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Marshal receives a daily stipend
Investigated official gets expenses paid
Yvonne Bonner, acting US marshal, leaving her Charlestown townhouse near Monument Square. (The Boston Globe)
Email|Print|Single Page| Text size – + By Shelley Murphy
Globe Staff / May 16, 2008
Acting US Marshal Yvonne Bonner, who is under federal investigation for allegedly assigning deputies to escort Fox Sports broadcasters from last year's World Series at Fenway Park, has received more than $100,000 - at least $187 a day - from the government for meals, travel, and housing since she came to Boston 17 months ago.
Bonner has been living in a three-bedroom, 2 1/2-bath townhouse near Charlestown's historic Monument Square that is on the market for $739,000, according to a Globe review of public records.
Responding to a Globe request, the US Marshals Service said the government paid Bonner $100,874 between Dec. 10, 2006 and March 2008 for housing, food, and travel - including the $2,975 monthly for her rent and $1,100 each month for utilities and other housing costs. She gets $48 a day for food and other incidentals.
Earlier this month, Bonner said she was entitled to the payments because she still lives in Virginia and maintains a home there. But yesterday a spokesman for the Marshals Service in Boston said Bonner would not discuss the payments further.
Bonner, who joined the Marshals Service 24 years ago and previously served as chief of the agency's internal affairs division, is entitled to the daily stipend because she has remained on "temporary duty assignment" since she arrived in Boston, and is technically still assigned to the agency's Virginia headquarters, according to David Turner, a spokesman for the agency in Virginia.
"She is one of our star performers," said Turner, adding that Bonner was tapped for the acting marshal's job after White House officials dismissed Boston's last US marshal and a temporary replacement who worked in Boston requested a transfer to another office. He said the agency has kept Bonner on temporary duty while waiting for Congress to confirm a new US marshal for Boston. But that hasn't happened.
Eleven months after President Bush nominated Reed Hillman, the former head of the Massachusetts State Police and an unsuccessful Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in 2006, as US marshal, his confirmation has languished in Congress amid opposition by Senators Edward M. Kennedy and John F. Kerry.
The marshals could avoid paying the stipend of $187 a day or more to Bonner by permanently assigning her to Boston, or by promoting someone who already works in the Boston office to serve as acting US marshal, but Turner said the agency has no plans to do so.
"What the public needs to know is we get the job done right with the best talent we have available," said Turner, adding that Bonner, 56, is eligible to retire in July and wasn't looking to move to Boston. "She's doing this job because the Marshals Service needed her."
But some in government say the expenditures are extravagant.
"This one appears to be a pretty egregious misuse of taxpayer money," said state Senator Stephen M. Brewer, a Democrat from Barre and longtime supporter of Hillman.
He said he doesn't know Bonner, but knows Hillman and can't understand why some have challenged his qualifications to serve as marshal.
"He has a work ethic that is second to none," said Brewer, adding that he hopes Kennedy and Kerry rethink their opposition to Hillman's appointment.
Melissa Wagoner, a spokeswoman for Kennedy, released a statement saying, "Senator Kennedy is serious about professional standards and the White House should be as well." The statement said the White House's failure to nominate a qualified candidate is what "creates any subsequent problems."
The last US marshal in Boston, Anthony Dichio, was dismissed by the White House in August 2005 after The Boston Globe published a story detailing observations that Dichio was often not at his office and used his government car to run personal errands. The chief marshal in Boston, William Fallon, was tapped to serve as acting marshal until December 2006, when he transferred to another office.
Bonner, who began her career as a deputy marshal in Houston, was dispatched to Boston. She had worked fugitive, violent offender, and civil rights cases and received numerous commendations, including the director's meritorious service award from Director John F. Clark two years ago.
US District Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf said Clark personally met with him and other judges after Dichio's dismissal, and appointed Bonner after assuring them that the temporary leader of the office would be highly qualified.
"I've had many dealings with her, and I've found her to be highly professional in all instances," Wolf said of Bonner. "From my perspective, and that I believe of my colleagues, she's done a good job."
Echoing those sentiments, US District Judge William G. Young said, "Personally, I think she is very professional, very astute, and really a fine person."
Wolf and Young stressed that they have no knowledge of the ongoing federal investigation into Bonner's alleged assignment of deputy marshals to the World Series last year, and wouldn't comment on those allegations.
Deputy marshals are charged with tracking fugitives, transporting federal prisoners, and protecting judges.
The Justice Department's office of the inspector general in Boston is looking into whether Bonner overstepped her authority or violated ethics rules by allegedly ordering her deputies to escort Fox Sports broadcasters Tim McCarver and Joe Buck between their hotels and Fenway Park during last year's World Series, according to two law enforcement officials and other people familiar with the investigation.
The Globe reported earlier this month that during both home games, on Oct. 24 and Oct. 25, two deputy marshals allegedly watched the Red Sox defeat the Colorado Rockies from the broadcast booth with McCarver and Buck, as well as Joseph Band, a lawyer who works for the Marshals Service in Washington and occasionally does work for the Fox network, the officials said.
The deputies allegedly drove Band in their unmarked cruisers while escorting the broadcasters who followed in limousines, according to law enforcement officials.
Investigators are looking into whether the deputy marshals activated their blue lights to cut through traffic as fans jammed the streets around Fenway Park.
Bonner told the Globe earlier this month that she wasn't worried about the probe, but declined to comment further because it is ongoing.
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History of the Foksal Gallery from a new perspective
April 27 2020,
"In the nineteen sixties, the Foksal in Warsaw and the Václav Špála in Prague were the only two avant-garde galleries in the Eastern Bloc. Nowadays, the Foksal is known all over the world and its history, perforce, fits the current artistic and political context very well. However, it does so in a way which its co-founders never anticipated, to which I testify in this essay. In a sense, the Foksal tradition has been continued to this day by the gallery itself in its past home on ulica Foksal and by the plans, both local and international, for the Foksal Gallery Foundation, which is located on ulica Górskiego in Warsaw. Meanwhile, the distant history of the Foksal of the nineteen sixties has met with an unexpected revival beyond Poland, in France, as a kind of hope for the future." writes Anka Ptaszkowska in her essay published in Blok Magazine.
Many a time, and to the point of boredom, have I told the story of the Foksal, of its victories and defeats, its interpersonal conflicts and standard curiosities.
This essay stands apart from those ranks.
What provoked the change in my view of the story which definitively bound my life to the gallery?
It was a brief remark made not all that long ago by Florian Fouché, an artist I esteem, and it concerned two pressing questions:
How do we remedy the current situation in art and its subjection to the capitalist market?
How do we oppose the fact that, in front of our eyes and, to some extent, by our hands, art is becoming the kingdom of any-old-thing, is permitting the borders between itself and design to be erased, is working hand in glove with the Institutions which it once intended to conquer and is selling its relationship with politics for a meagre handful of small change?
“We need to bring back the Foksal,” Florian Fouché said.
So I am looking at the gallery’s history, a history I know by heart, from the new angle of the Foksal’s potential, topical and oh-so desirable usefulness.
Celý text eseje v angličtině najdete na Blok Magazine.
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The CGA 3rd Cross Country league powered by MTN Foundation was welcomed by Ulinda Athletic Club at Kwathema Sports Complex, Springs last weekend, Saturday 18 May 2019.
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The day was kicked off with the 1km event for the athletes under the age of 8 which saw Sihle Nyezi from Simunye Global Athletics Club coming out victorious in a time line of 00:04:16. Dieketseng Motsoeneng from Runzone Athletics Club and Itumeleng Seboa from Colossus Athletics Club dominated 3km race in the 13 and 11 age category respectively. Dieketseng maintained her number one spot from the start of the season and this time finishing in the time of 00:11:34. In an interview with Itumeleng Seboa, he indicated that he was upset about his performance during the second league but he was happy to reclaim his number one spot at this 3rd league.
2018 National Champion Reaglehile representing Nedbank Running Club won the boys under 14 category with an exceptional performance from start to finish. When interviewed he said that today’s victory confirms that he is ready to defend the title at the national championships.
Antonia Brown from Jansen Athletics Club based in Kempton Park running his 2nd league outshines his fellow competitors in a second lap, in the 6km race, Boys under 17 to settle race in a time of 00:57:38.
Hollywood Athletics Club claimed their first victory in the Senior Men 10km race by Ntshindiso Phakathi stepping to the finish line in a time of 00:29:52. The club is promising to boost development in the province and we are expecting more great results in the future leagues.
Steven Khanyile, chairperson of Cross Country in an interview indicated that “the performance is really encouraging this year as we are looking at sending a very strong provincial team for the National Championships later in the year”. Athletes are required to run any 4 out of 8 league events plus the CGA Championships in order to be considered for selection.
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Kristen Wiig Talks About MacGruber and Saturday Night Live.
If you caught the Screen Actors Guild Awards this past Sunday, you probably saw Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig, and Melissa McCarthy discussing the drinking game they invented. Every time someone.
Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Ike Barinholtz, Jillian Bell and the rest of the Bless The Harts castmates are doing a virtual table read of a new episode to raise money for Feeding America and.
Annie (Kristen Wiig), is a maid of honor whose life unravels as she leads her best friend, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), and a group of colorful bridesmaids (Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey and Ellie Kemper) on a wild ride down the road to matrimony. Annie's life is a mess. But when she finds out her lifetime best friend is engaged, she simply must serve as Lillian's maid of honor.
Dec 23, 2013 - Best of the funny and talented actress Kristen Wiig. See more ideas about Kristen wiig, Kristen, The funny.
The 31st season of Saturday Night Live, America’s leading late-night sketch comedy show, featuring cast members Fred Armisen, Rachel Dratch, Tina Fey, Will Forte, Darrell Hammond, Seth Meyers, Finesse Mitchell, Chris Parnell, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Horatio Sanz, Kenan Thompson and featured players Bill Hader, Andy Samberg, Jason Sudeikis and Kristen Wiig. Check out these selected.
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When it comes to consummate professionals like Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig, and Bill Hader, sometimes all you need is their commitment to a bit to help elevate an otherwise so-so sketch. Then again.
Kristen Wiig stickers featuring millions of original designs created by independent artists. Decorate your laptops, water bottles, notebooks and windows. White or transparent. 4 sizes available.
The film stars Maya Rudolph as a bride-to-be, following her and her bridal party (including Kristen Wiig as her maid of honor) through the trials, tribulations, and drama that ensues in the months.
Great classic Super Showcase sketch from when Maya Rudolph hosted in season 37. Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig both break almost immediately.
I Would Like Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph to Host the Oscars, Please and Thank You. February 9, 2020 by Karenna Meredith. 5.3K Shares I'm starting a petition for Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph to.
Billie Eilish didn't hide her confusion as she watched Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig’s on-stage singing skit. Comedic legends Rudolph and Wiig took to the Oscars stage in typically hilarious.
Saturday Night Live alumnae Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph did what they do best at the Oscars this Sunday. The duo were presenting the award for production design - but took their speech.
Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph are joining forces to bring television viewers a brand new animated comedy! According to Yahoo Entertainment, Fox has given a straight-to-series order to Bless the.
Wiig plays a 30-ish single woman, unlucky in love and career who now faces the loss of her lifelong, best friend, Maya Rudolph, to marriage and a rich, competing bridesmaid played by Rose Byrne. Melissa McCarthy as the groom's sister is a whacky character you won't forget. Wiig pretty much loses it and wrecks everything in her jealous wake. Sounds dire but it's a comedy with nonstop guffaws.
Kristen Wiig has proven herself to be one of the most diverse and prolific actresses to grace Hollywood over the past 20 years. Since making her screen debut as a background extra in the 2000 short film Carnata, Wiig has accrued over 100 film and TV credits.In 2005, Wiig's popularity began to blossom after being cast on the sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, on which she tallied roughly.
Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig made their annual case for hosting every awards show at Sunday's Oscars, where they cracked up the audience as they presented the awards for Production Design and.
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Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph killed at the 2020 Oscars on Sunday night, as usual, but 18-year-old singer Billie Eilish wasn’t amused. Wiig and Rudolph, who were presenting the award for Best.
Oscars 2020: Billie Eilish looks baffled at Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph's skit Billie Eilish didn’t quite know how to react to Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig’s skit at last night’s Oscars. The comedy double act, who rose to fame on Saturday Night Live before starring together in 2011’s Bridesmaids, are always a highlight of awards season.
Wiig's comic chops were never in doubt. Like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler before her, she is an alumna of the long-running US comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live; all three were highly respected TV.
Alongside fellow SNL alum Maya Rudolph (left), Kristen Wiig (right) tickled the audience with a medley of apparel related songs before presenting the Best Costume Design award. The brand also.
Rudolph and Kristen Wiig’s unhinged game-show “showcase models” were so bizarrely funny — even (especially?) when I couldn’t understand half their words — that both Wiig and Bill Hader.
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Cyberweekly #129 - Even cyber companies get breached
Sent on 2020-12-13
Remember that term "assumed breached", well if FireEye can get breached, then you should assume that pretty much anyone can.
Of course there are companies that you simply have to trust in some ways, your core identity provider is one, generally most organisations trust AWS and Microsoft to not be fundamentally breached, but beyond that you need to start working out who you trust, and how much you trust them.
Some of this is the heart of threat modelling, a subject that I keep meaning to write a blog about, but life just keeps getting in the way. Threat modelling is generally very poorly practiced, and many organisations really struggle to apply threat models within projects, let alone at higher abstractions such as across their supply chain, within their organisation or across their industry generally.
This brings me to the real "big deal" about the FireEye hack. I've talked a bit below about why the loss of the red team tools isn't that big a deal, and how the loss of customer data would be a much bigger deal. But the real impact here is the loss of credibility for cyber security generally. Senior executives around the world, faced with increasing financial pressures, are going to look at this, and look at the requests for security spend and think "If FireEye, a cyber security company, couldn't keep from being hacked, then why should I bother spending extra here?"
The loss of credibility makes it even harder to justify even small amounts of security spend on small things, like central IDAM solutions that work and support 2FA, like using VLANS and VLAN ACLs to segment your network, like employing Endpoint Detection and Response software to your endpoints.
We know that these are tools and techniques that significantly raise the bar for attackers, and make it far more likely that the general unwashed masses of blackhat hackers, teenagers and hacking collectives will move on to another target when their scripts don't work as expected. That doesn't mean that an advanced attacker can't get around them, but it does mean that more effort is required, which massively changes your threat model.
We need to reinforce that yes, attackers can and will compromise and breach any system, even cyber companies. Our job is to make sure that they pay for that, in effort expended, in monetary cost, and in disclosed equities such as novel tools or techniques that were needed to get to you. We need to continue to argue with businesses that we shouldn't just shrug and give in.
Admin note: This is the last newsletter of 2020. I'm going to take a Christmas Break from CyberWeekly for two weeks, aiming to restart on the 3rd of January. I may manage to pull together a best of newsletter for the week between Christmas and New Year, but it will depend on work and family schedules over Christmas. I hope you all enjoy your holidays and come back refreshed and ready to face 2021.
FireEye Shares Details of Recent Cyber Attack, Actions to Protect Community | FireEye Inc
https://www.fireeye.com/blog/products-and-services/2020/12/fireeye-shares-details-of-recent-cyber-attack-actions-to-protect-community.html
This attack is different from the tens of thousands of incidents we have responded to throughout the years. The attackers tailored their world-class capabilities specifically to target and attack FireEye. They are highly trained in operational security and executed with discipline and focus. They operated clandestinely, using methods that counter security tools and forensic examination. They used a novel combination of techniques not witnessed by us or our partners in the past.
We are actively investigating in coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other key partners, including Microsoft. Their initial analysis supports our conclusion that this was the work of a highly sophisticated state-sponsored attacker utilizing novel techniques.
During our investigation to date, we have found that the attacker targeted and accessed certain Red Team assessment tools that we use to test our customers’ security. These tools mimic the behavior of many cyber threat actors and enable FireEye to provide essential diagnostic security services to our customers. None of the tools contain zero-day exploits. Consistent with our goal to protect the community, we are proactively releasing methods and means to detect the use of our stolen Red Team tools.
We are not sure if the attacker intends to use our Red Team tools or to publicly disclose them. Nevertheless, out of an abundance of caution, we have developed more than 300 countermeasures for our customers, and the community at large, to use in order to minimize the potential impact of the theft of these tools.
This is both a massive deal, and not a big deal at the same time. I talked about why it's a big deal further up, but here's why it's not as big as some people are claiming.
FireEye's red team tools, while unique, do not contain any zero-days, and are therefore likely not significantly different or better than say Metasploit or CobaltStrike which are already free and open source. In addition, whatever advanced actor carried this out clearly has capabilities well beyond the use of these tools, so it's not like this is advancing their capabilities significantly.
Additionally, the release of the detection rules means that blueteams should be able to add those rules to their detection suites easily and quickly, and be reasonably secure against the use of the tools. That repository has not just basic signatures for the tools, but also more complex rules for hunting the workflows and sequence of actions that the tools imply.
Russia's FireEye Hack Is a Statement—but Not a Catastrophe | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/russia-fireeye-hack-statement-not-catastrophe/
The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that hackers from a group known as APT 29 or Cozy Bear, attributed to Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service, carried out the breach.
FireEye has both global prominence and a history of engaging with Russian actors. The company was the first, for instance, to tie the hacker group known as Sandworm—responsible for blackouts in Ukraine in 2015 and 2016 as well as the hyperdestructive worm NotPetya the following year—to Unit 74455 of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency. FireEye also provided the first public evidence that the same GRU unit was responsible for the attempted sabotage of the 2018 Winter Olympics. All of those attacks were later named in a US indictment of six Sandworm hackers unsealed in October.
The apparently retaliatory hack sends a clear statement that while Russia may have been relatively quiet during the US presidential election, the Kremlin’s digital prowess remains formidable. At the same time, the fallout from the hack doesn’t compare to the release of tools like the NSA’s Eternal Blue tool, which a mysterious group called the Shadow Brokers leaked in 2017, or the breach of exploit broker Hacking Team in 2015.
“The most important data that a company like FireEye has is data about its customers. The second most important data they have are the sources and methods they use to protect their customers,” like threat intelligence data, says Richard Bejtlich, former chief security officer of Mandiant, the incident response division of FireEye, and principal security strategist at the network analysis firm Corelight. “Farther down the line are the red team tools, where they’re emulating adversaries.”
FireEye seems to be saying that no customer data was accessed or stolen, although the language around that has been a little vague.
If it is a nation backed acvanced threat actor, and it seems likely that it is, then the customer data on vulnerabilities in customer systems would be incredibly valuable. Not only to plan specific targeted attacks on those customers, but also to be able to get analysable bulk data that enables them to work out where systemic weaknesses are in most systems. (although for free, I'll suggest that poor patching, lack of application control for admins, poor passwords and lack of use of 2FA will be the systemic trends).
San Jose Man Sentenced To Two Years Imprisonment For Damaging Cisco’s Network | USAO-NDCA | Department of Justice
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/san-jose-man-sentenced-two-years-imprisonment-damaging-cisco-s-network
Ramesh, 31, of San Jose, pleaded guilty on August 26, 2020, to one count of intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization and recklessly causing damage to Cisco. Ramesh worked for Cisco but resigned in approximately April 2018. According to the plea agreement, Ramesh admitted to intentionally accessing the Cisco Systems cloud infrastructure that was hosted by Amazon Web Services without Cisco’s permission on September 24, 2018. Ramesh further admitted that during his unauthorized access he deployed a code from his Google Cloud Project account that resulted in the deletion of 456 virtual machines for Cisco’s WebEx Teams application, which provides video meetings, video messaging, file sharing, and other collaboration tools. He admitted that he acted recklessly in deploying the code and consciously disregarded the substantial risk that his conduct would harm Cisco. As a result of Ramesh’s conduct, over 16,000 WebEx Teams accounts were shut down for up to two weeks and caused Cisco to spend approximately $1,400,000 in employee time to restore the damage to the application and refund over $1,000,000 to affected customers. No customer data was compromised as a result of the defendant’s conduct.
Ramesh was still able to use his credentials to log into the production systems at Cisco nearly 6 months after he left the company.
Reminder that where possible, you should be using SSO to ensure that your staff have just one account that needs securing with 2FA. You can configure AWS to use your corporate identity systems, which means that when HR removes someone from the corporate system, their access to all your production and development infrastructure is removed as well.
pre:Invent 2020 - Chris Farris
https://www.chrisfarris.com/post/preinvent2020/
As I was slammed with work things, I wasn’t following pre:Invent (and will probably miss much of the lame online re:Invent), so I’m going back and reviewing all the announcements for things of note to a serverless nerd or security geek.
Here are the 29 I thought interesting. Rather that review these by date (which is what you get from the AWS Feed), I thought I’d categorize them into useful buckets.
There's a lot of reading here. Best pass this onto your lead cloud architect and make them read all of these and get them to summarise them for you. [No, I didn't have time to read them all this week, I've been slammed, but they're all added to my reading list, so give me a month or two and I'll have read at least 50% of them!]
Evilginx-ing into the cloud: How we detected a red team attack in AWS - Expel
https://expel.io/blog/evilginx-into-cloud-detected-red-team-attack-in-aws/
The first hint that something was wrong came in the form of one of our analysts discovering a login from an anonymous source to a customer’s AWS console. We immediately sprung into action, digging in to see if that user logged in from known proxies or end points previously.
But wait a second. Isn’t this customer’s AWS access provisioned through Okta? Why didn’t we get any Okta alerts?
Shortly thereafter, an AmazonGuardDuty alert fired – those same access keys were being used from a python software development kit (SDK) rather than the AWS console and someone was enumerating those access key permissions.
The TL;DR on all of that? Not good.
We immediately escalated this as an incident to the customer to understand whether this series of events was expected.
Several interesting tidbits in here. Would you detect these kinds of activity? You should be able to, but should and can are very different. This is the value of a good red-team exercise.
The second is that they decided to let the attack play out. In this case, they were a service team, they could have revoked that token and seen what happened, how the red team would try again, but instead they let it play out and watched the attackers.
This is a much harder judgement call. For some redteam activities, I'd want the redteam to know they were caught, and to frustrate them, because the SOC noticed, so the SOC should run their normal processes. But in others, it's more valuable for the SOC to learn what happens next, in order to build better layers of defence.
Threat Modeling Manifesto
https://www.threatmodelingmanifesto.org/
Threat modeling is analyzing representations of a system to highlight concerns about security and privacy characteristics.
At the highest levels, when we threat model, we ask four key questions:
What are we working on?
What are we going to do about it?
Did we do a good enough job?
This is a good document and a good bit of work trying to set out a stall for threat modelling, ensuring that it's understood and consistent.
Co-op is using facial recognition tech to scan and track shoppers | WIRED UK
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/coop-facial-recognition
Southern Co-op is using facial recognition technology from Facewatch, a London-based startup. Every time someone enters one of the 18 shops using the tech cameras scan their faces. These CCTV images are converted to numerical data and compared against a watchlist of ‘suspects’ to see if there’s a match. If a match is made, staff within the store receive notifications on smartphones.
“The system alerts our store teams immediately when someone enters their store who has a past record of theft or anti-social behaviour,” Gareth Lewis, Southern Co-op’s loss prevention lead wrote in a blog post on the Facewatch website. The post is the only public acknowledgement of the use of the technology and Lewis says it has been “successful,” with the tech being deployed in branches where there are higher levels of crime.
In response to police use of facial recognition technology, the Court of Appeal criticised a lack of transparency around the creation of watchlists and who could be on them. Co-op staff decide who is added to its watchlists based on behaviour. A spokesperson for the firm says its “limited and targeted” use of facial recognition is to “identify when a known repeat offender enters one of our stores”.
“Only images of individuals known to have offended within our premises, including those who have been banned/excluded, are used on our facial recognition platform,” the spokesperson says. “Using facial recognition in this limited way has improved the safety of our store colleagues.”
This is going to be huge in 2021. Facial recognition, gait recognition and other mechanisms to improve loss prevention will be popular with stores that are seeking to reduce the number of people in the store, and replace cashiers with self-service tools.
The question around regulation is a good one. This particular case seems pretty ethical and within boundaries. The watchlist is created purely from people convicted of shoplifting and given a banning order. The system alerts the staff, letting them know that someone is suspected of matching, which allows staff to make human decisions based on the algorithm, and Co-op was highlighted as explicitly using a good quality watchlist.
The concern starts to come if those lists are shared, if there's a right to rectification for people who find themselves on the list accidentally, and of course, when stores or organisations start to roll out the tech wider. Is it a fair and proportionate punishment for stealing to find yourself excluded from say all stores in the area?
Exclusive: The U.S. Emergency Alert system has been hacked
https://www.inputmag.com/tech/this-hacker-showed-us-how-to-exploit-the-usa-candas-emergency-alert-system
He posted evidence on Twitter in late November showing a screen enabling him to generate EAS (Emergency Alert System) messages, including Child Abduction Emergencies, Civil Emergency Messages, or Evacuation Immediate [sic] alerts.
The hacktivist believes the system access points are available on the open internet for use by proper authorized personnel, but are easily accessible by people able to socially engineer the manufacturers of the systems.
“You can get whatever you need to gain full access – not to all, as most are updated – but a scary majority,” he says. “This reminds me of the banking systems, they run COBOL because they are too lazy and cheap to upgrade to something more secure and we get left with very old people who know how to program COBOL working on the banking and insurance infrastructure. I think the federal government needs to set up proper training for set up and usage of these devices, and make it illegal to operate if you have not been trained.”
One of the problem with "hackers", whether white hat or black hat, is that despite their prodigious technical skills with offensive tools, they often don't actually understand the systems architecture and development that underlies the systems they are looking at. This faulty understanding means that they might not know what they could do with a tool when they find it, and also means that they sometimes cause disruption in the system that they are exploring.
There's several misconceptions in this article, simply scanning the internet for people running software that does emergency alerts doesn't mean that every one that you've found is actually a live emergency alert system for a state. These systems can do a lot of things. He says he searched for domain names that look like they might be connected to alert systems, and looked at those. But of course many organisations will run versions of these systems for training, for staging and testing. It's not entirely clear without more information, that the systems that he's got access to are production systems.
However, the slightly more cynical me suspects that there probably are a bunch of poorly secured, poorly managed emergency alert systems connected to the internet, so it's not beyond possibility that he's stumbled on a real thing.
Affable Kraut on Twitter: "Thanks to data from @sansecio I stumbled upon a digital skimming / #magecart technique for injecting convincing PayPal iframes into the checkout process. It does this using postMessage, and I think this is the first skimmer to deploy such a method. 1/20" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/AffableKraut/status/1333258498910588928
Thanks to data from @sansecio I stumbled upon a digital skimming / #magecart technique for injecting convincing PayPal iframes into the checkout process. It does this using postMessage, and I think this is the first skimmer to deploy such a method.
This is quite the twitter thread, one that I wish was a blogpost.
But here we go, some indicators to put into your SIEM, and a good breakdown of a new technique being used by MageCart.
r2c blog — Exploiting dynamic rendering engines to take control of web apps
https://r2c.dev/blog/2020/exploiting-dynamic-rendering-engines-to-take-control-of-web-apps/
Modern JavaScript frameworks are heavily utilized for web site development nowadays. Instead of plain HTML pages, we now have PWAs (progressive web applications) and SPAs (single page applications) that do most of the work in the client's browser and use JavaScript to generate the contents of the page on the fly.
This technology has many advantages and can be effective at creating a sleek UI and UX, but at the same time, it is not SEO friendly, because crawlers and bots are not developed to render or understand JavaScript. One of the common ways to help bots get valid HTML content is to open a requested page in a headless browser instance on the server, such as Puppeteer or Playwright, get the resulting HTML, strip parts that are not intended to be crawled and return it. This approach is called dynamic rendering and is promoted by Google as one of the possible ways to serve content.
I came across this type of application while doing a security review of packages in the Node.js ecosystem on possible vulnerabilities that may appear when utilizing headless browsers in production.
Sigh, if you wanted yet another reason why replacing the rendering engine with client side javascript is a bad idea, this is a well articulated attack model on backend renderers.
As Vasilii says, for SEO reasons, you might have systems that render that webpage for you on the backend. If those renderers run inside your network, they have the ability to access internal websites, systems and other interesting URLs. It's very similar to an SSRF attack, but done through prerender engines instead.
Introducing Amazon Curate (I Wish) | Daniel Miessler
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/introducing-amazon-curate-i-wish/
There’s an argument that most of the good creators are already being seen because Google, Social Media, and word of mouth are finding the best stuff out there. But I don’t buy that argument.
I have seen far too many examples of phenomenal content that sits on the internet, gets crawled by Google, and yet has no following.
These authors either don’t know how, or care to, do self-promotion across various channels, so they either continue to write for nobody or they give up because they feel unseen.
Via, the excellent tldrsec newsletter I saw this suggestion for a curation tool.
About 10 years ago I worked on a hackday project at the Guardian that was focused on curation and recommendation, which was driven by watching a group of students with the physical paper on a new years day, handing sections to each other and recommending articles.
Sadly, none of that vision has come true, and this remains a product that I'd be interested in. Although I think the rise of newsletters (like this one) mean that people are interested in curation by people rather than by AI.
132 - New year, new resolutions, and new lessons to learn
131 - Protecting the cloud
130 - Solarwinds Special
129 - Even cyber companies get breached
128 - What makes a good strategy?
127 - Secure your platforms
126 - More secure in the public cloud
125 - Self service tooling
124 - Our tools are evolving
123 - Developers are not the enemy
122 - Learning from the past, not dwelling in it
121 - Can we tell the future
120 - How we communicate
119 - The security of comms platforms
118 - Do you need a threat model?
117 - What is the inside threat?
116 - Are we paving the path our users desire?
115 - Working from home forever?
114 - Continuous Learning
113 - The rise and rise of ransomware
112 - Wormable and remote vulnerabilities
111 - I was just saying
110 - Why cloud?
109 - Protecting yourself
108 - June Roundup
107 - Without comment
106 - Sans comment
105 - Taking time
104 - Developing compliance
103 - The steady growth of AI
102 - Security isn't binary
101 - Making the most of our tools
100 - What's next?
99 - Collaboration, Risk and Data
98 - Governance isn't a dirty word
97 - How to work from home
96 - The cloud is more secure
95 - We don't know what people do with our data
94 - Is remote working just letting the enemy inside the walls?
93 - Tools shape our thinking
92 - What justifies lawful interception
91 - Who actually is security and what are we for?
90 - How do we deal with personal data?
89 - Trust in security
88 - There's no certainty in risk management
87 - How much of a target are you?
86 - Tackling only what we can
85 - Change is scary for people
84 - What would cyberwar look like?
83 - Poor incentives for cybersecurity industry
82 - What do we mean by threat model?
81 - What does best practice even mean?
80 - How secure are cryptocurrencies
79 - Do we know why things go right?
78 - Enough with the cyber-nonsense
77 - Progress marches on even if we aren't ready
76 - General is easier than specific, or why security says no
75 - Coordination is hard
74 - Security things are still really hard
73 - Know your users
72 - What are our boundaries?
71 - What actually is hostile social manipulation?
70 - Tackling the insider threat
69 - Fake news and adequate pernicious toerags
68 - Do we trust machines?
67 - How to compare or weigh risks?
66 - Are we unwilling managers
65 - How much privacy do we expect?
64 - We need to stop operating IT like it's 1999
63 - Put more security in your SaaS
62 - The next big malware that wasn't
61 - Just because it’s basic doesn’t mean it’s easy
60 - Is it Cyberwar or Cyberespionage?
59 - How confident are you that your defences work?
58 - Phishing just works
57 - Malware is still your biggest threat
56 - How can we be more positive in security?
55 - Raising the baseline of security
54 - The more things change, the more they stay the same
53 - When is a breach a breach?
52 - To patch or not to patch
51 - What does cyberwar actually mean?
50 - Who are the attackers we worry about
49 - We're on a Huawei to hell
48 - DNS is at the root of our cybersecurity
47 - People & Privacy: Consent? Is that your question?
46 - People & Security - forever intertwined
45 - How secure is our software?
44 - It’s not always targeted attacks
43 - Hacking Tools
42 - Fake news and propaganda
41 - The evolving practice of security
40 - Throwing out the baby with the bathwater
39 - Are developers the kingmakers?
38 - Digital transformation is hard
37 - The US dominates “cyberspace”
36 - What will 2019 hold for us?
35 - Are we still learning?
34 - The sky is falling
33 - Who are we at Cyberwar with?
32 - Happy New Year
31 - Merry Christmas
30 - A breach is just a failure of process
29 - When is risk management not risk management?
28 - Whats next for digital government?
27 - We're all human after all
26 - Small steps to knowledge, taking each one at a time
25 - Digital supply chains should be giving you nightmares today
24 - How can we set a security strategy if we don't know what's going on?
23 - Is risk management the right approach
22 - A new methodology needs a new set of practices
21 - When is a breach not a breach?
20 - China, Russia, Facebook, Conservatives... It's been quite a week
19 - Patching everything all the time might be too expensive
18 - Are we getting better?
17 - How do normal users make good security decisions?
16 - Blockchain has a history
15 - Who holds data on you, and what do they do with it?
14 - How many breaches will it take?
13 - Making sense of a complex world
12 - Should we trust cyber security stats?
11 - Two factor or not two factor, that is the question
10 - That’s edition 8 in octal
9 - Better late than never
8 - Where are you spending your security budget?
7 - Security has to be usable to be any good
6 - Whose fault is a breach anyway?
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06:53 app, chat, dee, deeksha, deekshadee.blogspot.com, Messenger, mobile, phone mobile No comments
Qnext Corp.
4.0.4 / June 21, 2010; 3 years ago
Android, iOS, Linux, Macintosh, Windows
Mobile-PC, multi-messenger, sharing and access
www.qnext.com
Qnext is a multi-protocol instant messaging service for Linux, Mac OS, Windows, and mobile devices. Qnext lets people connect to their digital content when they have access to the internet.
Qnext desktop client runs on Linux, Macintosh, and Windows.
Qnext Mobile solution includes an iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch) application that can be downloaded from the Apple App Store, and a Qnext Mobile Web Application (no download or installation needed) that works on any mobile device equipped with a WebKit based mobile browser, such as Android, iPhone, iPod Touch, Nokia, and Windows Mobile 7 devices.
All clients are freeware.
Desktop Client available for Linux, Macintosh, and Windows computers.
An iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch application that can be downloaded from the Apple store.
A Mobile Web version and can be used with an WebKit based browser.
Users that don’t wish to share any content or have access to their content, but would like to use the multi-protocol IM on their mobile device, do not need to install the Qnext desktop (PC) client. In any event, those users will be able to view and access shared content from other Qnext users on their supported mobile device.
Qnext services run in a multi-tasking mode, which lets users perform multiple tasks at the same time, such as talking to a group using video, transfer files, download files, view content, share content, carry IM conversation with others and more.
Qnext combines multiple technologies to connect users, facilitate communication, manage shared content and deliver shared media to anyone in an efficient way. Qnext uses Java, services-delivery architecture, Unicode, hybrid P2P / Web 2.0 (Peer2Web), Peer2Mobile and cross-platform technologies. Qnext services are plug-ins to the Qnext core with a high security level using SSL encryption. With Qnext, users can share and provide access to their digital content directly from their computers without the need to upload any of the shared content to external servers.
Desktop (PC) client features
In addition to the multi-protocol IM and access to shared content as shown above, the Qnext Desktop client (Linux, Macintosh, Windows) lets users import email contacts from AOL Mail, GMail Hotmail, and Yahoo! Mail, to enable the sharing and streaming of shared content to any email contact, 8-way VoIP, 4-way video conferencing; drag and drop file transfers of any size, remote PC access and shared applications. Users can quickly share unlimited number of files of any size, documents, presentations, videos, photos, and music streaming to anyone, even if a recipient does not have Qnext installed.
Multi-protocol (universal) instant messaging for AIM, Facebook Messenger, Google Talk, iMessage, ICQ, XMPP (Jabber), Myspace IM, Microsoft Messenger service (MSN), and Yahoo! Messenger sends and receives IM messages and keeps users truly connected to everyone from a single contact list.[6][7] Qnext IM implementation supports avatars (animated GIF and images), emoticons (smileys), spellchecker, themes, nudges, time-stamp, multi-chat, chat history/message logging, online messaging, and more.
Qnext file transfer is a fast and secured way to get a file or folder of any size to any Qnext user and can end the need to use FTP or send CDs via courier or deal with email attachment limits. Drag and drop any file or folder of any size on anyone on a contact list, and that is all. The recipient will get a message to allow the transfer, and the content will be transferred. Files are sent using SSL encryption via peer-to-peer (P2P) connection directly to the recipient computer.
With no servers in the way to slow down, file transfers occur as fast as the Internet service connection and computer system will allow. Also, transfers cannot be hacked or intercepted.
Qnext also allows sending and receiving files from other instant messaging services. Most services (such as ICQ, Microsoft Messenger service, and Yahoo! Messenger, etc. have a file size limit and the transfers travel through a server infrastructure. This may compromise security, privacy and quality of service.
Voice chat (audio conferencing) is multi-user voice conferencing (up to eight users at once). Qnext uses direct P2P routing to find the best available network connection; the quality of the user’s online telephone call is high. Linux, Macintosh, and Windows, users can all join a video or voice call together.
Video conferencing is a multi-user Video Chat (up to four people at once). This is where individuals or groups from around the world can meet face to face in real time, to interact for as long as they want, without any costs. Initiating a video conference is straightforward and easy. Qnext automatically detects video & sound devices.
Photo sharing is a way to share photos with anyone in seconds, even if the recipients don’t have Qnext.Any photos at any file format and resolution can be shared with any IM or email contact. Unlike other photo sharing tools, Qnext does not limit the number of photos users can share at a time, or the size of each individual photo. Just select the photos to share, choose your audience (IM or email contacts) and recipients will receive a link that lets them view, zoom, run a slide show, or download any or all photos in small or original format and resolution. No need to upload any photos to public websites.
File sharing is a means to get big files where they need to go, fast. Share an unlimited amount of files or folders of any size. Select the IM or email contacts you want to share with and that is all. Recipients will get a link in an email or an instant message and be able to download any or all of the shared files from any web browser in the world.
Streaming media (music) allows listening to an entire music library and iTunes or Windows Media Player playlists from anywhere in the world. Choose up to 700,000 songs and select an audience; the tunes will be streamed quickly to any who are chosen. Whether users want to share with themselves or with friends, this is the only way to stream your music to any web browser. The users’ library can be browsed by artist, album or genre, or created and shared user’s favorite playlist. Your audience can make their own playlist from your tunes.
Qnext users can access share content directly from the Qnext application. Data transmission is secured using SSL encryption.
Secure remote PC access and share applications for Windows. Qnext remote access technology allows users to remotely access their computers from any Internet connected device in the world, through a standard web browser. It’s an easy and secure solution that enables Qnext users to remotely access their content, emails, files and programs. Qnext users can:
Set permission to allow themselves or others to remotely access their PC from any web browser.
Allow a person or a group to view and/or control specific applications on their computer as others watch in real-time (ideal for software demonstrations).
Request one-on-one assistance from any Qnext contact by allowing them to access your computer, as you watch their action in real-time.
Games can be played privately in real-time and can be accessed directly from the IM window. The user that initiates the game can invite any Qnext user to participate and others to watch as the game is being played by others. Free games include Backgammon, Checkers, Chess, Go, and Poker. All Qnext games have the option to play against the computer.
iPhone application features
Qnext improves iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch use by providing tighter integration to the device features and abilities. The devices become one more device in the users worldwide network. Some of the key features of Qnext for iPad and iPhone include:
Send and receive free instant messages with emoticons using AIM, Facebook Messenger, Google Talk, iMessage, ICQ, XMPP, Microsoft Messenger service, Myspace IM, Qnext, and Yahoo! Messenger
Synchronize and display user multi-protocol instant messaging contacts
Real-time presence and the state of each Qnext user (online, offline, do not disturb, etc.) and account’s status message
Add contacts and groups and view/ edit account and contact information
Sound and display messages event notification
Display the listing of each Qnext user shared content with one touch access to the shared content
View any photographs, albums in thumbnails, full view and slideshow directly from their or anyone else’s computer (by permission)
View folders and files directly from yours or anyone else’s computer (by permission); supported document types include: Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel, Adobe Acrobat, text and more
Listen to music directly from host or other’s computer (music library or iTunes and Media Player playlist)
Qnext App for iPad and iPhone supports OS 3.0 or later
Mobile Web application features
A web application (Web App) is a computer software application that is hosted in a browser-controlled environment which is accessed over a network such as the Internet or an Intranet. The Qnext Mobile Web Application has the same features as the Qnext iPhone application.
Using the Qnext Mobile Web App doesn’t need any downloads or installation and it should work on most of the smartphones and devices with a WebKit based mobile browser, such as: Android, HTC, iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch), LG, Motorola, Nexus One, Nokia, Palm, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Windows.
Qnext Mobile Web App can be used in two ways:
From a mobile device using a mobile web browser. Note that some browsers may not display the app correctly.
From any computer using a web browser and opening the Qnext Web application. This is a live implementation which operates the Qnext Mobile Web App in real-time.
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Technology Front
Industry-First Power Supply IC Supporting USB Power Delivery V. 2.0 and 3.0
Published: Apr 14,2016
Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today released industry-first’s high-efficiency power supply IC, the RAA230161 that supports the Power Rules requirements as defined in USB Power Delivery (USB PD) 2.0 and 3.0 specifications from USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF). This IC can be used with a wide variety of equipment that uses direct current (DC) power, from AC adapters and PC peripheral equipment to home and office equipment, and hub applications.
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The new high-efficiency power supply IC allows system manufacturers to quickly and easily implement safe and reliable power supply equipment that is based on the USB PD 2.0 and 3.0 specifications.
The USB PD specification makes it possible to provide DC power over a USB cable to equipment, such as notebook personal computers and digital single-lens reflex cameras that previously could not be powered over a USB cable.
In particular, in addition to the maximum 7.5 W (5 V at 1.5 A) of the earlier USB standards, this new standard adds Power Rules based on 15 W (5 V at 3 A), 27 W (9 V at 3 A), 45 W (15 V at 3 A), 60 W (20 V at 3 A), and 100 W (20 V at 5 A) capacities. As a result, power supply designers are faced with challenges supporting multiple voltage levels of the USB PD standards, output voltage switching, and handling large currents up to 3 A. Also, as the concerns for hazards (e.g., overheating on non-compliant cables) associated with larger currents increases, new designs for USB PD power supply will need to provide a higher level of safety and reliability.
Given these conditions, Renesas moved up its development of technology for “Simple DC/DC” called for by users of Renesas microcontroller (MCU) and system-on-chip (SoC) devices, and developed power supply ICs centered around DC/DC converters that can achieve an efficiency rate of up to 95 percent leading to less power loss, as devices that can resolve the issues in the construction of power supply equipment that supports the USB PD 2.0 and 3.0 standards.
1HOLTEK New HT32F5828 USB PDF Data Logger MCU
2Toshiba Introduces 5 New Groups of TXZ+ Family Advanced Class MCUs
3Renesas Launches New General-Purpose 64-Bit RZ/G2L Group of MPUs
4ST Trims Brushless Motor-Control Designs with Gate-Driver IC Optimized for Low-Voltage Applications
STMicroelectronics Reveals Innovative Synchronous-Rectification Controller
USB 3.1 Flash Drive Key for Industrial Applications
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Foreign to what should be done to prepare
Rizhao Dss International Trading Co.,Ltd Time：2012-8-29
1. We must first understand the details of the foreign companies, including the structure of the shares of the foreign company, operating status, level of technology and balance figures for the last three years ...
2. To learn more about the specific circumstances of the foreign negotiators, including age, education, hobbies, physical health, his position in the foreign companies, the performance of his business resume, investment projects excitement.
3. Prepare a good professional translator, and a high level of translation can help successfully completed negotiations to accurately express the true representation of the two sides and, when appropriate, the avoidance or mitigation of a confrontation between the two sides will play a decisive role.
4. Thorough analysis of the current situation of their own businesses, the composition of the balance figures for the last three years, workers labor productivity, and shareholders.
5. Own company is prepared to participate in a joint venture asset position to make accurate magnitude analysis. Including the original investment of equity capital, depreciation, fixed asset appreciation, the original value of land, the land value-added, technology assessment, the total value of intangible assets, and so on.
6. Prepare accurate written materials available to them in foreign arrive, the text data to be stapled as beautifully. If your company the VI design has been completed, the data to be completely in accordance with the VI design specification.
7. Three options to determine in advance of negotiations with foreign investors, the best solution, compromise, and compromise.
8. To achieve the strategy and the tactics of the three programs.
9. Explicitly allow foreign clear and understood, they only have to cooperate with you in order to get the maximum investment returns. What they will lose if they do not cooperate with you? Loss of what?
10. Through other channels you working with third-party negotiations may disclose to foreign side, if possible, make arrangements for another foreign negotiations.
11. Prepare information on all aspects of technology, management, public relations, trying to get foreign understand, if you do not cooperate with them, they will establish a potentially powerful business competitors.
12. Negotiations with the foreign consultation to determine the schedule of the convergence of various time periods to be precise and detailed, such as which restaurant to eat, what to eat vegetables and so on. The general foreign Lunch is very casual, a lunch can also be.
13. Cost burden of the program to discuss the negotiations and foreign. Do not mention it, the foreign habits AA, the first meal and the last meal enough to eat two drink scene they did not appreciate, or even have the opposite effect, he would think that if cooperation with you worried that you too wasteful, of course, if is Chinese, is another treat.
14. The concept of time must be stressed that the timetable for the two sides recognized, must arrive in minutes.
15. Note arrange technical or other confidential department will not let foreign contacts.
16. Do not look forward to showing, thirst Jizao, or blindly to curry favor with the mood and behavior of foreign cooperation, all reception activities be justified, powerful sections equality.
17. Ready to participate in the negotiations on behalf of personal clothing and instruments, foreigners pay attention to etiquette, he will think that you wear clean clothing for his respect. If you use a brand of perfume in France it is his favorite, that will contribute to the success of the talks.
18. Do not have to be cautious in front of foreigners, and treat them as a good friend from afar, the time can do other than negotiation humorous and witty some British humor is man's greatest charm.
19. Ready for the first meeting of small gifts do not have to precious to some memorable, it is best to let him into his office or in his living room, small decorative, so he left can also often see, nature can often reminds you to.
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Total No of Rhinos slaughtered in South Africa to End of July 2020 = 166 Official figures. Read my blog below for Headlines from around the World concerning the Global Catastrophe that is causing the biggest mass extinction since the Permian Period, and News of the fight to stop the slaughter of the Planet's Wildlife before it is too late.
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Criminal elephant sales in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean wildlife activists are in a race against time to stop the government from selling 35 baby elephants to China and Pakistan after it emerged that the state was planning to secretly trade the young jumbos.
Lenin Chisaira, Director of Advocacy4Earth, an environmental lobby group which is suing the government over the sale, alleging that government has been trying, since last year, to nicodemusly sell the baby elephants to China but were delayed by a High Court application which they filed in May this year.
"The ongoing case has been that the state wants to sell the elephants through the backdoor and we have reliable information that they can fly out tomorrow and Thursday.
Rhino poaching upsurge in Botswana
Poachers have raided the pristine Mombo Concession in the Okavango Delta, killing three rhinos and stealing their highly sought after horns within a period of one month. On Tuesday security agents discovered two carcasses of rhinos, one fresh and the other seven months old.
Unconfirmed reports indicate that a team was dispatched from Mombo camp on Thursday to check three other suspected rhino carcasses. Should they be confirmed the total number of rhinos killed in Mombo will increase to six in a space of a month. Two weeks ago, the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) anti-poaching unit shot and killed two suspected poachers they encountered while tracking a wounded female rhino. The suspects, who had shot the rhino, were ambushed and killed on sight.
Green Mile Safaris has hunting permit revoked in Tanzania
Tanzania has revoked a hunting permit for Abu Dhabi-based Green Mile Safari, which runs safari hunting operations around Lake Natron, for alleged violation of game hunting rules.
The firm is linked to the United Arab Emirates' ruling family.
Natural Resources and Tourism Minister Dr Hamisi Kigwangallah announced the ban, citing violations of wildlife hunting regulations, including killing of wild animals not specified in its hunting licence.
The ministry further accused the UAE firm of failing to pay the local communities concession fees amounting to Tsh329 million ($144,000) in the past two years.
The company is further accused of employing minors.
n 2014, the Tanzanian government suspended the Green Mile operations in key wildlife reserves before restoring the permit in 2016.
Former natural resources and tourism minister Lazaro Nyalandu revoked the licence, accusing the company of haphazard killing of wildlife in hunting expeditions based on a video circulated on the Internet.
The video, which angered conservation groups, showed hunters, including minors, using automatic weapons from moving vehicles, capture of young animals and torture of dying ones, and using baits and lights at night to attract animals.
Mr Nyalandu said the company violated the Wildlife Conservation Act (No. 5 of 2009), which prohibits safari and amateur hunters from chasing and shooting wild animals, and killing young ones.
Horrifying video of big cats being bred for their bones in South Africa
Credit: Conservation Action Trust
National Council of SPCAs made yet another deeply shocking discovery. No words can aptly describe this cruelty.
Breeding big cats for their bones to make wine. Department of Environmental Affirs it is high time to shut this industry down.
https://www.facebook.com/YouthForLions/videos/705091593245844/?t=0
BREAKING NEWS: NSPCA did a follow-up visit to the same farm in the North West Province, only to find more lion cubs in a devastating physical condition.
On further investigation, the NSPCA found a chest freezer with approximately 20 carcasses of lion and tiger at varying ages. The NSPCA removed a further five carcasses for post mortem examinations to determine the cause of death, and will be laying further charges in terms of the Animals Protection Act No 71 of 1962.
This comes after 108 lions, caracal, tigers and leopards were found in filthy and parasitic conditions in April this year and charges were laid against the owner, which also happens to be a South African Predator Association member.
This video was taken of a cub on site.
#BLOODLIONS comments on this news:
"It appears the extent of cruelty and neglect has no boundaries within the predator breeding industry in South Africa. We strongly urge the public, tourism and government bodies to put a stop to this industry.
Read the full Blood Lions statement here:
And let the government hear your voice by emailing:
# Hon.Minister Creecy of Environment - bcreecy@environment.gov.za
# Head of Communications for Environment - Mr Albi Modise: amodise@environment.gov.za
# SA Predators Association - sapaceo@sapredators.co.za
Plight of the Lions: Always worth listening to Dereck and Beverly Joubert
Twenty nine cheetah cubs confiscated in Somaliland
In Somaliland on the horn of Africa 29 cheetah cubs have been rescued from the wildlife smuggling trade. They were destined for the illegal pet trade in the middle east.
The orphaned cubs were confiscated in Somaliland, which is known to be the main transit route for cheetahs trafficked out of East Africa .
The cheetah pet trade is thriving due to the high demand of wild animals as status symbol pets, particularly in the Gulf States. Many of them die on the way, or of malnourishment once in the hands of their new owners.
About 300 cheetahs are poached and smuggled into the Arabian Peninsula each year, for sale in the illegal pet trade. There are fewer than 7 500 cheetahs in the wild today, although there was a population of 100 000 a century ago.
Lack of space is one of the biggest problems for them, along with persecution by livestock farmers in Southern Africa.
Mass poisoning of vultures in Botswana and the increasing elephant poaching problem
Poachers have poisoned three elephant carcasses which have then subsequently killed hundreds of vultures and eagles in Northern Botswana, a country that just foolishly lifted the ban on hunting.
The massacre took place just south of Chobe National Park. Two tawny eagles and 537 vultures were found dead near the carcasses, which had their tusks chopped out. The poisoning killed 10 Cape, 4 lappet-faced, 17 white-hooded, 28 hooded and 468 white-backed vultures.
Vultures will circle above a dead animal and give its position away, before landing to feed. This is a giveaway for poachers wishing to remain in the area, so the birds are being poisoned to stop them signaling anything to the authorities.
The incident is further evidence of a growing problem of elephant poaching in Botswana which is of extreme concern for a country where 20% of its income is generated from wildlife tourism. Botswana is home to one-third of Africa’s savanna elephants – 130,000 and up till now they have been pretty well protected, until a new government was elected.
A recent study found 156 elephants with their tusks hacked out, a huge increase over the previous survey. It estimated 385 poached for the whole country. All carcasses were under a year old and within five “hot spots”.
Poaching has been on a rapid increase since 2017.
This is what you get when you weaken the protection given to wildlife, as is happening in Botswana under the Masisi regime. It won't be long before the industrial scale poaching seen in East Africa arrives in the country, and the elephant population is decimated. I wonder if that's what the government actually wants , and do they see it as a solution to the HWC problem?
Great way for them to get elephant numbers drastically reduced without officially culling anything.
Elephant poaching on the increase in Northern Botswana
I've warned about it for years. I said once east Africa was depleted the poachers would head South. The South Africans et al. were alsways a bit smug saying they had no problem. Well it's on its way.
Elephants Without Borders survey results habe been peer reviewed and published. The salient points are:
In northern Botswana, fresh elephant carcasses increased by 593% from 2014 to 2018
In 2018, we confirmed 156 elephants as poached for ivory based on damage to skulls
Fresh elephant carcasses were clustered in 5 hotspots where elephants have declined
We estimate that a minimum of 385 elephants were poached in Botswana in 2017–2018
Of course President Masisi and his government don't want to accept this. It doesn't suit their political ambitions.
Massive pangolin scale seizure in Vietnam
Eight tonnes of smuggled African pangolin scales seized in Vietnam port
An eight tonne shipment of pangolin scales was seized at the northern Hai Phong port in March, the city’s customs department said this week.
Dr. Dang Tat The of Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, a wildlife expert, said that this was the largest seizure of pangolin scales ever in Vietnam.
Pangolin trafficking is not rare in Vietnam, where it is legally protected and categorized as endangered.
The shy, tiny creature, which resembles a scaly anteater, is the world's most heavily trafficked mammal despite bans. Pangolins are hunted in Vietnam and its neighborhood for their meat and the alleged medicinal properties of their scales.
A December 2017 study by wildlife trade monitoring group Traffic and Australia’s University of Adelaide found that of the 10 countries and territories with the largest number of trafficking incidents, seven are in Asia – China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Laos, and Indonesia.
Massive ivory haul seized in China
In one of the biggest busts in recent years, Chinese officials have seized 2,748 elephant tusks weighing more than 7 tonnes, the General Administration of Customs announced earlier this week. The ivory was confiscated during a joint operation by customs authorities and police across six provinces on March 30.
Most of the ivory, which had been smuggled from Africa, was found hidden inside several wooden boxes in an abandoned factory, Sun Zhijie, director of the administration’s anti-smuggling bureau, told local media at a press conference. Some 20 suspects have been detained for questioning.
“This is the biggest amount of ivory seized in a single case independently investigated by the anti-smuggling bureau of the General Administration of Customs,” Sun said, according to the South China Morning Post.
Second 12-tonne haul of pangolin scales seized in less than a week in Singapore
SINGAPORE - Less than a week after a record 12.9 tonnes of pangolin scales were seized from a container by the authorities here, another 12.7 tonnes have been uncovered in a joint operation by the National Parks Board (NParks), Singapore Customs and the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA).
The 40ft (12m) container that was on its way by ship from Nigeria to Vietnam was declared to contain "cassia seeds" but was found on Monday (April 8) to be holding the animal parts, estimated to be worth about $51.6 million, in 474 bags at the Pasir Panjang Scanning Station.
The haul came from two species, the white-bellied tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) and the giant ground pangolin (Smutsia gigantea) and are likely to have come from 21,000 pangolins.
The scales of the pangolin, believed to be the world's most highly trafficked mammal, are in high demand in Asia for use in traditional Chinese medicine despite there being no proven medical benefit from their use.
Massive rhino horn seizure in Hong Kong
Hong Kong customs seized HK$16.5 million (US$2.1 million) worth of rhino horns in transshipment cargo at the airport on Friday, marking a record haul of products related to the endangered species.
The smuggled items from South Africa were declared as vehicle parts destined for Malaysia. X-ray images of the cargo had raised suspicions and officers acted on a tip-off. Authorities found 82.5kg of suspected rhino horns and body parts in the consignment.
No arrests were made, and a senior customs source said they believed no local offenders were involved in the case.
According to the source, authorities have been monitoring smuggling trends with rhino horn being sought after in China and Southeast Asia for its perceived medicinal properties. “South Africa is home to most of the world’s rhino population and therefore, is a common source of smuggled rhino horns,” the source said.
Seizures of wildlife products have been on the rise last year and totalled 270 tonnes, a threefold increase in quantity from the year before.
People's indiscriminate land use is wrecking the Maasai Mara
New research shows how activities like farming, erecting fences and settlements are hemming in the core protected areas of Kenya's Maasai Mara. This is putting huge pressure on the environment. Grasslands are being reduced and becoming fragmented, and more prone to damage by the stress of climate change.
Between 1977 and 2016 The number of fenced plots has increased by more than 20% since 2010 outside of the core protected area. The number of new bomas was rising in parts of the Mara by up to three new bomas per square kilometre per year. There was also a massive increase in the number of sheep and goats (276.2%) and a slight decrease in the number of cattle (9.4%) in the Narok region in Kenya.
Livestock paths were prevalent and visible up to 5km or more inside te core areas. This illegal grazing is in competion with the wildlife and reduces the quantity and quality of food available.
From 1977 to 2016, illegal incursions into the Maasai Mara national reserve by cattle increased by 1053% and by sheep and goats by 1174%.
The numbers of resident wildlife species declined by between 40% and 87%. In addition, 63.5% fewer migratory wildebeest used the reserve.
Large scale elephant poaching is still alive and well
Customs officials at Da Nang’s Tien Sa Port in central Vietnam on Tuesday seized 9.12 tons of elephant tusks hidden in timber containers.
This is the biggest ivory seizure in recent years, police say. Preliminary investigations show that the containers were imported to Tien Sa from Congo, Africa. Last October, police and customs officials in Da Nang seized 10 tons of elephant tusks and pangolin scales trafficked from Nigeria to Tien Sa.
The seizure provides yet more evidence that organised criminal syndicates continue to exploit Vietnam as a hub for illegal wildlife trade ...
Vietnam outlawed ivory trade in 1992, but the country remains a top market for ivory products prized locally for decorative and medicinal purposes, according to conservation groups.
The country is also a busy thoroughfare for tusks trafficked from Africa destined for other parts of Asia, conservationists say. A report from the Environmental Investigation Agency, a London-based NGO, last year ranked Vietnam among the top 10 countries for ivory smuggling.
Finally: justice for rhino paochers after 10 years
Three poachers are finally convicted of killing a rhino in KwaZulu-Natal: A magistrate lost his patience after a decade of delays -- prosecution and defence sources estimated that somewhere between 12 and 25 defence attorneys had been engaged and later dismissed by the accused.
One of the world's longest rhino poaching trials came to a swift and decisive conclusion on Monday, 25 March when a Durban magistrate lost patience after nearly 10 years of "deliberate and unreasonable delays" by three men who tried, but ultimately failed, to drag out their trial indefinitely.
Convicting all three poachers based on the "overwhelming evidence" placed before him, senior Regional Court Magistrate Logan Naidoo declared that it would have been a travesty to allow the three men to continue holding the justice system to ransom any longer.
The three men, Muntugokwakhe Khoza, 50, Ayanda Buthelezi, 40, and SANDF officer Mduduzi Xulu, 51, were arrested on 26 August, 2009, hours after a rhino was gunned down in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Reserve -- the world cradle of white rhino conservation, where this species was brought back from the brink of extinction almost a century ago by the Natal Parks Board.
Biggest ever seizure of pangolin parts
On the 11th of February 2019 the biggest ever seizure of pangolin parts was made from two locations in Sabah, Borneo.
From the two locations, authorities uncovered 29.8 tonnes of pangolinsand their parts.
The haul included about 1,800 boxes full of frozen pangolins stuffed inside three refrigerated containers, 572 more frozen pangolins in six freezers, 61 live pangolins in cages and in a car boot and 361 kg of pangolin scales. Two bear paws and carcasses of four flying fox were also recovered.
Pangolins, a group of unique African and Asian scaly mammals, are considered to be one of the most heavily trafficked wild mammals in the world. They are hunted and traded for their meat, scales, and other body parts, and used as traditional medicines in parts of Africa and Asia.
Of the eight pangolin species, four are found in Africa. These are the white‐bellied, black‐bellied, giant, and Temminck's ground pangolin. Three of these species live in Central African forests. The tree-dwelling white-bellied and black-bellied pangolins, weighing approximately 1.5 to 3kg (comparable to a small rabbit), and the ground-dwelling giant pangolin can weigh up to 33kg (the weight of a small Labrador dog).
For Central African forests in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo and Republic of Congo, we estimated that at least 400,000 pangolins are hunted annually for meat.
Head of Tanzania's Anti-poaching Unit suspended.
The head of Anti poaching in northern Tanzania , Mr Said Mnkeni has been suspended from duty. Allegations are that he has colluded with poaching gangs by giving them a heads up as to the anti poaching units plans and schedules of where they will be in the area.
Arusha Regional Commissioner (RC) Mrisho Gambo said Mnkeni's suspension was a result of his conniving with the poaching suspects, leading to the killings of 35 giraffes in the Longido district over two years.
Mr Mnkeni was a member of a committee investigating wildlife deaths in the region.
According to Mr Gambo, arrested poaching suspects were walking scot-free under Mr Mnkeni's watch.
"His office was also issuing contradicting reports on the rate of giraffe and other wildlife killings," he alleged.
Mr Gambo was referring to an incident where the KDU northern zone office put the number of giraffe killings at three, while the Longido Wildlife Officer registered nine killings.
Corruption is alive and well - more needs to be done to root it out as one criminal at this level can do untold amounts of damage to conservation efforts. But it's better than it was five years ago.
Biggest ever seizure of pangolin scales
Hong Kong Customs seized a container en route from Nigeria to mainland China with ivory and pangolin scales worth HK$62 million
The container was believed to be destined for mainland China, for use in traditional medicine and sculptures.
The haul included more than 8.2 tonnes of scales from thousands of endangered pangolins, with an estimated street value of HK$42 million.
It was the biggest seizure of pangolin scales, by value AND weight, ever in the city.
Somebody please nuke China
Poaching threatens to wipe out some species in Angola
Mbanza Kongo — some animal species under protection regime with highlights to elephants and African forest buffalo, are on the verge of extinction due to poaching, said on Friday in Mbanza Kongo, the head of the Forest Development Institute (IDF), João Domingos.
Speaking to ANGOP, the official pointed out the corridors of Casa da Telha / Soyo and Musserra / Rio Loge as the main localities of the province where the indiscriminate killing of these animal species is frequently verified.
According to the source, these hunters are operating outside the law, since the IDF General Directorate suspended the hunting license issued five years ago to allow the repopulation of protected animals in the region.
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Analysis Contributor Lead Story Politics
How the NLD keeps its lawmakers under control
National League for Democracy (NLD) lawmakers line up before a meeting with party leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Naypyidaw on 28 March 2016. (Photo: Reuters)
By RENAUD EGRETEAU
Since it took control of the Union Parliament and 12 of the 14 state and regional legislatures after the 2015 elections, the National League for Democracy has imposed tight discipline on its 850-odd members of parliament. Media access is restricted. Draft proposals and motions prepared by individual legislators are routinely dismissed by the party’s internal vetting committee and the two speakers of the Union legislature – both NLD officials. Backbenchers are strongly advised not to exert the full extent of their oversight duties by asking “tough questions” to NLD cabinet ministers. Worse, many new parliamentarians feel they are being scolded by senior NLD officials as if they were unruly schoolchildren.
Yet, discipline and cohesion are necessary for a ruling parliamentary majority. Most theories of comparative politics say that disciplined parties are a precondition for responsible party government. Efficient legislative decision-making depends on the ability of the ruling leadership to secure a unified voting bloc in parliament, mobilise its lawmakers whenever needed, and prevent systematic dissent.
Despite growing resentment among NLD lawmakers, there has been no organized dissent in parliament since the start of the NLD-controlled legislature in February 2016. This is puzzling. When the NLD does not receive the full support of its legislators in passing a bill in plenary session, it is often because many are absent, on sick leave, visiting their constituencies or out of the country for international conferences or training programs. Sometimes, MPs have simply made a mistake in pressing the wrong electronic voting button.
Yangon’s regional parliament seems an exception. Its increasingly vocal legislators have not hesitated to criticise publicly the heavy hand of the NLD party machine and the regional chief minister, Phyo Min Thein. But a clearly identifiable factionalism is yet to emerge within the ranks of other NLD parliamentary delegations. Dissent expressed in private discussions or the media has not yet translated into open revolt. The only important resignation of a NLD lawmaker, the former chair of the Lower House’s committee on farmers and labour affairs, only occurred in July 2017. After being relieved from his chairmanship duties by the speaker earlier in December 2016, the newly independent MP publicly refused to comply with his former party’s internal rules, and quit.
Why is this so? How has the NLD, after two years in power, proved in position to hold the ranks despite mounting internal criticism? A ruling party can impose severe punishments on MPs who do not toe the party line. Around the world, ruling parties have employed a vast array of strategies and disciplinary tools to ensure the support of lawmakers in passing bills, prevent them from speaking out or obstructing parliamentary committee work, and curtail dissent. The NLD has diligently used that toolbox recently.
First, the instruments of parliamentary discipline often derive from the ruling party’s control over factors that determine the future of a politician. Party leaders – and the NLD is no exception – typically wield patronage power. They can distribute ministerial or legislative office perks, and local or central party positions, to the most loyal supporters. Many NLD candidates who won the 2012 by-elections were rewarded after the NLD’s landslide electoral victory in 2015 with government posts or chief ministerships. Other newcomers to the NLD were promptly given prestigious managerial positions in local party branches too.
Second, a ruling party can ensure the cohesion among its rank-and-file MPs by weeding out potential troublemakers. Joining a party to run for office is explicitly contractual, so recalcitrant politicians can be easily screened out and denied inclusion on the party’s lists of candidates for the next elections. The risks for incumbents are particularly high in a first-past-the-post electoral system under a dominant party, such as exists in Burma.
Ahead of the 2015 polls, the role of the NLD’s central executive committee in overseeing the selection of new parliamentary candidates was heavily criticised by local sympathisers of the party. To avoid a wave of dissent similar to that observed before the previous elections held in 2010 (and boycotted by the NLD), the senior leadership deliberately excluded long-time local party members in favour of younger and possibly more compliant political novices drawn from civil society or the education sector. This pattern was especially obvious in constituencies of the Sagaing, Irrawaddy, Mandalay and Magwe regions as well as Mon State. This process was also observed before the by-elections held in April 2017.
Third, party leaders can discipline defiant MPs through financial penalties and the withholding of party support for local or international projects. The NLD leadership has regularly sanctioned individual MPs by cancelling scheduled overseas trips or suspending them from party functions at the local branch level. Furthermore, NLD parliamentarians must relinquish 25 percent of their monthly salary of 1 million kyat ($750) to the party’s coffers. This is much higher than any other parties.
More accommodating strategies can be adopted to maintain lawmakers on board. Parliamentary dissidence in majoritarian political systems is usually short-lived and tends to be single-issue. Cajoling individual MPs to prevent dissent can often pay off. Policy compromises can be brokered and an issue considered crucial by a would-be rebel lawmaker can be put on the legislative agenda to defuse dissent. The fact that a legislative debate on Burma’s increasingly criticised defamation laws was initiated by the NLD in July 2017 despite the reluctance of its highest officials seems to be in response to growing concerns within NLD ranks. Many elected lawmakers are former political prisoners who were once the victims of similar repressive legislation.
Young or first-time lawmakers can also be gradually socialised into common thinking and a unifying ideology promoting the “common good” and thus coaxed into leaving aside personal considerations. The NLD has provided numerous trainings, orientation courses and workshops for its candidates and new MPs since 2015. They are taught to present their work as “people-oriented.” They are directed to avoid open criticism and public complaints, including about their own poor living conditions in the municipal residence allotted to Union MPs in the capital Naypyidaw.
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Discipline in Burma’s legislatures has worked thus far because ambitious MPs do not want to jeopardise their chances for advancement and re-election, or be deprived of various perks and benefits. (And there are indeed many determined would-be local politicians who view the NLD as the sole credible and legitimate vehicle for personal political ambitions.) It has also worked because activists-turned-lawmakers sometimes simply cannot master the art of politicking or else lack proper knowledge of how to conduct rebellious legislative politics. Without an acquaintance with parliamentary procedures or an understanding that ruling parties can sometimes benefit from tolerating some parliamentary dissent, novice lawmakers tend to remain quiet and avoid breaking legislative discipline. Unlike before the 2010 elections, when the NLD last experienced a severe party split over the boycott of a poll controlled by the former junta, resentment is now chiefly being observed among young and new party members, not in the commanding heights of the NLD.
In addition, Burmese society has been traditionally shaped by Buddhism, which considers values such as obedience and discipline paramount. Seniority is highly respected and dissent from those younger is not normally accepted. Young NLD members who privately criticise the political stance and party management of Burma’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi seldom confront her publicly.
There are political risks for the ruling party, though. The greater the resentment, the more likely MPs will look for alternatives or even jump ship. Condescending disciplinary measures and public scolding can provoke a disastrous backlash against the senior party establishment. In January this year, there was a sense of palpable relief among NLD representatives and party rank-and-file as Win Htein was informally discharged from his party duties. Once the chief organiser of the NLD party machine and a feared member of its central executive committee, the 75-year-old veteran politician had earned himself a tough reputation for bossing around MPs from his room at the heart of Naypyidaw’s municipal guesthouse where civilian MPs reside when the parliament is in session.
The NLD may well lose most of its incumbent MPs in the next election round, scheduled for 2020, although not the election itself. Many have already made no secret of their willingness to leave parliamentary politics after just one term. Being scolded and disciplined by professional politicians, while waiting for the senior party leadership to devise policies their constituents expect is not what civil society activists signed up for when they joined the NLD and ran for office in 2015.
Can the NLD leadership afford to alienate a generation of young, determined, yet potentially disloyal lawmakers? Can the party keep a tight rein over its lawmakers without devising any bottom-up decision-making process or mitigating the grievances of would-be deviant MPs? For now, the NLD’s top brass obviously thinks it can, counting on the quasi-magical aura of Suu Kyi to win more elections in the near future. Urban, educated and outspoken citizens and politicians may criticise the NLD. But in the end, the party seems to believe that rural voters in the central plains and even in ethnic areas will still vote for the political movement incarnated by “A-may Suu.”
In the short-term, the discipline imposed by the NLD hierarchy may not be damaging to the party in parliament, quite the opposite. But in the long-run, the lash of discipline may well produce a generation of frustrated political activists who may consider leaving the NLD and legislative politics altogether. A high level of legislative turnover and the continuing presence of inexperienced members in parliament may well prove a challenge to Burma’s aspiring democracy. Not only may the NLD be deprived of its most capable and experienced lawmakers, but the pattern will also prove harmful to the consolidation and professionalisation of Burma’s parliament, a key agent of democratisation.
Renaud Egreteau, a political scientist, authored “Caretaking Democratization: The Military and Political Change in Myanmar” (Oxford University Press & Hurst, 2016) and Parliamentary Development in Myanmar: An Overview of the Union Legislature, 2011-2016, a report sponsored by the Asia Foundation available here.
This article was originally published by Tea Circle.
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Juliusz Słowacki Theatre Once in Krakow, you should stroll through all the streets of the old town to explore the beauty of this historic city and to find its major sights. Much of that happened at Auschwitz, not far from Krakow. A tour inside the mine lets tourists take a peek at a stunning natural phenomenon of crystal formations. Elsewhere, the 19th century Tempel Synagogue, with its Moorish Revival architecture, is still in use. It has a very interesting history and is essential while visiting the center of Krakow. For more options on where to stay in Krakow check out our guides to the best and in Krakow! Not to worry though, the Town Hall Tower does still exist and the decapitated head of Eros can be found discarded at its doorstep. Planty Park And once you have enough of sightseeing do not miss a rest in the Planty Park which surrounds the whole Old Town center.
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On Saturday the market explodes with hundreds of merchants selling anything your deal-seeking heart desires including electronics, books, antique furniture, clothes, and furs…strangely lots of furs. To avoid long waits we suggest purchasing tickets in advanced or booking a. When Krakow was the capital city, this was the official residence and one of the finest castles in Europe. Czartoryski Museum Although Krakow has several areas dedicated to art, the Czartoryski Museum is undoubtedly the most premier art center. One the is , the food is amazing and the portions are enormous.
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Three major US newspapers endorse Obama
It’s an interesting feature in US politics. As polling day approaches, newspapers will publish an editorial endorsing one of the candidates.
CNN reported that the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune have endorsed Barack Obama as their choice for President of the United States.
Here are snippets of what they had to say about the rationale behind their choice.
Washington Post:
…it is without ambivalence that we endorse Sen. Barack Obama for president.
The choice is made easy in part by Mr. McCain’s disappointing campaign, above all his irresponsible selection of a running mate who is not ready to be president.
Mr. Obama’s temperament is unlike anything we’ve seen on the national stage in many years. He is deliberate but not indecisive; eloquent but a master of substance and detail; preternaturally confident but eager to hear opposing points of view. He has inspired millions of voters of diverse ages and races, no small thing in our often divided and cynical country. We think he is the right man for a perilous moment.
Los Angeles Times:
We need a leader who demonstrates thoughtful calm and grace under pressure, one not prone to volatile gesture or capricious pronouncement. We need a leader well-grounded in the intellectual and legal foundations of American freedom. Yet we ask that the same person also possess the spark and passion to inspire the best within us: creativity, generosity and a fierce defense of justice and liberty.
Indeed, the presidential campaign has rendered McCain nearly unrecognizable. His selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate was, as a short-term political tactic, brilliant. It was also irresponsible, as Palin is the most unqualified vice presidential nominee of a major party in living memory. The decision calls into question just what kind of thinking — if that’s the appropriate word — would drive the White House in a McCain presidency. Fortunately, the public has shown more discernment, and the early enthusiasm for Palin has given way to national ridicule of her candidacy and McCain’s judgment.
Obama’s selection also was telling. He might have scored a steeper bump in the polls by making a more dramatic choice than the capable and experienced Joe Biden. But for all the excitement of his own candidacy, Obama has offered more competence than drama.
We may marvel that Obama’s critics called him an elitist, as if an Ivy League education were a source of embarrassment, and belittled his eloquence, as if a gift with words were suddenly a defect. In fact, Obama is educated and eloquent, sober and exciting, steady and mature. He represents the nation as it is, and as it aspires to be.
Chicago Tribune:
On Dec. 6, 2006, this page encouraged Obama to join the presidential campaign. We wrote that he would celebrate our common values instead of exaggerate our differences. We said he would raise the tone of the campaign. We said his intellectual depth would sharpen the policy debate. In the ensuing 22 months he has done just that.
This endorsement makes some history for the Chicago Tribune. This is the first time the newspaper has endorsed the Democratic Party’s nominee for president.
McCain failed in his most important executive decision. Give him credit for choosing a female running mate–but he passed up any number of supremely qualified Republican women who could have served. Having called Obama not ready to lead, McCain chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. His campaign has tried to stage-manage Palin’s exposure to the public. But it’s clear she is not prepared to step in at a moment’s notice and serve as president. McCain put his campaign before his country.
Obama chose a more experienced and more thoughtful running mate–he put governing before politicking. Sen. Joe Biden doesn’t bring many votes to Obama, but he would help him from day one to lead the country.
We do, though, think Obama would govern as much more of a pragmatic centrist than many people expect.
He has the intelligence to understand the grave economic and national security risks that face us, to listen to good advice and make careful decisions.
It may have seemed audacious for Obama to start his campaign in Springfield, invoking Lincoln. We think, given the opportunity to hold this nation’s most powerful office, he will prove it wasn’t so audacious after all. We are proud to add Barack Obama’s name to Lincoln’s in the list of people the Tribune has endorsed for president of the United States.
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5 thoughts on “Three major US newspapers endorse Obama”
Lim Chih-Yang says:
Dear Gerald,
I like the commentary by the Los Angeles Times.
“…. His (McCain) selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate was, as a short-term political tactic, brilliant. It was also irresponsible, as Palin is the most unqualified vice presidential nominee of a major party in living memory….”
I do totally agree that Palin is good for a short burst of popularity. Unfortunately, an election is more a marathon than a 100m dash. Palin has shown herself to be utterly incoherent and lacking views on foreign policy, economy, healthcare..etc. its is utterly embarrasing to see her performance in the interview for Katie Couric.
In fact, Palin looks more comfortable appearing on SNL than on the election stage.
The only other Veep that comes close is probably Dan Quayle.
I do hope that Obama wins. He can bring much sanity, dignity, governance and statesman to the office. Having said the above, McCain had demonstrated himself to be a decent man in defending Obama and clarifying to his myopic supporters that Obama is not a terrorist.
Chih-Yang
Gerald Giam says:
Haha good that you mentioned Dan Quayle. But McCain’s “Bill Ayers” attacks on Obama show his desperation to the point of being unethical. I think Colin Powell’s endorsement was the most significant.
Hi Gerald,
you know that I have always been a fan of Colin Powell. I strongly respect this man as one of the last few statesmen in US. To him its not about politics but doing the right thing for US and the world. He is hardly every sway by soundbites or ideology but by a practical realism.
So to me, Powell’s endorsement (a man who has served in Carter, Reagan, Bush Snr, Clinton and Bush Jr’s administration), speaks volume about Obama’s standing.
twasher says:
Since when was invading Iraq on spurious grounds an act of ‘practical realism’? Whether or not Powell personally supported that act of foolishness, he certainly used his public credibility to make the case for it. I remember people saying at that time ‘well Powell supports it so it can’t be that crazy’. How many mistakes does he have to make before he loses his credibility?
Hi Twasher,
Iraq war was perhaps one of his biggest mistake. He was mislead by the neocons in the administration, primarily Cheney, Rumsfeld…etc. of course as it turns out he was totally sidelined by these guys… perhaps that was one reason why he left the administration and refuse to be part of bush jnr second term.
it is next to impossible to not make mistake while one is in office or for that matters in life. I am not sure how many mistakes can one make before one loses credibility but his standing has still remain strong to this day and despite the Iraq war he still commands vast respect unlike Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gates…
I think this speaks volumes about the man.
Nevertheless, we are all entitled to our opinions.
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Secret Origins Special #1: The Penguin, The Riddler, and Two-Face
On this special* episode, Ryan Daly investigates the original sins of Batman’s vilest villains in Secret Origins Special #1. First, Ryan welcomes Michael Bailey for the origin of the Penguin. Then Ryan and Mike Gillis try to crack the mysteries of the Riddler. And finally Ryan recruits Clinton Robison and Nathaniel Wayne for a double-sided discussion of Two-Face. All of that plus new secrets behind the Secret Origins from Ryan’s meeting with Mark Waid at Boston Comic Con. (special* = long.)
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42 responses to “Secret Origins Special #1: The Penguin, The Riddler, and Two-Face”
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Ryan Daly says:
Why aren’t we doing a podcast on the Venture Bros?!!
Chris Franklin says:
I lost track after about season 3, but I loved the show. I need to catch up.
Jeff Nettleton says:
Great stuff in the later seasons. Sgt Hatred becomes the Venture bodyguard, Brock is working with SPHINX, Henchmen 21 proves to be the most capable of all, Phantom Limb returns, more Order of the Triad, more Shore Leave, Dr Venture’s boy adventurer therapy group, Kevin Conroy as Captain Sunshine, Dean’s internship at Impossible Industries, Hank & Dean’s prom, sulky Dean, the return of the original SPHINX (lots of fun for the GI JOE generation), Spanokopita!, and more….
Okay, I’m through the Riddler segment, and even though I was left out of this Batman episode (did you not check the Fire & Water contract, Ryan?) I’m going to go ahead and comment on Penguin and Riddler.
I agree with Michael Bailey on many things, and another one for the record books is that Batman Forever is a much better Batman film than Batman Returns. Sure, the goofy starts to seep in with this movie, but the Batman and Robin scenes work like a modern take on the early Golden Age stories.
I also agree with Ryan that DC seemed hellbent on trying to make the Penugin work with the darker tone of the Batman universe. I don’t think they really succeeded until Chuck Dixon came up with the Iceberg Lounge aspect to the character. This story always struck me as part of that “let’s make Penguin tough and gritty”. It may be because of Sam Keith’s art (sorry, not a fan on mainstream comic stuff), but it also has to do with “he’s not fat, it’s just muscle” which I’ve always called BS on…at least until I watched the Netflix Daredevil series, where the Kingpin truly, TRULY frightened me. So I’ll give them that. That was 14 year-old Chris’ hang-up with this story.
The Penguin got a then NEW origin in Best of DC (Digest) #10, March 1981 a Secret Origins issue. I think this may be the first place where Oswald’s mom, and his being bullied was first explored.
Onto the Riddler: Yes, Frank Gorshin did wear a three-piece suit and bowler hat in the classic TV series and movie, in addition to his tights. This was the first time this look appeared in the comics.
This story is an odd one. I really like it, but it came to me at a weird time, where I was trying to reconcile my love for the silly old TV show against the new, dark, cool, hip Batman of the late 80s. I never turned my back on the show like many, but it was kind of the crazy old uncle you still loved, but you tended to try to avoid at reunions. The Riddler comes across very much like that here. DC didn’t have any rights to the made-for-TV villains at that time, so it’s interesting that Gaiman snuck them in.
I have ready many articles with Batman writers who admit the Riddler is a tough nut to crack. Even the Animated Series guys felt like they never really got him right. Oh, and he wore the bowler with the tights on the second version of that series, The New Batman Adventures.
There was a Question story shortly before this where the Riddler was portrayed as washed up (written by Bat-edtior Denny O’Neil). His Who’s Who entry from the 1989 Detective Annual also reflects his retired status, and his running of the junkyard (more on that in the next Who’s Who episode). Interesting that at this point, the Bat-office was content to seemingly put Riddler out to pasture, while they were trying desperately to make Penugin work in their darkened world.
So far, so great!
Well, they considered him a pretty worn out joke, which was a big point of that story. BTAS, as they did with many characters, showed the potential that lay within.
Robert Kelly says:
Wow, almost four hours! I was sure at some point during the show Ryan was going to check the tote board to see how many donations had come in.
In a lot of ways, this is my favorite issue of the SO series. I think the Riddler section is genius, as is the wraparound segment. I find the Penguin and Two Face stories merely okay, but I think the whole book gets lifted by the stuff Gaiman did. Plus the Bolland cover is…well, a Bolland cover. Perfect.
I remember being really shocked that DC allowed Gaiman to even mention some of TV show villains in a comic, especially at the time when they were trying so hard to sell the Grim n Gritty Batman to a mass audience. I thought it was pretty daring and loved Gaiman for doing it.
And even though no one asked, my top 5 fav Bat Villains are (in no particular order)
Ra’s Al Ghul
Kyle has disqualified himself from future podcast guest gigs by putting KGBeast on his list. Have some standards, man! Who was #6? Kite-Man?
Pretty sure I’m always disqualifying myself. Don’t worry, it’s all part of the Coffee & Comics charm.
Sir Print says:
“Take your pick.”
I believe that comes from Untold Legend of the Batman #1
http://www.bernarduccimeisel.com/imagesdb/moody_takeyourpick.jpg
Nathaniel Wayne says:
Bradley Null says:
A note before I listen, I love all versions of the Riddler, yes even the Jim Carry version. I even like the hardly seen AU version. Neil Gaiman is my favorite writer. I love stories that casually break the forth wall. This Riddler story is reprinted in “Whatever happened to the Caped Crusader”, where I liked it far better then the tittle story.
I kinda remember reading it in comic form…
I sort of remember the other two stories….
I re
I remember having the argument where the Bat fans and the Vertigo kids both hated me for liking this.
So weird relationship with this issue have I.
Well, I listened to the rest, and now I have a beard and am eligible for Social Security. But I didn’t mind. This was indeed, a special episode. Well done fellas.
But Ryan, you question the existence of a Harlan Ellison-written script for a Two-Face episode of the Batman TV Series? Did you NOT listen to the Super Mates episode where Cindy and I review the comic special that adapted that unused script? It was written by Len Wein and drawn by Jose Luis Garcia Lopez (Praise Be His Name)! For shame.
You’re probably right about the Chilton angle, BUT, the name Chilton does come up in Batman lore. In the late Silver/early Bronze Age, it was established that Bruce was sent to live with his Uncle Phillip after his parents were murdered. He was looked after by Phillip’s housekeeper, a Mrs. Chilton. Unbeknownst to Bruce (but known to Alfred, per The Untold Legend of the Batman mini), the kindly Mrs. Chilton was actually the mother of…Joe Chill, the man who murdered Thomas and Martha Wayne! Duh-duh-DUHHHH!!! But yeah, it was probably a Silence of the Lambs thing.
I forgot to mention the cover earlier. It’s outstanding. Iconic even. The best image of those three characters ever committed to paper? Probably.
I loved how you guys dug deep with the questions on celebrity. Some interesting discussion there. While I do agree there is some fascination with killers, I don’t see too many attempts at actually merchandising them (although there was a series of serial killer trading cards which stirred up some serious fuss years ago). In the DCU, someone is constantly trying to exploit these pshychos, and even the Joker himself tried to get in on it with the Laughing Fish, of course.
As for favorite Bat-villains…that’s like asking me whose my favorite kid? Don’t tell Cindy I said that.
C’mon, Chris, we all know you have a favorite kid. Don’t hide it!
As for the Ellison-plotted BATMAN ’66 episode/comic, well, of course I listened to that episode of Super Mates! It just, uh, slipped my mind.
There have been Charles Manson t-shirts and stuff, which is close enough, for my book.
The serial killer trading cards were from Eclipse, if I remember right. It created a minor stir; but, it blew over pretty quickly. I thought their Bush League trading cards were far better, though nowhere near as good as their comic creator cards.
Martin Gray says:
Dang, I was SO excited to remember Mrs Chilton but Chris was so Chris-ish!
Great episode…. So far just listened to up to Riddler part. I liked the Peguin discussion well enough.
The Riddler discussion has me relalizing I like the idea of the Riddler more then any of the actual characters who have appeared. I say characters plural because he’s been so different so many times….
Jim Carry’s guy (who I like) IS NOT the Gaiman stand in from this (whom I love). And neither of those is the Gerssin 60’s guy I first fell in love with.
His names and gimmick may stay the same, BUT I think he might be the second least consistent between versions character in Superhero stories. (Hank Pym is number one)
Sean Walsh says:
Great episode. Loved that this was 4 hours, as it really allows 3 important villains to get some well due spotlight.
Regarding the Riddler segment (my favorite of the 3, by far, and one of my favorite comic villains ever), this is indeed the 1st time he appears in a suit & bowler hat in a comic. He’d wear it more prominently in his next appearances – Dark Knight, Dark City (whose cover artist, Mike Mignola, designed the B:TAS Riddler, which displaced Timm’s own design inspired by Will Eisner’s Spirit) and in most appearances beyond.
And from the pen of Paul Dini himself came a statement that echoes Ryan & Michael’s observation about the Riddler’s relative lack of use in comics and, in his own case, the animated series. In the 1998 Batman Animated retrospective book, Dini reflected on the a Riddler and said that the shared opinion of the showrunners was that the Riddler was a very tough character to write – “a cerebral villain who spends too much time proving how smart he is rather than causing mayhem” – and that most scripts were rejected because they were too long or just too silly. Plus, of course, coming up with compelling riddles (that didn’t devolve into lazy machine gun sparrow references) on their show deadlines was a bit too much. I would imagine that’s why Bill Finger, the character’s own co-creator and a writer who was fairly infamous for not meeting his own deadlines, only ever wrote him once or twice himself
Always enjoyed that Neil Gaiman can, if he ever tires of the Sandman fandom, proudly point to a fairly poignant Riddler tale in his vast bibliography, and that Bernie Mireault would again illustrate a more nostalgic story that, to a more untrained eye (like mine in the early ’90s), would age wonderfully over the next 25 years and add a special element to the Riddler’s “secret” “origin.”
Paul Hix says:
Day 2 of listening to the Secret Origins podcast. This expedition has been doomed from the start. We ate the last dog this morning. During dinner last night, Shag stood up suddenly and said “I’m just stepping outside for minute”. I never saw him again.
David M Gutierrez says:
Still making my way through this, but wanted to get a special Secret Origins podcast on the origins of Ryan “Shanks” Daly and Michael “Legs” Bailey. I’m particularly interested in the time they clearly spent in the clink. I don’t know how else they have such a clear knowledge of streetfights and prison bitchery.
My top 5 Batman villains is most similar to Ryan’s (as it stood at the time of recording):
5. Two Face
4. Raysh
2. Catwoman
1. Deadshot
Not the movie version of Deadshot obviously.
Aw, come on. Big Willy style!
Anj says:
Late to the game as usual.
I loved this book as decent looks at all these characters.
I am a fan of the Riddler but I agree it is hard to pull off a good story. Like you all, I need the Riddler to be an intelligent puzzler. I don’t need ‘What trees are hairy? Fir trees.’ Somewhere along the way, Scott Snyder said he wanted to write a Riddler story but learned quickly that it isn’t easy to write riddles. My intro was Gorshin, who is the quintessential Riddler for me.
But my favorite Batman villain is Two-Face and so I loved this story. As you guys said, the Wagner Faces story (LOTDK 28-30) is brilliant as he tries to play up his freakish side. I’ll also add Batman:Jekyll and Hyde by Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee. Great stuff there. And, of course, his role in Dark Knight Returns is well done, Harvey giving into his dark side, his coin scarred on both sides. Chilling.
I think part of what I like about Two-Face is that he starts out as Law and Order, a man of rules, who descends into madness and thinks chance is more powerful than rules. Brilliant.
My top Five Batman villains:
Joker.
But I wish more was done with the ‘reverse Batman’ the Wraith, covered in Who’s Who XXVI
Ack, as I am driving home today I realize I forgot 2 more fave Batman villains – Hugo Strange! And the Nightslayer/Nocturna duo.
Also, great info from Mark Waid at the con. Ditko on Plastic Man. Now I will never forgive Roy Thomas!!!
No love for Orca?
Clinton Robison says:
Excellent episode, Ryan. Nice to know there were three amazing guests (and one complete jackass who somehow bribed you to get to talk with you and Nathaniel). Like you, my favorite Batman villains keep changing, but I will fully own all the well-deserved tossed fruit for the KGBeast pick.
The conversation you had with Mark Waid sounds absolutely amazing. What an utter shame no interviews or anything could come of it. Perhaps another time.
I have to give a big word of thanks and appreciation to all the guests. Michael, Mike and Nathaniel, you all made this episode a neverending source of entertainment. This Cecil B. DeMille epic length episode just flew by with all your amazing input. I’m glad to know we can all agree that Mr. al Ghul belongs in the Top 5 no matter what.
Here’s hoping my monotonous hick droning didn’t bore too many people along the way.
Loved your debut Clinton, but I’m not agreeing on Ra’s, so there! Everyone seems to like him because he makes Batman go all Jamea Bond, but we already have a James Bond. i like my Bat-villains to have a connection to Gotham, not live in a tent and be involved in a creepy relationship with his sub-Bond girl daughter.
But everyone else seems to love the old bugger!
We’ve talked a lot about the heroes before (our) time, but not so much the gangsters so original that they exist in our personal pre-history. The Batman rogues gallery has probably benefited most from this 20th century phenomenon, and I think this is absolutely due to “Batman ’66.” Hollywood has historically been filled with short-sighted morons, especially when it comes to comic books, and the Man of Steel is still paying for the producers of The Adventures of Superman going cheap with his opposition. If they’d made a few extra costumes, had a few guys who could stage punch George Reeves through some drywall, he might very well have continued to be the most popular and important super-hero of all. Instead, Superman ceded to Batman the opportunity to not just transport a super-hero into a basic filmic reality with very light science fantasy elements, but to port the entire surreality of funny books to TV and cinema. Ditto the motion pictures, where Superman started out fighting Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty and Valerie Perrine and went less impressive from there. When Batman came to film, he brought with him the expectations of a Gotham City fully realized for a generation of fans within and without comics’ readership. They got the Joker, and then asked about Catwoman, and then Scarecrow, and then Poison Ivy, and how about some more Commissioner Gordon and Batgirl and Harvey Dent and so on. Superman had Lois Lane and, uh, Jimmy Olsen and… Brainiac? Mr. Mxyzptlk? The potential was there, but the multimedia exploration was late and lacking. I never felt as strongly for Batman’s rogues overall as I did for other more favored cliques, but in terms of marketing to the masses, they’re tops.
The cover is by Bolland… Brian Bolland, license to thrill. His is one of the few names you could justifiably drop into a sentence containing the phrase “merely JLGL.” Despite being something of a straightforward pin-up, this Secret Origins would likely turn up at the very least among the top ten best covers individually for Riddler, Penguin, Two-Face, and perhaps even Batman, despite his not actually even being on it. Another uncommon phrase: “This book has too many Neil Gaiman stories, and they’re not very good.” Both the framing story and the Riddler non-origin are one note played too long. I’m grateful for the presence of Kevin Nowlan in the vignette, but there’s still too much undigested Hydrox layout artist lingering on the page. It looks better than it deserves to, but still like someone aping Nowlan instead of the real thing.
There are so many possible introductory points for me to the Penguin, since he was on the cartoons and in one of the first comics I bought, but most probably it was through Burgess Meredith. Actually, that was the only Penguin I liked as a kid, purely on the performance. Elsewhere, Penguin was the dope with the trick umbrellas, and those short portly action figures made for obvious punching bags to more fit kewl toys. Then Danny DeVito came along and ate up space in Batman Returns that I’d have rather seen lent to the two other villains (I got a fever… and the only cure… is more Christopher Walken.) Worse, the Burton version informed Batman: The Animated Series, an early opportunity for me to reject cynical attempts at grimdark with obviously inappropriate characters. I was an early adopter of Chromium Age sensibilities, but the Penguin helped me to recognize that when everybody is a grizzled badass, nobody is, and there has to be a better way into one of the most famous comic book super-villains than to pretend he’s a goth and pander to a scene.
Around the same time as Batman Returns, DC put out best of trades for Penguin and Catwoman. It was either there or in subsequent books of critical analysis (Jules Pfeiffer?) where I was made to realize that what made Penguin special among the Batman rogues was that he was sane and a brutal mobster. He’ll entertain affectations like the bird-themed heists and the refrigerated hideouts because that’s fashionable in Gotham. He’ll put on his roaring 20s suit and whip out his trick umbrellas, as it makes folks underestimate him or laugh him off. Doesn’t matter. At the end of the day, he’s balling, and he’ll be running whichever prison they temporarily assign him to. He’s had heartaches, but he’s not tragic. He’s just a bad guy in a worse town who loves showing off in his dirty work. That’s refreshing in his environment.
Sometime in the mid-90s, I’d fallen in love with a version of the Penguin’s early history I’d concocted and have since forgotten, then read this Secret Origin. I hated it a lot in part because it somehow contradicted my ideas, but now that I’ve reread it without a personal agenda, I can be more objective in thinking it sucks. I’ve never liked Alan Grant’s work, because he’s got that 2000 A.D. attitude that gives the impression he’s too clever to be working on disreputable genre material, so he basically takes the piss while still cashing the checks. I read this origin as a satire, bashing together impossible contrivances and cliche to see if you can get away with hacking out a marketable strip on sheer fan service. It plays right into the sadistic power fantasies of a large segment of the readership without offering any legitimate insight into the main character. People laughed at Oswald Cobblepot, and one bully especially scarred him, so he became a themed master criminal? What? You can’t just draw a line from one to the other, and yes, it’s totally the Kingpin’s origin with the forced inclusion of “Birds N Stuff.” That’s like, Peter Parker’s parents were gunned down in an alley, so he became a Spider-Man. But… Wait… There should probably be more to this, right?
Then there’s the art by Sam Keith, which is a total scam. His fundamentals are strictly amateur hour, reminding me of the crappy comic strips I drew in my notebook in grade school. Faces in crude absolute profile across multiple panels, extreme obscuring close-ups, young child with a camcorder camera angles, an absence of the illusion of depth– work cheats that even Rob Liefeld would scoff at. The con is that Keith then drenches everything in heavy inks with some stylish shading techniques and usually one “money” image per page that looks impressive until you break down what he actually did (like that facial close-up of Penguin coming out of (surprise) deep shadow that conceal his neck and body while Keith has flicked ink off a toothbrush to alter the texture. For my money, peak Sam Keith was his Marvel Comics Presents covers, where he could draw Wolverine in semi-silhouette endlessly– a character with built-in weirdly exaggerated anatomy that you could jazz up with a slick muscle dimple and thick layers of body hair. I can enjoy his work in the same vein of guilty pleasure as other early Image artists, but extreme style aside, he’s among the worst technically of the “name brand” lot. He’s the Jack in the Box tacos of ’90s draw-ers.
What a fantastic episode, I liked the off-grid format and the multiple guests.
I’m a Penguin traditionalist, he’s a funny little man who’s ridiculously formidable. I don’t want him as a Kingpin muscle monster, or running a nightclub and skimming the cash off other crimes. I want him out on the streets, flying into fights with Batman and Robin on a helicopter umbrella. I do love this origin, though, with the melted teeth scaring the bejabbers out of me. (I looked up that Best of DC Secret Origins of Super-Villains digest, featuring the origins of ‘your favourite villains’ – Penguin, Parasite, Ocean Master, Captain Boomerang, Shadow Thief… and Red Dart. Good grief. Someone should do a lame villains podcast, Least Wanted or something.)
Again, I don’t like the modern take on The Riddler, as a private detective – Batman needs adversaries, and if someone can’t wrote a smart enough story for him, bench the guy until a smarter writer comes aloft. And while I love a nice three-piece suit, it’s tights all the way, baby!
Two-Face is a brilliant villain, with a great origin, look, psychology, even a bit of a supporting cast in Gilda (has Duela ever appeared as his daughter in a Batman story)… I never tire of him. Oh, hang on, James Robinson’s extended post-52 story in which Batman gave Harvey Dent the job of replacing Batman, having made him a Kung fu master detective? How many unbusy heroes does he know? Dozens!
When did they start drawing his face purple rather than green? It’s like a reverse Beast Boy scenario. I love that the Earth 2 Batman got to stay sane.
Ouch, the iPad posted the message when I breathed on it. Still jabbering, here!
I have to disagree with Nathaniel that nobody introduced in the Eighties was any good. Nocturna and the Thief of Night. Killer Croc. Black Mask. The Ventriloquist. Anarchy. Black Mask. Film Freak…
I doubt that Geraldo Rivera inspired Steve Jones – Gaiman wasn’t living in the US back then and Rivera is pretty unknown over here in the UK. Snoopy TV reporters are ten a penny in the DCU. There were at least two UK broadcasting guys in the Eighties called Steve Jones, maybe he took against one of them.
I was fascinating to hear Harley Quinn make a list of top Batman villains, I can’t recall a single story in which she fights him solo … I was under the impression she was a sidekick to the Joker who then stepped out in her own. Then again, I’ve only seen about one episode of the TV cartoon so am likely way off base.
5 Scarecrow
4 Nocturna
3 Penguin
2 Catwoman
1 Two-Face
The Riddler almost certainly came through my door via the Adam West TV show. Penguin has the stronger visual and easier hook, so he got around a lot more than Ed Nigma. I haven’t really watched the show since it was in syndication growing up, but Frank Gorshin was definitely near the top of my favorite actors there (and I love John Astin, but not as Riddler.) What I was surprised didn’t get explored on this episode was how similar the usage of Joker and Riddler was for a lot of years. They were both big, loud, cackling crooks with gaudy costumes involving purple and green with themed henchmen and elaborate heists/traps revolving around childhood amusements. I think the biggest problem for most of Riddler’s career is that he’s too similar to the Joker without getting over as well conceptually with fans. I used to love the Joker before he went WAY off the deep end in the late ’80s, so to my thinking, the simplest way to restore some of Riddler’s lost glory is to write him as the Silver/Bronze Age Joker. I tried to watch those two grisly, sadistic, imbecilic, pathetic Joker fan films some opportunistic cretins released recently in a transparent attempt to exploit Suicide Squad’s flickering visibility. I couldn’t make it much more than five minutes skipping through either because it’s the same disgusting serial killer fixated dreck that has adulterated so many crime shows today. Wouldn’t it be great if Riddler could recapture the toothsome but still playful anarchy of the Joker Boomers and Gen-X grew up on? Y’know, he could still kill people that kind of deserve it or that the audience just doesn’t care about to remind everyone he’s a threat, but maybe not beat any children to death with a crowbar or commit any catastrophic acts of sexualized violence that leaves the victim physically paralyzed?
But say we keep Riddler on point. Writers are full of excuses to not do their damned job. Riddles are hard? Buy a book of riddles, and if the specific examples are copyrighted, reverse engineer them. Read a question, come up with your own answer, and if it doesn’t match the book’s, keep your answer and alter the riddle until it best matches that. In fact, you can even craft the story out of the engineered riddles, allowing you to plot via these sort of mad libs. It’s actually simpler than trying to think up some crazy thing for the Joker to do, but then again, he’s just a flamboyant serial killer now, and murdering fictional folk in cruel ways is easier than just about anything else to write.
“Ha-ha, I’m hurting you!”
“Ahhh, it hurts so bad.”
“You maniac– I’m going to hurt you for hurting this person!”
SFX: HRT!!!
The Dark Knight is arguably the greatest Batman movie, but aside from wasting Two-Face on a too fast psychotic break in an unnecessary fourth act that could have been expanded into a much better sequel than The Dark Knight Rises… Deep breath; going back into that sentence… I don’t think it’s a very good Joker movie. The main issue is that Ledger’s Joker is too contained and methodical, his schemes requiring crackerjack precision, and the Clown Prince of Crime should never be that disciplined. I don’t think the Riddler needs to literally be a guy who tells riddles, any more than Joker ever tells actual jokes anymore or ever. He’s a taunting clown and a bit of a prop comic– maybe throws out some puns– but jokes? As I was watching The Dark Knight in the theater the first time, during the bank robbery, I was kicked out of the narrative when it hit me that this was more of a Riddler story, or maybe Clock King. You know, guys who are vexing because they can rig the game at the level required for the elaborate heist. Joker can crash a benefit gala or set up a group morality play involving bomb detonators, but he’s not Keyser Soze. Actually, Kevin Spacey could still pull off Edward Nigma, I think. Far better than the awful Jim Carrey, certainly.
The Secret Origin offered here was crummy, as any number of minor Batman villains could have been used as Gaiman’s mouthpiece. Riddler (and BEM) deserved better, and got it (sans BEM) from Chuck Dixon (and Kieron Dwyer? Spaz Johnson?) in a Detective Comics Annual with a Year One theme. That’s the only Riddler comic I can think of off the top of my head that I really enjoyed and completely sold me on the character. I like the potential Riddler a lot, but his common usage, not so much.
I guess time to revise to make sure Hugo Strange makes it onto my real list.
Hugo Strange
Odd that Joker isn’t on the list. Maybe because he is so omnipresent, its hard to be a favorite. No one says grass is their favorite plant.
You beat me to my initial presumed “unique” selection of Hugo Strange, and I posted it to the wrong feedback section besides, so at least your list wasn’t squashed between giant bricks of my rants. We’ve got three in common, and Two-Face almost made mine, too.
Keith G! Baker says:
Re: “No one says grass is their favorite plant.”
Is this a medicinal marijuana reference?
Jimmy McGlinchey says:
Very late to the party – was away on holidays last week and had no time to listen to podcasts! Another great show, Ryan and guests. Re the Penguin story, I believe that there was a follow up in the anthology “The Further Adventures of Batman featuring the Penguin” where Sharkey started murdering people from his and Penguin’s past to try and draw Penguin out for revenge from the story in Secret Origins Special.
I love the Riddler as a Batman villain – one story of his which I particularly like was by Chuck Dixon and Graham Nolan in Detective Comics 705-707 which included the Clumaster. Very fun story and Dixon gave the Riddler two sidekicks in Echo and Query who were a blast. Would highly recommend that and Dixon’s Year One Annual on the Riddler.
Would echo all the comments about the Batman annual 14 – great story on the origin of Two Face.
All set to dive into episode 45 now!
I think I read those issues with Echo and Query. I wasn’t reading BATMAN or DETECTIVE regularly during that time but I remember checking those issues out because I liked the covers and I’m always interested in a new take on the Riddler.
Keith G. Baker says:
You want a list, you got a list, Ryan. Here’s my top 5 Batman foes:
Too late for me to mention it on the next episode, Keith, but thanks for the list. And mad props for Signalman!
Late to the party, by my favorite (not the best, mind you) Batfoes are:
Clayface (the BTAS version moreson than any other, but the Preston Pane one had a striking visual)
Man-Bat (I contend he shouldn’t be a foe, but he keeps popping up that way)
Killer Croc (pre Jim Lee-fuzzy Croc)
Doctor Phosphorous (you want to talk visuals!)
The Riddler is one of my favorite Batman villains, and not just because we share a name. He does run the gauntlet of good and bad stories in the last decade, with Young Justice doing a good version and Telltale doing a weird disturbed version. I enjoy him as the game master who doesn’t cheat and just wants to be praised for his genius.
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'Worlds of DC' THREAD
General Intelligent Discussion & One Thread About That Buttknuckle
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Re: 'Worlds of DC' THREAD
by verslibre » Mon Jan 14, 2019 6:57 am
#WanBillion
Congratulations to James Wan and his stellar cast and crew, especially those guys who worked on the VFX.
"Heer's ta swimmen wid bowlegged wimmen!"
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by verslibre » Fri Jan 18, 2019 7:23 am
There it is.
https://revengeofthefans.com/2019/01/17/dc-snyder-didnt-want-to-rush-wanted-solo-movies-says-industry-insider-more/
by YoungJRNYfan » Fri Jan 18, 2019 11:28 am
Aquaman': How Zack Snyder Helped Retcon 'Justice League' Against WB's Wishes
Https://comicbook.com/dc/2019/01/17/aqu ... ce-league/
Lmao, Wan was secretly showing Zack cuts of Aquaman to help with what he wanted from his vision to distance away from what that dishit Whedon did to JL.
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verslibre wrote: There it is.
There's no doubt about it. When the press, non-stop, asked Zack about getting to JL in his Man of Steel junkets, Snyder repeatedly said "In order for the DC Universe to take shape, Superman needs to get his house in order first.." I posted that interview numerous times. Zack had MoS2 planned. The studio wanted the shared universe and pushed BvS on him. He makes it, they panic, they chop it up. It critically bombs. Wonder Woman's success happens. He starts filming an already compromised version of JL for the studio. The studio wanted more control. He said fuck you. His daughter died. The studio didn't want to wait so they can get their bonuses. They bring in Whedon. He ruins it. JL bombs. Snyder is the fall guy.
by verslibre » Fri Jan 18, 2019 12:09 pm
YoungJRNYfan wrote: Aquaman': How Zack Snyder Helped Retcon 'Justice League' Against WB's Wishes
Lmao, Wan was secretly showing Zack cuts of Aquaman to help with what he wanted from his vision to distance away from what that dipshit Whedon did to JL.
Haters. No matter what they say, no matter what they do, Zack will ALWAYS be in their rear view. Bwahahahahaha!
"Dipshit Whedon" has a nice ring to it. He should legally change his name!
YoungJRNYfan wrote:
Veruca Salt Syndrome. "I want my billion dollars and I want it now!"
Buncha fuckheads.
by The_Noble_Cause » Fri Jan 18, 2019 11:40 pm
Ultimately, Wan is just a better filmmaker than Snyder.
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by YoungJRNYfan » Sat Jan 19, 2019 5:37 am
Zack just isn't a formula; vanilla by the numbers director. He takes risks and chances and owns up to it. WB hired him to make Zack Snyder films. So he did. It's their fault they don't know what they want but when you hire his type to orchestrate a movie universe, he was going to bring the kitchen sink. It's just one huge contradiction after the other with WB. They claim to be director-driven who separates themselves from the typical blockbuster. They got exactly what they asked from Snyder but simply got cold feet because of the greed of the big billion. Zack faught them big time but the studio won't admit they fucked up. Now they are coming with a "Worlds of DC" slate where all films will be different. Typically, that's exactly what they had with Zack's vision.
by The_Noble_Cause » Sat Jan 19, 2019 5:38 am
YoungJRNYfan wrote: Zack just isn't a formula; vanilla by the numbers director. He takes risks and chances and owns up to it. WB hired him to make Zack Snyder films. So he did. It's their fault they don't know what they want but when you hire his type to orchestrate a movie universe, he was going to bring the kitchen sink. It's just one huge contradiction after the other with WB. They claim to be director-driven who separates themselves from the typical blockbuster. They got exactly what they asked from Snyder but simply got cold feet because of the greed of the big billion. Zack faught them big time but the studio won't admit they fucked up. Now they are coming with a "Worlds of DC" slate where all films will be different. Typically, that's exactly what they had with Zack's vision.
I've appreciated all of Zack's films from a visual standpoint, but none of them really connected with me.
by YoungJRNYfan » Sat Jan 19, 2019 10:51 am
Emmerich:
We all feel like we’ve turned a corner now. We’re playing by the DC playbook, which is very different than the Marvel playbook. We are far less focused on a shared universe. We take it one movie at a time. Each movie is its own equation and own creative entity. If you had to say one thing about us, it’s that it always has to be about the directors.
by verslibre » Sat Jan 19, 2019 11:25 am
New Shazam! trailer on Tuesday!
by verslibre » Sat Jan 19, 2019 12:35 pm
https://twitter.com/GARBAGEIV/status/1086304563433488384
by YoungJRNYfan » Sun Jan 20, 2019 4:56 am
The_Noble_Cause wrote:
I understand that. A lot of fans say the same. It's more than fair. That notion just factors into Zack's style not being suitable for the average movie-goer. He goes dark. He goes serious and he goes big. I can agree with his critics that his films need more flavor fluctuation since from beginning to end, his tone is one-note. But I respect how he owns that and doesn't apologize for it. I will say, his films are graphic novels come to life. Nobody will change my mind with that. Some of his shots are flat out "Whoa." I still think he would fit into either horror or... Batman.
by RedWingFan » Mon Jan 21, 2019 5:25 am
Who wants to go way back in the old thread and find the posts where I stated, "DC is screwing up not doing stand alones to flesh out these characters" and where others defend DC's "cash grab" direction and stating "there are other ways to build a universe other than the Marvel Way"?
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RWF, instead of master-baiting, try asking yourself this: "Did Marvel invent the crossover?"
by YoungJRNYfan » Mon Jan 21, 2019 6:27 am
Zack had a finite universe. It wasn't supposed to go on forever ala the MCU. There was supposed to be a beginning, middle and end to his saga while solo films were helmed by their respected directors vision. DC reverse way of engineering their universe didn't hurt the likes of Wonder Woman or Aquaman. It comes down to cutting studio interference down the best you can and make a good film where it's not chopped to absolute piece's. We all wanted the likes of MoS2 before Justice League or even BvS before that took on a life of its own.
Meanwhile, Shazam! looks amazing on a $90 mil budget where Sandberg pays many homages to MoS.
YoungJRNYfan wrote: Meanwhile, Shazam! looks amazing on a $90 mil budget where Sandberg pays many homages to MoS.
Everything about that movie looks on point. I think it's going to do very well for three weeks. And on the home market.
I'm still waiting for someone to tell me how and why they managed to make the last fight in Black Panther look like complete ass. Horrible fight choreography, too (I don't think you can even call it that). It was like they used the CGI from the very first X-Men movie back in 2000.
No drama from Wonder Woman's set.
No drama from Aquaman's set.
No drama from Shazam's set.
BvS was a mess. Major studio meddling.
SSquad was a mess. Major studio meddling
JL....lol.
Figure it out.
YoungJRNYfan wrote: No drama from Wonder Woman's set.
No drama, MoS-wise, either, IIRC. Btw, did you see that shot of Sha-Zack and Sivana in the sky? You can't get more homage-y to MoS than that. Looks like the who guy who outright disputed there were no MoS/BvS-isms in Shazam! in this thread doesn't want to step up and admit he was 100% full-on wronnng.
by The_Noble_Cause » Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:37 am
verslibre wrote: I'm still waiting for someone to tell me how and why they managed to make the last fight in Black Panther look like complete ass.
Prolly ran out of money, time, or both.
by verslibre » Tue Jan 22, 2019 3:00 am
Doubt it!
by YoungJRNYfan » Wed Jan 23, 2019 11:22 pm
Captain Marvel' Producer On What They Took From 'Wonder Woman
https://comicbook.com/marvel/2019/01/08 ... ation-mcu/
by Monker » Tue Jan 29, 2019 10:29 am
Ummm, OK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgInmHHO0m4
Monker
by verslibre » Tue Jan 29, 2019 2:32 pm
Bill Maher is a Grade "A" certified, stamped "Guaranteed" DOUCHE.
by YoungJRNYfan » Tue Jan 29, 2019 10:54 pm
I'm glad he ranted for the simple fact of how pop culture icons like those who appear in the comic book realm of entertainment are escapism of reality from morons like Bill Mahr. In 50 years nobody will remember Bill Mahr. In 50 years, there will be an all new generation that are going to pick up literature with Stan Lee's name on it and become a fanatic.
Also, wasn't Mahr in Iron Man 3? What a fuckup in life. I wish his umbilical chord wrapped around his throat as a newborn. Shucks.
by verslibre » Wed Jan 30, 2019 11:59 am
ZACK is BACK, and he's doing another zombie movie! His Dawn of the Dead remake rocks, so I'm down
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/zack-snyder-returns-movies-zombie-pic-army-dead-1178979
Zack Snyder Returning to Movies With Zombie Action Pic 'Army of the Dead' (Exclusive)
"No one's ever let me completely loose," the 'Justice League' filmmaker tells The Hollywood Reporter.
Zack is back.
Zack Snyder, who directed 2017's Justice League only to step away from movies to deal with a family tragedy, has signed on to helm Army of the Dead, a zombie horror thriller, for Netflix. Snyder will direct and produce with his partner and wife, Deborah Snyder, via their newly rebranded production company, Stone Quarry. The company's Wesley Coller is also producing.
Snyder also came up with the story for Army, which has a script by Joby Harold. The adventure is set amid a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, during which a man assembles a group of mercenaries to take the ultimate gamble, venturing into the quarantined zone to pull off the greatest heist ever attempted.
Netflix, which is taking the project over from Warner Bros., where it was first set up in 2007, is going full throttle with Army. The movie will commence shooting this summer with a sizable budget that could reach the $90 million range, say sources.
To say Snyder is excited would be an understatement.
"There are no handcuffs on me at all with this one,” Snyder tells The Hollywood Reporter in an interview.
Snyder was the chief architect of Warner Bros.’ stable of DC Comics films for many years, and he was in postproduction on Justice League when his and Deborah’s daughter committed suicide. The Snyders decided to step away from the movie, letting Joss Whedon film reshoots and finish postproduction. Since then, the duo has been out of the spotlight. There’s been a focus on family, working with suicide awareness causes, and a regrouping of his company. But film projects can be cathartic, and Zack says he's got a desire to get back behind the camera.
“I thought this was a good palate cleanser to really dig in with both hands and make something fun and epic and crazy and bonkers in the best possible way,” he says.
The new project features several full-circle moments for the filmmaker. For one, it brings Snyder back to the genre of his feature debut, 2004's Dawn of the Dead, which launched his high-profile feature directing career. It also reunites him with Scott Stuber, Netflix's movie head, the executive who originally gave Snyder his big-screen shot on the Universal release. And as much as Snyder had made his name in high-flying comic book adaptations such as 300, Watchmen and the various DC movies, this new project is one he is proud to call truly his own.
“I love to honor canon and the works of art,” he says of his adaptations, “but this is the opportunity to find a purely joyful way to express myself though a genre. It will be the most kick-ass, self-aware — but not in a wink-to-the-camera way — balls-to-the-wall zombie freakshow that anyone has ever seen. No one’s ever let me completely loose [like this].”
Snyder says he's been energized by the prospect of making this particular story. “I love big action, I love big sequences," he says. "My movie brain starts clicking around and I was like, ‘We need to be shooting this now!’ Constructing these sequences really fired me up.”
One thing Snyder has missed, even while making his mega-tentpoles, is actually operating a camera and “being in the trenches.”
“When the movie gets super big, you get pushed away from the camera," he notes. "And in the last few years I’ve had a reconnection with photography. This movie will be a chance to get the camera in hand."
Snyder’s return also is noteworthy on other fronts. According to sources, Netflix identified the project and sought it out from Warners, which led to dealmaking that could set precedent for the studio selling other projects to the streamer. Terms for the studio deal and Snyder’ deal were not disclosed.
Snyder is repped by CAA and Sloane Offer.
by Monker » Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:59 pm
What Bill Maher did was essentially the same as standing in front of a bunch of Trekkies and telling them to 'get a life'. He is right on almost every point. Even when it is at its best, it's entertainment and not meant to be taken as some type of profound literature. IMO you two have way over estimated it as some type of profound story telling, especially the print versions. People comparing it to the level of Shakespeare? It is silly to do that. It is taking it way, way, way too serious. It's fun, it's entertainment, but it's not at that level.
Wow, this sounds really bad and a dated idea. If they made into a parody, they may have something. Add the fact that WB cut the project and Netflix had to pick it up says a lot. Good luck with that.
verslibre wrote: ZACK is BACK, and he's doing another zombie movie! His Dawn of the Dead remake rocks, so I'm down
Zack uncut? No handcuffs?
by YoungJRNYfan » Thu Jan 31, 2019 12:13 am
WW '84 could possibly challenge the BigB as well. Jenkins says '84 looks "Mind Blowing":
https://comicbook.com/dc/2019/01/28/pat ... d-blowing/
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Giving Back to the Future
by John Mitchell, AATC's CEO
On September 27th Candy Maxey was introduced during AATC’s prestigious Lone Star Leadership Celebration as our 48th president; serving one of the nation’s leading Associations as its chief elected officer during a 52-year run representing the multifamily industry in north-central Texas.
Candy is a native Texan. In fact, she was born and raised in Dallas-Fort Worth. She’s a Lake Highlands High School and Texas A&M grad (Whoop!) as well as a multifamily lifer. “My dad tagged me with my ‘Candy’ nickname before I even left the hospital,” said Anna Marlene McMillan Maxey. “I was very close to both of my parents and my paternal grandparents as well.”
Candy has been married to her husband Buck for 15-years. She grew up attending First Baptist Dallas where she has worshiped and served as an active member her entire life. “I was a member of the drill team in high school, played soccer and sang in the church choir,” said Candy. She continues enjoying an active lifestyle to this day.
“My grandmother ran her own small brokerage office and I spent a lot of time helping her,” explained AATCs new president. “She inspired me to give real estate a try, so I started as a temp and then launched my career leasing apartments after college. I’ve always been focused on the multifamily business.”
Candy has invested time with several outstanding management companies during her professional tenure including Paragon, Dalcor, GFS of Texas (now Pinnacle), CWS, Village Green and now Greystar. “I had the privilege of working as a property manager within a year after I started out leasing apartments,” said Maxey. “With the exception of a 2-year tour as a training director, I’ve served as a regional property manager; my passion since 10-years out of college.”
Candy and Buck enjoy the companionship of 2 dogs and spend their spare time traveling. “I love exploring new places,” said Candy. “I’ve been to Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tahiti; love the mountains as well as the beach. I hope to one day see a great deal of Europe and perhaps return to the lure of the South Pacific.”
“My mother and grandmother were the most significant influences in my life,” said AATCs new president. “They taught me the importance of honesty, integrity and a strong work ethic. They encouraged me to be self-sufficient, as well as kind and respectful to other people. Although both my parents and grandparents have passed on, the lessons they modeled have provided a rock-solid foundation for my approach to business.”
Candy is always quick to give credit to others for the servant-leader she has become. “My older brother served as a “stand-in” father since my dad passed away when I was in college,” said Maxey. “When it comes to examples, I’d also have to acknowledge a few of my friends and colleagues including Earl Shanks, Jeff Hoster, Rick Graff, and Dawn Waye. Each of these special people have played a significant role in helping me grow as a leader for more than 20 years.”
“I have to say, believe it or not, I’ve never had a ‘bad’ job,” said Maxey. “I’ve been blessed working beside so many wonderful people. Greystar has afforded me with an amazing culture. They invest a lot of time and resources in their people; as did Pinnacle for many years. It has been exciting to learn something valuable and new everywhere I’ve had to privilege to serve.”
As Candy looks to her year serving the Association as its new President, servant-leadership is her number-1 focus. “I want to help others find productive ways to give something back to the industry providing them with a paycheck,” says Maxey. “I want the Association’s leaders to set an example for those coming-up next so we’ll always rest assured the industry we serve will continue as a strong, essential part of our business culture.”
When asked to provide her favorite bit of advice – “Don’t sweat the little stuff,” Candy quickly adds to the conversation. “Live life to its fullest and always be ready to serve.”
John Mitchell serves as the Association’s chief executive officer. For additional info on any of AATC’s programs, events or leadership functions, go to AATCnet.org or reach out to John at jmitchell@aatcnet.org.
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A bit of my personal history, experimenting in 3D game design.
I was wide-eyed and curious. And much before the year 2000, I only owned Windows-based computers, purchased most of my software for money, and also purchased a license of 3D Game Studio, some version of which is still being sold today. The version that I purchased well before 2000 was using the ‘A4′ game engine, where all the 3DGS versions have a game engine specified by the latter ‘A’ and a number.
That version of 3DGS was based on DirectX 7 because Microsoft owns and uses DirectX, and DirectX 7 still had as one of its capabilities to switch back into software-mode, even though it was perhaps one of the earliest APIs that offered hardware-rendering, provided that is, that the host machine had a graphics card capable of hardware-rendering.
I created a simplistic game using that engine, which had no real title, but which I simply referred to as my ‘Defeat The Guard Game’. And in so doing I learned a lot.
The API which is referred to as OpenGL, offers what DirectX versions offer. But because Microsoft has the primary say in how the graphics hardware is to be designed, OpenGL versions are frequently just catching up to what the latest DirectX versions have to offer. There is a loose correspondence in version numbers.
Shortly after the year 2000, I upgraded to a 3D Game Studio version with their ‘A6′ game engine. This was a game engine based on DirectX 9.0c, which was also standard with Windows XP, which no longer offered any possibility of software rendering, but which gave the customers of this software product their first opportunity to program shaders. And because I was playing with the ‘A6′ game engine for a long time, in addition owning a PC that ran Windows XP for a long time, the capabilities of DirectX 9.0c became etched in my mind. However, as fate would have it, I never actually created anything significant with this game engine version – only snippets of code designed to test various capabilities.
The way OpenGL versions parallel DirectX versions and their capabilities, is roughly like so:
OpenGL 2 -> DirectX 9
OpenGL 1.1 -> DirectX 7
OpenGL 3 -> DirectX 10
Further, the computer which is presently acting as my Web-server, which I name ‘Phoenix’, only has as its graphics chip an NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE, that offers the Linux world OpenGL 2.1.2 . Even though Microsoft had once made DirectX 9 a standard, on Windows 10 computers, this graphics chip is no longer supported, just because its hardware-rendering capabilities do not live up to what is expected of any modern graphics chip. The lowest version of DirectX which I know any Microsoft computers to provide backwards-compatibility for, is DirectX 8 – nowadays through an emulation. And so the only way I can make ‘Phoenix’ work today is literally, by installing Linux on it.
All the way up to and including DirectX 9, graphics cards and chips were organized into Vertex Pipelines, and Pixel Pipelines, while with DirectX 10 / OpenGL 3, Unified Shader Model was introduced, in which any GPU shader core can be made to work as either type of shader.
What gets called a Pixel Shader under DirectX, is called a Fragment Shader under OpenGL.
And eventually my computing preferences changed such, that I prefer working with Linux computers over Windows, and therefore, I also have a greater curiosity these days, for how to use OpenGL, even though its features closely parallel those of DirectX, at least, as long as the user has sufficiently powerful graphics hardware installed, so as to support OpenGL 4.5… Which corresponds to DirectX 11…
There may be some truth to the rumour, that the latest DirectX capabilities have not been fulfilled by the latest OpenGL versions, but because the game works as I wrote above, I see this as a temporary situation, which will keep repeating itself.
I also began to examine other game engines, such as “OGRE” and “Unity 3D”.
I suppose that there exists a substantial difference between DirectX and OpenGL which I should elaborate – apart from the fact that they are two completely different APIs, that access the same H/W capabilities.
One of the two standards stores its 4×4 matrices as a sequence of elements that proceed row-by-row, while the equivalent matrices in the other API store them as a sequence of 4 columns. I forget which does which. But the net effect is, that either matrix is meant to be written the same way, and to be multiplied by a position vector the same way, to result in an equivalent, transformed position vector.
Regardless of whether a vector is to be a (more-normal) column vector, or a row vector, in computing, any vector is stored the same way – essentially as a list of elements. And so in one system, 4 dot-products need to be computed, while in the other system, 4 scalar products need to be computed, and because each is in turn a vector, the 4 resulting vectors need to be added.
I personally believe that the reason for this difference between how DirectX and OpenGL work, is not for any technical advantage, but only to avoid possible copyright lawsuits. The GPU supports computing a dot-product, as easily as it supports computing the scalar product between a vector and a real number, as easily as a vector-addition. But because these two systems store the matrices in a different order, the actual shader code needs to be different at the hardware-level, in order finally to arrive at the same, correct result.
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Further, because in Algebra, to multiply a column vector by a matrix requires that the vector be on the Right-Hand-Side of the matrix, while to multiply a row-vector by it, requires that the vector be on the Left-Hand-Side of the matrix, High-Level Shader code for DirectX puts the vector in question on the LHS, while the High-Level Shader code for OpenGL puts this vector on the RHS, so that DirectX computations written in the correct syntax proceed left-to-right, even though algebraically, Matrix and Vector multiplications ‘normally’ proceed right-to-left.
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Under Linux, there exists an emulator named “Wine”, which is a recursive acronym that stands for Wine Is Not An Emulator. And its purpose is to allow Windows software to run under Linux – more or less. And the type of Windows software Linux users use it for, is often, ‘Games that were designed to run under DirectX’.
Well at some point I carried out the experiment of running the ‘A6′ version of 3D Game Studio under Wine. The result I obtained was, that the animations rendered correctly, but certain windows within the 3DGS Editors, the purpose of which were, to display the matrices for the game-dev to see, would actually show me the transpose of the matrix which I knew to be correct.
So, instead of showing [ 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0 ] as the last row of such a matrix, the program, running under Wine, would show me this sequence as the last column of the matrix. But this was just a side effect of how Wine generally translates what Windows programs presume to be DirectX calls, into OpenGL calls, that need to be supported natively on the Linux host-computers, by the Linux-installed graphics hardware.
Posted on April 22, 2019 May 4, 2019 Author Dirk MittlerTags 3D Game Studio, Column Vector, Column-Major, DirectX, DirectX 9, Element Order, Fragment Shader, GeForce 6150SE, Hardware Rendering, Linux, OGRE, OpenGL, Order of Elements, Personal History, Pixel Shader, Row Vector, Row-Major, Software Rendering, Unity 3D, Vertex Shader, Windows, Windows 10, Windows XP, Wine
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Hoxeyville's 10th Anniversary | Review & Photos
Article Contributed by June Reedy | Published on Wednesday, September 12, 2012
I must admit, it was a definite benefit to be in the Mitten beneath the starlit skies of the 10th anniversary of Hoxeyville 2012. Michigan people have manners that transmit an infinite welcome. Their wit submitted to my ultimate delight as I attended my first ever Hoxeyville Music Festival. Ten years of Hoxeyvillians got together over the August 16 – 19th weekend and threw an exquisite party to celebrate the beauty of a tight knit family in the Northern Woods of Michigan.
I arrived late Friday night. With the 8 am phone calls from bill collectors and stressful family life, I couldn’t justify taking an extended weekend off. Yet, I knew I needed to relieve the stress somehow. The drive up north was beautiful with stretches of trees, fresh air, and blue skies. When we arrived it was already nightfall. Greensky Bluegrass was ripping out Bruce Springsteen’s Dancing in the Dark. Then they stopped. I had missed Naïve Melodies, Abbey Road, Seth & May, and tragically 7 Walkers. If I would have known the landscape of the Manistee National Forest better, I could have dashed upon arrival to the Mitten Stage and caught UV Hippo. Dreadfully I did not. I also missed the alluring Michigan natives Dragon Wagon. This sounds like a dismal review so far, eh?
But don’t cha know, this is where it gets good. The tuning of the banjo shot like an arrow in the night. I managed to catch Greensky Bluegrass’s 2nd set. This is where all the disappointment, the stress fest of bill collectors and crummy days spent slaving for the man, all dissolve into the Milky Way that was very visible to us at Hoxey. Hands down, Hoxey is more like home than any other festival I have ever gone to before. I have gone to small fests, big fests, and all sizes in between, but there is a certain something that was revealed under those stars amongst those trees that I have yet to experience within a music festival before Hoxey.
In the great words of my Dad, the simple request, “Sit down and play some Yatzee” came from Anders Beck on the microphone. That’s not exactly what he said but he did make the crowd join with him in an echo of “On the count of three, everybody say Yatzee! One… Two… Three! YATZEE!” We all did exuberantly and the crowd bantered about the love of Yatzee.
My Dad was an ambassador in his own life. The creator of all things good in my life was not an invader or a conqueror. He wasn’t terribly upset if you denied the game of after dinner Yatzee. He understood that I wanted to do my own thing but he always made his wishes known. He was on the exterior of my life while simultaneously knowing he was the superior man in my life. Those games of Yatzee reminded me how inferior all the rest of life’s problems were. He was my troubadour, my matador, and my metaphor for all the sweetness in life.
Since he passed away, Yatzee is one of my coping mechanisms. How a Milton Bradley box game can evoke such emotions in me, I may never understand. It just is. I play that game and feel he is right there laughing with us. The comfort and security of home was amplified from the microphone on that Hoxeyville Stage right from the get go. It put me in a great mood.
Sandwiched between Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, these relatively young musicians were making a whole new phamily, keeping the flame alive. They brought their own Mitten version of comfort and security. Greensky Bluegrass introduced a bearded sax man, Bob Hemenger. As he hopped up on stage, the Michigan roots revival began. He happened to be up here in the North Woods because his parents were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. That is the stuff worth celebrating. The celebration on stage as the Greensky boys stepped back and had Bob take control with some soulful sax was reminiscent of Lisa Simpson and all things activist and hopeful about my childhood. Anders then said that if you go out to this certain field and kiss a girl there, two years from then, you will be madly in love. They are speaking my language. I love Love. I love compassion, hope and I love me some good bluegrass. It renews my faith in life.
The best I gathered, and correct me if I’m wrong, but way back when is when Jake & Chad first put this festival together. Kristen keeps the crew in check and off they went. I had never been here before but I knew them by face and asked anyone who they were. The program when you arrive says that Hoxeyville is produced by a small community of like minded music loving people.
“We take great pride in orchestrating a fun, relaxed, earth conscious event… So the next time you are sitting at your tent enjoying the view – just remember that our own Andrew Shankland cut the giant oak tree to prevent it from falling on your tent. Thank you for joining us, be good to each other, and we hope you have a memorable Hoxeyville.”
Earth conscious indeed! There are no golf carts whizzing around. There are minimal glow sticks littered throughout the open fields. There is an amazing zero landfill incentive program called High Five. The new Timber Stage looks as though it could be featured in Mother Earth News magazine. The Mitten Stage is a simple tent in the woods with enough open space to reward the early birds and accommodate everyone else with a good view and earshot. The beautiful faces of the crowd were all Earth Mammas; even the fellas were touched with the glow of Earth Consciousness.
Saturday Morning I made my way through the field to the Mitten Stage to catch Seth & Paul. This being my first Hoxeyville, I had no idea who Seth and Paul were. I felt giddy to recognize these performers and realize how special this combination of voices and strings is. This is a music lovers’ delight! “Only available at Hoxeyville” makes the 6 hour drive north from Chicago worth it. Paul Hoffman appeared rather subdued and supportive to Seth Bernard. The tempo was relaxed and natural with a touch of the muse possessing Seth on lead. Seth’s facial expressions drew the crowd in closer. The hunger for success in hitting the right notes and the right emotions was compelling. That creative dynamic was threaded through the entire festival and it began here with this set for me.
Seth & Paul’s version of Gillian Welch’s Miss Ohio was simply stunning. This is what I meant earlier about Earth Mammas and Conscious Fellas. The gender roles fluxed and flexed in an accepting way all weekend. Earthwork Women pulled out a Cortez the Killer that gave me goose bumps from my neck to my toes. Human Beings without any limits were everywhere at Hoxeyville 2012.
The muse was hard at work as the energy built all day Saturday. The music grew louder and funkier from my morning at the Mitten Stage. From there, I headed back to the main stage where for once, I set out a chair or two and sat and watched the show. I am habitually mobile checking out all the scenes and angles of the music. There were so many friends to catch up with and vendors to talk to that I found myself lost in the beauty while seated. That hasn’t happened to me for awhile for my mind is a critical one. The thoughts stopped rushing Saturday and the fun took over at full speed. J. Davis Trio started it off with the feeling of an anthem.
Saturday’s line - up included: Lindsay Lou, Gifts/Creatures, Jake Allen Band, Jen Sygit/Sam C, The Crane Wives, Rootstand, Kung Fu Rodeo, The Twin Cats, and Red Sea Pedestrians. Unfamiliar with this group of friendly musicians, I stood in awe and ate it up. J. Davis Trio is like a fresh egg that cracked my day open. They were my pancakes and syrup to ensure a great day’s energy. With the Timber Stage right next to the Hoxeyville main stage, there was no migration to the next set of music. I stood my ground and turned to the right to catch the Crane Wives up next. It was pleasing to have each stage full of musicians mirroring the crowd. There were no sausage fests and no isolated cliques.
Again, this was my first exposure to the Crane Wives. What have I been missing!? These gals jump, rattle, and roll on stage. If you didn’t bounce along with them, I’m assuming it’s because you have a bad ACL or some physical ailment must deter you. The Crane Wives were like The Be Good Tanyas plus bonus delicious fair trade coffee. I wondered to myself if they would be annoyed like Ani DiFranco gets if I sang along with them. It was natural, even not knowing the lyrics, to want to hum along. Their infectious rhythms have since made their way to my mp3 player because their sound is a celebration of life. They introduced Joey on stage. He was there last minute because their other member Tommy was on the road with Mumford and Sons if that is any indicator of the caliber of this band.
My friend Marie is not only a Hoxeyvillian and a Michigan native, but she has also fantastic taste in music. Her mix discs have long intrigued my musical wonderings especially when sent in beautiful bubbled packages for the past 10 years. The party was enhanced when I saw her from across the crowded field. She nudged me towards Rootstand. “We like them. Up here, we think they are pretty funky.” Off to another never-heard-of-this-band adventure, they were the perfect dub style band to continue the day for their 3:20 to 4:20 slot. Yes, I said 4:20.
By the time Airborne or Aquatic took the stage, all the artists performing that day were front and center. This band is an ultimate collaboration as even seen through the name. They were flying high and swimming right along. For me, the pinnacle was when Wardo got goofy front and center and they played Festival Ramrod. Seth Bernard was leading the orchestra of fun with his wife May and company leading me like a rat in the story of the pied piper. I would follow that sound anywhere.
My mind was blown. At this point I was like a high functioning autistic child that found a new love, obsessively wanting to know all the details of this never before heard beautiful music. There was no time! The MacPodz took the Timber Stage. I’ve seen them before and they are still difficult for me to describe. Its part tribal rhythm and part Primus. It’s high energy but even tempo. It’s a juxtaposition of Michigan and LA. The MacPodz start off like Junior Walker with Shotgun then take it to Thelonious Monk moments riding with lyrics like Galactic used to spit.
Spread and stretch and groove. The sweet sunshine of the day was hitting the western lake-facing horizon as Strange Arrangement took the stage. Strange Arrangement began shredding. The thing that I like about Strange Arrangement is that they can get mean. Typical jam bands go G, D, and B for practically EVER as to fill out the necessary 20 minute song. Strange will give it to you in 9 minutes and they take you up, down and all around with intensity. They opened with Move On that is a perfect example of what I’m talking about. It opens with Jim Conry on guitar just giving it to the audience. Their album Polygraph is due for a refresher but everybody knows that album so well. In order to showcase the bass and the permanent fixture that Polygraph has become, mid-set they raged Bed Bugs into The Route while bringing Paul Hoffman up onto stage for yet another guest appearance by the Greensky Mandolinist. Keys man Joe Hettinga was playing alongside Bruce Honsby’s baby grand and announced to the crowd that Paul was gonna make the mando look sexier than we had ever seen it before. While I’m not sure all that was true, I have been lucky enough to see Chris Thile a couple of times, it was the show stopper that went back into Bed Bugs and then into Polygraph that brought the Strangers out in full force.
Two years ago, Strange Arrangement got a rearrangement with the addition of Steve on drums. Bob stepped down to continue on with his education and skip the long Strange trip that is their grueling touring schedule these days. Steve’s beats have brought the use of toms to alarm the troops and sound like none other. It’s the feeling of the universal heartbeat when he speeds it up and brings it down all the while complimenting Kevin on bass. The combination of the percussion and gushing bass that can match the geniuses’ Jim and Joe on treble makes me love this band a little more, defying what I thought was possible in the jam scene today.
As a consummate show goer, I try to be ahead of the trends. With amazing acts still in store and without taking away the stripes of their hard earned miles, I must say Strange Arrangement was my highlight of Hoxeyville. Strangers are not the type of friends that rely on each other; they are the type of friends that build each other up. They went into a few new songs, refreshing the intensity of Strange and down the sun went.
BoomBox’s unorthodox Hoxey set rocked the block like Electric Mayhem from the Muppets. The peacocks and hollyhocks got crocked on the dance floor. It was the perfect ‘tweener set to tide over the fans until Bruce Hornsby. They are that instant dance party that plays to the crowd at the moment and I for one didn’t think the Hoxey crowd would go for it. I was wrong. Their new age version of Shakedown Street brought the house down. BoomBox kept the kids dancing and no one left the dance floor until Bruce came up and the crowd doubled in size. All the family danced together happily.
Bruce Hornsby tied Saturday together when he played a version of Rick James’ Super Freak. This man is ageless. Was he intending to play that all along or did he respond to the BoomBox funk? He started his well defined set with the classic Big Rock Candy Mountain and then went into his own original Candy Mountain Run. He played his top 10 hits, End of the Innocence and Just the Way it is. It was a very “VH1 Storytellers” set as he closed out his encore going into Cadillac Ranch, seemingly pointed for the neighboring town Cadillac Michigan, when part of the family yelled out “Fortunate Son!” Bruce obliged and did a double encore. After that beautiful song that honestly brought me to tears, he fulfilled his original set list and brought out Paul Hoffman on mandolin to help him finish up Saturday’s live entertainment with Cadillac Ranch.
That may not be entirely true because the silent disco was after Bruce. It is live, just not loud. Unique to Hoxeyville, I have never seen this before. We lined up for headphones and Cosby Sweater went to town with their new single that is ripping it up in the scene, Huxtable Hustle. It was quite the crowd dancing around with their headphones on all together listening to the trio on stage that was entirely silent without the aid of technology. It was a win-win for both the kids and the quiet camp.
Often heard over the course of the festival was how many years that folks had been coming. Seems like a fisherman’s dream. Once they come up north they get hooked and just keep coming back. I can see why. Hoxey has something for everyone. Sunday morning had that Telluride Bluegrass Festival Gospel feel when Rachel Davis opened up the day with her simple beautiful song styling accompanied by her banjo. The family friendly affair had more appeal than a far off family reunion but less intimidation than the Bonnaroo type crowd of livestock in a cattle gate. When Mickey Hart took over the Mini Mitten’s drum workshop and said, “It’s not the drum, it’s the player,” something to that effect, the family vibe was full circle for me.
Turn on that Lovelight. Hoxeyville been shining for all these years. The warm hearted people, the perfect weather, the talented musicians with kindhearted eyes are mirrored in the skies of the mitten. Would it be cliché to say I am smitten with the Mitten? It’s like falling in love all over again. I was like a kid leaving the candy store, “I don’t wanna GOOOOOOO!!!!” Hoxeyville brings the freshest talent to the forefront and leaves me as a music lover wanting more. The Lake Michigan vibe is alive within this festival as the talent hits my ears shore and then recedes as nothing can last forever. Alas, the bill collectors’ call and I can’t escape reality forever. As Sunday grew closer to my 6 hour drive home, my understanding deepened as to why I follow live music. Hoxeyville 2012 had great old favorite sets, great new favorite sets, and more of the bands that catch my eye when deciding what is worth paying for: cable or a phone bill? I look forward to next year. I will be back to benefit all the mitten has to offer. Until then I have tons of musicians to drool over and figure out how I’ve gone this long and missed this bliss that is the Earthwork Music Collective.
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Ranking the most entertaining bowl games
1yDavid M. Hale
Ranking college football's 40 bowl games, from least to most entertaining
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David M. HaleESPN Staff Writer
ACC reporter.
Joined ESPN in 2012.
Graduate of the University of Delaware.
There are people in this world -- poor, misguided souls -- who believe there are too many bowl games. They think having a 6-6 MAC team and a 7-5 Conference USA afterthought duke it out in a city that can't possibly have a stadium where football is played is somehow a bad thing. They think that, as we continue the sad, steady march toward a time of year when there will be no more college football that, of all things, we should have less of it now. They think that, in the land of 106-ounce fountain sodas and a Cheesecake Factory menu that reads like War and Peace, we shouldn't all enjoy more of a good thing.
Repeat after me: There is no such thing as too much college football. That being said, we've got 40 games to watch, so get your popcorn ready and let's draw up a road map from the least entertaining (note: We're not saying "worst," because they're all good) to the most entertaining.
Bowl tickets can be found here. All times Eastern.
40. Nova Home Loans Arizona Bowl
Wyoming vs. Georgia State
Dec. 31, 4:30 p.m., CBS Sports Network
Arizona Stadium, Tucson, Arizona
In Week 1, Wyoming beat Missouri and Georgia State topped Tennessee, so the winner of this game will be officially named the third-best team in the SEC East.
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39. Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
Ohio vs. Nevada
Jan. 3, 3:30 p.m., ESPN/ESPN App
Albertsons Stadium, Boise, Idaho
A 6-6 Ohio vs. a 7-5 Nevada -- two programs with virtually nothing in common -- is essentially the poster child for the idea that there are too many bowl games. But did you know Nevada has a win over a Big Ten team? Or that Ohio has scored 118 points in its last two games? There's good in every bowl game. You just have to know where to look.
38. Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl
Utah State vs. Kent State
Dec. 20, 7:30 p.m., ESPN2/ESPN App
Toyota Stadium, Frisco, Texas
Kent State won its last three games to get bowl eligible for the first time since 2012. The Golden Flashes are 0-2 in bowl games all time, so this could be history here. How often do you have a legitimate chance to witness history? Your parents remember the moon landing. You'll remember this.
37. FBC Mortgage Cure Bowl
Liberty vs. Georgia Southern
Exploria Stadium, Orlando, Florida
It's fitting that a Liberty season that began with Hugh Freeze coaching from a hospital bed in the press box is ending with a date in the Cure Bowl. We're glad Freeze is doing better these days, but if he wanted to coach this one while riding a Shetland pony or slung over the hood of a 1981 Trans Am to spark the entertainment value a bit, that'd be OK by us.
36. Walk-On's Independence Bowl
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Louisiana Tech vs. Miami
Dec. 26, 4 p.m., ESPN/ESPN App
Independence Stadium, Shreveport, Louisiana
The thing about the day after Christmas is that it's always so depressing. People are returning all the junk they didn't want. You feel bloated from all the overeating. There's discarded wrapping paper and batteries everywhere. The magic of the holiday season is over. And that's how it has felt to watch Miami all season, so this should fit right into your schedule.
35. New Mexico Bowl
Central Michigan vs. San Diego State
Dreamstyle Stadium, Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Aztecs won nine games despite never scoring more than 31 and topping 20 just five times. Central Michigan had the largest improvement in wins in the country in 2019, courtesy of head coach Jim McElwain. But most importantly, at some point during this game, someone on social media will post a photo of a guy who kind of looks like McElwain posing naked with a shark.
34. SERVPRO First Responder Bowl
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Western Kentucky vs. Western Michigan
Dec. 30, 12:30 p.m., ESPN/ESPN App
Gerald J. Ford Stadium, Dallas
If you've ever wondered which state has the better western half -- Michigan or Kentucky -- well, have we got the game for you. The winner will be given full territorial rights over Middle Tennessee.
33. Quick Lane Bowl
Pittsburgh vs. Eastern Michigan
Ford Field, Detroit
Eastern Michigan led the MAC, allowing pressure on just 22.6% of drop backs. Pitt has one of the most prolific defensive lines in the country. It may not be pretty, but this figures to be a solid battle in the trenches and, OK, maybe there's not much to get excited about here but Nietzsche said that life is suffering and it is incumbent upon us to find meaning in that suffering, so here's your chance.
32. Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl
Southern Mississippi vs. Tulane
Jan. 4, 11:30 a.m., ESPN/ESPN App
Amon G. Carter Stadium, Fort Worth, Texas
Tulane lost five of its last six games. Southern Miss was 1-4 against FBS opponents with a winning record. But this is the Armed Forces Bowl, and you owe it to the troops to watch this game anyway.
31. LendingTree Bowl
Louisiana vs. Miami (Ohio)
Ladd-Peebles Stadium, Mobile, Alabama
Nine days after the semifinals are played, four days after the last Power 5 team plays in a bowl, and two days after you've officially given up on your New Year's resolutions, we get the LendingTree Bowl. Good things truly are worth waiting for. Also, Louisiana's offense is really good, so you should definitely watch and probably join their booster club.
30. Celebration Bowl
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Alcorn State vs. North Carolina A&T
Dec. 21, Noon, ABC/ESPN App
Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta
In the five-year history of the Celebration Bowl, this marks the third time North Carolina A&T and Alcorn State have faced off. The Aggies have won the previous two, and the MEAC holds a 3-1 advantage overall. All of that info is really secondary to this: The bands will be amazing.
29. Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl
Buffalo vs. Charlotte
Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium, Nassau
Charlotte's newest post-win hot spot is called Club Lit. The 49ers' 34-year-old head coach Will Healy has gone all out in creating a locker room that has everything: a DJ, strobe lights, that thing where the coach rips off his shirt and crowd surfs then wears scuba gear to promote bowl games in the Bahamas. No, it's not a Stefan sketch from "Saturday Night Live." This really happens.
28. SoFi Hawai'i Bowl
Hawai'i vs. BYU
Aloha Stadium, Honolulu
No Power 5 schools here, but BYU and Hawaii were a combined 4-2 vs. the big boys this year (with wins over Arizona, Oregon State, Tennessee and USC). Besides, what else are you going to do at 8 p.m. on Christmas Eve? Assemble toys and spend time with family? Don't be silly.
27. TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl
Boston College vs. Cincinnati
Jan. 2, 3 p.m., ESPN/ESPN App
Legion Field, Birmingham, Alabama
Last year, Boston College was up 7-0 when its bowl game was canceled due to bad weather, so technically the Eagles owe you at least 12 overtime periods in this one as a make-up for all you missed last season.
26. TaxSlayer Gator Bowl
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Indiana vs. Tennessee
TIAA Bank Field, Jacksonville, Florida
Indiana has a chance to get to nine wins for the first time since 1967. Think about that. The last time the Hoosiers won nine, there'd never been a man on the moon, an 11-year-old Larry Bird was shooting hoops in his driveway, and Jon Gruden had only been rumored for a Tennessee coaching vacancy once.
25. Camellia Bowl
Florida International vs. Arkansas State
Dec. 21, 5:30 p.m., ESPN/ESPN App
Cramton Bowl, Montgomery, Alabama
Arkansas State receiver Omar Bayless ranks second nationally in yards (1,473) and touchdowns (16) and is an absolute monster in the passing game. On the other hand, the Red Wolves ranked 127th in total defense. In other words, this is bound to be your annual Group of Five bowl game that ends with two teams scoring in the 50s and all of social media going crazy over two teams most people barely noticed the rest of the year.
24. Redbox Bowl
California vs. Illinois
Dec. 30, 4 p.m., Fox
Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, California
Evan Weaver is the best defensive player west of the Mississippi, and Lovie Smith's beard is the best facial hair that doesn't belong to Tom Selleck. If those aren't good enough reasons to watch this game, there's something wrong with you.
23. R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl
Appalachian State vs. UAB
Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans
App State fans desperately wanted to play in the nearby Belk Bowl, but selection rules made it impossible. We hope those disappointed Mountaineers fans can find something to entertain themselves in New Orleans, a city noted for offering very little to out-of-town tourists.
22. Belk Bowl
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Virginia Tech vs. Kentucky
Dec. 31, Noon, ESPN/ESPN App
Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, North Carolina
This is the last year of Belk's sponsorship of this bowl game, meaning all bets are off for the Belk Bowl Twitter account during the game. Will it reveal the horrifying truth about why App State was snubbed from this game or will unseen forces use a pretty fun matchup between the Hokies and Wildcats to distract us from the awful conspiracy hiding right under our noses? To be continued ...
21. Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl
Florida State vs. Arizona State
Dec. 31, 2 p.m., CBS
Sun Bowl Stadium, El Paso, Texas
Ranking the catch phrases for this game: 1.) Tony the Tiger's, "They're great!" 2.) Herm Edwards' "You play to win the game." 3.) Odell Haggins' "I'll be back to coach Florida State in the 2022 Birmingham Bowl." We kid. Best of luck to Mike Norvell at Florida State, where we're sure he'll do well if he can find a few offensive linemen hidden in Willie Taggart's couch cushions.
20. Military Bowl Presented by Northrop Grumman
North Carolina vs. Temple
Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, Annapolis, Maryland
There are two QBs this season who completed 60% of their throws, tossed at least 35 touchdowns and 3,300 yards, and threw less than 10 picks. The first will soon have a Heisman trophy on his bookshelf -- Joe Burrow. The other is UNC freshman Sam Howell. If you've not seen Howell play yet this year, you've been missing out.
19. New Era Pinstripe Bowl
Michigan State vs. Wake Forest
Yankee Stadium, New York
Wake Forest has won three straight bowl games, all by eight points or fewer, including the last two by a total of six, so this one is virtually guaranteed to come down to the wire. Add in the halftime home run derby at Yankee Stadium, and this is can't-miss TV. OK, we were lying about the home run derby. Something for the Pinstripe Bowl folks to think about moving forward, though.
18. Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl
UCF vs. Marshall
Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, Florida
As an FCS member, Marshall won two national championships. And, of course, UCF is the 2017 national champs. Put two former national champs in a bowl game together, and you've got yourself some college football excitement.
17. Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl
Mississippi State vs. Louisville
Nissan Stadium, Nashville, Tennessee
Like defense? This is not the game for you. But if you want to see Kylin Hill run against the nation's 115th-ranked rush defense or Tutu Atwell go against a Mississippi State unit that ranked dead last in FBS in allowing explosive plays, well, hold on to your seat, because this one is going to be fun. Bettors note: Take the over.
16. Cheribundi Boca Raton Bowl
SMU vs. Florida Atlantic
Dec. 21, 3:30 p.m., ABC/ESPN App
FAU Stadium, Boca Raton, Florida
This game will include 43 references to Lane Kiffin and 31 mentions of SMU's "death penalty" history, plus a whole heck of a lot of points. SMU finished the season sixth in total offense, while FAU was 16th -- the only bowl matchup between top-20 offenses outside the playoff.
15. Capital One Orange Bowl
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Florida vs. Virginia
Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, Florida
Did you know this marks just the fourth time since the FBS/FCS split -- and the first since 1984 -- that the same team will play Florida State, Miami and Florida all in the same season? This one counts as the rubber match for Virginia, which toppled the Seminoles and, inexplicably, lost to the Canes.
14. Cheez-It Bowl
Air Force vs. Washington State
Dec. 27, 10:15 p.m., ESPN/ESPN AppN
Chase Field, Phoenix
Air Force vs. Air Raid in a bowl named after a snack food. This is appointment viewing. Every year, one game keeps us glued to our seats and ends with more than 100 points on the scoreboard. This is your odds-on favorite to be that game in 2019.
13. Academy Sports + Outdoors Texas Bowl
Oklahoma State vs. Texas A&M
NRG Stadium, Houston
It's an old-school Big 12 showdown from back when the Big 12 actually had 12 teams. A&M and the Cowboys haven't faced off since 2011 when the Aggies left for the SEC, but Oklahoma State is riding a four-game win streak in the series. As for present-day drama, Chuba Hubbard needs just 64 rushing yards to top 2,000 for the year (he's had 100 in every FBS game this season) while Jimbo Fisher needs one more win to average less than $1M salary per victory in 2019.
12. AutoZone Liberty Bowl
Navy vs. Kansas State
Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, Memphis, Tennessee
The four teams in the 2019 playoff are a combined 51-1. That lone loss came to Kansas State. So, when we're putting together our transitive property national championship formula at the end of the year, just remember that all roads go through K-State, so this bowl game has some huge (albeit ridiculous) championship implications.
11. San Diego County Credit Union Holiday Bowl
USC vs. Iowa
Dec. 27, 8 p.m., Fox Sports 1
SDCCU Stadium, San Diego
Fun fact: Every Iowa game this season has ended in a 16-13 score (Note: We did not confirm that fact but it feels right) so this game is virtually guaranteed to be a nail-biter. Add in the chance to see one of the country's best young QBs (USC's Kedon Slovis) throw against one of the most under-appreciated corners in Iowa's Michael Ojemudia, and this should be one of the best non-New Year's Six bowls of the year.
10. Camping World Bowl
Notre Dame vs. Iowa State
Camping World Stadium, Orlando, Florida
There are 12 quarterbacks in the country who have racked up 3,300 total yards and 35 touchdowns this year. Three bowl games will feature head-to-head matchups between them: The two playoff games and this one, where Ian Book (3,303 yards, 37 TDs) takes on Brock Purdy (3,329 yards, 36 TDs).
9. Valero Alamo Bowl
Utah vs. Texas
Alamodome, San Antonio
Utah had its playoff hopes crushed in the Pac-12 championship game, while Texas had its playoff dreams end some time in 2012. But unlike Utah, which rarely gets much preseason hype, a Texas win here can officially gas up the Longhorns' bandwagon for 2020. Texas is back, baby! You heard it here first.
8. Allstate Sugar Bowl
Georgia vs. Baylor
Both teams entered the final Saturday of the season with a shot at the playoff, which tells you all you need to know about the quality of this game. But remember, if Georgia doesn't win, it was because the game wasn't really important.
7. Outback Bowl
Minnesota vs. Auburn
P.J. Fleck's mantra is "row the boat." Minnesota is playing at Raymond James Stadium. Raymond James Stadium has a giant pirate ship adjacent to the field. That can't be a coincidence. If this game doesn't end with Fleck swinging on a rope from the ship's mast like Sloth in "Goonies," we're going to be disappointed.
6. Mitsubishi Motors Las Vegas Bowl
Boise State vs. Washington
Sam Boyd Stadium, Las Vegas
Chris Petersen is coaching his last game at Washington against the team where his coaching career exploded into the mainstream. That's arguably the best storyline of bowl season outside of the playoff, even if it's a matchup the often reclusive Peterson certainly wouldn't have preferred. And while Washington has underperformed throughout the year, this remains one of the true powerhouse matchups of the postseason, and a chance to (hopefully) get a look at stellar freshman QB Hank Bachmeier at Boise State, who missed the latter half of the season with injury, and get (perhaps) a last look at Washington QB Jacob Eason, who could become a first-round NFL draft pick in April.
5. Vrbo Citrus Bowl
Michigan vs. Alabama
Jan. 1, 1 p.m., ABC/ESPN App
The over/under on players likely to sit out this one might be double digits, but it's still two of college football's blue bloods, still Nick Saban vs. Jim Harbaugh, and still a chance to ruminate on the fact that one second being put back on the clock in the Iron Bowl might be the reason Alabama is missing the playoff for the first time.
4. Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic
Penn State vs. Memphis
AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas
Memphis' Kenneth Gainwell was thrust into action early in the year when star tailback Patrick Taylor went down with an injury. Now Gainwell is just 43 scrimmage yards away from 2,000 on the year. In the past 15 seasons, Wisconsin's Jonathan Taylor is the only other freshman to do that. Meanwhile, Penn State led the nation in yards-per-rush allowed. And if that's not an impressive enough matchup for you, stick around for the myriad discussions of the American's place as the sixth Power 5 conference that are bound to come with a competitive performance by the Tigers.
3. Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual
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2. College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl
No. 1 LSU vs. No. 4 Oklahoma
For the first time ever, Alabama is not in the playoff, but former Alabama QB Jalen Hurts is, and he's tasked with taking down the Tide's biggest SEC West adversary in LSU, so yeah, there's still at least a hint of Crimson in this year's march to a national title. Beyond that though, this game is all new-school. Joe Burrow's LSU offense is something to behold, and while Oklahoma is happy to talk up a rejuvenated defense, it might take the '85 Bears to stop these Tigers' attack. LSU, too, is hyping its D after closing out the season strong, but those numbers also came against a trio of less-than-spectacular offenses. Add all that up -- two elite offensive units, two shaky defenses in a playoff game -- and it sure looks like a recipe for some fireworks.
1. College Football Playoff Semifinal at the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl
No. 2 Ohio State vs. No. 3 Clemson
State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Arizona
In the past decade, only the 2013 Florida State team that won the national championship had a higher average margin of victory than this year's Ohio State team entering the postseason. This year's Clemson comes in a close third on that list. This, in other words, is the ultimate unstoppable force vs. immovable object type of game, and the marquee matchups are all over the field. How will five-star tackle and Ohio native Jackson Carman slow down Chase Young? How will All-American corner Jeff Okudah match up against Tee Higgins? Can Isaiah Simmons corral J.K. Dobbins? Which QB -- both from suburban Atlanta, the top two recruits in the 2018 class -- will emerge victorious? This game has as much built-in excitement as any we've had in the playoff era thus far. Just sit back and enjoy.
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A Triptych of Comic Operas – Kings Head Theatre
Published February 11, 2018 | By pjchitty
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★★★★ "A trio of talented performers,
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A Triptych of Comic Operas
King’s Head Theatre and Irrational Theatre have put on a trio of rare comedic gems with the same three great cast members who each have a chance to shine. It began with John Whittaker’s one-act opera The Proposal based on a short play by Anton Chekhov. It is about Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov going to the house of Stepan Stepanovitch Chubukov to ask for his daughter, Natalya Stepanovna Chukukov’s hand in marriage. The problem is that Natalya and Ivan keep fighting over and over again, and Ivan has a bad disposition and keeps getting ill. This is a great first opera to get the audience in to it; it’s a bit slow to start but once it gets going it’s funny and leaves you with a smile on your face. A great farce. Andrew Sparling as Stepan is the highlight of this one. Opera 2 is the shortest opera in the world, a whole 3 minutes and 34 seconds, Peter Reynolds’ Sands of Time, about a couple having a fight whilst making breakfast. I really enjoyed this, it’s short, sweet and funny. Le 66 is a moral tale from Offenbach about not letting money change you (a lotto win is involved). My favourite of the night, it has great music and is wonderfully slapstick (the dancing and the ‘Allo ‘Allo style German accents) whilst also making a good point which is as necessary now as it was when it was first written. Lucy Elston as Grittly and Laurence Panter as Franz were fantastic, Elston in particular has impressive control. I’m really glad that Irrational Theatre decided to put on this triptych of rare comic operas, each is so different and funny with a trio of talented performers, wonderful production design and a lovely atmosphere, well worth seeing as the chance of seeing all three again is pretty slim, especially with such good performers.
A rare and special chance to see these three comic gems performed with piano and flute. Peter Reynolds’s Sands of Time: The Guinness book of records shortest opera on earth at 3 min 34, intended to ‘match the boiling of an egg’. A new comic opera commission by John Whittaker:The Proposal based on an early Chekhov satire and a fun tale of mixed fortunes in Offenbach’s Le 66, performed for the first time in the UK with an English Libretto by Matthew Toogood and Ellen Leather.
★★★★ As I left the theatre I felt like yodelling along with the score, and I’ve not said that since I saw Frank Ifield live in 1984. Pub Theatres
TRIPTYCH OF COMIC OPERAS http://pubtheatres1.tumblr.com/post/170841396082/triptych-of-comic-operas-kings-head-theatre-11 Triptych of Comic Operas King’s Head Theatre 11 and 12 February 2018 “Modern operas with an irrational twist” ★★★★ Irrational Theatre’s Triptych of Comic Operas is just that - a trio of satirical and certainly irrational pieces linked by the relationships of three characters in each opera, and the same three singers who portrayed them. This well constructed, cohesive bill began with an adaptation of The Proposal, originally written by Chekhov in 1888-89. Accompanied on the piano by its composer John Whittaker, it introduced the programme’s two main themes – relationship conflict and wealth. On this occasion, the conflict was predominantly between Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov, sung by Laurence Panteg and the woman he wishes to marry, Natalya Stepanovna Chubukov, sung by Lucy Elston, and concerned the ownership of some land and the comparative quality of the squabblers’ dogs. The role of Natalya’s stoic father was sung by Andrew Sparling. This was perhaps the most absurd of the three pieces, with hypochondriac Ivan constantly protesting that he was going to die. The inclusion of a pretend (invisible) dog was off putting; unfortunately, Natalya sings a song about the dog, so it had to be represented on stage. The second opera, The Sands of Time, is hailed by the Guinness Book of Records as ‘the shortest opera on earth’. Lasting for three minutes and 34 seconds, it was intended to 'match the boiling of an egg’ and 'create a piece which bore the same relationship to opera as a miniature does to a full-length portrait’. Complete with an egg timer to demonstrate the brevity of the piece, the story incorporated an argument over a boiled egg for breakfast, as well as the announcement, by Spalding, that the couple had won the football pools. The third opera, Le 66, was by far my favourite, as – whilst very silly – it was exquisitely sung. Offenbach’s 1856 score showcased the vocal talent of both Panter and Elston; the latter of whom was excellent throughout the evening. Here, as in the previous two operas, Spalding acted both as the linchpin between a young couple - this time Grittly (Elston) and her cousin Franz (Panter), and the catalyst for financial change. As I left the theatre I felt like yodelling along with the score, and I’ve not said that since I saw Frank Ifield live in 1984. Triptych of Comic Operas presented by Irrational Theatre www.kingsheadtheatre.com The Proposal, composed by John Whittaker from a play by Anton Chekhov The Sands of Time, composed by Peter Reynolds to a libretto by Simon Rees Le 66, composed by Jacques Offenbach with a new libretto by Matthew Toogood and Ellen Leather Reviewer Deborah Jeffries is a PhD Researcher at the University of East London and Rose Bruford College. Her thesis is entitled ‘Legitimising the Victorian Music Hall’, and it contests the notion of legitimate versus illegitimate theatre. It also investigates theatre architecture, purpose and licensing. She has worked for Hoxton Hall and Wilton’s - two of the UK’s four operational Victorian music halls, as well as the more modern incarnation, Brick Lane Music Hall. Her MA in Drama from Goldsmiths explores the difference between music hall and variety theatre, and the place of each genre in modern popular culture. She has reviewed music and theatre across the UK for over 30 years.
Who said opera had to be stuffy, dense and obtuse? Irrational Theatre presented not one but three miniature one act operas full of frivolity, each as absurd as the last. It may not have been the most refined or sophisticated evening of opera, but its whimsy was infectious. Sometimes fun comes in small packages.
3 Stars The Gizzler Review
It is always a pleasure to see little known works, but you never know quite what you’re going to get. Irrational Theatre came to the King’s Head yesterday evening What it did have was bags of energy, complete with comedy accents, that made the silliness of this charming operette such fun. If they had been able to inject that energy into The Proposal it may have been more engaging.
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Running time – approx 1 hour 50 including interval
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Out of my mind but I’m a hell of a guy, I got the PMA, that’s just an FYI / I got a J-O-B and that’s to stay alive, 24/7 not 9 to 5… So begins “Freaking Out” on Freaked Out American Loser, the latest album from Juiceboxxx, the Milwaukee-bred punk rap artist who is quite simply the first and last of his kind all at once. Juiceboxxx grew up in the ‘2000s within the noise, punk rock, and underground rap communities of Wisconsin, and while those banners still fly high independently today, there are very few other artists who not only understand that venn diagram but who are also actively attempting to merge those sounds cohesively.
Juiceboxxx might be out of his mind, but in all the best ways—he owns it and commits to this unstoppable onslaught of creative ideas and outbursts. Freaked Out American Loser is a punk rap blast that captures the anarchic, aggressive spirit of Juiceboxxx’s live show while also adding a new level of polish, focus, and dare we say, professionalism. Songs like “Guts and Tension” and “Destruction and Redemption” place the listener in the middle of the pit, blazing with frenetic guitar and thick energy. “Freaking Out” and “Go To the Club Alone” display dexterous rap skill and a heavier hip hop feel while retaining a jittery post-punk edge. And the album-closing eponymous track even brings to mind the melodic chime and epic codas of the Pixies.
“I’m putting together these pieces in a way I find interesting as a contemporary record, and not conforming to any trends of the moment,” Juiceboxxx says. “I’m looking at Beastie Boys as the Ramones or something, and trying to build on that language; looking at Public Enemy within the lens of punk rock.”
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It’s no easy task for an artist to sum up who they are in one album, much less in one song. And yet, here, at the start of the first verse of the first song of his newest album, Juiceboxxx lays it all out for you:
Out of my mind but I’m a hell of a guy, I got the PMA, that’s just an FYI / I got a J-O-B and that’s to stay alive, 24/7 not 9 to 5…
So begins “Freaking Out” on Freaked Out American Loser, the latest album from Juiceboxxx, the Milwaukee-bred punk rap artist who is quite simply the first and last of his kind all at once. (In fact, the same could be said for this album, chronologically speaking: while it’s not technically his debut, and will live among the dozens of JB collections that exist in the internet’s ether and on scratched CD-Rs, vinyl singles and cracked cassettes, for all intents and purposes it is a rebirth, if you will, and thusly the first and last of its kind as well.)
But back to that couplet. Juiceboxxx might be out of his mind, but in all the best ways—he owns it and commits to this unstoppable onslaught of creative ideas and outbursts, and he’s still a positive person, not a lunatic. Yes, he is an optimist when it comes to art, despite the times and the reality we live in (this, as you note, is an old Bad Brains trick). Yes, he’s employed. No, that job does not have a clocking out time. Music is, as Juice himself says, essential, and for life. And no one else on earth is approaching it quite like him.
“My story is a bit counter to how most people in independent music have worked over the past decade,” he says. “It’s really a story of my life. I’ve done this for over half of it now, trying to see something through and connect these dots. It’s been my quest to synthesize all the stuff I love about American music into one singular project. I think that’s why it’s taken so long. The reason I continue to do this is because it excites me.”
For Juiceboxxx, his music is “an attempt to merge a bunch of things I have in my head that I don’t necessarily see being executed by anybody else. The music I make could only come from me, the mix of styles and the way I perform it and present it, it’s an attempt to do something that’s has some totality. It’s also just the story of me growing up and hitting all these brick walls and moving forward… I just have to do it.”
We all recognize that it’s virtually impossible to sum up something as vast and infinite as the creative eye of an artist with a word, or in a sentence, or—if we’re being honest with ourselves—within a fucking bio for a fucking album. How do you describe a thunderstorm to a thumbtack? Juice knows this all too well. Hence, his life’s work. But first, we have his music. So at least we can start there.
Juiceboxxx grew up in the ‘2000s within the noise, punk rock, and underground rap communities of Wisconsin, and while those banners still fly high independently today, there are very few other artists who not only understand that venn diagram but who are also actively attempting to merge those sounds cohesively. There is something singular about a Juiceboxxx show, wherein he might run through some songs that remind you of Public Enemy—whom Juiceboxxx went on tour with, in Canada—or Beastie Boys. There will be some fast punk songs, and the whole thing might end on an anthemic track like “Never Surrender Forever” that has a Springsteen or Jonathan Richman influence. Yes, there are guitars, but he raps, too; Juice came out of those noise-damaged scenes, and everything he does is coated in a level of intensity. He sticks to his guns. He sleeps with his tension.
“There’s something weirdly eccentric about what I do that puts it to the left of culture,” he says. “I’m trying to do something eclectic but rooted in parameters I set for myself. Almost like when you watch a Beck show from the ’90s… There’s not that many people connecting the dots between rap music and raw rock-and-roll, attempting to use guitars in a different way. I’m not saying I’m the only one, but there’s not many taking classic rap influences and pushing it to more of a damaged-yet-anthemic punk zone.”
Freaked Out American Loser is a punk rap blast that captures the anarchic, aggressive spirit of Juiceboxxx’s live show while also adding a new level of polish, focus, and dare we say, professionalism. “I’m looking at Beastie Boys as the Ramones or something, and trying to build on that language; looking at Public Enemy within the lens of punk rock,” Juiceboxxx says.
Songs like “Guts and Tension” and “Destruction and Redemption” place the listener in the middle of the pit, blazing with frenetic guitar and thick energy. “Freaking Out” and “Go To the Club Alone” display dexterous rap skill and a heavier hip hop feel while retaining a jittery post-punk edge. And the album-closing eponymous track even brings to mind the melodic chime and epic codas of the Pixies. And while the record is without a doubt the first stomp of a new boot, some moments are even more raw than that which came before—with its live guitar and drums, vocal delays, and basslines influenced by eternal heroes like The Fall and ESG.
“I’m putting together these pieces in a way I find interesting as a contemporary record, and not conforming to any trends of the moment,” Juice says. “It’s just me trying to make my own singular form of American music based around a certain lived experience. I think a lot of kids have actually had a similar experience, but oftentimes they end up segregating the music they actually output. I’m trying to smash it all together into one thing.”
To echo that notion, in addition to his music and performances, Juiceboxxx runs a record label and brand called Thunder Zone, whose output includes music and merch by other artists—including cult rapper Lil Ugly Mane, internet sensation Molly Soda and members of the legendary Paper Rad art collective--an energy drink, and a sprawling YouTube channel. His fans are rampant to the extent that a book was even written by one of them, called The Next Next Level, published by the esteemed imprint Melville House. And, as you have no doubt realized by now, all of this is just to say that it’s impossible to say everything and wrap it up neatly. And so, we grab hold of the long tail and just keep rolling.
“On some level it’s insane that I’ve carried on this project I started when I was 15. A lot of the music I make is kind of about that, and there’s definitely a pathos to a lot of shit I do—obviously, the record is called Freaked Out American Loser,” he says. “The idea that there’s a self-awareness that your entire life has this absurdity to it, but a resilience, too--life is fucking crazy and inherently absurd, and this is a thing deep down inside of me that’s unfinished. I’m gonna continue to make stuff. It’s a life project.”
"I would be making music regardless if it was Juiceboxxx or not,” he continued. “Music is something I’m gonna do forever. I continue to believe in this project as a vehicle, as the years go on I think there’s some meaning built into this that maybe separates it a bit. What I’ve learned is that I can cut a lot of shit out of my life but I can’t stop making music and performing. It’s cheesy but I feel like I’m just starting to get good.”
Or, as the man himself said all those words ago: 24/7, not 9 to 5.
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A version of the geo-referencing of ground objects using single space snapshot
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Models of legal regulation of the remote sensing activities in the world: experience for Ukraine
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Home » Archive » 2020 » No 4(125) » Models of legal regulation of the remote sensing activities in the world: experience for Ukraine
Social Sciences in Space Exploration
1Malysheva, NR, 1Hurova, AM
1V.M. Koretsky Institute of state and law of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, International Space Law Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine
Space Sci. & Technol. 2020, 25 ;(4):86-110
Publication Language: Ukrainian
The article deals with the legal approaches to the regulation of the activity for the Earth’s remote sensing (ERS) in more than 10 countries with various models of the market of relevant services. The experience of some countries has been analyzed in the context of the development within the framework of regional cooperation of the European Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States. The review of the legal model of the ERS regulation was carried out, taking into account its public or private nature and the degree of development of the market for related services. The review covered the study of the following blocks of issues: organizational and institutional structure of ensuring appropriate relations, data dissemination policy, permitting regulation of the ERS activity, protection of intellectual property for the products of the ERS. Based on the analysis, some recommendations were made to regulate the relevant relations in Ukraine.
Keywords: data, Earth’s remote sensing, information, legal regulation, licensing, national legislation, public and private interests, remote sensing services’ market
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Joseph P Fernandez Jr, artist
Twilight of the Fools
Portraits on paper 2
Crossing the void
Living through it
Shaper of dreams
Hemingway's world
Colors of Spain
Pulse of Africa
SEALs – fraternity in camo
Painted journals
This painting is my personal testimony to the selfless valor of the men who paid the ultimate price during Operation Red Wings.
After reading the book Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson, I wanted to create a work of art inspired by the bond of battle in the mountains of Afghanistan on June 27th, 2005.
These four SEALs — Lt Michael P. Murphy, Marcus Luttrell, Matthew G. Axelson, and Danny P. Dietz — fought like lions against an overwhelming force, leaving everyone but Marcus Luttrell killed in action in the northeast gulch of Sawtalo Sar. Eight more SEALs and eight men from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment also perished in an effort to rescue the ambushed SEALs.
This painting was my attempt to say “No greater love hath any man than to lay down his life for his brother”.
Silent Hunters
acrylic on canvas, 36" x 36"
© 2014 Joseph P Fernandez Jr – joseph@laughingminotaur.com – All rights reserved. Images may not be reproduced without the express permission of the artist.
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Nadina's Moments
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To Contact Nadina please use her email Contact Nadina
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www.maarnada.ca
1968 - Earlier
Nadina is the Director of Maarnada Studios, Gallery and Sculpture Garden.
She launched her husband Maarten's Art career in 199l and the couple continue to work together.
Maarten creating sculptures and Nadina creating stories.
Nadine Agnes Stewart Schaddelee was born and raised in Victoria. B.C., Canada.
1990-1993 Nadine became a member of the CARTEL (Centre for Assessment Rehabilitation and Enhanced Life Style) team of outstanding professionals. She was with Cartel for three years as well as a coordinator of the fitness club for SMUS, with Cartel at the Racquet Club.
Nadine's fitness accreditations include B.C.R.P.A. fitness instructor, and trainer of fitness leaders.
In February 1992 Nadine traveled to Dallas Texas and received a Health Promotion Director's Certification from the Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research. http://www.cooperinst.org/
'ALTERNATIVES IN FITNESS' was the company Nadine created for Lifestyle Fitness... Body Mind Emotions Spirit...she worked as a Speaker - Seminar Leader - Consultant - Trainer. which included "Wellthy" Workplace.
Appeared on Television's 'BODY MOVES' FITNESS SHOW with Dr. Lara Lauzon http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/llauzon/ to show alternative ways to exercise also birthed a Body Moves Bike Video. Nad the Nag link
Studying Eastern Wisdom of relaxation techniques, reflexology, massage, and obtaining certification as a teacher in Tai'Chi Chih enabled Nadine to balance the best of Western and Eastern tools in stress survival.
Served for four years on the Board of Directors of Victoria Hospice http://www.victoriahospice.org/
Trained with Linda Kavelin Popov of the Virtues Project and practices the Art of Spiritual Companioning http://www.virtuesproject.com/profiles.html It was at a workshop by Linda, when in a guided meditation Nadine's future self came to her and introduced herself as Nadina. It brings the first and second name together. Nadine means Hope....Agnes means Sacred. Her name means Steward of Sacred Hope.
1992 Nadina trained with The Rev. Dr. Lauren Artress, Creator of the Labyrinth Project and is an official Veriditas Facilitator. http://www.laurenartress.com/ In Victoria Nadina was known for some time as 'The Labyrinth Lady' as she introduced people to the Labyrinth and assisted in their creation. She created her own Labyrinth that was 30 feet in diameter in the Maarnada driveway. She also gave workshops at UVIC and assisted in talks on the creation of the canvas Labyrinth for the Interfaith Chapel. She gave workshops for the 'Sisters of Saint Ann' at St. Ann's Academy and also on the Labyrinth at Queenswood http://www.queenswoodcentre.com/
In 1994 Nadina authored the book "Insprations From Maarnada".
Learning to Sail - "Power Squadron" training.
In 1999 Nadina and Maarten journeyed across Canada to deliver a sculpture in Nova Scotia for the Robert Pope Foundation. http://humanities.medicine.dal.ca/pope_foundation.htm They fell in love with this amazing country of ours and wanted to give something back.
On Earth Day 2000 'Millennium Peace' was installed at Clover Point overlooking Victoria's Waterfront. A Touchstone of Peace for the New Millennium link.
Nadine married Maarten Schaddelee in 1968 When the Princess Met Her Prince link
She worked with the Schaddelee family, owners and managers of the Dutch Bakery and Coffee Shop Ltd. http://thedutchbakery.com/
As a Mother of two boys Trevor and Troy she loved her role being in home management, counseling and care giving. Nadina's family enjoyed sailing during this time. Nadina received her sailing certification as well as her Power Squadron Training and loved sailing all three of their sail boats.
Their last family sail boat was an Erickson 35 foot beauty that they called Maarnada.
When the boys were older and needed her less, a serious full-time career in wellness education became her passion.
Nadine's Background. ~ Beginning at the age of eight, Nadine became a well known dancer and performer. She continued as a professional dance teacher and choreographer with Sherry Black's Broadstreet Dance. http://www.broadstreetdance.com/home.html
Nadine delighted audiences as part of the famous Jerry Gosley "Smile Show" British Music Hall.
1967 - 1969 A successful business background started at the B.C. Hospital Insurance Service from where she moved to one of the first extended care facilities, St. Mary's Priory Hospital, as part of the administration team. It was there during the innovation of rehabilitation with the bedridden elderly that Nadine realized it was never too late to improve the quality of life. The support and guidance of 'The Sisters of the Society of the Love of Jesus' who ran St. Mary's Priory was a great gift of feminine spirit and compassion.
A successful business background started at the B.C. Hospital Insurance Service from where she moved to one of the first extended care facilities, St. Mary's Priory Hospital, as part of the administration team. It was there during the innovation of rehabilitation with the bedridden elderly that Nadine realized it was never too late to improve the quality of life. The support and guidance of 'The Sisters of the Society of the Love of Jesus' who ran St. Mary's Priory was a great gift of feminine spirit and compassion.
Nadine married Maarten Schaddelee When the Princess Met Her Prince link
As a Mother of two boys Trevor and Troy she loved her role being in home management, counseling and care giving. Nadina’s family enjoyed sailing during this time. Nadina received her sailing certification as well as her Power Squadron Training and loved sailing all three of their sail boats.
Nadine became a member of the CARTEL (Centre for Assessment Rehabilitation and Enhanced Life Style) team of outstanding professionals. She was with Cartel for three years as well as a coordinator of the fitness club for SMUS, with Cartel at the Racquet Club.
On Earth Day 2000 'Millennium Peace' was installed at Clover Point overlooking Victoria's Waterfront. A Touchstone of Peace for the New Millennium link
She launched her husband Maarten's Art career in 199l and the couple continue to
work together. Maarten creating sculptures and Nadina creating stories.
Summary of Links
Sherry Black's Broadstreet Dance. http://www.broadstreetdance.com/home.html
Dutch Bakery and Coffee Shop Ltd. http://thedutchbakery.com/
Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research. http://www.cooperinst.org/
Dr. Lara Lauzon http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/llauzon/
Nad the Nag link
Victoria Hospice http://www.victoriahospice.org/
Linda Kavelin Popov http://www.virtuesproject.com/profiles.html
Rev. Dr. Lauren Artress http://www.laurenartress.com/
Labyrinth at Queenswood http://www.queenswoodcentre.com/
Robert Pope Foundation. http://humanities.medicine.dal.ca/pope_foundation.htm
A Touchstone of Peace for the New Millennium link
All rights reserved, reproduction of these stories or images prohibited in any form without written permission of the owner, Nadine Schaddelee.
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Decreased HIV diversity after allogeneic stem cell transplantation of an HIV-1 infected patient : a case report (2010)
Christel Kamp Timo Wolf Ignacio G. Bravo Benjamin Kraus Birgit Krause Britta Neumann Gudrun Winskowsky Alexander Thielen Albrecht Werner Barbara S. Schnierle
The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) coreceptor use and viral evolution were analyzed in blood samples from an HIV-1 infected patient undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT). Coreceptor use was predicted in silico from sequence data obtained from the third variable loop region of the viral envelope gene with two software tools. Viral diversity and evolution was evaluated on the same samples by Bayesian inference and maximum likelihood methods. In addition, phenotypic analysis was done by comparison of viral growth in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and in a CCR5 (R5)-deficient T-cell line which was controlled by a reporter assay confirming viral tropism. In silico coreceptor predictions did not match experimental determinations that showed a consistent R5 tropism. Anti-HIV directed antibodies could be detected before and after the SCT. These preexisting antibodies did not prevent viral rebound after the interruption of antiretroviral therapy during the SCT. Eventually, transplantation and readministration of anti-retroviral drugs lead to sustained increase in CD4 counts and decreased viral load to undetectable levels. Unexpectedly, viral diversity decreased after successful SCT. Our data evidence that only R5-tropic virus was found in the patient before and after transplantation. Therefore, blocking CCR5 receptor during stem cell transplantation might have had beneficial effects and this might apply to more patients undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Furthermore, we revealed a scenario of HIV-1 dynamic different from the commonly described ones. Analysis of viral evolution shows the decrease of viral diversity even during episodes with bursts in viral load.
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Instituto de Química - IQ
IQ - Artigos e Outros Documentos
Title: Conformational dynamics of alpha-synuclein: insights from mass spectrometry
Author: Phillips, Ashley S.
Gomes, Alexandre F.
Kalapothakis, Jason M. D.
Gillam, Jay E.
Gasparavicius, Jonas
Gozzo, Fabio C.
Kunath, Tilo
MacPhee, Cait
Barran, Perdita E.
Abstract: The aggregation and deposition of alpha-synuclein in Lewy bodies is associated with the progression of Parkinson's disease. Here, Mass Spectrometry (MS) is used in combination with Ion Mobility (IM), chemical crosslinking and Electron Capture Dissociation (ECD) to probe transient structural elements of alpha-synuclein and its oligomers. Each of these reveals different aspects of the conformational heterogeneity of this 14 kDa protein. IM-MS analysis indicates that this protein is highly disordered, presenting in positive ionisation mode with a charge state range of 5 <= z <= 21 for the monomer, along with a collision cross section range of similar to 1600 angstrom(2)). Chemical crosslinking applied in conjunction with IM-MS captures solution phase conformational families enabling comparison with those exhibited in the gas phase. Crosslinking IM-MS identifies 3 distinct conformational families, Compact (similar to 1200 angstrom(2)), Extended (similar to 1500 angstrom(2)) and Unfolded (similar to 2350 angstrom(2)) which correlate with those observed in solution. ECD-Fourier Transform-Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry (ECD-FT-ICR MS) highlights the effect of pH on alpha-synuclein structure, identifying the conformational flexibility of the N and C termini as well as providing evidence for structure in the core and at times the C terminus. A hypothesis is proposed for the variability displayed in the structural rearrangement of alpha-synuclein following changes in solution pH. Following a 120 h aggregation time course, we observe an increase in the ratio of dimer to monomer, but no gross conformational changes in either, beyond the significant variations that are observed day-to-day from this conformationally dynamic protein
Subject: Doença de Parkinson
Monômeros
Editor: Royal Society of Chemistry
Identifier DOI: 10.1039/c4an02306d
Address: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2015/AN/C4AN02306D
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Carlo Kocman - Roma - Italy
7/seven sided Yomut asmalyk. Cm 79x102, or 31"x40". Full 19th century. a very unusual asmalyk. Apart from being 7/seven sided, a big rarity, it also has a very unusual palette. It almost certainly comes from a village in Goklan area in Iran where these Yomud people, previously Nomads, lived for a long time. Some other tribes from the same group lived previously in the ex Russian Turkmenistan. The weaver of this rare jewel was a very skilled one since he well knew how to handle the offset knotting to get different diagonals, skill that gives the design movement. The previous owner, a rather well known collector/dealer said it's wonderfully executed and with a great feeling of space. He also said it's heraldic. Thank you bf.
price: please inquire
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Non-existent affluent treatment plants
Toxic waste from industries and factories are polluting the rivers that run across Dhaka like the Buriganga, Turag, Balu and Sitalakhya. These rivers are becoming contaminated as waste is not being treated by affluent treatment plants which is mandatory for factories that dispose off toxic waste.
According to the Environment Conservation Act 1995 every factory with toxic waste must have an affluent treatment plant installed to treat waste before they get dumped into rivers or water bodies. The Act also makes it mandatory for each factory to take a clearance certificate from the Department of Environment (DoE) in this regard. But very few factories have taken the certificate from the DoE and use of affluent treatment plants is rare.
According to DoE sources, there are some five thousand factories in Dhaka division throughout its 17 districts and only 20 percent of those posses the DoE's clearance. The factories in Rayerbazar dump their waste in the Buriganga, Tongi's industrial waste flows into the Turag and Balu while waste from the Tejgaon industrial area accumulates in the Begunbari Khal or Hatir Jheel before seeping into the Balu.
"Toxic waste is mainly generated from dyeing, textile and leather industries. That is why it is necessary to install affluent treatment plants especially in those factories," said Syed Md. Iqbal Ali, environment management specialist of Bangladesh Environment Management Project (BEMP) which is a Canadian initiative.
The Environment Conservation Rules 1997 clearly states that any industry owner who does not possess the clearance certificate of the DoE can be subjected to a maximum three-year imprisonment or a fine of Tk three lakh or both. If any industry is found responsible for environmental pollution, its owner can be imprisoned for ten years or fined Tk. Ten lakh or punished with both penalties. The DoE is supposed to enforce the rules but officials said that lack of manpower makes it difficult for the department to maintain constant monitoring.
"We have only three inspectors working for 17 districts in Dhaka division. This is far too inadequate a number," said Khan M Ibrahim Hossain, director general DoE. The DoE now has 133 employees. Although recruitment of up to 244 personnel has been approved, bureaucratic difficulties have prevented adding more people to the present staff, said the DG. "Ideally, we need 490 people to run the department," he added.
There are some practical problems the factories are facing regarding affluent treatment plants. Many industries have been established long before the Environment Conservation Act 95 or Environment Conservation Rules 97 were enacted. Affluent treatment plants needs extra space which many factories do not have. The Environment Court Law was passed in 2000 to deal with environmental issues in a specific court. Now there are two special environment courts -- one in Dhaka and the other in Chittagong
The Joint District Judge is responsible for the verdict. The special environment court sits on every working day at the Dhaka Judge Court. "We file cases against the toxic waste generating factories that do not have affluent treatment plants. But most of the time, the court allows more time to the factories to take necessary measures as it is not always possible to shut one down," said a high official of DoE. Almost all the factories at Ryerbazar do not have affluent treatment plants and are reluctant to install them also as there is a plan for shifting the tanneries of that area to Savar.
Some industries are installing affluent treatment plants due to pressure from buyers but they seldom operate them because of the added cost. "An industry needs gas, water, manpower. The overhead cost is huge. With extra expenditure, we will not be able to remain competitive in the market. That is why no one operates treatment plants," said an industry owner.
Concerned experts have estimated that a locally built treatment plant, which might cost between 18-20 lakh Taka, can treat 20,000 litres of waste per hour. The operating cost will be Tk. 12 per hour for treating 1,000 litres of waste. The operating cost include use of different chemicals, electricity and gas consumption. The cost of a 30,000 to 40,000 litre capacity treatment plant will be Tk. 40 to 45 lakhs while a 60,000 to 70,000 litre plant will cost Tk. 60 to 65 lakhs.
The DoE had tried to convince the industry owners to have a common treatment plant but the idea did not work out because of the different shapes and sizes of factories. "It is necessary to shift the industries from places like Tejgaon or Rayerbazar to an industrial zone where a common affluent treatment plant can be built," said the DG of DoE (Department of Environment) (Avik Sanwar Rahman, September 20, 2004).
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Transportation articles
Solving for Space and Time: Ending homelessness by fixing the DTA and MBTA
August 4, 2016 on Homelessness & Poverty, Transportation, Voices from the Streets by Nathaniel Maccabees
Photo: Shinya Suzuki What does improving the food system and reducing vehicle traffic and air pollution (especially in urban areas) have to do with ending homelessness worldwide? Everything. Well then, how can Massachusetts lead the rest of the world in doing this? Massachusetts could first humanize the management system used by the Department of Transitional…
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The Bridge To Nowhere
November 6, 2014 on Columns, Health, Homelessness & Poverty, Human Rights, Opinion, Social Justice, Transportation, Voices from the Streets by Marc D. Goldfinger
I am sitting in my comfortable office chair with a Suboxone dissolving under my tongue as I write about the fellow addicts who have been sent into the dark night. It is all because of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ despicable planning and the sudden closing of the bridge that was leading so many addicts and…
A Pissing Contest
November 6, 2014 on Columns, Homelessness & Poverty, Human Rights, Opinion, Political, Social Justice, Transportation, Voices from the Streets by James Shearer
In the May 2 issue of Spare Change News carried a cover story called “Infrastructure Inequality” by Alex Ramirez about the Long Island Bridge, which connects Boston’s homeless to the city’s Long Island Shelter via a bus route through Quincy. The bridge is old and rickety and has been in decay for years. It is…
Priced Out: Development Drives Rising Rents in Union Square
June 26, 2014 on Human Rights, Local, News, Social Justice, Transportation by Valerie Adamski
It’s 7:30 on a sticky Tuesday morning in mid-June. The bus is packed with teenagers studying for exams and finishing homework. Windows are cracked and hot air blows in, moving the stagnant air. Droopy-eyed professionals move aside as the bus approaches School St., allowing students to exit the bus and start their day, alleviating the…
Infrastructure Inequality: The Battle to Fix the Long Island Bridge
May 2, 2014 on Homelessness & Poverty, Human Rights, Local, Long Island, News, Social Justice, Transportation by Abby DeRigo
Outside of Woods-Mullen Shelter, just down the street from Boston Medical Center, sits a large, cage-like structure. A fence runs down the middle, creating two chain-link hallways. On a windy Boston afternoon, people in hoodies, sweatpants, ball caps and shades gather there, some huddled together, others standing and talking or smoking, many clinging to the…
MBTA Launches Late-Night Service
April 4, 2014 on Local, News, Transportation by Christine Hayes
BOSTON, Mass.—The MBTA’s Late Night Pilot Program launched on Friday, March 28, extending service on the subway and 15 key bus routes by 90 minutes early Saturday and Sunday mornings. According to the MBTA, they will run subway service every 15 to 20 minutes, with the last trains leaving downtown stations around 2:30 a.m. Trains…
Sides Staked Out for "Adult Conversation" About Transportation Funding
June 12, 2012 on Local, News, Transportation by Andy Metzger
By Andy Metzger STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, JUNE 11, 2012�� Even if the state chose not to fund the $1.3 billion Green Line Extension, several of the revenue-generating ideas tied to that project in newly released documents will need to be used to keep state transit authorities afloat, Transportation Secretary Richard Davey…
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House Advances T Bailout Bill That Involves Moving T Ferry Services to Massport
By Matt Murphy STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, JUNE 11, 2012….A possible transfer in the next year of MBTA ferry operations to the Massachusetts Port Authority would be studied under a T bailout bill that received initial House approval Monday morning. The bill rescues the T from its near-term budget crisis, but drops…
The People Have Spoken … For Naught
April 20, 2012 on Opinion, Transportation by James Shearer
James Shearer Spare Change News The other day while I was in Brookline I ran into two people with clipboards trying to get signatures against the MBTA’s fare hikes and service cuts. “It’s already too late,” I said to them. “No, it isn’t,” they protested. “Yes,” I said sadly, “it is.” And yes, boys and…
February 24, 2012 on Transportation by James Shearer
James Shearer Spare Change News Last week there was a rally in front of the Boston Public Library organized by people who are against the MBTA’s service cuts and fare increases, which are scheduled to take place in July. The rally, which was shortly before one of the many public hearings organized by the T…
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EDF Denies Waste Report
PARIS — EDF is sending to Russia spent nuclear fuel that needs to be reprocessed, the French nuclear power producer said Monday, denying a French report that it was using Siberia to dump nuclear waste.
The company said radioactive waste was kept in France, where it was processed and stocked in dedicated facilities at Areva’s storage site of La Hague.
“Following the news reported today by [French daily newspaper] Liberation, EDF wants to point out that contrary to what has been said, no nuclear waste is transported to Russia,” EDF said.
Earlier Monday, an EDF spokeswoman had said the company was sending nuclear waste to Russia and that 10 percent to 20 percent of it was recycled and sent back to be used in French power plants. The spokeswoman later clarified that she was referring to spent fuel, not to radioactive waste.
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Whew! What jazz!
by Bob Park
Sometimes it just pays to shop locally. Such was the case Friday when the South Okanagan Concert Society presented the Okanagan-based Offramp Jazz Sextet from right “next door”. Already well-known for their outstanding performances at Penticton’s Jazz Festival and other venues in the valley, these six excellent musicians puts on shows that are the equal of jazz found anywhere.
Performing at Oliver’s Frank Venables Theatre on Friday January 23, Offramp checked all the boxes that I usually look for in an outstanding show, and a few extra ones I hadn’t thought about before. They left us feeling thoroughly entertained, with a sense that we’d been part of something special. It was as though we were included in the obvious friendship that the musicians had for each other, and the delight they had in the superb music they were creating individually and as a group.
Aidan Mayes is a gifted singer who really knows how to put across the emotional content of a song. Her sultry characterization of the old Peggy Lee standard, “Fever, ” and Amy Winehouse’s sorrowful “Back to Black” really grabbed us. Given Winehouse’s tragic death, the words to this song became even more poignant. Aidan gives an authentic jazz flavour to a wide variety of musical styles that are not usually associated with jazz such as the Beatles’ “I Feel Fine” and Paul Simon’s “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.”
On the saxes Larry Crawford and Stan Sabourin seemed like the old master and the young hot shot, subtly egging each other on to greater heights. Remember, these guys are improvising. That’s not sheet music they’re looking at, it’s chord charts that only provide the basic structure of the tune. They’re thinking of a complex musical phrase and producing it instantly for us to hear! I particularly enjoyed the moment in “Sunnyside” when the rest of the band “laid out”, and left us with just the two saxes creating an almost Bach-like polyphonic effect.
Justin Glibbery, jazz pianist par excellence, sometimes reminded me of Count Basie with his light, almost minimalist approach, not always playing a lot of notes, but coming up with interesting phrases. It was fun to see the eye-contact with the bassist and the drummer, and the obvious communication that was going on. It’s amazing that such a tight and well-rehearsed performance still allows for lots of room for “letting things happen”. I always love it when jazz musicians start laughing and give each other the ‘look’ that says: “Where in the world did those notes come from?”. Jazz at its best! Of all the neat things he played, Justin’s rendition of Brubeck’s classic “Blue Rondo a la Turk” was a tour de force.
In every jazz group, it’s the bassist who makes it swing and is the glue that holds it all together. Stephan Bienz is no exception: he definitely made it swing! His virtuosic bass fiddle playing was a constant, even singing at the same time for some pieces! Unforgettable, also, his solo chops, such as in the intro to “Lullaby of Birdland”.
And then there’s “the drums”. What can one say about Mike Treadway’s drumming except maybe :”Whew!” Capable of soft, delicate nuanced playing as well as high energy intensity while always keeping the groove going, this guy was born to play the drums. Mike’s performance kept surprising us, not least in the encore. He led the band in a beat-box loop station high-speed version of “It Don’t Mean a Thing” that really defies description. Again: “Whew!”
As we filed out of the theatre, I sensed people were still mentally humming their favourite tunes from the performance. We are so fortunate to have musicians of this calibre also working as music teachers in this valley. Lucky students! Lucky valley!
Mark your calendars for the next performance brought to you by the concert society: pianist Sara Davis Buechner, on Friday, Feb. 20.
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norberto rodriguez on January 25, 2015 at 8:52 am said:
yeap! this was a superb performance. These guys play with so much gusto and their fun is contagious. I have the feeling they could have gone for another 2 or 3 hours playing for themselves perfectly happy.
There were so many pieces I truly enjoyed, in particular Jobim’s Agua de Beber, Fever, Oscar Peterson’s moving Hymn to Freedom, and Blue Rondo a la Turk. I liked very much the way they began their performance: only one of them come to the stage and begins playing, then a second player joins, and another one, one by one until the complete sextet is there in full. Each of them a master of their instruments, or their art.
And I must say, Aidan not only sings wonderful, her beauty and presence are beyond words.
Thanks all, this was an special evening indeed!
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Here is a chart of the S&P 500 daily chart. OUCH! You can see it has formed some sort of an elongated wedge pattern so far. [chart below]
Its been a stock market bloodbath lately. But without realizing it, you could be sitting on a winning lottery ticket. Yes, its true.
Many technicians, as well as old-school fundamental investors like Warren Buffett, say that the time to start buying in a falling market is after signs of panic, or capitulation by the bulls. Well, if you are not seeing panic right now, we do not know what is.
But after the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -2.39% plunged 391 points, or 2.4% on Friday--the biggest one-day percentage decline in 3 1/2 months--the New York Stock Exchange’s
The A50R Chart, which represents a value of overbought and oversold areas on the stock market, is clearly pointing to the market being very very CHEAP HERE. See the chart below. Currently as you read this post, we are sitting at 12.40. Its an area seen as been very very low. Normally we do not see these levels for too long.
Does it mean the market CANNOT experience more selling. No!, that is not what we are talking about as lots of investors are panicking right now, and every bad bit of news coming out of china is causing some people to 'shit the bed pan' the last few weeks.
As an indicator the A50R indicator could be telling us that a big bounce could be coming to the stock market later in the year. And it could be one of those bounces that goes up 100 - 200 points rather fast. So you better be ready if that actually does happen.
Also On Friday, the NYSE’s Arms rose to just 1.791. That is a better sneak peek at what the market will actually do in the short term. You can get the latest chart in our LIVE VIP NEWSLETTER CLICK HERE!
In all my years, I actually cannot remember the market falling this hard after XMAS, or 2 weeks after the new year! It is terrible, and its wiped literally billions off the value of investments. I can recall several other times, the market GOT A SWOOP down early in the year, only to come back by the end of the year.
Its probably a bit melodramatic to start predicting what is going to happen in DECEMBER 2016 here in JANUARY. Yes, lets not be pre-emptive, but so far this does feel a little bit different to 2008. Of course there are lots of brokers, and even main stream media telling you to get on the phone and SELL, SELL, SELL, almost everything. However looking back in recent history after big drops like that, early in the year that would be a big big mistake.
Are investors in a state of PANIC! The quick answer to that would be a big FAT NO!, but are they really scared, well sure. When every you see significant sell offs in the market, it normally leads to other people who are heavily invested, to start a domino effect, and do what other people who are heavily invested in the market do.
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Well, OK, I can tell you that our latest stock market future predictions will probably not shock you, but there is alot of confusion out there right now. What with OIL crashing, and also stocks closed higher Tuesday, recovering slightly from a sharply lower start to the year and shaking off pressure from an intraday dip in oil below $30 a barrel.
Stabilization in the Chinese yuan overnight and oil's initial attempt at gains helped stocks rise more than 1 percent in the open.
The major U.S. averages recovered some of their opening gains after an intraday turn lower as oil declined, but ended off session highs.
"For worldwide market sentiment, if China can stabilize it definitely can help markets stabilize worldwide. but that has to be sustained and oil is still driving the market," said Peter Coleman, head trader at Convergex.
The Nasdaq composite outperformed to close up 1.03 percent, off session highs of a more than 1.5 percent rise but after posting eight-straight days of losses. The Nasdaq composite closed lower Monday to post its first eight-day losing streak since January 2008.
"The good news is, after the close in energy prices, we know it's not going to go any lower," said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities.
Oil is hot on the lips of everyone, and prices remained near their lowest in more than a decade as oversupply concerns persisted. In intraday trade, Brent futures hit a low of $30.34 a barrel and U.S. crude oil futures briefly fell more than 4 percent to below $30 a barrel.
WTI has settled lower every single day of the year so far, for a seven-day losing streak, its longest consecutive decline since a nine-day losing streak in July 2014.
"Whatever the number is, the logic behind it is the market has to reach a shocking level for oil producers of all (types) to respond," said John Kilduff, founding partner at Again Capital. His target is $18 and he expects oil to trade in a range between $14 and $48 this year.
Copper hit a fresh low going back to April 2009. The decline pressured Freeport-McMoRan, which closed down 4.6 percent, well above session lows. Freeport shares fell 20 percent Monday amid declines in copper and news Arch Coal filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, as part of a restructuring agreement reached with lenders who hold more than $4.5 billion of the coal mining company's debt.
"The Arch Coal bankruptcy reminds me that 0 is the ultimate number for these bankruptcies," Kilduff said.
In the close, the Nasdaq composite and Dow Jones industrial average remained 10 percent or more below their 52-week intraday highs, in correction territory. The S&P 500 closed within 10 percent of its 52-week high.
"Today is a relief rally on China's ability to stabilize their own markets and I believe China-inspired volatility will continue in 2016 because what they need to do is move to a freer market and they're having trouble letting go," said Doug Cote, chief market strategist at Voya Investment Management.
Overnight, the Chinese central bank set the yuan mid-point fix at 6.5628 against the dollar, similar to Monday's fix of 6.5626.
"You can't both do reform and maintain a 6.5 percent growth rate at the same time. ... The feedback loop is slowing global growth. That's one of the implications of low oil," Cote said.
In November, China's President Xi Jinping said the country's economic growth rate will not be less than 6.5 percent in the five years to 2020, Reuters reported, citing the state-run Xinhua news agency.
Traders were watching to see whether Tuesday's early rally was sustainable. Weakening in China's currency and speculation of further devaluation helped pressure U.S. stocks to end the first trading week of the year down nearly six percent or more, their worst week since 2011.
"At the highest level, investors are starting to adjust to the uncertainty of a new regime of interest rates in the United States," said Omar Aguilar, chief investment officer, equities, at Charles Schwab Investment Management. "Then we have significant headwinds coming out of emerging markets."
I think, the SPX would have to rally about 100 points by the end of the week Friday in order to suggest a shakeout (read: false breakdown) has occurred, As it stands, breakdowns are abundant from a bottom-up perspective, so we think near-term strength is best viewed as an opportunity to take down exposure.
We can go and take a look at some charts! You can see if we zoom back and take a look at the more longer term or the SPX weekly chart you can see that we are currently at 1922, and since the end of 2015 we could make the assumption that we are putting in a series of HIGHER LOWS! That is of course we do not just drop like a rock here, and fall off a cliff. If that was to happen, that would be a good time to hit the panic buttons and put yourself in BUG OUT mode!! But the weekly chart is significant here, so we must watch and wait to see what Mr Market has in store for us.
The other interesting thing is the DAILY chart of the S&P. Have a look at that chart. You can see that the daily chart is clear showing 2 GREEN DAYS! That has not happened for a long time, so that could be significant.
The last several times we had 2 GREEN DAYS in a row it lead to rallies. We are not saying that is set in stone, but it could be significant here, and it could be a warning that some sort of rally is about to occur. Its hard to swallow for some people that just a few months ago on the S&P we were at 2100. Today, we closed at 1922. A lot of traders have been cut up and lost money on the way down too. I hear people screaming about some sort of top, and this is the 1929 crash all over again! That is crazy!, and you need to put that to bed if that is your train of thoughts right here. I guess its smart to remain vigilant here, and always follow your charts. I was talking to a friend over the phone on the weekend who has lost $50,000 on the market in the last two weeks. He told me he thought the market would keep going down, but right when he added to his shorts, the market bounced violently and he kept getting stopped out. So be careful, and keep your position sizes really small. That will save you from getting your nuts chopped off and for blowing up your account. Anyone that tells you this market will go down like 1929 has rocks in their head, as this VOLATILITY is likely to be the same as last year in 2015. Really big rallies, and really big sell offs at the same time. If you are not ready for that this year, then this game is not for you.
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Biotech stocks finished out the month on a high note after a roller-coaster ride this year. Yet according to one top analyst, investors must trade the space carefully in 2016.
"It's really a stock picker year," RBC Capital Markets Michael Yee told the "Fast Money" traders last week.
Yee explained in his most recent note that plenty has changed in the biotech industry in 2015. And investing in biotech could be a good action to take if the smart money moves in there in 2016. The sector has evolved so rapidly that the public knows more about diseases, targets and designing better-targeted drugs than ever before.
However, while he remains "fundamentally positive" on secular innovation, he said overall outlook and expectations for biotech stocks have shifted. According to Yee, there are four major headwinds in the space that temper his view on stock performance in 2016.
First, "there's a big money-flow change going on," he said. "After three years of gains of well over 30 percent a year in biotech, most fund managers have been overweight this sector for many years and I think there's a situation here where people are taking that overweight position and moving to a lot more equal weight position."
As investor interest is a crucial part of research and development for many biotech names, the possibility of a slowdown in growth increases in this type of environment.
Secondly, "I think as we're going into an election year I think people are going to be a little more cautious going into the political rhetoric that is going to pick up," Yee said. "I see biopharma stocks having a little bit of a tougher time in a political election year."
Skyrocketing drug prices have been the topic of many political debates and conversations involving Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton, Yee notes. Earlier this year, Clinton injected herself into the drug pricing controversy surrounding the medication Daraprim.
Whether the industry experiences pressure to lower prices or not, the general investor is going to shy away from investing in controversial stocks.
Third, Lee said that the technicals are sounding the alarm. "We've broken down on the Nasdaq biotechnology index (NBI) on the 200-, the 100- and the 50-day moving averages — I think it's going to take some time for us to grind back up," Yee said.
Yet it remains to be seen if the August lows can continue to serve as support for 2016.
Lastly, Yee sees less chance of an earnings upside to the consensus models for each of the large-cap stocks versus previous years. In 2015, Amgen, Gilead, Biogen and Celgene all managed to trounce their own guidance by 10 to 50 percent. With less surprise catalysts in 2016, maintaining that momentum will be much harder.
Despite the potential for all these headwinds, Lee said there are three names that could break away from the pack in 2016: Biogen, Celgene and Vertex.
"Biogen has a number of catalysts, that stock has been beaten down all year and I think that stock starts to recover," said Yee. "Biogen has the most upside and downside potential with four big catalysts coming in the next 12-18 months."
Vertex and Celgene also have several catalysts on the horizon in 2016 for their drugs to treat cystic fibrosis and multiple myeloma, respectively. He says Celgene could start to move back up toward its highs.
"You need specific catalysts to move higher this year," said Yee.
Biotech Daily Chart.
Contrarians are currently advising against investing in biotech . However you must remember right now, we are experiencing some of the most fast, and rapid technological advancements in medicine and bio-technologies, the world has ever seen. So today, perhaps you can take this post not as a 'you must do this' type post, but as a nudge, telling you, 'hey you in 2016, you really must take a look at this' because we have been looking around at some of the other sectors, and none warm the cockles of our heart just like the biotech one does.
You can see the chart above, is also forming what looks to be an ASCENDING TRIANGLE pattern, and in technical analysis terms, patterns like this, always tend to form before prices increase in price. So let that be a heads up for you.
We all agree that 2015 was not a good year for BIOTECH, but when you have a look back, there are lots of messy charts, and BIOTECH did seem to hold up ok, with lots of relative strength. So if 2016 was to be one of those years where everything does in fact recover, you will want to look for the sectors that show clear cut relative strength and BIOTECH is one of those.
There are several other charts we will share with our VIP members, but they have been concentrating on some of the BIOTECH sectors lately, and investors who are selective and astute in 2016, will make very HANDSOME profits!!! and one action to take, could be investing in biotech going forward.
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What is fluoride?
Fluoride is found in many foods and some water. The amount of fluoride in water varies from area to area. In the West Midlands it is added to water at a level of 1ppm.
What are the benefits of fluoride?
Fluoride disincorporated into developing tooth enamel, making it more resistant to tooth decay. This forms a harder version of the enamel.
Children who grow up in fluoridated areas have less dental decay. The addition of fluoride to water has been researched for over 50 years, and water fluoridation has been proven to reduce decay by 40-60%. Even so, very few areas of the UK have fluoride in the water.
What about fluoride toothpaste?
Almost all toothpastes contain fluoride. Fluoride toothpaste is very effective in preventing tooth decay
In areas where the water supply is fluoridated, fluoride toothpaste gives extra protection.
All children up to three years old should use a toothpaste with a fluoride level of at least 1000ppm (parts per million).
After three years old they should use a toothpaste that contains 1350ppm to 1500ppm.
Parents should supervise their children's tooth brushing, and use only a pea-sized smear of fluoride toothpaste until they are about 7 years old.
Dental fluorosis' is the main side effect, a white or brown mottling appearance on the teeth caused by having too much fluoride when the teeth are developing. It is often caused by children having too much toothpaste on the brush leading them to swallow the toothpaste. The severity varies from very mild, almost indiscernible white marks, to severe opacity of the tooth and or more unsightly brown marks.
Extra Fluoride
With fluoridated water in the West Midlands and fluoride toothpaste, there is little indication for the use of extra fluoride. One of the more useful ways in which it can be provided is by the use of a high fluoride mouthwash such as Colgate Fluoriguard. This is available in alcohol free formulations for younger patients. We would only recommend the use of this is some situations, where decay rates are high or where there is a lot of sensitivity or erosion. Your dentist can advise if you would benefit.
Many reports have been published throughout the world about the pros and cons of fluoride. After many years the scientific conclusion is that fluoride toothpaste and correctly fluoridated water, salt and milk are of great benefit to dental health, help to reduce decay, and cause no harmful side effects to general health. Studies carried out for the government by York University and the Medical Research Council have failed to find any evidence that fluoride added to water causes harmful side effects.
Opponents of fluoridation claim they have firm evidence that fluoride added to water is harmful. However, scientific analysis has not supported their claims.
Worldwide, over 300 million people drink fluoridated water supplies. Many millions more regularly use fluoridated toothpaste. In America for example, well over half of the population have fluoridated water supplies. This has led to improved levels of dental health which in turn benefits general health.
Although optimal levels of fluoride are protective, too much can lead to:
• White opacities in the teeth.
• Brown spots.
• Mottled teeth.
• Pits.
• Deeper Fissures.
Most of these issues are generally cosmetic in nature and are usually caused by ingestion of toothpaste at a young age, sucking it off the toothbrush, using too much or not using children's toothpaste. All of this will have occurred before the tooth erupts. Once the tooth erupts it is no longer affected by these factors.
Most mottled or mildly discoloured teeth ail gradually blend in as the child grows. However in severe cases veneer (extreme) or whitening may help. This must generally be done when older, usually after 18.
The picture below shows the effects of mottling in a moderate case of fluorosis. Click on the picture to see what happens after whitening.
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UJ 2210 - Marcella
Italy,Mediterranean
The French ocean going trawler Marcella was built by Ateliers et Chantiers de St.Nazaire and was launched in 1932. She was delivered to the French company Societe de Pecheries in 1933, and was sent fishing in the waters around Grenland. After the French capitulation in June 1940, she continued her service under Vichy France flag. When Germany occupied Vichy in November 1942, the Kriegsmarine confiscated the trawler. She was refitted as an an uboat hunter and assigned to 22. Ubootjagd Flotille in Marseilles under command of Leutnant zur see Otto Pollmann. While patrolling the waters outside Italy, she came on contact with four British torpedo boats outside Deiva Marina at night 28. October 1944. She was hit by a torpedo from MTB 419 and broke in two parts. The wreck rest today in two parts on a depth of 44 to 64 meter outside Framura. Also see the wrecks of UJ 2207, UJ 2208 and UJ 2216 from 22.Ubootjagd Flotille.
UJ 2210
218,6 x 34,5 x 16,9 f
1152 grt
St. Nazaire ( F ) 1932
Marseilles ( F )
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Research By Region
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Thermochronology
Isotopic Ages
Heat Flow
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Biogeographers
North and East Sulawesi
Exhumation and extension in North and East Sulawesi
Alfend Rudyawan and Eldert Advokaat, completed project
This project will examine the relationships between exhumation of basement rocks in Sulawesi, Indonesia, extension and subsidence in offshore basins, and regional tectonics.
Sulawesi lies in the zone of the convergence of the Eurasian, Indo-Australian and Philippine Sea plates. The island has long been interpreted as the result of collision and contraction in this convergent zone but new land and offshore observations challenge this interpretation and suggest a much more important role for extension, which continues at the present day, linked to subduction rollback. New seismic and multibeam data offshore indicate rapid subsidence whereas nearby on land there are newly identified metamorphic core complexes interpreted from shuttle radar imagery. The uplift on land and subsidence offshore appear to be contemporaneous and are probably linked. GPS observations indicate rapid movements of the upper crust, and there is a complex pattern of seismicity in the region.
The aim of the project is to identify the cause and timing of Neogene deformation and tectonic events. It will be conducted in parallel with a second PhD studentship awarded to an Indonesian student. The two research students will work together in the field and their projects will be complementary. Both projects will interpret structures on land and offshore. Field work will be based on interpretation of SRTM and ASTER imagery, and existing geological maps. New fieldwork will be undertaken in the north and east arms to map and date structures, determine the age and rates of young exhumation, and identify the nature of faulting and age of fault movements. The projects will use and interpret newly acquired multibeam imagery of the seafloor and 2D seismic lines between and around the north and east arms of Sulawesi.
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Recent Papers –
Max Webb et al., 2020. Isotopic mapping reveals the location of crustal fragments along a long-lived convergent plate boundary. Lithos.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105687
Max Webb et al., 2020. The history of Cenozoic magmatism and collision in NW New Guinea – New insights into the tectonic evolution of the northernmost margin of the Australian Plate. Gondwana Research.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2019.12.010
Amy Gough et al., 2020. Mid-Cenozoic fluvio-deltaic to marine environments of the Salin Sub-basin, Central Myanmar. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2019.104143
Amy Gough and Max Webb attended the Restech 2.0 Virtual Reservoir Conference. Amy Gough presented new SEARG research on the pitfalls of light mineral studies for sedimentary provenance in tropical climates.
Amy Gough was awarded an honorary research fellowship of the British Geological Survey and continues to foster collaborative relationships between SEARG and the BGS.
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G&D (Georgia Anne Muldrow and Dudley Perkins) Black Love & War
By Matt Bauer
As life and musical partners for 13 years, Georgia Anne Muldrow and Dudley Perkins (aka Declaime) send out a message of love, healing and resistance in the face of overwhelming oppression on their third album, Black Love & War. And through their idiosyncratic blend of psychedelic jazz, bass thumping funk and their own wayward vocal and rhyme styles, it's a message that's guaranteed to empower.
The insouciant bounce of "Where I'm From" shifts the album into gear as Perkins' rhymes counterpoint Muldrow's gliding vocals, climaxing into a joyous celebration of uncompromising blackness. That blackness is under constant attack, as on "Peace Peace," where Perkins laments "Welcome to the world son, where the police got a gun, run," over a stark Muldrow-produced beat. On the resilient call to action "The Battle," Muldrow urges the downtrodden to stand firm and tall, over a gritty, cinematic funk groove that segues into "Slave Revolt Soundtrack," which portrays the death of a slave master on a plantation in a satisfying revenge fantasy.
The couple's adoration for each other is every bit as potent as their social consciousness, on "P.A.L" and "Fruitful," two of the cosmic quiet storm cuts that comprise the album's second half. And when Aloe Blacc drops by on "Smile," something's seriously amiss if your body doesn't move. As America spirals into ever-increasing despair and chaos, we're lucky to have G&D as musical messengers. (Someothaship: Connect/E1)
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Vermillion Police Department
Instead of the annual D-Days parade, this year there will be a motorcade through Vermillion and the surrounding communities. File Photo | The Volante
Dakota Days
‘Something special’ planned for Dakota Days
September 22nd, 2020 Miles Amende Campus, Dakota Days, Student Life comments
With no sporting events and all the safety guidelines that come with the pandemic, Dakota Days week is shifting to alternative means to celebrate USD homecoming.
Doug Wagner, advisor to the Dakota Days executive committee, said the biggest difference this year is that large events have moved from the Muenster University Center to either Aalfs Auditorium or outdoor settings in order to facilitate social distancing.
“It’ll look a little bit different, it’ll function a little bit different, but largely, events are still happening, they’re just going to happen in a different space,” Wagner said.
Carter Hoffer, president of the Dakota Days executive committee, said the committee won’t hold an event if they can’t ensure social distancing at it, which means the street dance and parade are canceled. Despite these changes, Hoffer said there will still be many staples of D-Days, including the Yotes Got Talent event — which will be held outdoors — and D-Days royalty voting.
“It’s going to be extremely different than we’ve seen in the past,” Hoffer said. “We’re trying to keep everything safe, and we’re trying to keep as many events as possible outside to make it even safer.”
During the week, students will be able to attend a screening of last year’s USD-SDSU game at the DakotaDome. Students will also be able to attend a virtual mind-reading show over Zoom with entertainer Mark Toland hosted by the Campus Activities Board.
Marcus Destin, D-Days event coordinator, said in lieu of the parade, a motorcade will travel through Vermillion and surrounding communities. Because there won’t be a football game, Destin said, the D-Days committee is planning something special, though they don’t want to announce what it is yet.
The committee is also planning to host a second week of celebrations similar to D-Days in the spring. Hoffer said the event is something the university has been pushing for over the past few years, and that the pandemic provides an opportunity to start hosting these celebrations, though he doesn’t know if the week will be centered around sports like D-Days usually is.
“Obviously, we don’t know what the next semester’s going to look like pandemic-wise,” Hoffer said. “We don’t know what’s happening, so it’s going to depend pretty heavily on how things are going.”
Destin said in addition to being good for Vermillion businesses, the second week of events gives students that don’t enter the university in the fall semester a chance to see what D-Days is like.
“It’s also good for recruitment because if you’re a transfer student and you come in in the spring, you don’t get a formal introduction to USD, so that’s what this would be,” Destin said.
This semester’s D-Days will be different, Destin said, because students themselves need to show their own personal D-Day’s spirit.
“We cannot just hand you an event and tell you to participate,” Destin said. “We’re going to have a D-Days — it may not be the one you’re familiar with, but it still is up to you to make it the best that it can be in this situation.”
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Roots: There is a reference to Paula Radcliffe. The Doctor sings a version of “Swing Low Sweet Chariot”.
Continuity: Every few hundred years the Sontaran/Rutan war heads over in the direction of Earth, which always becomes a key battle ground. A Sontaran is temporarily knocked unconscious when a screwdriver is inserted into its probic vent. The Sontarans seen here belong to the Twelfth Sontaran Battle Fleet and are commanded by Major Stenx. They use a huge robot here [possibly of the same sort to that seen in The Sontaran Experiment, based on its description]. It has controls to adjust its apparent mass, depending on the local gravity. Sontarans have devices in their suits that allow them to adapt to the gravity of whatever planet they are on; these are part of a central matrix of controls that also includes the robot’s. When the robot’s gravity controls are tampered with, the Sontarans become weightless.
The Rutan agent seen here came to Earth to infiltrate the Globe Games and manipulate the world event to cause a war between Earth’s nations, thus causing humanity to wipe itself out and leave the strategically valuable Earth open for the Rutans to take it with ease. The Rutan drains the electrically energy from BASE in order to recharge itself. The Rutan shape-changing elite are made to learn Sontaran as a default form.
Sontar Sand Shrews are tiny, black and furry and native to the deserts of Sontar; because food is scarce there, they have evolved to eat virtually anything and can devour a human in less than a minute.
The Doctor carries a torch in his pocket. He wears rubber boots here.
The Rutan charges the TARDIS with electricity here, melting the key when the Doctor tries to open the door. He gets back inside by clicking his fingers to open the door (see Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead).
Links: The Doctor is travelling alone, setting this story somewhere between The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End and The End of Time . The Doctor recalls the events of The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky. Horror of Fang Rock.
Location: BASE, Britain, the early twenty-first century.
Future History: BASE is the British Academy for Sporting Excellence and is a training camp for gifted athletes hoping to compete in the Globe Games.
Unrecorded Adventures: The Doctor has just left the planet Pootle, where the Sharks are three metres tall and have guns.
The Bottom Line: Quite good, with Rayner packing just enough plot into the short page count to keep things interesting, whilst using both Sontarans and Rutans to good effect.
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Golden Baseball League
Golden Baseball League logo
Inaugural season
Ceased
2010 (merged with ULB and NoL)
No. of teams
6 (as of November 2010)
champion(s)
Chico Outlaws
Most titles
Chico Outlaws (2)
The Golden Baseball League, based in San Ramon, California, was an independent baseball league. It later merged with the Northern League and the United Baseball League to form the North American League in the western United States, western Canada and Mexico.
The GBL was not affiliated with Major League Baseball or the organized Minor League Baseball system, but has featured players with MLB experience (Rickey Henderson, Jose Canseco, Alex Arias, Bud Smith, Desi Wilson, José Lima, Hideki Irabu, Junior Spivey, Mark Prior). It was formed in 2004 and began play on May 26, 2005.
Over 100 players were sold to MLB organizations since it began play, with seven players already making it to a major league uniform – Dane De La Rosa, Adam Pettyjohn, Scott Richmond, Chris Jakubauskas, Sergio Romo, Bobby Cramer, and Daniel Nava.
The GBL's presenting partner was Safeway Inc. Other investors in the GBL included Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak,[1] former National Football League players Mike Sherrard and Christian Okoye, and executives from Cisco Systems, Taleo and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.[2]
The Golden Baseball League combined with United League Baseball and the Northern League into a new North American League for the 2011 season to form the first nationwide independent professional baseball league.[3] However, the North American League folded after two seasons.
1.1 The beginning
1.2 Season 2: League Contracts
1.3 League expands to Utah and Canada
1.4 Tijuana joins league in 2009 and will play in 2010
1.5 Yuma becomes a Colombian affiliation in 2009
1.6 Maui announced for 2010, Long Beach suspended
1.7 Kaval leaves GBL for MLS, League to expand east
2 Drug testing
3 Franchises that played
3.1 Teams that never played
4 Season-by-season results
4.1 2005 Season
5 All-star game
5.1 2006 GBL All-Star Game
5.2 2008 United League vs. Golden League All-Star Game
5.3 2009 Golden League All-Star Game
5.4 2010 and 2011 GBL All-Star Games
6 GBL Instructional/Developmental Leagues
6.1 Arizona Winter League
6.2 Arizona Summer League
The league was founded in 2004 by Stanford University graduates Dave Kaval and Amit Patel. Kaval was the president and chief executive officer (Patel departed after the 2008 season to run his family business conglomerate in Laurel, Mississippi). Brian MacInnes was the president, and Bill Weiss was the league's secretary and historian.[4]
Many former MLB coaches and players coached or managed in the GBL, including Kip Gross, Les Lancaster, Mike Marshall, Ozzie Virgil, Jr., Darrell Evans, Garry Templeton, Cory Snyder, Jeffrey Leonard, Gary Carter, Mike Busch, Steve Yeager, Phil Nevin, Charlie Hough, Mark Parent, Tim Johnson, Terry Kennedy, Paul Abbott, Brett Boone, Alex Arias, Rusty Meacham, and Warren Cromartie.[5]
The beginning[edit]
The league began with a single-entity model whereby the league owned all the clubs (except Tijuana and Japan which were partnerships). Since then, several of the clubs have been sold to private groups.
In its inaugural season, the league was composed of eight teams: the Chico Outlaws, Fullerton Flyers, Long Beach Armada and San Diego Surf Dawgs in California; Mesa Miners, Surprise Fightin' Falcons and Yuma Scorpions in Arizona and the Japan Samurai Bears. All teams played their home games in city- and university-owned stadiums, with the exception of the Samurai Bears, a traveling team of Japanese players that played all of its games on the road. The Japanese team was a late entry as the Tijuana Toros, who led all of minor league baseball in attendance at over 13,000 fans a game, had jumped from the Mexican League to the GBL in December to be a charter member of the league, only to learn that the government of the Mexican state of Baja California would not permit this.
Three of the GBL's teams, Long Beach, Chico and Yuma, operated in cities that once hosted Western Baseball League teams. The WBL operated from 1995 to 2002.
On May 9, 2005, Major League Baseball's all-time stolen base leader, Rickey Henderson, signed a contract to play the 2005 season with the Surf Dawgs.
The 2005 season ended with a four-team championship tournament on Labor Day Weekend. The tournament ended with San Diego winning two games on the final day, knocking off Mesa in the second game to win the title.
José Canseco, another retired star, signed with the Surf Dawgs in 2006 as part of his attempt to return to baseball and promote his book, Juiced, along with its upcoming movie adaptation. Canseco was traded to the Armada after only one game. He said that the move was to be closer to his daughter.[6]
Season 2: League Contracts[edit]
Before the 2006 season, Surprise was discontinued, while Mesa moved to Reno, another former Western League city, and became the Reno Silver Sox, the first GBL club in Nevada. The league moved to a six-team format and did not have the traveling Samurai Bears return.
League expands to Utah and Canada[edit]
Prior to the 2007 season, the San Diego Surf Dawgs operation was discontinued as San Diego State breached the lease agreement with the league and subsequently paid a settlement. The GBL remained at six teams by adding the St. George RoadRunners. The Utah city also hosted a Western League club from 1999 to 2001, the Zion Pioneerzz, becoming the fifth former WBL city to join the league.
In 2008, two former Northern League clubs, the Calgary Vipers and Edmonton Cracker-Cats, joined the GBL, becoming the loop's first two Canadian teams.
The league expanded to nine teams in 2009 with the addition of the Victoria Seals, while the Reno Silver Sox moved to Tucson to become the Toros. The Cracker-Cats were sold to Edmonton Oilers owner Daryl Katz and renamed the Edmonton Capitals for the 2009 season.
Tijuana joins league in 2009 and will play in 2010[edit]
On December 15, 2008, the league signed a letter of intent to place another expansion franchise in Tijuana, Mexico. After the addition of the expansion Tijuana Potros on January 13, the Armada were moved to the North Division. The Potros themselves would postpone the season due to the swine flu outbreak in Mexico.[7] This made all their scheduled games days off for the other nine teams and left their GBL future in serious doubt.
As planned, the Tijuana team did return for the 2010 season but came back with a new name and additional owners. The Tijuana Cimarrones were announced as a member of the GBL when the schedule was released on January 15, 2010.[8]
Yuma becomes a Colombian affiliation in 2009[edit]
On May 20, 2009, the Yuma Sun reported that the team had signed an affiliation agreement with the Colombian Professional Baseball League (CPBL).[9] Under the terms of the affiliation, the CPBL will handle all on-field personnel and player issues while the team will retain control of promotions, concessions, and other front-office business. The Scorpions will act as a showcase team for players from all four CPBL teams.[10]
Yuma Scorpion Reynaldo Rodriguez, of Cartagena, Colombia, was named GBL 2009 Rookie of the Year, the top prospect in all the independent leagues by Baseball America, and had his contract purchased by the Boston Red Sox.[11]
Maui announced for 2010, Long Beach suspended[edit]
On September 30, 2009, the GBL announced that the Hawaiian sports and entertainment company XnE Inc. had purchased the territory rights to place teams in Hawaii and that their inaugural team would play at the War Memorial Complex in Maui in 2010. The team announced their name as Na Koa Ikaika Maui, which means the Strong Warriors of Maui.[12][13]
The Long Beach Armada announced that they were suspending operations due to an ongoing stadium lease dispute with the city of Long Beach.
Kaval leaves GBL for MLS, League to expand east[edit]
Dave Kaval, co-founder and C.E.O. of the GBL since its inception in 2005, resigned to take the job as team president of the San Jose Earthquakes of Major League Soccer.[14][15][16][17][18]
The United League and the Northern League agreed to join the GBL for the 2011 season in the formation of the new North American League. The Rockford RiverHawks, Schaumburg Flyers, Joliet Jackhammers, and Lake County Fielders planned on leaving the Northern League and join the GBL for 2011 with the new format.[19] United League teams joining the NAL include the Edinburg Roadrunners, Harlingen Whitewings and San Angelo Colts.
Drug testing[edit]
The league was the only independent baseball association to have drug testing. The league CEO Dave Kaval explained:
"I feel that there is no place for illegal drugs in our business. We run a family-friendly operation off the field, and illegal drug usage by our players would undermine the trust we have established with our fans. That is exactly what has happened at the MLB level. As a steward of the great game of baseball, I am proud to say that we have the most stringent drug policy in all of professional baseball."[20]
Franchises that played[edit]
Calgary Vipers 2005 Calgary, Alberta Foothills Stadium 6,000 Joined league from Northern League in 2008; folded in 2011
Chico Outlaws 2005 Chico, California Nettleton Stadium 4,200 Charter team; Only team to win two GBL titles; Joined the North American League in 2010; folded in 2012
Edmonton Capitals 2005 Edmonton, Alberta Telus Field 10,000 Joined league from Northern League in 2005; folded in 2011
Fullerton Flyers/Orange County Flyers 2005 Fullerton, California Goodwin Field 12,623 Charter team; Joined the North American League in 2010; Joined the American West Baseball League in 2013, then left that league
Japan Samurai Bears 2005 Japan Traveling Team N/A Charter team; Played only season in 2005 before folding
Long Beach Armada 2005 Long Beach, California Blair Field 3,283 Charter team; folded in 2010 after stadium issues[12]
Mesa Miners 2005 Mesa, Arizona HoHoKam Park 12,623 Charter team; Folded after only one season
Na Koa Ikaika Maui 2009 Wailuku, Hawaii Maehara Stadium[13][21] 4,100 The team moved to the Pacific Association of Professional Baseball Clubs in 2012 and folded one year later in 2013.
Reno Silver Sox 2006 Reno, Nevada William Peccole Park 3,000 Relocated to Tucson, Arizona and became the Tucson Toros in 2009
St. George RoadRunners 2007 St. George, Utah Bruce Hurst Field 2,500 Team relocated to Henderson, Nevada and were to be a charter team for the North American League, but never played again; folded in 2012
San Diego Surf Dawgs 2005 San Diego, California Tony Gwynn Stadium 3,000 Charter team; First-ever GBL Champions; folded in 2007
Surprise Fightin' Falcons 2005 Surprise, Arizona Surprise Recreation Campus Unknown Charter team; Folded after only one season
Tijuana Cimarrones 2005 Tijuana, Baja California Estadio Nacional de Tijuana 18,500 Formerly of Liga Mexicana de Béisbol; originally known as the Tijuana Potros; folded after only one season
Tucson Toros 1969 Tucson, Arizona Hi Corbett Field 9,500 Formerly a member of the Triple-A Pacific Coast League; relocated from Reno, Nevada; returned to play in 2009, but folded in 2011
Victoria Seals 2008 Victoria, British Columbia Royal Athletic Park 3,800 Folded in 2010
Yuma Scorpions 2005 Yuma, Arizona Desert Sun Stadium 10,500 Charter team; folded after the 2012 season after two attempt to restart in different leagues
Teams that never played[edit]
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Tijuana Toros from Tijuana, Mexico – Stadium was seized by Mexican military forces in January 2005 and awarded to former politicians who had struck a deal to bring a team back to the Mexican Summer League. The GBL quickly responded by forming the Japan Samurai Bears to fill the Tijuana spot on the schedule. There was also the Tijuana Potros and Tijuana Embajadores from Tijuana, Baja California.
Santa Clarita, California – Awarded franchise in 2006, but ownership was unable to find or build a ballpark.[22][23]
Palm Springs, California[24] - Awarded franchise in 2009, was expected to play in the 2012 season. The GBL and later NAL didn't allow Palm Springs to have the team play in 2010 and 2011, due to Palm Springs Stadium's substandard facility standards.
Season-by-season results[edit]
2005 Season[edit]
California Division
Arizona Division
1 San Diego-x 52 38 -- 1 Mesa-x 51 39 --
2 Chico-y 49 41 3 2 Yuma 47 43 4
3 Long Beach-y 49 41 3 3 Surprise 45 45 6
4 Fullerton 34 56 18 4 Samurai Bears 33 57 18
x-Division Champion y-Wild Card (Division champions and top two wild card teams go to Championship.)
Playoffs and Championship (4 team double-elimination, final 2 teams face in one game playoff):
Game 1 SAN DIEGO 9 Chico 0
Game 2 MESA 8 Long Beach 0
Game 3 CHICO 7 Long Beach 5 (Long Beach eliminated)
Game 4 MESA 2 San Diego 0
Game 5 SAN DIEGO 2 Chico 1 (Chico eliminated)
Championship Game SAN DIEGO 9 Mesa 6 (San Diego wins championship)
MVP Cody Clark, San Diego
Pitcher of the Year
Rookie Pitcher of the Year
2005 Desi Wilson, 1B/OF, Surprise Grant Gregg, LHP, Chico Nick Guerra, C/3B, San Diego Manny Ayala, RHP, Mesa Terry Kennedy, San Diego Bob Linscheid, Chico[25]
Gold Glove winners:[26] Pitcher: Adam Pettyjohn, Long Beach Catcher: Cody Clark, San Diego First base: Yuji Nerei, Samurai Bears Second base: Kenichi Miura, Samurai Bears Third base: Sean Walsh, Fullerton Shortstop: Jeremy Hernandez, Long Beach Outfielders Marcus Knight, Mesa; Billy Brown, Surprise; Travis McAndrews, Long Beach
Standings:
1st Half Standings
2nd Half Standings
1 Reno-z 25 15 -- 1 Fullerton-x 26 14 --
2 Chico 22 18 3 2 Chico 24 16 2
3 Long Beach 22 18 3 3 Reno 22 18 4
4 Yuma 18 22 7 4 San Diego 19 21 7
5 Fullerton 17 23 8 5 Long Beach 15 25 11
6 San Diego 16 24 9 6 Yuma 14 26 12
z-First-half champion and best overall record, x-second-half champion (Champions of each half face in 5-game series for championship. If one team wins both halves, the team with next best overall record receives championship bid.)
Championship (best of 5 game series):
Game 1 RENO 11 Fullerton 4
Game 2 RENO 5 Fullerton 4
Game 3 FULLERTON 9 Reno 5
Game 4 RENO 5 Fullerton 3 (Reno wins championship)
MVP Doug Gredvig, Reno
2006 Peanut Williams, 1B/DH, Fullerton Chris Jakubauskas, RHP, Fullerton Matt Maloney, OF, San Diego Phil Springman, RHP, Chico Les Lancaster, Reno Becca Hoffer, Chico
All-League Team: Catcher: Marcus Jensen, Reno First base: Desi Wilson, Chico Second base: Adam Mandel, San Diego Third base: Henry Calderon, Yuma Shortstop: Bret LeVier, Fullerton Utility: Craig Kuzmic, Chico Outfielders: Seth Pietsch, San Diego; Jason Van Meetren, Chico; Jeff LaRue, Long Beach; Scott Goodman, San Diego Designated hitter: Peanut Williams, Fullerton Starting Pitchers: Chris Jakubauskas, Fullerton; Andre Simpson, Long Beach; Ben Thurmond, Reno; Phil Springman, Chico; Brian Kroll, Chico; Nate Sevier, Reno Relief Pitchers: Josh Rummonds, San Diego; Scott Schneider, Reno; E.J. Shanks, San Diego; Mike Peck, Long Beach; Wes Faust, Fullerton
Gold Glove Winners:[27] Pitcher: James Johnson, Reno Catcher: Marcus Jensen, Reno First base: Desi Wilson, Chico Second base: Rob Gandolfo, Chico Third base: Henry Calderon, Yuma Shortstop: Hector Tena, Yuma Outfielders Chris Klemm, Long Beach; Lino Garcia, Chico; Ryan Webb, Long Beach
1 Chico-x 25 13 -- 1 Long Beach-z 25 13 --
2 Long Beach 23 15 2 2 Yuma 21 17 4
3 Yuma 21 17 4 3 Chico 19 19 6
4 Orange County 19 19 6 4 Orange County 18 20 7
5 Reno 18 20 7 5 St. George 16 22 9
6 St. George 7 31 18 6 Reno 15 23 10
x-1st half champion, z-2nd half champion and best overall record
Game 1 CHICO 10 Long Beach 4
Game 3 LONG BEACH 7 Chico 5
Game 4 CHICO 6 Long Beach 1 (Chico wins championship)
MVP Scott Dragicevich, Chico
2007 Daniel Nava, OF, Chico Todd Gelatka, RHP, Chico Kane Simmons, OF, Reno Dustin Gober, RHP, Long Beach Curt Jacey, Reno
All-League Team: Catcher: Buddy Morales, Orange County First base: Jaime Martinez, Long Beach Second base: David Bacani, Orange County Third base: Henry Calderon, Yuma Shortstop: Jesse Kovacs, Chico Utility: Ryan Stevenson, St. George Outfielders: Daniel Nava, Chico; Kane Simmons, Reno; Johnny Kaplan, Long Beach Yosvanny Almario, Yuma Designated hitter: Peanut Williams, Orange County Starting Pitchers: Ben Fox, Orange County; Derek Loop, Chico; Ryan Claypool, Long Beach; Roger Luque, Yuma; Dusty Bergman, Reno Relief Pitchers: Todd Gelatka, Chico; Dane De La Rosa, Long Beach; Anthony Pluta, St. George; Neil Hayes, Yuma
Overall Standings:[28]
North Division Standings
Winning %
South Division Standings
1 Edmonton-y 51 37 .580 -- 1 Orange County-x 51 35 .593 --
2 Calgary-x 45 42 .517 5½ 2 Yuma 48 40 .545 4
3 Chico 34 52 .395 16 3 Long Beach-y 47 40 .540 4½
4 Reno 30 58 .341 21 4 St. George 43 45 .489 9
x-1st half division champion, y-2nd half division champion
2008 All-Star Game:
2008 - United League Baseball All-Stars 8, Golden Baseball League All-Stars 5 (July 15, 2008, San Angelo, Texas)
Northern Division Playoff (best of 5 game series):
Game 1 CALGARY 8, Edmonton 4
Game 3 Edmonton 1, CALGARY 8 (Calgary wins series 3-0)
Southern Division Playoff (best of 5 game series):
Game 1 ORANGE COUNTY 4, Long Beach 2
Game 3 LONG BEACH 13, Orange County 4
Game 4 Long Beach 3, ORANGE COUNTY 4
Game 5 Long Beach 2, ORANGE COUNTY 12 (Orange County wins series 3-2)
Game 1 Orange County 5, CALGARY 6
Game 2 ORANGE COUNTY 13, Calgary 1
Game 3 Calgary 9, ORANGE COUNTY 14
Game 4 CALGARY 9, Orange County 1
Game 5 Calgary 9, ORANGE COUNTY 10 (Flyers win Championship)
Series MVP Josh Arhart, Orange County
Safeway Most Valuable Player
2008 Patrick Breen (Orange County) Trevor Caughey (Chico) Colin Moro (Calgary) Ben Shockey (Chico) Gary Carter (Orange County) TBA
All-League Team: Catcher: TBA First base: TBA Second base: TBA Third base: TBA Shortstop: TBA Utility: TBA Outfielders: TBA Designated hitter: TBA Starting Pitchers: TBA Relief Pitchers: TBA
1 Calgary-x, y 49 27 .645 -- 1 St. George-x 48 34 .585 --
2 Edmonton-z 44 38 .537 8 2 Long Beach 40 36 .526 5
3 Chico 33 44 .429 16½ 3 Tucson-y 38 35 .521 5½
4 Victoria 32 50 .390 20 4 Orange County 37 39 .487 8
5 5 Yuma 29 47 .382 16
x-1st half division champion, y-2nd half division champion, z-wild card
Game 1 CALGARY 15, Edmonton 4
Game 3 EDMONTON 13, Calgary 6
Game 1 TUCSON 9, St. George 4
Game 2 ST. GEORGE 6, Tucson 3
Game 5 St. George 4, TUCSON 5 (Tucson wins series 3-2)
Game 1 CALGARY 9, Tucson 8
Game 2 CALGARY 11, Tucson 4
Game 3 TUCSON 12, Calgary 1
Game 4 Tucson 10, CALGARY 18 (Calgary wins championship)
Series MVP Sergio Pedroza (Calgary)
2009 Nelson Castro (Calgary) Matt Durbin (Orange County) Reynaldo Rodriquez (Yuma) Mikael Ryder (Chico) Morgan Burkhart (Calgary) Darren Parker (Victoria)
Attendance (paid):[30]
Tucson 139,149 3,661
Victoria 93,691 2,342
Chico 89,276 2,177
Edmonton 84,813 2,174
Calgary 54,910 1,525
Long Beach 54,931 1,408
Yuma 41,578 1,259
St. George 44,417 1,168
Orange County 28,344 944
All-star game[edit]
2006 GBL All-Star Game[edit]
The GBL played their very first All-Star Game on July 18, 2006 at Chico's Nettleton Stadium pitting the North All-Stars against the South All-Stars.[31]
2008 United League vs. Golden League All-Star Game[edit]
The GBL reached a two-year agreement with the United League to face off in two All-Star Games. The 2008 game was hosted by the ULB's San Angelo Colts, while the 2009 game was to be hosted by the Orange County Flyers.[32] However, the United League went bankrupt in the off-season after 2008, causing the 2009 All-Star Game to be cancelled.[33]
2009 Golden League All-Star Game[edit]
In replacement of the 2009 All-Star Game against the United League, the GBL held its own All-Star Game. The game was between the two divisions, taking place in St. George, Utah - home of the RoadRunners, on Tuesday, July 14. During the game, pitchers Donnie Brandt and Isaac Hess were purchased by major league organizations during the game by Milwaukee and Boston respectively. Fehlandt Lentini won the home run derby.[34]
2010 and 2011 GBL All-Star Games[edit]
On December 9, 2009 the GBL and the Northern League announced a two-year agreement that would pit the all-stars of the two leagues against each other in the mid-summer classic. The 2010 game wAS in Tucson on July 14 while the leagues will face off in Zion, Illinois at the newest ballpark (currently under construction) in the Northern League.[35]
GBL Instructional/Developmental Leagues[edit]
The GBL, then later the North American League, featured two small instructional leagues that helped produce future independent, minor league and even Major League Baseball standouts, including two-time World Series Champion Sergio Romo of the San Francisco Giants. These leagues folded with the NAL in 2013.
Arizona Winter League[edit]
Main article: Arizona Winter League
On November 15, 2006, the Golden Baseball League announced the Arizona Winter League, which would be a short-season instructional league for its summer league. The league began play on January 19, 2007. The Arizona Winter League has just completed its third season. In the first three years, over 130 Arizona Winter League players have been signed to professional contracts. Two of those players, Scott Richmond and Sergio Romo, are now pitching in the major leagues. The 2009 Arizona Winter League began play on January 31, 2009 and has expanded to 8 teams and almost 200 players.
Arizona Summer League[edit]
Main article: Arizona Summer League
On April 3, 2009, the Golden Baseball League announced its second instructional league known as the Arizona Summer League, which is patterned after the AWL. This league consists of three teams, the Canada Miners, El Centro Imperials and San Luis Atleticos and began play in late June 2009. The ASL had 12 players signed to pro contracts during the 2009 season.
The Bisbee Miners, Long Beach Armada and San Diego Surf Dawgs joined the ASL for the 2010 season.
Television[edit]
The Yuma Scorpions became the first franchise in the league to broadcast select games on Adelphia Cable, which were produced by Arizona Western College Television Services.[36] The Edmonton Capitals televised selected games by reaching an agreement with Shaw TV.[37] The Golden Baseball League announced they had reached a deal with iBN Sports to broadcast 40 games on the internet showing various teams.[38]
^ Pat Sajak's GBL page Archived 2009-12-14 at the Wayback Machine at PatSajak.com
^ "Golden Baseball League Ownership Group". Archived from the original on 2008-08-03. Retrieved 2008-03-19.
^ "New Professional North American League Formed". OurSports Central. 18 November 2010.
^ "GBL 2008 Media Guide" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-04. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
^ Questions and Answers Archived 2008-08-03 at the Wayback Machine, GBL website
^ "Canseco seeks trade from Surf Dawgs".
^ Tijuana on Hold for '09[permanent dead link], GBL website, May 8, 2009
^ "Golden Baseball League Releases 2010 Schedule". OurSports Central. 15 January 2010.
^ "Yuma Scorpions Sell Contract Of 1b Reynaldo Rodriguez To The Boston Red Sox". OurSports Central. 14 October 2009.
^ a b Golden Baseball League adds Maui, Tijuana teams for '10; drops Long Beach, Ballpark Digest, January 15, 2010
^ a b Collias, Robert (September 30, 2009). "Golden Baseball League plans to have Maui team in 2010". The Maui News. Archived from the original on July 25, 2011.
^ San Jose Earthquakes president named, Eli Segall, Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal, October 4, 2010
^ Chico Outlaws' chief executive takes another job Archived 2012-03-07 at the Wayback Machine, Travis Souders, Chico Enterprise-Record, October 5, 2010
^ Chico Outlaws Future In Question Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine, Bryan Callahan, KHSL-TV website, October 5, 2010
^ VIDEO: Chico Outlaws Future Archived 2010-10-07 at the Wayback Machine, KHSL-TV website, October 5, 2010
^ Kaval's resignation leaves questions for Outlaws, GBL Archived 2012-03-07 at the Wayback Machine, Travis Souders, Chico Enterprise-Record, October 6, 2010
^ Riverhakws join Golden League Archived 2010-11-20 at the Wayback Machine, WREX.com, November 12, 2010
^ "SABR Nine: Golden Baseball League CEO and Founder Dave Kaval". Archived from the original on 2009-02-07. Retrieved 2008-07-17.
^ Golden Baseball League Expands to Hawaii[permanent dead link], GBL website, September 30, 2009
^ Expansion Team Dreams of Field, Los Angeles Times, March 28, 2006
^ SUPPORT SANTA CLARITA Archived 2007-08-17 at the Wayback Machine, GBL website, April 4, 2006
^ Golden Baseball League Reaches Agreement To Place Team In Palm Springs, Our Sports Central, December 14, 2009
^ "Bob Linscheid named GBL". OurSports Central. 15 September 2005.
^ "Golden Baseball League announces Golden Glove Winners". OurSports Central. 2 September 2005.
^ "San Jose Mercury News: 2008 Golden Baseball League standings".
^ "Golden Baseball League - standings". Pointstreak Sports Technologies.
^ "Attendance at PointSreak.com".
^ GBL All-Star Game Archived 2007-08-16 at the Wayback Machine, GBL website, April 17, 2006
^ Reichard, Kevin (January 7, 2009). "United League united no more". ballparkdigest.com. Archived from the original on January 7, 2021. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
^ "North Wins GBL All-Star Game as Two Players are Signed by MLB Teams". OurSports Central. Archived from the original on January 7, 2021. Retrieved September 16, 2010.
^ "Golden Baseball League And Northern League All-Stars To Face Off". OurSports Central. 9 December 2009.
^ http://shaw.flooringisite.info/shaw-cable-tv-edmonton[permanent dead link]
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"Golden Baseball League". goldenbaseball.com. Archived from the original on March 5, 2011.
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Brief History of the Labrador Retriever
Introduction to the Labrador Retriever
According to the American Kennel Club (AKC), the Labrador Retriever is in the class of Sporting dogs. They are considered a flushing dog that will retrieve downed game for their hunter master. The Labrador Retriever graduates from Twin Lakes Kennel and their owners have proven our training methods on waterfowl and upland birds from South America to Alaska. According to the AKC rankings, Labs have come to be one of the favorite family house pets in America today, ranking Nunber One for the past decade. They are intelligent, energetic, gentle, loyal and playful. If properly socialized, which we begin immediately, they can easily live along side other pets around the house.
The history of the Labrador Retriever can accurately be traced back to the late 1700’s. The Labrador Retriever did not come from Labrador. They originated in Newfoundland. There were two common breeds known as the Greater Newfoundland and the Lesser Newfoundland. The Lesser Newfoundland was a smooth coated black dog unrivaled for hardiness and stamina. The area was populated with a small water dog, which, when bred with the Newfoundland breeds, produced a new breed called the St. John’s Water Dog.
The Lesser Newfoundlands were the constant companions of fishermen of the Labrador Sea, catching fish that came loose from the lines and trained to jump into the icy waters to help pull in the nets. The Lesser Newfoundland developed a wide-spread reputation for its hunting and retrieving abilities. Early in the 19th century, the Earl of Malmesbury reputedly saw one of the dogs of this type and had it imported. In Great Britain, it became very popular on the large estates, and breeding programs by the estate owners were put into place. Virtually all of those dogs came from the kennels of the Dukes of Buccleuch and the Earls of Malmesbury, who must be credited with preserving the integrity of the new breed of hunting retriever.
English Black Labrador Retriever
The temperament of the St John’s Water Dog is documented back to the early days in England and had made them ideal family pets as well as accomplished sporting dogs. In 1830, British sportsman Colonel Hawker, the celebrated wildfowler and one of the foremost shooters of his time, referred to the breed as “by far the best for any kind of shooting, he is generally black and no bigger than a pointer, very fine in legs, with short smooth hair and does not carry his tail so much curled as the other; is extremely quick running, swimming and fighting … chiefly used on the native coast by fishermen, Their sense of smell is hardly to be credited; in finding wounded game there is not a living equal in the canine race.”
The dogs were not known as Labradors until the Earl of Malmesbury admitted that he “always called [his] Labrador dogs.” In 1887, the third Earl of Malmesbury wrote to a friend, “We always called mine Labrador dogs, and I have kept the breed as pure as I could from the first I had from Poole (Harbour), at that time carrying on a brisk trade with Newfoundland. The real breed may be known by their having a close coat which turns the water off like oil, above all, a tail like an otter.”
The Territory of Labrador, now the easternmost province of Canada, is just northwest of Newfoundland Island, geographically. Richard Wolters in his book, The Labrador Retriever, writes that the 19th century Brits lumped that area together as the same land mass, so the name Labrador could have referred to dogs from that general area. During the 1880’s trade with Newfoundland broke down and the Quarantine Act of 1885 stopped the importation of the Lesser Newfoundland dog into England. During the same period, all the districts in Newfoundland banned the keeping of all dogs. The breed was virtually destroyed in the Island, but a few of the old breed were found in remote areas during the 1930’s. Many Labradors were interbred with other types of retrievers, but luckily, the breed prevailed and fanciers drew up a definitive standard.
Neither the Buccleuch dogs nor the Malmesbury dogs ever appeared in competition. It is, however, from the careful and dedicated importation and breeding by these kennels, including the Radclyffe family, in the earliest days of the breed’s history, that the bloodlines of the pure bred Labrador became established in England. We owe a huge debt of gratitude to these men and others like them, for their diligence in protecting and preserving the bloodlines of the Labrador we love and enjoy, today.
Current Status of Labrador Retrievers in America.
American Black Labrador Retriever at Twin Lakes Kennel.
Accurate pedigrees of today’s Labrador Retrievers can be traced back to1878. The Labrador retriever was finally recognized as a distinct breed by the English Kennel Club in 1903. The first registration of Labradors by the American Kennel Club was in 1917. During the 1920s and ‘30s, there was a great influx of British dogs that formed the backbone of the breed in this country. The Labrador Retriever Club recognizes the importance of keeping the Lab true to its original purpose and requires that before the Club will recognize a conformation championship, the Lab must also have a Working Certificate, to prove that it meets minimum standards of field work.
Twin Lakes Kennel, and its owners, Woody and Judi Thurman, are members of the American Kennel Club, the Labrador Retrievers Club and Ducks Unlimited. They continue in the rich tradition of preserving the integrity of the bloodlines of the American Labrador Retriever. For the past 35 years, they have searched for the most dominant American field bloodlines and bred for natural hunting instinct and tractability. They have produced more than eight thousand world-class Labrador Retrievers during this time.
Online Sources: American Kennel Club, PetWave.com, BarkBytes.com and DogBreedInfo.com
Are you interested in learning more about labrador retriever puppies for sale by Twin Lakes Kennel? Call us for more information at (910) 462-3246 to purchase a world class Labrador Retriever from Woody Thurman today!
About Woody Thurman: Woody and Judi Thurman of Twin Lakes Kennel have been breeding and training world class Labrador Retrievers for more than 35 years. Twin Lakes Kennel is the number #1 resource for Labrador Retriever puppies. We select from the most dominant American field bloodlines and breed for natural hunting instinct and tractability. Our Labs, both puppies and adults, are out of the top working Labrador Retriever bloodlines in the country. The end results are the most talented, well rounded Labrador Retrievers possible, making them a most desirable family pet.
More than eight thousand (8,000) Labrador Retrievers have been bred and trained during those thirty-five years. During this time, Woody has titled more than 200 AKC Master Hunter Labrador Retrievers. Woody has also qualified 47 retrievers at AKC Master Nationals. He has won the Ducks Unlimited Open Championships twice. In addition, two of his Labs, Drake and Rondy, bred and trained at Twin Lakes Kennel, are in the Master National Hall of Fame.
Our Labrador Retriever puppies are the culmination of a 30 year search for the most talented, well rounded Labrador Retriever possible. We select from the most dominant American field bloodlines and breed for natural hunting instinct and tractability. Our puppies begin a structured socialization program in the litter box and are introduced to birds at six weeks.
All our Labrador Retriever Puppies carry a guarantee against hereditary defects and to have basic retrieving instincts. Parents of all our Labrador Retriever puppies are physically sound with certified hips and eyes. They are out of the top working Labrador Retriever bloodlines in the country.
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Links 24/11/2010: Avatar Reveals Reliance on GNU/Linux, Acer Distributes More Android
Posted in News Roundup at 11:05 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Clip of the Day
A Point That Deserves Illuminating: Linux Is Not “I-Cant-Believe-Its-Not-Windows!”
The difference between consumer needs and producer needs appear to be clearly understood everywhere else. You don’t sell a forklift to a soccer mom, and you don’t force a warehouse worker to try to drag pallets of boxes around in an SUV. I could go on with more examples, right? Everybody grasps the concept that the needs of a consumer and a producer are different?
Handing out Ubuntu CDs
Better late than never, this Saturday Ubuntu Denmark finally got around to hand out Ubuntu 10.10 CDs in a mall in Aarhus.
It’s been more than a year since we did it the last time, and the LoCo team had undergone some fundamentally changes in the meantime, and has been quite inactive. So the event was of great importance – not only to the spread of Ubuntu, but to the local community in general as well.
The day was quite a success. We handed out about 120-130 CD’s which we’ve received from Canonical in the 6 hours we were there, and, just as importantly, showed the Ubuntu name and brand to thousands of people. I also think we “recruited” a lot of people to attend our bi-monthly Ubuntu meetups, where people can get technical help, listen to presentations and contributing to Ubuntu.
Avatar: behind the scenes at Weta Digital
In its work Weta uses several different software programs to create its special effects. The company uses PCs running Linux and most animation is done using Maya. To complement this, the company created its own software including Mari, which is used to “skin” characters and monsters using scans of rubber molds taken from actors. Mari lets animators use skin like a brush to coat each of their figures.
Audiocasts/Shows
Free as in Freedom: Episode 0×03: i Don’t Store
Karen and Bradley discuss the debates regarding Apple’s online store restrictions that make it impossible to distribute GPL’d software via Apple’s store. Then, they discuss question the usefulness of the term “Open Core”
Ballnux
10 reasons I’m dumping my iPad for a Galaxy Tab
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab is a 7-inch tablet that looks a lot like an overgrown Galaxy S phone, without the phone functionality. It debuted in the U.S. this month and will be available from all four major U.S. wireless carriers. (Note: Versions of the device sold outside the U.S. do have phone functionality; this is a limitation imposed by the U.S. carriers.) Reviews ranged from glowing (”It’s a Tablet. It’s Gorgeous. It’s Costly“) to scathing (”A Pocketable Train Wreck“).
Kernel Space
Graphics Stack
VIA Graphics Still Lack Any Real Linux Progress
While other hardware vendors are constantly improving their open-source support, this isn’t the case for all vendors. VIA’s open-source Linux support is still in very bad shape — two and a half years after they had envisioned themselves becoming open-source friendly.
Vandalizing Open-Source Drivers?
While the RadeonHD driver is no longer actively developed, obviously this can come across as offensive to those who vigorously worked on this open-source Linux driver. More importantly though it puts into question the security of the FreeDesktop.org infrastructure. It took three weeks to spot as the Git notification email was not sent to the appropriate mailing list. Luc has already written to the mailing list.
Intel Windows vs. Linux GPU Performance Q4’2010
The most demanding OpenGL test in this article is Nexuiz and here the Mesa 7.10-devel + Linux 2.6.37 kernel DRM struggled to compete with the proper Intel Windows 7 driver. On average, the Windows 7 driver was 56% faster than the open-source Mesa driver was and the gap widened at the higher resolutions.
The latest Intel/Mesa driver code on Linux has resulted in some performance improvements and has made it more competitive with their Windows graphics driver, but still we are finding the Intel Linux performance to be at a loss in the more demanding test environments. The Intel Windows stack is also compatible with more games and OpenGL applications than the Mesa-based Linux solution. It will be interesting to see how the Intel Sandy Bridge performance compares between Microsoft Windows and Linux once released early next year.
If You Forgot, S3 Graphics Does Linux Drivers Too
Last night when checking to see if VIA has made any open-source / Linux progress that went unnoticed (they haven’t), that also led me to see what S3 Graphics is up to these days. S3 Graphics doesn’t back any open-source driver strategy and they don’t have many GPUs on the market, but their binary Linux driver claims to support OpenGL 3, VDPAU, and even kernel mode-setting since last year.
Understanding the Necessity of Wayland
Questioning the necessity for Wayland and the wiseness of the choice has become a phenomena, especially after Mark Shuttleworth annouced Ubuntu’s plans to eventually switch to Wayland. Following I will provide a concise reasoning why we want Wayland. At the end there are some more links for further reading.
Nvidia upgrades toolkit for GPU programming
What Free Apps Are You Most Thankful For?
At Lifehacker we love great software, but we especially love great free software. Many developers make our lives easier every day by providing their apps for free, so let’s give thanks to the free apps we’re most thankful for.
Darktable ‘Lightroom for Linux’ 0.7 released with new plugins, features
A new release of virtual light-table and darkroom application Darktable is available for download.
Nautilus Dropbox Share Script, Now Available In An Ubuntu PPA
ing this script is better then copying some files in your Public Dropbox folder:
* because the script uses symbolic links, the files aren’t actually copied to your Dropbox public folder, so they won’t take the double amount of space
* all the links are automatically copied to the clipboard
* you can even share folders, even though Dropbox doesn’t allow this by default (the shared folder will have an “index.html” file and thus opening its link in a web browser, it can be easily accessed via a web browser)
Startup Assistant
I carefully designed this dialog so that it made the workflow more efficient, not less (unlike some “stupid” wizards I’ve seen over the years). It should really have been named an “Assistant” or “Welcome” screen, because it’s not a linear druid/wizard. I would personally not have included a “Skip” button (see the bug report for the reasoning), but hey, we’re not that short on space (and this button will probably prevent me from being assaulted by angry geeks).
Opera 11 Beta Released With Tab Stacking
Opera 11 Beta Introduces Tab Stacking, Extensions
Tutorial: Create cool rifts with translucent lights!
download all pdf from a url using bash
ATI drivers made easy in Debian
Latest World of Warcraft patch ‘works fine’ in Ubuntu 10.10
Google Tasks Tray
Testing RAM on a server without rebooting to run memtest86+
Configure Apache HTTP server with mod-pagespeed for high performance
Fix Alt+Print Screen, current window screenshot not working in Ubuntu 10.10
CentOS: Disable SELinux
Mania Drive – Track Mania Clone
Use Nautilus’ Emblems feature to keep your home folder organised
CrossOver Linux Review
When I first started using Linux, I had heard about the CodeWeavers CrossOver software package that worked to run Windows applications in a Linux environment. However, I could not justify purchasing it (retail pricing starting at $40) because in my eyes, it did not offer any value. After all, it was based on the WINE project, and I saw it pointless to purchase something that was simply a re-branded version of something that was freely available. More recently, though, a few people have been telling me about the wonders of CrossOver and how it was so much more than the branded WINE package that I thought it was. For this reason, I decided to take the plunge and purchase CrossOver Linux Standard in order to run a few Windows applications in Linux.
Chex Quest – child-friendly non-violent first-person shooter
Desktop Environments
Enlightenment… Now Running On Refrigerators
The Enlightenment Libraries haven’t even hit version 1.0 yet (though they’re getting close and in beta right now), but these libraries and other parts of Enlightenment are already in production use. Besides Samsung getting in bed with Enlightenment for their smart-phone Linux OS, this open-source software is now appearing in… refrigerators.
K Desktop Environment/KDE SC)
Question: Why Use a Blogging Client?
Yeouch. Hell, I’ve done everything I could to get Firefox to save space, and yet… ouch ouch ouch. Blogilo wins this one, even before you remove the toolbox.
The reasons are obvious. WordPress.com suffers all the weaknesses of trying to make an application out of a document-layouting language, while Blogilo benefits from the full power of modern-day desktop application toolkits: this is evidenced by the fact that, despite not having enough room for the Visual Editor tab’s toolbar, the toolkit knows how to properly manage that situation (hide some buttons at the end). Moreover, because you only ever open Blogilo to actually post something to your blog, that’s all it has to display: web interfaces also need tools and navigation for visiting your blog, managing comments, visiting other people’s blogs, managing your account, managing media etcetera, and that stuff scoffs space. The website looks, feels and works like… you guessed it – a website. On the other side of the fence, the desktop client looks, feels and works more like a document creator, which is good – since the focus is on the document and not the rest of the interface.
Calendar Systems in 4.6
So what’s new in 4.6 for Calendar Systems? Well, not much visible really. I had hoped to have the astronomical calendars (Chinese, Islamic, etc) done for 4.6, but I’m still in requirements gathering for that so it’s bumped to 4.7. Instead I’ve done some stuff to make date localization easy. If you’re looking for bling, you may as well skip to the next post (I’m sure someone has some nice Lenovo eye-candy to show off :-), but if you’re an app coder tired of how awkward date localization can be then stick around.
multihead saga continues
I received no testing feedback from my last blog entry about multihead improvements for Plasma Desktop, which underscores the challenges we face with multihead support very nicely.
In any case, today I went through plasma-desktop and moved all the relevant code over to the new solution and committed all the changes to trunk. In theory this should improve plasma-desktop on multihead even further, with things like moving panels around with the mouse working as expected and what not.
GNOME Desktop
Gtk3 vs HTML5
The code is not really clean enough for public consumption yet, and a bunch of features are missing. However, its now at the stage where it can be demoed and evaluated.
Gnome Shell Automatic Workspaces Mockup (Tiled View Follow-Up)
A while back we’ve told you about an interesting Unity mockup for managing multiple workspaces that automatically creates the workspaces and always keeps an empty workspace so you don’t have to create the workspaces yourself (and you always have the number of workspaces that you actually need).
Unfortunately, Mark Shuttleworth didn’t like the idea (at least the way it was described back then) so it seems like we won’t have this in Unity. But on the other hand, it looks like we’ll have it in Gnome Shell (not exactly the same, but the same concept is being used). Read on!
Lucidity theme for Linux adds pastel elegance to the desktop
Lucidity theme. Chances are you’ve seen it in a screenshot at some point in your life.
The official blurb states that Lucidity is ‘set of themes which are smooth and subtle, while also being fairly high in contrast, and in which interactive elements are noticeable and responsive in order to deliver a lucid experience.’
Fav Distro (Nov ’10)
Stage 2 of The Linux Experience: Bodhi
A while ago I noted that I have been exploring Lilliput, trying out a few of the lightweight distros that have been proliferating lately. A brand new one named Bodhi is currently being developed, and Susan Linton gave an alpha version of it a brief review on her OStatic blog under the title Just Another Ubuntu-based Distro or Something More. I gave Bodhi a try (just from the LiveCD so far), and I must say I definitely see it as Something More, a significantly new approach to providing a kit for making The Distro You Always Wanted.
My own impression is that Bodhi, by the time it reaches final release, could easily turn out to be a nearly ideal distro for someone who has come recently to Linux with no prior IT experience, but who has begun to show an interest in doing something more than simply using a ready-made OS.
Tiny Core Linux 3.3 released
Tiny Core lead developer Robert Shingledecker has announced the release of version 3.3 of Tiny Core Linux. Based on the 2.6.33.3 Linux kernel, Tiny Core Linux 3.3 features updates to the Fast Light Toolkit (FLTK), such as a new integrated file manager and a minimal editor under System tools.
SimplyMepis Celebrates 8th Anniversary with Release
Warren Woodford, founder of MEPIS, has announced the release of SimplyMepis 11.0 Alpha 3 just in time to mark the eighth anniversary of MEPIS on November 21. SimplyMepis usually takes quite a while to cook and no final release date has been given.
Red Hat: Cowen Says Hold; A Buyout’s Unlikely
A day after the second-biggest Linux vendor, Novell (NOVL), was offered $2.2 billion to merge, Cowen & Co.’s Gregg Moskowitz initiated coverage of the biggest, Red Hat (RHT), with a Neutral rating, writing that while Red Hat’s business is rebounding, its stock is rich and some of its opportunities are not as verdant as they once were.
Red Hat has been very successful at turning users of the free Linux operating system into paying customers who receive support and upgrades on a subscription basis, creating a nice annuity revenue stream.
I’m getting ever so close to pulling the trigger on a Fedora 13-to-14 upgrade
I’m planning to make the move from Fedora 13 to 14. I’ve been running the Xfce spin for months now and have mostly enjoyed it. I still have Fedora 15′s release day plus one month of patches for Fedora 13 coming my way, but given that F14 isn’t a “landmark” release, I’m feeling more comfortable than usual in contemplating the upgrade.
I’m running preupgrade right now to move from Fedora 13 to 14
I decided to start early today and attempt the Fedora 13-to-14 upgrade on my main “production” laptop.
Fedora 14 review
Gareth Halfacree takes a look at the final release of Fedora 14, and sees if the Red Hat-based distro has what it takes to conquer the desktop market…
There’s a lot to recommend Fedora 14, from its well thought out security features to the wide variety of development tools available. An excellent installer caters to both end-users and power-users, but there are some issues with outdated software and SELinux that prevent us recommending it as a day-to-day OS for less technical users.
Ubuntu Becoming A Rolling Release Distro?!?
According to Ostatic, Mark Shuttleworth, said that Ubuntu will likely be moving from its current six-month release schedule to daily updates which would make Ubuntu a rolling-release Linux distribution.
Ubuntu to Become a Rolling Release
Mark Shuttleworth recently told reporters that Ubuntu will likely be moving from its current six-month release schedule to daily updates. A step of this nature would help Ubuntu keep up with the rapidly changing and increasing complex software and hardware landscape. This is especially true as Ubuntu finds itself on more mobile and smartphone devices.
‘Ubuntu Invaders’ wallpaper is retro win
Quick Look: Pinguy OS 10.10
Pinguy OS 10.10 falls somewhere between Linux Mint 10 and Ultimate Edition 2.8 in terms of features and software. While it’s not as well known as some of these other distros, it’s definitely worth a look if you crave more than generic Ubuntu.
Multiple Twitter reports of people saying Android 2.3 Gingerbread now available on the Google Nexus One
Do a search for “Gingerbread” on Twitter and prepare to be jealous at the mass of people who are reporting that Google just pushed an update to their Nexus One with the latest version of the Android operating system. We’ve written about Gingerbread before, many times, but here’s pretty much all you need to know about why you should be excited:
NFC (Near Field Communication) support is coming, meaning that you’ll soon be able to tap on payment terminals when picking up your daily cup of coffee and croissant from the café. You’ll also be able to tap objects and get more information about them, from anything to pulling up a line of text, to a website, to initiating playback of a video. The best feature, at least for all the social butterflies out there, will be tap to exchange contact information. No more business cards!
Android dethrones Symbian as the most popular smartphone OS in Asia
Last month we told you that Android became the No. 1 smartphone platform in the US, and now it’s time to take a look at how things are going in Asia.
Well, Google’s OS has done the same thing: it’s now the most popular smartpohne OS in Asia, too – at least according to market research company GfK.
Sub-notebooks
The One Laptop Per Child project begun in 2008 has turned out as badly as most said it would, including the many millions of baht spent on buying the toy-like portable computers involved; a study from Chiang Mai University’s engineering faculty confirmed that students issued the cute little machines failed to improve their school performances as OLPC advocates insisted would happen; on the other hand, their marks didn’t get worse, either, perhaps because most of the students had access to real computers at home; schools in the pilot project for free computers _ the OLPC machines are just like real computers only crippled _ live in Lampang, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Rayong and Nakhon Si Thammarat; lecturer Anand Sripitakkiat, who introduced the study, said students needed a new type of classroom atmosphere more than a small, free notebook; he added that students in a regular school with old-fashioned teaching systems would likely not benefit no matter what computer access he had.
Update: Acer previews Android-, Windows-based tablets
…three Android-based devices and one that runs Windows.
Trying out debian on 7inch Tablet.
Sky.com Open Source Software
I turned on my TV this morning to check the news before going to work to be greeted by a message informing me that my sky satellite box had been updated overnight and was now using some opensource software with a reference to this website for further information and instructions on how to obtain the software either by download or cd-rom.
Open Source has won precisely because we no longer notice it
Open source has won. Oh, how time flies. When I started writing in Database in May 2003, my first column was about how the ICT Ministry had got the budget PC programme all wrong. ICT Minister Surapong had announced his great success at negotiating the inclusion of Windows XP and Office XP at just 1,500 baht, a 90 percent discount. He saw it as success. I saw it as capitulation.
Back then, Thailand had a chance to lead the world in breaking the Microsoft addiction. Instead, we capitulated. Would it be considered a success to negotiate a 90 percent discount on cocaine?
In those days, Thailand was on the map in the open source movement. Mark Shuttleworth, head honcho of Ubuntu Linux and the world’s second space tourist, came here a number of times to talk about how Ubuntu on the desktop was ready and talk with the Software Industry Promotion Agency (Sipa) on a number of things that did not end well.
Back then, we had Microsoft’s Ballmer liking Linux to Communism. We had the Evil Empire sowing doubts about anyone allowing any GPL code in an organisation, telling its clients that it would spread like a tumour and that every piece of intellectual property it came in touch with would suddenly be property of the great unwashed masses.
No matter. Fast forward seven years and Linux has won. Open source is everywhere. The business model is well understood and no longer something for ultra-leftwing activists.
Three things to not forget to make LibreOffice (and ODF) succeed
The OpenDocument Format (ODF) is an international standard for office documents like texts, presentations and spreadsheets. ODF is already widely adopted worldwide. Using ODF for all your office documents is by far the easiest, safest and most realistic way today to really free yourself from the cocain-like nature of Microsoft Office file formats. The fact that using secret file formats instead of ODF is what actually maintains the Microsoft monopoly in desktop computing is proved even by a Microsoft job offer.
New: OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 Release Candidate 6 (build OOO330m16) available
OverView Zoomy presentations with OpenGL
Sky preaches benefits of open source
Sky boxes across the country have surprised their owners with a message about the benefits of open source software – apparently in a bid to head off a legal tussle from free software fans.
Sky+ HD boxes, used to receive the subscription-based satellite TV service, have tonight been flashing up a message when they are first switched on pointing their users at a page on Sky’s website about the values and benefits of open source software.
Open source feats to be proud of
When Rob O’Callahan moved home to New Zealand five years ago, there was a feeling of pride in this country’s small open source community at his achievements.
Like many of our top computer science students, O’Callahan had gone overseas to further his education.
10 Incredible Wallpapers Made Using GIMP
GIMP needs no introduction. GIMP is the Open Source answer for Adobe Photoshop, well, almost. We had already featured brilliant wallpapers made using Inkscape and now things are taking a ‘GIMP’ turn. Here is a nice and simple collection of wallpapers made using GIMP.
Firefox Panorama: Tab Candy Evolved
I am happy to announce that Tab Candy is coming to Firefox 4. Starting today, Tab Candy will be called Firefox Panorama and be available as a feature in Firefox betas. Head to the Firefox 4 feature list, or watch the video below, to learn how to organize your tabs into groups and reclaim your browsing experience from clutter and information overload.
ownCloud 1.1 released
I´m really happy with this release. Not only because we have a lot of new features and bugfixes but also because the ownCloud development team is growing and more and more people are contributing to ownCloud.
I gave several presentation about ownCloud in the last few month and I´m trilled by the positive reactions I get. People really seams to like to idea behind ownCloud.
Oracle Doesn’t Get Open Source
Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the creator of the Hudson Open Source project woke up Monday morning and discovered he was no longer able to access the Source Code Repository to make commits. Oracle had decided to shut it down, as they are shutting down many projects in java.net to try to move it to their own infrastructure. Not only that, but the mailing lists were shut down as well. They said not to worry, they will have it up in a week.
Diaspora private alpha just released
For those who have been patiently waiting, the first round of Diaspora alpha invites has been distributed. They’re planning to first bring in those who contributed via Kickstarter way back when this all began. Next those on their mailing list will start receiving their invites.
Their stated goal with this rollout method is to “quickly identify performance problems and iterate on features as quickly as possible.” That sounds a lot like the open source “release early, release often” methodology. But it also sounds a lot like the Google method of slowly bringing in new users through invites. And while that wasn’t so bad for GMail, it was a miserable failure for a Google project far more analogous to Diaspora–Wave. And we all know how well that’s gone.
Private Alpha Invites Going Out Today
Is it Too Late For an Open Source Challenge to Facebook?
“Large social-networking sites are walling off information posted by their users from the rest of the web,” Berners-Lee said in a Scientific American journal article. As Network World reports, Berners-Lee even singled out Facebook, LinkedIn and Friendster as examples of what he means.
We have made the point many times that the problem with the large, popular social networks is that they are walled gardens. At the last OSCON conference, today’s popular social networking services were compared to the closed systems of the 1990s. In those days, it wasn’t uncommon to, say, need to be on MCI Mail or CompuServe to be able to send another person on one of those services a message. They were closed e-mail systems. People didn’t tolerate that, and the current argument is that they won’t tolerate walled gardens among social networking services either.
Open-source Social Network Diaspora Goes Live
Diaspora, a widely anticipated social network site built on open-source code, has cracked open its doors for business today, at least for a handful of invited participants.
Released: FreeNAS 8 (Beta)
Warner Losh, of iXsystems, announced last week the availability of FreeNAS 8. Since there were some issues with the initial beta, ensure you’re downloading the latest version (r5605).
Fellowship Interview with Brian Gough
Brian Gough is one of the core developers of the GNU Scientific Library, which he has been contributing to for many years. He runs Network Theory Ltd., which publishes Freely licensed printed manuals and tutorials for Free Software projects, such as GCC, Perl, Python and PostgreSQL. He lives in Guildford in the United Kingdom, and regularly attends Free Software conferences and meetings.
Open Data Good, Open Source Bad?
Last Friday, I went along to what I thought would be a pretty routine press conference about open data – just the latest in a continuing drip-feed of announcements in this area from the UK government. I was soon disabused.
One hint was the fact that I ended up sitting one chair away from Sir Tim Berners-Lee – and that the intervening chair was occupied by Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General; another clue was provided by the short but personalised video that David Cameron knocked up for the occasion.
US government moves towards cloud computing
Massachusetts Posts Pharma Payments to Health Providers
This week, Massachusetts became the first state to post an online database of payments from drug and medical device companies to the state’s health care providers. The searchable database covers reports from more than 280 companies and subsidiaries.
The new database, detailed on Monday by the Boston Globe — one of our Dollars for Docs partners — is a result of a 2008 state law regulating industry conduct. The database lists nearly $36 million spent from July through December of 2009 for speaking, consulting, food, educational programs, marketing studies and charitable donations.
Open Data: If British Conservatives get it right, the French…
This is a pretty stunning press release from Access Info Europe concerning the French government’s response to the open data movement. Statist government’s were always going to struggle with the internet and open data… but this shows just how bad things can get.
Openness/Sharing
Stories of people & projects using Creative Commons in education, government, and data
The significance of Creative Commons and its licenses is often overlooked, embedded as it is into the fabric of sharing culture on the web. The current superhero campaign attempts to bring CC’s role to the forefront, by highlighting people and organizations that have made extraordinary contributions to this culture. But there are many more excellent stories of people and projects employing our CC licenses for educational, humanitarian, scientific, artistic, and just plain interesting uses. Some of these are currently reflected in our Case Studies on the wiki, but there’s a lot of work left to be done in making these more accessible and useful to the rest of the world.
Meet our board members: Molly Van Houweling
When Molly Van Houweling ran Creative Commons back in 2001, she was the only staff member, working out of a small office on the third floor of the Stanford law school building. Her work there was mundane but critical: taking off from the pivotal meeting among the founders at the Harvard Berkman Center earlier that year, the once-advisee of Larry Lessig was doing paperwork and drafting the legal language that would become the foundation of Creative Commons.
Apply for the 2011 Google Policy Fellowship with Creative Commons
The World Bank Launches a New, Open Access, Digital Collection
A new online, open access, collection of all World Development Reports since 1978 was launched today by the World Bank. The Complete World Development Report Online, which allows users to easily access and search across these World Bank annual flagship publications, is free and open to the public and may be accessed at http://wdronline.worldbank.org
Quit Bothering Superman, Judge Tells LAPD
Indian Media Where Art Thou on Media Scandal
A shadow has been cast over the Indian media — the bastion of the nation’s democracy. A telecom and political scandal rocking the country has now sucked in top journalists but the media coverage of this new twist is timid — a simple Google search shows that.
Indian journalists accused of secretly helping politicians, businesses
India’s fiercely competitive and hungry free press has become the rising nation’s watchdog, unearthing a long list of banking scandals, real-estate scams and most recently, extensive government corruption during the international Commonwealth Games.
But in recent days, Indian journalists have been accused of wrongdoing, including having inappropriate conversations with a corporate lobbyist and acting more like power brokers in recordings released as part of an investigation into an audacious multibillion swindle – considered the biggest scandal to hit the new India.
What’s An Internet Monopolist? A Reply to Professor Wu
Wu’s claim is that the modern “information monopolies” will be socially harmful. Consider the first quote above. These firms do not earn and keep their share by satisfying consumer demand from active consumers with preferences; it is “surrendered” by forces beyond the consumers’ control. And with the second, why would we be concerned about time limits if these concentrated markets (again, let’s assume arguendo the market definitions Wu has in mind for now) were generating competitive results?
Coulson’s imminent departure is just the beginning
Andy Coulson will resign as Downing Street communications director within the next few weeks. When the moment comes, his powerful but embarrassed friends will breathe a sigh of relief. They want it to be the end of the phone hacking scandal. It is just the beginning.
For, as any investigative journalist will tell you, it’s always the cover up that sinks you. Senior executives have been clinging onto the line that “Clive Goodman was a rogue reporter” like it was a life belt on the Titanic. The unanswered questions are pouring in.
There is a police investigation and at least three court cases. There are two Parliamentary enquiries on top of a damning report by the media select committee. There are whistleblowers. Insiders are breaking ranks, beginning to talk. Shareholders are asking questions. Coulson may be on his way, but the story won’t go away, despite hardly being reported in some of the best-selling newspapers.
Google donates $100,000 to Bletchley Park to save Turing Papers in Auction Google gives $100,000 to Bletchley Park
A report on Twitter is saying that Google has donated $100,000 to Bletchley Park to help them in their campaign to buy mathematician Alan Turing’s papers which are to be auctioned at Christies today.
Sarkozy calls journalists paedophiles
Nicolas Sarkozy is on a pre-election charm offensive to show how calm and polite he is and draw a line under past outbursts, such as when he told a visitor to the Paris agricultural show: “Sod off, prick.”
But the jumpy French president is still finding it hard to keep a lid on his verbal assaults. During an off-the-record briefing at the Nato summit, Sarkozy lost his cool when asked about the “Karachigate” corruption scandal, which threatens to engulf him personally, calling the journalists questioning him “paedophiles”.
The Domino’s Effect
Cheap, mass-produced pies from Pizza Hut, Papa John’s, Little Caesars, and Domino’s have infiltrated our planet, making these companies very rich and billions of people too poor to afford a single slice. Is your appetite part of the problem?
Conversation With Frederick Kaufman
Fred Kaufman has written about American food culture and other subjects for Harper’s Magazine, the New Yorker, Gourmet, Gastronomica, and the New York Times Magazine among others. Periodically Fred sits down with Adventures to discuss his latest gastro work.
Hacking smartphones with ease
EFF Tool Offers New Protection Against ‘Firesheep’
Android vulnerability permits data theft
Defence/Police/Aggression
A Waste of Money and Time
A short history of airport security: We screen for guns and bombs, so the terrorists use box cutters. We confiscate box cutters and corkscrews, so they put explosives in their sneakers. We screen footwear, so they try to use liquids. We confiscate liquids, so they put PETN bombs in their underwear. We roll out full-body scanners, even though they wouldn’t have caught the Underwear Bomber, so they put a bomb in a printer cartridge. We ban printer cartridges over 16 ounces — the level of magical thinking here is amazing — and they’re going to do something else.
Of course not. Airport security is the last line of defense, and it’s not a very good one. What works is investigation and intelligence: security that works regardless of the terrorist tactic or target. Yes, the target matters too; all this airport security is only effective if the terrorists target airports. If they decide to bomb crowded shopping malls instead, we’ve wasted our money.
Neither the full-body scanners or the enhanced pat-downs are making anyone safer. They’re more a result of politicians and government appointees capitulating to a public that demands that “something must be done,” even when nothing should be done; and a government bureaucracy that is more concerned about the security of their careers if they fail to secure against the last attack than what happens if they fail anticipate the next one.
TSA’s Nude Scanners, Former Homeland Security Head Chertoff, and How Our Government Works
How our government works:
1) Get a position in the government.
2) Hype up some scare and advocate a solution to it
3) Sell/convince the government on your proposed solution, leave your government position, and partner up with the company that provides that same solution.
4) Sit back and enjoy your new money.
Michael Chertoff, while he was the Head of Homeland Security under Bush, advocated and pushed for installation and implementation of these new full-body scanners at our airports. Once he was out of “public service”, Chertoff’s consulting company (Read: Lobbying Company) landed as a client (Surprise!), Rapsican, the company that makes the scanners
Of The #TSA and the 4th Amendment
It seems amazing to me that people are not considering the big picture. We’ve got UAVs and satellites using infrared to track who sleeps in our homes at night. We’ve got TSA taking nude photos and giving hand jobs before we get onto airplanes. We’ve got insane “zero-tolerance” policies in our schools. Now think about what happens when some Congressmember convinces his/her peers that these resources should be deployed against people who wear thong underwear or who believe in a creator or who voted for Ronald Reagan.
Don’t TSA me, bro: Boing Boing open thread, and new rules for those who refuse patdown
Canadian airport, port workers soon may have to take it all off
Canada’s border guards could soon get new powers to strip search employees in airport and ports across Canada in a bid to crack down on the smuggling of illegal drugs, such as marijuana, ecstasy and cocaine.
CBSA officers also would be allowed to frisk employees and to use various types of scanners and detectors to examine goods in their possession.
The proposed regulations, which do not have to be passed by Parliament, are in a CBSA posting in the Canada Gazette. Interested parties have 30 days to give feedback.
Adam Savage: TSA saw my junk, missed 12″ razor blades
The TSA isn’t the most respected of governmental agencies right now, but at least it comes by the poor reputation honestly. The lack of standards, inconsistent application of searches and policies, and occasional rude agent all combine to make flying an unpleasant experience. It’s often derided as “security theater,” which describes the experience of Mythbuster Adam Savage before a recent flight.
Savage was put through the full-body scanner, and while he joked that it made his penis feel small, no one seemed to notice the items he was carrying on his person. The video tells the rest of the story.
The Twitter Joke Trial carries on
Paul Chambers has announced that he is seeking to go to the High Court to challenge his conviction under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003.
He has instructed me to put the challenge together and I have, in turn, instructed Ben Emmerson QC, the leading human rights and criminal law barrister. The barristers who fought the Crown Court appeal — Stephen Ferguson and Sarah Przybylska — continue to be involved. There has been legal help from a number of other firms and individuals. This is a case which has attracted a great deal of support and offers of practical assistance.
Why? After all, it was just a £350 fine (although now with prosecution costs, Paul is being asked to pay £2,600). And there has been no custodial sentence.
But the case continues to cause concern about and widespread ridicule of the English criminal justice system. Writers as accomplished as Graham Linehan, Charlie Brooker, and Nick Cohen have brilliantly exposed the misconceived and illiberal nature of this prosecution and of the upheld conviction. And, although neither Paul nor I have encouraged the “#IAmSpartacus” movement (I personally prefer the use of the Betjeman line about dropping bombs on Slough), it is perhaps significant that Paul’s original tweet or variations of it seems now to have been tweeted over 18,000 times. However, it appears that only Paul will incur criminal liability for the words in question.
A Celebration of Street Photography, as Anti-Terror Backlash Fades
It may seem absurd, but since 2005 that scenario or something like it was playing out with surprising regularity on public streets in Britain, where draconian anti-terror legislation declared photographers “suspicious” merely for carrying camera equipment.
At its height, a tweed-wearing photographer was branded a terrorist by a London Tube worker, police deleted a young Austrian tourist’s photos “to prevent terrorism,” an Italian student was arrested for filming in London’s financial district, and an architectural historian was detained for photographing a building designed by his grandfather.
Ireland to get €85bn loan in deal that will nationalise its banks
Ireland is to be offered an €85bn (£72bn) loan from the IMF and the EU to bail out its banks and fund its public finances.
Censorship/Privacy/Civil Rights
Kuwait DSLR Camera Ban Now in Effect
The image you see could get it’s photographer in serious legal trouble in Kuwait after authorities there have banned the use of DSLRs in public places unless you’re part of the press. Which is just ridiculous.
Today’s Lesson: Make Facebook Angry, And They’ll Censor You Into Oblivion
Facebook is well on its way to becoming the most popular way that people share links, photos, and other content with their friends. For many sites it’s becoming a powerful new driver of traffic — get people to ‘Like’ your stuff, and Facebook’s network effects will expose it to dozens of their friends.
Just make sure not to do something that might make Facebook angry. Otherwise it might nuke every link to your site, choking off this river of traffic that you’ve worked so hard to build.
That’s the message Facebook sent today with its censorship of links to Lamebook, a humor site that posts lewd conversations spotted on the social network. Facebook has confirmed that it is automatically blocking all links to Lamebook and that it has also removed the company’s ‘Fan’ page. Not because the content was offensive, mind you, but because Facebook doesn’t like Lamebook.
Analysis: US alien tort law – A sword of international law blunted
Human rights activists may no longer be able to raise actions against companies in US courts
The US court decision came as a bombshell. Corporate liability is not recognised under international law and therefore multinational corporations are no longer susceptible to human rights claims filed by victims living outside US borders.
Just one in 750 patients invited to take part sign up to Government’s online records programme
A service set up to enable millions of patients to email their GPs and access their Summary Care Records online has proved to be unwanted by the vast majority of potential users, according to a major new study.
EFF Urges Supreme Court to Block Government Overreach in State Secret Contract Dispute
EFF and the plaintiffs in an ongoing lawsuit over a notorious case of illegal government spying urged the U.S. Supreme Court last week to reject a government attempt to have the Court address constitutional questions about the state secrets privilege in a contract dispute case involving the privilege.
The state secrets privilege is a doctrine that allows the Executive to block evidence from being presented in a court on the grounds that national security requires the information to remain secret, and it’s been employed in both of EFF’s ongoing lawsuits over illegal domestic surveillance. Another lawsuit that’s had long-running battles over state secrets questions is Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation v. Obama, and we joined together with the Al Haramain plaintiffs in an amicus brief filed in this case: General Dynamics Corporation v. United States.
Google Street View Lovers Egg Blurred German Houses
Privacy lovers in Germany have egg on their house faces, thanks to a crew of Google-loving vigilantes. Google launched Street View in Germany last month, but allowed those uncomfortable with the service to blur their homes. About 3% of Germans opted to do so.
Internet/Net Neutrality/DRM
The Witcher 2 devs threaten pirates with fines, legal action
Independent developers are having a tough time when it comes to dealing with piracy and DRM. If you include DRM, people complain. If you don’t, people pirate your game. It happened to World of Goo and it happened to Machinarium. But CD Projekt, the developer behind the upcoming The Witcher 2, has an idea about how to fight back: legal action.
A general public license for seeds?
Background excerpted from a paper by Jack Kloppenburg:
“The specific mechanism Michaels goes on to propose is a “General Public License for Plant Germplasm (GPLPG)” that is explicitly modeled on the GPL developed by the FOSS movement for software…”
IP in the comics
Judge to Righthaven: Show why lawsuit shouldn’t be dismissed
A federal judge in Las Vegas is examining whether another Righthaven online copyright infringement lawsuit should be dismissed on fair use grounds.
Righthaven LLC is the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s copyright enforcement partner that since March has sued at least 172 website operators and bloggers throughout North America in federal court in Las Vegas, charging material from the Review-Journal was posted on their sites without authorization.
Judge Asks Righthaven To Explain Why Reposting Isn’t Fair Use… Even When Defendant Didn’t Claim Fair Use
In yet another sign that things may not be looking so good for copyright lawsuit machine Righthaven, a judge has asked Righthaven to explain why a non-profit organization reposting an article isn’t fair use. There are two reasons why this is interesting. First, to date, most of the “fair use” claims in Righthaven cases have involved sites posting snippets of articles, rather than the full articles (Righthaven has recently said it will only sue for full articles going forward). However, this is a full article, and the judge is still considering whether or not it’s fair use. As we’ve noted in the past, there are certainly cases where using the entirety of a work still constitutes fair use, and this may be one of them.
What do we want copyright to do?
A recurring question in discussions of digital copyright is how creators and their investors (that is, labels, movie studios, publishers, etc) will earn a living in the digital era.
But though I’ve had that question posed to me thousands of times, no one has ever said which creators and which investors are to earn a living, and what constitutes “a living”.
Copyright is in tremendous flux at the moment; governments all over the world are considering what their copyright systems should look like in the 21st century, and it’s probably a good idea to nail down what we want copyright to do. Otherwise the question “Is copyright working?” becomes as meaningless as “How long is a piece of string?”
Theft! A History of Music—Part 1: Plato and all that jazz
Why did Plato argue that remixing should be banned by the state? What threats did jazz and rock ‘n roll pose? And what does all of that mean for the conflicts between artists and copyright today?
Those are the questions Jennifer Jenkins, James Boyle, and Keith Aoki answer in layman-friendly language in Theft! A History of Music, a graphic novel expected next spring. The three have a previous comic book, Bound by Law, which (like Theft!) attempts to translate complex legal concepts to make them accessible to a wider audience through a friendlier format.
Some Common Sense at Bill C-32 Committee Hearings
Sarah Schmidt is reporting that the C-32 Legislative Committee will meet only for four hours a week, not the 16 hours suggested by the Government members. This means that that the Bill cannot get through the House of Commons until well into next year.
Six Key Answers to Copyright Bill Questions
1.Will Bill C-32 give education institutions the right to engage in massive uncompensated copying?
No. The inclusion of education as a fair dealing category will not mean that any educational copying will be free. It will only mean that educational copying will be eligible for analysis under a six-part test developed by the Supreme Court of Canada to determine whether the copying qualifies as fair dealing. The changes in Bill C-32 are more modest than often claimed as they merely fill some gaps in the existing list of fair dealing categories.
Common resolution on ACTA in EP proposed by Socialist, Green and Liberal groups
ACTA: Will The EU Parliament Give Up its Power?
After last week’s release of the final version of the ACTA text, the European Parliament is about to adopt a resolution preparing the upcoming ratification process, during a plenary session scheduled tomorrow. This vote must be an opportunity for European lawmakers to restate their opposition to this agreement, which is bound to spread internationally some of the most extremist provisions regarding the civil and criminal enforcement of copyright, trademarks and patents. Disturbingly, the conservative EPP group tabled an isolated resolution, which gives up on the Parliament’s prerogatives.
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From Dawn Till Dusk
As Ray has discovered, there’s a big difference between the Wii version of Sonic Unleashed and the 360/PS3 version of Sonic Unleashed. I’ll let him go into more detail, but what’s most surprising to me is that thus far, the MetaCritic reviews of the Wii version are actually higher than the 360 version (72 to 66). Ray hates the Wii version and loves the 360 version, so who’s crazy, Ray or the reviewers?
Sonic Unleashed for the Wii was a pretty sad experience, including the ratio between Sonic and Werehog stages. Each marginally-enjoyable day stage (lasting about three minutes tops) with the real Sonic would be followed with at least three, if not four, and once even five stages (lasting 6-10min each) with Werehog. When all was said and done, I had played 8 unique Sonic stages and 28 unique Werehog stages, last time I counted.
This had me worried that the problems I was experiencing were ones carried down from the original Xbox360 version. Tim was willing to bet there were very few differences, but thankfully he was wrong. I’m having a blast with the game, and the levels are a much more enjoyable 1:1 ratio, as expected. I want to say “Sonic’s back!” but I’ll need to really dig in deep before I decide in my review.
I wish I had a little more time to work on this strip since I didn’t get into as much detail in the art as I wanted to. Next time, I suppose?
Rokai says:
I was expecting Werehog Sonic to crush Chip in his anger. But nice comic otherwise.
Another comic that involves continuous scrolling. Always a good thing. Unfortunately I can’t nitpick about anything this time, all I can say is NCG. 😀
At the last moment, Tim mentioned that as an idea. Something to the effect of…
Sonic: “Finally, the sun is out and I’ve got a need… a need for speed!”
Chip: “Guess what, Sonic?”
Werehog: “SHUT IT, DOG FAIRY!!”
We both commented that it would just feel like a total repeat from the previous Unleashed comic, but it would have been funny for coming back to that theme.
Yeah, it would’ve been funny. I mean you kinda made past references anyway because if I hadn’t listened to the podcast I would’ve been totally clueless and this comic, no offense, wouldn’t have been funny.
And you can use the phrase “SHUT IT, DOG FAERIE!” anytime you want, because that was seriously funny. And yes, I used the English spelling of fairy again. I just prefer it that way, it looks cooler.
EDIT: Oh and I forgot to ask, do Sonic’s shoes actually change like that as it turns to night? That’s weird.
NSBAceAttorney says:
Lol, thank God the 360 version is better, now I need not kill myself…
Good comic! I can guess what the next comic will be about…
Ray, I was just wondering if the style for the first panel is an hommage or parody of something else, as you could’ve easily just left the background black instead of including the silhouettes.
Oh, and NCG!
The crushing of chip would’ve been a good callback but it works fine without it.
No, I just thought it would carry a neat look to it. The words were really the last thing I added to the comic, so I just dumped them in a spot that looked nice with what the first frame was already doing.
Sonic really needs more adventures in Daylight Savings Time if this keeps up.
Haha! Nice comic guys! This one is really good!
Yakko Warner says:
Sonic Unleased (panel 1)? What, he finally decided to buy instead of rent? *rimshot*
Yakko, good catch.
Ray, FIX IT!
Wait fix what? I’m not spotting the problem here…*feels really oblivious*
And HEY! He gets “Good Catch”, I get “Well I think it was mostly roadjcat right? I mean… nitpicking all the incorrect details…” I mean Ray was never told to fix all the things I spotted with the last comic.
Geez, shows what kinda respect I get around here. XD
Oh wait. I assume there was a typo? That was fixed? Quite quickly I might add. XD
And yeah, I just thought of something. I thought Ray wasn’t supposed to buy Sonic games unless they had at least a 7.5 rating?
…the MetaCritic reviews of the Wii version are actually higher than the 360 version (72 to 66).
Yup, No respect,
I say we join forces and …
… take over 2P START!
it’s the mutiny all over again!
Ahhhh, the good ol days of yore.
I was a nobody, and now I’m the unoffical 3rd party.
Meh, I would have cracked too. BTW guys, can you make a comic about the 360 one? Also, how about Tim gives it a shot? He was the first to play the Wii version.
DJ Azure says:
Nah it’s not that bad. Don’t forget, there’s 3 8 minute werehog levels compared to the 360 version’s 1 30 minute level… Gah, i’m tired of saying this… But it’s fun having both versions. And for the record I love the Wii day levels and the 360 night levels.
razr786 says:
hah… i want to get this 1! the last sonic 1 here was the secret rings.didn’t really catch my eye… but this 1 looks good! any1 have an idea when it’s coming out in South Africa?
NCG! Good stuff!
P.S. What happened to my “No. 5” avatar?? (from Short Circuit)
EDIT: WHAT!? It’s back! Hmm… cool.
Yes, in fact that should be the ONLY THEME from now on! You should end every comic with a shot of Chip being torn apart by a Werehog. I don’t care if it doesn’t fit… just do it anyway.
For example, some future comic:
(Panel 3) Old Snake: So I said “Sonny, you can keep your soup”
(Panel 4) Werehog: WROOOARGH! *shot partially obscured by Chip’s intestines flailing around*
what’s most surprising to me is that thus far, the MetaCritic reviews of the Wii version are actually higher than the 360 version (72 to 66)
Wii reviewers don’t hold games to the same standard maybe? A 360 game can lose 20 points for not looking like a window into an alien world and 20 more for not having groundbreaking multiplayer.
On the Wii they just give it 10 points for each time the reviewer got RSI.
Joking… Joking… but I feel relatively safe from flames because the most hardcore Wii fanboys will have deleted their 2pstart bookmarks in disgust as soon as Ray got a 360 😉
Mark Chao says:
All I have to say is Dark Gaia on all versions was Epic… Fail that is.
I have the Wii version and laugh at this because it’s so true. I can’t wait to play Empire City in the Wii version.
@Tim’s blurb: As far as who’s crazy, it could have something to do with what they are each looking for. Ray was looking for a great Sonic game, whereas the reviewers were probably looking for a good game in general, so they may not have hated the night parts as much. Sort of like how a hardcore fan of Mario platforming might not like the Paper Mario series because it’s not really platforming (besides Super Paper Mario), but somebody who is looking for a regular game might like it because of what it is and not care that it’s Mario but not platforming.
Also, for Musical Misfits, I’m surprised nobody has suggested this yet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
And I would like to suggest the Star song from Yoshi on the NES:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_RkXKJSCo0
Finally, is there a font somewhere that you use for the 2P START! logo, or does Ray just draw up all the text? There’s something I’d like to use it for if I could…
loneshadow says:
I just discovered your comic today 🙂 and i loved it!!!!
i sat all the morning on my office watching your archive from the beginning to this last one comic!!
keep the great job!!!
Salutes from Mexico!
Also, how about Tim gives it a shot? He was the first to play the Wii version.
Tim has yet to play Sonic Unleashed on any console. It’s all been me, me, me!
Hyper Dude says:
I tryed it at a friend house, i really like it.
P.S. Add Me Rey.
Tyler (aka huge Sonic fan) says:
I have a question about the game for you 360 and PS3 people. Is there a stage in your version (daytime) of America where you run across skyscrapers or a China stage with you running on the Great Wall? I had heard about those stages, but they never appeared on wii. And originally i thought unleashed was awesome!…but then i recently looked at the other systems……..crap. Anyway, another great issue!
People seem to get you two confused quite often, don’t they?
Back from vacation. NCG. I can happily say I will not purchase this game. Sonic still isn’t back in my eyes until a multitude of people (or angels, that’d be cool too) tell me he is.
Sama Wama says:
Yay For sonic 🙂
Guido Jacobs says:
I think Sega’s still sore about Nintendo winning the console war of yore.
nintendogamer101 says:
Is it just me, or did Ray spend way more time on the last panel than the first few? Cause in the last panel, Sonic in his Werehog form seems a lot more vicious. But in the first panels, he almost looks like a childish plush toy. If you just gave him bigger, shinier eyes, he could be on the cover of the Littlest Pet Shop video game!
Look, kids! It’s Littlest Pet Shop: Werehog Edition! : )
yeah, im gonna have to agree with you on that one.
lol, Ray should draw that werehog from the first few panels with big shiney eyes, just because of how funny it would look. lol
hey dumbuk… your leading me to google you spammer!
I’m not sure how that url takes you to google, but it does. Why?
A) Because it just does.
B) GOOGLE DOMINATES THE INTERNET!
Long time reader first time poster. I really like your comic. But I was commenting because: It made me think of the Power Rangers movie posters. :/ just me? I was a 90’s kid.
Pstar says:
Does it really sucks in the Wii? I don’t care much about graphics or frame rate, but can u tell me if the gameplay really sucks or is it only the graphics and frame rate?
Does it really sucks in the Wii? I don’t care much about graphics or frame rate, but can u tell me if the gameplay really sucks or is it only the graphics and framerate?
The Sonic levels are fun, but not as fantastic. The Werehog levels are much more numerous and suffer from poor controls and bland level design. The overworlds (temples) are boring and clearly filler. The Wii version is simply a bad port of the 360 game with completely different levels and way too much Werehog. I’m hoping to have a review up about the two of them by next weekend.
Thanks, I like sonic games… well most of them, so I was wondering for what system should I play it before been totaly disappointed and not give a chance to the other 2.
OmegaLord says:
Oh. Is it officially called the werehog? Were, meaning man? In the full moon, he changes into a hog, and back to a man? Really? Do some research, Sega.
SERIOUSLY?!?! hahah 😛
Same EXACT thing on PS2. One really good day stage per continent and at least three passable night stages.
Zaix says:
I was really disappointed with the Wii version. It was extremely easy, and I seriously completed the game in the rental week. On the other hand, the Xbox 360 version is much more fun and difficult at the same time, allowing you to adventure around and complete side quests and buy stuff, and being incredibly hard due to you needing a certain amount of medals to get into areas. Great comic guys, and I half expected Sonic to pwn Chip!
I was really disappointed with the Wii version. It was extremely easy, and I seriously owned the game in the rental week. On the other hand, the Xbox 360 version is much more fun and difficult at the same time, allowing you to adventure around and complete side quests and buy stuff, and being incredibly hard due to you needing a certain amount of medals to get into areas. Great comic guys, and I half expected Sonic to pwn Chip!
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The Bitter Legacy of 9/11, on its 17th Anniversary: Endless War, Guantánamo, Brexit, Trump and the Paranoid Security State
Please support my work as a reader-funded journalist! I’m currently trying to raise $2500 (£2000) to support my writing and campaigning on Guantánamo and related issues over the next three months of the Trump administration.
17 years ago today, on September 11, 2001, the world changed forever. In the wake of the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, a US-led coalition invaded Afghanistan, decimating al-Qaeda and toppling the Taliban, but staying on to lose hearts and minds in an apparently unending occupation in which we are still mired.
Within three months, Tony Blair was imprisoning foreign-born “terror suspects” without charge or trial in the UK, and exactly four months after the attacks, the Bush administration opened Guantánamo, its showcase prison for what happens when a vengeful nation led by belligerent ideologues historically fixated with the exercise of unfettered executive power and disdain for domestic and international laws and treaties rounds people up without competent battlefield reviews, instigates torture and embraces indefinite imprisonment without charge or trial on an industrial scale.
Two and a half years after 9/11, the Bush administration’s ideological “crazies,” aided and abetted by Tony Blair, compounded the Afghan quagmire by invading Iraq on the basis of lies, endorsing regime change over the rights of sovereign nations not to be invaded without good reason, and confirming 9/11 as the conduit for endless war — a dream for the military-industrial complex’s bureaucrats and arms manufacturers, and the growing mercenary armies of the west, but a disaster for everyone else.
The state of endless war is a giant insatiable leech on America’s economy, and has turned the countries of the west into paranoid security states, obsessed with terrorist attacks, but never admitting, or, perhaps, even being able to comprehend, that it is our warmongering and the corporate exploitation of the rest of the world that caused this state of profound unease in the first place.
Very few people are actually killed by terrorists, but our governments and our media have whipped us into a permanent state of fear, as an easy way of holding on to power, savagely corroding our collective sense of well-being, achieved through a long struggle to establish generally safe civil societies through the establishment of a welfare state (a process that largely took place from the 1870s until the 1980s, and that was particularly powerful in the decades after the Second World War), and helping to turn us into isolated materialists, imprisoned as much as liberated by the great technological advancements of our times.
Surveillance is everywhere, via CCTV cameras in our streets, and, primarily, through our mobile phones and our computers, which have facilitated the endless digital hoovering up of information about all of us — where we are, and what we’re doing. Most of this is designed to help to sell us things we rarely need, but it has also removed much of the liberation of lives conducted without perpetual state scrutiny, and it is clear too that some unscrupulous operators on the right and the far right have been analyzing us on an unprecedented scale in order to manipulate us politically.
Our wars also have a darker undercurrent. Everywhere we go we have created refugees or desperate economic migrants — in Afghanistan and Iraq, and in Libya and Syria, the latest victims of our governments’ thirst for perpetual war. In 2015, a mass exodus of refugees and migrants to Europe (and, to a lesser extent, North America), unprecedented in most of our lifetimes, and driven in particular by the brutal destruction of Syria, was met not with sympathy or empathy, but with a growing hostility, fuelled by the right-wing media and by the Islamophobia fostered since 9/11, and stirred up relentlessly by those capitalizing on the state of fear that we are bombarded with on a permanent basis.
In the UK, the timing was disastrous, as the refugee crisis and Islamophobia, combined with perceptions of unfettered immigration from within the EU, helped to swing the EU referendum that David Cameron should never have called into a victory for bitter, backwards-looking isolationists, while in the US the same WASP hysteria led to the election of Donald Trump, an inarticulate white supremacist thug who, to tens of millions of Americans, was perceived as speaking their language. an absurdity matched in the UK by the personality cults of Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson — privileged overlords one and all, whose perception as “men of the people” shows only how, in times of great uncertainty, people are susceptible to the allure of dangerous authoritarian figures.
Not all our woes, of course, stem from 9/11. The other pivotal event of the last 17 years was the global economic crash, whose trigger was the collapse of the criminal banking company Lehman Brothers almost exactly ten years ago, on September 15, 2008. In the fallout from that crash, triggered by complex financial transactions that very clearly ought to have been illegal, the full horror of the corruption and emptiness of the modern world, centred on turbo-charged profiteering and greed, was briefly glimpsed, but no revolution — velvet or otherwise — followed. Instead, the British government, under the Tories, pioneered a savage and unending age of austerity, an effort to exterminate public spending — the bedrock of civil society — that is heartbreakingly damaging to the lives of millions, but that, in a broken electoral system in which we can’t seem to get rid of the Tories, continues to make life harder and harder for all but the rich and, especially, the global super-rich.
I’ll be writing more about this in a few days, on the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, because, as much as 9/11 brought forth permanent war and permanent paranoia at home, it is the ghost of the 2008 crash that haunts us most powerfully.
After the 2008 crash, the banks, saved through the transfer of colossal amounts of money from taxpayers, via our obliging political masters, the financial world remade itself, a Frankenstein’s Monster that, in an effort to resume its insatiable greed, has now turned its attention to housing, cannibalistically devouring its own populations, as is happening in the UK with, on the one hand, a Blade Runner dystopia of endless but unaffordable tower blocks rising up everywhere, and, on the other, concerted efforts to destroy genuinely affordable rented housing — social housing — through the destruction of council estates, and the breathtakingly cynical re-classification of housing as “affordable” when it is fundamentally the very opposite.
We are Through the Looking Glass, my friends, in a world of greed, fear and ever-rising inequality, and it is up to us to come together to find new ways to challenge the bitter legacies of 9/11 and the global economic crash of 2008.
Andy Worthington is a freelance investigative journalist, activist, author, photographer, film-maker and singer-songwriter (the lead singer and main songwriter for the London-based band The Four Fathers, whose music is available via Bandcamp). He is the co-founder of the Close Guantánamo campaign (and see the latest photo campaign here) and the successful We Stand With Shaker campaign of 2014-15, and the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison (click on the following for Amazon in the US and the UK) and of two other books: Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion and The Battle of the Beanfield. He is also the co-director (with Polly Nash) of the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (available on DVD here — or here for the US), and for his photo project ‘The State of London’ he publishes a photo a day from six years of bike rides around the 120 postcodes of the capital.
In 2017, Andy became very involved in housing issues. He is the narrator of a new documentary film, ‘Concrete Soldiers UK’, about the destruction of council estates, and the inspiring resistance of residents, he wrote a song ‘Grenfell’, in the aftermath of the entirely preventable fire in June 2017 that killed over 70 people, and he also set up ‘No Social Cleansing in Lewisham’ as a focal point for resistance to estate destruction and the loss of community space in his home borough in south east London.
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Andy Worthington says...
When I posted this on Facebook, I wrote:
On the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, here are my reflections about the devastating effect the fallout from the attacks has had on our world – endless war, Guantanamo, torture, indefinite imprisonment without charge or trial, Islamophobia that fed into a wider racism that, in turn, led to Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, and a cynically promoted age of fear that has diminished us all. As I also mention towards the end of the article, the other defining event of the last 17 years is the global economic crash, which began almost exactly ten years ago, and which I’ll discuss further in an article to follow, but which, in brief, has led to an artificial age of austerity and a housing crisis that appears to involve nothing less than a form of economic cannibalism on the poorer members of western society.
...on September 11th, 2018 at 8:57 pm
David Knopfler wrote:
Quality observations
...on September 11th, 2018 at 11:35 pm
Thank you, David. That’s very reassuring to hear – even though my observations are far from reassuring, which says something about the times in which we are living.
Jan Strain wrote:
I concur, Andy
Thanks, Jan. Part 2 to follow on Saturday – the 10th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the point at which the global economic crash began in earnest. It’s all been bulls*t since then, as the Masters of the Universe and their political lackeys have tried to create the illusion that normal service has been resumed, when in fact all they’ve succeeded in creating is a cannibalistic Zombie facsimile of a coherent world of glass and steel led by robber barons and sharp-dressed thugs.
Andy, the US plutocrats all growed up – they can now con the planet then rape it
...on September 12th, 2018 at 11:47 am
I think we’re reaching a tipping point, Jan – but then at some level I am quite the optimist, despite appearances to the contrary.
Andy, it’s pretty hard to find reasons for optimism right now. I think with Brexit we could have the “perfect” storm
If it goes ahead, David. It’s been my feeling for many months now that it’s simply not so-able. The Irish border question is persistently ducked, and a hard Brexit is, by any definition, nothing short of madness. Remember that the cheerleaders for Brexit from the Tory right were kept in a box for decades – by Thatcher, who sat on that box resolutely and never let them out, and by Major too – and it’s only Cameron’s idiocy that let them out. The hard Brexit route is, in effect, a right-wing coup, not supported by the majority of the monied establishment.
Natalia R Scott wrote:
I still believe in this subject, Bush is the worse criminal and Obomber allowed many of his policies to follow and worsen them…these two have so much blood on their hands…
And very possibly the draining of US resources to fund endless wars and the paranoia and the clampdown on civil liberties is exactly what Al-Qaeda had in mind back in September 2001, Natalia. Our leaders have played into Osama bin Laden’s hands.
Andy, believe it – Bin Laden actually said that was the point of the attacks
Yes indeed, Jan, but how many people in the US even know that? We were told this was a war on our freedoms by Muslim fanatics – the sub-text being that all Muslims are fanatics – and look where that’s got us: with a white supremacist president whose shockingly large pool (swamp might be more accurate) of supporters fully endorsed his outrageous ban on anyone from a number of Muslim-majority nations coming to the US for any reason, while, across the country, paranoid individuals fed a steady diet of sensationalist racism for the last 17 years fear to go to sleep every night because they’re convinced “they” are coming to murder them in their sleep. Goebbels would have approved, that’s for sure.
Exactly, Andy. Unfortunately, the voices for sanity get no forum – the muting of protest and attempts to kettle and silence anyone who disagrees are actually succeeding in muffling our voices (That started under Clinton and gained with Bush’s “free Speech Zones” and continued with Obama’s Black Out on publicity for dissent). It appears no matter how obscenely blatant this racist ass gets, the more he is allowed to continue. I feel like I am in 1930’s Germany sometimes.
I know what you mean, Jan. It’s the same thing here in the UK. Slightly less repression and ignorance, bt only by degrees. This might cheer you up – Ian Bone of Class War confronting arch-Brexiteer and Lord Snooty lookalike Jacob Rees-Mogg about how much he pays his children’s nanny (the same nanny he had as a child!): https://www.facebook.com/ClassWarOfficial/posts/2122216011329348
Beverly Spicer wrote:
Would anyone believe that it’s not either/or but all of them we’ve been snookered by?
Time for a serious change, Beverly!
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March has been quite a month so far. On the very first day, I turned 55 and wasted no time to request for my $5,000 from CPF Board. Some people asked me, why so little and I’m not surprised that they didn’t know that I don’t have the minimum sum of $176,000. I’m just surprised that some young people don’t even know that there is such a thing as the minimum sum (now called Retirement Sum) which will certainly be inflated to an astronomical figure when it’s their turn to withdraw. I hope their salary grows exponentially.
Facing a serious challenge from Rahul Ghandi, Indian PM Narendra Modi rides precariously on the tide of Hindu extremism. Sadly yet predictably, the tide had turned violent. Recent provocative speeches by leaders of the BJP and other right-wing groups have fueled a whirlwind of carnage. Rough estimates indicate that more than 2,000 people, mostly Muslims, have been killed around the country since campaigning started. Mumbai alone witnessed 500 murders due probably to cardinal sins like eating beef or being suspected of killing a cow. Meanwhile, a suicide attack on Valentine’s Day in Kashmir, killing 40 policemen was deemed a good reason for going to war with Pakistan.
It would probably have been unsafe to even talk about slaughtering sacred cows in India. Luckily we’re in Singapore, where only heavy metal bands get banned at the last minute at the behest of the National Council of Churches.
Even though I’m not a fan of metal, I have absolutely no problems with them performing for their fans. They may not have a pristine, clean-cut image, but neither do they project that image for unsuspecting children. Even though I’m not missing anything here, I do feel sorry for the metal fans, but what I’m more worried about are the kind of “tides” that politicians ride on their way into office.
The sacred cow in question here is actually streaming. Started in the 1980s, students here have been grappling with it for almost 40 years. Why abolish it suddenly? Because it was a mistake? How can that be? We, or rather they wanted to arrest school dropout rates. And if arresting school dropout rates were the sole KPI, then there is no denying that streaming achieved its objective very well. A third of students dropped out of school during the 1970s. Today, less than 1% drop out. Nice numbers.
But what is the reality on the ground? Are the ITE platoons better than yesterday’s Hokkien peng? Are the job prospects and the future for students in the “slower” streams (not just those featured in the newsPAPers) better than that for yesterday’s school dropouts?
Have they gotten better or worse since the 1970s? Make no mistake, there was always a stigma for those who don’t do well for studies, even before streaming. MOE merely refined it, adding more “classes”, labels and categories. The slowest class now provides a place even for those who do badly. In that way, you keep these kids in school. The fastest class allows a bulkier, more impressive syllabus to be thrust upon them, thus bringing up our PISA scores. The problem with this system is that it focuses all the positive energy in one stream and dump all the negative energy in the other. Ask any teacher who would like to teach NT.
While stigmatisation is not a government policy, the societal response is quite predictable. If people were categorised by their girth, would they go through the widest passage because it’s easiest to cross? Of course not. They would try to squeeze through the narrowest one. That’s a lot more exclusive and flattering. Those who manage to squeeze into the third narrowest passage would try to slim down and squeeze into the second narrowest. Those who manage to squeeze into the second narrowest will try to squeeze into through the narrowest.
Of course, this is just a game. Nobody would take it seriously, but even then, you can see the amount of paint rubbed off from the first and second narrowest passage. What if it’s a competition? What if there are attractive prizes? What if you earn a rank or a medal depending on which passage you clear? What if your career prospects depend on it? We’ll probably see people stripping naked and losing their skin trying to squeeze through.
In case you’re curious, I barely managed to squeeze through the second narrowest passage. Luckily there were no buttons on my shirt.
When you create categories like these, you intensify the competition. Our system of streaming makes the narrowest passage even narrower with IP and GEP. Having these programmes make our education system look impressive, but what if people found out that we need tuition, sacrificing a happy, meaningful life to get into GEP? Are we really producing that many “gifted” students? Or are we rubbing our skins off by squeezing through the narrowest passage?
Unfortunately, Mr Ong cannot deny the fact that societal response is the direct result of government policy. The consequences become unintended when the policy makers fail to see humans as imperfect emotional creatures capable of greed, envy, arrogance and vanity. Local writers have touched on this topic decades ago. Obviously our ministers didn’t bother to read our works. If you cannot understand how streaming created social stigmas in the first place, how can you be sure that ending streaming (while allowing students to take subjects at different levels) will end social discrimination?
To call streaming a sacred cow is an insult to cows. Behind the marks and grades is a couple of generations of students who feel and care a lot less than their predecessors. There is no magic bullet that will make Singapore a more humane and compassionate society where people don’t judge and evaluate you as a human being based on your grades and academic performance. There are many kind people out there who are volunteering without any perks. The moment you bring politics into the picture, rewards and incentives motivate those who are less than sincere.
Finally, a bit of entertainment for the month of March, even though I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry after listening to this story.
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FEINSTEIN FARM JOBS BILL MAY LEAD TO IMMIGRATION FIX
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There's a slowdown all along the Mexican border. Border Patrol agents caught fully 27 percent fewer illegal immigrants trying to sneak into the United States between November 1 and April 30 than during the same six months a year ago.
Some of this slowdown stems from intensified enforcement efforts ranging from expansion of the physical and electronic border fence that's growing daily. The Department of Homeland Security's E-Verify program, allowing employers to tell quickly whether job applicants enjoy legal immigration status, also is a factor.
But America's economic miseries are behind most of the slowdown. Construction, hotel and many other categories of jobs often taken by illegal immigrants have dried up, so there's less of a magnet for people coming here.
In this climate, one employment category steadily features surplus, untaken job openings: agriculture. California farms don't have the kind of worker shortage they suffered two years ago, when many crops rotted on trees and vines for lack of labor to pick them. But many still report they're short of reliable workers and would like two things to correct a situation that has caused them to fallow more than 500,000 acres of fertile farmland for lack of hands to plant and pick crops:
Assurance they can keep bringing back experienced workers (many of them illegals) for seasonal jobs, and a paperwork speedup in the federal H-2A program that allows some farm workers to enter legally on temporary visas.
Now comes Democratic U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein with a plan to fix these problems. "In a sense, this might set a pattern for overall immigration reform," she said in an interview. Feinstein would allow illegal immigrants already here to achieve temporary legal status if they can prove they've worked at least 150 days in each of the last two years or 100 days in each of the last five. She would allow no more than 1.35 million such legalizations (families of legalized workers could also apply). After three more years of steady work (at least 150 days per year), the former illegals and their families could apply for green cards conferring permanent legal residency.
Before giving green cards, though, Feinstein's bill would assess a $500 per person fine for breaking the law by entering America illegally. It would also demand that immigrants prove they are current on all taxes and have clean criminal records.
Her proposal is co-sponsored by 16 other Democratic senators. Conspicuously absent is Republican John McCain of Arizona, who carried a wider-ranging immigration reform and amnesty bill during the year before he became his party's 2008 presidential candidate. An identical bill in the House is co-sponsored by Democratic U.S. Rep. Howard Berman of Los Angeles and Central Valley Republican Reps. George Radanovich of Mariposa and Devin Nunes of Visalia, among many others.
This plan is backed by most regional and national agriculture organizations, including the Western Growers Assn., the Dairy Farmers of America and the National Council of Agricultural Employers. The United Farm Workers union also is aboard.
But opponents call the measure just another amnesty plan that would eventually grant illegal immigrants access to all U.S. jobs even though they in effect jumped the line for entering this county legally. There's also the claim this would allow farms to keep exploiting the cheap labor of illegals who can't protest.
"These workers are here," Feinstein said. "Yes, there are enforcement issues, but we know this much for sure: if there are questions over whether workers will be allowed to come back in future years, they will simply stay here, legally or not, and won't return home when it's off-season for farm jobs."
Feinstein acknowledges the farm labor shortage of two and three years ago is less severe now, partly because many illegal immigrant workers are back in field work, their jobs in construction and other areas gone. "That's just a short-term thing," she says. "The long-term shortage is still there. We have billions of dollars a year in lost production right now, we have California farmers leasing land in Mexico to grow crops and we are importing more foreign produce because of it, which comes with certain health hazards."
When it comes to wages, the Feinstein measure would freeze the federal Adverse Effect Wage Rate, which requires California farmers to pay legal seasonal workers in the H-2A program at least $9.72 per hour. This rate would stay the same for three years after her bill becomes law, if that happens. The AEW rate, of course, does not apply to illegals, who often receive the state's minimum wage of $8 per hour, or less.
The bottom line: Feinstein's bill would probably solve farm labor shortages for years to come and provides a balanced model for the wider-ranging immigration reform that President Obama says he wants. But its fate in Congress is completely uncertain, because of that buzz word "amnesty."
Email Thomas Elias at tdelias@aol.com. For more Elias columns, visit www.californiafocus.net
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Graphene Uses
Graphene is the strongest material in the world and have many super features in ( Electronics , Power , Nanotechnology , Mechanics , Safety ..... and more ) so it enter in a lot of fields and everyday Graphene uses grow for give manufacturing material more strong and great feature ... we are interesting in all Graphene uses and news .
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A lot of people when use mobile , tablet , laptop or any device depend in battery have main complaint battery discharge so fast and so slowly to recharge !
The reason behind that the most battery made from Lithium and lithium-ion battery (sometimes write Li-ion battery or LIB) have some problems
Li-Ion batteries have good capacity compared to their volume and weight if compared with another batteries materials and have a long life it have about 400–1200 cycles of charge and discharge, but There is a drawback, however: they take a long time to charge. Another drawback is their maximum power output. Li-Ion batteries may have a large capacity, but their maximum power output is limited because the risk of overheating.
Graphene Battery:
Graphene batteries are made by enhancing existing Li-Ion batteries, This is achieved by enriching the electrodes with graphene which changes their chemical and physical properties. The results are improved charge/discharge rate characteristics as well as improved capacity. Improved discharge rate means that graphene batteries have a higher maximum power output.
Graphene is not only being used for the electrodes of batteries, but for the active material itself. Graphene makes such a good battery material that the devices are called “supercapacitors”, i.e. batteries which hold enormous power and charge within a few seconds. Already two years ago graphene supercapacitors that store as much energy as nickel metal hydride (Ni: MH) batteries were demonstrated. in February this year, UCLA researchers caused shock waves when they showed a graphene mixture that can be coated onto the surface of a regular DVD. An ordinary DVD burner is then used to inscribe millions of super-capacitor circuits into the graphene layer. The layer can later be simply peeled off and transferred anywhere where a super powered battery is desired.
With such development, we might soon see ultra-thin flexible batteries which charge in less than a minute and could be integrated into clothes, paper, car dashboards or just about anywhere you want them.
Vanadium graphene to give more power:
Vanadium oxides offer high energy capacity when used in Li-Ion batteries. This is because they collect lithium ions like a sponge. The drawback of using vanadium oxide (vo5) or vanadium pentoxide (vo5) is that oxides in general are bad electrical conductors. The low conductivity results in a slower charge/discharge rate.
Scientists found a way to use graphene, which is an excellent conductor, as a structural backbone to which vanadium oxide is attached. This hybrid inherits good capacity properties from vanadium oxide and good conductivity from graphene which allows for a fast recharge.
Hybrid ribbons of vanadium oxide (vo5) and graphene may accelerate the development of high-power lithium-ion batteries suitable for electric cars and other demanding applications. The Rice University lab of materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan determined that the well-studied material is a superior cathode for batteries that could supply both high energy density and significant power density. The research appears online this month in the American Chemical Society journal Nano Letters.
The ribbons created at Rice are thousands of times thinner than a sheet of paper, yet have potential that far outweighs current materials for their ability to charge and discharge very quickly. Cathodes built into half-cells for testing at Rice fully charged and discharged in 20 seconds and retained more than 90 percent of their initial capacity after more than 1,000 cycles.
“This is the direction battery research is going, not only for something with high energy density but also high power density,” Ajayan said. “It’s somewhere between a battery and a supercapacitor.”
Graphene-coated ribbons of vanadium oxide, seen in a scanning electron microscope image
How vanadium graphene battery made?
The ribbons also have the advantage of using relatively abundant and cheap materials. “This is done through a very simple hydrothermal process, and I think it would be easily scalable to large quantities,” he said.
Ajayan said vanadium oxide has long been considered a material with great potential, and in fact, vanadium pentoxide has been used in lithium-ion batteries for its special structure and high capacity. But oxides are slow to charge and discharge, due to their low electrical conductivity. The high-conductivity graphene lattice that is literally baked in solves that problem nicely, he said, by serving as a speedy conduit for electrons and channels for ions.
The atom-thin graphene sheets bound to the crystals take up very little bulk. In the best samples made at Rice, fully 84 percent of the cathode’s weight was the lithium-slurping vo5, which held 204 milliamp hours of energy per gram. The researchers, led by Rice graduate student Yongji Gong and lead author Shubin Yang, said they believe that to be among the best overall performance ever seen for lithium-ion battery electrodes.
“One challenge to production was controlling the conditions for the co-synthesis of vo5 ribbons with graphene,” Yang said. The process involved suspending graphene oxide nanosheets with powdered vanadium pentoxide (layered vanadium oxide, with two atoms of vanadium and five of oxygen) in water and heating it in an autoclave for hours. The vanadium pentoxide was completely reduced to vo5, which crystallized into ribbons while the graphene oxide was reduced to graphene, Yang said. The ribbons, with a web-like coating of graphene, were only about 10 nanometers thick, up to 600 nanometers wide and tens of micrometers in length with a single-atom-thick coating of graphene. These ribbons are tens of micrometers long, and they have a very large specific surface area which allows for very fast diffusion of electrons and Li-Ions due to vo5’s ion-soaking properties and graphene’s high conductivity. These two properties combined allow for quick charge and discharge rates, as well as high maximum power outputs for these batteries.
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EMSA Beginnings
The EMS Association was formed following a series of four EMS in Agriculture conferences held in Australia between 1999 and 2005. At the 4th conference held in Beechworth, Victoria, the majority of delegates called for the establishment of an entity to enable recognition of EMS as a discipline and coordinate the bi-annual conference and other activities.
The association was formalised by attendees at an open meeting held at the Rural Industries Research & Development Corporate in Canberra on 22 June 2006. Some of these people agreed to taking on the responsibilities of incorporating the association and getting the legal, financial and administrative tasks addressed.
The inaugural committee comprised people who had a long involvement and history with EMS in Australia. They came from diverse backgrounds, including industry, government, research and the private sector. Read their profiles.
Outcomes from EMS in Agriculture Conference, Beechworth, 17-20th October 2005
Group responses
17 groups provided feedback at the conference.
The stakeholders represented in these groups are as below:
Australian Landcare Management Systems (1%)
Medical services (1%)
Farmers/ landowners (17%)
Government (22%)
Research / universities (5%)
Consultants (5%)
Organic (1%)
Auditors (1%)
Manufacture / processor (3%)
Training / education (3%)
Farmer / industry groups (23%)
R&D corporations
Investors / financial (4%)
CMAs (8%)
Community / Landcare (3%)
Groups identified the following key barriers to the adoption and implementation of EMS in Australian agriculture over the next 1-3 years:
At present there is either an actual, or perceived lack, of market drivers, and/or benefits. This was also expressed in concerns about costs (either actual, or through time spent), and a fear of difficulty in developing EMSs. A lack of recognition for EMS users was blamed in some cases, with some groups stating that the community did not value NRM work done by farmers, and that there were few, if any industry or other EMS champions who were very visible. A lack of industry support and promotion was identified by some groups, while others expressed this as a lack of landholder motivation. The need for clear goals and distinct links between on-farm actions and catchment health/NRM improvements, in addition to a means by which to provide recognition for EMS were also seen as barriers. Importantly, a number of groups commented on the difficulties created by lack of linkages and easy communication about EMS, poor access to tools to support, little extension support, a lack of continuity in EMS support and funding, and finally, little or no analysis and reflection on EMS implementation to date, by agencies, funding bodies and industry groups.
Poor communication and information sharing, as well as critical analysis of work done so far were the most commonly nominated barriers.
Key opportunities identified for EMS were:
building partnerships and linkages between farmers and others (including Landcare)
integrated management systems
using ‘good news’ stories (especially by farmers about farmers) and EMS demonstrations
rewarding good practices (linked with credible auditing), growing market requirements for stewardship
increased communication
better organised and effective funding for EMS
expansion of EMS extension services
coordination of EMS roles and work
agreement on definitions and a common understanding of EMS
expended industry leadership
consolidation of the range of EMS experience to make it available to all users
use of EMS as a platform to access NRM funding
increasing awareness and response to climate change through EMS
development of an agreed national approach
validation and development of the ‘clean, green image’
provision for farmers to engage consumers/reconnect growers with consumers
alignment of systems and a national ‘audit’ of systems
the use industry groups could make of EMS to demonstrate their commitment to sustainable agriculture.
Communication and information sharing would appear to be an essential ingredient in the mix, and were seen to offer great possibilities to enhance EMS development.
In responses to the question “Is there a need for national coordination for EMS and related environmental activities in Australian agriculture”, 82% of the groups responded Yes, with 2 groups (12%)saying ‘No’. A final group responded that stated that ‘it depends’, with no further explanation. Specific areas of coordination mentioned by the groups included communication, certification/auditing and recognition, standards development, EMS facilitation, development of principles, leadership (in particular of industry) and EMS support.
When asked if the current implementation of the EMS Framework adequately met the need for coordination the responses was 94% saying “No”, with 4 groups indicating that they were completely unaware of the document. In the one group responding “Yes”, it was suggested that there was a need for a ‘user-friendly’ version of the existing document. Suggestions offered by the groups about what was needed were:
that we have moved on from the Framework document, and that it should be updated
that there was a need for awareness raising, education, coordination and communication about EMS
that a national annual forum be held for sharing of information and experience about EMS.
Two groups also observed that there was a perception that the Framework had little to do with industry, and was ‘owned’ only by government.
Crucial roles and tasks needed to ensure EMS was better coordinated in Australia were:
Communication, particularly of ‘good news’ and examples of EMS users and outcomes
Use of industry champions
Increased farmer involvement in discussing issues
A clear direction for agriculture to follow – particularly with regard to community expectations for environmental outcomes
Coordination across industry and government
Research and technical support systems
Government to facilitate implementation, provide resources/support
Industry to prepare Action Plan for sustainable agriculture, and provide leadership
Educators to raise awareness, integrate EMS into existing management systems
Processors to provide market intelligence regarding drivers
Government and industry to work out policy
Standards defined for issues across industries/catchments by government and standards of management defined by industry
Governments to define funding and resourcing arrangements, including defining roles and responsibilities
Connection of management practices to monitoring
Government to provide long-term funding and support to both implement EMS and educate about EMS.
In response to the question “Is there a need for a broad-based network to communicate about EMS direction, policy and research needs” 77% of groups responded ‘Yes’, with a further two groups, while not circling the Yes response, indicating that they thought an active network was needed bringing the Yes response to 88%. 1 group circled ‘No, but then stated that there was a network of practitioners needed, and suggested that while there was already a network in place, it should also be at a ‘lower’ level where landholders could ‘attend to swap ideas. One group did not answer the question Therefore, it appears that there was strong support for the formation of an active network of EMS users to discuss a broad range of topics.
Responses supporting the development of a network all wanted to see the network as a multi-stakeholder development. In several cases it was suggested that government agencies were needed to provide the support and infrastructure to ensure that an on-on-going network could develop. Issues that were suggested for discussion through such a network included EMS tool, methods that ‘work’, learning from existing EMS usage, ‘good news stories’, EMS benefits and outcomes, rather than policy or research issues solely.
Best suggestions made by speaking panel to move EMS forward were:
Capturing and promoting the benefits and outcomes of farmers’ use of EMS
Increased communication about EMS, including building on knowledge/skills already developed through EMS pilots etc
Provision of recognition for EMS farmers and those addressing environmental issues
Incorporate EMS into routine farm management approaches
The need to stop ‘trialling EMS’ and start a wider roll-out (move from research to extension)
Development of a truly national approach/unifying framework for EMS
Mechanisms to reduce confusions about EMS
A means to increase awareness of environmental issues and regulations to address these
Development of incentives and recognitions systems
A review of current the EMS framework and arrangements
Use of a truly national Framework
Maintenance of momentum/enthusiasm after NHT/NAP funding in 2008
Using EMS to identify what society wants from agriculture
Identification of commonality between tools
Leadership and industry investment is needed
Linkages to landscape management
Increase use of GIS into EMS
Several groups included statements similar to “we have enough experience and trials – we now need to support practitioners and ‘get on with it’”.
Other areas that needed to be addressed to assist with EMS development were: extension, provision of support, development of better networks, web-based resources, a means of ‘inspiring’ the next group of people to move into EMS, more opportunities for EMS communication, training and leadership and NRM targets that could fit between catchment level and on-farm levels.
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Philippines: A Nuclear Plant, and a Dream, Fizzles
13 February 2012 , by ONISHI Norimitsu
MORONG, the Philippines — It is the nuclear plant of regrets, of would haves and could haves, to a generation of Filipino scientists who had dreamed of bringing nuclear power to this energy-starved country.
The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant here sits about 45 miles west of the nation’s capital (...)
Philippines – Risk and danger in nuclear power
16 March 2011 , by DAVID Randy
OUR SENSITIVITY to risk is not constant. It is always shaped by events happening around us. Twenty-five years ago, in November 1985, we were ready to fire the first nuclear power plant in the Philippines. A fateful, last-minute check demanded by international inspectors showed a few minor (...)
Commemorating the ’85 Welgang Bayan Laban sa Plantang Nukleyar
21 June 2009 , by AMPARO Chester, DUMAUAL Antonio, NFBM
On June 20, 1985, the province of Bataan was witness to the biggest protest-action directed against the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), also known as the infamous “Monster of Morong”.
That day was the tail-end of a three-day protest (...)
Plans to revive the 22-year old Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) strongly criticized
24 January 2009 , by CABACUNGAN Gil C. Jr., KPD, PAZZIBUGAN Dona
Please see press release below, in reaction to news today — attached also for reference.
DJ Janier BATAAN NUKE PLANT REVIVAL SCORED: “A CHERNOBYL WAITING TO HAPPEN”
Reference: Chester Amparo, Secretary General, KPD (0917 921 3144) Au Broquil, (...)
Philippines: Dwarf cloud rat rediscovered after 112 years
2 May 2008 , by Science Daily
The greater dwarf cloud rat (Carpomys melanurus) was rediscovered in April 2008 — 112 years after the first and only time it had ever been seen by scientists. Cloud rats are one of the most spectacular cases of adaptive radiation by mammals anywhere in the world, with at least 15 species ranging (...)
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Don Sutton
File:LosAngelesDodgers 100.png
File:Num20.PNG
(Number retired 14 August 1998-LAD)
#21-Brewers; #27-Angels
Position Picther (RH)
MLB Seasons 23 (16 LAD)
Teams Dodgers
(1966-1980, 1988; 550 games)
Astros (1981-1982; 50 games)
Brewers (1982-1984; 71 games)
A's (1985; 29 games)
Angels (1985-1987; 74 games)
Debut 14 April 1966 (LAD)
Final Game 9 August 1988 (LAD)
Total Games 785 batting
(774 pitching)
LCS Appearances NLCS:
1974 (LAD),
1978 (LAD)
1982 (Brewers),
1986 (Angles)
World Series Teams 1974 (LAD),
1982 (Brewers)
Allstar Teams 1972, 1973,
(no ERA's allowed)
Awards The Sporting New Rookie Pitcher of the Year (1966)
ML Shutout Leader (1972; 9)
Lou Gehrig Memorial Award (1976)
All-Star Game MVP (1977)
ML ERA Leader (1980; 2.20)
Hall of Fame (1998)
Nicknames'
"Little D"
"Mr. Consistency"
"Black & Decker"
Donald Howard Sutton (born April 2, 1945 in Clio, Alabama) is a former Major League Baseball player and current television sportscaster.
A right-handed pitcher, Sutton played 23 years for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics, and California Angels. He won a total of 324 games, 58 of them shutouts and five of them one-hitters, and he is eighth on baseball's all-time strikeout list with 3,574 K's. He also holds the major league record for number of consecutive losses to one team, having lost 13 straight games to the Chicago Cubs.
Template:MLB HoF He was known for doctoring baseballs. His nickname was "Black & Decker"; legend has it that when Sutton met notorious greaseballer Gaylord Perry, Perry handed him a tube of Vaseline, and Sutton responded with a thank-you, then handed him a sheet of sandpaper.
A 4-time All-Star, Sutton was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998. His candidacy and subsequent election were controversial, with critics pointing out that he had never won a Cy Young Award, had won 20 games only once, and had rarely led his league in any statistical category. However, supporters noted that no pitcher with either 300 victories or 3000 strikeouts had ever failed to be elected to the Hall of Fame, and that his 324 wins were, at the time of his retirement, the most by any right-handed pitcher since the 1920s.
Sutton started his broadcasting career in 1989 with the Atlanta Braves on TBS, where he recently finished his 16th season. He has also broadcast golf and served as a pre- and post-game analyst for NBC's coverage of the 1987 League Championship Series.
Height: 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Bats: Right
Wins: 324 - Losses: 256
Lifetime ERA: 3.26
Total Innings: 5,282.1
Stikeouts: 3,574
One-Hitters: 5
Two-Hitters: 9
All-time Dodger leader in:
Wins (233)
Games Pitched (550)
Games Started (533)
Innings Pitched (3,814)
Strikeouts (2,696)
Shutouts (52)
Opening Day Starts (7)
LC Series Games
ERA: 2.02
Total Innings: 49
World Series Games
Total Innings: 8
Record 1-0 (NL 4-0)
Sutton was born on the same date as former Dodger teammate Reggie Smith.
Hall of Fame page
Don's page @ Baseball Library.com
Sutton's Baseball Reference page
Don's page @ Baseball Almanac.com
The Baseball Page for Don
Retrieved from "http://www.exampleproblems.com/wiki/index.php?title=Don_Sutton&oldid=21977"
1972 National League All-Stars
California Angels players
Houston Astros players
Los Angeles Dodgers players
Milwaukee Brewers players
Oakland Athletics players
Major league pitchers
Atlanta sports
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The florence community band homepage
FAQ About the Band
Concerts at the Center
Dave's Announcements
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Is there admission fee for the concerts?
No. Unless otherwise stated, ALL Florence Community Band concerts are FREE Admission. Donations are warmly accepted. Since we are volunteer band, we rely solely on our sponsor, The City of Florence and the generous donations of our patrons, like you! THANK YOU!
I'd love to see the FCB perform, where and when do you play??
We perform 10-12 concerts a year both indoor and outdoor. Please check our Calendar for concert dates and locations.
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Do I need to audition ?
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The Sports Alternative
I always thought sport was bullshit. Ever since my high school P.E. days when I was made to play football against people who were better at it than I was, I've held an unnaturally high resentment for most forms of competitive physical activity. Don’t get me wrong, I can understand why loads of people enjoy it, and I am all for keeping in shape, but even with this outlook I still find it hard to be enthusiastic about it.
Note: Extreme Ironing isn't on this list for some reason, so I reckon Joe is talking shite - Mike
Luckily for people like me, being alive in 2015 means we aren't just limited to the run of the mill sports which existed in yesteryear. While football, cricket, and beating your spouse is still alive and well in today’s world, we’re also treated to some of the weirdest, most bizarre and downright pointless excuses for physical recreation.
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I thought it was ready. Joe thought it was ready. We sent it to play testers.
It wasn't ready.
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Regarding the stylistic issues, we don’t usually have many disagreements regarding the design of towns or interiors. It should be mentioned that my taste and style is impeccable (just got myself some pretty rad leopard print curtains) whereas Cunt lives in a disused warehouse with three other men.
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Ask Jary - #2 Women, Wanking and West
Welcome shaggers and shaggees, it's that time again where I answer your desperate cries for help/attention.
This week, I was inundated with various rope burn and broken cable tie issues. That means only one thing; Fifty Shades of Grey is out at the pictures. Now as I have documented here, I am not a fan of that bulbous pile of piss poor soft porn. So, I threw all of those fucking hack letters in the bin, along with nine copies of Fifty Shades of Plagiarism and a copy of The Stand. That last one may seem confusing, and I can understand why. It confused me too, it wasn't about a night-stand that was next to a bed where loads of shagging went down; it was a fucking horror book! I was glad in a way, it meant I didn't have to write about how I hated Steven King, because the night-stand book was my idea first!
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Pictured: Bare good book
Anyway, on to the letters. Hit the 'read more' button, you numpty.
Pop Culture Club - How DCCU's Aquaman Could Be Cool
Zack Snyder, director of the current DC Cinematic Universe tweeted a picture this week of our first good look at Jason Momoa’s Aquaman. This version of Aquaman will make his debut in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, alongside pretty much every other Justice League member (Apart from The Flash and Green Lantern, because reasons). The look has been pretty divisive, bringing about the age old argument of Aquaman’s usefulness and believability within the DCCU and in general pop culture.
Image Credit: twitter.com/zacksnyder
And, as usual, there is much more to dive into with Aquaman. After the jump, we break down some thoughts about our new King of Atlantis.
Code Club with The Cunt - #2
This week I am getting into my favourite thing currently: Stack Overflow.
Foul Fantasy Deblog - #4 Real Close
This diary should be posted about four weeks after it was written, which means that the first version of the demo is now out. We've taken a very bold decision in releasing our first play version to the public. Normally, it should go through vigorous in-house testing on a first play, but that isn't how we roll. In all honesty, it's not because we want to give something back to our fans or any bullshit like that. We won't be charging for the finished product, it will be free on this site as the demo is, so if that isn't giving back then I don't know what is.
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This seems to sum it up nicely.
No, it's because we want feedback; we want to know what is working, what is shit and where we have dropped massive Steve-sized bollocks (our mate Steve has massive bollocks). If we trusted our friends and family to do it, we would get sugar coated versions of what they think. Whereas you, our audience, you have no such qualms about hurting our feelings. So if you have played the demo, then drop us an email with what you think of it. Either use the site email address, or (and I would recommend this one as this is the one me and Joe check more often) email Jary directly. Now all that shit is out of the way, here is the actual entry.
4 Things We Need To Retire In 2015
There is an unwritten rule throughout social convention that one should never outstay their welcome. Over the years, we have learnt that there exists a mutual code of conduct which should result in all parties going their separate ways once everything which needs discussing has been addressed. This time last year I was dating a girl who regularly came to my place and refused to leave, to the point where I began studying techniques to prepare for her eventual dismissal. I felt like a complete shit afterwards, and I knew that I shouldn't have to revert to off-hand tactics to get people to go away. But this got me thinking; maybe the unwritten code isn't so universal after all? Had the rules changed in the past few years and I wasn't aware? Maybe we just do the whole thing online now?
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But then I think; no, surely not? Maybe the goal posts are just slightly altered depending on your outlook on things? Even when notoriously out of touch with reality celebrity asshole Louis Walsh understands the concept, it can’t be that hard for the normal people of the world to fathom?
Or maybe I spoke too soon.
The Jary Files - Nightclubs, Fun Clubs and Fan Clubs
Alright, shaggers. The lads at Foul Entertainment said I should come and do a blog. I said I was too busy shagging. And I was. Then they said something about meeting a deadline, but I was too busy to remember when that was (Shagging). Apparently it was today. So I'm gonna just talk about clubs for a bit, then get back to better things (More shagging, etc.).
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Pictured: Better things/Typical Tuesday afternoon
Anyway, read on for stuff about Tom Cruise, bird sanctuaries and Rolf's Cartoon club. Oh, and shagging.
Pop Culture Club - Marvel's Daredevil: Something(s) You Should Know
The first series in the… well, series, of Marvel and Netflix shows, Daredevil, drops in April. Last week, the best look we’ve had so far of the series arrived with a number of hidden details. Since the whole Spider-Man MCU saga, Daredevil has been somewhat side-lined in people’s thoughts. I’m here to set the record straight. This is a primers guide of what to expect in Daredevil and why it will be awesome.
Image Credit: marvel.com
Read on to watch the newest trailer and find out what you can expect in the Netflix series!
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RADIO/TV SHOW GUEST PAGE
Dan Dicks
Dan Dicks Dan Dicks is an investigative journalist and award winning documentary film maker. He is also the founder of an independent media outlet known as Press For Truth which produces videos and films that directly challenges the mainstream media's narratives of events that shape our world. Dan frequently travels the world covering stories and events that the mainstream media is not willing to touch or puts their heavily biased spin on. He is also a musician and wrote and performed the music for all five of his films. As founder and owner of Press For Truth Dan continues to create thought provoking videos and documentary films for his website pressfortruth.ca. Webpages: https://pressfortruth.ca/ https://www.facebook.com/PressForTruth https://twitter.com/DanDicksPFT https://www.youtube.com/user/weavingspider https://www.instagram.com/dandickspft/
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Derrick J Freeman (Peace Activist; Podcaster; Video Producer) on various liberty issues - Dr Phranq Tamburri, NMD, gives The Trump Report - Dan Dicks (Press For Truth) on Alternative Media/Social Networking avenues
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Gender, Sex and Sexuality
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Rise of the Right, Human Rights in USA & Europe
Rise of Nationalism in Europe 2016 – BBC
From Trump and Pence to Marine Le Pen, the so-called “alt Right”, UKIP and Brexit, there has been a seeming lurch to the right in European and western politics with reactionary policies called for including Burka bans, immigration repatriation, attempts to overturn abortion rights and bathroom laws, and a trans rush in America to get gender markers and names changed before January, and fears of what may come. (Discussion 6 December 2016, Norwich Library)
LGBT Rights reversal by Right Wing?
Is this an irrational fear? India, Russia and Uganda, have already shown that LGBT gains can be reversed. Every single member of Trump’s cabinet opposes LGBT rights (Pink News) Who are the people around the president-elect (BBC)
Trump’s “message of resentment, anger and fear turned out enough of those voters for him to move past Clinton in key Midwest states and win an electoral college victory. From that, Trump will almost surely take the lesson that he doesn’t need to reach out to anybody; he can win by appealing only to his rabid base.” – Washington Post
Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Tom Price, one of Congress’s staunchest opponents of abortion, as health and human services secretary has drawn immediate condemnation from reproductive rights and public health groups.
The city of San Francisco has passed a resolution vowing to resist any backslide on LGBT rights under the Trump administration.
Europe: Austria, Italy, France, Sweden…
Europe Left and Right – New Stateman
On Sunday, Austria’s Norbert Hofer was nearly the first far-right head of state in western Europe since WWII. In the end, a re-run of the election in which a previous vote was tied with a narrow 30,000 challenged majority actually resulted in a 53/47% victory for the Green-Independent candidate.
“Werner Kogler, a Green party politician, described the result as a “small global turning of the tide in these uncertain, not to say hysterical and even stupid times”. The endorsement of the retired economics professor was particularly emphatic in urban areas, with all of Vienna’s 23 districts showing up in Van der Bellen’s green than Hofer’s blue at the end of the night.” – Guardian
Interestingly, Austria saw the centre-Right and centre-Left candidates lose in the first round, instead seeing a polarisation of the vote around far-Right and independent-Green. Is the future of politics? A rejection of establishment, traditional parties including liberal-centrist in favour of a new politics, the so-called rise of populism. These new ‘extremist’ parties favour nationalism over immigration and may blur the lines of Left and Right, cutting across and drawing support from the whole political spectrum, as UKIP has done in the UK. They are anti-status quo and have recently seen the “sad death of liberal Britain“.
Slovakia has seen its far Right party gain its first seats in 2016, with 8% of the vote and 14 seats. Interestingly, Left and Right parties opposed immigration. Immigration and asylum has been championed by Liberal-Greens across Europe but increasingly opposed by the Left and Right during times of austerity.
Sweden’s Democrats have seen a significant rise in support 2006-14 and are characterised by anti-immigration and anti-indigenous, pro-heterosexual nuclear family ideals. Same-sex adoption is opposed with forcible married heterosexual adoption if children of LGBT parents are orphaned.
Reports have shown that a majority of far and new Right supporters are working and lower-middle class men, often less educated and economically insecure, with traditional heterosexual masculinities feeling threatened by the diversification of national culture by Islam, immigration and LGBT minorities.
A re-developing divide is also that of rural versus urban, with diverse cities integrating their differences whilst rural populations become entrenched around their traditional populations.
“Economic anxieties [only] go some way to explain the phenomenon, but as with the Brexit decision, people are voting in ways that seem – at least to their critics – likely to harm their own material interests just to give the establishment a bloody nose” – Intelligence Squared
Left and Right parties in Europe 2015 – New Statesman
Across 39 European countries and English-speaking Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States – right-wing parties are in power in 30 of the 43 countries, 4 more than before the 2008 financial crash when anti-capitalist feeling should have been on the rise. Is Europe swinging to the right?
Alt Left
And then there’s the Alt-Left – “a subset of liberals in America who think differently than the regressive left. We tend to be pro-free speech / anti-safe-space, anti-Islam, pro-LGBT rights, pro-choice, anti-SJW, and a plethora of other things.”
Revolutionary Communism
The Left’s advocacy of LGBT rights “has a long and mixed history“. Early 20th Century Communism, it should be remembered, was a part of its pre-millennial milieu. That said, Russian Communism undid the laws of the Tsarist regime, and early German Communism and Socialism advocated for gay rights whilst the Nazi National Socialist party oppressed them. Stalin, re-introduced criminal charges for gay men. Obscuring clear analysis is the fact that for some, homosexuality was considered a pervasive practice of the aristocratic classes and not that of the working man.
Some have pointed out that Left and Right do not naturally fall into good or bad, liberal or oppressive, camps. For instance, this graphic is narrow and simplistice in its presentation of the political spectrum:
The Political Spectrum – Woody.Typepad
Some on the Left have wistfully remembered the health and education policies and stand against the US and Apartheid of Fidel Castro. Yet, Castro, also, had issues with LGBT people, their country being decades behind others in giving LGBT rights, before then they could end up in hard labour camps, exiled or killed. Castro proclaimed homosexuality incompatible with revolution and looked only to “real men”.
A phrase that has resurfaced with the football abuse scandal and darts player MBE, Eric Bristow taunting victims as not “real men”, who would stand up to their abusers.
‘White Power Barbie’ v Hillary Clinton
Tomi Lahren and Hillary Clinton
America’s Democrat Left put all their hope in Hillary Clinton and women in general to save the US from a Trump victory, yet 52% of white women voted for him. One female Republican, Tomi Lahren, has been called the “White Power Barbie” and has millions of views, supporting the Right.
The Tyranny of the Majority v Minority
What are the fears of minorities, women, LGBT, etc with regard to the Right and is it fair to selectively remember history and ignore the far Left’s similarly anti-minority views? Or to assume that women are more open-minded or liberal-left than men?
How do we vote when party manifestos cut across multiple issues, rights and policies, is there a hierarchy of rights when no one party espouses them all? What can we do to protect, mitigate and stand up for minorities during more repressive times, if that is what is to come. Are LGBT, among other, rights culturally interpreted and either victors or victims depending upon whether their status is seen as a class, religious or political correctness issue, rather than one of human rights?
Contrary to expectations, and ‘no-platforming’/’safe space’ politics extremist groups able to participate in mainstream debate tended to move away from extremism over time, or to eventually lose support, e.g., the BNP in the UK.
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Religion, Faith & Spirituality on Sex, Gender & Sexuality
The intersection with sex, gender and sexuality, of religion, faith, and spirituality is an issue for many people, both those feeling oppressed or repressed by them, or also trying to celebrate or adhere to a faith whilst still expressing their sexual and/or gender identity, or being female in a world that generally accepts equal rights for women, yet their religion may not agree.
In the 19th century some parts of Christianity were at the forefront of equality and ending slavery, for instance, advocating the rights of women, but now that state and society seem to be ahead of spiritual faiths on equality it is now religions that are behind the times on diversity issues such as sex, gender and sexuality.
Some interpretations of Islam (e.g., tribal Sharia law) still stone female adulterers on paltry evidence yet let off male rapists unless there are multiple witnesses to the victim’s abuse. Gay men are thrown off rooftops by Islamic State yet trans Muslims can end up accepted in other, even conservative, Islamic countries.
Mosques, commonly, like some Jewish synagogues and extreme Brethren churches, still segregate men from women, don’t allow women to speak or go about uncovered. Aren’t most religions male-founded and dominated and thus part of the patriarchy? Should women be free to choose separation and/or subjugation as a religious freedom of choice? How do we regard it, if it is imposed not chosen, and breaches of it are punished?
As the UEA debates religion in May, we ask some similar questions as to whether religion, faith and/or spirituality can be a force for change and good on questions of sex, gender and sexuality, or whether they are the ones needing reforming.
Discussion event in Norwich, Tuesday 5th April, 6.30pm, Millennium Library
UEA Debate on Religion
Is Religion a force for good? Should ISIS be considered Muslim?
Woman’s Hour interviews two Christians on their attitudes to abortion. Recently, a Northern Ireland woman was prosecuted for having an abortion, which would not have happened in the rest of the UK.
LSE Islamic Society has recently held a segregated Muslim dinner by sex, keeping men and women apart.
Even non-Muslim Air France stewardesses are now required to wear headscarves and cover upon arrival from any flights to Iran. Two Iranian women were recently fined a month’s wages each for having “bad hijabs“.
“Not that 7th-century scripture can justify the practice, but wearing a hijab isn’t mandated anywhere in the Koran. Forcing women to wear a curtain — curtain being the literal meaning of hijab in Arabic — is a political act cooked up by nasty, regressive old men, not some time-honoured religious imperative.” – Robert Crampton, The Times
The difference should be whether, wearing anything from headscarf to hijab or burka, the covering-up is by free choice rather than male/divine mandate.
Waria Muslims in Indonesia
Indonesia is profoundly traditional and conservative in terms of Islamic observance yet pockets of diversity exist such as the freedom some waria (assigned male at birth transwomen and/or crossdressed gay men) have to express their Muslim faith without harassment or condemnation.
“Everyone has the right to observe their religion in their own way (…) According to the Qur’an, we are not allowed to classify people based on economic, social, political, gender or theological values”
“It is because they are women and they are Yazidis that they are sold and murdered [by Isis]. What they are experiencing is femicide.”
Foot washing
A Roman Catholic edict suggests that women are not worthy or equal to men or representative of humanity to have their feet washed by a male priest during the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday.
Queer Bible
Is the answer a queer rewriting of the Bible?
“I want to make an inclusive, celebratory space within the text that undoes the implicit sexism, misogyny, heterosexism, hierarchical oppression, slut-shaming, etc. and reconstitutes the feminine, the queer, the outcast, the strange.”
Evangelicals on Transgender
A documentary called “Did God give me the Wrong Body?” seeks to give an evangelical Christian response to transgender people.
“Biblical Christians hold that ‘sex change’ surgery desecrates a body made in the image of God…A painful operation cannot solve the mental dysfunction…left with a mutilated body, but the internal conflicts remain.” – Christian Institute
Non-Binary & Trans Youth
The Free Church of Scotland has condemned SNP moves to accept non-binary gender and extend trans self-identification to 16 & 17 year olds:
“It is a policy that will bring untold disaster and harm upon Scotland’s children,” – Free Kirk moderator, Rev David Robertson
Posted on April 5, 2016 April 5, 2016 Categories Religion & FaithTags Abortion, Bible, Christianity, Free Church of Scotland, Gay, Headscarves, Headship, Hierarchy, Homosexual, Indonesia, Islam, Judaism, Koran, Non-Binary, Patriarchy, Queer, Quran, Roman Catholic, Segregation, Sharia Law, Submission, Trans, Transgender, WariaLeave a comment on Religion, Faith & Spirituality on Sex, Gender & Sexuality
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30,000 shoes form ‘tree’ on Seoul overpass
By Kim Da-sol
Shoes Tree, a 17-meter-tall art installation made of over 30,000 worn-out shoes, will be revealed outside Seoul Station on Saturday, marking the opening of the city’s first highway-turned-park, Seoullo 7017.
Modeled after New York’s iconic High Line, Seoul’s soon-to-open pedestrian-friendly park stretches for about a kilometer and links seven surrounding areas, including Seoul Station and Namdaemun Market, to 12 pedestrian walkways.
(Kim Da-sol/The Korea Herald)
Shoes Tree, a major art piece installed at the center of Seoullo 7017, was designed and installed by environmental artist Hwang Ji-hae. Flower seeds have been planted inside each shoe.
“We invited Hwang to install Shoes Tree to give a meaning of urban restoration to visitors of Seoullo 7017,” said Choi Kwang-bin, the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s city gardening department.
“Both Shoes Tree and Seoullo 7017 are given new life with new meaning, reborn as a creative upcycling art and a unique park, respectively.”
The reason Hwang used shoes to create a tree was to remember the historical significance of the Yeomcheon-gyo handmade shoes street, located behind Seoullo 7017, the artist was quoted as saying.
Workers hang worn-out shoes on Shoes Tree on Seoullo 7017, Seoul’s soon-to-open pedestrian-friendly park, near Seoul Station on Tuesday. (Kim Da-sol/The Korea Herald)
The city restoration project of Seoullo 7017 began four years ago to make use of an old overpass that once served as a major road connecting western and central Seoul. Public calls for its removal had mounted after a safety assessment classified the outdated overpass as dangerous in 2006.
The “70” in the name Seoullo 7017 refers to 1970, when the Seoul Station flyover was constructed, while 17 is a reference to the number of walkways connected to it and 2017, when its construction was completed.
Shoes Tree will be exhibited from the official opening of Seoullo 7017, slated for Saturday, until May 29.
Citizens can participate on the opening day by bringing their own shoes, drawing flowers and hanging them on Shoes Tree.
A variety of events involving citizen participation will take place at Seoullo 7017 and continue until June 18, the city said.
By Kim Da-sol (ddd@heraldcorp.com)
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Kuzul
Online Sports Council
Sep/10
Fantasy Baseball Pitch And Ditch Options for September 14
by Eric Stashin under MLB
Let’s take a look at a few of the potential pitch and ditch options from today’s games and determine if anyone is worth using:
Jason Hammel, Colorado Rockies
The Rockies are one of the hottest teams in baseball, and Hammel gets to take on a Padres offense that is not among the league’s best (21st in the league with 598 runs and 27th in average at .247).
The game is in Colorado, where Hammel is 7-1 with a 3.67 ERA.
Against the Padres, he is 3-0 with a 3.81 ERA in four starts. Sounds like the perfect spot to plug him into your lineup, doesn’t it?
Verdict: Pitch
Adalberto Mendez, Florida Marlins
He was great in his first start for the Marlins, tossing six shutout innings and allowing just one hit and two walks.
However, this start is against the high-powered Phillies offense.
Considering he made just nine starts at Triple-A (and 19 relief appearances), posting a 4.46 ERA in his starts, it’s hard to count on him.
There’s just too much at stake at this point in the season to be taking this type of risk.
Verdict: Ditch
Derek Holland, Texas Rangers
He’s a pitcher that I was extremely high on prior to the season, but has posted mixed results in limited action this season.
However, he has continued to excel in the Minor Leagues, posting a 1.78 ERA over 65.2 innings.
He just hasn’t had the same control in the Major Leagues, walking 16 batters in 39.2 innings (as compared to 18 walks in the minors).
He did a great job in shutting the Blue Jays out for five innings in his last start (striking out eight while allowing three hits and two walks) and draws the Tigers tomorrow. While Detroit still has Miguel Cabrera, the offense isn’t what it once was.
With the Rangers offense behind him taking on Jeremy Bonderman (with a 5.03 ERA), he certainly has a good chance to pick up a victory as well.
Josh Tomlin, Cleveland Indians
He has been consistent in his last three starts, allowing three earned runs in each start (a total of 17 innings).
Considering that’s a 4.76 ERA, is that the type of consistency we are looking for?
He faced the Angels in his last outing, giving up three runs on three hits and two walks while striking out four over six innings. We’ll learn an awful lot about him in this game, facing the same team in back-to-back starts.
Let’s take note of the lesson and remember it for next season. Don’t get too excited about his 4.18 ERA and 1.25 WHIP overall—he’s currently benefiting from a .259 BABIP.
There are too many things not to like to gamble on him here.
What are your thoughts on these pitchers? Who would you use? Who would you avoid?
For more help with your starting pitcher decisions, make sure to check out our look at the week’s two-start options by clicking here.
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ALL ABOUT ICON BRICKELLFortune at icon2019-09-30T20:06:30+00:00
Designed by renowned firm Arquitectonica and interiors inspired by Yoo By Philippe Starck, iconbrickell rests on a ten-acre enclave on the edge of a 1000 foot Biscayne Bay waterfront and is surrounded by lush green parks and walking paths on either side.
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Floor plans at iconbrickell range from studios, 1-bedroom, 2-bedroom, and 3-bedroom with layouts ranging in price from $325,000 to over a $1 million.
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Alice welcome to wonderland…for some Reel luxury, residents and their guests can enjoy a night at the movies without waiting in line, parking, sticky chairs and a crowded theater. iconbrickell’s 30-person theater is a wonder-all with oversized blue velvet plush couches designed by Philippe Starck.
Tower 1 (north tower):
is the largest of all three towers, totaling an impressive 715 units, 15 units per floor, and rising 57 stories. Due to its vast size iconbrickell’s north tower has two addresses 465 Brickell Avenue and 475 Brickell Avenue, which internally can be accessed by its own bank of elevators on either side of the two-story lobby. Each residence at iconbrickell comes with one assigned parking space, located on the 5th through 14th floor. Residents with an additional vehicle have the option of using the “in-house” valet service for a monthly fee.
Other featured ICONic amenities at iconbrickell include:
State-of-the-Art Cardio & Free Weight Center
Conference & Party Room
Chess & Card Playing Room
Cipriani Italian Restaurant found on porte-cochere level
Cantina La Veinte found on porte-cochere level
Icon Café
Two protected green spaces/ parks on either side of community
There is no other building that comes close to what iconbrickell offers. It is the ultimate playground for both adults and children.
Your building
Unique, ultra-contemporary architectural design
A site surrounded by two parks, Biscayne Bay and Brickell Avenue
A spectacular, two-story entrance and valet drop-off
Two full-service bayside restaurants
A spa and fitness center with amenities normally associated with a five-star resort spa
Smart building technology with “i.c.o.n.” (interactive concierge on demand network) capabilities in every unit
Wireless technology on the sky terrace and other common areas
Multi-level covered parking
Full-time concierge staff offering a full range of services including housekeeping, laundry and dry cleaning, 24-hour valet service, mail and package reception
Innovative poolside and bayside dining and lounging including Icon Café
Your park terrace and pool deck
A two-acre, lushly landscaped outdoor living room and sanctuary more than 100 feet above Biscayne Bay
Row after row of stately trees and lounge chairs that flank a spectacular 300-foot long swimming pool divided into a wading pool (where tables and chairs may sit in the water), a thermal hot tub and an Olympic-length lap and recreational pool overlooking Biscayne Bay
An outdoor fireplace overlooking downtown Miami to take the chill off on a January night while you play floor chess
Your spa and fitness center
Full array of free weights and weight equipment
State-of-the-art cardio equipment /cardio theater
Aerobic studio and treatment rooms
His-and-hers lounges and relaxation areas
Whirlpool tubs and cold-plunge pools
Steam room and Redwood saunas
Interactive concierge on demand network
Breathtaking views of Biscayne Bay, downtown Miami, Key Biscayne and South Beach
Several spectacular, urban floor plans
Elegant smooth ceilings rising to nine feet
Floor-to-ceiling laminated windows with energy-efficient tinted glass
Terraces with glass railings, accessible from bedrooms and living room
High-efficiency central air-conditioning-and-heating unit
Sprinkler fire protection system
State-of-the-art telecommunications wiring including high-speed cabling to all television outlets and home-run-configured CAT5 cable for telephone and data communication
Your residence master bathroom
Elegant French limestone bathroom flooring with the Classic Style or blue St. Tropez limestone bathroom flooring with the Cultural Style
Matching limestone vanity top with porcelain lavatories
Italian cabinets
Designer faucets
Air Bubble jet system tubs in select units
Elongated water closet
European-style bidet with coordinating porcelain faucets in select units
Walk-in marble shower with the Classic Style or limestone with the Cultural Style.
Your residence kitchen
Elegant stone kitchen countertops and backsplash
36″ Sub-Zero refrigerator
30″ Wolf** glass cooktop
30″ built-in Wolf** dual convection oven
30″ microwave**
Bosch** three-cycle dishwasher
Double stainless-steel sink
Top-of-the-line, full-size stackable washer and dryer
Residence features listed were based on what developer provided at time of sale, these are subject to change due to remodeling of individual units by unit owners.
Welcome to iconbrickell – the urban chic playground where entertainment abounds, culture comes to play, and nightlife never sleeps. iconbrickell is located within what Brickellites call the “30-minute live-work-play circle,” in the epicenter of Miami’s business and financial district and surrounded by parks and historic landmarks, Biscayne Bay, Brickell Avenue, and Miami Circle®. iconbrickell is just steps away from, pedestrian-friendly bustling sidewalk cafes, restaurants, night-time establishments and posh boutiques found throughout Brickell and Downtown Miami.
iconbrickell New Resident Fees
Move in/out Fee to association = $500
Application Screening Fee = $100
Pet Registration Fee per Pet = $100
New tenants = association security deposit equivalent to one month’s rent
Vehicle registration for assigned self-parking space in garage = $100 for sticker
Additional Vehicle parking with Valet = $210/month.
Valet Guest Fees
0-1 hours: $11.00
4 – 10 hours: $24.00
10 – 24 hours: $34.00
Lost ticket: $34.00 plus the hours the car has been in the lot.
Fees are subject to change based on special events in building or surrounding area.
Facts on iconbrickell living
Tower 3 Residences start from the 16th floor. The W Miami Hotel units are the lower floors up to floor 15. This is the only tower which allows short term rentals less than 6 months.
Tower 3/ W Miami Tower, is valet only parking. Units do not come with self-parking garage spaces.
Towers 1 and 2, only allow rentals of a minimum 6 months.
All towers are key fob secured, access is gained by fobs within elevators and all entryways, except main lobby.
All towers have security, and 24hr front desk personnel at main lobby.
Garage is secured by a gate, access is gained by registered vehicles only displaying the parking sticker.
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LNEC - Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil
Departamento de Hidráulica e Ambiente
Information Technology in Water and Environment Research Group
Hydraulics and Environment Department
Presentation Activity Infrastructures Publications Team
Department Office Information Technology in Water and Environment Research Group
Urban Water Unit Estuaries and Coastal Zone Unit Ports and Maritime Structures Unit Water Resources and Hydraulic Structures Unit
GTI’s activity is integrated in LNEC’s Strategy for Research and Innovation (E2I). It is anchored in many multi-partner research projects, including universities and companies, funded by a broad scope of national and international funding agencies.
In the past 5 years, GTI has been funded by the following international programs:
EC – projects: FP7 PREPARED – Enabling change, MARSol, H2020 WADI, BINGO, EOSC-Hub
Interreg Atlantic Area – project SPRES
Luso-American Foundation - projects C-WOS, B-GEM, NOWCAST
Acqueau - project OPRISMA
EEA Grants: project AdaPT AC:T
In Portugal, GTI led and participated in several research and innovation projects :
Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT) – projects PAC:MAN, G-CAST, MOLINES, UBEST , INCD, MOSAIC.PT , AQUAMON
Portuguese Innovation Agency (ANI) – projects SI-GeA , AQUAGISMON
One of the most emblematic outcomes of these projects is the Water Information Forecast Framework (WIFF), a multi-purpose platform for coastal and urban real-time forecast and monitoring, linking high-performance models and wireless sensor networks. Detailed information and selected products of WIFF are freely available at http://ariel.lnec.pt
GTI also develops consultancy studies for Portugal in Portugal and abroad.
Over the period 2014-202, GTI’s activity will be focused on the following themes:
Real time forecast and monitoring systems for environmental phenomena
Smart systems for risk and emergency management, including early-warning systems
Parallel and high performance computing in clusters, cloud and supercomputers
Smart systems for water resources management support
Relevant Projects See all
Info Joint Action: A Stepping-stone for underwater noise monitoring in Portuguese waters - jUMP
The project aims to promote the debate on underwater noise by developing a number of activities, such as punctual collection of acoustic data, calibration of acoustic models and debate activities with different stakeholders.
More Information: http://jumpproject.pt/index_en.html
Accountable: Alberto Azevedo
Coordinator(s): WavEC Offshore Renewables
Funding: Fundo Azul
Info UStreamSim: integrated modelling in urban systems and streamflow simulation in rivers (1D/2D)
The USTREAMSIM service is available for public use at the Infrastrutura Nacional de Computação Distribuída (INCD). This service allows for an integrated 1D / 2D modeling using the combined use of the Basement and SWMM (Storm Water Management Model) models for modeling runoff and drainage systems. Basement is a freeware simulation tool for hydro- and morphodynamic modelling. It’s a 2D tool for numerical modeling of environmental flow and natural hazard events. SWMM is a 1D tool that helps predict runoff quantity and quality from drainage systems.
Accountable: Anabela Oliveira
Coordinator(s): LNEC - Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (National Laboratory for Civil Engineering)
Funding: Horizonte 2020 - União Europeia
Info RESCCUE RAF App
The RESCCUE RAF App is a innovative and user-friendly web application to empower city managers with a tool to cope with Climate Change, supporting assessment, diagnosis and decision-making as well as the development of resilience plans, to monitor progress of a city or service.
Coordinator(s): Aquatec, Suez Water Advanced Solutions
Info OPENCoastS - Coastal circulation on-demand forecast
The OPENCoastS service assembles on-demand circulation forecast systems for selected coastal areas and keeps them running operationally for a period defined by the user. This service generates daily forecasts of water levels and vertically averaged velocities over the region of interest for 48 hours, based on numerical simulations of the relevant physical processes.
Funding: EOSC-hub
Info AQUAMON - Dependable Monitoring with Wireless Sensor Networks in Water Environments
AQUAMON will develop a dependable monitoring platform for application in aquatic environments using wireless sensor networks, providing:
Data communication quality over water surfaces, mitigating problems related to waves and propagation characteristics over a water surface;
Transmission predictability, addressing problems related to shared medium access contention;
Data quality, dealing with faults that affect both sensors and communication.
Coordinator(s): Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Funding: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
Info INCD@LNEC - Portuguese National Distributed Computing Infrastructure
INCD aims to establish, continuously enhance and operate a larger digital infrastructure to deliver state-of-the-art computing and data services to the wider Portuguese scientific and academic community. It will support research in all scientific domains enabling effective participation in national and international research projects and activities.It is included in the Portuguese Roadmap of Research Infrastructures of the Fundação de Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT)
Coordinator(s): Associação INCD
Info MOSAIC.pt - Multi-source flood risk analysis for safe coastal communities and sustainable development
The MOSAIC.pt project aims to develop an innovative flood risk management framework for coastal zones, including estuaries, based on the integration of predictive models and real-time monitoring data, and taking into account the different dimensions of the vulnerability.
Accountable: Paula Freire
Info EOSC-hub: Integrating and managing services for the European Open Science Cloud
The EC-funded project EOSC-hub project started on January 1st 2018, bringing together an extensive group of national and international service providers to create the Hub: a central contact point for European researchers and innovators to discover, access, use and reuse a broad spectrum of resources for advanced data-driven research.
Coordinator(s): EGI Foundation
Info WADI - Innovative Airborne Water Leak Detection Surveillance Service
The WADI project will develop an airborne water leak detection surveillance service to provide water utilities with adequate information on leaks in water infrastructure outside urban areas, thus enabling prompt and cost-effective repairs.
WADI’s innovative concept consists in coupling and optimising off-the-shelf optical remote sensing devices (multispectral and infrared cameras) and applying them on two complementary aerial platforms (manned and unmanned) in an operational environment. The feasibility of the surveillance service developed by WADI will be tested in real representative conditions through water leak detection campaigns on two pilot sites: Provence region (France) and Alqueva (Portugal). Video
Coordinator(s): youris.com EEIG
Funding: European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement n° 689239
Info MOLINES - Modelling floods in estuaries. From the hazard to the critical management
Some of the world most densely populated cities are located in estuarine low-lying areas facing a high risk of inundation with a potential for significant economic costs. The hazards associated with these processes arise from the particular characteristics of those environments, as linking zones between river and ocean systems, and increasing human activity in their marginal and surrounding areas. This point is emphasized by the World Disaster Report that focuses on urban risk, as well as by the European Union's strategy for prevention of natural and anthropic disasters.
Info UBEST - Understanding the biogeochemical buffering capacity of estuaries relative to climate change and anthropogenic inputs
The scientific goal of UBEST is to improve the global understanding of the biogeochemical buffering capacity of estuaries and its susceptibility to future scenarios of anthropogenic inputs and climate change. UBEST will effectively support the short and long-term management of these systems. This goal will be achieved by deploying "observatories”, which are emerging tools that integrate process-based numerical models and their results, and in-situ observations. To promote the generalization of the conclusions, two Portuguese estuaries with very distinct characteristics will be assessed, the Ria Formosa and the Tagus estuary.
Info MARSol - Demonstrating Managed Aquifer Recharge as a Solution to Water Scarcity and Drought
The main objective of MARSOL is to demonstrate that MAR (Managed Aquifer Recharge) is a sound, safe and sustainable strategy to storage the excess of water in aquifers to be recovered in times of shortage. This contributes to improve inter-annual water resources management, as well as to solve groundwater quality problems.Videos available for MARSOL demo site 2 Algarve, Portugal:
Demo Site PT1 Campina de Faro Clogging test July 2014
Demo Site PT2 Cerro do Bardo MAR test April 2016
Demo Site PT2 SBMessines SAT basins 2016 17
Demo Site PT3_Melides_Sandbox Model
Accountable: Teresa E. Leitão
Coordinator(s): TUD, Darmstadt Technical University, Prof. Dr. Christoph Schüth
Funding: Comissão Europeia, 7.º PQ da UE, call WATER-INNO-DEMO, European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007‐2013), call WATER-INNO-DEMO
Piloto Cloud
Info AQUAGIS-Mon – Autonomous robotic platform for surface water bodies monitoring
The R&D Project aims to development an autonomous catamaran vessel for surface water monitoring, configurable enough to deal specifically with the Water Framework Directive (WFD) monitoring requirements (European Commission, 2003) established in the European River Basin Management Plans (RBMP).
Since the fixed monitoring sites can only offer a restricted sampling of the water body conditions, we have developed an innovative autonomous robotic vessel capable to observe and measure water quality and hydromorphological elements on rivers, estuaries and reservoirs. This platform was conceived to be used in narrow (a few meters) to large systems and in a variety of depths, having the ability to monitor obstacles and handles sharp bathymetric, geometric and hydrodynamic variations.
Coordinator(s): AMBISIG
Funding: European Regional Development Fund, Compete, QREN
Info SI-GeA – Intelligent Support System for the Advanced Management of Urban Wastewater Systems
The R&D project SI-GeA aims at developing an intelligent system for monitoring and decision support in real time of all the relevant information for the management of urban systems for sewage and stormwater, including gravitational collectors, pumping systems and treatment plants. This information comes from remote monitoring networks, operational data from said networks and real-time forecasting systems of the behavior of infrastructures and media receivers. The system will be designed to meet the requirements of frequent use of information by managers, allowing as well the creation of products on demand in real time.
Coordinator(s): Siemens
Info SPRES - Oil spill prevention and response at local scales
The main aims of this project are to: (i) develop a set of high resolution operational oceanographic systems in s everal estuaries or ports located in the Atlantic Area, and (ii) establish local oil spill response plans for these local areas based on risk as sessment. To achieve these goals the project include the following activities which are defined in much more detail in Section 5: (1) preparation, (2) project management, (3) development of a set of high resolution operational oceanographic systems, (4) development of a set of high resolution operational oil spill forecast systems, (5) development of a risk assessment system, (6) development of local oil spill response plans and (7) a communication plan. In order to manage and distribute the work, some of the partners will lead specific activities due to their wide experience in a concrete field. Nevertheless, they will count on with the collaboration of one or more of the other partners depending on their skills.
Coordinator(s): Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental de Cantabria
Funding: European Regional Development Fund, Atlantic Area programme – European Union
Info PREPARED - Enabling change
Pilot testing of the methodology for early warning of health risks from faecal contamination in recreational waters will be done by integration of a coupled hydrodynamic-faecal contamination model for the Algés-Alcântara section of the Tagus estuary with the real time CSO monitoring in the same area. The pilot system will be prepared to provide early warnings, derived from real time now- and forecasts contamination model simulations. Such warnings could be used as a basis for the immediate management for reducing the health risk – and equally important – to provide information concerning when the event is expected to be over.
Coordinator(s): KWR Water B.V.
Funding: FP7 - União Europeia
Info PAC:MAN - Management system of the risk of pollution accidents in coastal areas
The goals of PAC:MAN are to investigate:
past accident data to develop environmental indicators of spill-prone atmospheric and oceanographic conditions in the Iberian shelf and to validate them in a coastal system;
the usefulness of high-accuracy modelling systems for risk prevention and early-warning, including the relevant processes in a coastal oil spill;
the feasibility, advantages and scalability of an alert system based on recent communication technologies;
the usefulness of information technology systems to integrate and provide relevant environmental information on the ecological elements at risk, and to assess how these innovative aspects can be integrated in a risk management early-warning and alert system for spill accidents in coastal regions.
Info G-CAST - Application of GRID-computing in a coastal morphodynamics nowcast - forecast sistem
G-cast aims at combining the novel computational resources provided by Grid computing and the team expertise in the use of existing state-of-the-art numerical models to develop an exploratory analysis of the impact of climate changes on the long-term morphodynamic evolution of coastal zones. This goal will be achieved through
the adaptation of a suite of models within an existing morphodynamic modeling system to Grid-computing environment;
the integration of this modeling system in a nowcast-forecast computational system adapted for the Portuguese coast, and
its exploratory application to the analysis of climate change in the long-term morphodynamic dynamics of two contrasting coastal systems: the Óbidos lagoon and the Aveiro lagoon.
Info BGEM - Towards operational forecasting of ecosystem dynamics: Benchmarking and Grid-enabling of an ecological model
A research proposal between the National Civil Engineering Laboratory (LNEC, Portugal) and the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU, U.S.A.) is briefly presented, to support the development of the existing partnership between these two institutions. This proposal aims to integrate complementary research strengths at the two institutions to improve and validate a sophisticated ecological modeling system for operational forecasting of ecosystem dynamics based on grid computing resources. The Portuguese partner will provide the ecological model and the expertise on grid-enabling of numerical models. The American partner will provide the expertise on parallel computing and the benchmark for validation and inter-model comparison. The specific goals of the project are:
to parallelize and grid-enable the ecological modeling system;
to validate and assess the performance of the modeling system in a coastal benchmark, based on the wealth of data collected in the coastal observatory of the Columbia river estuary and plume, and
to reinforce existing working collaborations and to establish a long-term relationship between the two institutions, through the identification of long-term funding mechanisms for common research goals.
Funding: Luso-American Foundation
Relevant Studies See all
Info Water and Environment Newsletter
Water and Environment Newsletter History
Newsletter #2 - February 2018
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The Role of Business Cases
A Business Case is a comprehensive collection of evidence and analysis that sets out the rationale for why an investment should be implemented to solve a problem or address an opportunity. Business cases provide evidence to decision-makers, stakeholders, and the public as a crucial part of transparent and evidence-based decision making processes. They are used throughout any proposed investment’s lifecycle, including planning, delivery, management, and performance monitoring.
It is important to recognize that there are a wider range of factors that are considered as part of final decision-making process. The Metrolinx business case is just one of several factors that is used in making a final decision. These other factors will vary by project and include broad economic objectives, local community considerations, and affordability. Examples include enhanced social equity and serving high-need neighbourhoods, and connectivity to major institutions, such as hospitals or post-secondary schools.
Metrolinx established the Project Evaluation Advisory Panel in 2019. Consisting of external experts in academia, economics, and public policy, the Panel is intended to be an ongoing forum for ensuring that Metrolinx's Business Case Guidance remains current and supports evidence-based decisions for transit projects.
Metrolinx Project Evaluation Advisory Panel
Metrolinx Project Evaluation Advisory Panel Terms of Reference
Ontario Line
The Ontario Line is a proposed subway line now in the planning stage that will run from the Ontario Science Centre to Exhibition/Ontario Place.
The new subway line will connect with the Eglinton Crosstown, and TTC’s Line 1 and 2 subways, as well as with Lakeshore East, Lakeshore West and Stouffville GO train services.
Metrolinx and Infrastructure Ontario will deliver the project.
The Preliminary Design Business Case provides a clearer picture of how the Ontario Line will benefit riders, communities, and the region as a whole thanks to feedback received through consultations and additional planning and design work that have taken place since the release of the Initial Business Case in 2019.
The benefits outlined in the PDBC include:
making it much faster to travel across the city, with a trip across the entire line from Exhibition Place to the Ontario Science Centre estimated to be 30 minutes or less compared to the hour and ten minutes it can take today;
putting more than 255,000 people within a 10-minute walk of a new Ontario Line station;
serving up to 388,000 trips each day, taking up to 28,000 cars off the road each day and moving up to 6,000 travellers off the most crowded part of Line 1 during the busiest hour; and
generating $9.9 to $11.3 billion in economic benefits for the City of Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area as a whole, with an expected benefit cost ratio (BCR) of 1.05 – meaning for every dollar spent the region could result in a benefit of $1.05.
Preliminary Design Business Case - Summary
Preliminary Design Business Case - Full Report
Initial Business Case
Eglinton Crosstown West Extension
The proposed extension of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT will run from the future Mount Dennis LRT station to Renforth Drive and will operate mainly underground, helping to reduce travel times and improve access to jobs, schools and other destinations throughout the Greater Toronto Area.
Metrolinx and Infrastructure Ontario are working together to deliver the project.
Learn more about the Initial Business Case
Scarborough Subway Extension
The proposed Scarborough Subway Extension will bring the TTC’s Line 2 subway service nearly eight kilometres farther into Scarborough. It will extend from Kennedy Station to Sheppard Avenue and McCowan Road, providing quick and seamless transit for those heading into and out of the downtown core and those travelling within Scarborough. The extension will replace Line 3 (the Scarborough RT), helping to reduce travel times and improve access to jobs, schools and other key destinations throughout the city. Metrolinx and Infrastructure Ontario are working together to deliver the Scarborough Subway Extension.
Learn more about the the Preliminary Design Business Case
Two guidance documents have been prepared to describe the purpose of Business Cases and how to develop consistent and comparable Business Cases for a range of potential transport investments.
Guidance 1: Business Case Overview provides a concise summary of the overall Business Case approach used by Metrolinx to help stakeholders, decision-makers, and the public interpret Business Cases.
Guidance 2: Business Case Guidance provides detailed information on how to lead the development of a Business Case and lays out the methods and parameters to support the analysis.
Please direct feedback or questions on the Business Case Guidance to businesscase@metrolinx.com.
Published business cases can be downloaded below:
GO Expansion
GO Rail Extensions
Brampton Queen Street Rapid Transit
Durham-Scarborough BRT
Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit
GO Lakeshore
GO Rail
GO Rail Bowmanville Service Extension
Hamilton King-Main
Hurontario-Main
Park Lawn
Scarborough RT
Sheppard-Finch
Smart Commute Workplace Program Business Case Review
Yonge North Subway Extension
Since the publication of the Initial Business Case (IBC) in 2015, significant work has been undertaken in refining and developing options, and in seeking to optimize the GO Expansion program improvements. A Full Business Case (FBC) has been produced that builds upon the work undertaken in the IBC, drawing upon best available evidence, updated forecasts and revised costs and designs.
The purpose of the FBC is to illustrate the proposed investment program, its benefits and costs, and the core requirements to successfully implement the program to decision makers, the public, and funding partners.
The FBC confirms that the case for GO Expansion is robust – it will realize significant benefits to transit users, drivers, and the region as a whole. By leveraging an existing network of over 400 km of railway, GO Expansion will unlock the potential of the region. This means:
More time with family, for everyone – travellers using GO Rail will get from where they are to where they want to go faster, while drivers will benefit from decongested roads. Electric trains, like subways, travel faster and can save the average commuter 20 minutes from their trip.
More jobs and increased productivity – investing in rail will create new jobs in the transport sector and make the GTHA a more competitive place to invest and do business. With this investment, 13.8% of jobs within GTHA will be within 2KM of a station and over 30% of the regions jobs will be within a 30 min walk of a transit station.
Better business for Metrolinx – more efficient trains will reduce operating subsidy requirements, and improved service will grow ridership and revenue. The Metrolinx GO Expansion investment makes efficient use of taxpayer dollars to unlock the future potential of the GO transit system to connect, people, communities and businesses for a more prosperous region. Off-peak electrified service will be up to 60% cheaper to operate and maintain and GO operations will be fully cost recoverable by 2031 as ridership increases from faster and integrated rail service.
Partnering with Private Sector – private sector partnerships will minimize delivery risk and support job growth and industrial investment in the GTHA, while ensuring GO Rail service meets customer needs. The DBFOM procurement model will result in a single, integrated 35-year contract that harnesses the worldwide expertise of the private sector to drive contractor accountability for outcomes and reward innovation.
Full Business Case
Board Staff Report and Presentation
2015 Initial Business Case: Summary | Full report | Appendix A-J | Appendix K
Bowmanville (Initial Business Case)
This Initial Business Case examined various options and allowed Metrolinx to select one single option for further development through preliminary design and to be evaluation through a Preliminary Design Business Case (PDBC). Metrolinx received approval on its recommendation that Option 2 with a two-way, all-day service pattern be advanced to the PDBC stage and be further evaluated on the basis that it balances ridership, benefits, and overall project costs.
Kitchener (Initial Business Case)
This Initial Business Case provides a summary of the strategic, financial, and economic performance for extending two-way all-day GO rail service on the Kitchener line to Waterloo Region. The document evaluates two infrastructure options to increase passenger rail service levels through the CN-owned Halton Subdivision (Bramalea to Georgetown) and Metrolinx-owned Guelph Subdivision (Georgetown to Kitchener).
Niagara (Initial Business Case)
This Initial Business Case (IBC) provides a summary of the strategic, financial, and economic performance of expanding year-round GO rail service into the Niagara Region. This document serves as an update to the 2015 IBC, eliminating the previously proposed limited peak direction shuttle between Confederation and Niagara Falls GO stations, and instead proposing the implementation of year-round GO rail service to the Niagara Region through an extension to the Lakeshore West Corridor. Three options are examined in this IBC that would allow the operation of two-way, all-day service between Toronto and Niagara Falls via Hamilton using the CN Corridor.
2015 Initial Business Case: Full report
The 2041 Regional Transportation Plan identifies the Queen St BRT and the Hwy 7 BRT West extensions as In development projects required to meet the needs of the region in the near term. The Regional Transportation Plan additionally proposes the Brampton Queen West Priority Bus project, being explored as an extension of the Queen St BRT. The project will provide approximately 25km of dedicated bus infrastructure connecting the City of Brampton to York Region, and to the existing Viva rapidway, enhancing intra-regional mobility and connecting residents and employment across the region.
Since 2010, significant investment has been made in the corridor by the province, York Region and the City of Brampton through the introduction of Brampton Züm and York Region Viva services. This Initial Business Case is the next step in providing a complete rapid transit corridor connecting the City of Brampton and York Region.
The rapid transit alternatives analyzed in this 2020 Initial Business Case include Centre Median BRT; and a hybrid alternative which contains a mix of centre running infrastructure and mixed traffic operation. An option to convert existing lanes of traffic to bus lanes, or widen the corridor to add bus lanes was also considered. It is recommended that centre median BRT which could include both conversion of traffic lanes, or widening the corridor be carried through to the Preliminary Design Business Case. The decision on the final roadway configuration will be made during the Preliminary Design phase.
Metrolinx staff will continue to work collaboratively with municipal and regional partners in the development of the preliminary design business case, and on the detailed planning and engineering workplan
Initial Business Case | 2013 Benefits Case
The Dundas Street Rapid Transit project was identified in The Big Move, a Regional Transportation Plan, as a Metrolinx priority project. The project envisions higher order rapid transit from Kipling station in Toronto along a 37 km stretch of Dundas Street to Hwy. 407 in Burlington.
The Dundas Street Benefits Case Analysis examined four options – Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Light where buses operate in mixed traffic; full BRT from Kipling to Hurontario where buses operate in a dedicated lane with BRT Light from Hurontario to Hwy. 407; Light Rail Transit (LRT) from Kipling to Hurontario and BRT Light to Hwy. 407; and fully separated BRT along the whole corridor. All BRT options generate positive benefits for the transportation user, and positive financial, environmental, economic and socio-community impacts for the corridor.
Metrolinx staff will continue to work collaboratively with municipal and regional partners on developing the detailed planning, design, engineering workplan.
Initial Business Case | Full report
The 2041 Regional Transportation Plan identifies the Durham-Scarborough BRT as an In Development project required to meet the needs of the region in the near term. The project will provide approximately 36 km of bus rapid transit connecting Durham Region and the City of Toronto, enhancing intra-regional mobility and connecting residents and employment across both sides of the boundary. The BRT will connect local and regionally significant areas including Scarborough Centre, University of Toronto Scarborough Campus, and downtown Pickering, Ajax, Whitby and Oshawa.
The project forms a key part of the 2041 Regional Frequent Rapid Transit Network and first underwent a benefits case analysis in 2010. Full report. Since 2010, significant investment has been made in the corridor by the province and Durham Region, with construction of curbside bus lanes and the introduction of Durham Region Transit’s PULSE bus service. This Initial Business Case is the next step in providing a complete rapid transit corridor connecting Durham Region and the City of Toronto.
The rapid transit alternatives analyzed in this 2018 Initial Business Case include Centre Median BRT; Curbside BRT; and Hybrid BRT. It is recommended that the Hybrid alternative, which contains a mix of centre running and curbside dedicated bus infrastructure, be carried through to the Preliminary Design Business Case. Metrolinx staff will continue to work collaboratively with municipal and regional partners in the development of the preliminary design business case, and on the detailed planning and engineering workplan. Full report.
The Big Move identified rapid transit along Eglinton as a top priority project. The Benefits Case Analysis (BCA) provided decision-makers with a quantified evaluation of various options for the project. This analysis is a continuation of the study done in the Eglinton Crosstown Rapid Transit, April 2009.
The BCA, completed in late 2012, reviewed options such as a subway, grade-separated light rapid transit and on-surface light rapid transit options. In April 2012, the Metrolinx Board of Directors endorsed allocating $8.4 billion in provincial funding across four light rail transit projects in Toronto. The report can be found here.
The Crosstown, the largest of the LRT projects, will reduce travel time along Eglinton significantly and will link to 54 bus routes, three interchange subway stations and GO Transit. All Crosstown stations will accept the new PRESTO payment card system and stations and vehicles will be fully accessible.
Electrified, express rail service in the Lakeshore corridor was identified in The Big Move, a Regional Transportation Plan, as a Metrolinx priority. As envisioned, the project would transform service in the Lakeshore corridor from Hamilton to Oshawa with fast, frequent electric trains replacing current diesel operations over time.
The Lakeshore Express Rail Benefits Case Analysis provides an evaluation of the comparative costs and benefits of potential service improvement alternatives in the short to medium term and for the ultimate Lakeshore express rail vision.
The Lakeshore Express Rail project will be considered within the broader context of the GO rail network, and as such, the Benefits Case Analysis is one of the many inputs to the GO Electrification Study, that was completed and released in January 2011.
The GO Rail Benefits Case Analysis assesses improvements to GO rail service along the Barrie, Milton, Richmond Hill and Stouffville lines as well as the Lakeshore East Bowmanville extension as identified in The Big Move, a Regional Transportation Plan, as Metrolinx priority projects. For each of these corridors, the costs and benefits of improvements to two-way, all-day service were explored for the full corridor length with the exception of Richmond Hill, which included the extension to Bloomington Road, and Stouffville that looked at both two-way, all-day service to Unionville and Lincolnville.
The results showed that the improvement to two-way, all-day service on the Barrie, Milton, and Richmond Hill lines would generate positive benefits along the corridor. For the Stouffville line, the analysis showed that the benefits from service improvements along this corridor to Unionville station would balance the incurred costs, while the results from the Bowmanville extension showed that the benefits of two-way, all-day service did not outweigh the costs.
Metrolinx together with its operating division, GO Transit, used this analysis to inform the work done in the Electrification Study. It will continue to work collaboratively to further develop the planning, design and engineering along these corridors.
This Initial Business Case provides a summary of the strategic, financial, and economic performance for extending GO rail service to Bowmanville. The document evaluates the option to provide four peak period, peak direction GO Rail diesel trains to and from Bowmanville via a new rail bridge crossing Highway 401 just west of Oshawa GO Station connecting with the CP Belleville subdivision, with express service running to and from Pickering.
The Hamilton King-Main Rapid Transit was identified in The Big Move, a Regional Transportation Plan, as a Metrolinx priority project. The project envisions rapid transit between Eastgate Square and McMaster University via Downtown Hamilton along the Main Street/King Street corridor.
The Hamilton King-Main Benefits Case Analysis demonstrated that all three options under evaluation – full Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), full Light Rail Transit (LRT) and partial LRT – will generate positive benefits for Hamilton and the region. All three options will be capable of accommodating long-term travel demand growth in the corridor.
Metrolinx staff will continue to work collaboratively with Hamilton on the detailed planning, design, and engineering workplan for the King-Main corridor.
Full report | Consultation boards | Scheme plans | 2015 Draft Update
The Hurontario-Main Rapid Transit project was identified in Metrolinx’s 2008 regional transportation plan as a priority project.
The Hurontario-Main Benefits Case Analysis (2010) evaluated three options: full Light Rail Transit (LRT), full Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and an option with LRT in the southern segment and BRT in the northern segment. Both the full LRT and mixed LRT/BRT options generate positive benefits for the region and will be capable of accommodating long-term travel demand growth along the corridor. The full BRT option would not be capable of meeting projected 2021 capacity requirements.
In 2014, the project progressed through the preliminary design and environmental assessment phase, receiving a Notice to Proceed from the Ontario Minister of the Environment & Climate Change in August 2014.
As part of planning, design, engineering detailed work, an updated Benefits Case Analysis (BCA) was prepared by the cities of Mississauga and Brampton in December 2014. The 2014 BCA strives to identify and quantify benefits and costs associated with an at-grade LRT connecting Port Credit GO to downtown Brampton by way of a circular service loop at downtown Mississauga.
In April 2015, the Province of Ontario committed 100% capital funding for the Hurontario-Main project. In October 2015, Brampton City Council supported the project alignment as far north as the Gateway Terminal at Steeles Avenue. Therefore, the project scope was amended and $190M of the project budget was returned to the Moving Ontario Forward Fund.
An updated BCA for the revised project alignment was prepared in March 2016.
This BCA report has drawn together all the final inputs from the PDE study, along with further development work on the BCA process (notably updated land use forecasts). A land use sensitivity test (reflecting enhanced transit oriented development with the Hurontario LRT in place) is also included.
For more information on the project, see the full 2016 BCA report or go to metrolinx.com/hurontarioLRT.
Park Lawn GO Station
This Updated Initial Business Case considers integration of the proposed station with the 2150 Lakeshore Boulevard West development and delivery through the Transit Oriented Communities Program. A new station in this community is projected to serve a daily ridership of 4,800 – 5,900 by 2041, with the potential for an additional 2,900 customers if GO service levels are increased. The proposed Park Lawn GO Station should provide customers with a travel time to Downtown Toronto of less than 15 minutes, which is significantly shorter than existing transit or driving options today.
The Scarborough Rapid Transit (RT) project was identified in The Big Move, a Regional Transportation Plan, as a Metrolinx priority project. The Benefits Case Analysis considers different investment options for replacing and extending the Scarborough RT service.
The existing vehicle fleet is aging and must be replaced and modified, and there is an opportunity to extend service toward Malvern Town Centre. The analysis looks at the investment merits of two technologies (Mark II and Light Rail Transit vehicles) and different extension scenarios to connect with Malvern Town Centre. The Benefits Case Analysis measures benefit-to-cost ratios of these options and also includes broader “triple bottom line” economic, environmental and social impacts.
The Sheppard-Finch Light Rail Transit project was identified in The Big Move, a Regional Transportation Plan, as a Metrolinx priority project. The Benefits Case Analysis considers multiple rapid transit investment options for the Sheppard East and Finch corridors. The project envisions rapid transit along Sheppard Avenue East and Finch Avenue West.
The analysis demonstrated that a continuous Light Rail Transit line that connects Sheppard East to Finch West via Don Mills Road generates the most benefits for cost. This option is recommended for next steps towards implementation.
The Smart Commute Workplace program Business Case Review is a detailed post-implementation review of the value delivered by the program’s investment. The report outlines the workplace program’s operations, strategic alignment, financial costs and select economic impacts, including regional congestion reduction and health benefits. Methodology aligns with the Metrolinx Business Case framework.
The Smart Commute Workplace Impact report provides a snapshot of the program’s Business Case Review and participating employer case studies. It overviews the program’s benefit cost ratio, impact on regional congestion, benefits to member businesses and commuters.
Full report | Impact report
The VIVA Benefits Case identifies the optimal investment scenario for York Region’s rapid transit system on Hwy. 7 and Yonge corridors.
The Benefits Case Analysis analyzes two scenarios in York Region, both where existing VIVA services will be upgraded to rapid transit to create an east-west spine on Hwy. 7, connecting with Züm on Queen Street to downtown Brampton, and from Newmarket to Richmond Hill Centre along Yonge Street. Under one scenario, the project is to be fully built by 2018, with the other scenario deferring construction of certain segments to 2026. While delaying construction returns a higher cost-benefit ratio, both options are feasible for moving forward.
Since the release of this Benefits Case Analysis, York Region has received $1.4 billion in funding from the Province to construct the rapidways envisioned in the deferred construction scenario.
The Yonge North Subway Extension Benefits Case Analysis includes an evaluation of three options: a full subway extension to Richmond Hill Centre; a phased subway to Steeles Avenue with Bus Rapid Transit service to Richmond Hill Centre; and a phased subway extension with increased parallel GO Rail service frequencies. This analysis is a continuation of the study done in the Yonge North Subway Extension Benefits Case 2009.
The findings from this most recent study will help inform the regional network analysis, which is currently underway to examine GO rail, subway, and potentially other options for providing greater transit capacity into Downtown Toronto. The analysis will support scope and phasing strategies for the relief options, in tandem with the Yonge North Subway Extension.
The Yonge North Subway Extension needs to be considered within the broader context of the Yonge North corridor. More detailed design work is required to determine the final scope of the Yonge North extension, including details such as the number of stations within the six-kilometre route. Metrolinx is working collaboratively with the City of Toronto, the TTC, and York Region on the detailed planning, design and engineering for the Yonge North corridor.
Planning, Design, & Engineering
Funding Our Region
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Journal of Intelligence and ISIR - pre-pub "in press" feature
For those serious about staying current with contemporary intelligence research, the journal Intelligence is a must subscription. I would urge blog readers to visit the ISIR (International Society for Intelligence Research) web page to consider joining this organization. Membership provides members with a subscription to the journal (members can also download pdf copies of the articles from the web site).
Another nice feature is that "corrected proof" pdf copies of "in press" articles are made available with regularity. This feature allows members to keep abreast of contemporary developments ASAP. I think this feature is a model that should be followed by other journals.
Below is a select number of abstracts from recently published "in press-corrected proofs" that were available for download.
Ashton, M. C., & Lee, K. (2005). Problems with the method of correlated vectors. Intelligence, In Press, Corrected Proof.
The method of correlated vectors has been used widely to identify variables that are associated with general intelligence (g). Briefly, this method involves finding the correlation between the vector of intelligence subtests' g-loadings and the vector of those subtests' correlations with the variable in question. We describe two major problems with this method: first, associations of a variable with non-g sources of variance can produce a vector correlation of zero even when the variable is strongly associated with g; second, the g-loadings of subtests are highly sensitive to the nature of the other subtests in a battery, and a biased sample of subtests can cause a spurious correlation between the vectors.
Arendasy, M., & Sommer, M. (2005). The effect of different types of perceptual manipulations on the dimensionality of automatically generated figural matrices. Intelligence, In Press, Corrected Proof.
Two pilot studies (n1 = 155, n2 = 451) are presented in this article, which were carried out within the development of an item generator for the automatic generation of figural matrices items. The focus of the presented studies was to compare two types of item designs with regard to the effect of variations of the property "perceptual organization" on the psychometric properties and concurrent validity of figural matrices. The main results not only indicate a comparably high concurrent validity of the automatically generated figural matrices with regard to Raven matrices but also point to interesting differential effects of two kinds of implementations of perceptual organization. The conclusion of the two studies is that a more thorough understanding of the component processes of inductive reasoning and especially the impact of various item features on their difficulty and psychometric properties must be obtained.
Barber, N. (2005). Educational and ecological correlates of IQ: A cross-national investigation. Intelligence, In Press, Corrected Proof.
The new paradigm of evolutionary social science suggests that humans adjust rapidly to changing economic conditions, including cognitive changes in response to the economic significance of education. This research tested the predictions that cross-national differences in IQ scores would be positively correlated with education and negatively correlated with an agricultural way of life. Regression analysis found that much of the variance in IQ scores of 81 countries (derived from [Lynn, R., & Vanhanen, T. (2002). IQ and the wealth of nations. Westport, CT: Praeger]) was explained by enrollment in secondary education, illiteracy rates, and by the proportion of agricultural workers. Cross-national IQ scores were also related to low birth weights. These effects remained with national wealth, infant mortality, and geographic continent controlled (exception secondary education) and were largely due to variation within continents. Cross-national differences in IQ scores thus suggest that increasing cognitive demands in developed countries promote an adaptive increase in cognitive ability.
Johnson, W., & Bouchard, Jr. T. J. (. The structure of human intelligence: It is verbal, perceptual, and image rotation (VPR), not fluid and crystallized. Intelligence, In Press, Corrected Proof.
In a heterogeneous sample of 436 adult individuals who completed 42 mental ability tests, we evaluated the relative statistical performance of three major psychometric models of human intelligence--the Cattell-Horn fluid-crystallized model, Vernon's verbal-perceptual model, and Carroll's three-strata model. The verbal-perceptual model fit significantly better than the other two. We improved it by adding memory and higher-order image rotation factors. The results provide evidence for a four-stratum model with a g factor and three third-stratum factors. The model is consistent with the idea of coordination of function across brain regions and with the known importance of brain laterality in intellectual performance. We argue that this model is theoretically superior to the fluid-crystallized model and highlight the importance of image rotation in human intellectual function.
Johnson, W., & Bouchard, Jr. T. J. (2005). Constructive replication of the visual-perceptual-image rotation model in Thurstone's (1941) battery of 60 tests of mental ability. Intelligence, In Press, Corrected Proof.
We recently evaluated the relative statistical performance of the Cattell-Horn fluid-crystallized model and the Vernon verbal-perceptual model of the structure of human intelligence in a sample of 436 adults heterogeneous for age, place of origin, and educational background who completed 42 separate tests of mental ability from three test batteries. We concluded that the Vernon model's performance was substantively superior but could be significantly improved. In so doing, we proposed a four-stratum model with a g factor at the top of the hierarchy and three factors at the third stratum. We termed this the Verbal-Perceptual-Image Rotation (VPR) model. In this study, we constructively replicated the model comparisons and development of the VPR model using the data matrix published by Thurstone and Thurstone (1941) [Thurstone, L. L., & Thurstone T. G. (1941). Factorial studies of intelligence. Chicago: University of Chicago Press]. The data matrix was generated by scores of 710 Chicago eighth graders on 60 tests of mental ability.
Kempel, P., Gohlke, B., Klempau, J., Zinsberger, P., Reuter, M., & Hennig, J. (2005). Second-to-fourth digit length, testosterone and spatial ability. Intelligence, In Press, Corrected Proof.
Based on stimulating findings suggesting that prenatal levels of steroids may influence cognitive functions, a study with N=40 healthy volunteers of both sexes was conducted. Prenatal levels of testosterone (T) were estimated by use of the second-to-fourth digit ratio (2D:4D) which is supposed to be controlled by the same genes involved in maturation of gonadal tissue and therefore may reflect the level of prenatal T. Moreover, activational effects of T were investigated by measuring T levels in saliva directly. Subjects completed several subtests of intelligence batteries for verbal, numerical and spatial abilities. Levels of T were not related to any of the cognitive functions. The 2D:4D was lower in males as compared to females. Males outperform females on spatial ability. Moreover, females with low 2D:4D performed better on cognitive tests measuring spatial as well as numerical ability as compared to females with high 2D:4D. Results are discussed with respect to the assumed role of prenatal and present levels of T in brain development and cognitive functioning.
Luo, D., Thompson, L. A., & Detterman, D. K. (2005). The criterion validity of tasks of basic cognitive processes. Intelligence, In Press, Corrected Proof.
The present study evaluated the criterion validity of the aggregated tasks of basic cognitive processes (TBCP). In age groups from 6 to 19 of the Woodcock-Johnson III Cognitive Abilities and Achievement Tests normative sample, the aggregated TBCP, i.e., the processing speed and working memory clusters, correlate with measures of scholastic achievement as strongly as the conventional indexes of crystallized intelligence and fluid intelligence. These basic processing aggregates also mediate almost exhaustively the correlations between measures of fluid intelligence and achievement, and appear to explain substantially more of the achievement measures than the fluid ability index. The results from the Western Reserve Twin Project sample using TBCP with more rigorous experimental paradigms were similar, suggesting that it may be practically feasible to adopt TBCP with experimental paradigms into the psychometric testing tradition. Results based on the latent factors in structural equation models largely confirmed the findings based on the observed aggregates and composites.
McDaniel, M. A. (2005). Big-brained people are smarter: A meta-analysis of the relationship between in vivo brain volume and intelligence. Intelligence, In Press, Corrected Proof.
The relationship between brain volume and intelligence has been a topic of a scientific debate since at least the 1830s. To address the debate, a meta-analysis of the relationship between in vivo brain volume and intelligence was conducted. Based on 37 samples across 1530 people, the population correlation was estimated at 0.33. The correlation is higher for females than males. It is also higher for adults than children. For all age and sex groups, it is clear that brain volume is positively correlated with intelligence.
Reed, T. E., Vernon, P. A., & Johnson, A. M. (2005). Confirmation of correlation between brain nerve conduction velocity and intelligence level in normal adults. Intelligence, In Press, Corrected Proof.
In 1992, Reed and Jensen [Intelligence 16 (1992) 259-272] reported a positive correlation (.26; p=.002; .37 after correcting for restricted intelligence range) between a brain nerve conduction velocity (NCV) and intelligence level in 147 normal male students. In the first follow-up of their study, we report on a study using similar NCV methodologies, but testing both male and female students and using more extensive measures of cognitive abilities. One-hundred eighty-six males and 201 females, aged 18-25 years, were tested in three different NCV conditions and with nine cognitive tests, including Raven Progressive Matrices as used by Reed and Jensen. None of the 27 independent correlations in either the males or in the females are significant at Bonferroni-corrected probability levels, but 25 of 27 correlations in males and 20 of 27 correlations in females have positive signs. The exact binomial probabilities for these results are 5.6X10-6 and .002, respectively. We discuss possible reasons for the differences between the results of Reed and Jensen and our results. We also find that males have four percent faster NCVs than females with each of the three test conditions, probably due to their faster increase of white matter in the brain during adolescence.
Posted by Kevin McGrew at 6:56 PM
I found these abstracts interesting. Thanks for putting them on your blog.
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[ISEA97] Artist Statement: Shawn Brixey – Alchymeia
Alchymeia is a genetically engineered ice crystal project where human hormones (steroids) provide nucleating agents to guide crystal growth, reflecting our presence in the crystals atomic architecture. It is an installation that instead of constructing a simulated model of reality, creates a transmuted copy of that reality: art grown from a preordained genetic blueprint. The individuality of the ice crystals in the installation is created using a similar principle of atomic recording utilized by snowflakes, but have a microscopic sample of human hormone introduced into ultra-pure / ultra-cold water as an atomic building site (an emmersive nucleating seed). Because all impurities in the water have been removed, the human material provides the only structure to build (freeze) from.When the highly ordered crystal nature of ice uses the discreet human sample to initiate the freezing process, it forces its natural crystal arrangement to elastically deform, mimicking the rhythm of the original atomic lattice from the donor sample. The tiny crystals (ice embryos) nucleated by this process, act as molecular stories,”content seeds” in which the larger ice crystals in the exhibition clones itself from. The crystals in this exhibition act as amplified recordings of ones physical presence expressed at a level of telematic so removed from operational awareness, it becomes a virtual space. Because of the explicit loyalty to the original atomic lattice of the nucleating agent, the crystals are confined by the laws of physics to reflect our unique presence in both their microscopic and macroscopic organization. Alchymeia is more than a technological proxy portrait, or a sustainable illusion of the artist; it “is” the artist, a re-embodied / re-mapped “clone” of the author; an environment where we quite literally become the architect and architecture at all scales. Brilliant colors produced by the crystals are generated by the decreased speed of polarized light in ice specific to the elastic stress in the crystal lattice. Each wavelength of light (color) slows to a different speed, signaling the amount of atomic energy expended by the ice in aligning its structure to match the human provided nuclei. As both art object and art moment, Alchymeia is not made through a traditional reductive or additive process, but instead taught how to build itself, encoded with a type of telematic goal of its own. The viewer understands that “we” become the catalyst for igniting this chain reaction of events, thus dissolving the boundaries between experiment and theater, and between art object and artist. As an expressive new form of ubiquitous/organic computing, the Alchymeia project attempts to present an important evolutionary transformation in digital media by pioneering the basic fabric of space time as a hybrid strategy for future computing. Alchymeia is being presented as a proto-type experimental ice sculpture for the 1998 Winter Olympics, in Nagano Japan. Brixey’s Alchymeia and the Future
Professor Shawn Brixey (U.S.A.) is graduate of MIT’s CAVS/Media Lab, and is currently both Chair of the Cross-Disciplinary Arts Program and Acting Director of the Center for Advanced Research Technology in the Arts and Humanities at the University of Washington, Seattle,WA. He has exhibited art and technology works internationally including Documenta in Kassel, Germany, The Deutscher Kunstlerbund in Karlsruhe, Germany, The Cranbrook Art Museum in Detroit, the MIT Museum in Boston, and The Contemporary Art Center of Cincinnati. He has received all levels of major grants and awards to support this end including: The National Institute of Health, Intel Corporation, Silicon Graphics, Newport/ Klinger Research Corporation, Apple Computer, IBM, The National Endowment for the Arts,The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Leica and Hughes Aircraft. He has recently received San Franciso State University’s first distinguished mentorship in new media, from the Institute for New Media. He is currently developing an expanded version of the genetically engineered ice crystal installation Akhymeia for the Winter Olympics, Nagano Japan 1998. As an expressive new form of ubiquitous/ organic computing, the Akhymeia project attempts to present an important evolutionary transformation in digital media by pioneering the basic fabric of space time as a hybrid strategy for future computing.
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Dionisia Sira-Chiu: A beautiful life rich with 90-year journey of faith and courage
Dionisia Sira-Chiu’s life story is the story of every woman. Rising, falling and rising again. She has the courage to challenge the status quo of her time and led the way how things can be done by women if they have persistence. Now she tells us her story heading Maya Angelou’s call, ““There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
“Even before you were born, the community is already waiting for you to do something” – Chiu Bun Gim
A woman inspiring fellow women
In her time, women’s struggle to be empowered took roots rising from motherhood to inspiring the family’s thriving business to flourish. Her candle shines forever for women to follow.
What makes a woman’s life different? In particular, what made this one story special?
I have interviewed and written about many women from all over the world and there are few who stood out among those I met. One is Dionisia Sira Chiu, the woman behind the well-respected Chiu families whose businesses are based in Koronadal City, the capital of South Cotabato Province, but spans the whole Mindanao island.
Dionisia’s journey is a wealth of wisdom about family, relationships, faith, courage, trust and yes, compassion towards others. What struck me most was her tenacity as she went through life’s bumps and hurdles. Did she cry and spent sleepless nights over them? I am sure she did and imagine what lessons I found. Did she, at a point, waver through the challenges? I am sure she did, just like you and me. This one many women would share in common.
Indeed, what makes a woman rise above the rest is that effort to do something for her own community; to spread kindness and to do things that matter to other human beings, especially those in need. Often, our life’s inspiration is driven by the passion of people around us. In her case, it was her late husband Chiu Bun Gim, a migrant from mainland China whose business foresight led him to venture in the Philippines. But that’s getting ahead of the story.
Childhood at the time of war and peace
She was born from parents who valued education at a time when going to school was a tough challenge. “My father used his rusty bicycle to take us to school which was 7 kilometers away from our barrio (village) named Balabag to the town of Santa Barbara”, she recalls. She became among the first batch of students who graduated from grade VI together with those from grade VII.
Born on May 8, 1929, Dionisia Sira grew up in a deeply religious family who never missed praying the Angelus every 6pm every day followed by the Holy Rosary. “I was always sleepy during the prayers but I managed to complete them”, she says. Somehow, these seemingly tedious traditions helped build her patience and inner strength. She eventually became the prayer lead during important religious celebrations.
Santa Barbara, a town in Iloilo Province is located 16 kilometers from Iloilo City. Though few people may know at present time, it is part of the country’s important independence history. The Revolutionary Government was inaugurated in its town plaza in October 1898 led by Roque Lopez as president. The revolutionary forces successfully launched the campaign to liberate the province from the Spaniards. Then the Japanese came and occupied many municipalities in Iloilo province.
Driven and determined. She witnessed the violence of war but it did not diminish her desire to reach her goals.
Dionisia, fondly nicknamed Nising to family, friends and acquaintances, was old enough to witness the atrocities. She says, “Many people fled outside Balabag for fear of violence. We have heard of rumours of people being beheaded. It was terrifying that I saw myself how a beheaded guerrilla being kicked by a Japanese soldier.”
“There were times when we have to put off the fire in the kitchen hastily, carrying the uncooked rice in the pot straight from the wood stove and run for safety in our air-raid shelter”, she adds. Every grain of rice is considered sacred in the Philippines and should never be wasted even at war time.
From Visayas to Mindanao
After her first two years studying a degree in Pharmacy from Colegio de San Agustin in Iloilo City in 1951, Nising moved to complete the remaining two years of the degree in the University of San Carlos in Cebu City, graduating on 1953. By then, the family moved to Mindanao taking advantage of the government’s program, the National Land Settlement Association (NLSA). Majority of those who made the move came from the Visayas region.
Immediately after graduation, she took the boat from Cebu City to General Santos City in Mindanao. In that journey, Nising met a Chinese guy named Chiu Bun Gim, who was quiet but was fond of going around in the boat. He brought us and some boat officers together to play games. That fateful meeting, almost uneventful, actually became the start of their long journey together in 1957.
Persistence personified. Her parents instilled in them the value of education and this challenge was not easy in the 50s. But she prevailed pursuing what she wanted.
She spent her early days in Koronadal City taking care of her siblings who were still studying. “I was cooking and keeping the house for them”, she shares. She established her small pharmacy in nearby Kipalbig, Tampakan that she named Sira’s Medicinas Caceres in 1955 specializing in household remedies. With the health clinics and hospitals inaccessible in the 50s and transportation difficult, her pharmacy became the refuge of people in need of immediate treatment.
“I have sewn the wounds of a farmer with abaca fiber who got into an accident. I assisted several child births. One night, I was summoned to help a man who was knifed and was profusely bleeding. Faced with these challenges that could mean life-and-death, I have no choice but to use what I have learned and help save lives. Fortunately, most of these patients survived and I was happy I was able to do my share”, Nising added.
Finding love and the future
They next time she met when Chiu Bun Gim was when she remembered offering her services as an interpreter. She ended up working as secretary doing their admin work ensuring that their communications with clients were done promptly. On the side, she taught them proper verbal and written English.
Their relationship gradually blossomed and they faced together the changes in the business industry as they started a family that grew into six children now leaders in the real estate and trading industry with growing families. Valentin now owns Chiu Kim Enterprises. Joseph owns Viajero and other businesses. The four women Maria Victoria and Maria Veronica, Maria Rosario and Maria Henrietta are main incorporators of Marbel Universal Trading, Inc.
“What I really admired in him was his being soft-spoken and thrifty. Imagine that with his P120 monthly salary from La Perla Cigar & Cigarette Company owned by Lucio Tan, he sent P100 to support his family in Xiamen, mainland China and saved the remaining P20 which later were invested into his business ventures assisted by close friends”, she adds.
During Chiu Bun Gim’s death in 1996, whose tombstone was engraved with his favorite saying, “Be like a candle which burns itself to give light to others”, it devastated her but she said she was prepared. Way back in 1980, he was already having a prostate problem and high blood pressure. This led a surgery administered in Chinese General Hospital in Manila and was followed by a diagnosis of colon cancer in 1992.
He went home to Koronadal City after his surgery where he was cared for by his family. Unable to travel anymore, his family from Xiamen came to visit him and the two families met. This part of her life will need a longer sharing time.
Raising a family of business leaders, Dionisia and Chiu Bun Gim with children. From left: Henriette, Rose, Val, Joseph and twins Vicky and Vernie.
Together with Chiu Bun Gim, they worked hard building a business. Every cent and effort counted. This trait they were able to inculcate in their children’s lives.
A campaign to give back to the elderly
At 90, Nising found her calling to take care of people her age. “One instance that really struck me was when a frail, old woman, probably my age, was begging and went to our store. I asked her why she was alone and nobody accompanied her. She shared with me that her children have no time for her and she had to find food for her needs. It broke my heart. The elderly took care of their children while growing up and now that they are old, nobody can return that love to them”, she laments.
That encounter gave birth to her dream of establishing a home for the aged in Koronadal City. There were a lot of hurdles but with the support of her family and various support groups, the dream is gradually unfolding. The groundbreaking event of the one-hectare site donated by the family was a triumph of compassion over the odds. After a careful selection, the Board of Trustees of Anawim Koronadal Home for the Elderly was set-up composed of respected members of the community.
Dionisia Sira Chiu’s 90-year journey is not over yet. It is just taking a good turn to the more fulfilling phase of giving back.
I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.” – Maya Angelou
Age is just a number. At 90, Dionisia still travels the world, now exploring it with her grandchildren. A life well lived and full of adventure.
An early celebration of her birthday in Hong Kong witnessed by families from the Philippines and China. Everyday is a celebration.
Before his death, Chiu Bun Gim had reunified his family in Xiamen, China and Koronadal City, Philippines. The tradition of annual family reunion started alternating locations in both countries.
Dionisia’s life is inspired by many beautiful quotes and poems among them Max Ehrmann’s Desiderata. Note: Copy of the prose poem photo grabbed from www.sacredart-murals.co.uk.
A neophyte warrior’s amazing journey beating cancer
Meggie finds her true strength as a woman that cancer cannot beat. She is every woman’s hero for the inspiring courage.
Guest Blogger: Margareth Rose “Meggie” Santos
I always keep in mind that God is enough.
If I have Him, I have all that I need. I don’t want to sound like a preacher but my heart is always filled with joy every time I think how God made miracles in my life.
My 2-year cancer story is among the most spectacular miracles I personally witnessed.
The day I knew I had cancer was not the day I went to see the doctor. I knew I had it years back. Just like the rest of us when we feel something, I always ignored believing it will come to pass. Denial is an easy excuse to face a sordid reality.
The pain would be intermittent. Sooner than I thought, my breast was already deformed and had a discharged.
I kept my condition to myself.
I was worried at the cost of getting sick, and with my family members “depending ” on me, coming out with the truth that I had cancer would like an explosion.
One day I decided I should do it. I stopped smoking and went to see my pastor friend Efren and his wife Winnie.
Smiling and putting up a brave front after my 2nd chemotherapy last October 2015.
Honestly, I didn’t know how to handle the situation. Telling my family and discussing the financial aspect of the treatment were difficult.
I only had a part time job and had very little savings left.We prayed for guidance before they accompanied me to my doctor.
But God always has His ways.
That August weekend, my friends and I planned a trip to Davao. I took it as an opportunity that it would be the right time to tell them my story. But it never happened.
After a 3-hour trip and shopping, I took a shower. That was when my wound bled profusely that I almost consumed a roll of toilet paper. It never stopped.
There was no other way but call for help and told my friends that I needed to be brought to the hospital. It came as a shock to them because nobody knew my lump was already in that advanced stage.
After that frightful evening at Davao Doctors Hospital, everything was never the same again.
We went home to General Santos City the following day. I was brought to specialists and one test came after the other. When all the results were out I knew I was in advanced stage of invasive ductal carcinoma.
Mine was sadly a case of neglect.
My doctor said cancer nowadays doesn’t have to be that damaging as it used to be. As long as your body is receptive to the medicines, you can be treated. That was were I anchored my hopes on.
I am fortunate that my doctor, Dr. Cortez happened to be a very close family friend. It is important that we trust our doctors.
That evening I prayed to God and asked Him for me to get well and for Him to guide me in all of my decisions.
All smiles after finishing my 8th chemo session.
Truly, God’s way is amazing.
The outpouring of support was overwhelming.
Friends near and afar, family members, high school classmates and batch mates from Batch 77 of Notre Dame raised funds for my medication.
My former colleagues from South Cotabato ll Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Socoteco 2) and party mates from politics, friends from Rotary, my prayer support group from Singles For Christ and a lot more.
I told myself in jest it pays to be Ms. Friendship. God has blessed me with friends who stood by me.
My first chemotherapy treatment was on September 22, 2015.
I needed six and an additional two more sessions. On March 30, 2016, I have completed eight. Each time I went to the hospital for the session, I would ask God for strength. The prayers helped me complete my medications without any complication.
I had my mastectomy and on July 12, 2016 then my repeat biopsy after. The result was favorable. All of the 10 lymph nodes test were negative.
My cancer stage was downgraded from stage 4 to stage 2b. I still undergo daily treatment and calcium shots every six months to strengthen my bones. These procedures could continue for the rest of my life but I already claim my victory!
My journey battling cancer was easier because my friends, even people I hardly knew, fought with me. We did it together!
I have claimed that the Lord has healed me. Now I am a woman of faith coming out stronger, braver and bolder. I thank the Almighty for blessing me with a family who stood by me all through out my journey. We’re all in these together.
A young friend whose mom didn’t survive cancer gave me this book. It was the first I’ve read while going through the ordeal and got so much inspiration from it.
I am a neophyte warrior, happy and contented with God’s mercy. I have just been blessed with another lifetime. We have an amazing God who heals. Cancer is just a chapter in our life and not the whole story.
Nowhere in my life has this saying became even more meaningful, ”Where there is great love, there can always be miracles”.
I find joy and gladness not only today but in almost everyday of my life because it has been said that contentment only comes when we realise God is all we need.
There are infinite possibilities in life. In my own experience, one can never be a loser because you get something good out of being hurt. You become stronger in spirit and closer to God, Life acquires more meaning.
It is just sad we have to experience pain before we value life and learn to live it to the full.
Meggie is now an active member of the Cancer Society of GenSan sharing her story and inspiring more women to support the fight against breast cancer.
Every woman should do these:
Go to your doctor and do not waste time in denial. I learned this the hard way. This doesn’t have to happen to you.
Prepare yourself for the results. Keep yourself strong. Our lives are tested by the courage we face every challenge.
Leave the treatment and other processes to the the experts: your doctor and God. After all is said and done, let your faith take over.
Do your daily journal. In my case, it gives me a sense of worth. You see your journey very clearly.
Do not be ashamed to ask for prayers. It helps a lot. My friends and acquaintances stood by me and I never felt alone.
Ask God to heal you. He listens.
My family is my source of strength and inspiration
I realized life can be lived simply without racing for time. Cancer made me slow down and be thankful everyday.
Margareth Rose Santos, or fondly called Meggie by friends, now teaches part time at Brokenshire School of Socsargen, Inc. and is based in General Santos City, Philippines. She continues to be an active member of the Rotary Club of Dadiangas and the Cancer Society of GenSan. In her free time, she still takes part in Socoteco-2 activities where she was a former Institutional Development Manager. Meggie was also a former Sangguniang Lunsod member (city councilor) of Gensan.
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THE ELECTRICS
Chain of Accidents
AYLER aylCD-035
Unbelievable but true, this new CD finds Axel Dörner, a German trumpeter, who has dedicated his career to wrenching new sounds and tones from his horn, actually playing free jazz. Not only that, but his work, melded with the contributions of the other players in this cooperative quartet, also produces one of the most satisfying — and spontaneous — recent EuroImprov recitals.
A true Northern European super group, The Electrics, grew out of mutual admiration for one another’s playing by Dörner and Swede Sture Ericson, a tenor and baritone saxophonist and bass clarinetist. Ericson, a longtime free improviser and member of the popular Swedish group Position Alpha from 1979 to 1995, withdrew from public performance for a few years after that and moved to Denmark. Meeting, and playing with the German brassman, who in recent years has solidified his reputation working with aggregation as different as the King Übü Orchestrü, Phosphor and Ken Vandermark’s Territory Band, rekindled his interest in performing.
Dörner had a good relationship with Swedish percussionist Raymond Strid, best known as part of the Gush trio with saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and pianist Sten Sandell, as well as co-anchoring bassist Barry Guy’s new tentet, so he was asked to join the two. In turn, Strid had been impressed by young Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, who plays in local mainstream bands and has backed up Vandermark and Finnish jazz-metal guitarist Raoul Björkenheim.
Pooling their experience, the four created a band. Captured live in a Copenhagen club on one of its first gigs a couple of years ago, this CD finds the musicians producing a tangy repast of freebop, spiced with free improv asides.
On the last and shortest track for instance, Dörner produces the sort of muted, sweet-toned solo you would respect from Miles Davis, while Ericson gradually modulates his tenor saxophone from simple masculine swoops to screaming multiphonics. Here the most idiosyncratic playing comes from Håker-Flaten. When he’s not holding down a foursquare beat, the cello-range echoes he produces appear to come from a bull fiddle strung with taut mattress springs.
More instructive are the different personas each of the musicians assumes on the first two numbers. After beginning with a softer counter melody that balances the saxophonist’s ferocious tone, the trumpeter starts growling out higher and higher pitched tones. Creating some sounds that resemble that of a rodent munching through a wall, Dörner soon is fluttering air through his valves and coming up with the sort of trills that sound like he’s blowing air bubbles into a milk shake.
That’s only part of the picture however. As the four men meander through the 21 minutes of the composition, Dörner, often muted, switches back and forth from his mainstream to his avant garde roles, sometimes while moving one note to the next. At intervals his brassy cadences and Ericson’s mahogany sonics suggest an updated Wayne Shorter and Freddie Hubbard. Speaking of wood, the bassist is continuously sawing away on his four-string tree product, while Strid — to mix metaphors — is executing a Nordic dance of miscellaneous percussion filled with snaps, snares, flams, rolls, bow cymbal scrapes and Loony-Toon cowbell swats.
Everything comes to a head on “Change of Accidents,” which at nearly 26 minutes is the length of some LPs. Here Ericson unveils his mid- range bass clarinet style, containing a good selection of key pops and flutter tonguing. When the reedist warbles in the chalumeau register, Dörner maintains equipoise, hissing nearly still air through his valves. Håker Flaten prolongs the mood with precise smacks with his bow on the bass strings, while the percussionist adds the sounds of a triangle, bells and what appears to be shaken chains. At the moment when the trumpeter generates muted asides, Strid begins rhythmically sounding his toms and snares so that the entire performance resolves itself into a speedy freebop romp. Again imagine the Jazz Messengers if the trumpeter(s) in that band had used trumpet shakes and raps in the middle of their solos or if the saxophonist(s) exploited key pops and a raspy tone as often as they did blue notes.
Mainstream only in the context of what Strid, Håker Flaten, Dörner and Ericson have sometimes played in the past, and avant-garde only if you’re a neo-con, The Electrics seem to have produced a perfect marriage of both tendencies with this CD. Now, all we have to do is wait for an update.
— Ken Waxman
Track Listing: 1. Chain Of Accidents 2. Change Of Accidents 3. Exchange Of Accidents 4. Accidents By Chance
Personnel: Axel Dörner (trumpet, slide trumpet); Sture Ericson (tenor and baritone saxophones, bass clarinet); Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (bass); Raymond Strid (drums, percussion)
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17th Century Playlist
Ed Lyon (tenor)
Theatre of the Ayre
Texts and translations included.
rec. 2019, St. Martin’s Church, Salisbury, UK
DELPHIAN DCD34220 [61:30]
To say that I find the title of this album distracting and even mildly irritating no doubt makes me sound like a pedant, or simply a grumpy old man. I am probably both, but I am happy to say that it was just about the only thing I didn’t find satisfying about the disc.
The choice of songs is generally astute, mixing the relatively familiar with the more or less unknown. Lyon has gone for works which are, in the words of Elizbeth Kenny in her excellent booklet essay, “catchy and sophisticated at the same time”. Of the performances, I am content to borrow a phrase from David Copperfield – reading/rereading Dickens is one of my lockdown projects – they are perhaps not “absolutely beautiful, but extraordinarily pleasant” (this is what David Copperfield thinks of his friend Traddle’s intended bride when he first sees her).
Not surprisingly, the selection includes many songs of love, in one or more of its aspects - but love isn’t the only subject here; I found of particular interest a song by Stefano Landi which I can’t remember ever hearing before – ‘Passacaglia della vita’. The music is, indeed, quite catchy, though that quality might initially seem to be awkwardly at odds with the sung text. The anonymous text is an assertive reminder of the universal inevitability of death. The music, one gradually realizes, has its own affirmation to make: that happiness is possible even in the light of (and perhaps, surprisingly, because of) the text’s message. It stops the text sounding like one of those medieval poems on death which relish death and find in it the lesson that all aspects of earthly life are worthless. Landi clearly didn’t want to endorse such a message, even if the anonymous poet did. The composer was too much of a man of the late Renaissance to want to take such a view of things and the result might be described aa a piece of creative subversion.
Of the love songs, some are predictably Petrarchan (and not necessarily the worse for that). But at times the conventions are given a quirky twist. An intriguing such case ends the disc, the song again being by Landi – who evidently had a good eye for an interesting poem. This is ‘Canta la cicaletta’ (The little cicada sings). The poem is here attributed to Fernando Saracinelli, who was the librettist of Francesca Caccini’s opera La liberazione di Ruggiero (1625). In it a lover singing of his unhappy love compares himself, first to a cicada, (not just a cicada but a “cicaletta” – a little cicada) and later to Orpheus. The poet, in doing so, plays games with scale and perspective, not unlike some of the paintings by Giulio Romano in ‘The Room of Giants’ in the Palazzo Te in Mantua, as the reader/listener’s attention changes focus from a small cicada to a man and then to Orpheus and back again to a man. Landi joins in the games, so that we hear something of the cicada’s buzzing in the opening lines and the later lines on Orpheus (a figure then very familiar from a number of the most important early operas) are invested with hints of heroism. Ed Lyon’s interpretation of ‘Canta la cicaletta’ is particularly successful. One senses, without anything being forced or overemphasized, his appreciation of the piece’s wit.
If, to return to my earlier quotation from Dickens, one looks for the “absolutely beautiful” then, for me at least, is to be found in two of the French songs in the programme, Michel Lambert’s ‘Vos mespris chaque jour’ and Antoine Boësset’s ‘Je voudrois bien, ô Cloris’. In these songs Lyon’s relatively light tenor is heard at its winning best and the playing of Theatre of the Ayre, with violins in the Lambert and without in the Boësset, complements it perfectly. Indeed, the work of Lyon’s continuo support is crucial to the success of this album, not least in the contributions made by Elizabeth Kenny.
I wondered whether the songs by Dowland were quite the best choice as English ‘representatives’ (alongside Lanier’s ‘Love’s Constancy) and whether a couple of songs by Henry Lawes wouldn’t have sat more comfortably alongside the French and Italian repertoire.
Despite the slightly negative tone of the opening words of this review, this is an album which, as I hope the body of my review has shown, I very largely enjoyed. Ed Lyon’s voice is one I find interesting to listen to and his interpretations here show that he is more than just a ‘voice’, since they are intelligent and sensitive. Elizabeth Kenny seems incapable of doing anything wrong these days and she enhances her reputation still further here. All concerned – and here I include recording engineer Paul Baxter – are careful to maintain a sense of scale and an acoustic appropriate for songs which (with the exception of Cavalli’s ‘Misero, così va’) were written for performance in the intimacy of royal or aristocratic courts. Another reason for admiring the disc is that its presentation is exemplary. I have already praised Elizabeth Kenny’s booklet essay, but I cannot resist quoting her delightful comment on Lanier’s ‘Love’s Constancy’, where she writes that, “The harmony hovers between a major and a minor sixth on the third bar of every four, pre-echoing Cole Porter’s ‘Every time we say goodbye’ by a few hundred years”. All the sung texts are here, complete with English translations as needed. And as I have already implied, the recorded sound is excellent. So, what is there not to like – oh yes, that title …
Glyn Pursglove
Misero, così va, from Eliogabalo [3:41]
Stefano LANDI (1587-1639)
Passacaglia della Vita [3:52]
Pierre GUÉDRON (c.1565/70- c.1620)
Aux plaisirs, aux délices, bergères [4:03]
Nicholas LANIER (1588-1666)
Love’s Constancy (no more shall meads) [3:14]
Étienne MOULINIÉ (1599-1676)
O stelle homicide [3:25]
Giovanni Battista FONTANA (c.1630)
Sonata No. 17 [5:51]
Michel LAMBERT (c.1610-1696)
Vos mespris chaque jour [3:39]
Antoine BOËSSET (c.1586-1643)
Je voudrois bien, ô Cloris [4:50]
Stefano LANDI
Augelin che’l tuo amor [4:03]
Sébastien LE CAMUS (c.1610-1677)
Je veux me plaindre [4:41]
Giovanni Battista FONTANA
Sonata No. 8 [5:49]
Damigella tutta bella [3:54]
John DOWLAND (1563-1626)
Time stands still [3:08]
My thoughts are wing’d with hopes [2:46]
Cante la cicaletta [4:22]
Elizabeth Kenny (lute, guitar, theorbo), Siobhân Armstrong (triple harp, Irish harp), Reiko Ichise (viola da gamba), Rodolfo Richter and Jane Gordon (violins)
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23rd Feb2018
Competition: Win a signed DVD of ‘Kickboxer: Retaliation’
To celebrate the home entertainment release of Kickboxer: Retaliation, available now on digital download and on DVD & Blu-ray from 5th March 2018, we have a copy of the DVD, signed by the film’s star ‘Alain Moussi’, up for grabs, courtesy of Kaleidoscope Entertainment! This follow up to last year’s sensational Kickboxer: Vengeance sees Alain […]
Category : Competitions
Tags : Alain Moussi, Competition, DVD, Kaleidoscope Entertainment, Kickboxer: Retaliation
20th Jan2017
Competition: Win South Korean horror ‘The Wailing’ on DVD
To celebrate the DVD release of The Wailing, available on DVD from 30th January, we have a copy of the DVD up for grabs, courtesy of Kaleidoscope Entertainment! South Korean box office smash, The Wailing, is a riveting police investigation which turns into a sensationally terrifying thriller as a likeable cop is drawn into a […]
Tags : Competition, DVD, Hong-jin Na, Kaleidoscope Entertainment, The Wailing
‘Prevenge’ kicks off UK screening tour tonight
Prevenge is the brilliant and off-the-wall writing and directing debut feature by Alice Lowe (Sightseers). She wrote, starred in, and directed it whilst 7-8 months pregnant with her first child, who also appears in the film. Alice was one of the BIFA nominees for ‘best debut director’. Known for her work as a UK television […]
Tags : Alice Lowe, Dan Skinner, Gemma Whelan, Jo Hartley, Kaleidoscope Entertainment, Kate Dickie, Kayvan Novak, Mike Wozniak, Prevenge, Tom Davis, Tom Meeten
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Date Created: 09/01/2015
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In loving memory of Mark Null
Location: La Grange, Texas
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Mark Null, surrounded by family and friends, passed away peacefully on Thursday, August 27, 2015. He was born in Smithville, Texas, on June 21, 1938, the seventh child of George Oscar and Meta (Oltmanns) Null. He graduated from Smithville High School in 1956 and went to work in Austin, Texas in the electrical trade. In 1961 he joined the National Guard, his unit being called up into active service during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was honorably discharged from the army and went to work in Houston, Texas, for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. In 1983, he transferred to AT&T and retired in 1989. He then did contract work for AT&T for 9 years. Thereafter, his time was spent taking care of his cattle and traveling. The move to La Grange came after the farm in Ledbetter became too much work to handle. Once in La Grange, he was able to enjoy his many grandchildren and further travel.
Mark was a member of Communication Workers of America and The Telephone Pioneers of America. He was also a member of American Legion Post 180, and a longtime resident of Ledbetter, Texas, before moving to La Grange.
He is survived by his wife, Patricia Brull Null of La Grange; daughter Stevelyn Winbigler and husband Brad of Katy; stepsons: Rick Witt and wife Kari of Cat Spring; and Shawn Witt and wife Tammie of Bellevue; seven grandchildren: Joshua Marcus Winbigler, Sara Beth Winbigler, Christy Lynn Witt, Zachery Dayne Witt, Shelby Hannah Witt, Kaitlyn Sierra Witt, and Julia Nicole Witt; sister Katherine Moerbe of Austin, and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by parents Oscar and Meta Null; brothers: George O. Null, Jr. (Sonny), Freddie Null and Doug Null, Sr.; and sisters Mildred Creel and Ruth Duty.
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MR CHIPS SPECIAL POOL FESTIVAL 2014
PRESS RELEASE & RESULTS
The presentation ceremony at this years Mr Chips Festival displayed the growth of talent of Special Needs players from throughout N.Ireland with the winners stretching from Limavady to Bangor. In his opening remarks Mr John Clarke, Vice chairman of N.Ireland Special Pool, stated that despite serious cutbacks within the various Health Trusts the number of competitors at this year’s festival had continued to grow. He thanked Mr Clem Howard of Mr Chips for continuing his roll as the lead sponsor for the event and also highlighted his further support for the 2014 event, a gesture which was very much appreciated by all involved. He also expressed his gratitude to Coleraine Borough Council for their continuing financial assistance as well as thanking all the staff of the Lodge Hotel for their kindness to everyone involved during the event. Mayor George Duddy, on behalf of the Council, in his remarks stated his delight that this prestigious event was held in Coleraine on an annual basis and that he could see from the faces of all the players that they had enjoyed the two days of competition. Leading the way on the presentation list was current N.Ireland international player Paddy Reid from Ballycastle who lifted the much sought after N.Ireland Men’s Individual title. The equally prestigious Ladies Individuals was won by a local female from Portrush, Valerie Taggart. The Social Individuals which is for players of lesser ability went to Michael Crawford of Cookstown Gateway Club. In the team events the social title was won by Millbrook from Ballymoney, the ladies event went to Mica Drive from Belfast and Rathmoyle from Ballycastle lifted the men’s event. The junior team event and individuals, which are limited to entries from special schools throughout N.Ireland was a closely fought battle between Sandleford School, Coleraine and Hillcroft School Newtownabbey. The plate event was won by Castletower Ballymena who narrowly beat a new team from Carrick Junior Gateway Club. In the All Ability section the main silverware went to a local man from Coleraine, Adrian Doherty. Other local winners included the Tina O’Neill from Mountfern who won the most improved female playerBringing the ceremony and the festival to a close Mr Trevor Harte, event organise, expressed his gratitude to the numerous local business's who made the event possible through their participation in the table sponsorship scheme as well as the local pool players for their refereeing services over the 3 days.
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Disney announces layoffs of 32,000 jobs in the first half of 2021
The 32,000 layoffs this time include the 28,000 layoffs previously announced.
Recently, Disney announced that it will lay off 32,000 employees in the first half of 2021, mainly involving theme park employees. The number of layoffs this time has risen from the company’s announcement of layoffs of 28,000 in September, mainly due to the limited customer base for Disneyland due to health incidents.
Previously, Disney's Disney parks in Florida and outside the United States have reopened. Earlier this month, Disney stated that it would allow more employees at Disneyland in Southern California to take unpaid leave due to uncertainty about when California will allow the theme park to reopen.
At the end of last month, France implemented new blockade measures, and Disneyland Paris was forced to close again. Currently, Disney's theme parks in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Tokyo are still open normally.
A Disney spokesperson confirmed that the 32,000 layoffs included the 28,000 previously announced layoffs.
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I wandered lonely as a cloud
Well, not really. We were in the good company of members of the Tees Valley MG Owners Club for a run to Farndale to see the daffodils.
It was a cold windy morning as we drove old Numbum, our 1937 MGTA up to Yarm Station to meet the other hardy souls for an interesting drive. Two fords en route but only one had water in it.
As we weren't sure what facilities were available at Farndale we had a short stop in Rosedale where the wealthy headed to the coffee shops while the impecunious (skint) ones made do with cuppas from flasks by the cars.
Leaving Rosedale by the infamous Rosedale Chimney, a steep climb with a 1 in 3 gradient in parts, we found out the the synchromesh didn't and we added a few more iron filings to the gearbox oil.
The few miles across open moorland to Farndale were very windy and I was pretty cold. On the way back, Pam acted as a windbreak so I was quite comfortable. Can't beat sharing!
Sadly there weren't as many daffodils as we expected, but you can't control nature. It was still a great day.
We tried out working with three camera locations for this video. I'm not sure about one of them, What do you think? Your input will be valuable.
Restoration? No thanks.
Since Numbum has been out and about a bit recently, it's been suggested by some people that it should be restored.
Ther are two chances of it getting restored, no chance and fat chance. The car is safe & reliable, even if it is scruffy.
At my age (65), I can't see the point of taking the car off the road for however long it takes, and spending twenty grand I don't have, to deny myself the pleasure of driving it now.
MG Car Club Tyne Tees Centre Cobweb Run
I found out today that there are two six-0-clocks in a day. That was the time of awakening for a seven-o-clock departure with old Numbum to arrive at Brockbushes Farm, Corbridge to do signing on duties for today's run.
We set off on a bright sunny. but cool morning only to feel the temperature dropping as we climbed northwards and saw ominous clouds in the sky. Thankfully they were just clouds and we only saw a few drops of rain all day.
Once esconced in the cafe with a cuppa we set up to do a job we really enjoy, meeting new people and renewing aquaintance with folk we've met before.
We set off in fine form and the old gal ran well all day. The challenging route, organised by the Alexander family, was a joy to drive and we had a great time.
There were three fords on the route, but only one with any significant water. Barrie, our ex secretary paid a visit and was by the ford taking pictures. Did we manage to get him wet?
We missed him. He can't half move quickly for an auld gadgie.
I tried out an alternative video mount with a second camera. Not so good unless you believe that the back of my head is better to look at.
At one point on the run, with a biting wind blasting across the hilltops, Pam & I discussed why we do this sort of thing. This brought this video to mind. The comment at two minutes, sums it up perfectly.
We arrived back at Brockbushes and headed straight for the cafe for a cuppa & cream scone to warm us up. Time for a few photos of the presentations and the dwindling number of cars before setting off for the run home.
A safe run home, without the broken crankshaft of last year, saw us parking Numbum in the garage and getting the kettle on. Being weary, windblown and a bit chilly couldn't take away the enjoyment of the day.
A big thank you to all who helped to make it possible.
Flying Scotsman Rally 2013
Crikey, it doesn't seem like a year since we last saw this great spectacle. This year we had to travel to Skipton to see them up close and personal during the lunch break at the Craven Heiffer Inn.
Whilst it was cool, the sun was shining and it wasn't raining, so the crowds were out in force. Moving around was difficult, as was taking pictures & video. We decided to leave the ZR parked up as getting out was too much effort s0 I don't have any 'on the road' pictures or video.
106 cars started on Friday morning. This morning only 92 set off, and there were some more missing by lunchtime. One source said 10 didn't make it through the morning, but we weren't keeping count.
One of the fallers appeared on a flatbed.
Not all those still running were in the best of shape.
I asked the driver what happened. His reply was broken spring, axle moved, brakes automatically applied (rod operated brakes) ooops. Thankfully nobody was hurt and the car was still running.
This car attracted a lot of attention. By the looks of it, it is an unrestored example, or if it has been restored it was a long time ago. They're only original once.
Some interesting themes on dashboards for rallying.
Good parking skills are essential
Thanks to BritePrint
We wanted a sign for the back of old Numbum to publicise our fundraising on the forthcoming Coast to Coast Run and BritePrint came up with a cracking deal. Thanks, you're superstars!!!
Lakeland Museum & Campbell Exhibition
While we were in the Lake District we decided to drive down the Lake to the Lakeside Motor Museum and Campbell Exhibition.
The museum was excellent. We were surprised to find that we'd been in there for four hours and it didn't seem like it. Loads of stuff to see and I learnt things I didn't know.
The Amphicar was a good bit of kit but it dropped out of sight. I found out why. Apparently a large proportion of sales were to the USA and when regulations changed, it killed the sales and the company couldn't survive.
It was ineresting to see one of the first models of TVR in there. How they've changed over the years.
Here's a slideshow with some of the pictures I took.
I'm sure there is much that we missed, as the place was crammed with stuff.
We had a short coffee break by the river before heading across the yard to The Campbell Exhibition .
This exhibition, though small in size, was big on information and well worth a visit. The thing that struck me most was the sheer size of these record breaking cars and boats. It's only when you stand next to them do you realise how big they are.
Whilst they were probably state of the art in their day, they are very basic by today's standards.
Lake District Weekend
We decided to have a weekend in the Lakes, just because we could. The ZR was the transport of choice only because the BGT isn't ready yet.
Rather than the straight run across the A66 we decided to take a more leisurely scenic route through Richmond, Leyburn, Hawes & Sedburgh before crossing the M6 to our destination in Bowness on Lake Windermere.
You wouldn't believe that I washed this car before we set off. I think I'll give up car washing.
As there was plenty of the day left we decided to cross Wrynose and Hardnott passes. These are two great roads and I try to drive them at least once with every MG. I haven't managed with every MG but I have driven the TA, a ZA Magnette and a Y Type.
This run wasn't the challenge that it has been with other cars. I suppose that's because of the advances in technology and drivability of more modern cars.
These two videos show the great scenery up on the hilltops. Considering it's mid April there was still quite a bit of snow laid about. I hate to think what it must have been like in Winter.
Numbums First Run of the Season.
Just a short drive out to meet friends for coffee. A chance to see if any bugs have developed over the winter. Thankfully it's all OK.
MG Car Club Tyne Tees Centre Production Car Trial
We took the ZR for a quick 60 mile blast up the A1 to meet other, slightly crazy, enthusiasts to try out the art of production car trials at South Bradford Farm.
For those not familiar with PCTs, the idea is quite simple. You are presented with a slope in a field. This slope has a start marker and numbered markers going up it. The highest number is at the start and the lowest at the top. All you have to do is drive up the hill and score as few points as possible.
Dead easy, isn't it? Well, er.... no it's not. We had great fun and at the end of the day we were the strongest team. Sat firmly at the bottom of the table we were supporting all the rest.
The lack of low down torque and wide tyres were our downfall with the ZR. By the time I had enough revs on to get it to move, the wheels were already spinning like crazy and traction was poor to say the least. The Vauxhall Nova which won the front wheel drive class was brilliant. Skinny tyres helped a lot. An MGB GT was the best overall on the day.
Despite the low temperature and brisk breeze we had great fun. A big thank you to John Brown for allowing us to rip up parts of his field, and to David Alexander and his band of helpers for setting it all up
Thanks also to Lynda Alexander for these great shots of our ZR, which also show how steep some of the sections were.
Summer is coming????
Spring is supposed to be here and Summer follows Spring so the logic is inescapable. It's a pity the weather doesn't know that.
While the BGT is sat waiting for the welder to work his magic (I wish he'd get on with it) I managed to get some work done on old Numbum.
Found and fixed a pinhole leak on the cooling system, adjusted the brakes, cleaned the plugs and points and checked the carburetors. It now fires up and runs sweetly.
Last year I bought some heated seat pads and I finally got round to doing something with them. I wired two relays through a switch from an ignition controlled source so I can't leave them on. The passenger seat pad is fitted and wired up to the relay. Just the drivers to do now, but it's gone quite cold again so that will have to wait.
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A Challenge for Roy Littlesun
by Thomas Francis
A letter sent to Roy Little Sun on July 6, 2000
Greetings, Roy Littlesun!
Word of your recent errors indicates that you impede the proper transmission of the Hopi Message of Peace by your attempt to present your own thoughts as if you speak for the Hopis. That Message, which began with the report of the allegedly "first" atomic test at White Sands in 1945, must and will continue toward its completion, for the sake of all life on Earth. Those concerned with the true transmission of that Message are therefore obliged to offer you the opportunity to justify your actions, and, if you fail to present justification, respectfully demand that you cease and desist from the errors brought to your attention. Continued persistence in those errors beyond that point will publicly show that you act contrary to the Hopi Sinom, and must be discredited to assure that their life-saving Message of Peace is faithfully conveyed.
I serve you notice of these errors, beginning with the issue of representation. After the Hopis received word of the atomic test at White Sands through messengers from aboriginal people living within sight of the visible "premature dawn," they held meetings over the next three years, culminating at Shungopovi Kitsoki. They fit together the various prophecies from several lineages, formerly not openly discussed. The result was the body of knowledge called the Hopi Message of Peace. They chose four spokesmen to convey the message to the people meeting in a "house made of mica" on the east coast. These were the only spokesmen ever appointed for this purpose. Beyond them, no one else is specially appointed. All who hear and understand the Message are by that fact obliged to tell their neighbors throughout the world. It is to be done freely, without charge, just as a mother would not charge her baby for milk. It is divine nourishment for the whole human family, to enable their emergence from the dilemma of war, which will otherwise end their life in this world prematurely, and very painfully.
That composite message from several lineages was summarized in five major points. Since you profess to convey the message of the Hopis to the world, yet to my knowledge have never conveyed it, I respectfully demand that you name those five points. If you cannot name those five points, you must admit that the message you convey is simply your own message, and honesty requires that you present it as such. To say this does not diminish your message. If it is true, you need not present it behind a false label.
The effort of Titus Qöömayumptewa is unique, and critical to the success of the Hopi purpose, because it embodies the uncompromised peaceful aboriginal title to the land granted by Maasaw, which was preserved through the founding of Hotvel Kitsoki in 1906, under the guidance of Yukiwma. By definition, this kind of title cannot lawfully be overruled by any political entity in what we call the "free world." Industrialists stricken with greed therefore use force to steal the resources protected by the covenants that define the aboriginal peoples of the world, and hide the true nature of their actions through frauds which completely engulf the courts and the news and educational media worldwide. All the other Hopi kitsokis (sacred communities formed as shrines) compromised their aboriginal title in and about 1906, yielding to force, and participating in the grand fraud thenceforth.
Titus asked all who were willing and able, to protect the aboriginal title to his farm. This powerful connection to the living Creator of the universe, Qataimataq, accomplished through the entitlement received through Maasaw, will empower the entire global web of peaceful aboriginal jurisdictions against the force and fraud of genocidal industrialism. You and I collaborated to accomplish this end for Titus, through Supreme Strategy, as it is called by the Taoists. As you may recall, Supreme Strategy consists in bringing about a Perfect Victory without a battle, by convincing the apparent adversary that it is to his best advantage to join rather than fight. Titus had been calling for anyone so willing, to "stir up the ant hill." His objective remained the protection of peaceful aboriginal title as initiated by Maasaw. To stir up the ant hill is to awaken the laggards from their lethargy regarding their obligations as title holders.
To arouse people and yet sacrifice their hold on their land and their pure aboriginal sovereignty is not the purpose of stirring up the ant hill. You mistook this admonition as a call to provoke the "Hopi Tribe" (created in 1936 by the United States) by various reckless threats. For example, you threatened to destroy the water tower illegally installed at Hotvel Kitsoki. You said these actions were condoned by the remaining Yukiwma loyalists, but when I asked them about that, it turned out to be your own idea entirely. After such actions finally resulted in papers properly served for your eviction, and you failed to answer in the manner that would deny them the legal power to evict you, I told you that you would soon be arrested if you stayed at the farm.
So far, no Supreme Strategy was in place. These people, who Titus said must not be allowed to take his land, were given no reason to join, and every reason to oppose that effort. Their eviction of you could only boost their strength to rule in fraud unopposed. Therefore, I urged you to find a place where we could retreat and continue to develop a true Supreme Strategy, without being interrupted by a useless and needless arrest. I then drove you to a location outside the geographical limits of the "Hopi Tribe" federal enclave.
A few days later, I received a telephone call from Titus' daughter Rena, who said you had returned and that the armed forces of the "Hopi Tribe" and the Bureau of Indian Affairs had arrested you. I obtained the assistance of a source of legal information that enabled you to set up the court in Holbrook to avoid pursuing the "Hopi Tribe" case against you. However, you had needlessly accomplished the opposite of Supreme Strategy with respect to the "Hopi Tribe." The result is that you have completely betrayed Titus by making armed confiscation of his land holding much easier, and travelling around as if you were a hero, rather than having the courage to stay and quench the dangerous "fire" you so carelessly started.
This may all seem like a complicated affair, which those new to the situation may not care to study. If they wish to know more, they are free to inquire of me regarding anything that may not be clear. I bring it to your attention in this message, with the most privacy that can be managed under the present circumstances, so you can eliminate the more foolish aspects of your activities before you do more damage to the interests of the Hopi Sinom, and to your own ability to use your talents to help humanity. Toward this end, I now respectfully demand that you answer the second of the two questions I present to you in this letter: With no strategy to achieve a Perfect Victory without a battle, and every indication that a useless and futile battle would occur in the form of your arrest due to your provocation and negligence, why did you return to Titus' farm? That is, why did you not wait until we had arranged for these "wrongdoers" to be fully informed in the manner of the sacred instructions in the Hopi Message of Peace?
I require your immediate response to the e-mail address which I include in this letter. Failing that response within the next ten days, I shall continue to inform all people who come to my attention, who have been misled by your false portrayal of yourself as an emissary of the Hopis. I would prefer not to have that obligation, but you have set back the Hopi effort tremendously by spoiling the attempt to fullfil Titus' will, and turning the farm into a breeding ground for police lawlessness. Now you show yourself on the Internet, posing as a messenger appointed in some fashion by the Hopis, defrauding and endangering everyone.
If you do not sufficiently answer the two questions I have placed before you here, or account for your inability to answer, I will make this letter available to everyone you attempt to influence in the name of Hopi, so that they may retain their freedom to make a truly informed choice to help the Hopis, to heal Africa, and to heal all continents besieged by the industrial plunderers whose fruits all people in the modern world unfortunately share. Even with no effort to inform them, you would eventually be discredited as the true Hopi Message of Peace is presented and discussed by those who do not think they need to be adopted by a Hopi elder to speak the truth with credibility. I will make an exception in the event that you voluntarily remove all public and private references to yourself that cause people to regard you as an appointed emissary of the Hopis. Such an action would accord with the advice I heard Titus give you many times: "Stand on your feet and talk like a man!"
Therefore, I await your answer to these questions, which I now summarize:
1. What are the five points of the Hopi Message of Peace?
2. Why did you return to Titus' farm with no Supreme Strategy?
Send your response immediately via e-mail to me, Thomas Francis, at libertyworldwide@yahoo.com. If I do not receive your response by July 16, 2000, this letter will stand as your confession by silence that everything I have said in it is true. This is your good faith chance to correct any error you may claim to find in this letter.
I add for your consideration the following observations: We cannot heal this world without the power of prayer, and we cannot pray effectively if we hide from the Creator by pretense or concealment. Also, I learn that an early confidant of Dan Kotshongva, the son of Yukiwma, gave you Dan's weaving stick. This does not give you authority or power you do not already have. It gives you added responsibility not to betray your trust. You toy with forces greater than you imagine, or you would not have slipped this far. The cost of betrayal is high. The truth cannot be conquered.
Become unconquerable in the truth, so you do not need to pretend Hopi authorization as a crutch. With your newfound strength, you will have nothing to lose, and everything to gain. Having introduced you to the Hopi knowledge, I am pleased that you have taken such a strong interest, as shown by your use of my lecture title as the title of your book about the "Mystery Egg." You are quite welcome to use it. But be careful! If you get it scrambled, it may land on your face!
Debunking Roy Littlesun
Scornful Reply from Roy
The Correspondence Continues
Littlesun's False Reputation
Littlesun Says: Condoms Cause AIDS
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Oak Park River Forest High School
Saturday Night Program
50th Reunion Pics
Grade School Pics
Notable OPRF Homes
Chris Hanson
Cynthia Gundlach (Ashley)
Chris and I went all through Longfellow together. I especially remember him as our birthdays were one day apart. Mine was Oct. 11 and Chris' was Oct. 12, Christopher Columbus' birthday - thus his first name, Christopher. He was a nice, quiet and gentile fellow. I am not sure that he died in 1963, but maybe so. But I do remember being shocked to see his obituary in the Oak Leaves when I was home for the summer after at least one year of college. I recall he had felt ill in the spring and when he got home from school, he was checked out by the doctor. He had leukemia, was hospitalized and was dead in like a few weeks. So that would have had to been 1964 or later. Either way he was a nice guy.
Elaine Haertel (Allen)
Chris sat behind me in Homeroom and was always quiet and pleasant. He was very calming to be around. So far it looks like we lost 6 from our homeroom.
Dawn Kormos (Snuggerud)
I didn't meet Chris until the beach party in Indiana after classes were over our senior year. He drove us there and seemed like a nice guy. He ended up going to the same college as I did - Rockford College. I don't hink he was there over a year but he didn't died until sometime after 1963.
Michael A Larocque
I knew Chris Hanson when we attended Longfellow School together. He and his cousin, Craig Shoup, walked home along Jackson Blvd. as I did so I got to know them both, and I became friends with Chris. He was a quiet, but friendly and fun person. He was the younger son of an older couple who were very, very nice, and welcoming, but I think somewhat protective of Chris. They lived across the street from a park at Jackson Blvd. and Oak Park Avenue. In the winter the baseball field in the park was flooded to create an ice skating rink, like most parks in Oak Park. On Friday nights in the winter I remember being invited to stay over night so Chris and I could have a full night of fun skating. We would skate unil we were exhausted and cold. Then we would go back across the street to his house to warm up and watch TV, while enjoying popcorn his mom had made for us, and delicious Seven-Up provided to quench our thirst. It was a lot of fun!
I lost touch with Chris in high school. But I was shocked when I heard of his passing at such a young age. He was a kind and gentle person, and a good friend.
William Shapiro
Chris and Craig Shoup, his cousin were friends in high school. At the time, i was attending Harvard Concregational Church in South Oak Park. At the time, the Harvard Congregational Church was undergoing a change and was calling itself "the United Church of Christ in South Oak Park." Both Chris and Craig were liberal as far as their religion was concerned. I followed them to the "Third Unitarian Church of Austin, Chicago" and actually brought my parents with me. The Pastor at "The Third" was E. T. Bruehrer. He was genius and a very warm-hearted individual. Chris's death was way too early. He had so much more to give.
Murray Chalmers
I went to grammar school and high school with Chris. I remember many Friday evenings in 7th and 8th grade playing penny ante poker in his basement. Chris was a fun loving yet quiet individual. I remember the sadness and shock to hear of his passing after freshman year of college.
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Network of hydrogeological research sites
CLIMAWAT
Data Ploemeur
Data Guidel
LSBB
Data Maheshwaram
Data Choutuppal
Auverwatch
Hermalle
Äspö Hard Rock Lab
Evi-1
Ozcar
Houay Pano
OHGE-Strengbach
Experimental sites
Access to the database
Rules for recording
H+ database Guide
The Poitiers site
Experiments on the Poitiers site
Borehole cores of the Poitiers site
Hydro-geophysical imagery from the Poitiers site
Manager of the Poitiers site : Gilles Porel
The Poitiers Experimental Hydrogeological Site (SEH) was developed by the Hydrasa team (FRE 3114) as part of the Network of National Hydrogeological Sites (SNO H+), under the Poitou-Charentes Region’s “WATER” program (CPER 2002-2006). Located 2 km east of the Science Campus of the University of Poitiers, the SEH occupies an area of 12 hectares on land belonging to the University (Deffend Site: Regional Plant Heritage Botanic Garden). From the geologic viewpoint the SEH occupies the north flank of the “Seuil du Poitou”, a huge Mesozoic carbonate plateau marking the transition between the Aquitaine and Paris sedimentary basins (Fig. 1).
The Jurassic limestones, which overlie a Hercynian crystalline basement, include two stacked aquifers: (i) the Lower and Middle Lias Aquifer (5 to 10 m thick). and (ii) the Dogger Aquifer (100 m thick). These two aquifers are separated by the marly Toarcian aquitard (20 m thick). The studies conducted at the SEH focus mainly on the Dogger Aquifer.
The experimental layout now comprises 35 boreholes, including two vertical and two inclined cored holes. These boreholes were drilled in two separate campaigns: 2002-2003 and 2004. All the holes completely traverse the Dogger Aquifer (depth of boreholes = 125 m). Most of them were drilled on a regular 210 x 210 m grid (Fig. 2).
The SEH boreholes are either not cased, or are equipped with perforated casing over the full thickness of the Dogger Aquifer. The piezometric level in the boreholes therefore represents the average hydraulic head over the thickness of the aquifer. Under natural flow conditions the piezometric levels vary from 15 m to 25 m below the ground surface. During drilling, dry argillaceous limestones were continuously observed to a depth of about 30 m, indicating that the Dogger Aquifer is sealed beneath this relatively impermeable formation. Two additional holes were drilled into the crystalline bedrock (Boreholes C2 and IM1, about 160 m deep) so as to be able to record the hydraulic heads in the Lower and Middle Lias Aquifer while hydraulic testing was being conducted in other boreholes. No disturbance of the levels was ever observed in the Lower and Middle Lias Aquifer, demonstrating that the two aquifers are indeed isolated from each other by the Toarcian marls.
Since 2002 the investigations carried out on the SEH have enabled the collection of a large volume of data concerning the Dogger Aquifer. These data, now archived in the H+ database (de Dreuzy et al. 2006), cover:
Geologic structure of the reservoir: stratigraphy & lithology of two cored boreholes (Bourbiaux et al. 2007), 3-D seismic imagery of the reservoir (Mari and Porel 2008), gamma-ray well logs, acoustic imagery, and high-resolution photography (Audouin 2007);
Petrophysical properties of carbonate rocks: laboratory porosity and permeability measurements on core samples (Chatevaire 2006, Bourbiaux et al. 2007);
Flow structure in the boreholes: temperature-conductivity logs, heat-pulse flow-metering (Audouin et al. 2008);
Water-table dynamics under “natural” flow conditions (Bernard and Delay 2008) and/or forced conditions: pumping tests (Delay et al. 2004, Bernard 2005, Bernard et al. 2006, Delay et al. 2007, Kaczmaryk and Delay 2007a, 2007b) and hydraulic shock conditions (Audouin 2007, Audouin and Bodin 2007, 2008).
These various investigations have produced a quality of characterization that is unequalled at the national level for this type of environment.
Cross-comparison of the vertical flowmeter data and imagery of the borehole walls indicates that the flows are mainly associated with subhorizontal karstic structures and subvertical fractures. The karstic zones are irregularly distributed over the SEH but appear to be strongly correlated with specific stratigraphic horizons (-50 m, -85 m, and -110 m on the SEH, see Fig. 3). The hydraulic connectivity of the various horizontal karstic zones seems to be provided by vertical fracturing in the limestones (Audouin et al. 2008).
Recently a more detailed characterization of the reservoir’s heterogeneity was undertaken, on the basis of 3-D seismic experiments (Mari and Porel 2008, Fig. 4). The vertical distribution of seismic pseudo-velocities derived from reflection data shows strong correlations with the vertical flowmeter data from the boreholes, the low-velocity zones corresponding to zones of high relative permeability.
Two series of pumping-tests were carried out in 2004 and 2005 following the drilling campaigns. The transmissivity figures as estimated by the Cooper-Jacob method are relatively homogeneous (variability factor ~2): T = 2.2 ~ 4.4x10-3 m2/s, while the figures for storage exhibit more variability (3 orders of magnitude): 3.6x10-4 < S < 2.8x10-1. This contrast in heterogeneity between the values of T and S is probably an artifact related to the Cooper-Jacob method (see for example Meir et al. 1998, Sanchez-Vila et al. 1999). Three other methods have been developed and tested: (i) a model based on the laws of fractal scales (Delay et al. 2004, Bernard et al. 2006), (ii) a homogeneous dual-media model (Delay et al. 2007; Kaczmaryk and Delay 2007a,b), and (iii) a dual-media fractal model (Delay et al. 2007, Kaczmaryk and Delay 2007a,b). Each of these models allows the experimental drawdown curves to be adjusted in a satisfactory fashion, but for each series of interpretations the storage values are still much more variable than the transmissivity values. The high relative variability of the storage parameters is explained by the atypical behavior of the drawdown curves, which usually appear to be independent of the distance between the pumping well and the monitoring wells (Fig. 5)..
According to Kaczmaryk and Delay (2007b), this atypical behavior could be explained by a very rapid propagation of the pumping cone of depression in preferential flow channels (fractures and/or karstic channels). This interpretation is consistent with the very rapid propagation of pressure disturbances recorded by Audouin and Bodin (2008) in cross-borehole slug tests (Fig. 6). During some of the experiments disturbances were recorded more than 100 m from the well being tested, with velocities up to 10 m/s. The hydraulic conductivities estimated from the cross-borehole slug tests were between 4.4x10-5 and 7.7x10-4 m.s-1. These figures are about ten times higher than those derived from interpreting the pumping tests. In view of the speed of the responses observed, the head disturbance caused by a slug test would seem to propagate only along preferential flow paths, whereas the pumping tests involve the aquifer system as a whole, owing to the limited storage capacities of the fractures and karstic channels. The “selectivity” of the slug tests thus enables specific characterization of the hydraulic properties of the preferential flow paths.
Today, the SEH constitutes an operational scientific platform for hosting science projects of national and international scope:
INSU/EC2CO/MACH-1 Project: since the end of 2006, eight research teams have been involved in the INSU/EC2CO/MACH-1 Project (Modeling of Aquifers in Heterogeneous Limestones – 1. Flow Dynamics), aimed at investigating the relevance of various conceptual and digital approaches to hydrogeologic modeling, using the H+/SEH database. The principal objective is to determine to what extent the variability and density of the SEH data are relevant and sufficient in terms of constraints, parameterization, and calibration to give the models a certain predictive ability. The modeling exercise consists of predicting the response of the water table (calculation of drawdowns in several piezometers) during two sinusoidal (injection-extraction) pumping tests in two pairs of wells. These pumping tests will be carried out after the event, i.e., once the “digital” predictions have been provided by each team. Such a benchmark for hydrogeologic modeling in a limestone medium will be a ‘first’ on the international scene. Other benchmarks of this type, established in the past, have involved crystalline environments, mainly in connection with international studies on the storage of radioactive wastes in impermeable geologic formations (e.g., the ÄSPÖ TASK 4 and DECOVALEX Projects). These projects have shown the value of making comparisons between models and experimental sites. The MACH-1 Project will make it possible to estimate the necessary and sufficient cost in terms of (i) data (continuous vs. discrete approaches), and (ii) digital calculations (2-D vs. 3-D approaches) in achieving an optimal modeling of the flows at this scale.
Hydrasa-Polimi Joint Project: in 2007, two researchers at the Université Politecnico di Milano, Monica Riva and Alberto Guadagnini, spent three months in the Hydrasa laboratory studying the applicability of various stochastic approaches to the SEH data. Pumping-test data were reinterpreted, using the stochastic method of Neuman et al. (2004, 2007), leading to an estimate of the geostatistical parameters describing the spatial variability of the logarithm of transmissivity. The results obtained (joint publication submitted to the Journal of Hydrology) indicate a scale dependence of the variance and length of correlation that is fully consistent with the hierarchic multiscale theory proposed by Neuman and Di Federico (2003) and Neuman et al. (2008).
The themes to be addressed at the SEH in coming years can be classified into two broad areas:
Area 1: Characterization of preferential flow channels
The spatial density of boreholes on the SEH will be turned to good account in developing new approaches to the characterization and modeling of flows in strongly channeled heterogeneous media.
3-D spatial distribution of the heterogeneities and individual geometry of discrete structures of high relative permeability: a new campaign of high-resolution 3-D imagery is planned for 2009, in collaboration with the French Petroleum Institute. This second campaign will (i) enable validation of the results from the first campaign, and (ii) supplement the spatial coverage of the SEH (currently ~33% covered).
Connectivity: relative inter-borehole connectivity will be investigated on the basis of (i) high-resolution 3-D seismic data; (ii) diffusivity figures obtained by interpretation of long-duration pumping tests (see, for example, Knudby and Carrera 2006); (iii) diffusivity figures obtained by interpretation of slug tests; and (iv) short-duration high-frequency (2 Hz) hydrodynamic data, to be acquired during a forthcoming series of pumping tests.
Hydraulic properties: the hydraulic properties of the preferential flow channels will be investigated by using (i) data from cross-borehole slug tests; (ii) data from cross-borehole flowmeter tests (experiments to be carried out jointly with the team from Rennes); and (iii) short-duration high-frequency (2 Hz) hydrodynamic data, to be acquired during a coming series of sinusoidal hydraulic testing (experiments with multiple extractions and injections), allowing the preferential flow channels to be stressed at various scales.
Limit conditions: the parameterization of conditions at the limits of the MACH1 Project’s models is tricky, because the flows are so strongly channeled, i.e., it is difficult to define the distance beyond which the influence of pumping may, at any given moment, be considered “negligible”. The propagation of pressure disturbances over medium and longer distances outside the SEH will be investigated by installing new “distant” sensors and by carrying out pumping tests with periodic signals.
Area 2: Reactive transport and fluid-rock interactions
In situ denitrification: The Hydrasa Laboratory and the Poitiers Water Chemistry and Environment Laboratory are currently collaborating on the development of a pilot in situ biochemical decontamination plant for groundwaters, targeting nitrates (thesis by Marion Chatelier). Laboratory experiments are currently under way to study the kinetics of the biochemical processes involved. Further experiments will be conducted at the field scale, beginning with tracing combined with dual pumping tests so as to characterize the dilution and hydrodispersion flows of the contaminant within the reactor.
Origin and dynamics of selenium in carbonate aquifers: the presence of selenium in groundwaters at concentrations greater than the current standards for drinking water (10 µg/l) is a problem encountered in several parts of France. In the Vienne Département, hydrochemical monitoring carried out on several AEP intakes on the Dogger water table (the SEH aquifer) have shown a temporal trend in the concentrations of selenium after the intake has been operating for a certain time. A number of recent lithochemical analyses carried out on SEH drill cores indicate that significant amounts of selenium are trapped in filled paleokarst cavities scattered within the carbonate reservoir. Changes in redox conditions connected to pumping could have led to the release of selenium into the groundwater, and thus to a progressive increase in its concentration in the water extracted. Studies will be undertaken to examine the validity of this theory, based on (i) a detailed physico-chemical characterization (XRD, SEM, XPS) of the speciation of the selenium present in the filled cavities; (ii) a characterization of the mechanisms for liberating the selenium from its solid matrix, via laboratory (batch) experiments combined with thermodynamic simulations (JCHESS, PHREEQC, FITEQL); and (iv) digital modeling of reactive flows at the scale of the reservoir. This modeling will be approached though a “Pipe-Flow” conceptualization of the flow paths, combined with time-domain Lagrangian digital methods (a technique in which the Poitiers team has the expertise for simulating problems of non-reactive transport: see, for example, Bodin et al. 2003, Delay et al. 2003, Bodin et al. 2007, Ubertosi et al. 2007, Delay et al. 2008). The challenge here will be to develop a stochastic algorithm that fits the water-rock interaction processes previously identified in the laboratory.
Main collaborations carried out in the framework of the Observatory H +:
Philippe Ackerer, Director of Research, CNRS, Strasbourg (modeling (MACH1 project))
B. Bourbiaux, Chef de Projet IFP, Rueil Malmaison (modeling (MACH1 project))
P.M. Adler, Director of Research, CNRS, Paris (modeling (projet MACH1))
J.-F. Thovert, Director of Research, CNRS, Chasseneuil du Poitou (modeling (MACH1 project))
V. Mourzenko, Director of Research, CNRS, Chasseneuil du Poitou (modeling (MACH1 project))
C. Grenier, Engineer CEA – LSCE, Gif sur Yvette (modeling (MACH1 project))
D. Bruel, Director of Research, Ecole des Mines, Fontainebleau (modeling (projet MACH1))
H. Jourde, Lecturer, Université de Montpellier 2 (modeling (MACH1 project))
M. Riva, Assistant Professor, Politecnico di Milano (Italie) (stochastic hydrogeology)
A. Guadagnini, Professor, Politecnico di Milano (Italie) (stochastic hydrogeology)
Participation in national research programs
GDR CNRS 2990 HTHS, Manager F. Delay (Poitiers) 2003- (in progress): Hydrodynamics and Transfers in Underground Hydrosystems
INSU/EC2CO Program: MACH1 Project, Manager J. Bodin (Poitiers) 2006- (in progress): Modeling of Heterogeneous Limestone Aquifers – 1. Flow dynamics
Participation in regional research programs
State-Regional Planning Contract (CPER), Waters & Soils Program 2001- (in progress)
Personnel associated with SEH (Poitiers)
Gilles Porel, Lecturer, Université de Poitiers (30% ETP)
Jacques Bodin, Lecturer, Université de Poitiers (30% ETP)
Aude Naveau, Lecturer, Université de Poitiers (30% ETP)
Mathieu LE COZ, Lecturer, Université de Poitiers (50% ETP)
Denis Paquet, Technician CNRS (50% ETP)
Benoît Nauleau, Engineer, CNRS (100% ETP)
Audouin, O., 2007, Intégration - inversion de données géologiques et mesures hydrodynamiques in-situ pour le conditionnement d’un modèle 3D d’aquifère calcaire : Site Expérimental Hydrogéologique (SEH) de Poitiers, France, Thèse de Doctorat de l’Université de Poitiers.
Audouin, O., Bodin, J., 2007, Analysis of slug-tests with high-frequency oscillations, J. Hydrol., 334, 282– 289.
Audouin, O., Bodin, J., 2008, Cross-borehole slug test analysis in a fractured limestone aquifer, J. Hydrol., 348, 510-523.
Audouin, O., Bodin, J., Porel, G., Bourbiaux, B., 2008, Flowpath structure in a limestone aquifer : multi-borehole logging investigations at the hydrogeological experimental site of Poitiers, France, Hydrogeol. J., 16 (5), 939-950.
Bernard, S., 2005, Caractérisation hydrodynamique des réservoirs carbonatés fracturés : application au Site Expérimental Hydrogéologique (SEH) de l’Université de Poitiers, Thèse de Doctorat de l’Université de Poitiers.
Bernard, S., Delay, F., Porel, G., 2006, A new method of data inversion for the identification of fractal characteristics and homogenization scale from hydraulic pumping tests in fractured rocks, J. Hydrol., 328 (3-4), 647-658.
Bernard, S., Delay, F., 2008, Determination of porosity and storage capacity of a calcareous aquifer (France) by correlation and spectral analyses of time series, Hydrogeol. J., in Press.
Bodin, J., Porel, G., Delay, F., 2003, Simulation of solute transport in discrete fracture networks using the Time Domain Random Walk method, Earth Planet. Sci. Letters, 208(3-4), 297-304.
Bodin, J., Porel, G., Delay, F., Ubertosi, F., Bernard, S., de Dreuzy, J.-R., 2007, Simulation and analysis of solute transport in 2D fracture/pipe networks : The SOLFRAC program, J. Contam. Hydrol.,89, 1-28.
Bourbiaux, B., Callot, J.-P., Doligez, B., Fleury, M., Gaumet, F., Guiton, M., Lenormand, R., Mari, J-L., Pourpak, H., 2007, Multi-Scale Characterization of an Heterogeneous Aquifer Through the Integration of Geological, Geophysical and Flow Data : a Case Study, Oil & Gas Science and Technology, 62 (3), 347-37.
Chatevaire, L., 2006, Porosité et perméabilité des roches réservoirs et corrélation avec les observations pétrographiques : application à l’aquifère du Site Expérimental Hydrogéologique (SEH), Rapport Master 2 Géomatériaux-Eaux, Université de Poitiers.
de Dreuzy, J.-R., Bodin, J., Le Grand, H., Davy, P., Boulanger, D., Battais, A., Bour, O., Gouze, P., Porel, G., 2006, General Database for Ground Water Site Information, Ground Water, 44 (5), 743-748.
Delay, F., Porel, G., Bernard, S., 2004, Analytical 2D model to invert hydraulic pumping tests in fractured rocks with fractal behavior, Geophys. Res. Letters, 31, L16501, 10.1029/2004GL020500.
Delay, F., Kaczmaryk, A., Ackerer, P., 2007, Inversion of interference hydraulic pumping tests in both homogeneous and fractal dual media, Adv. Water Resour., 30 (3), 314-334.
Delay, F., Kaczmaryk, A., Ackerer, P., 2008, Inversion of a Lagrangian time domain random walk (TDRW) approach to one-dimensional transport by derivation of the analytical sensitivities to parameters, Adv. Water Resour., 31 (3), 484-502.
Delay, F., P. Ackerer, and C. Danquigny, Random walk particle tracking for solute transport in porous and fractured formations : A review, Vadose Zone Journal, S.S.S.A., 4, 360-379, DOI 10.2136/vzj2004.0125, 2005
Kaczmaryk, A., Delay, F., 2007a, Interference pumping tests in a fractured limestone (Poitiers - France) : Inversion of data by means of dual-medium approaches, J. Hydrol., 337 (1-2), 133-146.
Kaczmaryk, A., Delay, F., 2007b, Improving dual-porosity-medium approaches to account for karstic flow in a fractured limestone : Application to the automatic inversion of hydraulic interference tests (Hydrogeological Experimental Site, HES - Poitiers - France), J. Hydrol, 347 (3-4), 391-403.
Knudby, C., Carrera, J., 2006, On the use of apparent hydraulic diffusivity as an indicator of connectivity, J. Hydrol., 329, 377-389.
Mari, J.-L. and Porel, G., 2008, 3D Seismic Imaging of a Near-Surface Heterogeneous Aquifer : A Case Study, Oil & Gas Science and Technology – Rev. IFP, 63 (2), 179-201.
Meier, P.M., Carrera, J., Sanchez-Vila, X., 1998, An evaluation of Jacob’s method for the interpretation of pumping tests in heterogeneous formations. Water Resour. Res. 34 (5), 1011–1025.
Neuman, S.P., Di Federico, V., 2003, Multifaceted nature of hydrogeologic scaling and its interpretation, Rev. Geophysics, 41(3), 1014, doi:10.1029/2003RG000130.
Neuman, S.P., Guadagnini, A., Riva, M., 2004, Type-curve estimation of statistical heterogeneity, Water Resour. Res., 40, doi:10.1029/2003WR002405.
Neuman, S. P., Blattstein, A., Riva, M., Tartakovsky, D. M., Guadagnini, A., Ptak, T., 2007, Type curve interpretation of late-time pumping test data in randomly heterogeneous aquifers, Water Resour. Res., 43, W10421, doi:10.1029/2007WR005871.
Neuman, S. P., Riva, M., Guadagnini, A., 2008, On the geostatistical characterization of hierarchical media, Water Resour. Res., 44, W02403, doi:10.1029/2007WR006228.
Riva, M., Guadagnini, G., Bodin, J., Delay, F., Characterization of the Hydrogeological Experimental Site of Poitiers by stochastic well testing analysis, submitted to J. Hydrol (2008).
Sanchez-Vila, X., Meier, P.M., Carrera, J., 1999, Pumping tests in heterogeneous aquifers : An analytical study of what can be obtained from their interpretation using Jacob’s method. Water Resour. Res. 35 (4), 943–952.
Ubertosi, F., Delay, F., Bodin, J., Porel, G., 2007, A new method for generating a pipe network to handle channelled flow in fractured rocks, C.R. Geoscience, 339, 682-691.
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Madrid Skylitzes
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Illustrated illuminated manuscript of the Synopsis of Histories by John Skylitzes
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The Madrid Skylitzes is a richly illustrated illuminated manuscript of the Synopsis of Histories (Greek: ? , Byzantine Greek: ['sy?.nop.sis is.to.ri'on]), by John Skylitzes, which covers the reigns of the Byzantine emperors from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057. The manuscript was produced in Sicily in the 12th century, and is now at the Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid, with the shelfmark MS Graecus Vitr. 26-2. Other names for it include the Latin: Codex Græcus Matritensis Ioannis Skyllitzes (Medieval Latin: ['k?:.dks '?r?:.kus ma.t?ri'tn.sis j?'an.nis sk?il'lit?.d?ze?s]), or Skyllitzes Matritensis ([sk?il'lit?.d?ze?s ma.t?ri'tn.sis]).
Apart from the very fragmentary 6th-century Alexandrian World Chronicle, it is the only surviving illustrated manuscript of a Greek chronicle, and includes 574 miniatures.
Meeting between Emperor John Tzimiskes and Sviatoslav I of Kiev
Serbs massacre the Byzantines in the mountain passes.
It is unclear whether these illustrations are copies of earlier Byzantine images or were newly created specifically for this copy.
Color facsimile edition by Militos (?) Publishers, ISBN 960-8460-16-6.
Vasiliki Tsamakda, The Illustrated Chronicle of Ioannes Skylitzes, Leiden 2002.
Bente Bjørnholt and J. Burke, eds. "The Cultures and Contexts of the Madrid Skylitzes" International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 13 July 2004 (pub. 2005).
Evans, Helen C. & Wixom, William D., The glory of Byzantium: art and culture of the Middle Byzantine era, A.D. 843-1261, no. 338, 1997, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, ISBN 9780810965072; full text available online from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries
Biography of Basil II with notes on Scylitzes by Catherine Holmes
World Digital Library page, and PDF download of the Madrid Skylitzes
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The real hipsters of Portland have had it.
With the cost of living in Rose City steadily rising, some Portlanders are packing up and heading to Detroit in pursuit of the music and art scene Portland was known for in the 1990s.
An abandoned house in Detroit, MI overlooks the city's downtown. Photo: Harvard.edu
Realtor Larry Else of Realty Flo, who famously represented a Detroit man selling his house for an iPhone in 2014, said he has helped at least five Portlanders buy homes in Detroit in the last year. He said he is in the process of helping a handful more, all connected through word of mouth.
“They’ve been buying houses in decent neighborhoods, move-in ready, for 20 grand,” Else said. “It started with a band member, and then he moved out the rest of his band, then they all got their own homes.”
'Portland isn't the same'
Multiple venues that once formed the backbone of Portland's music scene have now closed--Satyricon, Slabtown, The Blue Monk, Laughing Horse Books, Backspace, East End, Berbati’s, Langano, to name a few--and neighborhoods in Southeast where bands like Sleater-Kinney once practiced at full volume are now home to middle-class families.
"Whenever I talk to people from Portland, it's 'Portland isn’t the same anymore," Else said. According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, which measures the value of residential real estate, and calculates the average change in value of real estate year over year, Portland’s index rose 70 percent between 2000 and 2014.
Each artist has purchased a home in the range of $20,000, he said, and that although there is red tape involved in making modifications and additions, such as studio garages, it's rarely enforced.
One woman, a Portland musician who Else helped to close a deal in a central Detroit neighborhood, talked about painting her house a "crazy color."
"It's totally acceptable out here to do that, the neighbors are going to be happy they’re occupying the place," Else said. "A band can practice and no one is going to compain."
Detroit is still battling urban blight and a significant population loss: in 1990, Detroit had just over one million people, and its population currently hovers between 600,000 and 700,000 people. Still, Detroit's emerging business and artist community is a supportive, friendly one, Else said. The city boasts a growing arts scene, urban farms, and eco-projects started by "urban pioneers" who move to the city because of its affordable cost of living and opportunity to build community.
One of the definitions of "urban pioneer" offered up by UrbanDictionary specifies someone "who buys a run-down house in an older sometimes depressed neighborhood of a city, remodels it, then sells it for a profit." While widely accepted as the first wave of gentrification, in the broader sense, an urban pioneer moves to an undeveloped and low-market area, bringing a wave of new business, art, and innovation that leads to urban renewal.
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About ROP
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Together/ Apart
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(100% proceeds given to artists)
The coronavirus pandemic has forced theaters, museums, studios, music schools and performing arts centers to close their doors to the public, which has cut most artists off from income. Our hearts also go out to the black community in America that is hurting right now. We are all brothers and sisters in this struggle and the support of many colors and cultures is the very heartbeat of ROP's mission. We denounce violence and discrimination. Black Lives Matter. We are doing everything possible to support our diverse artists and to organize a fundraiser where all funds will be given straight to participating artists. All donations are also tax-deductible and ALL funds will be given straight to artists towards the creation of new work. This is important for us to emphasize as this organization would be nothing without our multicultural artists.
The commission:
You can commission a new piece of solo work from a Refugee Orchestra Project musician to be performed and recorded in a digital space. It will be dedicated to you.
The Quarantine Commission Challenge draws from the incredible wealth of artistic talent within our ranks where Artistic Director, Lidiya Yankovskaya will provide you with a rare opportunity to build a creative connection with a talented composer and musician, to deliver an original work.
Commissioning a new piece of music is a compelling moment where you can be the first person to hear that piece of music and then have it dedicated to you by name, and this process brings you into the musical landscape where you are contributing to the creation of original art. Again, 100% of funds raised go directly to the artist, and all donations are tax-deductible.
How it works (and remember 100% of funds go to the artist):
A $500 donation
Pays for an entire commission and performance of a new work
Official/printed dedication of the work to yourself or a person of your choice.
If this is commissioned as a gift on behalf of another, ROP will email that individual on your behalf with an official presentation of the work, in advance of public release.
Recorded video message from composer and performer thanking you for the commission.
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The full amount goes directly to artists!
Pays for a composer OR performer's fee
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Acknowledgment of your contribution in notes accompanying the printed work.
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A 'SPOONFUL OF SUGAR' MAKES THE WORMS' LIFE SPAN GO DOWN
Etiquetas: Biology
If worms are any indication, all the sugar in your diet could spell much more than obesity and type 2 diabetes. Researchers reporting in the November issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, say it might also be taking years off your life.
By adding just a small amount of glucose to C. elegans usual fare of straight bacteria, they found the worms lose about 20 percent of their usual life span. They trace the effect to insulin signals, which can block other life-extending molecular players.
Although the findings are in worms, Cynthia Kenyon of the University of California, San Francisco, says there are known to be many similarities between worms and people in the insulin signaling pathways. (As an aside, Kenyon says she read up on low-carb diets and changed her eating habits immediately – cutting out essentially all starches and desserts -- after making the initial discovery in worms. The discovery was made several years ago, but had not been reported in a peer-reviewed journal until now.)
"In the early 90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms," Kenyon said. Those mutations effected insulin signals. Specifically, a mutation in a gene known as daf-2 slowed aging and doubled life span. That longer life depended on another "FOXO transcription factor" called DAF-16 and the heat shock factor HSF-1.
Now, the researchers show that those same players are also involved in numbering the days of worms who are fed on glucose. In fact, glucose makes no difference to the life span of worms that lack DAF-16 or HSF-1, they show. Glucose also completely prevents the life-extending benefits that would otherwise come with mutations in the daf-2 gene.
Ultimately, worms fed a steady diet containing glucose show a reduction in aquaporin channels that transport glycerol, one of the ingredients in the process by which the body produces its own glucose. "If there is not enough glucose, the body makes it with glycerol," Kenyon explained. That glycerol has to first get where it needs to go, which it does via the aquaporin channels.
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Savoy Brown / The Nice / Family
Listen: The Weaver’s Answer / Family
The Weaver's Answer / Family
One of the great triple bills from ’70, still trading on the English Invasion angle that was becoming a distant marketing ploy.
No problem here. My friends and I ate it up. Couldn’t leave early enough that morning to make a day of hanging out on the campus, pretending to be college kids. The serious Anglofiles, crowded onto the entrance steps of The Palestra Auditorium for a solid few hours prior to doors opening, provided the ultimate social scene. Everyone opinioning and bragging about one record after the other. It was almost as much fun as the show.
I think it was well attended, up front there was no looking back.
We were very seriously not prepared for the power of Family live. No one in the room was. And I do mean no one. I’d only seen their three albums in the store, never heard them and as much as I wanted ownership of at least one record, some other title always took their purchase slot. Turns out, this was my favorite lineup, having become obsessed as a result of the show and then seeing them many times. Poli Palmer on xylophone most of the night, a stunning player. And John Weider on guitars and violin. It was the first band I saw playing any of these instruments (except Brian Jones on vibes during ‘Under My Thumb’), not to mention changing them up for each song.
The ace in the deck for Family was always Roger Chapman. Definitely an acquired taste vocally, you still seldom see a madman like him, totally possessed. Once you experienced Family in person, their recordings made perfect sense, vividly bringing back his on stage intensity.
They couldn’t catch a break in The States. Bill Graham banned them from The Fillmores. Don’t know why. This particular night the audience was into it, but a few years later, opening for Elton John, things didn’t work out the same. I remember many in the crowd booing. I couldn’t believe such a sophisticated group of great musicians were being booed. I was embarrassed. But the band tore threw it unflinched. This was ’72. Sadly it was to be the last time they toured the US. Props to Elton John for having them.
Listen: The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack / The Nice
The Nice were on Immediate. This was a big deal.
Immediate was a serious label to this bunch. A lot of conversation was had earlier on the steps about the greatness of the roster. Everyone was clued into the supposed stage antics of Keith Emerson, still I don’t think we were really ready. When he mauled his organ during ‘America’, it was shocking. Everyone took a step back as the knives came out. All these skinny English people with crazy energy. The flower power stuff from their albums interested me a lot. I think they stopped playing that stuff pretty quickly as the prog symphonic material took center stage, plus I assume Emerson, Lake & Palmer were right around the corner. I remember hearing this tour was simply honoring contractual commitments. Didn’t seem like it being a wide eyed kid upfront.
Listen: Made Up My Mind / Savoy Brown
Made Up My Mind / Savoy Brown
Savoy Brown were theatrics-free, but never mind, they tore it up. In keeping with the evening looks wise, the underfed, velvet and stacked heeled Englishness prevailed. Can still remember these fair haired frail guys playing wicked blues. Probably very white, but this was prior to seeing any of the originals, so all new, all impressive. RAW SIENNA had just been released, and their set covered a lot of it plus some prior singles (‘Made Up My Mind’, ‘Train To Nowhere’) and their theme at the time, Muddy Waters’ ‘Louisiana Blues’. Like Family, this was a classic Savoy Brown lineup, with Chris Youlden on vocals and Tone Stevens on bass.
Listen: I’m Tired / Savoy Brown
I'm Tired / Savoy Brown
My vivid memory of Kim Simmonds starting off ‘I’m Tired’ is as plain as day. It was my first time up super close, literally with elbows on the stage, and thinking ‘he makes it look so easy’, the true sign of a great guitarist.
Above: Jukebox Tab signed by Kim Simmonds
On the way out of town after the show, we stopped at a late night record/head shop near the campus, figuring out who would buy what, strategizing so that collectively we arrived home with records by all three bands. Picked these handout charts up at the counter, with some pretty interesting playlist titles. Yes, the days of underground radio…..and the ‘Super Heavy Sound’ of Janis Joplin. See them below:
Posted in Bill Graham, Brian Jones, Chris Youlden, Elton John, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Family, Fillmore East, Immediate, Janis Joplin, Jukebox Tab, Keith Emerson, Kim Simmonds, Muddy Waters, Parrot, Reprise, Roger Chapman, Savoy Brown, The Nice, WHFM |
Listen: Over The Hill / John Martyn
Listen: Dancing / John Martyn
SOLID AIR and ONE WORLD were two of John Martyn’s most incredible accomplishments. He did have many. He was great from the get go, but I keep going back to those albums and their respective 7″ singles, both above.
I remember seeing him open for Foghat in ’75. Who would have thought a one man band, armed with only an acoustic guitar and an array of foot triggered affects peddles could captivate a beer drenched knucklehead crowd at the Syracuse War Memorial, but he sure did. The place shimmered in awe and respectful silence during the set. A warm memory.
The deluxe editions of both SOLID AIR (‘Over The Hill’) and ONE WORLD (‘Dancing’) are well worth searching out. To quote a well known UK glossy, ‘the albums are fluid, percussive masterpieces and the outtakes are essential’.
Posted in Foghat, Island, John Martyn |
Brian Auger & The Trinity
DEFINITELY WHAT! / Brian Auger & The Trinity:
Side 1:
Listen: Red Beans And Rice / Brian Auger & The Trinity
Listen: George Bruno Money / Brian Auger & The Trinity
It was February 2001 when my assistant Steve, at Sony, buzzed me about an incoming cold call from a Brian Auger.
“He sounds English” was the helpful detail.
I just figured it was one of my pals lazily playing our game. We’d often ring each other’s office and announce ourselves as an impossibly impossible famous caller, a person from our ultimate wish list.
But shockingly it was the real Brian Auger, making the label rounds via phone, shopping his daughter Ali Auger’s then current album, as well his catalog, including all the full lengths by Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express and even earlier titles like DEFINITELY WHAT!, the first as Brian Auger & The Trinity, from which these two songs come. I still have his letter from the huge package that arrived a few days later.
Atlantic and sister label Atco issued a handful of these 7″ promotional EP’s to radio during the late 60′s and early 70′s, all in similar generic information/picture sleeves with short explanatory notes on the back cover from the head of radio promotion or press. Oddly, most had simply one song per side, thereby not in keeping with the EP’s original configuration of two per side, four total.
In this case though, both tracks from DEFINITELY WHAT!, including Booker T & The MG’s ‘Red Beans And Rice’ were quite long, essentially filling out the same time as two shorter, single length tracks would have.
You don’t see the Atlantic series EP’s much these days, and hardly ever in the rather thin plain paper stock information/picture covers mentioned above.
Posted in Atco, Atlantic, Booker T & The MG's, Brian Auger & The Trinity, Brian Auger's Oblivion Express |
Listen: Creeping Away / Swamp Dogg SwampDoggCreepingAway.mp3
Listen: Do You Believe / Swamp Dogg SwampDoggDoYouBelieve.mp3
I vividly recall my first look at the RAT ON! sleeve, his only album for Elektra from which both these single sides come. I thought, this is gonna be terrible.
There was nothing more I loved doing than checking every last record that came into our college station. I would sit for hours, well into the night, and instead of studying my class work, I studied records. Cataloging, suggesting cuts for airplay, deciding what to call into the labels for extra copies of, basically to fatten my collection. It was great being both MD and PD of a college station.
First listen, it went into a certain space, meaning very musical in a more grown up way, not unlike the occasional jazz or blues album that struck me, or The Crusaders, The Meters, The Blackbyrds and Dr. John.
I got slightly more interested when a 7″ showed up shortly thereafter. I loved this guys voice, and his name, terrific. Both sides segued nicely with ‘Wash Mama Wash’, a Dr. John single I liked playing on the occasional late, late shift I’d sit in for once in a while.
Gotta admit though, despite my liking of Swamp Dogg, I didn’t exactly follow up accruing the next few releases, which I recall being on the Brut label. I just wasn’t interested in certain record companies as a kid. Very stuck up, a know it all, basically an early version of a Pitchfork contributor. Well, a word to the wise, wrong attitude, a lesson learned later in life having to backtrack, filling in gaps of the vinyl collection. The Swamp Dogg gap being one in particular.
Listen: Did I Come Back Too Soon (Or Stay Away Too Long) / Swamp Dogg SwampDoggHomeTooSoon.mp3
Above: Jukebox Tab signed by Jerry Williams
Come ’74, Swamp Dogg is suddenly on Island, with a seriously happening album HAVE YOU HEARD THIS STORY?. I worshipped every last track, could sing any one of them for you on a dime. And the sleeve, in one way, a mess. An out of focus shot of a very unkept Swamp Dogg in a very unkept room, surrounded by records and books, perched atop a bean bag chair. Yet in another way, completely inviting and totally descriptive of the music inside. His talent for some twisted lyrics, actually clever slants on slightly sleazy subjects drew me in further.
“Did I Come Back Too Soon (Or Stay Away Too Long)’ Have a listen. Can’t be said any better, kind of funny yet very true. Always take care of your partner. And again, that signature voice.
Listen: The Mind Does The Dancing / Swamp Dogg SwampDoggMind.mp3
A second UK single from the album, and pressed promo only. This was a hard one to track down, plus it’s an edit, making finding a copy even more necessary. The full 7:20 album version gets cut to 5:30, not that much of a radio friendly timing, but seems this was more aimed at clubs, given the disco leaning beat and a vocal that doesn’t begin until 2:22.
Besides, Island UK only did five singles with this label design and the USA catalog number prefix, all aimed seemingly at clubs. Given the time period, Swamp Dogg wasn’t far from Ike Turner’s musical path, wah-wahs and revue horns still in place.
For fun, a press release below that was inside the album’s radio station shipping envelope, which the hoarder in me saved. I had a habit of sticking all these type things inside the sleeves, making for sometimes fascinating reading nowadays.
Swamp Dogg indeed has many releases, starting in 1970. Prior, he recorded under his real name, Jerry Williams, beginning with Little Jerry Williams until, I’m assuming, he grew up.
A closing trainspotter bit here. Jerry Williams co-wrote and had studio involvement with, to me, Inez & Charlie Foxx’s greatest ever single and those are big words as they had many: ‘(1-2-3-4-5-6-7) Count The Days’.
Well in fact, one of the greatest soul singles of all times, posted elsewhere on this blog if you care to have a listen.
Posted in Brut, Danny Holloway, Elektra, Ike Turner, Inez & Charlie Foxx, Island, Jerry Williams, Jukebox Tab, Little Jerry Williams, Pitchfork, Swamp Dogg, The Blackbyrds, The Crusaders, The Meters |
The Move / Jimmy Miller
Listen: Blackberry Way / The Move
Certainly one of my favorite singles ever, I dare say one of the greatest records ever released. Fact not opinion.
The recent BBC documentary, THE JOY OF THE SINGLE spotlighted ‘Blackberry Way’ as just that for a teenage Holly Johnson, who relived a long walk to and from a nearby record shop, whereby The Monkees’ ‘(Theme From) The Monkees’ wasn’t available. In fact, that track was never issued on a 7″ when current. The shop clerk talked him into the latest release by The Move instead, a sale amongst many that would have contributed toward the record reaching #1 on the UK charts.
The program was another in a long list of reminders that pulling out a copy of ‘Blackberry Way’ and letting it play on repeat was yet again, a solid hour well spent in my house.
Along with high school pals Denny and Mark, I sent off to England for copies of this pre-release. We wanted it shipped day one. God knows how we’d hear about these records sentenced to teen life in upstate New York, but we did. In fact, our crowd were so into The Move that there was no messing about by this, the release of their sixth single. And one titled ‘Blackberry Way’, heaven help us, we knew it’d be stunning. I can vividly remember opening that cardboard mailer and playing it for the first time. Stunning doesn’t do the song justice.
Years later, employed in Elektra’s A&R department meant a constant search for new signings and a resulting schedule of meetings with everyone from managers, agents, lawyers and occasionally, name UK record producers with their newest projects. Through the years Gus Dudgeon, Don Arden, Jonathan King, Stuart Colman, Malcolm McLaren, Wayne Bickerton, Hugh Padgham or Shel Talmy might book in while passing through New York. On one occasion, I got a call requesting some time for Jimmy Miller.
His visit was not going to be wasted on me. I was only too keen, as was usually the case, to talk about the less travelled topics covered by most fellow A&R reps, in this instance his more obscure British productions, of which The Move was one. Turns out, he was always happy to recount his histories, including a well repeated run down of that period with The Rolling Stones. But my curiosity in The Move brought out a unexpected tale, all presented with the enthusiasm of a kid.
For starters, ‘Blackberry Way’ was the only song he ever recorded with them, and then just sitting in for the band’s usual producer, Denny Cordell. The details were rather simple and verify the often documented flying by the seat of their pants 60′s music industry. Denny and he were co-workers at Straight Ahead Productions, to whom The Move were signed. Denny was double booked on a session with Joe Cocker & The Grease Band and asked Jimmy to cover for him with The Move. These details, to be clear, were laughingly verified by Denny years later.
As a result, the band’s only UK #1 was produced, not by the guy who worked with them on every other track prior, but by his pal in the next office. A jovial recollection actually.
So as Jimmy Miller sat across from me recounting these details for the first time in my office on the 20th floor of the Warner Brothers building, I pulled out the above copy for an autograph, which seriously pleased him to no end.
Posted in A&M, Denny Cordell, Don Arden, Gus Dudgeon, Holly Johnson, Hugh Padgham, Jimmy Miller, Joe Cocker & The Grease Band, Jonathan King, Malcolm McLaren, Shel Talmy, Straight Ahead Productions, Stuart Colman, The Move, Wayne Bickerton |
Lonnie Youngblood
Listen: Soul Food / Lonnie Youngblood
Soul Food / Lonnie Youngblood
I’m a sucker for food songs. It probably explains my fascination with the Food Network, which my pal Maridi coined so well as ‘comfy’. Anyways, sonically, this track just captures a time period that, if you’re hooked on, you can’t get enough of. Specifically, 1965 RnB or Soul, and sometimes referred to as a chitlin’ circuit sound which I find a little offensive.
It was during Lonnie Youngblood’s period with Fairmount that his band included Jimi Hendrix, who in theory is on this track. Never mind, it’s more importantly a food record favorite, along with ‘Breakin’ Bread‘ by Fred & The New JB’s and The Soul Runners ‘Grits & Corn Bread’.
Not that I would eat most of the items he sings about, but he does make me feel like I want to join in.
Posted in Fairmount, Fred & The New JBs, Jimi Hendrix, Lonnie Youngblood, Soul, The Soul Runners |
The Moody Blues / St. Louis Union
Listen: Stop! / The Moody Blues
Stop! / The Moody Blues
When it comes to vinyl or artifacts, oddly, The Moody Blues are not a collectible band. I guess the mainstream success of Moody Blues lineup two unfairly squashed that.
But still, lineup one, well that was a very different sounding group and should be a very different story. It’s where the collectible piece is baffling. Not surprisingly, the band were recycling US blues and RnB, not unlike most other collectible UK acts during the mid 60′s. But singer Denny Laine was special, and had an authentic, recognizable voice. The hits disappeared quickly after their second 7″, ‘Go Now’, although the quality of singles did not. All of them should command more worth, being pressed in very limited quantities.
‘Stop!’, a US only 7″, was taken from the Denny Cordell produced debut UK LP and their only full length with lineup one. The US album version was similar but didn’t included ‘Stop!’, presumably because American label London spotted the track as a potential hit.
‘Stop’ received confident airplay throughout the northeast upon release. I heard it often at both my local Top 40′s in Syracuse. The single charted for one week on the BILLBOARD Hot 100 at #98 and was a decent snapshot of Winter ’66, basically dreary and cold, just as I vividly remember it and personally preferred.
Listen: Girl / St. Louis Union
Girl / St. Louis Union
Dreary and cold, or dark and downbeat were indeed the sounds de jour. Enter the St. Louis Union’s cover of ‘Girl’. Despite being a nice time piece, the record was part of an already risky strategy: covering Beatles’ songs to achieve hits. The process initially worked for Peter & Gordon, The Silkie and a handful of others, yet the idea had primarily dried by the time post ’65 late comers released theirs.
Posted in Billboard, Denny Cordell, Denny Laine, London Records, Parrot, Peter & Gordon, St. Louis Union, The Beatles, The Moody Blues, The Silkie |
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
Listen: Zabadak / Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
Zabadak
In honor of yet another year owning ‘Zabadak’, one of my all time favorite singles by an all time favorite band, I’m continuing my annual tradition of reposting that original entry about the single’s history from December 28, 2008 at SO MANY RECORDS SO LITTLE TIME.
Footnote: In the original post linked above, I mention the single’s strong airplay at the time. Click here after reading the post to check out some of the US Top 40 stations that played and charted the record. This link organizes the airplay by date, and note there are 6 pages of station listings that are viewable. See upper right corner to scroll though all 6.
Posted in Billboard, Bob Lefsetz, Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich, Fontana, Hot Chip, Imperial, Inez & Charlie Foxx, Jukebox Tab, KHJ, Manfred Mann, Radio Charts, The Box Tops, The Hullaballoos, The Kinks, The Moody Blues, The Move, The Pretty Things, The Small Faces, The Who, The Zombies, Them, Traffic, Unit 4 + 2, Walt's Records, WOLF, Woolworth's, WT Grants |
Listen: Misty / The Vibrations
There are many, many covers of this classic. Some people will complain it’s a schmaltzy adult bore, or that it’s too camp. But be informed, the greats have done it in varying styles: Aretha Franklin, Donald Byrd, Johnny Mathis, Sarah Vaughan, Richard Groove Holmes, Donny Hathaway, Julie London, Stan Getz even Timebox. I like them all. Interestingly, it can withstand many very different interpretations.
The Vibrations, like The Contours, were in that poor man’s Temptations or Four Tops category. Consequently, both often tipped into Northern Soul. Their version of ‘Misty’ though brings me right back to the Syracuse War Memorial October 30, 1965. The Vibrations, along with Pattie La Belle & The Blue Belles, were opening for The Rolling Stones. Bravely, they performed this clad in shiny purple chino suits; and the power of the vocal had ten thousand restless kids in silent awe. Check out the final high notes here, you’ll see what I mean.
Posted in Aretha Franklin, Donald Byrd, Donny Hathaway, Johnny Mathis, Northern Soul, Okeh, Patti La Belle & The Blue Belles, Prestige, Richard Groove Holmes, Sarah Vaughan, Stan Getz, Syracuse War Memorial, The Contours, The Four Tops, The Rolling Stones, The Temptations, The Vibrations, Timebox |
Listen: Harlem Shuffle / Bob & Earl
Harlem Shuffle / Bob & Earl
Talk about a period piece. ‘Harlem Shuffle’ makes me feel like I’m listening to late, well, very late night 60′s radio, when music this raw and blues based was kept off the air during the day…or more like, kept off the air almost entirely.
Released in ’63, then still considered race music, this record never got heard by white America. Wasn’t just the obscure English groups that had to sneak through via the late night airwaves ghetto, RnB had to as well. Growing up near Syracuse, we picked up AM stations from Boston and Ft. Wayne on our transistors, for rock that is. But we also managed a black station from Philadelphia and another from Baltimore. Not exactly Alabama or Mississippi, yet still very risky business for white bred upstate New York.
Got to hear a lot of seminal stuff that way, transistor under the pillow. In particular, Bob & Earl’s ‘Harlem Shuffle’, which still feels like a night time record with every time it gets a play. This single created a fantasy world, whereby living on the wrong side of the tracks seemed way far away and rather dangerous to venture too near.
The single had a deserved second life around the early 80′s, when a batch of this type stuff was reissued by some UK labels and the hip college DJ’s were mixing it in with ska revival bands like Madness and The Specials. Earl Lee Nelson had a pretty big hit ‘The Duck’ a few years later (’65) as Jackie Lee.
Posted in Bob & Earl, Island, Jackie Lee, Madness, Sue Records, The Specials |
Posted in Dunhill, PF Sloan, The American Breed, The Byrds, The Forum, The Grass Roots, The Marmalade, The Seeds, The Sir Douglas Quintet, The Turtles |
Listen: Tragedy / Thomas Wayne
Tragedy / Thomas Wayne
Both sides are a childhood memory record. And I had all but forgotten this one until there it was in the collection I’d bought from Tony King. Certainly not representative of the general sound I ultimately went for until years later, unsure if it was the very first record I had someone buy me, but it was certainly one of the first.
Possibly ‘Tragedy’ is what planted that seed toward favoring violent death and horror records like those by Jimmy Cross, Twinkle, The Shangri-Las, Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages even The Gun Club. Thomas himself died in a car crash.
Listen: Saturday Date / Thomas Wayne
Saturday Date / Thomas Wayne
Like Side A, the flip, ‘Saturday Date’ was produced by Scotty Moore, one time Elvis Presley guitarist. Why it wasn’t included in the AMERICAN GRAFFITI soundtrack is beyond me. Lyrically, you can’t capture the era better. Speaking of guitarists, Thomas Wayne was indeed the brother of Luther Perkins, who played lead for Johnny Cash.
A side scan from Tony King’s collection, B side scan is my original copy from the day.
Posted in American Graffiti, Elvis Presley, Fernwood Records, Jimmy Cross, Johnny Cash, London American, Luther Perkins, Scotty Moore, Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages, The Gun Club, The Shangri-Las, Thomas Wayne, Tony King, Twinkle |
Above/below: front/back of the ‘Cheree’ Red Star/Bronze UK picture sleeve.
Above/below: Red Star/Bronze UK promo 1977/Demon UK promo reissue 1986
Listen: Cheree / Suicide
Cheree
Occasionally some courageous soul challenges Suicide as pioneers, claiming Silver Apples or Beaver & Krause soldiered through the unexplored industrial wild, wild west before them. Not to take anything away from either, but seriously folks. No one has ever combined menace and grace like Alan Vega and Marty Rev. Not then, not now.
Upon release in ’77, two copies of Suicide’s debut album came into the record shop I worked for. Needing nothing more than one look at the sleeve while checking in that distributor’s shipment, I decided then and there neither were finding their way to the racks. Instead, both came home with me that night, and immediately the second copy went into Howard Thompson’s pile, readying it for mailing off to London as part of our ongoing record exchange pact. Eventually signing Suicide to Bronze UK, Howard also had the guts to issue ‘Cheree’ as a 7″ A side.
Turns out the band were completely accepting of the hostility which awaited them at every stop of their first British tour, supporting both Elvis Costello & The Attractions then The Clash on that initial visit. Much attention has been focused through the years on the violent reactions Suicide successfully provoked, having everything, including an axe, hurdled at them during their sets.
Howard and Bronze, as undeterred as the band, pressed up the now very rare promo only live album, loosely known as 23 MINUTES IN BRUSSELS from two of those nights, complete with the cold blooded hatred the unsuspecting audience spewed, almost as powerfully relentless as Suicide themselves. Almost, being the key word.
Simply one of the greatest live albums ever recorded, additionally, it’s a glaring artifact of how transparent and mainstream media driven many punk audiences really were in ’78 and therein lay the proof.
No surprise that, other than John Peel, BBC Radio 1 wouldn’t touch ‘Cheree’. Bless them. Probably the last thing Suicide needed then or ever, was a hit single. Instead, they’ve graduated to higher forms of life just fine without one.
Above: Jukebox Tab signed by Alan Vega
Posted in Alan Vega, BBC Radio 1, Beaver & Krause, Bronze, Demon, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, John Peel, Jukebox Tab, Marty Rev, Silver Apples, Suicide, The Clash |
Listen: The Game / The Herd
Public opinion always focuses on Peter Frampton when it comes to The Herd. But let me tell you, as with pre and post Frampton, The Herd were all about Andy Bown. A shockingly unsung hero, it was Andy Bown who rejoined his Herd defector in the early 70′s for a few Frampton’s Camel US tours. Thank the Lord, Jah, The Dahli Lama and whoever else needs praising. Had it not been for that fateful reprieve, I may never have met the man.
The first and last Fontana single by The Herd, post Peter Frampton’s departure, was this, ‘The Game’. It was met with zero welcoming from the press and the public. Don’t forget, hipsters turned their noses toward The Herd during the band’s heyday, assuming them to be manufactured by songwriters Ken Howard and Alan Blakley. History proved otherwise.
As if overnight, while still trying to find a seemingly current US copy of ‘The Game’, several were discovered gracing the 10 for 59¢ shrink wrapped deletion boxes sold at Woolworth’s during the late 60′s. Praise be. Those miracle pre packs were always like discovering a desert island while clinging a life preserver at sea or some such analogy. Come to think of it, I acquired my domestic copy of The Herd’s first US single, ‘I Can Fly’ tucked inside one of those extraordinary boxes as well. Stumbling on a warehouse full with unsold skids of those boxes nowadays would have us on a stretcher.
Andy Bown’s intentionally needle pinning production jammed trombones, saxophones, probably other brass too, and loads of “La la la la” background vocals into a typically Herd organ led track. The record reeked of English Pop. I loved it. Always have, always will.
Posted in Alan Blakley, Andy Bown, Fontana, Ken Howard, The Herd, Woolworth's |
Listen: Baby Sitter / The Ramones
Tom became a great pal as the years went by. Either with Monte, or often on his own, we’d meet near my place for an Indian buffet. Originally well under the trendy radar, all types of homestyle Northern and Southern Indian, Indonesian, Thai, Korean and Malaysian restaurants super served a massive but unhip clientele in my neck. Good food cheap basically.
Despite gentrification and Yelp, the choice and quality still holds. And so on the occasions when we’d do an impromptu mid-week lunch together, more often than not, all the air would be gasped out of the room as a nearby newbie or hipster table would suddenly realize Tommy Ramone was in the house. Without fail, a nervous approach would result. And Tom would be Tom: humble, shy, friendly, always accommodating to autographs and pictures alike.
One memorable exchange:
Shocked person, “Wow, what are you doing in Queens?”
Tom, “I live here.”
Above: Jukebox Tab signed by Tommy Ramone
Posted in Monte Melnick, Sire, The Ramones, Tommy Ramone |
Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band
Listen: The Uncle Willie / Zoot Money ZootWillie.mp3
If you ever see the double LP, HARD UP HEROES, do yourself a favor, buy immediately. Released on UK Decca in ’74, the compilation is a proper collection of their deep 60′s catalog, mostly gritty blues leaning acts, and packaged beautifully. It was here that I first heard ‘The Uncle Willie’.
As with other tracks by The Graham Bond Organization, Alexis Korner, Them, The Birds and John Mayall, it epitomized what I imagined the seedy clubs of London’s Soho to sound like. I’ll never know, but bet I’m right.
Zoot Money already had his Big Roll Band rolling by then. For whatever reason, their moniker was left off the label copy, but their signature sound was sure there to be heard. Man, did I want to own this single from that first listen. Took me a few years, but I got it. Just as expected, the audio on the 7″ was even more authentic than the LP pressing, which in original mono, sounded pretty great already.
Years later, like thirty or so, a live cd from The Flamingo was issued. This band was clearly full and exciting live, as their rendition of ‘The Uncle Willie’ proved.
Listen: Big Time Operator / Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band ZootBigTime.mp3
Pretty sure it was 2003, the Maximum Rhythm & Blues Tour, a yearly-ish event, played The Royal Albert Hall, and by sheer luck, I was there for work. Jackie Hyde arranged not only tickets, but passes to the after show. As if having just watched Manfred Mann, with both Paul Jones and Mike D’Abo doing their respective hits, Chris Farlowe, The Alan Price Set and Colin Blunstone wasn’t enough, the post show bit was a corucopia of their musician friends from the 60′s. I’m sure there were guys milling about, by now unrecognizable, that would’ve been great jukebox tab scores, but who could tell.
Not the case with Zoot Money. You couldn’t miss him. Jovial and very approachable, he laid a bunch of Marquee stories my way and had no idea ‘Big Time Operator’ came graced with a picture sleeve in the US.
What a great guy to talk with, and pretty good memory too. Wanting a jukebox tab, I didn’t know the B side to ‘The Uncle Willie’, but he did.
Posted in Alexis Korner, Chris Farlowe, Colin Blunstone, Decca, Epic, Flamingo, Jackie Hyde, John Mayall, Jukebox Tab, Manfred Mann, Marquee, Mike D'Abo, Paul Jones, The Alan Price Set, The Birds, The Graham Bond Organization, Them, Zoot Money's Big Roll Band |
Don Covay & The Jefferson Lemon Blues Band
Listen: Black Woman / Don Covay & The Jefferson Lemon Blues Band
Black Woman / Don Covay & The Jefferson Lemon Blues Band
I don’t believe this story is uncommon amongst vinyl collectors.
Once an artist strikes that magic nerve in the system, you kind of need all of their records, or certainly the ones specific to the time period before they morphed into something way different.
This is exactly the case with Don Covay and me. I had many of those Atlantic singles, instinctively picking them up through the years based on an initial name introduction via early albums by The Rolling Stones. At any given moment, one of them hits you, all the rest get pulled out, examined and played. Then boom. The process begins. Regardless of day, time or convenience, a plot to complete the catalog materializes.
Ebay has made this so easy. A lot of my collector friends hate ebay, all cranky that it takes away from the back aching digs through boxes in record shops and rummage sales and things. I don’t get that, those moments will never go away. Ebay is like getting take-out food delivered. No different. Doesn’t mean you’ll never cook for yourself again. What’s the problem?
In an effort to complete the Don Covay Atlantic releases, I dig up a discography and think, the one that has forever eluded me is ‘Black Woman’ from ’69. It doesn’t sound familiar at all and I would’ve certainly remembered the Jefferson Lemon Blues Band bit. From the song title alone, it sounded very in tune with the times, black power fisted slants on records from Miles Davis to Jefferson Airplane being ever present then. ‘Black Woman’ had to be a great one.
So today I go digging through some .50¢ boxes at Academy Records in Williamsburg, and what do I find? Yep, the final component to having a complete Don Covay Atlantic singles library right here in the comfort of my own home.
I love that shop. Similar to most, the 45′s are second fiddle at best. Probably they don’t sell many, and great ones aren’t exactly walking through the door often. But the staff, as nice as they are, just don’t seem to have a consistent grasp on values or importance when it comes to Soul / Rnb / Northern / Jazz 7′s.
So now the follow-up punch line to my first sentence: I get home, clean the record up, give it a few plays and once totally satisfied, decide to file it away.
And what do I find? I already own a copy.
Well, one can always use a safety.
Posted in Academy Records, Atlantic, Don Covay & The Jefferson Lemon Blues Band, Jefferson Airplane, Miles Davis, The Rolling Stones |
Footnote: In the original post linked above, I mention the single’s strong airplay at the time. Click here after reading the post to check out some of the US Top 40 stations that played and charted the record. This link organizes the airplay by date, and note there are 6 pages of station listings viewable. See upper right corner to scroll through all 6.
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Listen: Let Her Dance / Bobby Fuller Four
Released during the summer of ’65, ‘Let Her Dance’ somehow made merely a dent (# 133) on BILLBOARD’s Bubbling Under The Hot 100, sadly getting airplay only in Southern California.
Amazingly, the single didn’t spread like wildfire. It’s not like Los Angeles airplay couldn’t break a record. I still can’t believe it wasn’t a hit.
Apparently, more than those at the original label, Mustang thought so too. They proceeded to license it to Liberty Records, clearly expecting to take the song national as Mustang did later in the year with ‘I Fought The Law’. Why it wasn’t re-released as the followup to ‘I Fought The Law’ remains a mystery, given a few trade mentions in March ’66 that indeed it was scheduled. I suppose Liberty insisted if re-released, despite passing on ‘I Fought The Law’ later that year, it be via them or some such wrangle.
To be honest, Little Steven turned me on to this about five years ago. He plays it regularly on his Sirius radio channel. Sounds fantastic on the air as it must have that summer while driving along the Pacific Palisades, surf boards popping out the back of pink or aqua woodies. Foolishly, I hadn’t paid much attention prior.
Missing this when originally issued is indeed an embarrassing admission, but one that makes for endless records to discover as life moves on.
‘Let Her Dance’ remains a haunting record with a suspicious streak, one that blossomed in an unfortunate way. I was never sure why the single appeared on both the Mustang and Liberty labels, so decided to do some research, stumbling on Aaron Poehler’s ‘The Strange Case Of Bobby Fuller’. It’s a must-read.
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Wanda Jackson & The Party Timers
Listen: A Girl Don’t Have To Drink To Have Fun / Wanda Jackson & The Party Timers
Fresh off a seven hour flight, my blood was sizzling to stop by the Brooklyn Record Riot at The Warsaw Theatre yesterday. Even I couldn’t believe I had the energy, but something was telling me: go, go. Sure enough, that little bell in my brain rang true. Despite being late in the day, around 4:30 and with the threat the place theoretically had been picked, as those of us possessed would tend to describe it, there were boxes of 45′s just waiting to be hoarded.
I’m speaking mainly of a fellow with hundreds of clean, still in the original company sleeves, most without a crease, early 60′s country promos, primarily Decca and Capitol 7′s. Country in the loosest sense that is. Luckily the radio station from where they came clearly kept anything remotely associated with country, like former rockabilly greats whose stars had long ago faded as in Carl Perkins. Bluesy bar room crying in your drink songs from guys influenced by the great guitar pickers, like Hoyt Axton, Leo Kottke and Albert Lee. To rock acts that dressed like farmers describing themselves as tasty even then, such as Goose Creek Symphony, Joy Of Cooking, Joe Crane & The Hoodoo Rhythm Devils and The Grease Band.
Praise be, there were loads of gems. Fantastic Merle Haggard & The Strangers various red neck hater songs, Buck Owens & The Buckaroos, Sonny Burgess & The Southern Gentlemen, Ferlin Husky & The Hushpuppies and Conway Twitty 7′s. Chunks of Loretta Lynn, Kitty Wells, Tammy Wynette, Dottie West, Brenda Lee, Wilma Burgess and even Patsy Cline singles, many in picture sleeves.
Amongst my favorite scores were a sizable stack of Wanda Jackson releases. Who can pass up anything by her, especially one titled ‘A Girl Don’t Have To Drink To Have Fun’, a #22 Country chart hit in ’67, from her flawless CREAM OF THE CROP album. My feet barely touched the ground leaving despite being armloads of records heavier, yet a wallet only $25 lighter. The whole 10 for a dollar experience and especially this single, made my day.
Posted in Albert Lee, Brenda Lee, Brooklyn Record Riot, Buck Owens & The Buckaroos, Capitol, Carl Perkins, Conway Twitty, Decca, Dottie West, Ferlin Husky & The Hushpuppies, Goose Creek Symphony, Hoyt Axton, Joe Crane & The Hoodoo Rhythm Devils, Joy Of Cooking, Kitty Wells, Leo Kottke, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard & The Strangers, Patsy Cline, Sonny Burgess & The Southern Gentlemen, Tammy Wynette, The Grease Band, Wanda Jackson, Wanda Jackson & The Party Timers, Warsaw Theatre, Wilma Burgess |
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Tonight on the Tube: Season Finales, Prison Break, 24 and The Riches
by Jason the TVaholic on March 26, 2007
It is season finale time for What About Brian on ABC and Wildfire on ABC Family. What About Brian is considered to be on the bubble for making it another season. Would you like to see it return next fall? It is not the best show, but it is certainly a lot better than ABC’s new October Road, which is aimed at the same audience demographic. The 30ish crowd; give or take a couple of years.
Prison Break (FOX): New. Michael wants to take down T-Bag for good. Lincoln and Mahone get into it. Sara has to face the music in court and Kellerman has decided what will become of him.
24 (FOX): New. Jack and Doyle have to head out on another mission while they might try to take the president out of his coma to try and stave of a nuclear retaliation by the VP.
What About Brian (ABC): Season Finale. Dave and Deena are trying to get away for a secret renewal of their wedding vows while Nicole is being overwhelmed by business at the cupcake shop. Brian and Adam are baby-sitting when Natasha interrupts them.
How I Met Your Mother (CBS): Repeat. The one with Jane Seymour as Marshall’s older, but hot law professor.
The New Adventures of Old Christine (CBS): Repeat. Christine gets stuck having to have lunch duty at Ritchie’s school with Stan, played by Andy Richter.
Heroes (NBC): Repeat. The “Company Man†episode where Matt and Ted take H.R.G. and his family hostage while trying to find out answers to what has happened to them. This was a really good episode.
CSI: Miami (CBS): Repeat. A Marine recruiter is killed and the team investigates.
Wildfire (ABC Family): Season Finale. Kris and Matt are thinking about selling to Sheik Omar for a couple million even though it might not be quite legally possible to do so. Plays again later. A new Lincoln Heights plays right before this episode.
Bizarre Foods With Andrew Zimmern (Travel Channel): New. See some truly interesting eats from the U.S. Gulf Coast region.
The Riches (FX): New. Wayne goes in for his first day of work and his first task is to fire the guy that he is replacing. Dahlia tries to work out a plan to get the kids into a private school. This is a very interesting show and well worth giving a look. I have been watching the late night Saturday repeats and find the show quite good. Runs 68 minutes and plays twice.
Friends (TBS): Repeats. Four episodes play, but the first of the four is one of my favorites with guest star Rebecca Romijn (Ugly Betty, Pepper Dennis) as the dirty living paleontologist that Ross is dating.
Rules of Engagement (CBS): Repeat. “The Birthday Deal†episode replays.
Two and a Half Men (CBS): Repeat. Charlie tries to help Berta confront the guy who knocked up her daughter.
Sport Notes
ESPN has a couple of Women’s NCAA Tournament games tonight.
ESPN2 has an Arena Football game.
NBA TV has the Denver Nuggets at the Detroit Pistons.
Versus has the Anaheim Ducks at the Detroit Red Wings in NHL action.
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Suikoden Unique and Inspirational Kosher Oblique Xperience
Castle expansion
Queendom Nomads
Location: Queendom of Falena
15629 Potch
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject: Castle expansion
Im playing Suiko 5 again and i can't remember when the castle expands for the 1st time. I have nearly everyone i can get up to this point. Why isent it getting bigger?
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it's gets bigger after a certain point in the game. doesn't get bigger after a set amount of recruits like it does in I and II.
Assassin01
Team Assassination
Location: Maha Somjab
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:19 am Post subject:
I'm going from memory here but i think the castle gets bigger for the first time after you have completed the part on Nirva Island. I hope this helps.
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Yeah, it's after Nirva Island that your castle expands. For an additional reference, the second time would be after recruiting the guys from Sauronix (made as vague as possible to avoid spoilers :P )
You don't really have anything to worry about, because in this game, the headquarters automatically expands as storyline moves, unlike the first two games, where the castle expansion's occurrences are dependent on the number of stars that you have recruited.
Flying Bolts of Doom
Location: Dazin
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 1:25 pm Post subject:
It seems odd to me that it depends on story points. I mean, with the recruitment factor it makes sense that it has to expand to accommodate everyone. But it seems to just be kinda random in this one.
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It's partly that. But, unlike some of the previous HQs, technically Ceras Lake Castle "expands" by gradually losing more of its water and at the same time revealing the lower levels for the army's use. Whereas your other expanding HQs grew by adding new space upwards and/or sidewards.
It was convenient for the new floors to be accessible after specific plot points, too.
It's cheap is what it is. I don't like it when they do cheap things like that....Which is why i think it was stupid.
Scarlet Assassin
Location: Xasta Grassland
How in the hell do you interpret that as cheap? It's an idea that they had that I thought worked really well. Instead of magically building on with no construction time, and using the exact same materials, the characters simply made use of what was already there. Plus, it works really well with the whole Sindar being highly advanced motif. Why should we add on to a castle that was built by a highly advanced civilization?
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:08 am Post subject:
I don't think the Ceras Lake Castle is that cheap. It's got to be worth only a few notches lower than True Runes, which would be like a majillion potch.
But seriously, I don't understand how that can be construed as cheap. Well, everyone's a critic...
Onimaru
Perverted Old Men
Location: Tworiver
3407 Potch
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Scarlet Assassin wrote:
I would say it's cheap because it takes away from the 108 SOD element of the game. For some fans, watching your castle grow based on who/when you recruit them added to the sense of "accomplishment" we receive while playing the Suikoden games. Watching as you're base grew to accomodate your growing army added a sense of "realism" so to speak to the game and helped connect the player to story of the game. Think about suikoden II; you had the option to not get certain shop keep's, 'etc - with the "castle grows as you recruit" method that was employed in 1, 2, and 3 these area's wouldn't exist in the game. Thus making it worthwhile to go out and grab those stars. And even though you may never shop at their stalls it adds a sense of "growth" to the game. In suikoden V that element isn't there, infact the entire castle was cheap as hell - everyone already had their designated area's, even before you recruited them!! The different room designs for the allied leaders is a perfect example of this, the rooms ALWAYS look the same - I belive the "bandits" room w/ Roy and crew was made out of logs and such, and it was already a deisgnated area set aside for them even before you recruited them. The castle didn't evolve with the story, it remained consistant and the story just convieniently forced the pieces togeather. Not that the whole "water levels drop" thing wasn't interesting, but overall the interaction between the 108 stars and the castle was weak in suikoden IV and V. Some of us just want the elements that made Suikoden I and II AWESOME to remain consistant throughout the series is all.
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Location: Grasslands
563 Potch
One of the reasons why I hated SV. The other part is the poor choice of the falenan capital...
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Pointy Sticks & Ponies!
Location: Obel
Cheap: "Oh heyz this building has been the constructed from materials which can remain submerged for hundreads of years and remain squeaky clean!"
Also technically they do add on to the castle since you gain wooden bridges and roped rails to gain access to various locations, and since some if not all of the doors were wooden (and not the afore mentioned glossy cop out of marbelised waterproofing from the far reaches of space) you still had "magically appearing" construction. Or do you assume that it is easy to traverse a bridge over a body of water randomly decreasing?
Suiko1 the Toran Lake Castle expansions was actually feasible since it is a naturally made castle from something which can be said is similar to clay, this takes less time to 'create' when you think that at first glance there were already stumps where the towers were erected, and it is much easier to chisel and reinforce with a clay substance than it is to replace a wooden wall dontcha think?
Suiko2 was slightly less but no much more so than Budehuc (which really got sweet nada) in that it was a prior freakin town where the villagers just got up and eaten, I doubt the zombies or Neclord exactly cared to burn the entire town to ash so they had ample framework to work with.
So ceras lake was a cheap cop out in the materials used to construct it, I mean even the Sindar ruins in S3 had some decay attached to them or vegetation on the outskirts, yet there was sweet didly squat by way of residue on the entirety of ceras Lake once it was raised. Thus cheap.
Since Suikoden hit 3-D i think they could really do better. I mean look at other Konami games like MGS series. I mean sure there not getting any where near that buddget but the transistion from 4-5 shows that they can make good games but only when they feel like it.
El Leon
Location: Great Forest
40 Soldiers
They are in a lake....what the hell did you want. What I found stupid was how quickly it fell down to an even lower water level after they raised it back up during the retaking of the place. But seriously, I didn't care either way.
-no way out-
Milan Fiori
Vanguard Elite
Location: Ceresfjellet
Now see, I think that was really freaking cool of them. They didn't -have- to mention the materials used to make it, had no water damage. They could have completely skipped it as one of those Video games mysteries.
The Sindar ruins we see prior to the Ceras Lake weren't built specifically to exist beneath a lake either. It was made with the intent of being submerged under the man made lake. So it's not hard to believe that the materials were choosen and crafted to be impervious to the weathering of the water.
And with that said, with it being under the water, it be preserved more than the ruins left open to the climate. It's not exposed to the wind, rain, snow or whatever. This isn't exactly uncommon practice, since there are things preserved such as logs over 100 years olds being salvaged and used to make expensive furniture.
Actually I just thought they opened the canals up more the second time than the first. If you look at it. The first time only one of the pillars was down. By the very end. All three of the pillars were down. So I figured more water was flowing out of the lake, than there was flowing in.
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Systems of automatic transfer switches (ATS) are disclosed herein. One apparatus includes at least two automatic transfer switches coupled together. Each automatic transfer switches has contacts to couple a power source to a load. For ea...
WO/2017/070563A1 BALANCED FORCE BLOW-ON CONTACT AUTOMATIC TRANSFER SWITCH
Automatic transfer switches and methods of forming such switches are disclosed herein. One automatic transfer switch disclosed herein includes a first source bar structured to connect to a first power source, a second source bar structur...
WO/2017/032603A1 OPERATING ELEMENT FOR A DEVICE HAVING ONE OR MORE ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS
The invention relates to an operating element (200) for a device (100), which device comprises one or more electronic components (203). The operating element (200) comprises an electrically conductive primary part (101), which is designe...
WO/2017/025530A1 SWITCHING SYSTEM
The invention relates to a switching system (2), in particular of an on-board electrical system of a motor vehicle, comprising a hollow cylinder (16) which has a first aperture (18), within which a first contact rail (22) is arranged, an...
WO/2017/017895A1 ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
This electronic apparatus is provided with: a camera main body (110); an operation member (121), which is disposed on the camera main body (110) such that the operation member can be displaced between a first position and a second positi...
WO/2016/151175A1 MULTIPOLE LINEAR POWER SWITCH
The invention relates to a multiple power switch device, operated by an actuator having rectilinear movement, for alternately opening and closing the electrical connection of the switch poles. Each switch pole is formed by a mobile conta...
A switching apparatus (4) is structured to be electrically connected with a circuit and includes a housing (8) and a switch assembly (12). The switch assembly includes a toggle switch (28), a slider switch (30), and a toggle housing (32)...
This input device has a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode. The second electrode and the first electrode face each other with a space therebetween. The third electrode is spaced apart from the first electrode and ...
WO/2016/071540A1 ELECTRIC SWITCH WITH HIGH THERMAL PERFORMANCE, AND METHOD FOR CUTTING OFF AN ELECTRICAL CURRENT
The invention relates to an electric switch comprising a first switch assembly (1) having a number of current cut-off elements (2a, 2b, 2c) connected in series between two connection terminals (5, 6), and a second switch assembly (4) hav...
WO/2015/155203A1 ELECTRIC MULTI-MODE POWER CONVERTER MODULE AND POWER SYSTEM
An electric multi-mode power converter module comprises an AC/DC converter, including a first AC port; a DC/AC converter, including a second AC port; a DC/DC converter, including a DC port; a controller; and a communication bus interconn...
WO/2015/149915A1 SLOTTED DISK FOR A SAFETY DRIVE CONTROLLER WITH A MODULAR DESIGN
The invention relates to a slotted disk for a safety drive controller with a modular design, in particular for a rail safety drive controller. The slotted disk has a bearing point and a receiving bore oriented substantially perpendicular...
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Greenhill – Thomas Baxter
This watercolour by Thomas Baxter is both initialled and dated (‘TB’, ‘July 1818’) and bears its title ‘Green Hill’ in the bottom left-hand corner.
It is difficult to imagine that this peaceful, rural scene is today near the hectic crossroads at Dyfatty, where Carmarthen Road and Neath Road intersect. In the foreground, the paths of two women, carrying their wares aloft, have apparently just crossed outside a public house, clearly signposted, ‘The Upper Lamb’.
In the distance, beyond the fields where Landore and Brynhyfryd now stand, can be seen Morris Castle, built in 1773. The fortress-like appearance of this building belies its unique status as the first purpose-built block of flats for workers in Britain, the brain-child of industrialist, Sir John Morris.
Two of its walls can still be seen silhouetted against Morriston’s skyline. Within a decade Greenhill had become a densely populated, built-up area where for a century overcrowding and disease took their toll on the workforce of the Lower Swansea Valley.
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DVD Review: Lady Macbeth
Director William Oldroyd and screenwriter Alice Birch have crafted something disturbing, haunting, and memorable with Lady Macbeth, a critic's darling that failed to ignite with art house viewers during a limited 2017 theatrical run. In adapting the 1865 novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Oldroyd and Birch have come up with a vicious look at amorality and the corrupting properties of power. It's a tough movie to like per se, but thanks to a commanding performance by relative newcomer Florence Pugh it's also tough to take your eyes off it.
Way out in a bleak English countryside, Katherine (Pugh) has been sold by her father into marriage with Alexander Lester (Paul Hilton). She lives in a large house with numerous servants, chief among them Anna (Naomi Ackie), and her husband's disciplinarian father Boris (Christopher Fairbank). Katherine isn't allowed to so much as venture outdoors. Alexander and Boris would prefer she not even exhibit a personality, let alone any sense of independence. Perhaps most frustrating for the supremely nubile Katherine, her middle-aged husband appears to be suffering from some degree of erectile dysfunction. Some nights he manages to please himself while she stands naked, her back to him—but those are the good nights. Otherwise he simply goes to sleep.
Katherine first tastes liberating power after Alexander and Boris leave for an extended business trip of an undisclosed nature. At first the ability to wander around in the fresh air seems enough to enliven Katherine's senses. Before long a torrid affair sparks between she and Sebastian (Cosmo Jarvis), one of the Lester property's laborers. What follows is, at first, predictable. Servant Anna is wise to Katherine's dalliance. She's also understandably envious of Katherine's privileges in face of her own oppression. Once Anna talks, a domino effect begins as Katherine begins dealing with the obstacles that arise to block her newfound hedonistic freedom.
Lady Macbeth boasts a simple narrative and compact running time (90 minutes). It presents Katherine initially as a quasi-feminist taking a stand in a horribly oppressive environment, but eventually becomes more about her loss of moral compass. That is, if she had one to begin with. Young and presumably inexperienced, Katherine devolves into something of a monster as she discovers the ability to do pretty much anything she desires. Director Oldroyd plays with our expectations, setting us up to sympathize with Katherine before pulling the rug out from under us. Her decisions increasingly ostracize any right-minded viewer (the punishments she doles out hardly fit the crimes, or perceived crimes—such that they are), leaving a strange feeling of non-resolution. But it's never less than compelling to watch as Florence Pugh stakes out a claim as an actress to watch.
Lionsgate has released Lady Macbeth on DVD and Digital HD only (no Blu-ray). DVD features include a short "making of" featurette in which the filmmakers curiously seem to believe they're making a film about an admirable heroine. The stark, muted beauty of Ari Wegner's cinematography would've most certainly benefited from the increased resolution of 1080p Blu-ray.
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Battle of the Shapes: The First Vote
In all of human history, no one has taken the time to figure out what is the greatest of all shapes. It’s a travesty, really. But we are here to rectify this horrible oversight, by taking on the task ourselves. Eight noble and classic shapes will be presented, over the next few weeks, and they will battle against each other for supremacy, through your mighty votes. Only one will emerge victorious—with the broken lines and angles of the other slain shapes, at its feet. And the shapes will range from Circle (one-sided) to Octagon (eight-sided). We’ll stop at eight sides, because after that it just starts looking like a circle again. Alright, enough chit-chat. Let the first battle begin:
PENTAGON VS. CIRCLE
Gripe against Circle:
Still bitter that of all the billions of different coins, the only one that comes in its shape is some dumb coin from Slovakia.
Memory from childhood:
When it finally grew its fifth corner and was then able to play basketball with the bigger kids.
Gripe against Pentagon:
Still angry over the US Government’s choice to use Pentagon’s shape for its super-strong national defense building, while only using Circle for the manhole covers in the parking lot to cover the sewers.
When it first learned to bounce, and could then knock over sleeping Rectangles.
It is now your turn to weigh in on this important debate. Other than that one time when Napoleon got really drunk, this kind of thing has never been attempted before. Therefore cast your vote so the world can finally begin to settle this most pressing quandary: What is the greatest shape?
Cast your vote below, to decide who wins this round. On Saturday the voting for this round will end, the winner will be announced, and two new shapes will go head to head.
Posted by Sebastian Black
Rawknrobyn.blogspot.com March 16, 2010 at 1:19 AM
I vote for the circle because of that delicious looking chocolate donut pictured above.
Plus the word Pentagon sends shrills up my spine.
Pat Tillett March 16, 2010 at 1:32 AM
It has to be a circle because they don't make pentagon shaped pizza pans...
LOL, I love the pictures.
I've gotta go with the circle. Because after all, it's one ring to rule them all. Plus you know, that's just sad that the circle is relegated to manhole covers.
Jerry March 16, 2010 at 3:11 AM
That is great! I am going with circle because I have yet come across a pentagon shaped donut.
Powdered Toast Man March 16, 2010 at 5:04 AM
5 sides is just too odd of a number. Sorry pentagon but I'm going to have to go with circle. I hope this doesn't hurt our friendship.
Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness March 16, 2010 at 7:11 AM
Ah jeez everybody...the circle wins everytime. THE WHEEL...HELLO!!! And if you don't go along with me, maybe a trip the OCTOGON may convince you...hey...damn.
Ian March 16, 2010 at 7:22 AM
CIRCLE FTW
Ally March 16, 2010 at 10:20 AM
I love round circles as I'm round. Your posts are so creative. For real!
It's funny when I first saw your title, it made me think of an entire lesson I learned in Non-verbal Communications in college. People are different shapes like ectomorph, endomoroph and mesomorph, etc. It's crazy, there are actual characteristics of people linked to their shape, the way people perceive them and whatnot.
Hello from Ukraine !
As for me, it the circle, exactly.
Interesting, I liked this :-)
Marina.
Amy March 16, 2010 at 4:10 PM
Um, seriously, is NO ONE going to stand up for the pentagon? I mean, sure, the circle has monopoly on, well, pretty much anything that rolls, but it's just so effing smug about it... with its pretentious infinite line and having to have a special number in order to calculate its size... I mean, pi? Really, circle? Who do you think you are?!
Not only is the pentagon obviously the coolest shape, being that it is has all the best qualities of a square and a triangle rolled into one, but it's the most intriguing shape. I mean, anyone can make a pizza shaped like a circle. But if someone made you a pentagon-shaped pizza, I bet you'd be extra impressed.
Chuck March 16, 2010 at 6:48 PM
Gotta go with the circle. It's more popular cause there's a lot more things made of them and after all, this is a popularity-contest world.
Besides could anyone really drive a car on wheels shaped like a pentagon?
Also a pentagon is too close to the devil worshiping pentagram!
TS Hendrik March 16, 2010 at 7:22 PM
I feel that Amy made some really great points. I actually would like to have a pentagon shaped pizza. I'm changing my vote.
inappropriatesue March 16, 2010 at 8:13 PM
Pentagon all the way. Circles roll too easily and get pushed around a lot. Pentagons are a much more stable type. They have sides you can count on. :P
Brad Stanley March 17, 2010 at 7:34 AM
My ex bought me this book:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
In the book the sphere is the top dog (I think).
AND, March 14 (3/14) was "pi day" so I feel like circles have a big advantage in popularity.
[Dorky story: I told a co-worker 3/14 was pi day, and he said, "I only celebrate pi approximation day, 7/22.]
I just realized pi doesn't work with the euro calendar. Snap.
Long ramble - but in conclusion, the underdog, pentagon.
California Keys March 17, 2010 at 1:28 PM
I was going to side with circle, as Jerry brought up the doughnut argument. I've never met a doughnut I didn't like....
But then Amy blew the door wide open and renewed my faith in the mighty pentagon!
Go Pentagon!!!!
Roll away in shame circle! Roll away in shame!
Corrie Howe March 17, 2010 at 4:04 PM
This is the great debate. I'm glad someone finally was brave enough to resolve it. Circle.
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Thinking Film exists to provide people with a voice. Telling stories that challenge the way people see the world.
A Social Enterprise specialising in the production of film & media content. From concept to creation, Thinking Film crafts unique cinematic experiences, inspiring moments of connection with new and diverse audiences.
Committed to improving life chances, Thinking Film adopts a collaborative approach to project delivery. A bespoke workshop programme explores personal development and wellbeing, resulting in measurable outcomes.
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You are here: Home / blog post / We have a new board! After the General Assembly 2020!
We have a new board! After the General Assembly 2020!
14.10.2020 /in blog post /by Kasia Siemasz
On 10 October 2020 YEN held its first ever Online General Assembly! More than 50 participants, representing 26 member organizations, partners and guests gathered to decide on the plans of the YEN network in the next years and elected new Board Members, Working Group Members and an Auditor.
The new YEN board members are Andor Barabás (President, ADJ), Martina Jazbec (re-elected Treasurer, MOSP) and Andjelo Pavlovski (Convenor for Communication, VYCM). We wish them lots of energy and motivation for their work with YEN.
YEN especially thanks the Board members whose mandate ended with this General Assembly. Namely Giuanna Beeli (GiuRu, President), Florian Leduc (Kenstroll Breizh, Convenor for Minority Rights and Politics) and Jakob Schäfer (PAWK, Convenor for Communication). The General Assembly has also discharged Michael Kral (Pawk) as Internal Auditor. We thank them for their hard work and full commitment to YEN, especially in these uncertain times.
During the General Assembly YEN also elected new Working Group members. We are especially happy to have so many engaged young people from various minority youth organizations, who want to be active in the working groups and thereby ensure YEN’s existence and further development. [1] Additionally, Giuanna Beeli (former president, GiuRu) was elected as Internal Auditor.
The YEN General Assembly also had the pleasure to welcome a new extraordinary member organization to the YEN Family – DM+ (Društvo mladih Slovencev v Italiji – Slovens in Italy) and to reaffirm the renewed partnership for 2020 with the European Free Alliance Youth (EFAy). We are looking forward to the future cooperation!
The YEN member organizations also adopted a resolution on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on minority youth that will be used for YEN´s future advocacy work.
To plan the next years the General Assembly also adopted the new YEN workplan and budget and elected the hosts for future events.
The Diversity Festival 2021 will take place in Koroška/Kärnten in Austria and will be hosted by KSŠŠD (Slovene minority in Austria), the Autumn Seminar 2021 will be hosted by Kenstroll Breizh (Bretons in France) and the Easter Seminar 2022 will take place in the German-Danish border region and will be hosted by SDU (Danish minority of Southern Schleswig, Germany), DJN and Jungen Spitzen (German minority in Denmark).
We also took a look at the past year: the Member Organizations of YEN approved the financial report and the accounts and discharged the members of the Board.
The General Assembly is the most important body of our organization, taking place at least once a year.
Working Group on Minority Rights and Politics: Christoph Graf (Pawk), Ydwine Scarse (FYK), Tatjana Kovacevic (Lunjina), Davor Danevski (Lunjina), Stefan Pitz (Kenstroll Breizh/RDJ), Rejzka Lipičec (PAWK).
Working Group Communication: Paul Mossner (SdU), Nina Peckelsen (FYK), Matti Ullrich (SdU), Jakob Schäfer (Pawk), Linea Kopf (SdU), Iris Kessler (SdU), Linda Stoklasa (GFU), Simon Scapan (Pawk), Alexander Wukovits (HAK).
Working Group Member Integration: Zoran Petkovic (Lunjina), Angelica Augustin (GiuRu), Silvan Brügger (GiuRu).
The General Assembly of YEN 2020 was supported by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community.
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Alejandro Rey
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VOCE DI MECHE
Reviews of performing arts with emphasis on young artists and small opera companies.
We are here to encourage the development of gifted young singers and to stimulate the growth of New York City's invaluable chamber opera companies. But we will not neglect the Metropolitan Opera either. Get ready for bouquets and brickbats.
A NEWBORN ARRIVES!
Madison Marie McIntosh as the dying Dido and Constance Rogalski as Belinda in Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
It is indeed a privilege to be present for a birth and we were honored to be among the guests witnessing the birth of a new opera company--the Christman Opera Company. Although no mission statement was present in the program, we gather that the mission is for fledgling opera composer Theodore Christman to present his work to the public while balancing the program with a long-established piece.
Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas has been kicking around since the 1680's, which certainly qualifies it as long-established. We are not sure why so many small companies have presented it in the past year (Heartbeat Opera and Utopia Opera, among others); it is neither the anniversary of Purcell's death nor birth. Since we have already written a great deal about the opera's history, we leave it to you readers to use the search bar so that we may focus on the performances.
The musical values were successful all around with singers chosen for their fine vocal artistry, accompanied by Musical Director Lochlan Brown conducting a fine string quartet from the piano. Mr. Brown was responsible for the excellent reduction of the score.
As the unfortunate Dido, Queen of Carthage, Madison Marie McIntosh could be heard expanding her wide range from the stratospheric coloratura reaches down to a richly textured and strong lower register. The final "When I Am Laid in Earth" was heartbreaking.
As her handmaiden Belinda, Constance Rogalski exhibited an attractive crystalline soprano but failed to make the text clear. This task is nearly impossible with that high tessitura and we longed for surtitles to maximize comprehension. Beier Zhao nicely complemented Ms. Rogalski as another handmaiden.
A riveting performance as the Sorceress was delivered by Eowyn Driscoll whose richly resonant voice filled out the text beautifully. Her two accomplices, Raquel Nobile and Sarah Knott completed the trio of tricksters and we could not keep from thinking of Shakespeare's "weird sisters" as they plot to bring Dido down. We observed that somehow Ms. Nobile's diction made the text rather clear, in spite of the high range, especially when she doubled as the faux-Mercury, leading Aeneas astray. What a terrific trio!
John Ramseyer sang the role of Aeneas and sang it well. All that was needed to make it a fine performance was a measure of dramatic investment, especially in his interaction with the woman he is wooing and abandoning.
A fine performance was given by Thomas Massey who sang the notoriously humorous "Sailor's Song". He exhibited not only fine vocal skills but a lot of personality.
The chorus contributed a great deal and comprised Shawn Palmer, Clayton G. Williams, and Hajeong Lee, as well as whomever was not singing front and center.
The second half of the program introduced us to Mr. Christman's new opera Adriana McMannes, with libretto written by Anna Winslow (who also was director for the entire evening). We have complained a great deal about contemporary opera being devoid of melody and not being entertaining. We had no such complaints last night.
Mr. Christman's writing offered tuneful vocal lines suggestive of mid-20th c. popular music--much in the same way that Johannes Brahms incorporated folk tunes into his serious music. This is anything but "academic" music and totally accessible, a point noted by our operatic-newbie companion who enjoyed it enormously.
The story is an Upstairs/Downstairs tale in which a widower falls in love with his daughter's governess. The obstacle to their marriage is the widower's mother-in-law who spreads ugly gossip about the governess' mental stability. Fortunately she is made to retract her words and the tale has a happy conclusion.
Ms. McIntosh demonstrated her versatility in the role of Adriana with Mr. Ramseyer as her intended. His Broadway style in this role did not mesh perfectly with her operatic vibrato.
We were delighted to have another opportunity to see more of Ms. Knott who did a marvelous interpretation of the bibulous mother-in-law from hell. And likewise, seeing Ms. Nobile as Adriana's imperious boss was another treat as she delivered some very funny lines. This was also a great scene for Ms. McIntosh who came across as a modern day Cinderella.
Mr. Brown accompanied on the piano. We know of no plans to orchestrate the score but it was fine just as it was performed. We will eagerly await his next offering!
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Posted by meche at 4:51 AM
Labels: Christman Opera Company, Constance Rogalski, Dido and Aeneas, Eowyn Driscoll, Henry Purcell, John Ramseyer, Madison Marie McIntosh, Raquel Nobile, Sarah Knott, Theodore Christman, Thomas Massey
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Bengkung Belly Binding
Bengkung means a strip of cloth in the Indonesia language. Bengkung Belly Binding is a traditional Indonesian treatment of tightly wrapping a long strip of cloth, Stagan, around a woman’s middle section.
Bengkung works by twisting and weaving the strip of cloth tightly around a woman’s middle section and thighs so her muscles remain engaged and unmoving. After a woman has given birth, Bengkung Belly Binding has the below benefits:
As little at 3 days a woman’s uterus can go through involution naturally. Involution is the process by which the uterus attempts to return to its normal prepregnancy size and condition.
Helps reshape and support the postpartum pelvic organs and abdomen muscles closer into the body.
It can help heal an incision from a Cesarean properly.
Provides support for your internal organs and midsection.
Makes a body slimmer through the mid-section.
It pulls the separated diastasis recti back together.
Helps reshape the backbone and body posture.
You can receive belly binding 1 day after giving birth vaginally or 1 week after delivering via cesarean.
I am trained in Bengkung Belly Binding and would be happy to help you regain your pre baby figure back quicker!! This service can be added to your birth doula package with me or if you are already postpartum and would like belly binding. I accept belling binding clients every month of the year with a simple phone call.
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1667. Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer. That this signifies that the evils and falsities did not appear in childhood, but that they served the apparent goods and truths, is evident from the representation and signification of "Chedorlaomer," and also of those who served (as explained above, verse 1); and also from the signification of "twelve." "Chedorlaomer," together with those named above (verse 2), signifies the apparent goods and truths in the Lord, thus His external man in respect to these things. "Chedorlaomer" here denotes all that are named above (verse 2) in the complex, as is evident also from what follows, as also from the circumstance that he was king of Elam, the signification of which has been given already, as being faith from charity; here therefore truth and good; for faith and the things of faith are nothing but truths, and charity and the things of charity are goods.
[2] But here the goods of infancy, which, although they appear good, are not good so long as hereditary evil contaminates them. That which is inherent and which adheres is from the love of self and the love of the world. Whatever is of the love of self and of the love of the world then appears as good, but is not good; but still it is to be called good so long as it is in an infant or a child who does not yet know what is truly good. The ignorance excuses, and the innocence makes it appear as good. But the case is different when the man has been instructed, and knows what good and evil are. Such good and truth as are in a child before he has been instructed, are signified by "Chedorlaomer."
[3] By their "serving twelve years" is signified all the time that there are such good and truth; for in the internal sense "twelve" signifies all things that pertain to the faith of charity, or to faith from charity, much the same as "Elam" (Gen. 10:22). And so long as such good and truth are in a man, whether it be in his childhood or at any other age, evils and falsities can effect nothing; that is, evil spirits do not venture to do anything, or to introduce any evil; as is evident with infants, well disposed children, and the simple in heart; with whom, even though evil spirits, or the worst of the diabolic crew, were present, they could effect nothing at all, but are in subjection; which is here signified by their serving Chedorlaomer twelve years.
[4] The reason of their being then in subjection and serving is that the man has not yet acquired to himself a sphere of cupidities and falsities. For evil spirits and genii are not allowed to operate except into those things which a man has procured to himself by his acts, and not into those which are from inheritance; and therefore before the man procures such spheres to himself, the evil spirits serve; but as soon as he procures them, they pour themselves in upon him, and endeavor to rule; for they are then in his very sphere, and find there a certain delight, or their very life. Where the carcass is, there are the eagles [Matt. 24:28].
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