and breaking HIPPA regulations by talking about Hillary Clintons health???? The man needs to be investigated!
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Kris Willis says:
Hey I read this piece on HP, and wanted to add one comment, speaking as a lawyer. His father’s name may be on there because the name of the business is “Jacob Bornstein, MD and Harold Bornstein, MD, PC” (plus some initials and punctuation). A PC, or Professional Corporation, is a form of corporation available professionals — doctor and lawyers for sure, and probably a few others. This could easily be checked with the online database at the NY Secretary of State’s commercial recording division. If that is, in fact, the name of his PC, it would be inappropriate to write anything else. (Although in his situation I probably would have started to use a DBA by now.)
Even if that is the name of his PC, I wonder if there are any rules about using the name of a decreased individual in the practice. Would be interesting to see what the AMA says. Is imagine it’s ok if the name was added before death, but you never know… Professional ethics can be murky!
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IndiansPaul says:
I like the part about the “only positive” test results.
I just went through some testing. In my case, fortunately, all my tests sans one came back either “normal” or “Negative.” The only positive test result I had was for Giardia. That sucks.
And the doctor is boasting that Trump’s tests are “only positive results”? I’d rather have negative test results, myself, thank you.
Jesus Trammell says:
*This really answered my problem, thank you!
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Dr Harold Borstein took over his father’s medical practice. His father treated Donald’s father. Discovering they lived in homes in close proximity, during Trump childhood it is not so surprising. Dr. Harold Borstein’s father died in 2010 and he is alive and well, practicing still today.
Well, well. You were correct. Dr. Bornstein just admitted that the whole letter was dictated by Trump.
“He dictated that whole letter. I didn’t write that letter,” Dr. Harold Bornstein told CNN. “I just made it up as I went along.”
Bornstein now says that Trump had dictated the language as the doctor and his wife drove across Central Park.
“[Trump] dictated the letter and I would tell him what he couldn’t put in there,” he said.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385765-trumps-ex-doctor-says-trump-dictated-letter-claiming-he-would-be
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Tian Tian.
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Improvements in engine efficiency are necessary for the advancement of modem engine technology. Fuels and lubricants used in internal combustion (IC) engines play an important role in governing the engine efficiency. In IC engines some amount of fuel spray can eventually end up on the cylinder liner. This fuel spray mixes with the oil (lubricant) present on the liner. Now the liquid layer on the liner consists of fuel and oil (fuel-oil film is formed) which interacts with the piston rings and the up-scraping of the fuel-oil film can cause the release of oil droplets into the combustion chamber. The released oil droplets lower the self-ignition temperature of the fuel vapor which might lead to pre-ignition. Pre-ignition is a phenomenon in which the fuel vapor ignites before the spark plug fires causing huge pressure rise which can be detrimental for the engine. The fuel spray on the liner can also pass through the piston rings during the compression stroke and can cause oil dilution in the crank case. The current work is mainly focused on analyzing the fuel-oil interaction on the cylinder liner. A numerical model has been developed in which fuel was modeled as a mixture of 10 hydrocarbon components and oil was modeled as a single n-alkane hydrocarbon. In this model, diffusion in the film, heat transfer in the film, and vaporization at the film-air interface have been coupled. Moving boundary (due to vaporization) was handled by solving the time required to remove the outermost layer while utilizing regular meshing. Implicit method and Newton's iteration method were used to ensure numerical stability and efficiency. Eventually the model calculates the remaining mixture thickness and content before the piston comes back to the specified location in the compression stroke. Some of the main inputs to the model are timing and location of the fuel droplets depositing on the liner, initial fuel film thickness, initial oil film thickness, liner temperature, and cylinder gas pressure. The results showed that with typical engine operational parameters, substantial portion of the initial film mixture still remains when the piston comes back if the initial fuel film thickness is in the range of 20 pm. Further studies were made to examine the consequences of the remaining mixture on the liner. A brief quantitative study was performed to compare the fuel-oil scraped volume and crevice volume. Additionally, the increase in ring-liner contact force due to local oil dilution on the liner was examined using an existing ring-liner lubrication model.
Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2017.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Mechanical Engineering.
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KERAX LIMITED TERMS & CONDITIONS OF SALE THESE CONDITIONS CONTAIN LIMITATIONS OF SELLER’S LIABILITY
1 Interpretation In these Conditions:
1.1 "Buyer" means the person who agrees to purchase the Goods from Seller subject to these Conditions;
1.2 "these Conditions" means the terms and conditions of business set out in this document;
1.3 "the Contract" means the agreement between Seller and Buyer for the sale and purchase of the Goods;
1.4 "the Delivery Address" means the address for delivery of the Goods which shall be Buyer's principal place of business unless otherwise agreed between Buyer and Seller in Writing;
1.5 "the Estimated Delivery Date" means the date on which Seller estimates that the Goods will be delivered;
1.6 “Goods” means the goods (including any installment or part of them) which Seller is to supply to Buyer;
1.7 “Intellectual Property Rights” means any and all intellectual property rights including, without limitation, patents, trade marks, rights in the nature of unfair competition, the right to sue for passing off, design rights, copyright, moral rights, rights in databases, domain names and all similar rights (whether or not registered or capable of registration and whether subsisting in the United Kingdom or any other part of the world) together with any and all related goodwill and all extensions and renewals;
1.8 "the Quotation" means any quotation by Seller for the supply of the Goods, which term includes any document issued by Seller indicating the terms on which the Goods are to be supplied;
1.9 "Seller" means Kerax Limited whose registered office is at Moorland Gate House, Cowling Road, Chorley, Lancashire, PR6 9DR.
1.10 "the Specification" means any specification for the Goods prepared or accepted by Seller for the purposes of the Contract including any variation of such specification which has been agreed in Writing between the parties;
1.11 "Writing" means written communication or transmission by facsimile or email;
1.12 "the Warranty" means the warranty set out in clause 7.1 below; and
1.13 clause headings are for ease of reference and do not form part of or affect the interpretation of the Contract.
2 Basis of sale
2.1 These Conditions apply to all contracts for the sale of goods entered into by Seller. By placing an offer or order with Seller, whether in respect of the Quotation or otherwise, Buyer offers to deal with Seller on these Conditions to the exclusion of all other terms, conditions, warranties or representations (including those endorsed on, delivered with or contained in Buyer's purchase order, confirmation of order, specification or other document) with the exception of any terms specified in the Quotation or on Seller's acceptance of order form.
2.2 The Quotation does not itself constitute an offer to supply the Goods. The Contract is formed when Seller accepts Buyer's offer or order.
2.3 No variation to these Conditions shall be binding unless agreed in Writing and signed by authorised representatives on behalf of each of Buyer and Seller.
2.4 All samples, drawings, descriptive matter, specifications and advertising issued by Seller and any descriptions or illustrations contained in Seller's catalogues or brochures are issued or published for the sole purpose of giving an approximate idea of the Goods described in them. They shall not form part of the Contract and this is not a sale by sample.
2.5 Seller's employees and agents are not authorised to make any representations concerning the Goods unless confirmed by Seller in Writing. In entering into the Contract Buyer acknowledges that it does not rely on any such representations which are not so confirmed. Buyer irrevocably and unconditionally waives any right it may have to claim damages for and/or to rescind the Contract as a result of any misrepresentation (other than those made fraudulently) whether or not contained in the Contract.
2.6 Any typographical, clerical or other error or omission in the Specification, the Quotation or any price list, acceptance of offer, invoice or other document, literature or information issued by Seller shall be subject to correction without any liability on the part of Seller.
2.7 Any advice or recommendation given by Seller, its employees or agents to Buyer as to the storage, application or use of the Goods which is not confirmed by Seller in writing is acted upon entirely at Buyer's own risk and Seller shall not be liable for any such advice or recommendation which is not so confirmed.
2.8 Buyer shall promptly supply all information and assistance reasonably requested by Seller in order to manufacture or supply the Goods.
3 Sale and purchase
3.1 Buyer agrees to purchase the Goods from Seller and Seller agrees to sell the Goods to Buyer.
3.2 Buyer shall not be entitled to cancel in whole or in part any order which Seller has accepted, whether orally or in writing.
3.3 Buyer shall accept manufacturing tolerances customary in the trade and weights or quantities for bulk deliveries of the Goods varying by not more than 10% from the weight or quantity specified in the Contract and shall pay pro-rata for the actual weight or quantity delivered. The weight or quantity stated on Seller's despatch note shall be conclusive evidence of the amount delivered except in cases of manifest error.
3.4 If the Goods are to be manufactured or any process is to be applied to them by Seller in accordance with any specifications submitted by Buyer or if the Goods are to be marked with any trade mark at the request of Buyer, Buyer shall indemnify Seller against all loss, damages, costs and expenses awarded against or incurred by Seller in connection with or paid or agreed to be paid by Seller in settlement of any claim for infringement of any Intellectual Property Rights or misuse of any confidential information of any other person or any other liability whatsoever which results from Seller's use of Buyer's specifications or the marking of the Goods or from the sale or supply of such Goods by Seller pursuant to the provisions of sub-clauses 4.8 or 9.6 below.
3.5 Seller reserves the right to make any changes in the specification of the Goods which are required to conform with any applicable safety or other requirements or which result from variations in raw materials or their suppliers available to Seller or which do not materially affect the quality or performance of the Goods.
4.1 Seller shall use its reasonable efforts to deliver the Goods to Buyer at the Delivery Address on or around the Estimated Delivery Date, but time of delivery shall not be of the essence.
4.2 Seller shall be entitled to deliver the Goods in instalments in which case each instalment shall be treated as an entirely separate contract and any default or breach by Seller in respect of any such instalment shall not entitle Buyer to cancel any other instalment or terminate the Contract or treat the Contract as a whole as repudiated.
4.3 If the Goods are damaged on delivery or less than the correct amount of the Goods is delivered, then unless Buyer notifies both the carrier by making a note on the delivery note and the Seller (otherwise than via the delivery note) within three days of delivery no claim against Seller may be made in respect of damage to or short delivery of such Goods.
4.4 If the Goods have not been delivered despite receipt by Buyer of the invoice from Seller relating to them, then unless Buyer notifies Seller within seven days after the date of such invoice no claim against Seller may be made in respect of non-delivery of those Goods.
4.5 Buyer shall be deemed to accept the Goods on delivery notwithstanding any late delivery by Seller.
4.6 Seller shall be entitled to require immediate payment of the price of the Goods or provision of security reasonably acceptable to Seller in the event that the provisions of sub-clauses 4.8 or 10.1 below apply. Failure by Buyer to comply with such requirement shall be considered to be an irremediable breach of Buyer's obligations under the Contract.
4.7 Subject to the other provisions of these Conditions, Seller shall not be liable for any direct, indirect or consequential loss (all three of which terms include, without limitation, pure economic loss, loss of profits, loss of business, depletion of goodwill and similar loss), costs, damages, charges or expenses caused directly or indirectly by any delay in the delivery of the Goods (even if caused by Supplier's negligence), nor shall any delay entitle Buyer to terminate or rescind the Contract unless such delay exceeds 60 (sixty) days.
4.8 If Buyer fails to take delivery of the Goods or fails to give Seller adequate delivery instructions before the Estimated Delivery Date, then, without prejudice to any other right or remedy available to Seller, Seller may:
4.8.1 issue its invoice in respect of the Goods as if the relevant Goods had been delivered on the Estimated Delivery Date; and/or
4.8.2 store the Goods until actual delivery is made and charge Buyer for the costs (including insurance, handling and transport) of storage; and/or
4.8.3 sell or supply the Goods (whether or not such Goods were manufactured or marked by Seller pursuant to the provisions of sub-clause 3.4 above) to a third party in any country at the best price readily obtainable and (after deducting all storage and selling expenses) reimburse or credit Buyer with any balance over the amounts due to Seller under the Contract or otherwise; and/or
4.8.4 suspend other deliveries of the Goods.
5 Transit
5.1 Seller reserves the right to choose the form of transport for the Goods and the composition of each load.
5.2 For the purpose of this clause 5, the Goods shall be considered to have been delivered as soon as they are ready to be unloaded at the Delivery Address.
5.3 Buyer shall provide all necessary labour and equipment to enable the Goods to be safely unloaded at the Delivery Address, shall provide all necessary unloading facilities and shall unload them promptly. Seller shall be entitled to recover from Buyer all and any costs and expenses incurred as a result of Buyer's failure to do so, including in particular Seller’s charges for any delivery which takes more than 2 hours (otherwise than to the extent that delay is caused by Seller or its carrier).
6 Prices and payment
6.1 The price of the Goods shall be the price set out and paid in the currency specified in the Quotation or, if there is no Quotation (or a quoted price is no longer valid), the price listed in Seller's published price list current at the date of delivery.
6.2 Seller reserves the right, by giving notice to Buyer at any time before delivery, to increase the price of the Goods to reflect any increase in the cost to Seller which is due to any factor beyond its control after the date of the Contract, any change in delivery dates or quantities of the Goods or in the Specification which is requested by Buyer or any delay caused by any instructions of Buyer or failure of Buyer to give Seller adequate information or instructions.
6.3 The price is exclusive of any applicable duties and value added tax and any other applicable tax based on turnover, which Buyer shall be additionally liable to pay to Seller.
6.4 Unless otherwise stated otherwise in the Quotation or in Seller’s acceptance of order or in any price list of Seller, all prices are given by Seller on an ex works basis, and Buyer shall be liable to pay Seller’s charges for transport, packaging and insurance together with any additional expenses, licence fees or duties paid or incurred by Seller.
6.5 Seller shall be entitled to invoice Buyer for all amounts due under the Contract on or at any time after delivery of the Goods unless the Goods are to be collected by Buyer or Buyer wrongly fails to take delivery of them, in which case Seller shall be entitled to invoice Buyer at any time after Seller has notified Buyer that the Goods are ready for collection or (as the case may be) Seller has tendered delivery of the Goods.
6.6 Buyer shall make payment to Seller in respect of all invoices in full and without any deduction or set off (whether in relation to such invoice or otherwise) within 30 days after the end of the month in which the invoice is issued unless other payment terms have been agreed. Time of payment shall be of the essence.
6.7 All payments made by Buyer to Seller whether pursuant to the Contract or otherwise shall be applied to invoices issued by Seller and to Goods or other goods listed in such invoices in the sequence determined in its discretion by Seller.
6.8 If full payment of any amount payable to it under the Contract is not received by Seller by the due date then, without prejudice to its rights, Seller shall be entitled to:
6.8.1 sue for the entire amount due; and/or
6.8.2 charge interest (both before and after any judgment) at the rate of 4% over the base rate from time to time of Barclays Bank PLC on the outstanding balance; and/or
6.8.3 recover from Buyer any reasonable expenses and any legal costs incurred by Seller in taking steps, including court action, to enforce Buyer’s obligations under the Contract for the payment of any amounts Buyer owes Seller; and/or
6.8.4 require the immediate return to Seller of all goods agreed to be sold by Seller to Buyer in which the property has not passed to Buyer in accordance with the provisions of clause 9 below and Buyer hereby agrees to reimburse to Seller upon demand Seller's costs or expenses in recovering such goods; and/or
6.8.5 suspend further deliveries of the Goods and any other goods which Seller has agreed to supply to Buyer and any other services which Seller has agreed to supply to Buyer; and/or
6.8.6 reimbursement of any currency losses suffered by Seller resulting from late payment where the price of the Goods is not payable in sterling.
7 Warranty and liability
7.1 Seller warrants that the Goods and any replacements for the Goods supplied under this warranty will in all material respects and subject to Seller's manufacturing tolerances:
7.1.1 correspond with the Specification;
7.1.2 except to the extent that there is a conflict with the Specification, conform to any applicable data sheets issued by Seller;
7.1.3 where there is no Specification and there are no applicable data sheets, be made with sound materials and workmanship to normal standards accepted in Seller's industry.
7.2 Seller shall have no liability under the Warranty in respect of any defects in the Goods or non-compliance with the Warranty arising from:
7.2.1 Buyer's failure to follow any instructions given by Seller relating to the Goods;
7.2.2 any drawing, design, specifications or information supplied by Buyer;
7.2.3 fair wear and tear or damage to the Goods;
7.2.4 use of the Goods in applications for which they are not designed.
7.3 The Warranty shall not apply to any Goods which are sold as seconds, remainder stock, samples, obsolete or sub-standard.
7.4 No claim may be made under the Warranty unless the claim is made in Writing within 30 days after Buyer became or ought reasonably to have become aware of the circumstances giving rise to the claim and in any event before the earlier of:
7.4.1 6 months from the date of despatch of the Goods by Seller; and
7.4.2 30 days after the Goods have been used or put into process by Buyer.
7.5 In the event of any valid claim under the Warranty or otherwise under the Contract being made by Buyer, Seller shall be entitled (but not obliged) in full satisfaction of its liabilities to replace or repair the Goods (or the part in question) free of charge or, at Seller’s sole discretion, refund to Buyer the price of the Goods (or a proportionate part of the price as appropriate) but Seller shall have no further liability to Buyer. Buyer shall preserve any Goods which do not comply with the Warranty for inspection by Seller and shall return them to Seller at Seller's cost if Seller so requests.
7.6 Seller excludes all warranties, conditions, guarantees and representations (except those made fraudulently) as to quality or fitness for a particular purpose of or otherwise relating to the Goods whether express or implied, oral or in writing, except those expressly stated in the Contract. It is Buyer's responsibility to check that the Goods are suitable for the purpose intended.
7.7 Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Contract, Seller does not seek to exclude its liability for any death or personal injury to the extent that it results from negligence (except where Buyer is not based in the United Kingdom and the Goods will be delivered by Seller from the United Kingdom or another country to Buyer in a different country) or any other liability which it cannot exclude or limit as a matter of law.
7.8 Seller shall be liable to Buyer for any direct physical damage to Buyer's property other than death or personal injury to the extent that it results from the negligence of Seller or its employees in connection with the Contract up to a maximum of £1,000,000 in respect of any one event or series of events.
7.9 Except pursuant to clause 7.7 above, Seller shall not in any event be liable for:
7.9.1 any loss of profits,
7.9.2 loss or depletion of goodwill,
7.9.3 loss of anticipated savings, business opportunity or data, or
7.9.4 for any indirect, special or consequential loss or damages
howsoever arising in connection with or arising out of the furnishing, functioning or use of the Goods, or any item or service provided, whether in contract, strict liability, tort (including without limitation, negligence) and whether Seller knew or had reason to know of the same, and shall not be liable for any other damages except as provided in the Contract.
7.10 Except pursuant to clause 7.7 above in no event shall Seller’s liability in respect of any of the Goods exceed the price paid for those Goods.
7.11 Except pursuant to sub-clause 7.7 above and clause 8 below, no action, regardless of form, arising out of the transactions under the Contract may be brought by Buyer more than two years after the cause of action has accrued.
8 Third party rights
8.1 All Intellectual Property Rights in or relating to the Goods and their formulation shall belong to Seller (even if developed solely for the purpose of supplying the Goods to Buyer) except where such rights are identified in advance in any pre-contractual specifications submitted by Buyer and accepted by Seller.
8.2 Buyer shall promptly notify Seller of any claim that any of the Goods constitute an infringement of any Intellectual Property Rights or a misuse of any confidential information belonging to any third party ("a Claim") and shall take no steps and make no admissions in relation to a Claim until Seller has had a reasonable opportunity to decide whether it wishes to conduct the defence of such Claim.
8.3 Seller shall be entitled at its own expense to conduct the defence of any Claim made against Buyer in which case:
8.3.1 Seller shall have the sole control of the defence of such Claim and all negotiations for settlement or compromise;
8.3.2 Buyer shall allow its name to be used in proceedings if necessary and provide all reasonable assistance to Seller; and
8.3.3 Seller shall be entitled to any costs awarded in favour of Buyer.
8.4 Seller shall pay all damages and costs awarded against Buyer in a final non-appealable decision by a court or tribunal of competent jurisdiction (except to the extent that Buyer is entitled to recover such sums under any policy of insurance) directly resulting from a Claim PROVIDED THAT:
8.4.1 Buyer has complied with the provisions of this clause 8; and
8.4.2 Buyer shall take all steps reasonably possible to mitigate or reduce any damages and costs which may be awarded against it as a result of such Claim.
8.5 If a Claim is successful or Seller considers that it is likely to be successful, Seller may, at its option or as part of a settlement or compromise, procure for Buyer the right to continue using the Goods which are the subject of such Claim, modify them so that they are non-infringing or terminate the Contract in so far as it applies to those Goods, in which latter case Seller shall refund to Buyer the price paid for such Goods (or a rateable proportion of the total amount paid if such amount is not specified in the Contract) less in each case depreciation on a straight line basis over the life of the Goods as determined by Seller.
8.6 In no event shall Seller have any liability under this clause 8 with respect to any Claim falling within the scope of sub-clause 3.4 above or resulting from the use of the Goods otherwise than for their natural purpose or the purpose for which Seller knew it supplied them to Buyer if use for such purposes would not have given rise to a successful Claim or for their use in combination with any other product or equipment not supplied by Seller if use without such combination would not have given rise to a successful Claim.
8.7 This clause 8 states the entire obligation and liability of Seller with respect to infringement of Intellectual Property Rights and misuse of confidential information. Seller's liability under this clause shall not in any event exceed the amount paid to Seller under the Contract.
9 Risk and title
9.1 Risk of loss of or damage to the Goods shall pass to Buyer on delivery of the Goods or, if Buyer refuses to accept delivery or fails to give adequate delivery instructions before the Estimated Delivery Date, on such refusal or the Estimated Delivery Date as appropriate. Buyer shall insure the Goods from that time until ownership of and title to them passes to Buyer.
9.2 Notwithstanding delivery and the passing of risk in the Goods to Buyer, or any other provisions of the Contract, ownership of and title to the Goods shall not pass to Buyer and shall be retained by Seller until Seller has received in cash or cleared funds payment in full of the price of the Goods and of the price of any other goods or services supplied to Buyer by Seller at any time whether or not the price has become due.
9.3 If any of the Goods owned by Seller is incorporated into other goods and is not identifiable in and separable from the resulting composite or mixed goods, title to the resulting composite or mixed goods shall vest in Seller and shall be retained by Seller for so long as and on the same terms as those on which it would have retained title to the Goods in question.
9.4 Until ownership of and title to all goods owned by Seller passes to Buyer, Buyer shall hold the goods in Buyer's possession or control as Seller's fiduciary agent and bailee and shall keep them separate from those of Buyer and third parties and properly stored, protected and insured and identified as Seller's property. Buyer shall be entitled to resell or use such goods in the ordinary course of its business as principal.
9.5 For the avoidance of doubt, the Goods, all other goods supplied to Buyer by Seller and all goods into which the Goods or such other goods have been incorporated which are in Buyer's possession shall be presumed to belong to Seller unless Buyer can prove otherwise.
9.6 Buyer may resell the Goods before ownership has passed to it solely on the following conditions:
9.6.1 any sale shall be effected in the ordinary course of Buyer’s business at full market value; and
9.6.2 any such sale shall be a sale of Seller’s property on Buyer’s own behalf and Buyer shall deal as principal when making such a sale and in such circumstances legal title shall pass to Buyer immediately before title passes to Buyer’s customer.
9.7 Until ownership of and title to any goods owned by Seller passes to Buyer (and providing the goods are still in existence and have not been resold), Seller shall be entitled at any time to require Buyer to deliver up such goods to Seller and, if Buyer fails to do so forthwith, to enter upon any premises of Buyer or any third party where such goods are stored and repossess them. Buyer shall procure that any third party which holds such goods shall permit Seller to take possession of them and shall indemnify Seller against any liability which it may incur to such third party in connection with taking or attempting to take possession of them. Seller shall be entitled to use or dispose of such goods as it wishes. Unless Seller expressly elects otherwise any contract between it and Buyer for the supply of the Goods shall remain in existence notwithstanding any exercise by Seller of any of its rights under this clause 9.
9.8 Seller shall be entitled to re-sell or otherwise dispose of recovered goods in any way Seller in its absolute discretion, thinks fit. Buyer hereby grants Seller a non-exclusive, world-wide, royalty free, perpetual, irrevocable licence (with a right to sub-license) to use, for the purposes of such re-sale or other disposal, any and all trade marks which may have been applied to the Goods by Buyer and/or by Seller or any third party at the request or with the consent of Buyer.
9.9 Buyer shall not be entitled to pledge or in any way charge by way of security for any indebtedness any goods which remain the property of Seller but, if Buyer does so, all monies owing by Buyer to Seller shall (without prejudice to any other right or remedy of Seller) forthwith become due and payable.
10 Termination
10.1 Seller shall be entitled to terminate the Contract forthwith by notice in Writing to Buyer if:
10.1.1 Buyer commits an irremediable breach of the Contract, persistently repeats a remediable breach or commits any remediable breach and fails to remedy it within 30 days of receipt of notice of the breach requiring remedy of the same; or
10.1.2 Buyer makes an arrangement with or enters into a compromise with its creditors, becomes the subject of a voluntary arrangement, receivership, administration, liquidation or winding up, is unable to pay its debts or otherwise becomes insolvent or suffers or is the subject of any distraint, execution, event of insolvency or event of bankruptcy or any other similar process or event; or
10.1.3 an encumbrancer takes possession, or a receiver is appointed, of any of the property or assets of Buyer; or
10.1.4 Buyer ceases to carry on business; or
10.1.5 where Buyer is resident in a jurisdiction other than England and Wales, an event similar to any of those specified in sub-clauses 10.1.2 and 10.1.3 occurs to or in relation to Buyer; or
10.1.6 Seller reasonably apprehends that any of the events specified in sub-clauses 10.1.2 to 10.1.5 inclusive is about to occur in relation to Buyer and notifies Buyer accordingly.
10.2 In the event of termination by Seller pursuant to sub-clause 10.1 above then, without prejudice to any other right or remedy available to Seller, Seller shall be entitled to cancel the Contract or suspend any further deliveries under it without any liability to Buyer and, if the Goods have already been delivered but not paid for, the price of the Goods shall become immediately due and payable notwithstanding any previous agreement or arrangement to the contrary.
11 Laws, Regulations and Licences
11.1 Buyer shall comply with all laws and regulations relating to the ownership and use of the Goods including health and safety requirements, export control legislation and US re-export control legislation and shall indemnify Seller against any loss suffered or expense incurred by Seller as a result of Buyer failing to do so.
11.2 Seller does not warrant that any necessary export licences for Buyer's intended destination for the Goods will be available and it is Buyer's responsibility to obtain any necessary licences unless Seller agrees to do so in the Quotation or on its order acceptance form. Buyer shall supply any information or assistance requested by Seller in connection with its application for any necessary licences.
11.3 Buyer shall ensure that all appropriate safety information (whether or not supplied by Seller) is distributed and drawn to the attention of its customers and all others (including its employers) who require it for the safe handling or use of the Goods.
12.1 The remedies available to Seller under the Contract shall be without prejudice to any other rights, either at common law or under statute, which it may have against Buyer.
12.2 The failure or delay of Seller to enforce or to exercise, at any time or for any period of time, any term of or any right, power or privilege arising pursuant to the Contract does not constitute and shall not be construed as a waiver of such term or right and shall in no way affect Seller's right later to enforce or exercise it nor shall any single or partial exercise of any remedy, right, power or privilege preclude any further exercise of the same or the exercise of any other remedy, right, power or privilege.
12.3 The invalidity or unenforceability of any term of, or any right arising pursuant to the Contract shall not in any way affect the remaining terms or rights which shall be construed as if such invalid or unenforceable term or right did not exist.
12.4 Any notice or communication in Writing required or permitted to be served on or given to either party under the Contract shall be sent to the other party at its address which it has last notified to the sending party prior to the date of the notice and shall be deemed to have been served or given when actually received or, if sent by mail to such address and returned marked "gone away" or "not known" or to the like effect, on return of such mail.
12.5 The Contract is personal to Buyer and Buyer may not assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise part with the Contract or any right or obligation under it without the prior written consent of Seller.
12.6 Seller shall not be liable to Buyer if its performance of its obligations under the Contract (including refusal of any export or other licence which Seller is obliged to obtain under the Contract) is prevented or hindered due to any circumstances outside its control provided that each party shall use its reasonable endeavours to remove or avoid the effects of such cause(s) of non-performance and shall continue performance of its obligations under the Contract as soon as reasonably possible whenever such cause(s) cease(s) to have effect provided that, if the event in question continues for a continuous period in excess of 180 (one hundred and eighty) days, Buyer shall be entitled to give notice in writing to Seller to terminate the Contract.
12.7 No agent of Seller has any authority to accept any order or make any contract binding on Seller.
12.8 The Contract contains all the terms agreed by the parties relating to the subject matter of the Contract and supersedes any prior agreements, understandings or arrangements between them, whether oral or in writing, and no representation (unless made fraudulently), undertaking or promise shall be taken to have been given or been implied from anything said or written in negotiations between the parties prior to the Contract except as set out in the Contract.
12.9 In the event of any conflict between the provisions of the Contract and of any other document referred to in it, the provisions of the Contract shall prevail.
12.10 The parties to the Contract do not intend that any term of the Contract shall be enforceable by virtue of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 by any person that is not a party to it.
12.11 The construction, validity and performance of the Contract is governed by the law of England and the parties accept the jurisdiction of the English Courts. Buyer shall have the right to commence proceedings solely in the English Courts but Seller shall have the right to commence proceedings either in the English Courts or in the courts of the country in which the Goods are delivered or of the country in which Buyer is resident or which otherwise have jurisdiction.
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Cardiovascular 3D stage 13 Movie
Cardiovascular System 3 Dimensional Reconstruction
Based upon a serial reconstruction from individual embryo slice images. (6 mm pig embryo, approximately Human day 32, Carnegie Stage 13/14 embryo)
The mesoderm contributes structures in the cardiovascular system which is initially laterally symmetrical (left right) and is extensively remodeled in embryonic development. Note the relatively large size and position of the heart and the distribution of individual blood vessels at this early stage of development. Below the animation is a more complete description of this system.
Colour code:
Arch arteries
Anterior cardinal veins
Aorta and iliac
Posterior cardinal veins
Vitelline veins
Umbilical veins
Umbilical arteries
Common cardinal veins, Sinus venosus and Hepatocardiac channel
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The original animations were part of the UNSW Independent Learning Project (ILP) prepared by Aashish Kumar (2006).
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The heart develops from cardiogenic mesoderm, a region of splanchnic mesoderm lying above the buccopharyngeal membrane. Development begins in week 3 with the formation of a pair of heart tubes. These fuse and form a single tube in week 4, as a result of the embryonic folding processes that occur. As the heart grows, septation events occur, transforming it into a 4-chambered pump. Initially, the ventricles develop above the atria; however simultaneous growth and bending of the tube bring the structures into correct position. In humans, the heart begins to beat on day 22-23.
Vascular System
The vascular system of the embryo is formed from blood islands that appear in the extraembryonic mesoderm of the yolk sac and the embryonic mesoderm (primarily splanchnic mesoderm). Both of these clusters fuse together and extend, forming a vast network.
The early circulation has 3 components: Embryonic, Placental and Vitelline. Each of these has its own system of arteries and veins.
Embryonic – blood from the dorsal aorta enters intersegmental arteries, including the arteries of the pharyngeal arches. The blood returns to the heart via the anterior and posterior cardinal veins.
Placental – the umbilical arteries receive blood from the aorta. This is carried to the chorionic villi, where exchange occurs with the mother. Waste products are disposed of, nutrients and oxygen are collected, and then the umbilical veins convey the blood to the sinus venosus. A persistent right umbilical vein is thought to be a rare anomaly.
Vitelline – (not shown) the vitelline arteries branch off the dorsal aortas and enter the yolk sac, covering its entire surface. The vitelline veins return red blood cells from the capillary beds to the sinus venosus, posterior to the heart. The vitelline vessels eventually contribute to the portal system of the liver in the adult.
Cite this page: Hill, M.A. (2021, January 21) Embryology Cardiovascular 3D stage 13 Movie. Retrieved from https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Cardiovascular_3D_stage_13_Movie
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AMCS Group rolls out next-generation customer support portal
Time-saving new Customer Support Portal greatly improves end-customer service levels
Committed to delivering a much faster and excellent customer support experience. With this, the brand-new Customer Support Portal is highly improving end-customer service levels. The AMCS Group has begun the process of rolling out the innovative portal which extensively contributes to the package of AMCS Global Customer Support organisation. “The new customer support portal delivers a best in class support experience. This support tool will enable customers to use self-service functionality to search knowledge base articles, product documentation, view their support case metrics in real-time, and log tickets through the customer portal”, says Ciara Barrett, Global Process Improvement Lead at AMCS Group. “It substantially saves time and enables our customers to inform their end-users on the spot, improving their customer service levels.”
AMCS Group start the roll-out of their new and improved Customer Support Portal which will be available for all AMCS customers in multiple languages
Next-generation customer experience provides 24/7 full case management with a customisable customer dashboard view of support cases
Customers can pull reports on their open/closed cases with AMCS Group based on a series of preset filters and real-time case metrics
The new customer support portal, on request, has a billing section with information about customer billing
Global Customer Support teams, based across the world, have the expertise and tools to enable engineers to track, update and resolve cases promptly
AMCS support engineers are highly qualified and experienced and undergo continuous product training, education and organisational support
AMCS is ISO9001 certified and in the process of obtaining a SOC 1 Type 2 accreditation, assuring customers in the quality of controls, processes and systems
Extremely user-friendly & customer dashboard
The new dedicated AMCS Customer Support Portal is a self-service support tool for AMCS customers to manage support cases and view case metrics. With this, it provides customers with the most convenient way to submit, track and update support cases, Ciara Barrett explains. The new AMCS Customer Support Portal has a smart design, and, because of its intuitive user interface, it is incredibly user-friendly. “All the information for customer enquiries and cases are available for that specific customer through a dashboard. The dashboard has a greatly improved multi-colour visualisation which gives a clear overview of all customer cases”.
After logging in with one click, the user can easily create a case and look into all the outstanding enquiries. This is a significant improvement compared to the previous generation of AMCS' customer support portal, according to the explanation of Ciara Barrett who, with an experienced international team of product developers, worked on the ‘next-generation customer support experience’. “Customers can log into the Customer Support Portal and instantly create a case. The customer dashboard is showing the complete overview on just one screen, like the number of open cases and the cases closed by a period”, she points out.
Status enquiries available any time 24/7
On the customer dashboard cases are categorised, she continues. “For instance, by priority, backlog time and backlog status; what cases are with AMCS global customer support and what cases are with the customer itself. The AMCS support team have gone back to the customer, for instance asking for more information, after which the status of the enquiry is back to the customer. But the dashboard also shows the response time, which, depending on the priority of an enquiry indicates how quickly AMCS customer support responded to the customer.”
In addition to better visibility through the customer dashboard, the new customer support portal also provides the possibility to export reports for their end-customers based on a series of preset filters. “Customers can, for instance, filter on all open cases in priority three and export the data into an excel spreadsheet”, Barrett gives as an example. According to her, providing the possibility to pull down customer response reports is one of the other significant benefits of the new Customer Support Portal. “This feature greatly improves the service our customers can provide their end-users with up-to-date information enabling them to act on the status of the enquiry.”
Drive efficiencies into operations
The new and improved Customer Support Portal is part of the AMCS Global Customer Support organisation who provide technical expertise to thousands of waste and recycling operators around the clock and across the world. AMCS Group has a Global Customer Support team based in different locations; each team has the expertise and tools to enable engineers to track, update and resolve cases promptly.
AMCS support engineers are highly qualified and experienced, and undergo continuous product training, education and organisational support. The new Customer Support Portal contributes to that providing customers with optimum and professional service experience, according to Barrett. “As a whole, the customer support platform offers better processes to support customers to drive efficiencies into their operations.”
The Customer Support Portal is currently being rolled out to thousands of customer around the globe.
Ciara Barrett
Global Process Improvement Lead
Ciara.Barrett@amcsgroup.com
AMCS Global Customer Support Brochure
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AMCS is the first software company in the waste management and recycling sector to obtain SOC 1 Type II accreditation
AMCS, the leading global supplier of integrated software and vehicle technology for the waste, recycling and resource industries, today announced that it has attained SOC I Type II compliance. The accreditation highlights that AMCS operates best practice controls and procedures in ensuring a customer-centric approach to operations.
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Super-Freezer Means Big Business For Morelli
News Northern Ireland UK
by Paul Andrews July 16, 2020
Northern Ireland’s award-winning Morelli Ice Cream business has its eye firmly fixed on expansion into the GB market.
The firm, which supplies one of the leading supermarkets in Scotland and the North of England, Morrisons, has just expanded its production capacity and installed a new super-freezer warehouse at its HQ in Coleraine with space for a whopping 100,000 litres of ice cream.
The investment was financed through Barclays. David Morrow, Associate Director, Business Banking with Barclays said, “We are very excited for Arnaldo and the Morelli Ice Cream family business. Having been named as National Supreme Champions in the UK Ice Cream Alliance Awards in 2019, they are poised for further growth and success. As one of Northern Ireland’s favourite home-grown local brands, they have an opportunity to develop their sales with Morrisons and to further build their national supermarket listings. With this increase in production and capacity, there’s nothing holding them back and they deserve every success.”
Arnaldo Morelli, Managing Director, Morelli Ice Cream said, “When my family started out in the ice cream business over 100 years ago, it was a summer treat at the seaside. Ice cream is no longer a seasonal product and we have spent the last 25 years building up our wholesale business. We have built strong sales of take-home tubs all year round in independent food shops, convenience stores and supermarkets across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. GB supermarket listings are our next major focus for growth and this new super-freezer will allow us to ensure our production can keep step with demand.
Sharing some insight into the early summer ice cream trends, Arnaldo Morelli said, “Our double cream vanilla is still a firm favourite, closely followed by Honeycomb, but the one everyone wants to try this summer is our cinnamon ice cream swirled with a famous brand of biscuit – it’s the flavour of the moment. We bring many of our authentic Italian ingredients in from Italy so with this one, we just keep upping the order each time and it’s flying!”
Morelli Ice Cream Ltd has refinanced all of its banking with Barclays and funded its expansion and new freezer investment through a competitive working capital arrangement. Morelli Ice Cream employs 23 staff through its wholesale business and has 14 family owned and franchised stores in Northern Ireland and a further 400 active customers throughout Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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Nakba Day
Palestinian day of commemoration
15 May 2021 (2021-05-15)
1948 Palestinian exodus
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Nakba Day (Arabic: يوم النكبة, romanized: Yawm an-Nakba, lit. 'Day of the Catastrophe') is generally commemorated on 15 May, the day after the Gregorian calendar date for Israeli Independence Day (Yom Ha'atzmaut). For the Palestinians it is an annual day of commemoration of the displacement that preceded and followed the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948.[1]
The day was inaugurated by Yasser Arafat in 1998.
1 Defining Nakba
2 Timing
3 Commemoration
4 Objections to commemoration
Defining Nakba
Main articles: 1948 Palestinian exodus and Palestinian refugee
During the 1948 Palestine war, an estimated 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled, and hundreds of Palestinian towns and villages were depopulated and destroyed.[2][3]
Palestinian refugees in 1948
These refugees and their descendants number several million people today, divided between Jordan (2 million), Lebanon (427,057), Syria (477,700), the West Bank (788,108) and the Gaza Strip (1.1 million), with at least another quarter of a million internally displaced Palestinians in Israel.[4] The displacement, dispossession and dispersal of the Palestinian people is known to them as an-Nakba, meaning "catastrophe" or "disaster".[5][6][7]
Prior to its adoption by the Palestinian nationalist movement, the "Year of the Catastrophe" among Arabs referred to 1920, when European colonial powers partitioned the Ottoman Empire into a series of separate states along lines of their own choosing.[8] The term was first used to reference the events of 1948 in the summer of that same year by the Syrian writer Constantine Zureiq in his work Macnā an-Nakba ("The Meaning of the Nakba"; published in English in 1956).[9]
Initially, the use of the term Nakba among Palestinians was not universal. For example, many years after 1948, Palestinian refugees in Lebanon avoided and even actively resisted using the term, because it lent permanency to a situation they viewed as temporary, and they often insisted on being called "returnees."[10] In the 1950s and 1960s, terms they used to describe the events of 1948 included al-'ightiṣāb ("the rape"), or were more euphemistic, such as al-'aḥdāth ("the events"), al-hijra ("the exodus"), and lammā sharnā wa-tla'nā ("when we blackened our faces and left").[10] Nakba narratives were avoided by the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Lebanon in the 1970s, in favor of a narrative of revolution and renewal.[10] Interest in the Nakba by organizations representing refugees in Lebanon surged in the 1990s due to the perception that the refugees' right of return might be negotiated away in exchange for Palestinian statehood, and the desire was to send a clear message to the international community that this right was non-negotiable.[10] The Israeli–Palestinian conflict has prompted Palestinians like Mahmoud Darwish to describe the Nakba as "an extended present that promises to continue in the future."[7]
Nakba Day is generally commemorated on 15 May, the day after the Gregorian calendar date for Israel's Independence. In Israel, Nakba Day events have been held by some Arab citizens on Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israel's Independence Day), which is celebrated in Israel on the Hebrew calendar date (5 Iyar or shortly before or after). Because of the differences between the Hebrew and the Gregorian calendars, Independence Day and the official 15 May date for Nakba Day usually only coincide every 19 years.[11]
Palestinian girl in a protest on Nakba Day 2010 in Hebron, West Bank. Her sign says "Surely we will return, Palestine." Most of the Palestinian refugees in the West Bank are descendants of people whose families hail from areas that were incorporated into Israel in 1948.[4] The key is a symbol of the houses which Palestinians left as part of the Nakba.[12]
A demonstration for Nakba Day on Broadway at 42nd Street in Times Square, Midtown Manhattan.
As early as 1949, one year after the establishment of the State of Israel, 15 May was marked in several West Bank cities (under Jordanian rule) by demonstrations, strikes, the raising of black flags, and visits to the graves of people killed during the 1948 war. These events were organized by worker and student associations, cultural and sports clubs, scouts clubs, committees of refugees, and the Muslim Brotherhood. The speakers in these gatherings blamed the Arab governments and the Arab League for failing to "save Palestine", according to author Tamir Sorek. By the late 1950s, 15 May would be known in the Arab world as Palestine Day, mentioned by the media in Arab and Muslim countries as a day of international solidarity with Palestine.[13]
Commemoration of the Nakba by Arab citizens of Israel who are internally displaced persons as a result of the 1948 war has been practiced for decades, but until the early 1990s was relatively weak. Initially, the memory of the catastrophe of 1948 was personal and communal in character and families or members of a given village would use the day to gather at the site of their former villages.[14] Small scale commemorations of the tenth anniversary in the form of silent vigils were held by Arab students at a few schools in Israel in 1958, despite attempts by the Israeli authorities to thwart them.[15] Visits to the sites of former villages became increasingly visible after the events of Land Day in 1976.[14] In the wake up of the failure of the 1991 Madrid Conference to broach the subject of refugees, the Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Internally Displaced in Israel was founded to organize a March of Return to the site of a different village every year on 15 May so as to place the issue on the Israeli public agenda.[16]
By the early 1990s, annual commemorations of the day by Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel held a prominent place in the community's public discourse.[14][17]
Meron Benvenisti writes that it was "…Israeli Arabs who taught the residents of the territories to commemorate Nakba Day."[18] Palestinians in the occupied territories were called upon to commemorate 15 May as a day of national mourning by the Palestine Liberation Organization's United National Command of the Uprising during the First Intifada in 1988.[19] The day was inaugurated by Yasser Arafat in 1998.[20]
The event is often marked by speeches and rallies by Palestinians in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, in Palestinian refugee camps in Arab states, and in other places around the world.[21][22] Protests at times develop into clashes between Palestinians and the Israel Defense Forces in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.[23][24][25] In 2003 and 2004, there were demonstrations in London[26] and New York City.[27] In 2002, Zochrot was established to organize events raising the awareness of the Nakba in Hebrew so as to bring Palestinians and Israelis closer to a true reconciliation. The name is the Hebrew feminine plural form of "remember".[14]
On Nakba Day 2011, Palestinians and other Arabs from the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria marched towards their respective borders, or ceasefire lines and checkpoints in Israeli-occupied territories, to mark the event.[28] At least twelve Palestinians and supporters were killed and hundreds wounded as a result of shootings by the Israeli Army.[29] The Israeli army opened fire after thousands of Syrian protesters tried to forcibly enter the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights resulting in what AFP described as one of the worst incidents of violence there since the 1974 truce accord.[29] The IDF said troops "fired selectively" towards "hundreds of Syrian rioters" injuring an unspecified number in response to them crossing onto the Israeli side.[29] According to the BBC, the 2011 Nakba Day demonstrations were given impetus by the Arab Spring.[30] During the 2012 commemoration, thousands of Palestinian demonstrators protested in cities and towns across the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Protesters threw stones at Israeli soldiers guarding checkpoints in East Jerusalem who then fired rubber bullets and tear gas in response.[31]
Objections to commemoration
Nakba Day 2011 in Arroub camp in Hebron Palestine
Shlomo Avineri has criticised observance of Nakba Day on the grounds that a more important issue is the failure to solidify a stronger national movement for Palestinian citizens as a foundation for nation-building.[32][33] Arab citizens of Israel have also been admonished for observing Nakba Day in light of their higher standard of living when compared to that of Palestinians who reside outside of Israel.[34]
On 23 March 2011, the Knesset approved, by a vote of 37 to 25,[35] a change to the budget, giving the Israeli finance minister the discretion to reduce government funding to any non-governmental organization (NGO) that commemorates the Palestinian Nakba instead of the Israeli Day of Independence.[36][37] A previous form of the bill, first came under consideration by the Knesset in July 2001 and again in 2006, established the commemoration of the Nakba Day as a criminal offense, subject to 1-year imprisonment and/or a fine of NIS10,000 (∼$2,500). Palestinians argue that the bill imposes restrictions on freedom of speech and expression, curtails equality, and applies conditions that suppress the national consciousness and historical narrative of the Palestinian people.[38]
Naksa Day
Day to Mark the Departure and Expulsion of Jews from the Arab Countries and Iran
^ David W. Lesch; Benjamin Frankel (2004). History in Dispute: The Middle East since 1945 (Illustrated ed.). St. James Press. p. 102. ISBN 9781558624726. The Palestinian recalled their "Nakba Day", "catastrophe" – the displacement that accompanied the creation of the State of Israel – in 1948.
^ Morris, Benny (2003). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-00967-7, p. 604.
^ Khalidi, Walid (Ed.) (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
^ a b Figures given here for the number of Palestinian refugees includes only those registered with UNRWA as June 2010. Internally displaced Palestinians were not registered, among others. Factbox: Palestinian refugee statistics
^ Mehran Kamrava (2005). The modern Middle East: a political history since the First World War (Illustrated ed.). University of California Press. p. 125. ISBN 9780520241503. nakba loss of palestine.
^ Samih K. Farsoun (2004). Culture and customs of the Palestinians (Illustrated ed.). Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 14. ISBN 9780313320514. nakba refugees return.
^ a b Derek Gregory (2004). The colonial present: Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq (Illustrated, reprint ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. p. 86. ISBN 9781577180906.
^ Antonius, George (1979) [1946], The Arab awakening: the story of the Arab national movement, Putnam, p. 312, The year 1920 has an evil name in Arab annals: it is referred to as the Year of the Catastrophe (cĀm al-Nakba). It saw the first armed risings that occurred in protest against the post-War settlement imposed by the Allies on the Arab countries. In that year, serious outbreaks took place in Syria, Palestine, and Iraq
^ Rochelle Davis (2010). Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced (Illustrated ed.). Stanford University Press. p. 237. ISBN 9780804773133.
^ a b c d Ahmad H. Sa'di; Lila Abu-Lughod (2007). Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the claims of memory (Illustrated ed.). Columbia University Press. pp. 253–254. ISBN 9780231135795.
^ Hertz-Larowitz, Rachel (2003). Arab and Jewish Youth in Israel: Voicing National Injustice on Campus. Journal of Social Issues, 59(1), 51–66.
^ Shuttleworth, Kate (15 May 2014). "In pictures: Nakba Day protests". Middle East Eye. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
^ Sorek, Tamir (2015). Palestinian Commemoration in Israel: Calendars, Monuments, and Martyrs. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, p.67. ISBN 9780804795203.
^ a b c d Nur Masalha (2005). Catastrophe remembered: Palestine, Israel and the internal refugees: essays in memory of Edward W. Said (1935–2003). Zed Books. p. 221. ISBN 9781842776230.
^ Hillel Cohen (2010). Good Arabs: the Israeli security agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948–1967 (Illustrated ed.). University of California Press. p. 142. ISBN 9780520257672. nakba commemorations decades.
^ Masalha, 2005, p. 216.
^ In 2006, for example, Azmi Bishara, an Arab member of the Knesset told the Israeli newspaper Maariv: "Independence Day is your holiday, not ours. We mark this as the day of our Nakba, the tragedy that befell the Palestinian nation in 1948." (Maariv article (in Hebrew))
^ Mêrôn Benveniśtî (2007). Son of the cypresses: memories, reflections, and regrets from a political life. University of California Press. p. 164. ISBN 9780520238251.
^ Shaul Mishal, Reʼuven Aharoni (1994). Speaking stones: communiqués from the Intifada underground. Syracuse University Press. p. 96. ISBN 9780815626077. May 15, which denotes the nakba, will be a day of national mourning and a general strike; public and private transportation will cease, and all will remain in their houses. CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
^ Rubin, Barry and Rubin, Judith Colp (2003). Yasir Arafat: A Political Biography. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-516689-2, p. 187.
^ "Anger over Palestinian Nakba ban proposal". BBC News. 25 May 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
^ Bowker, Robert (2003). Palestinian Refugees: Mythology, Identity, and the Search for Peace. Lynne Rienner Publishers. ISBN 1-58826-202-2, p. 96.
^ Analysis: Why Palestinians are angry, BBC News Online, 15 May 2000.
^ Violence erupts in West Bank, BBC News Online, 15 May 2000.
^ Israel – Palestinian Violence, National Public Radio, 15 May 2000.
^ Pro-Palestine rally in London, BBC News Online, 15 May 2003.
^ Al-Nakba Day Rally in Times Square, 2004.
^ Gideon Biger (18 May 2011). "Israel was infiltrated, but no real borders were crossed". Haaretz. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
^ a b c Bloodshed along Israel borders kills 12 on Nakba Day AFP. 15 May 2011.
^ Israeli forces open fire at Palestinian protesters. BBC News. 15 May 2011.
^ Thousands of Palestinians mark 'Nakba Day'. BBC News. 15 May 2012.
^ The real Nakba by Shlomo Avineri, 5 September 2008
^ cf. Karsh, Efraim (10 June 2011). "Reclaiming a historical truth". Haaretz. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
^ "Time to stop mourning" by Meron Benvenisti
^ Knesset Approves Nakba Law, by Elad Benari, 23 March 2011
^ Elia Zureik (2011). Elia Zureik; David Lyon; Yasmeen Abu-Laban (eds.). Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine: Population, Territory and Power (Illustrated ed.). Taylor & Francis. p. 17. ISBN 9780415588614.
^ "MK Zahalka: Racist laws target Arab sector" by Roni Sofer, 22 March 2011
^ Olesker, Ronnie (15 March 2013). "Law-making and the Securitization of the Jewish Identity in Israel". Ethnopolitics. 13 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1080/17449057.2013.773156. S2CID 145339153.
In pictures: 'Catastrophe Day' protests, BBC News
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Palestinian Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestinian exodus by subdistrict
Acre Subdistrict
Amqa
Arab al-Samniyya
al-Bassa
al-Birwa
al-Damun
al-Ghabisiyya
Iqrit
Iribbin
Jiddin
al-Kabri
Kafr 'Inan
Kuwaykat
al-Manshiyya
al-Mansura
al-Nabi Rubin
al-Nahr
al-Ruways
Suhmata
al-Sumayriyya
Suruh
al-Tall
Tarbikha
Umm al-Faraj
az-Zeeb
Beisan Subdistrict
Arab al-'Arida
Arab al-Bawati
Arab al-Safa
al-Ashrafiyya
al-Bira
Beisan
Farwana
al-Fatur
al-Ghazzawiyya
al-Hamidiyya
al-Hamra
Jabbul
Kafra
Kawkab al-Hawa
al-Khunayzir
Masil al-Jizl
al-Murassas
Qumya
al-Sakhina
al-Samiriyya
Tall al-Shawk
al-Taqa
al-Tira
Umm 'Ajra
Khirbat Umm Sabuna
Yubla
Zab'a
al-Zawiya
Beersheba Subdistrict
al-Imara
al-Jammama
al-Khalasa
Auja al-Hafir
Gaza Subdistrict
Arab Suqrir
al-Batani al-Gharbi
al-Batani al-Sharqi
Bayt 'Affa
Bayt Daras
Bayt Jirja
Bayt Tima
Bil'in
Burayr
Dayr Sunayd
Dimra
al-Faluja
Hamama
Hiribya
Huj
Hulayqat
Ibdis
Iraq al-Manshiyya
Iraq Suwaydan
Isdud
al-Jaladiyya
al-Jiyya
Julis
al-Jura
Jusayr
Karatiyya
Kawfakha
Kawkaba
al-Khisas
al-Masmiyya al-Kabira
al-Masmiyya al-Saghira
al-Muharraqa
Ni'ilya
Qastina
al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya
al-Sawafir al-Shamaliyya
al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya
Simsim
Summil
Tall al-Turmus
Yasur
Haifa Subdistrict
Abu Shusha
Abu Zurayq
Arab al-Fuqara
Arab al-Nufay'at
Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri
'Atlit
Ayn Ghazal
Ayn Hawd
Balad al-Sheikh
Barrat Qisarya
Burayka
al-Burj
al-Butaymat
Daliyat al-Rawha'
al-Dumun
al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa
al-Ghubayya al-Tahta
Hawsha
Ijzim
Jaba'
al-Jalama
al-Kafrayn
Kafr Lam
al-Kasayir
Khubbayza
al-Manara
al-Mansi
al-Mazar
Naghnaghiya
Qannir
Qira
Qisarya
Qumbaza
al-Rihaniyya
Sabbarin
al-Sarafand
Khirbat al-Sarkas
Khirbat Sa'sa'
al-Sawamir
Khirbat al-Shuna
al-Sindiyana
al-Tantura
Umm ash Shauf
Umm az-Zinat
Wa'arat al-Sarris
Wadi Ara
Yajur
Hebron Subdistrict
'Ajjur
Barqusya
Bayt Jibrin
Bayt Nattif
al-Dawayima
Deir al-Dubban
Dayr Nakhkhas
Kudna
Mughallis
al-Qubayba
Ra'na
Tell es-Safi
Umm Burj
az-Zakariyya
Zayta
Zikrin
Jaffa Subdistrict
al-'Abbasiyya
Abu Kabir
Abu Kishk
Bayt Dajan
Biyar 'Adas
Fajja
al-Haram
Ijlil al-Qibliyya
Ijlil al-Shamaliyya
al-Jammasin al-Gharbi
al-Jammasin al-Sharqi
Jarisha
Kafr 'Ana
al-Khayriyya
al-Mas'udiyya
al-Mirr
al-Muwaylih
Rantiya
al-Safiriyya
Salama
Saqiya
al-Sawalima
al-Shaykh Muwannis
Yazur
Jenin Subdistrict
al-Jawfa
Ayn al-Mansi
Lajjun
Nuris
Zir'in
Jerusalem Subdistrict
Allar
Aqqur
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Actualité et débat de société
Henry David Thoreau - Authors Republic
Civil Disobedience is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican–American War.
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Stephanie G'Schwind
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Director of the Center for Literary Publishing and Editor of Colorado Review.
B.A., English, Colorado State University; M.A., Communication Development, Colorado State University.
Before joining the Center for Literary Publishing, Stephanie G'Schwind worked as a copyeditor at Group Publishing and then as senior production assistant and freelance copyeditor at Indiana University Press. As director of the Center, she is editor of Colorado Review and the Colorado Prize for Poetry Series, and directs an internship that trains graduate-student interns in basic publishing skills.
Internship in Literary Editing
The Center for Literary Publishing offers English department graduate students (in any concentration) the opportunity to assist in the operations of a small literary press. Each year the CLP publishes six books: three issues of Colorado Review and three collections of poetry. We also run a national poetry contest, the Colorado Prize for Poetry, as well as a national short fiction contest, the Nelligan Prize. Interns serve as readers for the nearly ten thousand manuscripts of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that we receive every academic year. Interns also have opportunities to copyedit, proofread, and typeset manuscripts; learn about book production and design; handle subscriptions and circulation; learn about marketing and social media techniques; and gain proficiency with current industry software (InDesign, PhotoShop, FileMaker, and Submittable). The internship is offered as a variable-credit course. Students may register for 1 to 5 credits, working 40 hours for each credit ( 3 hours a week for one credit, 6 for two credits, 9 for three credits, and so on). Interns must maintain regularly scheduled office hours.
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Kane Investigation Continues (Trigger Warning)
By August 10, 2015 842
As expected, very little detail emerged in the ongoing Patrick Kane rape investigation in Buffalo over the weekend. But what little did transpire does need to be discussed.
While most of the details were encapsulated in neat digest form in a Deadspin piece this morning, some of the particulars need to be discussed. First, disturbingly, is that the victim was reportedly found with bite and scratch marks upon her visit to the hospital in the aftermath of the incident. And there will not be use of the modifier “alleged” in this particular case. As we have had to learn first hand here, the argument of “Intent versus outcome” has to be adhered to. No matter what actually transpired between these two parties, or what anyone intended to have happen in this encounter, the outcome was such that the victim felt wronged enough to immediately seek out medical attention and allow herself to be subject to a rape kit while in the hospital, and whatever the the results of that examination were ended up being enough to compel a warrant and investigation of Kane’s home the same day as her admittance to a hospital. These new details certainly corroborate that established timeline.
Equally as disgusting is the Buffalo News’ inclusions of the comments from the owner of the bar where Kane was last Saturday night, Marc Croce of Sky Bar, who sounds like a real fucking scumbag here, which is all included in the very same article above. Croce serves up several hot platters of piping hot, victim blaming bullshit such as these:
“It was almost like she stationed herself near him and was keeping other women away from him,” Croce said. “I noticed it and kind of laughed about it.”
This is absolutely part of the problem. This is victim blaming. This is disgusting. And shame on the Buffalo News for allowing this troglodyte to speak. But this is only part of the problem. Croce goes on to spout more bullshit, in an out and out lie:
“I’ve got no skin in this game. I am only telling you what I observed,” Croce said. “(Kane) was acting like a typical young guy his age, out having fun with some of his buddies. A lot of people were coming up to him, asking to have pictures taken with him. He was a gentleman. Pat had a couple of drinks and maybe a couple of shots. He was having a good time, but he wasn’t stumbling or doing anything obnoxious.”
This is patently false. As Alan Bedenko goes on to illustrate in his excellent piece, Croce absolutely has a manifold stake in this. First, Kane is a multimillion dollar customer with a penchant for consuming mass quantities, and he was to have his Cup party there this past weekend before all of this came raining down, so he has a direct monetary loss to cover. Secondly, from a civil suit standpoint, Croce can be found liable if Kane was knowingly over-served and ended up committing a felony in that wake. It is a reprehensible miscarriage of journalistic integrity by the Buffalo News that his quotes were even ran because of this conflict of interest, not to mention the contradictory qualifying statement he gave as a closer.
“I don’t know if this is the same woman who made the rape allegation against him,” Croce said. “I only know what I saw that night on my own premises. If you’re going to ask what happened between them after they left that night, how would I know?”
The bigger problem with this lies again in the rape culture, victim blaming, athlete worshipping society that we continue to exist in. Julie DiCaro published another excellent piece regarding the meaningful language surrounding cases like these (including, sadly, her own), even where one party involved is not famous. And it’s disgusting that this victim’s actions are called into question during that evening a) as if any of them equate to being deserving of being raped, or b) that Patrick Kane’s seven year track record of being an entitled, blind drunk fucking asshole are not.
And because of this, the longer this process is protracted, the better chance there is that there will be no charges brought, because that gives time for people to come out of the woodwork to shame and blame. It also allows more time for powers with much more financial and public relations stake to get their tendrils around it to make it go away. As DiCaro notes, it takes a truly stalwart soul to withstand this kind of onslaught even after being attacked and violated in such a horrific manner.
The takeaway from this mess should have nothing to do with hockey. The only hope is that the Blackhawks as an organization behave responsibly, particularly after having the light shone on their sexist practices of playing “The Stripper” for shoot the puck last year. But that’s a long shot at best given what is invested. And any fan’s feelings about having a star athlete who once brought so much joy having his reputation besmirched, being taken away, or having championship memories sullied do not trump those they should feel of revulsion watching this sad, textbook case of rape culture in action play out.
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Dana DeGiulio, Ezra Tessler, Clare Grill, and Caitlin Cherry
Berkana: Eleanna Anagnos
Eleanna Anagnos was born in Evanston, IL. She currently works and resides in Brooklyn, NY. Anagnos received her MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University Philadelphia, Pa in 2005 and her BA from Kenyon College in 2002.
“Eleanna’s work is mysterious. And it deserves a thorough look. Her materials and processes are purposefully elusive. There is thought here—you can feel it radiating off the work. Sometimes the work feels like a long meditative breath. Sometimes it feels like a busy mind spinning and rolling thoughts over and over … [T]here is a duality in all of what Eleanna makes. Sometimes that duality is a mirroring effect in the form and sometimes it is within the materials. She makes work on paper and with a sculptural material called Hydrocal that is a gypsum cement. The works on paper exist between painting and drawing and the works in Hydrocal are both paintings and sculptures and yet not fully either.”_ Kelly McCafferty, The Coastal Post
Begun in 1947 by C. Kermit Ewing, founder of The University of Tennessee School of Art, the annual student exhibition has become one of the oldest competitions in the country and one of the highlights of the Ewing Gallery's exhibition season. This Dr. Luis Pelaez, Carrie Shaw, Pat Badt, and Scott Sherk.
Exhibiting students are: Cassidy Frye - Pushing and Pulling of Overworked Surfaces; Alex McKenzie - Again Again; Erica Mendoza - Privacy Settings;
Group 2: Austin Pratt - Some Openings; Christian Vargas - Tianguis; Tom Wixo - Coward of the County
Group 3: MaryAnne Carey - Destruction's Security Unit; Amy LeFever - Counterpoint; Johanna Winters - The Middle Tell
Initiated by the Ewing’s Director Sam Yates 28 years ago, this exhibition recognizes outstanding students graduating from The University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Art, College of Arts and Sciences; a Bachelor of Architecture or Bachelor of Science, Interior Architecture, a Master of Architecture, and a Master of Landscape Design from the College of Architecture and Design. Selected by a School of Art Faculty Scholarship committee, six art students from various art disciplines were chosen from the qualifying applicants for this year’s exhibition. These students are Michael Seagraves, Kristen Wasik, Sierra Plese, Marcus Taylor, Jesse McAdams, and Jade Knox. The College of Architecture and Design participants were selected by the faculty-at-large, and by outside review teams. Those exhibiting students are: Summer Abston, Lauren Buntemeyer, Dillon Dunn, Aaron Wright, Breanna Browning, Polly Ann Blackwell, Andi Thompson, and Isabella Davis.
Analogy + Interaction
July 18 - September 7, 2018
Marrying Mr. Darcy
Marrying Mr. Darcy is a strategy card game for 2-6 players based on Jane Austen’s classic novel “Pride and Prejudice.”
Walden, a gamePlay as Henry David Thoreau, the American philosopher and naturalist, during his experiment in living simply in nature. Apply yourself to both the daily tasks of maintaining your basic needs of life at Walden Pond, as well as searching for the small beauties and wonders of nature in this virtual environment.
Embodied Labs
Embodied Labs works at the intersection of healthcare training and virtual reality storytelling to provide a culture shift solution that empowers every member of the care team to share their expertise and value one another.
The Cat and the Coup
The Cat and the Coup is a documentary videogame in which you play the cat of Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. During the summer of 1953, the CIA engineered a coup to bring about his downfall. As a player, you coax Mossadegh back through significant events of his life by knocking objects off of shelves, scattering his papers, jumping on his lap and scratching him.
Good Society is a collaborative roleplaying game that seeks to capture the heart, and the countenance, of Jane Austen’s work. It is a game of balls, estates, sly glances, and turns about the garden. At least on the surface. Underneath this, just as in Austen’s own novels, it is a game of social ambition, family obligation and breathtaking, heart-stopping longing.
Irons in the Fire: UTK Sculpture Alumni
Curated by sculpture alumnus, Bill FitzGibbons, Irons in the Fire features UT BFA and MFA alums from the past 25 years.
Exhibiting alums are: Jessica Brooke Anderson, MFA 2013 / Leticia Bajuyo, MFA 2001 / Robmat Butler, MFA 2009 / Mike Calway-Fagen, BFA 2006 / Dan DeZarn, BFA 2003 / Richard Ensor, BFA 2015 / Preston Farabow, BFA 1992 / Cassidy Frye, MFA 2018 / Brian Jobe, BFA 2004 / David Jones, MFA 2004 / Noah Kirby, 1998 / Alison Ouellette-Kirby, MFA 1996 / Candice Lewis, MFA 2004 / Erica Mendoza, MFA 2018 / Marisa Mitchell, BFA 2016 / Lauren Sanders, BFA 2015 / Joshua Shorey, MFA 2017 / Jacob Stanley, MFA 2010 / Thomas Sturgill, BFA 2003 / Durant Thompson, BFA 1997 / John Truex, BFA 2004 / Kevin Varney, MFA 2014 / Taylor Wallace, BFA 2005 / AC Wilson, BFA 2012 / Ronda Wright, BFA 2009
Dialogues: Oyler Wu Collaborative
Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936 - Present
Curated by Rebecca DiGiovanna
More than 80 years after its founding, AAA continues to nurture and support a vibrant community of artists with diverse identities and approaches to abstraction. In celebration of this tradition, Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists traces the work of the female artists within AAA from the founders to contemporary, practicing members. Included are works by historic members Perle Fine, Esphyr Slobodkina, Charmion von Wiegand, Irene Rice Pereira, Alice Trumbull Mason, and Gertrude Greene, as well as works by current members, such as Ce Roser, Irene Rousseau, Judith Murray, Alice Adams, Merrill Wagner and Katinka Mann. Through fifty-four works, the exhibition explores the stylistic variations and individual approaches to guiding principles of abstraction: color, space, light, material and process.
Mutual Muses: James Seawright + Mimi Garrard
Curated by: T. Michael Martin
Mutual Muses is a two-person exhibition showcasing works by James Seawright and Mimi Garrard, who have been working together as well as individually since the 1960s. Their lives and practice have inspired each other throughout their careers. This exhibition is an interwoven love story featuring individual works by Seawright and Garrard as well as ones inspired by the other and those created collaboratively. Their life of interconnectivity as mutual muses is beautifully explored and presented in this survey exhibition.
Christopher Spurgin
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We Am
Meg Erlewine
Rerouted
Joshua Shorey
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LAMBORGHINI GALLARDO LP550 VIDEO TEST DRIVE & REVIEW
Lamborghini has built a car that will actually give you
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Drive a Lamborghini Gallardo On a Racetrack!
Named after the famous breed of fighting bull, the Gallardo 550 hp machine has a top speed of 200 mph and rockets from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds!. Named 2006 Top Gear Dream Car of the Year and 2009 Top Gear Car of the Year, the Lamborghini Gallardo remains a top pick among car experts around the world. Listen to the Lamborghini's V10 engine roar through the track while our pro instructors coach you to drive it to its limit! read more >
The Gallardo LP550-2 is the first series-production rear-wheel-drive to come out of the house of Lamborghini since the Diablo. There is a lot to be said about a rear wheel, 550 horsepower supercar that pushes 398 lb-ft of torque. Not to mention the removal of the front drive shafts lightens the Gallardo by over 65 pounds making it even lighter than the stripped-down Lamborghini LP570-4 Superleggera. Less weight with the same horsepower makes it faster and nimbler than the Gallardo LP550-4. Removing the front drive shafts also means that the weight distribution is now rear-biased making the Gallardo feel lighter and more agile.
Steering comes to life when you really push it hard. It’s in third gear that the rush becomes amazing as the wide powerband of the engine revs from 3500 rpm all the way up to 8200 rpm providing a sustained, truly startling thrust. Don't worry about the corners. There is still plenty of grip from the rear tires to provide support.
Being able to open up this V10 and feel the ferocity of almost 400 lb-ft of torque thrusting down the back stretch will make you feel the ultimate rush of adrenaline! One thousand eight hundred feet shrink fast when smashing down toward the apex in a Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2. All-in-all, the Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2 is a perfectly balanced good time that delivers beauty, power, passion, and agility.
Gallardo holds the distinction of being Lamborghini's top selling vehicle of all time. It packs a powerful V-10 engine with 550 horsepower and a top speed of 200 mph with a 0-60 in 3.9 seconds. Named 2006 Top Gear Dream Car of the Year and 2009 Top Gear Car of the Year, the Gallardo remains a top pick among visitors to both of our tracks.
"All Lamborghinis have a lot of power and very aggressive personalities, and it all starts with the Gallardo LP550. The LP550 throws you back with its 550hp V10 and will hold you there until you put up the white flag and surrender by taking your foot off the throttle. It has a very wide power band, making this car so much fun to drive."
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Exceptional service on and off the track. Amazing staff and top notch instructors. Cant wait to do it again!
- Louis
Thanks so much for the great time this past Saturday. I definitely lived out a dream on the track that day. I'll definitely be recommending you all to anyone I talk to because it was definitely worth it. If you all get the 458 italia i'll probably have to make another trip up there. Thanks again, the whole experience was fantastic.
Driving at the track this past Saturday was the best, but riding in the Corvette was without a doubt the thrill of a lifetime! I will be sure to let all [my clients] know of your product and the outstanding experience their VIP's will have attending...
Had a great time. Need to bring the experience to the east coast!
- Kenneth
It was one of the most memorable experiences of the year for me. I will be back, and I have recommended it to quite a few friends!
Mark and I had a great time on Saturday. It was everything I was hoping for and more. Really enjoyed running the Lambo. May have to buy one of my own now. If you took any photos of us racing the track would you pls forward them to me. Especially any in the Ferrari and Lambo. Best regrads, Rick
- Richard
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Homenewswatch russian second division player scores insane backflip penalty
WATCH: Russian Second Division player scores insane backflip penalty
Footballer successfully scores incredible backflip penalty in Russian Second Division game
There are many different players who've made penalties more glamorous than they were originally intended - Andrea Pirlo chipping his spot-kicks and skilful players like Neymar always finding new ways to capitalise on their fancy footwork - but the latest unique penalty is enough to blow the mind of any on-looking football fan.
In a game for Rubin Kazan's Under 21s team, Russian-Armenian Norik Avdalyan was given the golden opportunity to get his side on the scoresheet and made sure that he put off the goalkeeper enough to get the ball over the line. We've seen some incredible penalties before but this is beyond believe and needs more than one watch just to comprehend what happens, as Avdalyan ambitiously backflips to smash the ball into the top corner of the net. Rubin Kazan's twitter page posted the video, giving him plenty of well-deserved praise, and it looks likely for Norik Avdalyan to get call-up to the senior squad after scoring such a sensational goal.
Check out Norik Avdalyan's mind-blowing penalty below:
(Video courtesy of @fcrk)
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In Uptown, CPM bets on boutique building
Adam Voge February 19, 2014 7:05 am
CPM Development's proposal for a three-story, mixed-use building at 1620 W. Lake St. will be considered Thursday by the Minneapolis Planning Commission.
The Walkway apartments open in Uptown
Adam Voge January 30, 2014 7:00 am
The first residents of The Walkway, a 92-unit market-rate apartment complex at 1320 W. Lake St. in Minneapolis, moved in Jan. 16.
Met Council awards grants to housing, office projects
Mike Rose January 23, 2014 3:46 pm
The council announced $5.6 million in funding for developments, including an affordable apartment project in north Minneapolis and an office and retail expansion in Uptown.
Dougherty closes $11.2M loan for Minneapolis apartments
Adam Voge January 6, 2014 3:12 pm
The firm originated an $11.2 million refinancing of the 136-unit Buzza Lofts affordable apartments at 1136 W. Lake St..
Trammell Crow to pitch Lake Calhoun apartments
Dallas-based developer Trammell Crow Co. is considering an 11-story apartment building in the Cedar-Isles-Dean area — a neighborhood with a history of resistance to tall buildings.
Dominium plans market-rate rentals in Uptown
Adam Voge December 30, 2013 3:52 pm
The developer behind the Buzza Lofts affordable housing project in Minneapolis’ Uptown neighborhood expects to approach city officials with preliminary plans for a 130-unit neighbor to Buzza.
Hennepin County advances library projects
Brian Johnson December 19, 2013 3:53 pm
The county’s 2014 budget offers $12.6 million for library projects, including the last pieces of funding for the new Walker Library and Excelsior Library.
Dreams for a crumbling street: City ponders Uptown park
admin December 16, 2013 5:19 pm
The city of Minneapolis has set aside $350,000 for a study about the possibility of converting the crumbling 29th Street South stretch in Uptown into a pedestrian thoroughfare.
Building Blocks: Buzza Lofts
Frank Jossi December 5, 2013 1:32 pm
Located in the heart of Uptown on West Lake at Colfax Street, Buzza Lofts offers 136 units of affordable housing in a high-end rental district.
MoZaic’s second phase morphs into larger project
Adam Voge December 2, 2013 4:15 pm
The developers behind the MoZaic office and retail complex, at 1320 Lagoon Ave. in Minneapolis, have submitted plans to the city for an 185,000-square-foot second phase to the east of the original building.
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WHO experts in…
WHO experts in Wuhan for virus origin probe
WUHAN: A team of experts from the World Health Organization arrived in Wuhan on Thursday to start a highly politicised probe into the origins of the coronavirus, as China reported its first death from Covid-19 in eight months.
The 10 scientists, who must complete a two-week quarantine in Wuhan before starting their work, arrived for their much-delayed mission to examine the orgins of the pandemic.
The virus was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019 and has since billowed out across the world killing nearly two million people so far, infecting tens of millions and eviscerating the global economy.
State broadcaster CGTN showed the plane carrying the team arrive from Singapore to be met by Chinese officials in full hazmat suits.
Their trip comes as more than 20 million people are under lockdown in the north of China and one province has declared an emergency, with Covid-19 numbers climbing after several months of being relatively static.
China had largely brought the pandemic under control through strict lockdowns and mass testing, hailing its economic rebound as an indication of strong leadership by the Communist authorities.
But another 138 infections were reported by the National Health Commission on Thursday — the highest single-day tally since March last year.
Clusters are still small compared with many countries contending with rampant infections and record numbers of deaths, and the first virus fatality in several months — reported in northern Hebei province — seeded alarm across China.
Beijing is anxious to stamp out local clusters ahead of next month’s Lunar New Year festival when hundreds of millions of people will be on the move across the country.
Health authorities gave no details about the latest death except that it occurred in Hebei province, where the government has placed several cities under lockdown.
As infections have spread, northeastern Heilongjiang declared an “emergency state” on Wednesday, telling its 37.5 million residents not to leave the province unless absolutely necessary.
As news of the latest death emerged on Thursday, the hashtag “New virus death in Hebei” quickly ratcheted up 100 million views on Chinese social media platform Weibo.
“I haven’t seen the words ‘virus death’ in so long, it’s a bit shocking! I hope the epidemic can pass soon,” one user wrote.
No deaths have been reported in mainland China since May last year, with the official death toll now standing at 4,635.
The latest death comes as China braces for the scrutiny the arrival of the expert team of WHO scientists will bring.
Peter Ben Embarek, team lead for the mission, said the group would start with a mandatory quarantine at a hotel due to Chinese immigration requirements.
“And then after the two weeks, we would be able to move around and meet our Chinese counterparts in person and go to the different sites that we will want to visit,” he said.
He warned it “could be a very long journey before we get a full understanding of what happened”.
Beijing has argued that although Wuhan is where the first cluster of cases was detected, it is not necessarily where the virus originated.
“I don’t think we will have clear answers after this initial mission, but we will be on the way,” Embarek added.
“The idea is to advance a number of studies that were already designed and decided upon some months ago to get us a better understanding of what happened,” he said.
The long-delayed WHO trip comes more than a year after the pandemic began and has sparked political tensions over allegations that Beijing tried to thwart the project.
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The Early Achievements Of Prolific Aviator Howard Hughes
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Pioneering, mysterious, decided, inventive, and controversial are simply a number of the phrases that can be utilized to explain Howard Hughes. His colourful profession spanned many years over the course of essentially the most important durations in airline historical past. Altogether, whether or not it was as a pilot, engineer, businessman, or film producer, the previous Trans World Airways (TWA) chief was probably the most vital aviation figures of the 20th century.
Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose was fairly a website—it had a wingspan of 320 toes, and its tail flew 60 toes above the water. Photograph: Getty ImagesNot losing any time
Hughes was born in Houston, Texas, on Christmas Eve in 1905. As a baby, it was evident that he had a eager curiosity in engineering. Notably, on the age of simply 11, he constructed the town’s first “wireless” radio transmitter. Subsequently, he grew to become one of many first licensed ham-radio operators within the space.
These youthful achievements didn’t cease there as Hughes was featured within the native newspaper as the primary boy in Houston to have a “motorized” bicycle. He had constructed the cycle from elements from his father’s steam engine. His love for aviation additionally quickly prevailed, as he took his first flying lesson on the age of 14.
But, earlier than attempting his hand within the airline trade, Hughes had success in two totally different worlds from a younger age. When his father handed away in 1924, he took over his enterprise, the Hughes Instrument Firm. This agency was a producer of drill bits and went on to develop into a powerhouse in its personal proper earlier than merging to kind Baker Hughes within the 1980s.
Nonetheless, Hughes’ expertise with this firm gave him one in all his first tastes of enterprise, and he started utilizing the income to fund his different ventures. One of many key tasks was when he shaped the Hughes Plane Firm in 1932, which furthered the businessman’s growth into the aviation realm.
Hitting the skies
In keeping with Britannica, In September 1935, in an plane of his personal design, known as the H-1 Racer, Hughes established the world’s landplane pace file of 352.46 miles (567.23 km) per hour. Two years later, in the identical aircraft, he averaged 332 miles per hour in decreasing the transcontinental flight-time file to seven hours and 28 minutes.
Furthermore, in July 1938, additional displaying his piloting expertise, whereas working a Lockheed 14, he circled the globe in a file 91 hours 14 minutes in July 1938. This plane enterprise benefitted from wartime contracts in the course of the Second World Battle. Actually, it will go one to develop into one of many United States’ and largest protection contractors and aerospace corporations.
A 1947 photograph of Howard Hughes on the controls of a TWA Constellation, demonstrating a radar warning system to be accessible for airline plane. Photograph: Getty ImagesCalifornia dreamin’
Whereas making noise within the industrial world, Hughes was concurrently breaking by way of in present enterprise. In 1926, he moved to Los Angeles and have become an influential determine within the film trade. A number of of his movies ran over funds and obtained into censorship disputes. Nonetheless, he produced a sequence of flicks that will find yourself being family Hollywood titles.
A few of Hughes’ earlier productions embrace:
Hell’s Angels
The Entrance Web page
Sky Devils
Behind the Rising Solar
Regardless of going over funds and scuffling with off-screen forms, a few of Hughes’ works received accolades, equivalent to Oscars, and have been thought-about groundbreaking for his or her time. Regardless, Hughes was prepared for a brand new problem and was nonetheless waiting for see what else he might tackle.
Aviation expansions
On the finish of the 1930s, the entrepreneur used Hughes Instrument to purchase a controlling curiosity in TWA. When the USA began to prioritize its workforce for the World Battle II effort, TWA’s plane have been used to help the US army.
Furthermore, Hughes’ different productions, such because the Hughes XF-11 and the H-Four Hercules have been supposed for use for the battle. Nonetheless, it was not accomplished till after the struggle, regardless of his firm being contracted.
The latter aircraft, which went on to be referred to as the Spruce Goose, was an eight-engine wood flying boat. Nonetheless, it didn’t come to fruition till 1947. Subsequently, Hughes was introduced earlier than a Senate committee over allegations of struggle profiteering. He went face to face with Senator Owen Brewster and triumphed.
TWA performed a significant position within the progress of US passenger operations. Photograph: Getty ImagesA rising presence
Within the years following the Battle, Hughes and TWA swiftly expanded and upped competitors in opposition to the likes of Pan American, American Airways, and United Airways. It was in 1946 that TWA launched the Lockheed Constellation on its transcontinental New York-Los Angeles route. That very same 12 months, the operator began transatlantic service between New York Metropolis and Paris.
Hughes initially requested a transcontinental aircraft with a variety of three,500 mi (5,600 km) that would maintain 40 passengers again in 1939. Subsequently, these necessities ultimately led to Lockheed’s growth of the L-049 Constellation.
On April 17th, 1944, Hughes and TWA president Jack Frye flew from Burbank, California, to Washington, D.C., in six hours and 57 minutes. They averaged a pace of 331 miles per hour (533 km/h).
There was a particular second on the return because the pair stopped at Wright Subject in Ohio to present pioneer Orville Wright his ultimate flight, over 40 years after his momentous first flight close to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The icon famous that the plane’s wingspan was longer than the space of his first flight.
TWA is without doubt one of the most historic US carriers. Getty ImagesThe journey continues
By the top of the 1940s, Hughes was affirmed as a key determine throughout the USA. Actually, he was on the quilt of Time Journal in July 1948, in entrance of the Spruce Goose.
The story of the legendary aviator doesn’t finish right here, as he went on to dwell out some eventful moments within the many years that adopted. Keep tuned for half two of Hughes’ story within the weeks to return.
What are your ideas in regards to the early days of Howard Hughes’ profession? Do you’ve gotten any recollections of flying with Trans World Airways over time? Tell us what you consider the pioneer and the airline within the remark part.
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A child and a girl wearing face masks found walking across a road on July 27, 2020 at Hong Kong, China.Vernon Yuen | NurPhoto | Getty ImagesHong Kong’s legislative council election will be postponed by a year, the town’s chief Carrie Lam declared Friday amid a fresh surge in coronavirus cases.The vote has been originally scheduled to happen on Sept. 6 but will now occur on Sept. 5, 2021, based on Lam. She stated that central authorities affirmed the conclusion and it had been taken to protect people’s wellbeing.”The statement I must create now is the toughest decision I have had to create in the previous seven weeks,” Lam said in a press conference, according to the Associated Press.”we would like to guarantee fairness and public security and health, and will need to be certain that the election is held in an open, fair and unbiased way. This choice is therefore crucial,” she said.As of July 30, police noted 149 other instances of Covid-19, bringing the city’s total to 3,151, according to the town’s wellbeing department.Hong Kong was originally hailed for its response to this outbreak, and managed to prevent widespread lockdowns that lots of countries enforced to stem this spread of the disease. On the other hand, that the coronavirus reemerged and supported instances attained new daily highs in recent weeks.The postponement of the election arrived after Hong Kong government announced Thursday that 12 pro-democracy nominees are disqualified from running in the upcoming elections. One of them was high profile activist, Joshua Wong, along with incumbent lawmakers Dennis Kwok and Alvin Yeung.According into Hong Kong legislation, an election could be postponed in the event the town’s chief executive believes it’s very likely to become “obstructed, disrupted, compromised or severely affected by riot or open violence or some other threat to public health and security.” Voting generally must occur inside 14 days of the first date, however the town’s chief also has power to create regulations whenever there are “events of crisis or public hazard.”The disqualification of this pro-democracy candidates brought criticism abroad, such as British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab who advised the move.In an announcement on the united kingdom. government’s website, Raab said it was “clear they’ve been disqualified due to their political viewpoints, undermining the ethics of ‘One Country, Two Systems’ and also the rights and also freedoms guaranteed in the Joint Declaration and Hong Kong’s Basic Law.”Hong Kong was dominated under the “one country, two systems” policy because the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997. That frame grants the Chinese land a mostly separate legal and economic system, also enables those living there restricted election rights.Rumors of a delay of the election were already trapping prior to the announcement.U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday urged Hong Kong to move using the elections as planned.Following local press reports on a potential delay, pro-democracy activist Wong, stated on Twitter which “with (the) pandemic as an excuse to postpone the election is unquestionably a lie.”He explained hygiene measures could be stepped up to decrease the probability of disease during voting. The authorities reimposed social distancing principles and tightened the constraints further this past week. The steps were harder than those introduced while the health crisis first arose in the first portion of their year.Dine-in providers were suspended and parties of two or more individuals were prohibited in late July, while face masks were made compulsory in all public areas. “However, the (government) knows just to interfere with the election which was fair and free, possibly disqualifying my candidacy or to call off the election,” Wong said on Twitter.The September election could have become the town’s first because its contentious national safety legislation came into effect in the end of June. Beijing said the law is supposed to prohibit secession, subversion of state power, terrorism and international interference, but critics feared it could be used to crush dissent. An unofficial chief in July allegedly watched 600,000 people appear to cast a symbolic vote, according to Reuters, which cited that the resistance camp.Anyone convicted of an offence under the new federal security laws cannot stand as a candidate in elections to the legislative council or district councils.
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Xbox is making the Fortnite controller with Dark Vertex skin available – without having to buy a new console
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With Fortnite dominating the console charts for over a year, it’s about time that Xbox started making unique Fortnite branded controllers.
The Fortnite Special Edition controller has been available through an Xbox One bundle pack before, but now it will be available for purchase outright.
It will retail at $64.99, that is just five dollars more expensive than most controllers retail for. But to make up for the added cost, the controller also comes with 500 V-Bucks (immediately recouping that money) and a legendary skin.
The Dark Vertex skin that comes with this controller is pretty clean
The controller itself hits the standard that Xbox has set for new controllers recently. It includes a 3.5mm headphone jack to help you hear footsteps around you and bluetooth technology so you can game on a Windows PC.
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There is also custom button-mapping through the Xbox Accessories App which gives you solid customization which helps a lot with building.
Don’t rush straight out to your local store and try to find this though, the controller won’t hit retail shelves until September 17th. If you just can’t wait, you can still purchase that full Xbox One bundle to grab the skin.
That is not recommended by us though. Xbox’s Scarlett Red – the first new truly new Xbox console since the Xbox One came out in 2013 – is slated for release around the 2020 holidays.
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If you already have an Xbox, you would be better off waiting until that one releases. It might not come with a Fortnite skin, but a Fortnite bundle is definitely possible. The inherent upgrades will make it worth it every time.
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Epic confirm incoming fix for pay-to-win Fortnite superhero skins
Epic Games have confirmed that they’re working to address community pay-to-win concerns regarding Fortnite superhero skins.
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Epic Games developers have responded to player requests regarding the all-black variant of the customizable superhero skins.
Fortnite is no stranger to pay-to-win controversies. The first came in the form of the Deep Dab emote, which allowed players to duck under windows and get free shots on their opponents.
After that were the Plastic Patroller and Toy Trooper skins. These skins blended in with the grassy background of the map, making them far more difficult to see than the brightly-colored alternatives.
Thankfully, Epic fixed both of these problems by adding a delay to emotes and dirt to the toy soldier skins. Now, though, they’re facing a similar controversy with the customizable superhero skins.
Reddit and Twitter users have recently noticed something that competitive Fortnite players knew since these skins first hit the Item Shop: the all-black versions are difficult to see.
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The problem has only gotten worse, as recent Fortnite updates have made the nighttime even darker. Console players don’t have the option to turn off shadows, which means finding these corner-campers is nearly impossible for them.
In all seriousness, this should be addressed sooner rather than later.
These 3 images show how difficult is to see the all-black superhero skins in Fortnite.
Remember, console players can't turn shadows off.
We trust Epic to do the right thing. Remember Toy Soldier & Deep Dab pic.twitter.com/izdLquiisb
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Following the outcry on Reddit and social media, the developers responded to a thread, calling for them to fix the issue.
Epic Games staff member, u/gstaffEpic, told Redditors, “We’re looking at it. Thanks everyone for raising it.”
We assume that a fix for this problem is coming sooner rather than later. In the past, Epic have always been quick to address community concerns when it comes to pay-to-win items. They changed all of the other troublesome cosmetics throughout Fortnite, and we expect their handling of the superhero skins to be the same.
Unfortunately, it seems like the easiest fix would be to disable solid-colored superhero skins. We hope this doesn’t happen, but it would be better than all-black pay-to-win skins hiding in corners around the map.
Fortnite players call for Epic to nerf this pay-to-win skin
Fortnite players have noticed that this skin combination gives players a competitive advantage. They’re now calling this skin ‘pay-to-win.’
Fortnite players are calling for Epic to nerf the all-black superhero skins, calling them ‘pay-to-win.’
In Season 4, Epic introduced a skin set that arguably offered the best value in the game. The customizable superhero skins let players choose different colors, materials, and styles – making several unique outfits out of a single skin.
The community loved this addition for a while. Several players had locker presets filled with this single skin, as the options were seemingly endless.
After a while, ‘sweaty’ Fortnite players noticed that one particular combination of colors offered them a distinct advantage. The black-on-black superhero skins are incredibly difficult to see, especially with shadows enabled.
All-black superhero skins are nearly invisible if you have shadows turned on, as all console players do by default.
Credit: u/FkLemons pic.twitter.com/NZNihL6GdT
This is even more of an issue for console players, who don’t have the option to turn shadows off in their graphics settings.
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Fortnite had a similar problem with the Plastic Patroller skin set more than a year ago. These all-green skins allowed players to blend in with the grassy environment, forcing Epic to add dirt to them to make them stand out.
These all-black superhero skins might be worse than their predecessors. You can blend in anywhere with these skins – not just in the grass.
At this point, it’s hard to argue that all-black superhero skins aren’t pay-to-win. They give players who purchased the skin a distinct advantage – something that Epic Games have always been against.
It’s only a matter of time before Epic take action on this issue, but we don’t know what they would do. The development team would have to prevent players from selecting all-black variants in some way, but the all-white variant has a similar issue in the snow biome.
Of course, these two combinations should ruin solid-color superhero skins for everyone, but they might.
This isn’t the last we’ll hear of the topic, so we’ll keep you posted when we learn more. For now, make sure to check every corner when looting a house. You never know if there’s a sneaky superhero hiding in a corner.
When does Fortnite Season 5 end and Season 6 begin?
Fortnite Season 5 will eventually come to an end, giving way to Season 6. Here’s what we know about the Fortnite Season 6 release date.
The Fortnite Season 6 release date is still decently far away. Here’s everything we know about the new Fortnite season so far.
Fortnite Season 5 was a return to form for the game, mirroring the popularity of the same season in Chapter 1. The game feels fresh and new again – something that hasn’t been the case for a long time.
Still, fans are looking forward to when the next Fortnite season will begin. Not everything about the new season is perfect, and some players are ready to move on from the quests, NPCs, and IO Guards.
Fortnite Season 6 release date
Fortnite Season 5 will be longer than a traditional Fortnite season, but that’s to be expected. We’re not talking Chapter 2 Season 1 and 2 long, but it will be above average in length.
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This is, of course, because the season takes place over the holidays. Fortnite developers are going on break and extending the season.
At the time of writing, Fortnite Season 6 is scheduled to release on March 15, 2021. Players still have over two months to finish the Battle Pass at the time of writing.
What will Epic do with the two+ months of Fortnite Season 5 content? Your guess is as good as ours.
We’ll likely see a few more Bounty Hunters added to the game, along with characters from familiar video game series. It seems like we’ll be getting a proper ‘secret’ Battle Pass skin for the first time in Chapter 2, as well.
There’s even speculation that Kevin the Cube will make an appearance before the end of the season. We still have a lot of content to discover, so don’t wish away Season 5 so quickly.
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Bring back flavor text
Liam J McAdam
One of the best elements of Phantasy Star Online weapons is the flavor text. Snippets of text that flesh out the world and allow players to get a feel for just how significant their weapon is.
Example; Nemesis Calibur "A sealed holy weapon from an early era. It releases its hidden purifying power in tandem with the user's will."
Sounds infinitely better than "A weapon that can be used as a sword"
coldreactive
I'd love this too, and I'll be honest, the NA team should consider allowing us to submit translation suggestions to help with this: https://forum.pso2.com/topic/8754/consider-a-translation-suggestion-forum
Please add in the flavor text.
ERICK001BC
@Liam-J-McAdam said in Bring back flavor text:
I mean if you think about it.... It is a weapon that can be used as a sword. That in itself is a statement of infinite possibilities. It means that it can be used for other things, even if it is a weapon, it's main purpose is dependent on the owner.
That in itself is a huge open to interpretation statement!!!
Anarchy Marine
@ERICK001BC said in Bring back flavor text:
So what your saying is that "A weapon that can be used as a sword" also suggests that it can be used as a paperweight? What about a walking stick. My character might suddenly get old, and I might need something to balance on.
OmegaNeo8603
Agree with post. Kinda bummed that we still don't have it.
@Anarchy-Marine said in Bring back flavor text:
Those are only a few ideas yes. But that is the gist of it. Endless possibilities.
RikaPSO
I'd like for them to do this.
There's no monetary value in doing so, so I doubt they ever will.
note: I'd like to be proved wrong though
A sentence that can be used as a Forum Post.
@Miraglyth Lmfao.
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@Miraglyth said in Bring back flavor text:
A sentence that can be used as a reply to a quote of a Forum Post.
Home Rowed
Yes, please add in flavor text.
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Oldcrone
17 October 2018, 07:26 PM
For years we've been trying to figure out who our paternal grandfather was; our father was the result of an NPE, born in 1911 in Joggins, NS. His baptismal certificate surprisingly named the father as Angus Arsenault which wasn't terribly helpful since we could find no such person in the area. A few months ago I gathered some circumstantial evidence pointing to a Joseph Augustin aka Joseph Angus Arsenault from Abrham's village PEI. He appears not to have married until 1941 when he was nearly 50 and died only 9 years later; his obituary said nothing about surviving children so I spent hours finding out as much as I could about his siblings and their descendants. A few weeks ago, a match came up for two of my sisters on Ancestry sharing only 144 cM with one sister but 305 cM with the other. This person is the grandson of one of Angus' brothers which would make him our 2nd cousin; it's also the most shared DNA any of us have had (4 sisters tested) outside immediate family. Although we would also share a common ancestor with this person through our grandmother, it would be much further back at something like 5th cousin so we have taken this as proof that our theory is correct and we're extremely excited. I'd be interested in hearing whether others share my opinion that this offers the proof we were looking for. I should say that our father's family is entirely Acadian while our mother's family is strictly English/Scottish/Irish and we have had very few DNA matches on the maternal side of our family.
The shared cM is consistent with 2nd cousin (you can find the very useful chart that tells you this by doing a Google search on "DNA Detectives Autosomal Statistics Chart" -- the one chart I keep next to my computer at all times!), but you should look for additional corroboration. For one thing, the 2nd cousin relationship could equally well be through some other brother of Joseph Augustin. If you can find other relatives from the Arsenault family, may be able to verify that the shared cM for all combinations of these kits are consistent with your proposed family tree. The more relatives who match at the expected level, the stronger the case for your proposed solution becomes.
Thanks so much, John; I do have that lovely chart and, like you, I keep it next to my computer. I'd love to find another match but, unfortunately, that's the first we've managed to come across. I do know that there was one sister who had a daughter in 1942 in PEI and I even know her name and that she graduated from Nursing School in 1964 tu all attempts to find out whether she is still alive have been to no avail. Always hopeful, however.
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by Pam Mandel on Apr 27, 2015
Cafe at the Art History Museum, Vienna
Pakistan is the world’s largest producer of poppy seeds, but the Austrians are no slouches, they produce about 1,000 metric tons, annually. The technical term for that is a whole lotta poppy seeds. Poppy seeds show up all over Austria baking – dusting the top of your bread rolls, sprinkled over butter smothered dumplings, and inside your cake.
Recently, the EU passed new menu labeling guidelines, allowing diners to understand if their choices contain dairy, nuts, wheat – most of the foods that set off the allergic and intolerant. The labeling guideline includes the current villain of choice, gluten.
This hasn’t been as bad as you’d think for the Austria cake landscape. Lots of cakes are made with a nut flour base. …
Kaiserschmarren with apricot jam
“So ein Schmarrn!” is a handy of Austrian German slang for “What a mess!” Schmarrn is also the name of dessert that’s not much more than a scrambled pancake. (Pancake is a kind of cake too, friends!) The Kaiserschmarrn got its “Kaiser” prefix because it was a favorite of Emperor Franz Josef – he of the fondness for Bundt cake.
A well made Kaiserschmarrn is dusted with powdered sugar and served warm with a side of current or apricot jam. Serving sizes are absurd and because of that, it’s often the dessert for dinner selection of choice. The trick to making a proper Kaiserschmarrn is lots of fluffy egg whites and plenty …
Cafe Hotel Sacher, Vienna
The Hotel Sacher is a grand old property in Vienna’s first district. The ground floor café has marble topped tables and red upholstery and the wait-staff are attired in black with white aprons. There’s a conservatory that faces the street and in the summer time, it’s transformed into open air seating. The neighborhood is amazing; the Hotel is right across the street from the Opera House. The Hotel opened in 1875 – Grace Kelly stayed here, as did John F. Kennedy and Rudolph Nureyev.
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by Pam Mandel on Mar 23, 2015
Mozart torte at Cafe Aida by Pam Mandel
For reasons that are hard to track down, the Mozart Kugel – Austria’s famous Mozart Ball chocolate – is filled with pistachio marzipan. Theory: Mozart made several journeys to Italy as a young man and while there, he became fond of pistachios which were commonly used in Italian desserts.
The pistachio has been in trade since biblical times; it was a highly valued crop. So it’s also possible that pistachio is more random choice that relies on the nut’s identity as a luxury item – we’ll use pistachio because it’s fancy! Mozart is fancy! So, Mozart equals pistachio!
Maybe. Maybe not.
It’s not just about chocolates, it’s also about cake. There are two front runners in the Mozart-something cakes race, the Mozarttorte and …
“Lebkuchen” gets translated from German as “gingerbread,” but that’s not quite right. The word “gingerbread” sets expectations for it being the kind of stuff you’d build a house out of, though that variety does get used in edible architecture.
There are also those ubiquitous gingerbread hearts, decorated in icing sugar with your sweetheart’s name and a swooping script that says “Ich liebe dich” — I love you — or maybe just “Greetings from this twee Germanic town.”
The stuff used to deliver messages or act as culinary sheetrock is all fine and well. But more interesting is a cakey sort of cookie packed with honey and spices and baked on top of what’s essentially a communion wafer — in much earlier days, …
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Ray-traced lighting has arrived in Fortnite
Fortnite just got a bit shinier – that is, if you’ve got the hardware to support ray tracing. As was foretold in the ancient times of two weeks ago, Fortnite now supports both ray tracing and Nvidia DLSS, and it’s also added support for the new Nvidia Reflex technology.
What’s it all mean? Well, it means if you have a powerful graphics card and can run DirectX 12, you can enable ray tracing effects in Fortnite’s options menu, right now. DLSS lets you play at higher resolutions while boosting performance, and Reflex promises to deliver lower latency to keep your crosshairs feeling snappy.
It’s the ray-traced global illumination and lighting that you’re going to really notice, though. Using this rendering technique means you’ll be able to see real-time reflections and shadows cast by objects as the light sources around them move and change. You’ll see your own reflection in shop windows and mirrors, and the glint of sun reflecting off the lens of a sniper’s scope in the distance. According to the Fortnite blog, there’s a special island that Nvidia’s set up to show off the effects, and you can find it by using the code 9189-0518-5408.
Make sure you have the latest versions of Windows 10 and your graphics drivers installed, then head into Fortnite and open the settings menu. From there, select Advanced Settings and switch the DirectX version to DirectX 12.
Once that’s done, you can fiddle around with several ray tracing and DLSS settings. You can turn ray tracing and shadows on or off, and then select quality levels for reflections, ambient occlusion, and global illumination. DLSS can run in quality, balanced, or performance modes.
Epic recommends at a minimum having a CPU with at least four cores and an Nvidia RTX 2060 or better to enable ray tracing in Fortnite.
Does ray tracing make Fortnite a better battle royale game? Probably not by much – if at all – but those reflections sure do look pretty.
Credit: Ray-traced lighting has arrived in Fortnite
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10 Most Depressing Deaths In Video Games
Posted By Shubhankar Parijat | On 30th, Aug. 2011 Under Feature, Slider
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Deaths in video games are always a sad affair, especially when it is a character you like a lot and are extremely attached to that you see dying. They move the players in more ways than one, and make the game that much more emotionally moving. Given below are ten of the most saddening death in video games- or at least what we feel are ten of the most saddening deaths.
Tell us if you agree with us, and which deaths you think are the most depressing in your comments below.
NOTE: This article (obviously) contains a lot of spoilers. Tread carefully, and don’t shoot us if you come across a spoiler- ‘coz we warned you.
Aerith (Final Fantasy VII)
To be honest, by the time Aerith died, her character hadn’t really been developed a lot, and we didn’t know much of it. The sequence had a lot of impact on us all, and it was very saddening indeed, but it was after you realized what her true part in the story was that you truly start feeling sad for her. Aerith’s death is perhaps one of the most depressing, iconic and memorable deaths in video gaming history.
Tellah (Final Fantasy IV)
How can we Final Fantasy fans ever forget the “You spoony bard!” scene? It was epic. And Tellah was awesome. His death saddened me greatly, because he was probably my most favourite character in the game, other than Kain. His backstory was really touching, and the way he died just moved me… a lot. The fact that he doesn’t return at the end of the game when most of the other characters do was even more depressing.
Noble Team (Halo: Reach)
Halo: Reach is, at its heart, a very depressing game. The world being destroyed, the beautiful vistas being set to destructive fires are all very depressing indeed, but the deaths of the main characters are what disheartened me the most. From the very outset, I knew that no Noble would survive the battle, but seeing each of them died saddened me deeply. The characters were just so great, and I grew so attached to them, seeing the die pained me greatly.
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